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The Roving Mind
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Author : Isaac Asimov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
The Roving Mind written by Isaac Asimov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Science categories.
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Author : Isaac Asimov
language : en
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Release Date : 2010-10-28
The Roving Mind written by Isaac Asimov and has been published by Prometheus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-28 with Philosophy categories.
Isaac Asimov's death on April 6, 1992, was a great loss to literature, science, and freethought. The vision of one of America's most prolific authors is unmatched today, and his pointed honesty shines through in this fascinating collection of essays, now reissued in this special tribute edition. Asimov demonstrates his extraordinary skill at disseminating knowledge from across the spectrum of scientific disciplines as his roving mind ranges from the polemical to the persuasive, from the speculative to the realistic. The sixty-two essays in this volume include such subjects as creationism, the distinction between real science and pseudoscience, censorship, the population explosion, technophobia, the social consequences of technological progress, cloning, the possibility of contacting extraterrestrial life, and the wonders of the cosmos. There are also thoughts on his style of writing, stories about his personal life, and recollections of family history - all written in the clear and elegant prose for which Asimov was noted.
The Roving Mind
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Author : Anthony Simola
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-03-06
The Roving Mind written by Anthony Simola and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-06 with categories.
"[C]ognitive enhancement's return on investment [...] happens to be the motivation for The Roving Mind. There is a long tradition of improving one's mental function yet only in the latter half of the 20th century have the effects risen and the investment-time, risk, effort, and capital-decreased to such an extent that certain aspects of cognitive enhancement have become a worthwhile pursuit." The Roving Mind: A Modern Approach to Cognitive Enhancement is a guide to improving human intelligence. Detailing various methods from ancient Roman mnemonic techniques to scheduled pharmaceutical substances to brain-machine interfaces, Mr. Simola has produced a convincing treatise on the timely topic of cognitive enhancement.
The Hard Crowd
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Author : Rachel Kushner
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-04-06
The Hard Crowd written by Rachel Kushner and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.
The Roving Party
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Author : Rohan Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Soho Press
Release Date : 2014-02-25
The Roving Party written by Rohan Wilson and has been published by Soho Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-25 with Fiction categories.
"[An] exceedingly powerful debut. Wilson's compelling story carries us through forest and over plains, leaving a trail of dead men." —Alan Cheuse, The Chicago Tribune 1829, Tasmania. A group of men—convicts, a farmer, two free black traders, and Black Bill, an aboriginal man brought up from childhood as a white man—are led by Jon Batman, a notorious historical figure, on a “roving party.” Their purpose is massacre. With promises of freedom, land grants and money, each is willing to risk his life for the prize. Passing over many miles of tortured country, the roving party searches for Aborigines, taking few prisoners and killing freely, Batman never abandoning the visceral intensity of his hunt. And all the while, Black Bill pursues his personal quarry, the much-feared warrior, Manalargena. A surprisingly beautiful evocation of horror and brutality, The Roving Party is a meditation on the intricacies of human nature at its most raw.
A Slight Trick Of The Mind
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Author : Mitch Cullin
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2005-04-19
A Slight Trick Of The Mind written by Mitch Cullin and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-19 with Fiction categories.
The basis for the Major Motion Picture Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney and directed by Bill Condon. It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn’t even know he was asking–about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind’s ability to know. A novel of exceptional grace and literary sensitivity, A Slight Trick of the Mind is a brilliant imagining of our greatest fictional detective and a stunning inquiry into the mysteries of human connection.
Roving Mars
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Author : Steven Squyres
language : en
Publisher: Hachette Books
Release Date : 2005-08-03
Roving Mars written by Steven Squyres and has been published by Hachette Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-03 with Science categories.
Steve Squyres is the face and voice of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. Squyres dreamed up the mission in 1987, saw it through from conception in 1995 to a successful landing in 2004, and serves as the principal scientist of its $400 million payload. He has gained a rare inside look at what it took for rovers Spirit and Opportunity to land on the red planet in January 2004--and knows firsthand their findings.
Roving Mind
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Author : Aluta Nite
language : en
Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
Release Date : 2013-10
Roving Mind written by Aluta Nite and has been published by Virtualbookworm.com Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with Poetry categories.
This work is a Collection of Prose-Poetry. The book is for readers to ponder on what goes on around them and in the world at large. The writing is very current and relevant to modern day world and literature. The pieces would greatly appeal to lovers of real life episodes, students. general public, book clubs and libraries. The book has adoption potential in literature classes for students in high schools and colleges.
Insomnia
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Author : Marina Benjamin
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2018-11-13
Insomnia written by Marina Benjamin and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-13 with Philosophy categories.
“An insomniac’s ideal sleep aid—and that’s a compliment. With her collage of ruminations about sleeplessness, [Benjamin] promises no real cure . . . Her slim book is what the doctor ordered.”—The Atlantic Insomnia is on the rise. Villainous and unforgiving, it’s the enemy o f energy and focus, the thief of our repose. But can insomnia be an ally, too, a validator of the present moment, of edginess and creativity? Marina Benjamin takes on her personal experience of the condition—her struggles with it, her insomniac highs, and her dawning awareness that states of sleeplessness grant us valuable insights into the workings of our unconscious minds. Although insomnia is rarely entirely welcome, Benjamin treats it less as an affliction than as an encounter that she engages with and plumbs. She adds new dimensions to both our understanding of sleep (and going without it) and of night, and how we perceive darkness. Along the way, Insomnia trips through illuminating material from literature, art, philosophy, psychology, pop culture, and more. Benjamin pays particular attention to the relationship between women and sleep—Penelope up all night, unraveling her day’s weaving for Odysseus; the Pre–Raphaelite artists’ depictions of deeply sleeping women; and the worries that keep contemporary females awake. Insomnia is an intense, lyrical, witty, and humane exploration of a state we too often consider only superficially. “This is the song of insomnia, and I shall sing it,” Marina Benjamin declares.
Roving Mariners
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Author : Lynette Russell
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-11-01
Roving Mariners written by Lynette Russell and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Social Science categories.
For most Australian Aboriginal people, the impact of colonialism was blunt—dispossession, dislocation, disease, murder, and missionization. Yet there is another story of Australian history that has remained untold, a story of enterprise and entrepreneurship, of Aboriginal people seizing the opportunity to profit from life at sea as whalers and sealers. In some cases participation was voluntary; in others it was more invidious and involved kidnapping and trade in women. In many cases, the individuals maintained and exercised a degree of personal autonomy and agency within their new circumstances. This book explores some of their lives and adventures by analyzing archival records of maritime industry, captains' logs, ships' records, and the journals of the sailors themselves, among other artifacts. Much of what is known about this period comes from the writings of Herman Melville, and in this book Melville's whaling novels act as a prism through which relations aboard ships are understood. Drawing on both history and literature, Roving Mariners provides a comprehensive history of Australian Aboriginal whaling and sealing.