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The Disordered Cosmos
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Author : Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-03-09
The Disordered Cosmos written by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-09 with Science categories.
From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and a call for a more liberatory practice of science. Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology A Finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A Smithsonian Magazine Best Science Book of 2021 A Symmetry Magazine Top 10 Physics Book of 2021 An Entropy Magazine Best Nonfiction Book of 2020-2021 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A Booklist Top 10 Sci-Tech Book of the Year In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter—along with a perspective informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek. One of the leading physicists of her generation, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is also one of fewer than one hundred Black American women to earn a PhD from a department of physics. Her vision of the cosmos is vibrant, buoyantly nontraditional, and grounded in Black and queer feminist lineages. Dr. Prescod-Weinstein urges us to recognize how science, like most fields, is rife with racism, misogyny, and other forms of oppression. She lays out a bold new approach to science and society, beginning with the belief that we all have a fundamental right to know and love the night sky. The Disordered Cosmos dreams into existence a world that allows everyone to experience and understand the wonders of the universe.
The Disordered Cosmos
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Author : Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-03-09
The Disordered Cosmos written by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-09 with Science categories.
From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and a call for a more liberatory practice of science. Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology A Finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A Smithsonian Magazine Best Science Book of 2021 A Symmetry Magazine Top 10 Physics Book of 2021 An Entropy Magazine Best Nonfiction Book of 2020-2021 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A Booklist Top 10 Sci-Tech Book of the Year In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter—along with a perspective informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek. One of the leading physicists of her generation, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is also one of fewer than one hundred Black American women to earn a PhD from a department of physics. Her vision of the cosmos is vibrant, buoyantly nontraditional, and grounded in Black and queer feminist lineages. Dr. Prescod-Weinstein urges us to recognize how science, like most fields, is rife with racism, misogyny, and other forms of oppression. She lays out a bold new approach to science and society, beginning with the belief that we all have a fundamental right to know and love the night sky. The Disordered Cosmos dreams into existence a world that allows everyone to experience and understand the wonders of the universe.
Summary Of Chanda Prescod Weinstein S The Disordered Cosmos
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-03-08T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Chanda Prescod Weinstein S The Disordered Cosmos written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-08T22:59:00Z with Science categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Standard Model of particle physics is the Black child on the school bus. It is the collection of all the things that a Black child is made out of, as a scientist who has reached adulthood. #2 I enjoy a neatly ordered tale that can come off like a carefully constructed sum of its parts. I enjoy studying systems as they change in time and looking for patterns or predictions about patterns in their behavior. I used to think that absolute predictions could be made if I had sufficient information, but this is not the case. #3 The quantum world of particles is a strange place. We can never really predict what particles will do, but we can calculate the likelihood that something will happen and the timescale over which we expect it to occur. #4 The Standard Model is the current understanding of particle physics, and it is largely understood to be experimentally complete as of 2012. It contains three categories of fermions: quarks, leptons, and vector bosons. Everything we have ever seen in the universe that is made out of quarks and leptons has a mass because of the Higgs, a scalar boson.
Probable Impossibilities
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Author : Alan Lightman
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2022-04-19
Probable Impossibilities written by Alan Lightman and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-19 with Science categories.
The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between. Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom The Washington Post has called “the poet laureate of science writers,” explores these questions and more—from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang. Probable Impossibilities is a deeply engaged consideration of what we know of the universe, of life and the mind, and of things vastly larger and smaller than ourselves.
Passport To The Cosmos
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Author : John E. Mack
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000-06
Passport To The Cosmos written by John E. Mack and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06 with Alien abduction categories.
The Disordered Universe
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Author : Mason Hartley
language : en
Publisher: Bookademy
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The Disordered Universe written by Mason Hartley and has been published by Bookademy this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Science categories.
"The Disordered Universe - Exploring the Concept of Entropy" takes readers on a captivating journey into the intricate realm of entropy. From the microscopic world of quantum mechanics to the grand scale of cosmology, this book unravels the profound influence of entropy in shaping the behavior of our universe. With clarity and depth, it delves into the interplay between chaos and order, revealing how entropy drives adaptation, innovation, and the emergence of complexity. Engaging and enlightening, this book illuminates the fundamental role of entropy and its applications across various scientific fields and everyday life.
The Sacred Depths Of Nature
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Author : Ursula Goodenough
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023
The Sacred Depths Of Nature written by Ursula Goodenough and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Biology categories.
"When people talk about religion, most soon mention the major religious traditions of our times, but then, thinking further, most mention as well the religions of Indigenous peoples and of such vanished civilizations as ancient Greece and Egypt and Persia. That is, we have come to understand that there are-and have been-many different religions; anthropologists estimate the total in the thousands. They also estimate that there have been thousands of human cultures, which is to say that the making of a culture and the making of its religion go together: each religion is embedded in its cultural history. True, certain religions have attempted, and variously succeeded, in crossing cultural boundaries to "convert the heathens," but the invaded cultures usually put their unmistakable stamp on what they import, as evinced by the pulsating percussive Catholic masses sung in Africa. In the end, each of these religions addresses two fundamental human concerns: How Things Are and Which Things Matter. How Things Are is articulated as a Cosmology or Cosmos: How the natural world came to be, how humans came to be, what happens after we die, the origins of evil and tragedy and natural disaster and love. Which Things Matter becomes codified as a Morality or Ethos: the Judaic Ten Commandments, the Christian Sermon on the Mount, the Five Pillars of Islam, the Buddhist Vinaya, the Confucian Five Relations, and the understandings inherent in numerous Indigenous traditions. The role of a religion is to integrate the Cosmology and the Morality, to render the cosmological narrative so rich and compelling that it elicits our allegiance and our commitment to its attendant moral understandings. As a culture evolves, a distinctive Cosmos and Ethos appears in its co-evolving religion. For billions of us, back to the early humans, the stories, ceremonies and art associated with our religions-of-origin have been central to our lives. I stand in awe of these religions. I have no need to take on their contradictions or immiscibility, any more than I would quarrel with the fact that Scottish bagpipe ceremonies coexist with Japanese tea ceremonies. And indeed, the failure of Soviet Marxism to obliterate Russian Orthodoxy, and of Maoism to obliterate Buddhism, Confucianism, or Daoism, and of Christianity to obliterate Indigenous understandings, reminds us that projects designed to overthrow religious traditions face strong headwinds"--
Terracene
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Author : Salar Mameni
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-04
Terracene written by Salar Mameni and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-04 with Art categories.
In Terracene Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongside the emergence of the global war on terror. Mameni theorizes the Terracene as an epoch marked by a convergence of racialized militarism and environmental destruction. Both the Anthropocene and the war on terror centered the antagonist figures of the Anthropos and the terrorist as responsible for epochal changes in the new geological and geopolitical world orders. In response, Mameni shows how the Terracene requires radically new engagements with terra (the earth), whose intelligence resides in matters such as oil and phenomena like earthquakes and fires. Drawing on the work of artists whose practices interrogate histories of settler-colonial and imperial interests in land and resources in Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Kuwait, Syria, Palestine, and other regions most affected by the war on terror, Mameni offers speculative paths into the aesthetics of the Terracene.
Self Representation And Illusion In Senecan Tragedy
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Author : Cedric A. J. Littlewood
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Classical Monographs
Release Date : 2004
Self Representation And Illusion In Senecan Tragedy written by Cedric A. J. Littlewood and has been published by Oxford Classical Monographs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
This ethical context is a productive frame of reference for interpreting the strange artificiality of Senecan tragedy, the consciousness that its own dramatic worlds, events, and people are literary constructs. In Troades for example Achilles' ghost and its vengeance is represented both as an inexorable dramatic reality and the creature of a fabula to be dismissed as a malignant fiction."--BOOK JACKET.
Church Dogmatics Study Edition 1
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Author : Karl Barth
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-09-02
Church Dogmatics Study Edition 1 written by Karl Barth and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-02 with Religion categories.
The most important theological work of the 20th century in a new edition - now available in individual volumes.