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Sum

Author	: David Eagleman
Publisher	: Vintage
Release Date	: 2009-02-10
ISBN 10	: 9780307378026
Pages	: 128 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (78 users)

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Download or read book Sum written by David Eagleman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people’s dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple, or that the universe is running backward, or that you are forced to live out your afterlife with annoying versions of who you could have been. With a probing imagination and deep understanding of the human condition, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers wonderfully imagined tales that shine a brilliant light on the here and now.

Sum

Author	: David Eagleman
Publisher	: National Geographic Books
Release Date	: 2010-02-09
ISBN 10	: 9780143172154
Pages	: 0 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (721 users)

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Download or read book Sum written by David Eagleman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sum is a stunning exploration of funny and unexpected afterlives that have never been considered—each presented as a vignette that offers a lens through which to see ourselves here and now. In one afterlife, you find that God is the size of a microbe and is unaware of your existence. In another, you work as a background character in other people's dreams. Or you may find that the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. The stories in Sum are rooted in romance, science, and awe: a mixture of death, hope, computers, immortality, love, biology, and desire that cuts through human nature at new and exciting angles.

New Dramaturgies

Author	: Mark Bly
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2019-08-21
ISBN 10	: 9781315282190
Pages	: 112 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (821 users)

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Download or read book New Dramaturgies written by Mark Bly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New Dramaturgies: Strategies and Exercises for 21st Century Playwriting, Mark Bly offers a new playwriting book with nine unique play-generating exercises. These exercises offer dramaturgical strategies and tools for confronting and overcoming obstacles that all playwrights face. Each of the chapters features lively commentary and participation from Bly’s former students. They are now acclaimed writers and producers for media such as House of Cards, Weeds, Friday Night Lights, Warrior, and The Affair, and their plays appear onstage in major venues such as the Roundabout Theatre, Yale Rep, and the Royal National Theatre. They share thoughts about their original response to an exercise and why it continues to have a major impact on their writing and mentoring today. Each chapter concludes with their original, inventive, and provocative scene generated in response to Bly’s exercise, providing a vivid real-life example of what the exercises can create. Suitable for both students of playwriting and screenwriting, as well as professionals in the field, New Dramaturgies gives readers a rare combination of practical provocation and creative discussion.

Incognito

Author	: David Eagleman
Publisher	: Canongate Books
Release Date	: 2012-04-01
ISBN 10	: 1847679404
Pages	: 290 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book Incognito written by David Eagleman and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Why does your foot hit the brake pedal before you are conscious of danger ahead? *Why do you hear your name is mentioned in a conversation that you didn't think you were listening to? *Why is a person whose name begins with J more likely to marry another person whose name begins with J? *Why is it so difficult to keep a secret? *And how is it possible to get angry at yourself: who, exactly, is mad at whom?A thrilling subsurface exploration of the mind and all its contradictions.A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction

Author	: Alice Bennett
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2012-07-06
ISBN 10	: 9781137022691
Pages	: 228 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (226 users)

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Download or read book Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction written by Alice Bennett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich vein of imagined afterlives, from the temporal experiments of Martin Amis's Time's Arrow to narration from heaven in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones .

Driving with Plato

Author	: Robert Rowland Smith
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2011-05-03
ISBN 10	: 9781439186893
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (868 users)

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Download or read book Driving with Plato written by Robert Rowland Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to ride a bicycle with Einstein, have your first kiss with Kant, get your first job with Adam Smith, and weather midlife with Dante. Let history’s greatest minds illuminate life’s turning points. In Breakfast with Socrates, Robert Rowland Smith brought the power of philosophy down to earth by proving, in a very engaging and entertaining way, that human moments meet big ideas on a regular basis. Now Smith offers the natural offspring of that book, expanding the “day in a life” concept to life as a whole in Driving with Plato. Start with being born. For some, like Sartre, you get off to a bad start: You didn’t ask to be born, and there’s little point to it anyway, as life is meaningless. And yet for Martin Heidegger, if you hadn’t been born, you’d have no sense of your own being, and that would be a tragic loss. How about midlife crisis? When Dante wrote The Divine Comedy, he deliberately set his story of spiritual transformation at the halfway point of his life. Nietzsche, too, in his autobiography, spoke of burying his forty-fifth year as he went on to yet higher forms of actualization as a self-styled superman. Drawing on the great philosophers, as well as on literature, art, politics, and psychology, Smith creates the richest possible range of ideas for readers to contemplate, all in a warm, humorous voice that revels both in life’s absurdities and in the pure delight of discovery. Grounding abstract ideas in concrete experience, Driving with Plato helps us think more deeply about the key events in our lives even as it provides a philosophical education that everyone can appreciate and enjoy.

Philosophy of Religion: A Very Short Introduction

Author	: Tim Bayne
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2018-02-13
ISBN 10	: 9780191071164
Pages	: 144 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (711 users)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Religion: A Very Short Introduction written by Tim Bayne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the philosophy of religion? How can we distinguish it from theology on the one hand and the psychology/sociology of religious belief on the other? What does it mean to describe God as 'eternal'? And should religious people want there to be good arguments for the existence of God, or is religious belief only authentic in the absence of these good arguments? In this Very Short Introduction Tim Bayne introduces the field of philosophy of religion, and engages with some of the most burning questions that philosophers discuss. Considering how 'religion' should be defined, and whether we even need to be able to define it in order to engage in the philosophy of religion, he goes on to discuss whether the existence of God matters. Exploring the problem of evil, Bayne also debates the connection between faith and reason, and the related question of what role reason should play in religious contexts. Shedding light on the relationship between science and religion, Bayne finishes by considering the topics of reincarnation and the afterlife. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Happier Endings

Author	: Erica Brown
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2014-04-15
ISBN 10	: 9781451649239
Pages	: 352 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (492 users)

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Download or read book Happier Endings written by Erica Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the National Jewish Book Award finalist, Inspired Jewish Leadership, presents an affirming meditation on living fully and preparing for death that guides readers on an emotional journey that draws on the wisdom of myriad spiritual traditions, covering a range of practical issues while sharing compassionate, illustrative stories.

Exercises in (Mathematical) Style

Author	: John McCleary
Publisher	: American Mathematical Soc.
Release Date	: 2017
ISBN 10	: 9781470447830
Pages	: 275 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (478 users)

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Download or read book Exercises in (Mathematical) Style written by John McCleary and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2017 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does style mean in mathematics? Style is both how one does something and how one communicates what was done. In this book, the author investigates the worlds of the well-known numbers, the binomial coefficients. The author follows the example of Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style. Offering the reader 99 stories in various styles. The book celebrates the joy of mathematics and the joy of writing mathematics by exploring the rich properties of this familiar collection of numbers. For any one interested in mathematics, from high school students on up.

Cult of the Dead

Author	: Kyle Smith
Publisher	: Univ of California Press
Release Date	: 2022-11-08
ISBN 10	: 9780520345164
Pages	: 383 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (451 users)

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Download or read book Cult of the Dead written by Kyle Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cult of the Dead tells a strangely neglected yet all too obvious story: the history of Christianity is the history of a martyr cult. Of all the world's religions, it is Christianity that is most obsessed with violence, martyrdom, and the remains of the dead. From the time of the apostles to today, this mania for martyrs has profoundly affected all forms of Christian devotion and cultural expression, from its liturgy and literature to its art and architecture. In this fascinating and compelling new account of the past two thousand years of Christianity, Kyle Smith offers a new history of an old religion, ranging widely over ancient relics, the Reformation, medieval pilgrims, persecuted evangelicals, and many more besides. Through ten, character-driven chapters, Cult of the Dead takes readers on the grand tour of Christianity's rich cultural heritage, developed around and was sustained by the memory of its sainted martyrs. This book tells the story of how Christianity became-and remains-a cult of the dead"--

Call My Name, Clemson

Author	: Rhondda Robinson Thomas
Publisher	: University of Iowa Press
Release Date	: 2020-11-02
ISBN 10	: 9781609387402
Pages	: 313 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (874 users)

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Download or read book Call My Name, Clemson written by Rhondda Robinson Thomas and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun’s Fort Hill Plantation in upstate South Carolina. Calhoun’s plantation house still sits in the middle of campus. From the establishment of the plantation in 1825 through the integration of Clemson in 1963, African Americans have played a pivotal role in sustaining the land and the university. Yet their stories and contributions are largely omitted from Clemson’s public history. This book traces “Call My Name: African Americans in Early Clemson University History,” a Clemson English professor’s public history project that helped convince the university to reexamine and reconceptualize the institution’s complete and complex story from the origins of its land as Cherokee territory to its transformation into an increasingly diverse higher-education institution in the twenty-first century. Threading together scenes of communal history and conversation, student protests, white supremacist terrorism, and personal and institutional reckoning with Clemson’s past, this story helps us better understand the inextricable link between the history and legacies of slavery and the development of higher education institutions in America.

医学人文十五讲

Author	: 王一方
Publisher	: BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Release Date	: 2021-11-08
ISBN 10	:
Pages	: 276 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book 医学人文十五讲 written by 王一方 and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 本书内容包括：医学人文的学术版图与价值追求、现代医学的人文拷问、医学的现代性魔咒、我们需要怎样的健康、医学中的视觉主义、生死盘桓与医学进步、奥斯勒命题及其当代价值、锻造临床人文胜任力、叙事医学的魅力、癌症文学与人文病理、妞妞之死与医学的人性温度、当代医学的思想史追问、传统医学的现代出路、医学家的传记与思想辉光等。

Incognito

Author	: David Eagleman
Publisher	: Vintage
Release Date	: 2011-05-31
ISBN 10	: 9780307379788
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (797 users)

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Download or read book Incognito written by David Eagleman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the conscious mind—the part you consider to be you—is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can your foot move halfway to the brake pedal before you become consciously aware of danger ahead? Why do you hear your name being mentioned in a conversation that you didn’t think you were listening to? What do Ulysses and the credit crunch have in common? Why did Thomas Edison electrocute an elephant in 1916? Why are people whose names begin with J more likely to marry other people whose names begin with J? Why is it so difficult to keep a secret? And how is it possible to get angry at yourself—who, exactly, is mad at whom? Taking in brain damage, plane spotting, dating, drugs, beauty, infidelity, synesthesia, criminal law, artificial intelligence, and visual illusions, Incognito is a thrilling subsurface exploration of the mind and all its contradictions.

Life After Death Today in the United States, Japan, and China

Author	: Gordon Mathews
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Release Date	: 2023-01-24
ISBN 10	: 9781000826623
Pages	: 223 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (266 users)

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Download or read book Life After Death Today in the United States, Japan, and China written by Gordon Mathews and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about contemporary senses of life after death in the United States, Japan, and China. By collecting and examining hundreds of interviews with people from all walks of life in these three societies, the book presents and compares personally held beliefs, experiences, and interactions with the concept of life after death. Three major aspects covered by the book Include, but are certainly not limited to, the enduring tradition of Japanese ancestor veneration, China’s transition from state-sponsored materialism to the increasing belief in some form of afterlife, as well as the diversity in senses of, or disbelief in, life after death in the United States. Through these diverse first-hand testimonies the book reveals that underlying these changes in each society there is a shift from collective to individual belief, with people developing their own visions of what may, or may not, happen after death. This book will be valuable reading for students of Anthropology as well as Religious, Cultural, Asian and American Studies. It will also be an impactful resource for professionals such as doctors, nurses, and hospice workers.

Hold On

Author	: Peter Toohey
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2020-05-12
ISBN 10	: 9780190083632
Pages	: 224 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (836 users)

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Download or read book Hold On written by Peter Toohey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when you're not asleep and when you're not eating? You're most likely waiting--to finish work, to get home, or maybe even to be seen by your doctor. Hold On is less about how to manage all that "staying where one is until a particular time or event" (OED) than it is about describing how we experience waiting. Waiting can embrace things like hesitation and curiosity, dithering and procrastination, hunting and being hunted, fearing and being feared, dread and illness, courting and parenting, anticipation and excitement, curiosity, listening to and even performing music, being religious, being happy or unhappy, being bored and being boring. They're all explored here. Waiting is also characterized by brain chemicals such as serotonin and dopamine. They can radically alter the way we register the passing of time. Waiting is also the experience that may characterize most interpersonal relations--mismanage it at your own risk. Hold On contains advice on how to cope with waiting-how to live better-but its main aim is to show how important the experience of waiting is, in popular and highbrow culture, and, sometimes, in history. Detouring into psychology, neurology, ethology, philosophy, film, literature, and especially art, Peter Toohey's illuminates in unexpected ways one of the most common of human experiences. After reading his book, you'll never wait the same way again.

Take Your Soul to Work

Author	: Erica Brown
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2015-12
ISBN 10	: 9781476743417
Pages	: 336 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (434 users)

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Download or read book Take Your Soul to Work written by Erica Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily meditations for business and nonprofit leaders focus on different qualities, emotions, and aspirations, from discipline and compassion to impermanence and callousness, sharing uplifting quotes and stories by business figures and artists of diverse faiths.

The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature

Author	: W. Michelle Wang
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2020-12-07
ISBN 10	: 9781000220742
Pages	: 470 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (27 users)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature written by W. Michelle Wang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale, Catherine Belling, Ronald Schleifer, Helen Swift, and Ira Nadel, as well as the work of a generation of younger scholars from around the globe, who bring valuable transnational insights. Encompassing a diverse range of mediums and genres – including biography and autobiography, documentary, drama, elegy, film, the novel and graphic novel, opera, picturebooks, poetry, television, and more – the contributors offer a dynamic mix of approaches that range from expansive perspectives on particular periods and genres to extended analyses of select case studies. Essays are included from every major Western period, including Classical, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and so on, right up to the contemporary. This collection provides a telling demonstration of the myriad ways that humanity has learned to live with the inevitability of death, where “live with” itself might mean any number of things: from consoling, to memorializing, to rationalizing, to fending off, to evading, and, perhaps most compellingly of all, to escaping. Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world, this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars working in the fields of medical humanities, thanatography (death studies), life writing, Victorian studies, modernist studies, narrative, contemporary fiction, popular culture, and more.