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"An award-winning astronomer and physicist's spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity--the foundations of science--to study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change"--
Since Copernicus, humanity has increasingly seen itself as adrift withing a large, cold universe. Gleiser argues that we need to reinvent our...
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"For over a decade, Taylor Lorenz has been the authority on internet culture, documenting its far-reaching effects on all corners of our lives. Her reporting is serious yet entertaining and illuminates deep truths about ourselves and the lives we create online. In her debut book, Extremely Online, she reveals how online influence came to upend the world, demolishing traditional barriers and creating whole new sectors of the economy. Lorenz shows this...
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"Hilke Schellmann is an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter, Wall Street Journal and Guardian contributor, and journalism professor at NYU. In "The Algorithm," she investigates the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the world of work. AI is now being used to decide who has access to an education, who gets hired, who gets fired, and who receives a promotion. Drawing on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents, and real-world...
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Why do the heavenly bodies behave in a contrary fashion to what we are familiar with on earth?
Before a wheel can turn, we must ensure rim is joined to axle; before a couple can dance in circle, their hands must be joined. In contrast, the planets circle the sun and the moons circle the planets without any securing mechanism, and so precisely that their movements can be predicted to a millisecond. Again, why is it that, released from the effects of...
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Get the Summary of Meghan O'Gieblyn's God Human Animal Machine in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Meghan O'Gieblyn's "God Human Animal Machine" delves into the philosophical and ethical implications of advanced technology, particularly AI, and its intersection with human consciousness, identity, and the soul. O'Gieblyn's experience with Aibo, a robotic dog, prompts her to reflect on the nature of emotions, understanding,...
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Get the Summary of Rebecca Boyle's Our Moon in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Our Moon" by Rebecca Boyle offers a comprehensive exploration of Earth's satellite, the Moon, and its profound impact on human history, culture, and scientific understanding. The Moon's desolate landscape, with its extreme temperature fluctuations and seismic activity, contrasts sharply with the vibrant life on Earth. Boyle delves into...
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-¡Cante con todas sus fuerzas! Es una certeza: cantar es bueno para nosotros. Entre otros beneficios, reduce la presión sanguínea y mejora la autoestima y la postura.
-Este libro ofrece una guía experta y ejercicios prácticos para ayudarle a añadir ritmo a su vida.
-De la mano de Rosie Dow, profesora de canto con una extensa carrera y experiencia, descubra cómo controlar la voz, disfrutar de los beneficios físicos y emocionales del canto,...
8) Gilded youth: a history of growing up in the royal family: from the Plantagenets to the Cambridges
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xviii, 277 pages ; 24 cm
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"A colorful, fascinating look at growing up in the royal family over the centuries, from the Plantagenets and Tudors to the Windsors and Cambridges. For as long as the British royal family has existed, their children have been brought up in ways that seem bizarre and eccentric to the rest of us - the royal family's obsession with making their children tough and independent as early as possible, often by delegating their parental duties to staff, goes...
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El libro versa sobre universidad, razón y verdad. Los textos estudiados difunden luz sobre estas materias: la propia experiencia de san Agustín, algunas claves de su metafísica, de su teoría del conocimiento y de su filosofía educativa.
Se organiza en tres capítulos: el primero recoge estudios sobre la tradición agustiniana -su concepto y nuestro trabajo-; el segundo, los comentarios de algunas obras de san Agustín -Las confesiones y los diálogos...
10) Sprouting the Curriculum: Perversely Logical Essays and Thoughts on Improving American Education
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Classroom teacher by day, professor by night. My daytime classroom is everything I rail against at night.
Every day I walk into a maelstrom; a middle school classroom. We have many precious and euphoric learning moments in a matrix of confusion. Picture an atom with electrons careening around a nucleus. Students can appear impetuous but they are really just doing what electrons do in the universe of elements, careening around in their orbits. Whether...
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¿Qué relación guardan la lucha contra el coronavirus y la Bioestética? ¿Puede esta novedosa disciplina aportar al análisis de la pandemia algo significativo y qué en concreto?
Este texto ofrece respuestas a ambos interrogantes y revela lo fecundo de la belleza y de la unión entre bioética y estética a la hora de considerar de un modo integral el combate frente a la epidemia. Es fruto de una investigación internacional, que reúne a destacados...
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This book on forgiveness, lovingly assembled and written by Michael Delia, is based on the work of Fr. Gerry O'Rourke, a Roman Catholic priest. Of course, all Catholic priests are schooled in the sacrament of forgiveness. Knowing something and believing it is not the same as being able to get your hands on it when you need it most. We know we should forgive, and we may want to forgive, but often we struggle to find a way. Gerry created four questions...
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Le Québec, comme l'ensemble des provinces canadiennes, a fortement investi dans l'enseignement postsecondaire depuis le début des années 1960. Les cheminements scolaires et la structure du système éducatif en ont été profondément transformés. De nombreuses personnes, en provenance de différentes fractions sociales et d'âges variés, ont davantage investi l'école, particulièrement au niveau des études supérieures. Les progrès en matière...
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In Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, we explore the ethical, economic, and political implications of this technology. The book examines the potential of AI to create a more equitable and just world, as well as the potential pitfalls of allowing machines to take over human labor. It also provides an overview of the current state of AI and how it has developed over the years, and provides an outlook on its potential future applications.
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El mal, el robo, las relaciones sexuales, el asesinato, la conciencia..., han sido tradicionalmente objeto de la teoría de la moral. Sin embargo, mientras que las tradiciones morales históricas entendieron durante mucho tiempo estos comportamientos, capacidades o características como producto de la formación socioeconómica, la costumbre y la voluntad, la neurociencia contemporánea sitúa directamente la moralidad en el cerebro.
Este libro trata...
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¿Puede un solo libro convertirse en la perfecta introducción para adentrarse en disciplinas tan dispares como la astronomía, la geología, la física, la química y la biología? ¿Puede un trabajo de divulgación científica ofrecer razonamientos y datos precisos, y al mismo tiempo ser tremendamente entretenido? ¿Puede una única obra narrar la historia de los grandes descubrimientos de la ciencia y contarnos también divertidas anécdotas relacionadas...
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Society needs to be organized. We can all agree on that. The question is how to do it. There are two options. One is top down organization by a central authority. The other is to let society organize itself based on natural law. A society like that is called natural society.
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El presente libro sistematiza las reflexiones en torno a la relevancia de la actividad investigativa en la educación en cuanto área de conocimiento y en la práctica educativa propiamente dicha. El trabajo se divide en dos partes, una más teórica, centrada en explicitar los supuestos epistemológicos y metodológicos de la investigación educativa, otra más orientada a poner en evidencia cómo dichos supuestos y metodologías pueden ponerse en...
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We are presented with several million options during our life that we have to make a choice between. The choices we make create the way we see the world and establish how we live in it. This environment, which we have created for ourselves, is called our world. Everyone has a world that is unique and personal to them.
Of course, our worlds are based on assumptions that for one reason or another, we choose to believe and call facts.
We are sure...
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Purpose and Intention
These daily reminders were created for the purpose and intention of
providing participants with concrete lessons about abstract concepts;
providing vocabulary development through high-level thinking skills;
enhancing a positive learning environment;
teaching accountability for one's thoughts, behaviors, and attitudes;
encouraging and motivating participants to be successful;
providing participants...
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