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The Matter of Facts: Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science by Gareth Leng & Rhodri Ivor Leng
epub |eng | 2020-04-21 | Author:Gareth Leng & Rhodri Ivor Leng [Leng, Gareth & Leng, Rhodri Ivor]

* * * Scientists who seek to extend the work of others will often begin by reproducing previous findings, and may mention these efforts in their papers. But if they ...
( Category: Science & Math July 17,2021 )
A Slow Burning Fire by Marko Ilic
epub |eng | 2021-01-26 | Author:Marko Ilic [Ilic, Marko]

REFLECTIONS ON MONEY While Podrum was struggling to establish an enduring feeling of equality among its members, the Group of Six Authors embarked on a project that sought an alternative ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences July 17,2021 )
The Sword and the Pen: Six Decades on the Political Frontier by Allister Sparks
epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Allister Sparks [Sparks, Allister]

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Road to Recovery THE HUMAN SPIRIT is a resilient thing. It takes time, of course, as friends are wont to say when trying to comfort the bereaved, but ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences July 17,2021 )
Linguistic Bodies by unknow
epub |eng | 2018-10-25 | Author:unknow

Sensorimotor and organic bodies are transformed under the socially mediated and reflexive relations linguistic agents enter into to the point of becoming dependent on linguistic skills, broadly construed. Planning and ...
( Category: Self-Help July 17,2021 )
Picture World: Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media by Rachel Teukolsky
epub |eng | 2020-08-15 | Author:Rachel Teukolsky [Teukolsky, Rachel]

Ghost, Copy, Self: The Woman in White The themes of female visibility, portraiture, and copyism discussed in this chapter come to the fore in Collins’s sensation novel The Woman in ...
( Category: Arts & Photography July 17,2021 )
Rough Justice: The True Story of Agent Dronkers, the Enemy Spy Captured by the British by David Tremain
epub |eng | 2016-10-15 | Author:David Tremain [Tremain, David]

18 The Trial, Day Three Tuesday 17 November 1942 In his summing up on the final day of the trial, Mr Justice Wrottesley reminded the jury of the charge of ...
( Category: Biographies July 17,2021 )
A Philosophy of Madness: The Experience of Psychotic Thinking by Wouter Kusters
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-07-15 | Author:Wouter Kusters [Kusters, Wouter]

* * * Understandably, when such periods are described in retrospect, it is not easy to say “exactly what happened.” It all has to do with what you saw, but ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences July 17,2021 )
On Logic and the Theory of Science by Jean Cavailles
epub |eng | 2021-03-30 | Author:Jean Cavailles [Cavailles, Jean]

* * * 1 [See ‘Mathematical Thought’ on thematisation (which there, however, Cavaillès opposes to ‘idealisation or adjunction’): he describes it as the procedure ‘whereby the gestures carried out on ...
( Category: Science & Math July 17,2021 )
After the Fact: The Erosion of Truth and the Inevitable Rise of Donald Trump by Nathan Bomey
epub |eng | 2018-05-08 | Author:Nathan Bomey [Nathan Bomey]

SPINNING THE STORY For professional news media that have so far survived the industry's contraction, fabricated or highly misleading content—ranging from videos, audio clips, and photos to simple text—represents both ...
( Category: Science & Math July 17,2021 )
On the Brink of Paradox: Highlights From the Intersection of Philosophy and Mathematics by Agustín Rayo
epub |eng | 2019-04-02 | Author:Agustín Rayo [Rayo, Agustín]

Exercises 1.†We have seen that it follows from the Objective-Subjective Connection, and from the fact that 256Sg has a half-life of 8.9 seconds, that if you have no information ...
( Category: Science & Math July 17,2021 )
Omnicide by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
epub |eng | 2019-03-30 | Author:Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh [Mohaghegh, Jason Bahbak]

6 Or—oh God!—had he gripped the beast by the horns, done what he himself had so often warned his son never to do? Nothing, his father had said, drove the ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences July 17,2021 )
I'm Writing You From Tehran: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Past and Their Country's Future by Delphine Minoui
epub |eng | 2019-04-02 | Author:Delphine Minoui [Minoui, Delphine]

* * * For a long time, I kept thinking about these stories. No narrative had ever explained so well your compatriots’ propensity for feeling like victims, and their extreme ...
( Category: Biographies July 17,2021 )
The Subject's Matter: Self-Consciousness and the Body by Adrian J. T. Alsmith
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-12-15 | Author:Adrian J. T. Alsmith [Alsmith, Adrian J. T.]

2††††Depersonalization We have seen that de Vignemont argues against the deflationary view by appeal to the case of somatoparaphrenia. “Depersonalization” is another pathological condition that consists ...
( Category: Medical Books July 17,2021 )
Men, Machines, and Modern Times (MIT Press) by Elting E. Morison
mobi |eng | 2016-08-19 | Author:Elting E. Morison

* * * * This essay was delivered as one of three lectures at the California Institute of Technology in 1963. 7 “Almost the Greatest Invention” Part I A Long Course ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation July 17,2021 )
Spaceflight by Michael J. Neufeld
epub |eng | 2018-10-25 | Author:Michael J. Neufeld [Neufeld, Michael]

In the United States, the National Reconnaissance Office flew CORONA spy satellites, which returned photographic film in reentry capsules, until 1972, supplemented by similar, high-resolution GAMBIT satellites to take close-up ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation July 17,2021 )

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