Why do some people appear to obtain a disproportionate share of income and wealth? The French economist Thomas Piketty, in his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, frames the problem in a rather old-fashioned way as a tussle between capital and labour. His main thesis is that inequality is rising because the rate of return on capital, held disproportionately by the wealthy, exc…
Mereka bukan sekedar menjadi penikmat kata yang didapatnya dari buku. Lebih dari itu, para pelopor kecerdasan yang sudah menghibahkan hidupnya dalam dunia perpustakaan telah membawa perubahan sosial. Meski punya latar belakang pendidikan yang berbeda, para pegiat literasi itu memiliki pandangan misi yang sama. Di tengah keterbatasan, kerap mengeksplorasi ilmu dan menyusun peradaban di lingkung…
We are all familiar with the many reasons why we should fight poverty. Poor people do not have enough money to meet their basic needs, are excluded from society, are often not given proper respect, or can become easy prey at the hands of others who want to dominate them. In the domains of both material and immaterial goods, there is a widespread understanding about what it means w…
"‘Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten’: Denis Diderot’s Éléments de physiologie presents a world in flux, turning on the relationship between man, matter and mind. In this late work, Diderot delves playfully into the relationship between bodily sensation, emotion and perception, and asks his readers what it means to be human i…
Here is a spectacular and informative guide to the 21st century and beyond. Original photography and artworks illustrate the extraordinary visions of the future of scientists, artists and inventors through the ages, offering a unique "eyewitness" view of a world we are yet to know. See an insect robot learning to walk, a hypersonic plane, a calendar for the next century, a space hotel and a mil…
In June 2009, a thread on the forum SomethingAwful.com asked usersto participate in a Photoshop challenge involving the creation of imagesdisplaying a paranormal feature. One user named Victor Surge, whosereal name was later revealed to be Eric Knudsen, uploaded two grainyblack-and-white images in response to this call. These pictures showeda faceless and uncannily tall figure in a suit lurking…
Marcus Aurelius is said to have been fond of quoting Plato’s dictum, and those who have written about him have rarelybeen able to resist applying it to Marcus himself. And indeed, if we seek Plato’s philosopher-king in the flesh we could hardly do better than Marcus, the ruler of the RomanEmpire for almost two decades and author of the immortal Meditations. Yet the title is one that Marcus …
n this chapterIexploreGraeco-Roman techniques of, and attitudes towards,time measurement,from the twin perspectivesofeverydaylife andmedicine. Isurvey literary and archaeological evidence for the twomain available technol-ogies of timemeasurement,sundials and water-clocks, and consider what thisevidence tells us about their differential accessibility and context of use, andabout Roman attitudes…
What could be more fascinating than the workings of the human mind? This stunningly illustrated survey in Sterlings Milestones series chronicles the history of psychology through 250 landmark events, theories, publications, experiments, and discoveries. Beginning with ancient philosophies of well-being, it touches on such controversial topics as phrenology, sexual taboos, electroshock therapy, …
Understanding the mystery of consciousness goes to the heart of the human condition. Consciousness is what makes us human and understanding its nature is to know what it is to be human and what the world is like. Consciousness does not make us special among the animals, but human consciousness captures the essence of our being as animals. W…
‘Metaphysical poetry’ is a problematic term: it is broad and the phe-nomenon it denotes has blurred borderlines. In the eyes of some of the leading figures within classicist aesthetics, this description seemed pejorative, suggesting poems that were too detached from the rules of rationalised discourse, and often invoked contradictory ideas. T.S. Eliot pointed this out in his essay The Metap…
The project I have undertaken is to account for ethical perception (aisth?sis) in Aristotle’s ethics—to give perception a place of importance in ethi-cal reasoning, choice, and action—and to offer an account of the faculty of perception that is expansive enough to include reception of the ethical significance of particulars. This project is motivated phil…
What is time?Afirst,intuitiveanswer maybethat time isadimension of thephysical universe. As such, it existsand has always existed independentlyofhuman experience.Wethus find it natural to assigntemporal identitiestoeventsthat took place millions ofyearsbefore humanity even came into being,inpar-ticular in areas such as astrophysics,geology, and palaeontology. Weknow,orwe think we know,that the …
This open access book provides an overview of issues of scientific responsibility. The volume comprises three types of contributions: first, analyses of the responsibility of science; second, analyses of the structural conditions for science and its responsibility; and third, normative versions of scientific responsibility. The questions and problems dealt with include science as a profession, …
Our best science tells us wonderful things. The cold and dark skies of our universe were not so long ago in their entirety in a state of unimaginably high energy and temperature. The detritus that exploded from it congealed into stars, planets, and galaxies. These systems of celestial masses are in turn held together by a curvature of the geometry of space and time itself. On a most minute scal…
Adorno believed that a circular relationship was established between immediacy and mediation. Should we now say that this model with its clear Hegelian influence is outdated? Or does it need some theoretical integration? This volume addresses these questions by covering the performance of music, its technological reproduction and its modes of communication – in particular, pedagogy and dissem…
To fight the gods—you must first become a slave. Our universe is dead. All that’s left are memories. But the powers indigenous to the new world are fighting back. Alexander, a handsome immigrant fleeing trouble in his poor native land, doesn’t even have a claim to his own name in the magic-rich city of Norio, where they call him Aleixo. But his name may be the least of what the sorcerers …
Compelling evidence from industrial working practice demonstrates that in many critical infrastructure companies, decision-makers find it difficult to get objective information about safety and technological risks. Management theory postulates that executives manage their subordinates through information: they receive information from various sources, proce…
Realize your psychic potential with the Tarot! Everyone is psychic to one degree or another. And with The Everything Tarot Book, 2nd Edition, you’ll unlock the mysteries of the cards and thus boost your innate psychic abilities. Completely revised, this easy-to-use guide has everything you need to conduct complete Tarot readings for yourself and others. The Tarot deck has been used for …
Jeremy Bentham’s writings on Australia, new authoritative editions of which are now published in a volume entitled Panopticon versus New South Wales and other writings on Australia1 in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, have had a profound and enduring influence across a number of fields. For instance, according to the historian John Gascoigne, s…
This chapter briefly describes the goal and general argument of the book, along with its theoretical framework and data collection, and introduces the Swedish case. First, we set the discussion of labour movements’ trade union revitalization and usage of social media—and particularly of YouTube—into the broader context of scholarly liter-at…
The agent is the one that does things. There somehow in the midst of all the things that cause the agent to move, you find an agent in turn causing things. You find action. The agent displays activity.Those things that are not agents do nothing. There in the midst of all the things that cause them to move and that they in turn cause, you find . . . mere happenings, nothing else…
This e-book explores some of the contributions of psychology to yesterday’s great space race, today’s orbiter and International Space Station missions, and tomorrow’s journeys beyond Earth’s orbit. Early missions into space were typically brief, and crews were small, often drawn from a single nation. As an intensely competitive space race has given way to international cooperation over …
August Strindberg (1849–1912) was an extraordinarily prolific writer whose col-lected works encompass no fewer than 72 volumes of drama, prose and poetry as well as 22 volumes of letters.1 In this extensive literary production, The Occult Diary occupies a unique and central position. Strindberg kept the diary from February 1896, when he moved into the Hotel Orfila in Paris, until the sum…
In the beginning, when the world was just fifty centim-eters long, there was Jeanne’s inquiring face. A five-year-old face, flush up against the months-old fragment I then was, my opaque little mole eyes fumbling across this earliest of landscapes, my sister’s face watching me. She smiles, I smile. I smile, she smiles. She gives me a quick slap, I cry, she smiles, I smi…
Shortly after three-o’clock on 28th July 2017, in a private room of a specialised hospice in suburban London, staffdisconnected the breathing machine that was keeping alive 11-month old infant, Charlie Gard. Lying on either side of him, his parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard held his hands, leaned close, and talked to him. They spoke to him of how proud they were of him. They saw him open hi…
Asking is one of the simplest and most familiar of human actions, and has a right to be thought of as single most powerful and most variously cohering form of social-symbolic gesture. Because so much is at stake in the act of asking, asking, or asking for, almost anything, whether information, help, love or respect, can be asking for trouble, so a great deal of care must be taken with the ways …
The present volume collects together papers based on the annual Keeling Memorial Lecture in ancient philosophy given at University College London, over 2011-18 (and one from 2004, previously unpublished). It contains contributions to theoretical as well as practical ancient philosophy, and in some cases, to both. Susanne Bobzien argues that Frege plagiarised the Stoics in respect of logic, Gail…
Ada banyak cara untuk melukiskan seorang wanita: seorang anak, ibu, nenek, istri, pacar, wanita karier, sahabat, murid, guru, bos. Tetapi, persamaan yang tak bisa dilepaskan dari para wanita ini adalah: mereka memiliki hati untuk merasakan kelembutan cinta, menempa persahabatan seumur hidup, mengejar karier yang dipilih, membentuk kehidupan baru, bertanggung jawab tanpa kenal lelah atas pekerja…
Is objectivity possible? Can there be objectivity in matters of morals? What would a truly objective account of the world be like? Is everything subjective, or relative? Are moral judgments objective or culturally relative? This Very Short Introduction demonstrates that there are a number of common misunderstandings about what objectivity is, and explores the theoretical and practical problems …
From forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to eucalyptus groves in California, Florence Williams investigates the science behind nature's positive effects on the brain. Delving into brand-new research, she uncovers the powers of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection and innovation, and strengthen our relationships. As our modern lives shift dramatically indoors, these…
In this book the author takes an unusual multi-disciplinary approach to debates about contemporary art and poetry, ideas about the mind and its representations, and theories of knowledge and being. Arts practices are considered as enactments of mind and as transformative modes of consciousness. Ideas drawn from poetics, philosophy and consciousness studies are used to illuminate the conceptual …
It is an outstanding book from both the scientific and spiritual points of view. It is the unique record of the pioneering experiments which presents clear, electro-physiological evidence of the existence of the network of chakras and nadis which form the infra-structure of the subtle energies existing in the pranic and psychic dimensions, which underlie and activate the physical, material body…
What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others. Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to impro…
Karl Popper is famous for having proposed that science advances by a process of conjecture and refutation. He is also famous for defending the open society against those he saw as its arch enemies – Plato and Marx.Popper’s contributions to thought are of profound importance, but they are not the last word on the subject. They need to be improved. My concern in this book …
A defense of a version of the higher-order thought (HOT) theory of consciousness with special attention to such topics as concepts and animal consciousness. Consciousness is arguably the most important area within contemporary philosophy of mind and perhaps the most puzzling aspect of the world. Despite an explosion of research from philosophers, psychologists, and scientists, attempts to expl…
Gleick's story begins at the turn of the 20th century, with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation: The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological - the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizat…
This volume explores a wide-range of puzzles such as the grandfather paradox, the bootstrapping paradox, and the twin paradox of special relativity. Ryan Wasserman draws out their implications for our understanding of time, tense, freedom, fatalism, causation, counterfactuals, laws of nature, persistence, change, and mereology. Paradoxes of Time Travel is written in an accessible style, and fil…
Infinity is paradoxical in many ways. Some paradoxes involve deterministic supertasks, such as Thomson's Lamp, where a switch is toggled an infinite number of times over a finite period of time, or the Grim Reaper, where it seems that infinitely many reapers can produce a result without doing anything. Others involve infinite lotteries. If you get two tickets from an infinite fair lottery where…
Hanya dengan melepaskan pandangan paranoid Anda, Anda dapat hidup bahagia saat ini. Epicurus pernah menulis: "Manusia merasa terganggu bukan karena benda-benda itu sendiri, melainkan karena pandangannya terhadap benda-benda itu." Memang, alasan mengapa banyak orang tidak bisa hidup bahagia seringkali karena hatinya paranoid dan tidak bisa melepaskan persepsi subjektifnya terhadap banyak orang…
Sebagian besar para peminum kopi sejati memulai hari dengan cangkir kopi panas-ritual yang dilakukan oleh jutaan orang di seluruh dunia. Daya tarik kopi yang mengepul dan menghirup aroma kuatnya membangkitkan semangat kita untuk menghadapi segala suasana hati dan tantangan hidup. Dan, puncak kenikmatannya adalah ketika mencecap rasanya. Dengan antisipasi terjaga, pencinta kopi mengenali kekenta…
Sekarang ini, banyak orang telah kehilangan pijakan - mereka cemas dan bingung tentang cara menjalani kehidupan. Itulah sebabnya mereka mencari sesuatu yang luar biasa, dalam upaya mengatur kembali keseimbangan mentalnya. Namun, tetap saja. Bahkan setelah kita menekan tombol "kembali ke pengaturan awal", sesuatu yang luar biasa akan tetap berada di luar kehidupan sehari-hari. Ketika kita kembal…
The human mind is capable of entertaining an astounding range of thoughts. These thoughts are composed of concepts or ideas, which are the building blocks of thoughts. This book is about where all of these concepts come from and the psychological structures that ultimately account for their acquisition. We argue that the debate over the origins of concepts, known as the rationalism-empiricism d…
Integrating concepts from philosophical, anthropological, and astrobiological disciplines, Cosmos and Culture begins to explore the interdisciplinary questions of cosmic evolution.
Virtual Exchange refers to the numerous initiatives and methodologies which engage learners in sustained online collaborative learning and interaction with partners from different cultural backgrounds as part of their study programs and under the guidance of teachers or trained facilitators. This book reports on a large-scale European project, VALIANT (Virtual Innovation and Support Networks fo…
The twenty-first century has witnessed a pervasive militarization of aesthetics with Western military institutions co-opting the creative worldmaking of art and merging it with the destructive forces of warfare. In Martial Aesthetics, Anders Engberg-Pedersen examines the origins of this unlikely merger, showing that today's creative warfare is merely the extension of a historical development th…
Pernahkah kamu merasa tidak diperhatikan oleh orang lain? Pernahkah kamu mendapat luka dari perkataan teman baikmu? Itu semua karena setiap manusia memiliki sifat yang berbeda-beda. Dalam berinteraksi dengan orang lain, tidak ada salahnya kita mencoba mengerti apa yang dirasakan oleh teman dekat ataupun orang lain yang belum kita kenal. Nah, di komik Simple Thinking about Blood Type 2 ini…
50 kebijaksanaan China Klasik yang sangat populer dikemas dan disajikan dengan apik dalam buku ini.Bila Anda membacanya sebagai buku motivasi, kisah-kisahnya akan memberi Anda inspirasi dalam menggeluti kehidupan sehari-hari. Bila Anda membacanya sebagai buku cerita, Anda akan menemukan kisah-kisah singkat yang begitu menarik, cerdik, padat akan pesan moral, dan pasti akan memperkaya batin Anda…
Dengan filosofi menghindari kompetisi langsung sebagai cara yang paling cerdik dalam berkompetisi, The Best of Chinese Strategies menawarkan beraegam strategi, seperti 'Indiriect Action, Continuos change startegy, Deception Strategy' dan lain-lain, sehingga anda mempunyai ruang dan gerak untuk memilih salah satu ataupun gabungan strategi yang terbaik, tepat guna, dapat diandalkan, fleksibel seb…
Di dalam buku inspirasional dan penuh humor ini, Anna Tochter menghadirkan koleksi lebih dari 300 kalimat yang biasa dikatakan oleh para ibu. Buku ini akan mengingatkan kita bahwa tak seorang pun dapat mengasihi kita melebihi ibu kita,