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Peter Tyson

Madagascar is a land where lizards scream and monkey-like lemurs sing songs of inexpressible beauty. KKnown as the Great Red Island, it is a place where fossa and tenrecs, vangas and aye ayes thrive in a true 'Lost World' alongside bizarre plants like the octopus tree and the three-cornered palm. And where the ancestors of the Malagasy, as the island's 18 tribes are collectively known, come alive in rollicking ceremonies known as "turning the bones."This natural and cultural histor...

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Peter H Tyson

STANDARDS UNDER PRESSURE: Critical Thinking When Lives Depend On ItStandards Under Pressure examines 37 historical situations—from Tenerife to Three Mile Island, from the Challenger disaster to the sinking of the Titanic—through a single lens: which of the 15 intellectual standards of sound reasoning failed, how, and what it cost. Drawn from the domains of aviation, engineering, medicine, military operations, and energy, the cases cover c...

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Peter Tyson

Why Flight Test? Since the Wright Brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk, aerodynamicists, engineers, and mathematicians have conquered the equations of flight. So, we should be able to know everything from wind tunnels, simulation, and computation, right? No. The dynamics of flight require in air test. It is impossible to replicate all the flight conditions on the ground. Or there may be specific flight conditions on the ground. Or there may be specific flight regimes that are poorly defined o...

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Routledge Science and Religion Series

This book sets out a new agenda for science-theology interactions and offers examples of what that agenda might look like when implemented. It explores, in innovative ways, what follows for science-theology discussions from recent developments in the history of science. The contributions take seriously the historically conditioned nature of the categories ‘science’ and ‘religion’ and consider the ways in which these categories are reinforced in the public sphere. Reflecting on the balance ...

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Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

Global environmental change occupies a central niche in the pantheon of modern sciences. There is an urgent need to know and understand the way in which global biogeochemical cycles have changed over different time scales in the past and are likely to do so in the future. Equally important, it is necessary to determine the extent to which natural variability and that induce by anthropogenic activities are bringing about change. A number of international co-operative scientific programmes a...

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Tyson E. Lewis, Peter B. Hyland

Offers a radical new interpretation of research-creation, connecting current practices to their lost alchemical predecessors.Research-creation is an attempt to suspend the operative divisions that define Western modernity—divisions between the head and the hand, knowledge and pleasure, science and art. Yet this practice, which has so much promise, has often fallen prey to facile, fashionable notions of interdisciplinarity and hybridizations of science and art. ...

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Kathleen Deagan, Prudence M. Rice, Robert L. Schuyler, Ann F. Ramenofsky, Edward M. Schortman, Patricia A. Urban, Jonathan D. Hill, Theresa A. Singleton, John Edward Terrell, Gil J. Stein, Stuart Tyson Smith, Michael Dietler, Peter S. Wells, Susan Toby Evans, Christopher R. DeCorse, Douglas V. Armstrong, Rebecca Saunders, Mark J. Wagner, Joel W. Palka, Rani T. Alexander

People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by James G. Cusick,seeks to define the role of culture contact in human history, to identify issues in the study of culture contact i...

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Peter Hyland, Tyson E. Lewis

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Forerunners: Ideas First

What kind of university is possible when digital tools are not taken for granted, but hacked for a more experimental future?The global pandemic has underscored contemporary reliance on digital environments. This is particularly true among schools and universities, which, in response, shifted much of their instruction online. Because the rise of e-learning logics, ed-tech industries, and enterprise learning-management systems all threaten to further commodify and in...

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Eric Tyson, MBA

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Peter Lerman

Investing for your future is wise and essential. Of course, you want to make solid investment choices and minimize mistakes. This updated, bestselling guide educates you on investing concepts and lingo so you can make the best decisions in all economies and markets. Understanding how to find and make smart investments is a skill that can be learned, and this book by money-pro Eric Tyson will help you by discovering how to weigh risk vs return, offering tips on choosing stocks and funds, ge...

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Mark Coeckelbergh

An account of the complex relationship between technology and romanticism that links nineteenth-century monsters, automata, and mesmerism with twenty-first-century technology's magic devices and romantic cyborgs.Romanticism and technology are widely assumed to be opposed to each other. Romanticism—understood as a reaction against rationalism and objectivity—is perhaps the last thing users and developers of information and communication technology (ICT) think about ...

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Robert Pepperell, Michael Punt

To what extent is our time characterised by the ‘digital’? Does it announce a bright new age of technological progress, or is it not much more than a marketing tag for manufacturers? What is clear is that much of the cultural theory we have so far accumulated is showing signs of strain as it struggles to cope with the global dynamics of the ‘wired world’. This book offers a timely intellectual strategy that may help us comprehend the contradictions and apparent paradoxes of our immediate c...

It is now widely acknowledged that play is central to our lives. As a phenomenon, play poses important questions of reality, subjectivity, competition, inclusion and exclusion. This international collection is the third in a series of books (including The Philosophy of Play and Philosophical Perspectives on Play) that aims to build paradigmatic bridges between scholars of philosophy and scholars of play.Divided into four sections (Play as Life, Play as Games, Play...