Through the Rearview Mirror

Through the Rearview Mirror
Author: John Macnamara
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2009-09-22
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780262263672

In this lively book, John Macnamara shows how a number of important thinkers through the ages have approached problems of mental representation and the acquisition of knowledge. He discusses the relevance of these approaches to modern cognitive psychology, focusing on central themes that he believes have strongly influenced modern psychology. This is not a neutral historical survey, but a vehicle for Macnamara's compelling and provocative arguments on the relevance and worth of certain aspects of psychological and philosophical thought. The historical figures discussed are quite varied—from Plato to Thomas Jefferson to Sigmund Freud—and include numerous Christian philosophers such as Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. The book assumes no previous background in the subject matter; Macnamara often simplifies abstract concepts via homespun examples (many using his beloved dog, Freddie). This is a quirky, engaging book, as well as the last work by a highly influential figure in cognitive psychology.

A Glance in the Rear View Mirror

A Glance in the Rear View Mirror
Author: Eric Toussaint
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2012-07-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1608462846

As the financial crisis continues to shake the economy it has begun to expose cracks in the ideology long used to justify neoliberal policies. This informed and accessible primer drives a wedge into these cracks, allowing the non-expert to understand the flaws in the economic philosophy of the 1%.

The Universe in the Rearview Mirror

The Universe in the Rearview Mirror
Author: Dave Goldberg
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2014-06-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0142181048

“A great read… Goldberg is an excellent guide.”—Mario Livio, bestselling author of The Golden Ratio Physicist Dave Goldberg speeds across space, time and everything in between showing that our elegant universe—from the Higgs boson to antimatter to the most massive group of galaxies—is shaped by hidden symmetries that have driven all our recent discoveries about the universe and all the ones to come. Why is the sky dark at night? If there is anti-matter, can there be anti-people? Why are past, present, and future our only options? Saluting the brilliant but unsung female mathematician Emmy Noether as well as other giants of physics, Goldberg answers these questions and more, exuberantly demonstrating that symmetry is the big idea—and the key to what lies ahead.

Rearview Mirror

Rearview Mirror
Author: William W. Turner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Espionage, American
ISBN: 9781883955212

From the Warren Commission Report to Operation Chaos to the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, many major events of the last half of the 20th century are encompassed in the explosive memoirs of Turner, a bestselling investigative journalist and a former ten-year agent of the FBI.

Tales in a Rearview Mirror

Tales in a Rearview Mirror
Author: Donal Ruane
Publisher: Gill
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780717135967

Tales in a Rearview Mirror is a collection of true stories as told from the driver's seat of a Dublin taxi. Some are funny, some are sad, some are foolish and some are bittersweet. Pretty much like the people Donal Ruane observes as he reluctantly drives around the city. All human life is here. There's the criminal's girlfriend who's just bought a house for cash in "Fox-bleedin'-rock". The eccentric American looking for a hooker. The drunken northsider chancing his arm to share a taxi home with a south county darling. The mother and father of all family rows in Ballyfermot. And lots more besides. Tales in a Rearview Mirror is the real deal. It's a hugely entertaining, brilliantly written slice of real Dublin life that you won't get anywhere else. "An irresistable read." Gerry Ryan

A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror

A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror
Author: Mortimer Jerome Adler
Publisher: Free Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1992
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

"Fifteen years ago, when I was only seventy-five years old, I wrote my autobiography prematurely. . . ". So begins the second autobiography of Mortimer Adler, the Chairman of the Board of Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Among other things, he discusses the enormously controversial second edition of Great Books of the Western World and his involvement with the Aspen Institute.

Forward Through the Rearview Mirror

Forward Through the Rearview Mirror
Author: Marshall McLuhan
Publisher: Mit Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780262522335

Forward Through the Rearview Mirror is a multidimensional, unconventional look at McLuhan's life and ideas in the context of the information age. An evocative, imaginative, and visually exciting mosaic of aphorisms and images, Forward Through the Rearview Mirror presents McLuhan's own words - short prose, aphorisms, interviews, letters, and dialogues - alongside reminiscences about him by today's most renowned cultural critics.

Life Through the Rearview Mirror

Life Through the Rearview Mirror
Author: Ed Lincoln
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-10-13
Genre: Businessmen
ISBN: 9781935359548

In this charming and refreshingly frank memoir, the creator of Seattle's Pink Toe Truck shares heartwarming and rollicking tales that illustrate his passion for family, hard work and hilarity. Ed Lincoln invites you to jump in the passenger's seat and take a peek though the rearview mirror as he reveals surprising life lessons that have spanned the decades. This true story once again proves that fact is often more compelling than fiction. You will burst out laughing, hold back tears and maybe even dust off a few nuggets of wisdom to put in your own back pocket.

The Windshield Is Bigger Than the Rearview Mirror

The Windshield Is Bigger Than the Rearview Mirror
Author: Jeff Wickwire
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Christian life
ISBN: 9780800794040

A scriptural, common-sense approach that encourages Christians to let go of their hurts and regrets and move forward into the life God intended them to have.