Cosmic Influences on Humans, Animals, and Plants

Cosmic Influences on Humans, Animals, and Plants
Author: John T. Burns
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1997
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780810833135

This annotated bibliography makes available to the general reader and scholar a broad survey of the scientific literature on alleged cosmic influences on humans, animals, and plants. To be included, a study must involve the collection of data or be a commentary on studies based on data. As some of the topics covered are still quite controversial in nature, while other topics have been scientifically studied to some extent, the terms "alleged," "claimed" or "suggested" are noted in the citations to remind the reader that a particular study has not necessarily been proven to be scientifically valid. The four parts of Cosmic Influences on Humans, Animals, and Plants are organized around alleged effects of solar activity, the moon, the planets, and possible mechanisms for such actions. Some effects that the sun and moon are known to have on our daily lives, such as the cycles of light and dark and the lunar tides have not been included because of their commonality. However, other effects such as those influences the moon has been shown to have over some animals have been included for the sake of completeness. With subject and author indexes.

Integrative Biophysics

Integrative Biophysics
Author: Fritz-Albert Popp
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401703736

Most of the specialists working in this interdisciplinary field of physics, biology, biophysics and medicine are associated with "The International Institute of Biophysics" (IIB), in Neuss, Germany, where basic research and possibilities for applications are coordinated. The growth in this field is indicated by the increase in financial support, interest from the scientific community and frequency of publications. Audience: The scientists of IIB have presented the most essential background and applications of biophotonics in these lecture notes in biophysics, based on the summer school lectures by this group. This book is devoted to questions of elementary biophysics, as well as current developments and applications. It will be of interest to graduate and postgraduate students, life scientists, and the responsible officials of industries and governments looking for non-invasive methods of investigating biological tissues.

Blinded by Starlight

Blinded by Starlight
Author: Frank McGillion
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2003-02-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1462826717

For centuries, notions such as the transformation of base into precious metals, an accord between humans and planets, the existence of an elixir of life, or prediction of the date of death, have been on the outermost fringes of science. So too have aspects of an art critical to western thought, what the Greeks termed, astronomia: an amalgam of astronomy and astrology. In Blinded By Starlight, Dr Frank McGillion demonstrates how by reference to modern scientific studies into the pineal gland, such assertions are perilously close to being shown to be, to a greater or lesser extent, true.

Biographies of Scientists

Biographies of Scientists
Author: Roger Smith
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780810833845

Provides more than 500 sources of information on scientists for young and adult general readers and for scholars. These sources explain scientists' accomplishments in the context of the personal and career developments that made those accomplishments possible

Contemporary Southern Men Fiction Writers

Contemporary Southern Men Fiction Writers
Author: Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780810831957

This carefully annotated bibliography lists sources of criticism for thirty-nine Southern male authors, each of whom has published at least one significant book of fiction between 1970 and 1994.

Black/white Relations in American History

Black/white Relations in American History
Author: Leslie Vincent Tischauser
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780810833890

An annotated bibliography of more than 700 significant works concerning the function of race in American history. It evaluates the most important historical, sociological, and psychological studies published since 1944. An introductory chapter describes and evaluates key general works on the origin and meaning of race and race relations. After the introduction, chapters are arranged in chronological order. All consequential studies of slavery on the national, state, and local level are included with a brief synthesis of the major findings of the study. The book continues through the Civil War, the Reconstruction, segregation and Jim Crow, up to and including the ongoing Civil Rights movement begun in the late 1950s. A final chapter includes works that attempt to imagine the cost--economically, socially, and politically--of black/white racism and discrimination in the United States.

British Women Writers, 1700-1850

British Women Writers, 1700-1850
Author: Barbara Joan Horwitz
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780810833159

A guide to British women authors, their works, and the writing about them.

Malicious Objects, Anger Management, and the Question of Modern Literature

Malicious Objects, Anger Management, and the Question of Modern Literature
Author: Jörg Kreienbrock
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0823245284

Why do humans get angry with objects? Why is it that a malfunctioning computer, a broken tool, or a fallen glass causes an outbreak of fury? How is it possible to speak of an inanimate object's recalcitrance, obstinacy, or even malice? When things assume a will of their own and seem to act out against human desires and wishes rather than disappear into automatic, unconscious functionality, the breakdown is experienced not as something neutral but affectively--as rage or as outbursts of laughter. Such emotions are always psychosocial: public, rhetorically performed, and therefore irreducible to a "private" feeling. By investigating the minutest details of life among dysfunctional household items through the discourses of philosophy and science, as well as in literary works by Laurence Sterne, Jean Paul, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, and Heimito von Doderer, Kreienbrock reconsiders the modern bourgeois poetics that render things the way we know and suffer them.