Humaniqueness: The Gift of Your Inner God

Humaniqueness: The Gift of Your Inner God
Author: Glauco Ortolano
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2008-07-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1435737377

After reading a recently published book by a paleontologist who claims he found the missing link between humans and aquatic species that lived billions of years ago, Glauco Ortolano answers back with HUMANIQUENESS, a thought provoking and inspirational book linking humans to a more divine heritage than fish.From a poem written by Vicente Huidobro,an early 20th Century Chilean poet, Glauco Ortolano builds a fascinating paradigm to challenge the contemporary views on human evolution based solely on scientific evidences. "We are small gods, not evolved fish, and it's time we put an end to all that nonsense", says Ortolano.The response from the scientific community has been outrageous, including personal attacks on Mr. Ortolano's reputation as a prominent scholar. "Humaniqueness" is a must read for anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of what it means to be human and semi-divine. It will enlighten and bring you into full realization of our unique faculties, gifts, and destiny as a species.

The Power of Pull

The Power of Pull
Author: John Hagel III
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2010-04-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0465021131

In a radical break with the past, information now flows like water, and we must learn how to tap into its stream. Individuals and companies can no longer rely on the stocks of knowledge that they've carefully built up and stored away. Information now flows like water, and we must learn how to tap into the stream. But many of us remain stuck in old practices -- practices that could undermine us as we search for success and meaning. In this revolutionary book, three doyens of the Internet age, whose path-breaking work has made headlines around the world, reveal the adjustments we must make if we take these changes seriously. In a world of increasing risk and opportunity, we must understand the importance of pull. Understood and used properly, the power of pull can draw out the best in people and institutions by connecting them in ways that increase understanding and effectiveness. Pull can turn uncertainty into opportunity, and enable small moves to achieve outsized impact. Drawing on pioneering research, The Power of Pull shows how to apply its principles to unlock the hidden potential of individuals and organizations, and how to use it as a force for social change and the development of creative talent. The authors explore how to use the power of pull to: Access new sources of information Attract likeminded individuals from around the world Shape serendipity to increase the likelihood of positive chance encounters Form creation spaces to drive you and your colleagues to new heights Transform your organization to adapt to the flow of knowledge The Power of Pull is essential reading for entrepreneurs, managers, and anybody interested in understanding and harnessing the shifting forces of our networked world.

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Author: Frans de Waal
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2016-04-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0393246191

A New York Times bestseller: "A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of nonhuman minds." —Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition—in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos—to reveal how smart animals really are, and how we’ve underestimated their abilities for too long. Did you know that octopuses use coconut shells as tools, that elephants classify humans by gender and language, and that there is a young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame? Fascinating, entertaining, and deeply informed, de Waal’s landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal—and human—intelligence.

Origins of Mind

Origins of Mind
Author: Liz Swan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2012-12-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9400754191

The big question of how and why mindedness evolved necessitates collaborative, multidisciplinary investigation. Biosemiotics provides a new conceptual space that attracts a multitude of thinkers in the biological and cognitive sciences and the humanities who recognize continuity in the biosphere from the simplest to the most complex organisms, and who are united in the project of trying to account for even language and human consciousness in this comprehensive picture of life. The young interdiscipline of biosemiotics has so far by and large focused on codes, signs and sign processes in the microworld—a fact that reflects the field’s strong representation in microbiology and embryology. What philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists can contribute to the growing interdiscipline are insights into how the biosemiotic weltanschauung applies to complex organisms like humans where such signs and sign processes constitute human society and culture.

Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction

Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction
Author: David Hopkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2004-04-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0192802542

A stimulating introduction to the many debates surrounding the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, such as the Marquis de Sade's position as a Surrealist deity, attitudes towards the city, the impact of Freud, and attitudes towards women.

Third Culture

Third Culture
Author: John Brockman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1996-05-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0684823446

This eye-opening look at the intellectual culture of today--in which science, not literature or philosophy, takes center stage in the debate over human nature and the nature of the universe--is certain to spark fervent intellectual debate.

The Storytelling Animal

The Storytelling Animal
Author: Jonathan Gottschall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2012
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0547391404

A provocative scholar delivers the first book on the new science of storytelling: the latest thinking on why we tell stories and what stories reveal about human nature.

The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology

The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology
Author: David M. Buss
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 1057
Release: 2005-07-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0471727229

The foundations of practice and the most recent discoveries intheintriguing newfield of evolutionary psychology Why is the mind designed the way it is? How does input from theenvironment interact with the mind to produce behavior? By takingaim at such questions, the science of evolutionary psychology hasemerged as a vibrant new discipline producing groundbreakinginsights. In The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology,leading contributors discuss the foundations of the field as wellas recent discoveries currently shaping this burgeoning area ofpsychology. Guided by an editorial board made up of such luminaries as LedaCosmides, John Tooby, Don Symons, Steve Pinker, Martin Daly, MargoWilson, and Helena Cronin, the text's chapters delve into acomprehensive range of topics, covering the full range of thediscipline: Foundations of evolutionary psychology Survival Mating Parenting and kinship Group living Interfaces with traditional disciplines of evolutionarypsychology And interfaces across disciplines. In addition to an in-depth survey of the theory and practice ofevolutionary psychology, the text also features an enlighteningdiscussion of this discipline in the context of the law, medicine,and culture. An Afterword by Richard Dawkins provides some finalthoughts from the renowned writer and exponent of evolutionarytheory. Designed to set the standard for handbooks in the field,The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology is an indispensablereference tool for every evolutionary psychologist and student.

Evolution, Literature, and Film

Evolution, Literature, and Film
Author: Brian Boyd
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 586
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0231150199

Jonathan Gottschall teaches English at Washington and Jefferson College. --Book Jacket.

Evolutionary Psychology

Evolutionary Psychology
Author: David Buss
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2015-10-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317345746

This book examines human psychology and behavior through the lens of modern evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary Psychology: The Ne w Science of the Mind, 5/e provides students with the conceptual tools of evolutionary psychology, and applies them to empirical research on the human mind. Content topics are logically arrayed, starting with challenges of survival, mating, parenting, and kinship; and then progressing to challenges of group living, including cooperation, aggression, sexual conflict, and status, prestige, and social hierarchies. Students gain a deep understanding of applying evolutionary psychology to their own lives and all the people they interact with.