Disobliging Reality

Disobliging Reality
Author: Frank Juszczyk
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2016-01-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1480826162

When Frank Juszczyks wife died, he grappled with big questions: How could his reality persist without her being a part of it? And what was it about reality that interrupted their time together? He told himself that hed discover the operative dynamic that split them apart and where shed gone. In this exploration of quantum physics, he seeks to answer questions such as: Why does there have to be a here and a not-here? Is reality taught to us or does it simply exist? If we were to reduce or eliminate the persistence of reality, what would that be like? Are there possible parallel universes that have the same degree of reality as ours, and if so, what does that say about how our reality is determined in the first place? Albert Einstein said that reality is merely an illusion, and while the concepts in this book are complicated, you dont have to be a physicist to learn how his statement is true or how to deal with it on a personal level. Overcome consensus thinking, minimize the persistence of an illusory reality, and discover freedom of choice with the powerful revelations in Disobliging Reality.

The Songwriting Secrets Of The Beatles

The Songwriting Secrets Of The Beatles
Author: Dominic Pedler
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Total Pages: 713
Release: 2010-05-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0857123467

Thirty years after The Beatles split up, the music of Lennon, McCartney, Harrrison and Starkey lives on. What exactly were the magical ingredients of those legendary songs? Why are they still so influential for today's bands? This ground-breaking book sets out to explore The Beatles' songwriting techniques in a clear and readable style. It is aimed not only at musicians but anyone who has ever enjoyed the work of one of the most productive and successful songwriting parterships of the 20th Century. Author Dominic Pedler explores the chord sequences, melodies, harmonies, rhythms and structures of The Beatles' self-penned songs, while challenging readers to enhance their appreciation of the lyrics themselves with reference to the musical context. Throughout the book the printed music and lyrics of The Beatles' songs appear alongside the text, illustrating the author's explanations. The Songwriting Secrets Of The Beatles is an essential addition to Beatles literature - a new and perceptive analysis of both the music and the lyrics written and performed by what Paul McCartney still calls 'a really good, tight little band'.

Salt Sugar Fat

Salt Sugar Fat
Author: Michael Moss
Publisher: Signal
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2013-02-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0771057091

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the troubling story of the rise of the processed food industry -- and how it used salt, sugar, and fat to addict us. Salt Sugar Fat is a journey into the highly secretive world of the processed food giants, and the story of how they have deployed these three essential ingredients, over the past five decades, to dominate the North American diet. This is an eye-opening book that demonstrates how the makers of these foods have chosen, time and again, to double down on their efforts to increase consumption and profits, gambling that consumers and regulators would never figure them out. With meticulous original reporting, access to confidential files and memos, and numerous sources from deep inside the industry, it shows how these companies have pushed ahead, despite their own misgivings (never aired publicly). Salt Sugar Fat is the story of how we got here, and it will hold the food giants accountable for the social costs that keep climbing even as some of the industry's own say, "Enough already."

The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain

The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
Author: Terrence W. Deacon
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1998-04-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0393343022

"A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book Review This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the ethical repercussions that followed man's newfound access to other people's thoughts and emotions. Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. It injects a renewed sense of adventure into the experience of being human.

Violence and Social Orders

Violence and Social Orders
Author: Douglass Cecil North
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2009-02-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521761735

This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.

The Network Reshapes the Library

The Network Reshapes the Library
Author: Lorcan Dempsey
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2014-08-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838919979

Since he began posting in 2003, Dempsey has used his blog to explore nearly every important facet of library technology, from the emergence of Web 2.0 as a concept to open source ILS tools and the push to web-scale library management systems.

Understanding Basic Music Theory

Understanding Basic Music Theory
Author: Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2018-01-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781680921540

The main purpose of the book is to explore basic music theory so thoroughly that the interested student will then be able to easily pick up whatever further theory is wanted. Music history and the physics of sound are included to the extent that they shed light on music theory. The main premise of this course is that a better understanding of where the basics come from will lead to better and faster comprehension of more complex ideas.It also helps to remember, however, that music theory is a bit like grammar. Catherine Schmidt-Hones is a music teacher from Champaign, Illinois and she has been a pioneer in open education since 2004. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois in the Open Online Education program with a focus in Curriculum and Instruction.

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
Author: George Lakoff
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2008-08-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0226471012

"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science. . . . Lakoff asks: What do categories of language and thought reveal about the human mind? Offering both general theory and minute details, Lakoff shows that categories reveal a great deal."—David E. Leary, American Scientist

Ocean of Sound

Ocean of Sound
Author: David Toop
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN:

"Ocean of Sound" begins in 1889 at the Paris Exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed. A culture absorbed in perfume, light and ambient sound developed in response to the intangibility of 20th century communications. David Toop traces the evolution of this culture, through Erik Satie to the Velvet Undergound; Miles Davis to Jimi Hendrix. David Toop, who lives in London, is a writer, musician and recording artist. His other books are "Rap Attack 3 "and "Exotica,"