Knowledge from the Stars

Knowledge from the Stars
Author: Wes Bateman
Publisher: Light Technology Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1993-06-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780929385396

The author of Dragons and Chariots and the four Ra Books shares his thirty-year adventure as a Federation telepath, and the wisdom brought to Earth through his telepathic connections.

Spiral to the Stars

Spiral to the Stars
Author: Laura Harjo
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2019-06-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816538018

All communities are teeming with energy, spirit, and knowledge, and Spiral to the Stars taps into and activates this dynamism to discuss Indigenous community planning from a Mvskoke perspective. This book poses questions about what community is, how to reclaim community, and how to embark on the process of envisioning what and where the community can be. Geographer Laura Harjo demonstrates that Mvskoke communities have what they need to dream, imagine, speculate, and activate the wishes of ancestors, contemporary kin, and future relatives—all in a present temporality—which is Indigenous futurity. Organized around four methodologies—radical sovereignty, community knowledge, collective power, and emergence geographies—Spiral to the Stars provides a path that departs from traditional community-making strategies, which are often extensions of the settler state. Readers are provided a set of methodologies to build genuine community relationships, knowledge, power, and spaces for themselves. Communities don’t have to wait on experts because this book helps them activate their own possibilities and expertise. A detailed final chapter provides participatory tools that can be used in workshop settings or one on one. This book offers a critical and concrete map for community making that leverages Indigenous way-finding tools. Mvskoke narratives thread throughout the text, vividly demonstrating that theories come from lived and felt experiences. This is a must-have book for community organizers, radical pedagogists, and anyone wishing to empower and advocate for their community.

The Duke and the Stars

The Duke and the Stars
Author: Monica Azzolini
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2013-02-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674067916

The Duke and the Stars explores science and medicine as studied and practiced in fifteenth-century Italy, including how astrology was taught in relation to astronomy. It illustrates how the “predictive art” of astrology was often a critical, secretive source of information for Italian Renaissance rulers, particularly in times of crisis.

Stars and Planets

Stars and Planets
Author: Carole Stott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2013
Genre: Outer space
ISBN: 9780753436523

The perfect start to a journey of exploration. Stars and Planets is an adventure through our solar system and beyond, visiting mysterious worlds from gas giants to frozen rocky moons, and gazing at the millions of stars in the universe.

Stars and Planets

Stars and Planets
Author: Nicholas Harris
Publisher: Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Planets
ISBN: 9781410303431

Discusses the planets in the solar system, as well as the sun, moon, comets, asteroids, and stars outside the solar system.

A Wilderness of Stars

A Wilderness of Stars
Author: Shea Ernshaw
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2023-11-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1665900253

An illness cursing the land forces seventeen-year-old Vega, the Last Astronomer, to venture across the wilderness to discover the stars message that will save her people.

The Life and Death of Stars

The Life and Death of Stars
Author: Kenneth R. Lang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2013-03-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 110701638X

Explains how stars are born, how they evolve and their ultimate fates, for a broad general audience.

Big Book of Knowledge

Big Book of Knowledge
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2019-04-16
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1465499687

Packed full of facts, this is the perfect encyclopedia for any information-hungry kid who wants to boost their general knowledge. Ever wondered how the roots of a plan can grow through solid rock? Or what life is like on the surface of Venus? Maybe you want to know how long it takes a drop of blood to travel around your body or how a solar power plant works? No matter the question, the Big Book of Knowledge has the answer. Packed with incredible images that show you what others only tell you, this children's book is the perfect resource for curious kids of all ages. When you have this much information at your fingertips, homework will be a breeze!

The Knowledge Illusion

The Knowledge Illusion
Author: Steven Sloman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0399184341

“The Knowledge Illusion is filled with insights on how we should deal with our individual ignorance and collective wisdom.” —Steven Pinker We all think we know more than we actually do. Humans have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most of us don’t even know how a pen or a toilet works. How have we achieved so much despite understanding so little? Cognitive scientists Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach argue that we survive and thrive despite our mental shortcomings because we live in a rich community of knowledge. The key to our intelligence lies in the people and things around us. We’re constantly drawing on information and expertise stored outside our heads: in our bodies, our environment, our possessions, and the community with which we interact—and usually we don’t even realize we’re doing it. The human mind is both brilliant and pathetic. We have mastered fire, created democratic institutions, stood on the moon, and sequenced our genome. And yet each of us is error prone, sometimes irrational, and often ignorant. The fundamentally communal nature of intelligence and knowledge explains why we often assume we know more than we really do, why political opinions and false beliefs are so hard to change, and why individual-oriented approaches to education and management frequently fail. But our collaborative minds also enable us to do amazing things. The Knowledge Illusion contends that true genius can be found in the ways we create intelligence using the community around us.