Books

Extrasolar Planets: Saas Fee Advanced Course 31 (Saas-Fee Advanced Courses)

Average customer rating:

Extrasolar Planets: Saas Fee Advanced Course 31 (Saas-Fee Advanced Courses)
P. Cassen , T. Guillot , and A. Quirrenbach
Manufacturer: Springer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Astronomy | Astronomy | Science | Subjects | Books

Astrophysics & Space Science | Astronomy | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Physics | Science | Subjects | Books

All Amazon Upgrade | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Professional & Technical | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Science | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Qualifying Textbooks - Spring 2007 | Stores | Books
Similar Items:

Planet Formation: Theory, Observations, and Experiments (Cambridge Astrobiology)
Extrasolar Planets: A Catalog of All Discoveries in Other Star Systems
Numerical Methods in Astrophysics: An Introduction (Astronomy and Astrophysics)

ASIN: 3540292160

Book Description

Research on extrasolar planets is one of the most exciting fields of activity in astrophysics. In a decade only, a huge step forward has been made from the early speculations on the existence of planets orbiting "other stars" to the first discoveries and to the characterization of extrasolar planets. This breakthrough is the result of a growing interest of a large community of researchers as well as the development of a wide range of new observational techniques and facilities. Based on their lectures given at the 31st Saas-Fee Advanced Course, Andreas Quirrenbach, Tristan Guillot and Pat Cassen have written up up-to-date comprehensive lecture notes on the "Detection and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets", "Physics of Substellar Objects Interiors, Atmospheres, Evolution" and "Protostellar Disks and Planet Formation". This book will serve graduate students, lecturers and scientists entering the field of extrasolar planets as detailed and comprehensive introduction.

On the Origin of Objects (Bradford Books)

Average customer rating:

Theory of Reference, Latour-style
A difficult but fascinating
A tough read but worth it

On the Origin of Objects (Bradford Books)
Brian Cantwell Smith
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Philosophy | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Metaphysics | Philosophy | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

General | Psychology & Counseling | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books

Cognitive | Psychology & Counseling | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books

Cognitive Psychology | Behavioral Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Behavioral Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books

Look Inside Computer Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books

Look Inside Health Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books

Qualifying Textbooks - Spring 2007 | Stores | Books
Similar Items:

Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being
Cognition in the Wild (Bradford Books)
Philosophy in the Flesh : The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
Metaphors We Live By

ASIN: 0262692090

Book Description

On the Origin of Objects is the culmination of Brian Cantwell Smith's decade-long investigation into the philosophical and metaphysical foundations of computation, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Based on a sustained critique of the formal tradition that underlies the reigning views, he presents an argument for an embedded, participatory, "irreductionist," metaphysical alternative. Smith seeks nothing less than to revise our understanding not only of the machines we build but also of the world with which they interact.

Smith's ambitious project begins as a search for a comprehensive theory of computation, able to do empirical justice to practice and conceptual justice to the computational theory of mind. A rigorous commitment to these two criteria ultimately leads him to recommend a radical overhaul of our traditional conception of metaphysics.

Customer Reviews:

Theory of Reference, Latour-style.......2002-07-15

The argumentation is uneven, but the good stretches contain
enough new ideas to make it a good read. The core of
the book is the notion that referential links have to
be *maintained*. A subsidiary theme is that your metaphysics
should satisfy two constraints: it should make sense of
computer science, and it should allow for the world being
intrinsically very, very messy. If you like Bruno Latour,
and you're interested in metaphysics and epistemology, you'll probably like this. (If you dislike Latour, you'll probably dislike this.)

A difficult but fascinating.......1998-08-23

Fascinating!, Riveting!, Exquisite!. But. This is not an easy book. This is not an easy reading. From the first page, B. Smith throws at the reader the whole apparatus of the philosophical jargon. And it does not ease up towards the end. So, if you are not a philosopher but merely a computer scientist you could be lost. The difficulty of the topic (more about it later) is magnified by the writing style: Smith's style does not have a clarity of Gallileo letters. Nor does it have the brilliance and illuminating simplicity of Russell's essays. It is more like a style of someone who is struggling with his topic and with the language. You have an impression that the author is trying to shake the shackles of the language to express some deep thoughts that are intuitively understandable but are impossible to express, that those ideas he is trying to tell us about, are beyond the normal grasp of the language, beyond its expressive powers. And he makes us fully participate in this struggle. So what is the topic of the book? Smith attempts to answer the oldest of questions man/woman dared to ask- the question of what is out there. And while the question for a long time remained mainly of interest to philosophers, with the advent of computers and computer models it entered the mainstream of the human thought. Anyone who has been struggling with the computer (or computerized) representations and computer models of any system or any process (in fact of anything), will appreciate Smith's discourse.

Smith's thesis is that there is nothing out there such as a box, a house, a river, a cloud, etc.(examples are a bit simplistic and Smith goes beyond them). What is out there is a " constant flux" and we, through our participation in the flux, by our intentional stance "make things" out of it. We segment the reality into what make sense to us because of our intentions (intention in a larger, than everyday, sense) Thus, every struggle to nail down the models of reality using Yes/No abstract logic, will fail because the One reality has multiple realizations, each of them is true and the key to them (and what is missing in our Yes/No models) is the "participation" or the intentional stance. Smith asks questions that strike at the very heart of our understanding of the world and at the very essence of what we think computers are, do, or can do, and how they do. If you are brave enough to probe the same depths of human experience this book is for you.

A tough read but worth it.......1997-06-03

This book is not for the faint of heart, and if you believe that reading is an intellectual investment rather than just a casual pastime you will certainly benefit from this book. Once you get past Smith's academic language you realize that he has a very important message - that all computational systems are based upon a fundamental philosophical foundation, or ontology as he puts it. Every computational system we design and use is based upon our perceptions(subject) of objects - and the objects and models that arise from the subject-object no-man's land. There is no true platonic ideal, but rather a fuzzy metaphysical boundarys and objects that kinda work sometimes. If you are looking for a book that makes you take a big step in your day to day thinking and how you apply it, this is the book

Daughters of the Goddess: The Women Saints of India

Average customer rating:

One of my favorite all-time books
read this book!
Introduction to living, female hindu saints
A wonderful journey to the Goddess and her daughters
Inspiring, informative, approachable style.

Daughters of the Goddess: The Women Saints of India
Linda Johnsen
Manufacturer: Yes International Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

General | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books

General | Hinduism | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books

Mysticism | New Age | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books

General | Other Eastern Religions | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books

Look Inside Biographies | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books

Look Inside Religion & Spirituality Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books

jp-unknown2 | Specialty Stores | Books
Similar Items:

The Living Goddess: Reclaiming the Tradition of the Mother of the Universe
Darshan: The Embrace
The Path of the Mother : With the Divine Guidance of the Holy Mother, Ammachi
Messages from Amma: In the Language of the Heart
Bliss Now: My Journey With Sri Anandamayi Ma

ASIN: 093666309X

Book Description

This book takes us along on a search for the feminine face of God. We travel with Linda Johnsen for a fascinating investigation of the great women saints of India who manifest the divine in their lives. Together with her we comb the scriptures, meet the holy ones, and are led, step by step, to sit in awe at the feet of six remarkable, contemporary women. The stories, interviews, and reflections focus on women who are considered by Indian devotees to be incarnations of the Goddess and who show us a divinity far more alive, more human, and more dynamic than any of the treatises on ancient Goddess worship available.

Customer Reviews:

One of my favorite all-time books.......2007-03-09

Inspiring, eye-opening, what is possible for all of us, what we are when all else is stripped away. So different from the heroes (sic) in this culture whom we tend to pick for fame and fortune, not for heart, spirit and sainthood.

read this book!.......2003-08-31

This book is one of the most insperational books that I have read regarding women in spirituality. It is so good that I bought it after checking it out from the library.

Introduction to living, female hindu saints.......2001-04-18

A short and easy to read introduction to the situation of female hindu saints in general and to six ones in particular: Shree Maa, Anandamayi Ma, Anandi Ma, Swami Chidvilasananda, Ma Yoga Shakti and Ammachi. Five of the former are still alive and could, theoretically, be physically met. The nature of the book prevents the author from diving deeper into the lifes of these saints. But she recommends further reading with a list of books about individual of the above saints. (Three stars only, because it's somewhat superficial).

A wonderful journey to the Goddess and her daughters.......1999-07-31

In this time of the renaissance of the divine femine, Linda Johnsen has written a wonderful book that reveals the beautiful and ancient tradition of Goddess energy and women saints in India, and introduces the reader to contemporary women who embody the many aspects of the Goddess, as incarnations of her, and who are alive and active today. Her accounts of living, traveling with, and encountering these remarkable women, are fascinating glimpses into the wisdom and transformative energy that they embody and share with many around the world. She writes as an observer, a scholar, and a devotee, and does so with respect, fascination, reverence and chronicles her own transformation in her meetings with these living women saints. This book offers a fascinating glimpse into the history and daily life of the avatars living amongst us, and the strong Goddess tradition of their homeland and heritage. It is a unique and heartening book which contains humor, storytelling, history, wisdom, and written from a perspective that only a women could do in her study of the mysteries and beauty of the Goddess and her daughters, in all her aspects. Read this book and let the women that she encounterd grace you with their presence as well, through their photos, words, and energy, for the Goddess lives through them, and in this book you can become acquainted with them, as the author did. I appreciate this book immensely, for it is a wonderful forum and introduction to the women who are incarnations of the Goddess, and who are revealed in a personal way so well by the author.

Inspiring, informative, approachable style........1999-02-28

An inspiring and informative first hand account of some of the women alive today (or at least until 1980) from India who embody the living goddess tradition of South Asia. As a westerner who's both seen some of these women for myself and been to India, I find this book a great introduction to the Indian culture as well as a glimpse of what it's like to be in the presence of such women of power. The book is written in an immediate, narrative style and not the dry academic style of many older books on the subject. Once I started reading it, I couldn't put this book down until I was done!

Average customer rating:

Indian Mother Goddess (3rd edition)
N. N. Bhattacharyya
Manufacturer: Manohar Pubns
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books

Cults & Demonism | Occult | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books

General | Other Eastern Religions | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books

Goddesses | New Age | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 8173043248

Book Description

This study correlates the cult of the Indian Mother Goddess with similar cults found in different parts of the world. This 3rd enlarged edition includes five appendices, viz., Regional Distribution of the Goddess Cult; the Female-Dominated Societies; and Fertility Rites as the Basis of Tantricism.

The Hollow Earth: The greatest geographical discovery in history made by Admiral Richard E. Byrd in the mysterious land beyond the Poles--the true origin of the flying saucers

Average customer rating:

The Hollow Earth: The greatest geographical discovery in history made by Admiral Richard E. Byrd in the mysterious land beyond the Poles--the true origin of the flying saucers
Raymond W Bernard
Manufacturer: Bell Pub. Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Reference | Subjects | Books

The Missing Diary of Admiral Richard E. Byrd
Hollow Earth
The Lost World of Agharti: The Mystery of Vril Power (Mysteries of the Universe Series)
Subterranean Worlds Inside Earth
Messages from the Hollow Earth

ASIN: 0517307936

The Biological Universe: The Twentieth Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate and the Limits of Science

Average customer rating:

May be the same book with different title
A paradigm-setting study
Very good history, very good science
A Detailed and colorful insight on Human thinking protocols.
A sweeping history of a new worldview

The Biological Universe: The Twentieth Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate and the Limits of Science
Steven J. Dick
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Astronomy | Astronomy | Science | Subjects | Books

Cosmology | Astronomy | Science | Subjects | Books

Universe | Astronomy | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Science | Subjects | Books

General | History & Philosophy | Science | Subjects | Books

History of Science | History & Philosophy | Science | Subjects | Books

Life on Other Worlds: The 20th Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate
Many Worlds: The New Universe, Extraterrestrial Life, and the Theological Implications
The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750-1900
The Living Universe: NASA and the Development of Astrobiology
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe

ASIN: 052166361X

Amazon.com

As biological scientists learn more about how terrestrial life was formed, they increasingly turn to the stars to ask whether life might have evolved elsewhere. Thus far, despite a recent flurry of interest in Mars, they have found no solid evidence, but they keep looking. This scholarly book, written by a historian at the U.S. Naval Observatory, examines the long development of that quest, along with some of the philosophical questions that have emerged from it. Steven J. Dick notes that our observational abilities are both limited and biased, and that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence forces us to examine some of our own assumptions about what constitutes life in the first place.

Book Description

Throughout the twentieth century, from the furor over Percival Lowell's claim of canals on Mars to the sophisticated Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, otherworldly life has often intrigued and occasionally consumed science and the public. The Biological Universe provides a rich and colorful history of the attempts during the twentieth century to answer questions such as whether "biological law" reigns throughout the universe and whether there are other histories, religions, and philosophies outside those on Earth. Covering a broad range of topics, including the search for life in the solar system, the origins of life, UFOs, and aliens in science fiction, Steven J. Dick shows how the concept of extraterrestrial intelligence is a world view of its own, a "biophysical cosmology" that seeks confirmation no less than physical views of the universe. This book will fascinate astronomers, historians of science, biochemists, and science fiction readers.

Customer Reviews:

May be the same book with different title.......2007-03-30

I looked over this book and Life on Other Worlds: The 20th Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate. They seem to be the same book with different titles. Just a heads up.

A paradigm-setting study.......2003-09-24

This book is subtitled "the twentieth century extraterrestrial life debate and the limits of science." In fact, it is more than that. Science historian Stephen Dick describes a new paradigm of the universe that integrates biology. Where once we seemed lost in a vast and empty Cosmos, now we can credibly argue that we may be part of a living universe.

Dick sets the stage by surveying the debates over the existence of life and intelligence beyond the Earth up to the beginning of the 20th century, seeing the extraterrestrial life debate as a struggle for a world view that has advanced in stages. He connects the plurality of worlds with the decline of anthropocentrism, describing the latter as one of the major intellectual changes of the past century. He then describes how Percival Lowell's theories about Mars demonstrated the limits of astronomical observation. He goes into scientific theories about the origins of planets before discussing images of extraterrestrials in literature and the arts. Dick takes on the UFO controversy in an admirably objective way. He reviews scientific theories about the origin and evolution of life before describing the modern search for radio signals known as SETI. Dick argues convincingly that we have seen the birth of a new science: astrobiology. He concludes by discussing some of the implications of possible future contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. In his summary, he describes the triumph of an evolutionary view of the Cosmos, and the emergence of the biological universe as a worldview. This is a basic work for any serious student of the extraterrestrial life issue.

Very good history, very good science.......2001-08-09

Steven J. Dick is an historian with a broad academic background both in the humanities and in the sciences. The present book of nearly 600 pages will establish his reputation even more. Its sub-title, "the Twentieth Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate and the Limits of Science" reveals what is the book's focus, and also gives a hint of its broad philosophical scope. For though Dick's main theme is the astronomers' efforts to find out whether there is life on other heavenly bodies than our own earth, he is careful to relate it to the astronomical world-picture of the time. He sets forth in sufficient detail the arguments used to support or reject the idea of extra-terrestrial life. His presentation is clear and informative, with a minimum of technical jargon. Readers of this book will get a good grasp of the development of astronomical practice and theory after Copernicus and Newton, both in the scientific community and among the general public.

Of course the main meat of the book is the tremendous rise of interest in matters of outer space. On the unsophisticated popular level, this means mainly "little green men from Mars", fanciful accounts of Star Wars, eked lout by UFOs -- Flying Saucers. Dick's perspective includes these: he notes that many future scientists, including Carl Sagan and several future Nobel laureates, devoured science fiction of this kind in their early teens. As a serious historian, Dick tries to account for how popular culture and the scientific elite influenced each other. Positively, since public interest made it possible to raise money for building ever more sophisticated and expensive astronomical instruments and space probes, including the Hubble space telescope. Negatively, since the sensationalism of the popular press, radio and television (including Orson Welles's extraordinary radio broadcast in 1938, "War of the Worlds", and later TV dramas about space adventures such as "Star Trek", tended to hurt the reputation of scientists who participated in space projects. Dick consistently takes the view that scientific research cannot progress without the trial and error of creative hypotheses: the very essence of hypothesis testing.

True, we still do not have any proof of life or conscious intelligence on other planets than the earth, nor around other stars in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, nor in the billions upon billions of galaxies around us. But thanks to the adventurous research projects of the latter half of the 20th century, with radio telescopes and the Hubble space telescope, and also the landings on the Moon , Mars and Venus, and finally the grand, Government-supported project of SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence), where Carl Sagan was an important actor, we now know much more than we did around 1900. The quest will go on, strengthened by the arguments elaborated in the lively 20th century debates.

To complement Dick's historian's perspective, I strongly recommend "Our Cosmic Origin" by A. Delsemme, a prominent astronomer specializing on comets. His history starts with the BIg Bang, some fifteen billion years ago.

A Detailed and colorful insight on Human thinking protocols........2000-10-09

The Book is certainly one of a kind, in that it even when it was not the original goal of the author to follow a very detailed evolution in human thought processes throughout time..one can certainly take this aspect as a very interesting and outstanding one. By exposing the evolution of the formulation of the necessary premises upon which an extraterrestrial life was/is supposed to exist, it is showing the evolutionary steps taken by human logic until today's scientific method. Thus, starting from the "known" existing historical records of the discussions around the possibility of an exterrestrial intelligence, one can track this evolution as well as view the slow drift from a dictatorial role played by the Church and religion in philosophical/scientific debates to a totally religiously independent scientific debate held nowadays.

A sweeping history of a new worldview.......1999-11-21

In recent years, science has given us a new worldview. The universe now seems much friendlier to life than it was in the old cosmology of lifeless rocks and stars. Steven Dick captures this new worldview in THE BIOLOGICAL UNIVERSE. It is easy to understand, breathtaking in its broad sweep of decades of debate and progress, and highly relevant for understanding today's science.

Fairbairn and the Origins of Object Relations

Average customer rating:

Fairbairn and the Origins of Object Relations

Manufacturer: Other Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Psychology & Counseling | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books

Personality | Psychology & Counseling | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books

Psychoanalysis | Psychology & Counseling | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books

Qualifying Textbooks - Spring 2007 | Stores | Books
Similar Items:

Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality

ASIN: 1892746603

Book Description

Fairbairn's work is increasingly influential in research on infant development, child abuse, and the borderline,schizod, and narcissistic disorders. This volume is the first to bring together the works of those who have studied Fairbairn's ideas most closely. The papers are expository, exploratory, and illustrative and cover all aspects of his life, work, and influence.

Bible Encoded Crop Circle Gods: The Bible and Crop Circles are Decoded to Reveal Their Common Source. Four Alien Mysteries Explained--Origin of UFOs, Mars ... Crop Circles, and the Torah's Text.

Average customer rating:

Bible Encoded Crop Circle Gods: The Bible and Crop Circles are Decoded to Reveal Their Common Source. Four Alien Mysteries Explained--Origin of UFOs, Mars ... Crop Circles, and the Torah's Text.
Steve Canada
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Crop Circles | Occult | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books

Unexplained Mysteries | Occult | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1425910912

Book Description

The Torah's text, the first five books of the Bible, dictated to Moses by Yahweh on Mount Sinai about 3400 years ago, contains throughout its chapters multiple encoded names of those 12 alien beings identified in crop circles, the Anunnaki of Nibiru (10th solar system planet), who established all human civilizations. The main gods of those various religions are also encoded in the Torah, found very close in the encrypted text with the corresponding Anunnaki names from the ruling Council of 12. Their home planet's name, 'Nibiru,' and the biblical version, 'Olam,' are encoded in the Torah close to all 12 Anunnaki names. The terms 'cropcircle' and OlamUFO's' are also found encoded, along with 'Mars Face' and all related descriptions of it such as 'Earth, gold, discoverer, Nibiru, hero, king, Alalu, Mars and carve'. "I'll never think of crop circles the same way again." Father Charlie Moore, Catholic priest, attorney, and interdisciplinarian scholar, April 29, 1995, Santa Cruz, after our panel presentation together. Steve Canada, "who reads the signs in heaven and on Earth." Michael Hesemann, March 5, 2001, Laughlin, Nevada, at UFO Conference; a major UFO and crop circle researcher, a German journalist accredited to the Vatican, and author of The Fatima Secret (Dell pb, 2000) Steve Canada, "the man who reads the message in the crop like Daniel read the mene-tekal." Michael Hesemann, March 5, 2001 [see Daniel 2:29-45, 5:25, and 4:23]

K.G.C. An authentic exposition of the origin, objects, andsecret work of the organization known as the Knights of the Golden Circle.

Average customer rating:

K.G.C. An authentic exposition of the origin, objects, andsecret work of the organization known as the Knights of the Golden Circle.
Michigan Historical Reprint Series
Manufacturer: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

United States | History | Historical Reproductions | Formats | Books
ASIN: 1418190616
Release Date: 2005-12-20

Book Description

This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program.

A HISTORY OF THE BIBLE, ITS ORIGIN, OBJECT AND STRUCTURE

Average customer rating:

A HISTORY OF THE BIBLE, ITS ORIGIN, OBJECT AND STRUCTURE
Rev. James O'Leary
Manufacturer: D. & J. Sadlier & Co.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000QAVNRS

Books:

Books