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Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes
Ivor Steven
Jaymah
2022
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A Conversation About Multiple Sclerosis With My Family
Steven Koutsodontis
Publicious Pty Ltd
2021
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Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an auto immune disease that affects people usually when they are in their early twenties. Women are twice as likely to be affected by the disease. MS affects the brain and spinal cord. The immune system attacks the protective nerve covering called Myelin. This leads to a disruption between the communication from your brain and the body. The person who has MS may experience a variety of symptoms like loss of vision, tiredness, loss of feeling, weakness and walking difficulties to name but a few. There is no cure for M.S. This story is as a conversation between a father and his family. It deals with the frustrations the family deal with when exposed to the father's MS symptoms. Increasingly aware of this the father is determined to teach his family a lesson about MS and why he sometimes acts differently to other fathers. The story has many facts about MS explained for children. MS is introduced to his children as being just another member of the family that requires to be loved and managed well. Life's humbling mystery, love and its resilience to the unknown suffering. These are the small victories that father's affected with MS deal with. This is a true story that offers a lived experience dealing with these challenges and blessings.
ABI Headbanger A Journey with Acquired Brain Injury
Steven Clayson; Sharon Welgus
Sharon Welgus
2016
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Consciousness is said to be mysterious...I find the best way to understand something is to build it. I'm a nerd go figure. So join me as I delve into the works of philosophers like David Chalmers and Daniel Dennet, neuroscientists like Bernard J Baars and Stanislas Dehaene, and even Physicists like Roger Penrose. Based on my understanding of AI and many of these philosophies I attempt to create a design of a system that might be able to become conscious. Then we consider how this compares to evolution and current medical science.Finally, we can extrapolate what this might mean for the future and what consciousness actually means.
In the sixteenth century, Martin Luther started a reformation movement that revolutionized Europe and the history of the Christian faith. His far-reaching reforms of theological understanding and church practices dramatically changed both church and society in Europe and beyond. In honor of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Steven Paulson provides an engaging, concise introduction to Martin Luther's life and the major themes in his theology.
This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people—an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building. At the same time, Hahn asks us to think in more expansive ways about the nature and boundaries of politics and political practice.Emphasizing the importance of kinship, labor, and networks of communication, A Nation under Our Feet explores the political relations and sensibilities that developed under slavery and shows how they set the stage for grassroots mobilization. Hahn introduces us to local leaders, and shows how political communities were built, defended, and rebuilt. He also identifies the quest for self-governance as an essential goal of black politics across the rural South, from contests for local power during Reconstruction, to emigrationism, biracial electoral alliances, social separatism, and, eventually, migration.Hahn suggests that Garveyism and other popular forms of black nationalism absorbed and elaborated these earlier struggles, thus linking the first generation of migrants to the urban North with those who remained in the South. He offers a new framework—looking out from slavery—to understand twentieth-century forms of black political consciousness as well as emerging battles for civil rights. It is a powerful story, told here for the first time, and one that presents both an inspiring and a troubling perspective on American democracy.
Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology
Steven Levy
VINTAGE
1993
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This enthralling book alerts us to nothing less than the existence of new varieties of life. Some of these species can move and eat, see, reproduce, and die. Some behave like birds or ants. One such life form may turn out to be our best weapon in the war against AIDS. What these species have in common is that they exist inside computers, their DNA is digital, and they have come into being not through God's agency but through the efforts of a generation of scientists who seek to create life in silico. But even as it introduces us to these brilliant heretics and unravels the intricacies of their work. Artificial Life examines its subject's dizzying philosophical implications: Is a self-replicating computer program any less alive than a flu virus? Are carbon-and-water-based entities merely part of the continuum of living things? And is it possible that one day "a-life" will look back at human beings and dismiss us as an evolutionary way station -- or, worse still, a dead end?
Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
Steven Weinberg
VINTAGE
1994
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The Nobel Prize-winning physicist and bestselling author of The First Three Minutes describes the grand quest for a unifying theory of nature--one that can explain forces as different as the cohesion inside the atom and the gravitational tug between the sun and Earth. Wirting with dazzling elegance and clarity, he retraces the steps that have led modern scientists from relativity and quantum mechanics to the notion of super-strings and the idea that our universe may coexist with others. But Weinberg asks as many questions as he answers, among them: Why does each explanation of the way nature works point to other, deeper explanations? Why are the best theories not only logical but beautiful? And what implications will a final theory have for our philosophy and religious faith? Intellectually daring, rich in anecdote and aphorism, Dreams of a Final Theory launches us into a new cosmos and helps us make sense of what we find there.
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published - "godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell ...by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally regarded as a religious subversive and political radical who sought to spread atheism throughout Europe. Yet Spinoza's book has contributed as much as the Declaration of Independence or Thomas Paine's Common Sense to modern liberal, secular, and democratic thinking. In A Book Forged in Hell, Steven Nadler tells the fascinating story of this extraordinary book: its radical claims and their background in the philosophical, religious, and political tensions of the Dutch Golden Age, as well as the vitriolic reaction these ideas inspired. It is not hard to see why Spinoza's Treatise was so important or so controversial, or why the uproar it caused is one of the most significant events in European intellectual history. In the book, Spinoza became the first to argue that the Bible is not literally the word of God but rather a work of human literature; that true religion has nothing to do with theology, liturgical ceremonies, or sectarian dogma; and that religious authorities should have no role in governing a modern state. He also denied the reality of miracles and divine providence, reinterpreted the nature of prophecy, and made an eloquent plea for toleration and democracy. A vivid story of incendiary ideas and vicious backlash, A Book Forged in Hell will interest anyone who is curious about the origin of some of our most cherished modern beliefs.
A Guide to the Anolis Lizards (Anoles) of Mainland Central and South America
Steven Poe; Kevin de Queiroz
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
2025
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An authoritative treatment of the diverse and beautiful anole lizards of mainland Central and South AmericaAnoles are highly visible and aesthetically pleasing lizards that are abundant throughout Central and South America. The subjects of countless evolutionary and ecological studies that have advanced our understanding of basic principles in biology, these colorful reptiles are notoriously difficult to identify, and species names are often confusing and inconsistent. A Guide to the Anolis Lizards (Anoles) of Mainland Central and South America is the first book to enable the identification of all known species of anole in the region while establishing baseline knowledge for further research. Drawing on the latest findings, this comprehensive field companion and taxonomic reference is the ultimate guide to these extraordinary lizards.Provides the first stable taxonomy of mainland anoles while aiding field identification of these marvelous neotropical reptilesFeatures hundreds of stunning photos depicting most species, including several species never before photographedDescribes the key identification features and natural history of over 200 species of mainland anolesFacilitates scientific research on evolution, ecology, and species discoveryAn ideal travel companion for ecotourists and other visitors to Central and South AmericaAccompanied by an online identification key
With a compass to direct him in his job as a forward observer and a personal camera to document his experiences-and keep him connected to his creative side-Vietnam veteran Steven Burchik was lucky enough to make it home and years later decided to write about the most challenging year of his life. Like any experience, his year spent with the First Infantry Division stationed in the rice paddies near Saigon included good times as well as bad. He candidly recalls how, although he believed communism to be a serious threat in the world, he soon learned that a guerilla war is a difficult one to fight, and survival rather than victory quickly became his focus. But he also remembers the exhilaration of helicopter rides over serpentine rivers and the time he introduced village kids to a gumball machine. A unique memoir of the war, Compass and a Camera pulls not only from Burchik's memories, but also from the daily letters he wrote to his fianc e (she kept every single one) and includes numerous photographs from his collection of over four thousand. The images alone make this book a must-have for any history buff or fellow veteran.
The Obligation: A Journey to Discover Human Purpose on Earth and in the Cosmos
Steven Wolfe
Steven Wolfe
2015
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The Obligation is a modern parable about a young Capitol Hill staffer who discovers that the seasoned congressman he works for is guarding an ancient secret. An obsession over a mysterious inscription launches his introduction to a worldview that will challenge everything he thought he knew about space, evolution and humanity. Under the guidance of the congressman, the young man is propelled on a journey of mind and spirit that takes him from Washington to California to Arizona and back to the floor of the House of Representatives. Along the way, he meets six extraordinary individuals who help him understand the secret of the Obligation. The journey is filled with emotions, ideas and insights that lead the young aide to not only understand the reason why we yearn to explore outer space, but also see the larger responsibility we have to each other and to the planet that gave us life.
A Lonely and Curious Country: Tales from the Lands of Lovecraft
Steven Prizeman; Sean Farrell; Kh Vaughn
Ulthar Press
2015
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In 2003 a very special package was born into our lives. Our son Steven, who was a miracle birth. My wife conceived when doctors told us it was not possible. Then at 3 years old the enemy threw a monkey wrench into our world and our son was diagnosed with autism. One of the problems with autism is actually the lack of public awareness. To the untrained eye, they seem strange. But to those familiar with the symptoms, behaviors, and mannerisms, the behavior becomes a non-issue. Don't be intimidated by these very special citizens. This book offers exclusive insight into the autistic community with the purpose of quenching the fears and hesitation to engage them as friends. This is the first in a series that we hope will bring unity and understanding between typical and autistic children. Pick up a copy today and one for a friend, then pass them around. Spread the news
Rarely have I encountered a poet whose poems travel so widely in time and space and take such surprising twists between the autobiographical and the imagined, the contemporary and the mythic, the everyday and the surreal, and often the visionary. Steven Huff's The Fire in the Hill burns with a yearning for "a rebirth of wonder," for "more and fresher alphabets to sing," and it "keeps you awake like a piranha hunting."- Jeffrey Harrison * * * * Work I love is A Fire in the Hill, work that makes me think where I come from and where I go. Clarity makes poetry reach for the depths of being, and this is precisely what Steven Huff's poems do. Memory is his tapestry, passion the rope that holds together our common humanity. Few poets these days can do this as abundantly and generously as Huff in this his fine and most recent book.-Pablo Medina, author of The Island Kingdom
A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters
Steven C. Hayes
Avery Publishing Group
2020
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"In all my years studying personal growth, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is one of the most useful tools I've ever come across, and in this book, Dr. Hayes describes it with more depth and clarity than ever before."-Mark Manson, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckLife is not a problem to be solved. ACT shows how we can live full and meaningful lives by embracing our vulnerability and turning toward what hurts. In this landmark book, the originator and pioneering researcher into Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) lays out the psychological flexibility skills that make it one of the most powerful approaches research has yet to offer. These skills have been shown to help even where other approaches have failed. Science shows that they are useful in virtually every area--mental health (anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, PTSD); physical health (chronic pain, dealing with diabetes, facing cancer); social processes (relationship issues, prejudice, stigma, domestic violence); and performance (sports, business, diet, exercise). How does psychological flexibility help? We struggle because the problem-solving mind tells us to run from what causes us fear and hurt. But we hurt where we care. If we run from a sense of vulnerability, we must also run from what we care about. By learning how to liberate ourselves, we can live with meaning and purpose, along with our pain when there is pain. Although that is a simple idea, it resists our instincts and programming. The flexibility skills counter those ingrained tendencies. They include noticing our thoughts with curiosity, opening to our emotions, attending to what is in the present, learning the art of perspective taking, discovering our deepest values, and building habits based around what we deeply want. Beginning with the epiphany Steven Hayes had during a panic attack, this book is a powerful narrative of scientific discovery filled with moving stories as well as advice for how we can put flexibility skills to work immediately. Hayes shows how allowing ourselves to feel fully and think freely moves us toward commitment to what truly matters to us. Finally, we can live lives that reflect the qualities we choose.