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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
"With lucidity and elegance, Zukav explains that we are evolving from a species that pursues power based upon the perceptions of the five senses -- external power -- into a species that pursues authentic power -- power that is based upon the perceptions and values of the spirit. He shows how the pursuit of external power has produced our survival-of-the-fittest understanding of evolution, generated conflict between lovers, communities, and superpowers,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn't bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new, spare, and efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, to more recent writing by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and J. M. Coetzee. Helen Small argues that if we want to understand old age, we have to think more fundamentally about what...
Author
Series
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Discusses the processes by which scientists determine the age of their specimens, such as counting the number of tree rings, reading the strata, and using chemical analyses and the carbon-14 test. Also looks at recent findings that may tell us how old the universe is.
Series
Bulletin of the National Research Council volume no. 78
Publisher
National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences
Pub. Date
[1931]
Language
English