The Dialogues

Author : Clifford V. Johnson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0262536080
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dialogues written by Clifford V. Johnson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of conversations about science in graphic form, on subjects that range from the science of cooking to the multiverse. Physicist Clifford Johnson thinks that we should have more conversations about science. Science should be on our daily conversation menu, along with topics like politics, books, sports, or the latest prestige cable drama. Conversations about science, he tells us, shouldn't be left to the experts. In The Dialogues, Johnson invites us to eavesdrop on a series of nine conversations, in graphic-novel form—written and drawn by Johnson—about “the nature of the universe.” The conversations take place all over the world, in museums, on trains, in restaurants, in what may or may not be Freud's favorite coffeehouse. The conversationalists are men, women, children, experts, and amateur science buffs. The topics of their conversations range from the science of cooking to the multiverse and string theory. The graphic form is especially suited for physics; one drawing can show what it would take many words to explain. In the first conversation, a couple meets at a costume party; they speculate about a scientist with superhero powers who doesn't use them to fight crime but to do more science, and they discuss what it means to have a “beautiful equation” in science. Their conversation spills into another chapter (“Hold on, you haven't told me about light yet”), and in a third chapter they exchange phone numbers. Another couple meets on a train and discusses immortality, time, black holes, and religion. A brother and sister experiment with a grain of rice. Two women sit in a sunny courtyard and discuss the multiverse, quantum gravity, and the anthropic principle. After reading these conversations, we are ready to start our own.

Author : Daniel Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781506454023
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogues on written by Daniel Hill and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Race and racism are so prevalent in US culture, that few stop to reflect upon what race is, why it was created, and how deeply ingrained race has become in American Christianity. It has left American churches segregated in the pews and divided in faith. Can this damage be repaired? Dialogues on race explores that very question. With seven essays from leading Christian thinkers, Dialogues on race asks penetrating questions about how the church in the US got to this point, and how, or if, white supremacy can be expelled from American Christianity. Dialogues On is an adult small group resource that encourages honest talk about difficult topics. In a time when so many conversations end in conflict, these resources equip readers to share their ideas, listen well, learn from other viewpoints, and develop action plans to bring hope and healing out of the church and into the world." -- Back cover.

Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567921298
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead written by Alfred North Whitehead and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2001 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher, mathematician, and general man of science, Alfred North Whitehead was a polymath whose interests and generous sympathies encompassed entire worlds. Here, clearly modelled on Eckermann's conversations with Goethe and recorded in Whitehead's own home, are some of the landmarks, signposts, milestones, and noble scenery of that extraordinary mind. Whitehead's approach to life and science provides a compass for the modern world. In these pages the immense reaches of his thought - in philosophy, religion, science, statesmanship, education, literature, art, and conduct of life - are gathered and edited by the writer Lucien Price, a sophisticated journalist whose own interests were as eclectic as Whitehead's and whose memory for verbatim conversation was nothing short of miraculous. The scene, the Cambridge of Harvard from 1932-1947 (with flashbacks to London; Cambridge, England; and his native Ramsgate in Kent); the cast, men and women, often eminent, who join him for these penetrating, audacious, and exhilarating verbal forays. The subjects range from the homeliest details of modern living to the greatest ideas that have animated the mind of man over the past thirty centuries.--Back cover.

Author : Stanislaw Lem
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262542935
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogues written by Stanislaw Lem and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of a nonfiction work by Stanisław Lem, which was "conceived under the spell of cybernetics" in 1957 and updated in 1971. In 1957, Stanisław Lem published Dialogues, a book "conceived under the spell of cybernetics," as he wrote in the preface to the second edition. Mimicking the form of Berkeley's Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, Lem's original dialogue was an attempt to unravel the then-novel field of cybernetics. It was a testimony, Lem wrote later, to "the almost limitless cognitive optimism" he felt upon his discovery of cybernetics. This is the first English translation of Lem's Dialogues, including the text of the first edition and the later essays added to the second edition in 1971. For the second edition, Lem chose not to revise the original. Recognizing the naivete of his hopes for cybernetics, he constructed a supplement to the first dialogue, which consists of two critical essays, the first a summary of the evolution of cybernetics, the second a contribution to the cybernetic theory of the "sociopathology of governing," amending the first edition's discussion of the pathology of social regulation; and two previously published articles on related topics. From the vantage point of 1971, Lem observes that original book, begun as a search for methods "that would increase our understanding of both the human and nonhuman worlds," was in the end "an expression of the cognitive curiosity and anxiety of modern thought."

Author : Plato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781788283083
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogues of Socrates written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sparkhouse
Publisher : Sparkhouse Congregational
ISBN 13 : 9781506448602
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogues On: The Refugee Crisis Learner Book written by Sparkhouse and published by Sparkhouse Congregational. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refugees in America. It's a tough topic, both at a local community level and from a national policy perspective. To bring perspective and meaningful conversations around this topic, The Dialogues On: The Refugees Crisis Learner Book offers eight unique perspectives from experienced authors from renowned organizations such as World Relief and Church World Service that provide insight into refugee stories and experiences. Chapters in The Dialogues On: The Refugee Crisis Learner Book include: - The story we live in by Brianne Casey - A people without a place by Dr. Beth Oppenheim-Chan - A global perspective by Jenny Yang - A network of care by Sarah Krause, MS - Facing our history by Halima Z. Adams - Looking for home by Aubrey Leigh Grant - Where do we go from here? by Matthew Soerens The Dialogues On: The Refugee Crisis Learner Book offers you differing dialogues on today's situation for refugees in America, helping unpack the issue and drive conversations. It can be read as a standalone piece or used in your small adult group study for an eight-week discussion to turn conflict into community. This curriculum contains topics for eight weeks of discussion in your small group for adults.

Author : Jerry Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogues written by Jerry Brown and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former California governor offers a collection of personal conversations--exploratory, thoughtful, passionate, and richly anecdotal--between himself and 22 of the men and women whose ideas and work have shaped his vision. Exploring such issues as political reform, globalization, the environment, and the arts and spirituality, this is a book to "wake people up" to conditions that are destroying our society and our world.

Author : Sune Liisberg
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782385576
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropology and Philosophy written by Sune Liisberg and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book is no ordinary anthology, but rather a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers initiate a dialogue on trust and hope, two important topics for both fields of study. The book combines work between scholars from different universities in the U.S. and Denmark. Thus, besides bringing the two disciplines in dialogue, it also cuts across differences in national contexts and academic style. The interdisciplinary efforts of the contributors demonstrate how such a collaboration can result in new and challenging ways of thinking about trust and hope. Reading the dialogues may, therefore, also inspire others to work in the productive intersection between anthropology and philosophy.

Author : Alan Stedall
Publisher : M-Y Books Distribution
ISBN 13 : 9780856832369
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marcus Aurelius written by Alan Stedall and published by M-Y Books Distribution. This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcus Aurelius, one of the greatest Roman emperors, is remembered less for his military exploits than for his private reflections. His Meditations, as they became known, have been a major influence on Western thought and behaviour down the centuries - the pen is mightier than the sword. Seeking an alternative to faith-based religion, Alan Stedall came across the book and found rational answers to questions about the meaning and purpose of life that had been troubling him. Here too were answers to his concern that, in the absence of moral beliefs based on religion, we risk creating a world where relativism, the rejection of any sense of absolute right or wrong, prevails. In such a society any moral position is considered subjective and amoral behaviour is unchallengeable. Because the Meditations were jotted down in spare moments during a busy life ruling and defending a huge empire, they lack order and sequence. Inspired by the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, Stedall has sought to present the contents in a more contemporary and digestible way. To achieve this, he employed the Greek philosophical technique of dialogue to create a fictional conversation between five historical figures who actually met at Aquileia on the Adriatic coast in AD 168. Apart from Marcus, they were his brother and co-emperor, Lucius, the famous Hellenic surgeon of antiquity, Galen, an Egyptian high priest of Isis, Harnouphis, and Bassaeus Rufus, Prefect of the Praetorian Guard. The Dialogues afford Marcus and his guests the opportunity to express their views on such topics as the brevity of life and the need to seek meaning; the pursuit of purpose; the supreme good and the pursuit of a virtuous life - issues as relevant today as they were in antiquity. By a gentle process of question and answer, Marcus shows up the weakness of his guests' arguments and reveals how a virtuous life may be lived without the threat of eternal damnation or promise of salvation to enforce compliance. Virtue is its own reward.

Author : Plato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dialogues of Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At head of title: New national edition. I. The Republic, introduction and analysis.--II. The Republic.--III. The trial and death of Socrates.--IV. Charmides and other dialogues, Selections from the Laws.