'This is the story of how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life.' Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman on a whistle-stop tour of the inner cosmos. It's a journey that will take you into the world of extreme sports, criminal justice, genocide, brain surgery, robotics, and the search for immortality. On the way, amidst the infinitely dense tangle of brain cells and their trillions of connect ...
En las narraciones he buscado crear una imagen exagerada y dramatica de un posible futuro. Nada de lo que ocurre es totalmente inverosimil. La era tecnologica nos arrastra a un mar de dudas. La ingenieria genetica, la inteligencia artificial y la marea comunicacional, hace entre otras cosas que el futuro sea incierto. Genetica de diseno, permanencia holografica, realidad virtual compartida, simulacion de sociedades inteligentes, redes de comunic ...
Am Ende der Zeit ist die Welt grau und still. Jetzt zahlen nur noch Erinnerungen. Und wenn die verblassen, stirbt der Mensch. Harvey und Sarah fuhren ein gluckliches und ruhiges Leben in den Bergen. Als Sarah erkrankt, kummert sich der alte Harv liebevoll um seine Frau. Doch eines Tages hat sich etwas geandert – in der Welt da drau?en. Es beginnt damit, dass der Fernsehsender kein Programm mehr ausstrahlt, dann fallt die Stromversorgung aus ...
Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955. ESSAYS TOWARD A SYMBOLIC OF MOTIVES, 1950¬-1955 contains the work Burke planned to include in the third book in his Motivorum trilogy, which began with A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950). In these essays-some of which appear here in print for the first time-Burke offers his most precise and elaborated account of his dramatistic poetics, providing readers with representati ...
Faulkner from Within: Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner is the culmination of William H. Rueckert’s lifetime of study of this great American novelist. Rueckert tracks Faulkner’s development as a novelist through eighteen novels—ranging from Flags in the Dust to The Reivers—to show the turn in Faulkner from destructive to generative being, from tragedy to comedy, from pollution to purification and redemption. At t ...
In The Centrality of Style, editors Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri argue that style is a central concern of composition studies even as they demonstrate that some of the most compelling work in the area has emerged from the margins of the field. ...
Nacer en el Planeta Tierra iba a ser una experiencia totalmente novedosa para Nir, adaptarse a una nueva sociedad y entender que suponia vivir como un ser humano. ?En un planeta sin luz?Cuando nacemos, olvidamos posiblemente quien eramos antes, de donde venimos. ?Que pasaria si empezaramos a recordar todo lo anterior? Otras vidas, epocas, universos, con la capacidad de conectarnos de nuevo y de volver a cumplir otra de nuestras misiones.?Como pu ...
CONTRAPUNTAL by Christopher Kondrich | Free Verse Editions, Series Editor: Jon Thompson | "An understanding of the nature of consciousness reveals itself to be more elusive the longer one tries to approach it. The closer we get, the more vivid the confusion is. And this is the case regarding not only our handle on consciousness, but also the one we have on identity and even on reality itself, both of which depend upon consciousness-and all three ...
