Convenient Myths

Author : Klaus L. E. Kaiser
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452004277
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Convenient Myths written by Klaus L. E. Kaiser and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONVENIENT MYTHS explores perceptions, politics, and facts on a wide range of subjects, including greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2), climate, weather, polar bears, seals, wind & solar power, ocean & nuclear power, fossil fuels, biofuels, electric cars, and related current concerns and green ideas. CONVENIENT MYTHS is written for anyone wishing to get to the bottom of the matter, without being over-burdened by details. Here are the crucial facts, unadulterated, and easy to understand. CONVENIENT MYTHS is what you should read if you have any doubts about the dire predictions of a pending global climate catastrophe, or the glowing promises about green technology, that you find in newspapers, on radio and television, on the Internet, and in many reports or documents destined for public consumption. Table of Contents – Brief Version Preamble 11 Introduction 13 Myth 17 Earth 33 Climate 45 Oceans 103 Freshwater 119 Chemistry 135 Air 143 Physics 159 Energy 163 Engines 203 Food 235 Sun 253 Weather 261 Diseases 267 Progress 273 Bibliography 275

Author : Iain Provan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781602589926
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Convenient Myths written by Iain Provan and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary world has been shaped by two important and potent myths. Karl Jaspers' construct of the "axial age" envisions the common past (800-200 BC), the time when Western society was born and world religions spontaneously and independently appeared out of a seemingly shared value set. Conversely, the myth of the "dark green golden age," as narrated by David Suzuki and others, asserts that the axial age and the otherworldliness that accompanied the emergence of organized religion ripped society from a previously deep communion with nature. Both myths contend that to maintain balance we must return to the idealized past. In Convenient Myths, Iain Provan illuminates the influence of these two deeply entrenched and questionable myths, warns of their potential dangers, and forebodingly maps the implications of a world founded on such myths.

Author : Simon Danser
Publisher : Heart of Albion
ISBN 13 : 187288380X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myths of Reality written by Simon Danser and published by Heart of Albion. This book was released on 2005 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Myths of Reality' reveals how reality is culturally constructed in an ever-continuing process from mythic fragments transmitted by the mass media and adapted through face-to-face and Internet conversations.

Author : Ruth Hubbard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biological Woman--the Convenient Myth written by Ruth Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Klaus L. E. Kaiser
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452004269
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Convenient Myths written by Klaus L. E. Kaiser and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONVENIENT MYTHS explores perceptions, politics, and facts on a wide range of subjects, including greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2), climate, weather, polar bears, seals, wind & solar power, ocean & nuclear power, fossil fuels, biofuels, electric cars, and related current concerns and green ideas. CONVENIENT MYTHS is written for anyone wishing to get to the bottom of the matter, without being over-burdened by details. Here are the crucial facts, unadulterated, and easy to understand. CONVENIENT MYTHS is what you should read if you have any doubts about the dire predictions of a pending global climate catastrophe, or the glowing promises about green technology, that you find in newspapers, on radio and television, on the Internet, and in many reports or documents destined for public consumption. Table of Contents – Brief Version Preamble 11 Introduction 13 Myth 17 Earth 33 Climate 45 Oceans 103 Freshwater 119 Chemistry 135 Air 143 Physics 159 Energy 163 Engines 203 Food 235 Sun 253 Weather 261 Diseases 267 Progress 273 Bibliography 275

Author : Paul Jentz
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624666809
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Myths of Native American History written by Paul Jentz and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Seven Myths of Native American History will provide undergraduates and general readers with a very useful introduction to Native America past and present. Jentz identifies the origins and remarkable staying power of these myths at the same time he exposes and dismantles them." —Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth College

Author : Scott Berkun
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449399614
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myths of Innovation written by Scott Berkun and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new paperback edition of the classic bestseller, you'll be taken on a hilarious, fast-paced ride through the history of ideas. Author Scott Berkun will show you how to transcend the false stories that many business experts, scientists, and much of pop culture foolishly use to guide their thinking about how ideas change the world. With four new chapters on putting the ideas in the book to work, updated references and over 50 corrections and improvements, now is the time to get past the myths, and change the world. You'll have fun while you learn: Where ideas come from The true history of history Why most people don't like ideas How great managers make ideas thrive The importance of problem finding The simple plan (new for paperback) Since its initial publication, this classic bestseller has been discussed on NPR, MSNBC, CNBC, and at Yale University, MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, Microsoft, Apple, Intel, Google, Amazon.com, and other major media, corporations, and universities around the world. It has changed the way thousands of leaders and creators understand the world. Now in an updated and expanded paperback edition, it's a fantastic time to explore or rediscover this powerful view of the world of ideas. "Sets us free to try and change the world."--Guy Kawasaki, Author of Art of The Start "Small, simple, powerful: an innovative book about innovation."--Don Norman, author of Design of Everyday Things "Insightful, inspiring, evocative, and just plain fun to read. It's totally great."--John Seely Brown, Former Director, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) "Methodically and entertainingly dismantling the cliches that surround the process of innovation."--Scott Rosenberg, author of Dreaming in Code; cofounder of Salon.com "Will inspire you to come up with breakthrough ideas of your own."--Alan Cooper, Father of Visual Basic and author of The Inmates are Running the Asylum "Brimming with insights and historical examples, Berkun's book not only debunks widely held myths about innovation, it also points the ways toward making your new ideas stick."--Tom Kelley, GM, IDEO; author of The Ten Faces of Innovation

Author : Iain William Provan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781602589933
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Convenient Myths written by Iain William Provan and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world rooted in undisturbed myths.

Author : Scott O. Lilienfeld
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444360744
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology written by Scott O. Lilienfeld and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience. Uses common myths as a vehicle for exploring how to distinguish factual from fictional claims in popular psychology Explores topics that readers will relate to, but often misunderstand, such as 'opposites attract', 'people use only 10% of their brains', and 'handwriting reveals your personality' Provides a 'mythbusting kit' for evaluating folk psychology claims in everyday life Teaches essential critical thinking skills through detailed discussions of each myth Includes over 200 additional psychological myths for readers to explore Contains an Appendix of useful Web Sites for examining psychological myths Features a postscript of remarkable psychological findings that sound like myths but that are true Engaging and accessible writing style that appeals to students and lay readers alike

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019091405X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Subhedar's Son written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 19th century was a pioneering age for vernacular texts in India. Vernacular writings became popular for making the 'first' interventions of their kind, written by Indians for Indians, and establishing new genres such as the biographical novel. The Subhedar's Son, an award-winning Marathi novel, was written in 1895 and published by the Bombay Tract and Book Society, and comprised overlapping personal and political trajectories. The author, Rev. Dinkar Shankar Sawarkar, inscribed multiple viewpoints into his narrative, including that of his own father, Rev. Shankar Nana (1819-1884), a Brahmin who was one of the early converts of the Church Missionary Society in Western India and served the CMS and the Anglican Church in various capacities for many years. Apart from Shankar Nana's conversion-story, Sawarkar provides readers with a blueprint of what a Brahminical journey towards Christian conversion encompassed, while describing his personal background of having lived a Christian life as a product of both Brahminism and Christianity. Attempting to deconstruct Brahmanism through Christianity he claimed Brahmin roots as a Christian with an aim of combatting the stigma of conversion. Contextualized within the early history of Maharashtra's missions and the specificities of individual conversions, the novel allows modern researchers to appreciate the particularity of regional and vernacular Indian Christianity. This culturally-specific Christianity spurred the production of Christian vernacular print culture, associating 'being Marathi' with broader and more universal frameworks of Christianity. But this new genre also produced nativist forms of Christian devotion and piety. Deepra Dandekar introduces this annotated translation of The Subhedar's Son, with an examination of the Church Missionary Society's socio- political context; a biography of Shankar Nana gleaned from archival sources; a brief summary of Sawarkar's biography; and an analysis of the multiple political opinions framing the book.