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Author: William H. Calvin Publisher: Bantam ISBN: Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 248
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The author looks to the heavens and to some of the most ancient ruins on earth to explore the shamanistic practices that started humankind on the path to scientific knowledge and modern civilization.
Author: William H. Calvin Publisher: Bantam ISBN: Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
The author looks to the heavens and to some of the most ancient ruins on earth to explore the shamanistic practices that started humankind on the path to scientific knowledge and modern civilization.
Author: William H. Calvin Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 9780553370829 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 244
Book Description
An introduction to the science of archaeoastronomy journeys to some of the world's most ancient ruins to detail the discoveries of ancient astronomers.
Author: Garth Stein Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061969516 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 468
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“Deeply moving, superbly crafted, and highly unconventional.” —Washington Times Raven Stole the Moon is the stunning first novel from Garth Stein, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Art of Racing in the Rain. A profoundly poignant and unforgettable story of a grieving mother’s return to a remote Alaskan town to make peace with the loss of her young son, Raven Stole the Moon combines intense emotion with Native American mysticism and a timeless and terrifying mystery, and earned raves for a young writer and his uniquely captivating imagination. When Jenna Rosen abandons her comfortable Seattle life to visit Wrangell, Alaska, it’s a wrenching return to her past. The old home of her Native American grandmother, Wrangell is located near the Thunder Bay resort, where Jenna’s young son Bobby disappeared two years before. His body was never recovered, and Jenna is determined to lay to rest the aching mystery of his death. But whispers of ancient legends begin to suggest a frightening new possibility about Bobby’s fate, and Jenna must sift through the beliefs of her ancestors, the Tlingit -- who still tell of powerful, menacing forces at work in the Alaskan wilderness. Jenna is desperate for answers, and she appeals to a Tlingit shaman to help her sort fact from myth, and face the unthinkable possibilities head-on. Armed with nothing but a mother’s ferocious protective instincts, Jenna’s quest for the truth about her son -- and the strength of her beliefs -- is about to pull her into a terrifying and life-changing abyss....
Author: James L. Pearson Publisher: Rowman Altamira ISBN: 9780759101562 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 212
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A study of archaeological evidence for Shamanism in North America and how it links to the archaeology of the mind. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Author: Richard Heinberg Publisher: Quest Books ISBN: 0835630935 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 218
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This book is an accessible, engaging tool to help people enrich their lives through the observance of ancient, astronomically determined Earth festivals. It assists us to recover an experience that had deep meaning for the ancients and that is now increasingly relevant to a world facing environmental challenges. Seasonal festivals are not meant to be cultural relics. They are joyous, fun, mischievous, profound, life-affirming events that connect us deeply with the Earth, the heavens, and the wellspring of being within us. This book encourages us to undertake full-bodied, ecstatic seasonal renewal by providing information on the history and meaning of the solstices with practical suggestions on how to celebrate them now.
Author: James E. McClellan III Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 0801889391 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 491
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The new edition reorganizes its treatment of Greek science and significantly expands its coverage of industrial civilization and contemporary science and technology with new and revised chapters devoted to applied science, the sociology and economics of science, globalization, and the technological systems that underpin everyday life.
Author: William H. Calvin Publisher: William H. Calvin ISBN: 0982916779 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 231
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A group of 17 essays: The Throwing Madonna; The Lovable Cat: Mimicry Strikes Again; Woman the Toolmaker? Did Throwing Stones Lead to Bigger Brains? The Ratchets of Social Evolution; The Computer as Metaphor in Neurobiology; Last Year in Jerusalem; Computing Without Nerve Impulses; Aplysia, the Hare of the Ocean; Left Brain, Right Brain: Science or the New Phrenology? What to Do About Tic Douloureux; Linguistics and the Brain's Buffer; The Woodrow Wilson Story; Thinking Clearly About Schizophrenia; Of Cancer Pain, Magic Bullets, and Humor; Linguistics and the Brain's Buffer; Probing Language Cortex: The Second Wave; and The Creation Myth, Updated: A Scenario for Humankind.
Author: Stephen H. Lekson Publisher: UNM Press ISBN: 9780826332417 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 134
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Eighty-five black-and-white photos and accompanying essays share the beauty of the canyons and mesas of the Colorado Plateau and the history of the resourceful inhabitants.
Author: William H. Calvin Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262531542 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 266
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The Cerebral Code is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes could operate in the brain to shape mental images in only seconds, starting with shuffled memories no better than the jumble of our nighttime dreams, but evolving into something of quality, such as a sentence to speak aloud. Jung said that dreaming goes on continuously but you can't see it when you are awake, just as you can't see the stars in the daylight because it is too bright. Calvin's is a theory for what goes on, hidden from view by the glare of waking mental operations, that produces our peculiarly human type of consciousness with its versatile intelligence. As Piaget emphasized in 1929, intelligence is what we use when we don't know what to do, when we have to grope rather than using a standard response. Calvin tackles a mechanism for doing this exploration and improvement offline, as we think before we act or practice the art of good guessing. Surprisingly, the subtitle's mosaics of the mind is not a literary metaphor. For the first time, it is a description of a mechanism of what appears to be an appropriate level of explanation for many mental phenomena, that of hexagonal mosaics of electrical activity that compete for territory in the association cortex of the brain. This two-dimensional mosaic is predicted to grow and dissolve much as the sugar crystals do in the bottom of a supersaturated glass of iced tea. A Bradford Book
Author: William H. Calvin
Author: William H. Calvin
Author: William H. Calvin
Author: Garth Stein
Author: James L. Pearson
Author: Richard Heinberg
Author: James E. McClellan III
Author: William H. Calvin
Author: Stephen H. Lekson
Author: William H. Calvin
Author: William H. Calvin