Between Colliding Worlds
Between Colliding Worlds

Author: Jonathan Malloy

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780802037176

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Jonathan Malloy's Between Colliding Worlds examines the relationship between governments and external activists through a comparative study of policy units dedicated to aboriginal and women's issues in Australia and Canada. Malloy identifies these units - or 'special policy agencies' - as sitting on the boundary between the world of permanent public servants and that of collective social movements working for broad social and political change. These agencies at once represent the interests of social movements to government while simultaneously managing relations with social movements on behalf of government, and - thus - operate in a state of permanent ambiguity. Malloy contends that rather than criticizing these agencies for their inherently contradictory nature, we must reconsider them as effectively dealing with the delicate issue of bridging social movements with state politics. In other words, the very existence of these special policy agencies provides a forum for social movements and the state to work out their differences. Relying heavily on interviews with public servants and external activists, Malloy argues convincingly that special policy agencies, despite - or because of - their ambiguous relationship to different communities, make critical contributions to governance.

Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art
Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art

Author: Arthur I. Miller

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2014-06-16

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 0393244253

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A dazzling look at the artists working on the frontiers of science. In recent decades, an exciting new art movement has emerged in which artists utilize and illuminate the latest advances in science. Some of their provocative creations—a live rabbit implanted with the fluorescent gene of a jellyfish, a gigantic glass-and-chrome sculpture of the Big Bang (pictured on the cover)—can be seen in traditional art museums and magazines, while others are being made by leading designers at Pixar, Google’s Creative Lab, and the MIT Media Lab. In Colliding Worlds, Arthur I. Miller takes readers on a wild journey to explore this new frontier. Miller, the author of Einstein, Picasso and other celebrated books on science and creativity, traces the movement from its seeds a century ago—when Einstein’s theory of relativity helped shape the thinking of the Cubists—to its flowering today. Through interviews with innovative thinkers and artists across disciplines, Miller shows with verve and clarity how discoveries in biotechnology, cosmology, quantum physics, and beyond are animating the work of designers like Neri Oxman, musicians like David Toop, and the artists-in-residence at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. From NanoArt to Big Data, Miller reveals the extraordinary possibilities when art and science collide.

Worlds in Collision
Worlds in Collision

Author:

Publisher: Paradigma Ltd

Published:

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1906833710

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With this book Immanuel Velikovsky first presented the revolutionary results of his 10-year-long interdisciplinary research to the public, founded modern catastrophism - based on eyewitness reports by our ancestors - shook the doctrine of uniformity of geology as well as Darwin's theory of evolution, put our view of the history of our solar system, of the Earth and of humanity on a completely new basis - and caused an uproar that is still going on today. Worlds in Collision - written in a brilliant, easily understandable and entertaining style and full to the brim with precise information - can be considered one of the most important and most challenging books in the history of science. Not without reason was this book found open on Einstein's desk after his death. For all those who have ever wondered about the evolution of the earth, the history of mankind, traditions, religions, mythology or just the world as it is today, Worlds in Collision is an absolute MUST-READ!

Colliding Worlds
Colliding Worlds

Author: Simone Marchi

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0198845405

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Some 4.6 billion years ago, a planetary system was born form a disc of gas and dust surrounding a young star. Specks of dust, pushed into dense clumps, collided stuck together, and grew. While the gas disappeared, the growing bodies clashed in a final violent phase, leaving a series of planets, and much debris. The planets jostled and moved around as they sought a stable arrangement, knocking many small fragments out of the system altogether while others forms a distant icy fringe. The massive violent collisions of this time gouged out vast craters form the newborn planets, and sometimes created moons. Such was the birth of our Solar System. Only recently have scientists begun to find subtle clues of these ancient, violent times. Remarkably, they are still there, if we look carefully at the Earth's oldest rocks, at Mars and the Moon with their ancient surfaces, and at the asteroids, which are themselves startlingly varied small worlds. Clues are also to be found in the meteorites that have landed on Earth. From such splinters, from the precious collection of lunar rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts, and the information gleaned by spacecraft and the Mars rovers, we are slowly building up a picture of the early days of the planets.

Colliding Worlds
Colliding Worlds

Author: Brittany Hughes

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2012-09-13

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1468577182

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A young collector found him, without a shred of memory, at an abandoned kingdom believed to be unfit to support life. Most of the Collectors thought of him as a waste of time, but the strongest of them vouched for his hidden potential. Kept for the leaders lust of power, he was put under the care of Kareu Sangfraid, the older brother of the Collector who had found him. As time went by, a great attachment formed between the brothers and child, and without realizing it, the child affected everyone in unpredictable ways, setting the seeds for an upcoming war that he himself was unaware. The pieces were coming together bit by bit as an old prophecy began to take its course, awaking uproar in Veronia and its unseen twin world, bringing together a group of misfits from different corners of the world that would have never met otherwise. They will have to work together to protect the balance between the twin worlds, but other forces aim to stop them before they can even begin

Carlos Villa
Carlos Villa

Author: Mark Dean Johnson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0520348893

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"This exhibition was organized to help celebrate the sesquicentennial of the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)"--Acknowledgements.

When Worlds Collide
When Worlds Collide

Author: Edwin Balmer

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Scientists are building rocket ships for a chosen few to escape planets hurtling toward each other on a direct collision course, leaks out touching off a savage struggle for survival.

Colliding Worlds
Colliding Worlds

Author: Berinn Rae

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-06-26

Total Pages: 1047

ISBN-13: 1507205511

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This fiery, action-packed collection features three passionate, star-crossed sci-fi romances for one low price. Collision: Sienna Wolfe’s world is turned upside down when a man with golden skin and strange tattoos crashes in her backyard and ends up tied to her bedposts. When the gorgeous new alien in her life wants Sienna’s help in an intergalactic war, she can’t say no … but she soon wishes she had. Now it’s up to Sienna to pull off the impossible: save the world without sabotaging her own happily ever after. Implosion: The cataclysmic war is brewing, and Sephian warrior Nalea lives to kill Draeken. That is, until Roden Zyll, a Draeken commander, captures her on the battlefield. As they slowly learn to drop their personal hostilities, tensions between their factions threaten to obliterate life on Earth. To save her friends—and her enemies—Nalea must become a traitor to her own people as well as her own heart. Explosion: Earth’s final war is here and time is running out for Draeken warrior-woman Talla Kolhm. Focused on the fight ahead, she refuses to allow love or compassion to distract her. Then she finds a kindred spirit in Jax Jerrick, a human soldier with his own share of scars, who awakens her darkest desires. Then he betrays his own kind to help her escape execution. Can Talla find the strength to return the favor, even if it means sacrificing their forever destiny to save everyone else? Sensuality Level: Sensual

Collision of Worlds
Collision of Worlds

Author: David M. Carballo

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0190864354

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"Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortâes joined forces with tens of thousands of Mesoamerican allies to topple the mighty Aztec empire. It served as a template for the forging of much of Latin America and began the globalized world we inhabit today. This violent encounter and the new colonial order it created, a New Spain, was millennia in the making, with independent cultural developments on both sides of the Atlantic and their fateful entanglement during the pivotal Aztec-Spanish war of 1519-1521. Collision of World examines the deep history of this encounter with an archaeological lens-one that considers depth in the richly layered cultures of Mexico and Spain, like the depths that archaeologists reveal through excavation to chart early layers of human history. It offers a unique perspective on the encounter through its temporal depth and focus on the physical world of places and things, their similarities and differences in trans-Atlantic perspective, and their interweaving in an encounter characterized by conquest and colonialism, but also active agency and resilience on the part of Native peoples"--

Colliding Worlds
Colliding Worlds

Author: Gerald de Cruz

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

Published: 2009-04-15

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 9814634913

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Spanning the years from the 30s to the 80s, Colliding Worlds is an illuminating portrait of a passionate idealist. Through a crazy paving of anecdotes and essays, Gerald takes the reader into the flow of his variegated world. Whether it is an evocation of his childhood days in Katong or a recounting of his escapes from the Japanese and the Communists, his is a fascinating, sometimes touching, story told with wit and eloquence. Colliding Worlds was first published as Rojak Rebel in 1991.