The Pure Element of Time
Author: Haim Be_er
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781584652779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rich autobiographical novel of the sentimental education of one of modern Israel's foremost literary talents.
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Time
Author: Eva Hoffman
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2010-07-09
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 184765259X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTime has always been the great Given, a fact of existence which cannot be denied or wished away; but the character of lived time is changing dramatically. Medical advances extend our longevity, while digital devices compress time into ever briefer units. We can now exist in several time-zones simultaneously, but we suffer from endemic shortages of time. We are working longer hours and blurring the distinctions between labour and leisure. For many, in an inversion of the old adage, time has become more valuable than money. In this look at life's most ineffable element, spanning fields from biology and culture to psychoanalysis and neuroscience, Eva Hoffman asks: are we coming to the end of time as we know it?
Self as Nation
Author: Tamar Hess
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Published: 2016-08-02
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1611688809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals the intimate ties between selfhood and nationality, life story and national narrative, through Hebrew autobiography
Five Thousand Days Like This One
Author: Jane Brox
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2000-04-07
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780807021071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmid the turmoil after her father's death-decisions to be made, the future of the family farm to be settled-Jane Brox, using her acclaimed "compassion, honesty, and restraint" (The Boston Globe), begins a search for her family's story. The search soon leads her to the quintessentially American history of New England's Merrimack Valley, its farmers, and the immigrant workers caught up in the industrial textile age. Jane Brox's first book, Here and Nowhere Else, won the 1996 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, and has been represented in Best American Essays. She is a frequent contributor to The Georgia Review. Jane Brox lives in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts.
Theodore Gray's Elements Vault
Author: Theodore Gray
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
Published: 2011-11-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781579128807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe exploration of the elements continues! Theodore Gray's Elements Vault builds on Gray's best-selling book with all new text, plus removable historic letters and other artifacts and collectible samples of real elements The Elements Vault picks up where The Elements left off. Organized into the nine major groups of the periodic table, including the alkali metals, the alkali earth metals, the transition metals, the nonmetals, the metalloids, the halogens, the noble gases, the actinides, and the lanthanides, Elements Vault includes all new text, new photographs, and even more information about the elements. Elements Vault also includes 20 removable historic documents related to the elements and the field of chemistry, such as Einstein's famous letter to Roosevelt explaining the potential of uranium for use in nuclear weapons, a genuine advertisement for lithium-laced 7UP soda, Mendeleev's original notes on the periodic table, and more. Each of these documents is individually packaged in an envelope attached to the book page. The document can be removed and handled and then put back into the book for safekeeping. Also here is a gorgeous 20" x 10" poster of the unique rainbow spectrum emitted by each element in the periodic table. Also included inside the book are real samples of pure elements! Filled with Theo Gray's and Nick Mann's trademark stunning photography throughout, Elements Vault is the perfect addition to Gray's growing series of all-things-elements.
White Sail
Author: Thinley Norbu
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2001-04-10
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1570627789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuddhism teaches that enlightenment is our natural state; the problem is that we do not recognize this state, owing to the mind's confusion about its true nature. Thinley Norbu presents the Buddhist view in a way meant to clear up misconceptions and awaken the reader's innate wisdom. Thinley Norbu is a distinguished teacher of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism and the author of The Small Golden Key and Magic Dance.
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
Author: Deborah Dash Moore
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012-11-20
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 030013553X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents an encyclopedia of Jewish culture from 1973 to 2005, including secular and religious examples from the visual arts, literature, and popular culture.
The Higher Self & Lower Self
Author: Vashist Vaid
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014-10-04
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 131257237X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book named as "The Higher Self and the Lower Self", provides the ''questioning reader'' those important pieces of information, which ''Awakens'' or add on more ''Vital Conscious Energy Vibrations'' to the evolving ''Embodied Consciousness'' of the incarnated ''form container'', known in Sanskrit language as a ''Kosha'', which is commonly referred to as the ''physical body'' of conscious existence, having a '''given name'', which is provided after ''incarnation'' by the family elders upon this physical plane of planet earth, in most cases by the caring and loving ''Parents'', who perform the ''Name Giving Ritual''.
Difference and Repetition
Author: Gilles Deleuze
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0826459579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOf fundamental importance to literary critics and philosophers, Difference and Repetition develops two central concepts -- pure difference and complex repetition -- and shows how the two concepts are related. Central in initiating the shift in French thought away from Hegel and Marx toward Nietzsche and Freud, Difference and Repetition moves deftly to establish a fundamental critique of Western metaphysics.
Stress and Strain in Epitaxy: Theoretical Concepts, Measurements and Applications
Author: J.-P. Deville
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2001-07-03
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0080541860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains keynote lectures which have been delivered at the 3rd Porquerolles' School on Surface Science, SIR2000 (Surfaces-Interfaces-Relaxation). The aim of this school was to review the main concepts necessary to understand the role of interfacial stress, strain and relaxation in crystal growth by heteroepitaxy. By bringing together scientists from various fields (physics, chemistry, materials science and engineering) which daily use complementary methodological approaches (experiment, theory, modelization), the school allowed to offer 11 multidisciplinary courses. This book addresses the state of art of stress in epitaxial materials, it describes the various methods to measure the atomic displacement and stress fields, it reviews the spectroscopic methods necessary to map the interface chemistry, it details the theoretical methods and concepts which are needed to predict them and it questions the fact that stress and relaxation can induce specific properties in magnetism, catalysis, electron transport and so on. The field of stress and strain in heteroepitaxy has know large developments during the last ten years. New techniques have been used to set up new devices in which functionalities are obtained through structuration at a nanometer scale. Large-scale integration and reduced dimensions are the key factors to optimize the achievements of these devices. Already used in industry (quantum wells, magnetic sensors), these devices are obtained by molecular beam epitaxy, sputtering or pulsed laser deposition. Their reduced dimensionality increased the number of surfaces and interfaces, the role of which has to be precised. Experimentalists try now to associate materials having very different crystal structure and chemical composition. The elastic stress stored in the device can induce various phenomena which have to be evaluated, understood and predicted. The book intends also to show that many questions are still in debate.
