Organization Theory and Postmodern Thought
Despite questions over whether we are `past postmodernism', much debate continues over the potential of postmodern philosophy for organizational theory. Hitherto, there has been no single source which reviews in a thorough and scholarly fashion th...
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Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence
The timely Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who provide a coherent state of the art overview of the complex relationships between religion and violence. This compani...
Reality Switch Technologies
You are in possession of an exquisite machine motionlessly buoyant in the softly circulating fluids of your skull. A world-building machine. And psychedelic molecules are the tools for tuning and operating this machine... From LSD to magic mushrooms to DMT to Salvia divinorum, psychedelics are used across the globe to stimulate the brain and change the nature of the subjective world. In sufficient doses, these molecules have the potential, not only to alter the structure of the normal waking world, but to replace it entirely - to hurl the tripper into fantastical realms of immense complexity and strangeness, bursting with extraordinary ecologies of apparently intelligent and communicative beings. Whilst these effects seem almost impossible to comprehend, let alone explain, as our understanding the brain's ability to construct our model of reality in normal waking life deepens, the mechanism by which psychedelic molecules perturb its world-building machinery such that entirely novel
Navigating Life with Restless Legs Syndrome
Navigating Life with Restless Legs Syndrome provides an overview and evidence-based guidance on a condition that afflicts millions of people around the world and their loved ones. You will learn the most up-to-date treatment approaches to the diso...
Cicero: 'Pro Sexto Roscio'
Sextus Roscius was murdered in Rome some months after the official end of the Sullan proscriptions on 1 June 81 BC. The case was tried early the following year with a young Cicero acting as defense counsel in his first criminal case for the accuse...
International Relations and the Problem of Time
What is time and how does it influence our knowledge of international politics? For decades International Relations (IR) paid little explicit attention to time. Recently this began to change as a range of scholars took an interest in the temporal ...
Field and Laboratory Investigations in Agroecology
Agroecology is defined as the application of ecological concepts and principles to the design and management of sustainable food systems. Hence, learning can best be achieved through an experiential approach to the topic. Designed to accompany Agr...
Beginning Programming with C++ For Dummies
Learn to program with C++ quickly with this helpful For Dummies guide Beginning Programming with C++ For Dummies, 2nd Edition gives you plain-English explanations of the fundamental principles of C++, arming you with the skills and know-how to exp...
Comprehensive Commentary on Kant's Religion Within the Bounds of Bare Reason
Palmquist's Commentary provides the first definitive clarification on Kant's Philosophy of Religion in English; it includes the full text of Pluhar's translation, interspersed with explanations, providing both a detailed overview and an original i...
Demolition Means Progress
In 1997, after General Motors shuttered a massive complex of factories in the gritty industrial city of Flint, Michigan, signs were placed around the empty facility reading, "Demolition Means Progress," suggesting that the struggling met...
Alien Information Theory
At the ground of our reality there is a code running. It is a code from which this universe and countless others emerge and unfold with infinite variety of form. This code constructs our universe as a computational device for culturing conscious intelligences. We are one of those intelligences emergent within this lower-dimensional digital reality. As intelligences evolve, a small number reach a certain level of cognitive and technological sophistication and become candidates for a cosmic game, the final stages of which we now find ourselves playing. The key to this game is a technology embedded in our reality, which takes the form of a powerful psychedelic drug -- a message -- scattered throughout the natural world: N, N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT). When DMT enters the brain, it grants entry to a miraculously complex hyperdimensional realm -- hyperspace -- lying orthogonal to ours and to an audience with the multitudinous alien intelligences that reside therein. Ultimately, by mastering
Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky
Stanislavsky's system of actor-training has revolutionised modern theatre practice, and he is widely recognised to be one of the great cultural innovators of the twentieth century. The Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky is an essential book for s...
Contagion
Contagion was a persistent theme in discussions about urban and industrial social problems in nineteenth-century France. From the cholera epidemic of 1832 to the Public Health Law of 1902, contagious disease was associated with poverty by scientis...
Insulation Coordination for Power Systems
This detailed and comprehensive reference presents the latest developments in power system insulation coordination-emphasizing the achievement of optimum insulation strength at minimum cost. Comprehensively covering a myriad of insulation coordina...
Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty
A spiritual revolution is transforming the religious landscape of Latin America. Evangelical Protestantism, particularly Pentecostalism, has replaced Catholicism as the leading religion in thousands of barrios on the urban periphery. But in few La...
Battle of Hastings
A unique collection of materials focused on one of the most significant battles in European history. The Battle of Hastings is a unique collection of materials focused on one of the most significant battles in European history. It includes all the...
The Illearth War
'The Thomas Covenant saga . . . will certainly find a place on the small list of true classics in its specialized field.'--The Washington Post Book World After scant days in his 'real' world, Thomas Covenant finds himself again summoned to the Land. There, forty bitter years have passed, while Lord Foul, immortal enemy of the Land, moves to fulfill his prophecy of doom. The Council of Lords find their spells useless, now that Foul the Despiser holds the Illearth Stone, ancient source of evil power. At last High Lord Elena turns in desperation to Covenant and the legendary white gold magic of his ring. . . .
The Mirror of Her Dreams
Geraden, a mysterious man from a magical kingdom, enters Terisa Morgan's apartment through a mirror and asks her to come back with him in order to help save his land from the evil that threatens it. Reprint.
Research Methods in Physical Activity and Health
Physical activity is vital for good health. It has an established strong evidence base for its positive effects on functional capacity, reducing the risk of many chronic diseases, and promoting physical, mental and social well-being. Furthermore, ...
Varieties of Understanding
What does it mean to understand something? What is the essence of understanding, when compared across multiple domains? Varieties of Understanding offers new and original work on the nature of understanding, raising questions about what understand...
Fatal Tree
'In the sweeping style of George R. R. Martin and J. R. Tolkien, Lawhead has created a diverse universe and rich cast of characters. Multiple story lines weave to form a satisfying ending to this mythological speculative series.' Library Journal K...