Описание: Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth?To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of what`s out there." In The Island of Knowledge , physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence. In so doing, he reaches a provocative conclusion: science, the main tool we use to find answers, is fundamentally limited.These limits to our knowledge arise both from our tools of exploration and from the nature of physical reality: the speed of light, the uncertainty principle, the impossibility of seeing beyond the cosmic horizon, the incompleteness theorem, and our own limitations as an intelligent species. Recognizing limits in this way, Gleiser argues, is not a deterrent to progress or a surrendering to religion. Rather, it frees us to question the meaning and nature of the universe while affirming the central role of life and ourselves in it. Science can and must go on, but recognizing its limits reveals its true mission: to know the universe is to know ourselves.Telling the dramatic story of our quest for understanding, The Island of Knowledge offers a highly original exploration of the ideas of some of the greatest thinkers in history, from Plato to Einstein, and how they affect us today. An authoritative, broad-ranging intellectual history of our search for knowledge and meaning, The Island of Knowledge is a unique view of what it means to be human in a universe filled with mystery.
Автор: Caruso Marcelo Название: Classroom Struggle ISBN: 3631629257 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631629253 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 5719 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: During the institutionalization of mass schooling in the 19th century, teaching large groups of children became both a necessity and a matter of regulation. For officials and inspectors the systematization of classroom interactions was important for effective results. However, while systematization could bring about the constant attention of children and their uninterrupted work, interactions themselves were difficult to control. Rationalized models of classroom organization provided alternatives for managing large groups before age grading became the dominant pattern of organizing interactions. The contributions in this volume explore diverse paths of transition towards modern classroom organization in different countries, allowing transnational perspectives and comparisons.
Автор: Berman, Marcelo Samuel Название: Cardiac arrythmia research advances ISBN: 160021794X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781600217944 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 10796 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Cardiac arrhythmia is a term that denotes a disturbance of the heart rhythm. Cardiac arrhythmias can range in severity from entirely benign to immediately life-threatening. Several forms of cardiac arrhythmia are life-threatening and a medical emergency. This book presents research in the field including a commentary on collateral damage.
Автор: Birmajer, Marcelo Название: Three musketeers ISBN: 1592641938 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781592641932 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 564 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Elias Traum, a former Argentinean currently residing in Israel, returns to Buenos Aires after twenty years of absence to mourn his two friends - two fellow Jews who together with him once comprised `the three musketeers.` These young men signed their own death sentences when they joined the Montoneros, the left-wing Peronist guerrilla group.
Автор: Bendahan, Marcelo Название: Amsterdam always ISBN: 9080939676 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789080939677 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3676 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An introductory text in General Relativity, while also focusing some solutions to the cosmological constant problem, which consists in an amazing 100 orders of magnitude discrepancy between the value of this constant in the Universe, and its estimated value in the very early epoch.
Автор: Carey, Mike Frusin, Marcelo Manco, Leonardo Название: Hellblazer stations of the cross ISBN: 1845763297 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845763299 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1080 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: His mind a blank slate after the events of Staring at the Wall, John Constantine makes a desperate gambit to recover his memory: he allows a demon control of his body for a single day. But a day in Hell is a long, long time, and the trouble Constantine unleashes will have fatal repercussions for almost everyone he knows... not least himself.
Автор: Moutinho Marcelo Название: Book of Rio ISBN: 1905583680 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781905583683 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1127 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This diverse, literary patchwork of Rio de Janeiro contains 10 short stories set in varied quarters of the city drawing on its inhabitants' experiences of recent historical and cultural changes. From Copacabana's thriving LGBT scene in the 1960s where the military dictatorship simultaneously terrorizes and represses politically-minded citizens, to the exhausted labourers constructing the Rio-Niteroi bridge - 'the pride of Brazil' - at gunpoint in 1974, to contemporary life in the neighbourhood of Leblon, where a call girl trying to get to a party reluctantly accepts a very strange job for the evening. The ten stories in this anthology bring to life the complex and ever-changing face of Rio de Janeiro behind the images of slums, carnivals and the sex trade. Featuring stories by award-winning, leading authors, screenwriters, journalists and playwrights, including 2013 International Emmy Award-winner, Jo o Ximenes Braga.
Автор: Svirsky Marcelo Название: Agamben and Colonialism ISBN: 0748643931 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780748643936 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 2820 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Svirsky and Bignall assemble leading figures to explore the rich philosophical linkages and the political concerns shared by Agamben and postcolonial theory. 12 essays situate Agamben's theories of the 'state of exception' and 'bare life' are in critical relation to the existence of these phenomena in the colonial/postcolonial world. Countries studied include: Russia, Israel and Palestine, Africa the Americas, Asia and Australia.
Автор: Carey, Mike Frusin, Marcelo Название: Hellblazer red sepulchre ISBN: 1845760689 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845760687 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 972 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Soon to be stepping from the shadows into his own live action movie (starring Keanu Reeves) comes a classic comics character: John Constantine, the enigmatic chain-smoking mystic.
Автор: Suarez-orozco, Carola Suarez-orozco, Marcelo M. To Название: Learning in a new land ISBN: 0674026756 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674026759 Издательство: Harvard University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 1903 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Based on a study that followed 400 newly arrived children from the Caribbean, China, Central America, and Mexico for five years, this book provides an account of the lives, dreams, and frustrations of these youngest immigrants.
Автор: Stork Francisco Название: Marcelo in the Real World ISBN: 0739379895 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739379899 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 2564 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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