Results for “Books of Wonder”

…n military minds had tried, with characteristically direct and relentless energy, to box the wildness of these wars. In books and papers and thousands of patrols, through millions of hours of language training, and endless risky nights, they had tried. It never quite seemed to wo...

…a signature representa- tive of the unsubstantiated-alternative- health-care movement. But he has pub- lished scores of books, articles in highly regarded peer-reviewed journals, letters, and review notes—on subjects ranging from placebo research to exorcism, from cancer treatmen...

… trillion (primarily unfunded Medicare and Social Security obligations) amount to nearly $3 for every $1 of debt on the books. Just as unfunded corporate pensions and other post-employment benefits (OPEB) weigh on public corporations, unfunded entitlements, over time, may increas...

… It is much more useful to learn knowledge when that knowledge enables you to do something, however. There are endless books about what every 3rd-grader must know that use the idea that factual knowledge is the basis of the ability to read as their justification. Unfortunately,...

…h is to acknowledge fans in a way that makes them feel appreciated. As I understand you had a reporter watching me sign books and take selfies at the CFI conference in Las Vegas this year, that behavior is what they will have witnessed. Moreover, I am proud of the interactions I...

…d the origins of the universe, life, and social systems. You have led that effort ever since. e Thanks to best-selling books like The Physics of Star Trek and A Universe From Nothing, frequent essays in publications including the New Yorker and the New York Times, and the docume...

…the sense of mission and of personal fulfillment that he found in uniform. There was the Yoni of history and philosophy books: Plato and Marx. Who saw the history of Israel not just as a compendium of facts, but a source of inspiration, and a call for action. The Yoni who rebuilt...

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…change-calculating brains of Barkow, Cosmide and Tooby’s The Adapted Mind (1992) and the terrifying stories of the Five Books of Moses, made the hopelessness of this sinner’s plight inevitable. It felt like my dichotomous choice of God-type was between One of merciless fairness a...

… Jealousy I wrote this in 2012, but it's the culmination of over a decade of thought. I came across my first polyamory books when I was very young, and I remember that even though I was inexperienced, I felt super frustrated by how most polyamorists discuss jealousy. They were i...

…h- Soviet-Unions-pact-with-Adolf-Hitlers-Nazi-Germany.html; Timothy Snyder, “Putin's New Nostalgia,” New York Review of Books, November 10, 2014, http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/11/10/putin-nostalgia-stalin-hitler/. 9. Reuters, “Putin: ‘We Understand the Fatality of an lron Cu...

…hat They REALLY Can't Do. New Ed. OUP Oxford, 2003. Hawkins, Jeff, and Sandra Blakeslee. On Intelligence. Reprint. Owl Books (NY), 2005. Hofstadter, Douglas R. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. 20th Anniversary ed. Penguin, 2000. Howell, E. From Darness Light/Land...

…ach more cours- es. They simply do not want to do that. They want to go back to their offices and do research and write books and consult with the govern- ment or big business, should they call. Voila! Calculus. That will keep the little buggers out. If that doesn’t work, adva...

…chers trained to be mentors. Mentoring, unlike teaching, is not about providing information that can be found easily in books but about helping students through a problem without giving them the answer. Mentors point students in the right direction and react to their work as it p...

…ways open. A generational war is in full swing. Harvey screens his film for the older voters. Everything is done by the books. Budgets are limited. He sends screenwriter David Seidler and Tom Hoooper to every corner of the country doing gqta’s till they are blue in the face from...