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The spiritual brain [videorecording] : science and religious experience / by Newberg, Andrew B.,1966-teacher.(CARDINAL)656110; Teaching Company,publisher.(CARDINAL)349444;

Accompanying course guidebook Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-180).Lecturer: Andrew Newberg, Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.Dr. Andrew Newberg offers you 24 riveting lectures that explore the new and exciting field of neurotheology, a discipline aimed at understanding the connections between our brains and different kinds of religious phenomena. Using an academic, experimental approach into what he calls "objective measures of spirituality," Dr. Newberg attempts to explain what others have previously only guessed at: the neuroscientific basis for why religion and spirituality have played such a prominent role in human life. --Provided by publisher.DVD.

Subjects: Educational films.; Lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Psychology, Religious.; Brain; Theological anthropology.; Human beings.; Neurosciences.; Spirituality.;

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Permafrost / by Reynolds, Alastair,1966-author.(CARDINAL)705011;

2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity's future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global catastrophe while at the same time leaving recorded history intact. To make the experiment work, they just need one last recruit: an ageing schoolteacher whose late mother was the foremost expert on the mathematics of paradox. 2028: a young woman goes into surgery for routine brain surgery. In the days following her operation, she begins to hear another voice in her head... an unwanted presence which seems to have a will, and a purpose, all of its own--one that will disrupt her life entirely. The only choice left to her is a simple one. Does she resist ... or become a collaborator?

Subjects: Time-travel fiction.; Science fiction.; Brain; Mind and body;

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The Cambridge history of philosophy of the scientific revolution / by Miller, David Marshall,editor.; Jalobeanu, Dana,1970-editor.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Here is a well-known story. Before sometime in the early modern period, Europeans believed that knowledge of nature came solely from reading books, above all those of Aristotle. Then the humanist re-discovery and translation of various ancient philosophical works led the number of "authorities" to grow, and alongside a monolithic "Aristotelianism" emerged any number of "-isms": Stoicism, Epicureanism, Platonism, Skepticism, and so on. Gradually, philosophers realized that they need not need rely on authorities at all, and began to use their own reason, coupled with experience and experiment. Scholasticism and humanism were dead, and the "Age of Reason" had begun, with Descartes as its iconoclastic father (perhaps with a little help from Bacon)"--

Subjects: Science;

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Enlightening symbols : a short history of mathematical notation and its hidden powers / by Mazur, Joseph,author.(CARDINAL)380041;

Includes index.Numerals. Curious beginnings ; Certain ancient number systems ; Silk and Royal roads ; The Indian gift ; Arrival in Europe ; The Arab gift ; Liber abbaci ; Refuting origins -- Algebra. Sans symbols ; Diophantus's Arithmetica ; The great art ; Symbol infancy ; The timid symbol ; Hierarchies of dignity ; Vowels and consonants ; The explosion ; A catalogue of symbols ; The symbol master ; The last of the magicians -- The power of symbols. Rendezvous in the mind ; The good symbol ; Invisible gorillas ; Mental pictures -- Appendix A. Leibniz's notation -- Appendix B. Newton's fluxion of x [superscript n] -- Appendix C. Experiment -- Appendix D/ Visualizing complex numbers -- Appendix E. Quaternions.While all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't available before the sixteenth century. What did mathematicians rely on for their work before then? And how did mathematical notations evolve into what we know today? In Enlightening Symbols, popular math writer Joseph Mazur explains the fascinating history behind the development of our mathematical notation system. He shows how symbols were used initially, how one symbol replaced another over time, and how written math was conveyed before and after symbols became widely adopted.Traversing mathematical history and the foundations of numerals in different cultures, Mazur looks at how historians have disagreed over the origins of the numerical system for the past two centuries. He follows the transfigurations of algebra from a rhetorical style to a symbolic one, demonstrating that most algebra before the sixteenth century was written in prose or in verse employing the written names of numerals. Mazur also investigates the subconscious and psychological effects that mathematical symbols have had on mathematical thought, moods, meaning, communication, and comprehension. He considers how these symbols influence us (through similarity, association, identity, resemblance, and repeated imagery), how they lead to new ideas by subconscious associations, how they make connections between experience and the unknown, and how they contribute to the communication of basic mathematics.

Subjects: Mathematical notation;

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The Jewel house : Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution / by Harkness, Deborah,1965-(CARDINAL)353616;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-329) and index.Prelude: London, 1600 : the view from somewhere -- Living on Lime street : "English" natural history and the European republic of letters -- The contest over medical authority : Valentine Russwurin and the barber-surgeons -- Educating Icarus and displaying Daedalus : mathematics and instrumentation in Elizabethan London -- "Big science" in Elizabethan London -- Clement Draper's prison notebooks : reading, writing, and doing science -- From the Jewel house to Salomon's house : Hugh Plat, Francis Bacon, and the social foundations of the scientific revolution -- Coda: Toward an ethnography of early modern science."This book explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London, where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. These assorted merchants, gardeners, Barber-Surgeons, midwives, instrument makers, mathematics teachers, engineers, alchemists, and other experimenters, Deborah Harkness contends, formed a patchwork scientific community whose practices set the stage for the Scientific Revolution. While Francis Bacon has been widely regarded as the father of modern science, scores of his London contemporaries also deserve a share in this distinction. It was their collaborative, yet often contentious, ethos that helped to develop the ideals of modern scientific research." "The book examines six particularly fascinating episodes of scientific inquiry and dispute in the London of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, bringing to life the individuals involved and the challenges they faced. These men and women experimented and invented, argued and competed, waged wars in the press, and struggled to understand the complexities of the natural world. Together their stories illuminate the blind alleys and surprising twists and turns taken as medieval philosophy gave way to the empirical, experimental culture that became a hallmark of the Scientific Revolution."--Jacket.

Subjects: Science; Natural history; Science, Renaissance.;

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On a midnight clear : a 3-in-1 Christmas novella collection / by Container of (work):Peterson, Tracie.Shepherd's heart.; Container of (work):Witemeyer, Karen.Star in the west.; Container of (work):Beller, Misty M.No room at the inn.;

A star in the west: "Friendly correspondence with Stella Barrington evolves into something more when Harvard mathematics professor Frank Stentz arrives in Waco, Texas. As the two experiment with extending their relationship beyond letters, an impossible dilemma arises between love and logic. Will her wise man be able to calculate a way for them to be together?"--No room at the inn: "When Noah Bentwood and his charge are snowed in while traveling through the Rocky Mountains, he must stay in a barn since the stage inn has no vacant rooms. Then innkeeper Hope Palmer's family heirloom disappears, and she and Noah work together to find it before Christmas. While the snowfall holds them captive, will unexpected feelings bloom?"--The shepherd's heart: "On the frontier, widowed sheep rancher Vincent Duran seeks a mother for his two children. Angel Lewis agrees to marry him despite believing Vincent will never truly love her, but as they work together during a fierce winter storm, will their broken hearts finally find peace, joy, and love?"--

Subjects: Christian fiction.; Christmas fiction.; Romance fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novellas.; Widowers; Ranchers; Letters; College teachers; Snowstorms; Lost articles; Christmas stories, American; Christian fiction, American;

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On a midnight clear [large print] : a 3-in-1 Christmas novella collection / by Peterson, Tracie,author.(CARDINAL)342735; Witemeyer, Karen,author.(CARDINAL)342491; Beller, Misty M.,author.(CARDINAL)624904; Container of (work):Peterson, Tracie.Shepherd's heart.; Container of (work):Witemeyer, Karen.Star in the west.; Container of (work):Beller, Misty M.No room at the inn.;

A star in the west: "Friendly correspondence with Stella Barrington evolves into something more when Harvard mathematics professor Frank Stentz arrives in Waco, Texas. As the two experiment with extending their relationship beyond letters, an impossible dilemma arises between love and logic. Will her wise man be able to calculate a way for them to be together?"--No room at the inn: "When Noah Bentwood and his charge are snowed in while traveling through the Rocky Mountains, he must stay in a barn since the stage inn has no vacant rooms. Then innkeeper Hope Palmer's family heirloom disappears, and she and Noah work together to find it before Christmas. While the snowfall holds them captive, will unexpected feelings bloom?"--The shepherd's heart: "On the frontier, widowed sheep rancher Vincent Duran seeks a mother for his two children. Angel Lewis agrees to marry him despite believing Vincent will never truly love her, but as they work together during a fierce winter storm, will their broken hearts finally find peace, joy, and love?"--

Subjects: Large print books.; Christian fiction.; Christmas fiction.; Romance fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novellas.; Widowers; Man-woman relationships; Ranchers; Letters; College teachers; Storms; Blizzards; Lost articles;

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Nocilla experience / by Fernández Mallo, Agustín,1967-author.(CARDINAL)801314; Bunstead, Thomas,translator.(CARDINAL)605322;

"Somewhere in Spain, Marc, an avid reader of the Philips Agricultural Guide: 1968, pegs mathematical formulas to clotheslines on the roof of an eight-story building. In London, the artist Jodorkovski spends hours painting tiny vignettes on chewing gum stuck to the pavement. In Miami, Harold spends his days devouring every box of corn flakes that has his ex-wife's birthday as its sell-by date. Meanwhile, in Corcubión, Spain, Antón is working on an audacious theory about the shared properties of barnacles and hard drives"--Page 4 of cover.

Subjects: Experimental fiction.;

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Diderot, the embattled philosopher / by Crocker, Lester G.(CARDINAL)125043;

Escape -- The rebellious years -- Love finds a way -- Call to arms -- A guest of the king -- The two letters -- The battle begins -- Round two -- The arts -- Diderot chez lui -- The last round -- Two novels -- Life among the philosophes -- The philosophy of materialism -- Wherein some changes occur -- A philosopher queen -- The triumph of humanism -- "The great voyage".As a philosopher Diderot speculated on free will and held a completely materialistic view of the universe; he suggested all human behavior is determined by heredity. He therefore warned his fellow philosophers against an overemphasis on mathematics and against the blind optimism that sees in the growth of physical knowledge an automatic social and human progress. He rejected the Idea of Progress. In his opinion, the aim of progressing through technology was doomed to fail. He founded his philosophy on experiment and the study of probabilities. He wrote several articles and supplements concerning gambling, mortality rates, and inoculation against smallpox for the Encyclopédie.

Subjects: Biographies.; Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784.;

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Man Ray : human equations : a journey from mathematics to Shakespeare / by Man Ray,1890-1976,artist.(CARDINAL)150406; Grossman, Wendy,editor,contributor.(CARDINAL)212208; Kamien-Kazhdan, Adina,contributor.(CARDINAL)266199; Sebline, Edouard,editor,contributor.(CARDINAL)620023; Strauss, Andrew,1962-contributor.; Muzeʼon Yiśraʼel (Jerusalem),organizer,host institution.(CARDINAL)152251; Ny Carlsberg glyptotek,host institution.(CARDINAL)132721; Phillips Collection,organizer,host institution.(CARDINAL)140837;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-235).Prologue / Wendy A. Grossman and Andrew Strauss -- Act I : The lucid hand : seeing mathematical forms through Man Ray's lens / Edouard Sebline -- {Scene one} Abstract vision and satisfied passion : Man Ray's photographs of mathematical objects / Kirsten A. Hoving -- {Scene two} Max, Man and math / Gabriele Werner -- Act II : To be continued unnoticed : mathematics and Shakespeare in Hollywood / Andrew Strauss -- {Scene one} The philosopher and the merchant : play is the thing / Wendy A. Grossman -- {Scene two} Non-abstractions /Edouard Sebline -- {Scene three} Finding Shakespeare in the Shakespearean equations / Michael Witmore -- Entr'acte. The mathematical perspective : the science and history behind the models : introduction / Cédric Villani -- Spotlight on models at the Institut Henri Poincaré / Francois Apéry, Mark Green, Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, and Philip Ording -- The models chosen by Man Ray at the Institute Henri Poincaré : a mathematician's view / François Apéry -- How to look at mathematical objects : interview with Mark Green / by Philip Ording -- Act III : Metamorphosis of the object / Wendy A. Grossman -- {Scene one} The hand of Man and the metamorphosis of the artist / Wendy A. Grossman -- {Scene two} Unmasking Othello and Taming of the shrew / Wendy A. Grossman -- {Scene three} Objects of my affection : the 1944 Circle Gallery exhibition / Edouard Sebline -- Act IV : Humanizing the object : Man Ray's subversion of classical and mathematical models / Adina Kamien-Kazhdan -- {Scene one} Meditation on Hamlet / Alexa Huang -- {Scene two} Hybrids and automatons / Adina Kamien-Kazhdan -- Act V : Squaring the circle : the math of art / Wendy A. Grossman -- {Scene one} Non-Euclidean object / Edouard Sebline -- Epilogue : Painting Shakespeare / Stuart Sillars -- A note on the Shakespearean equations / Man Ray -- Catalogue of Shakespearean equations -- List of works.How does one make sense of a purported link between mathematics, William Shakespeare, and art? The answer lies within the oeuvre of Man Ray (1890-1976). The publication sets out to unravel the Surrealist puzzle beginning with his photographs of mathematical models he encountered at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris in the thirties. Moreover, it charts a path culminating in his Shakespearean Equations (1947-1954) series of oil paintings, which were inspired by the photographs and painted in Hollywood over a decade later. The arc the images strike from painting back to photography reveals the ease with which Man Ray moved between various disciplines and forged his own path. An inveterate experimenter, he pioneered artistic activities in the realms of painting, object making, film, and photography, challenging conventional boundaries and blurring established aesthetic categories.

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Man Ray, 1890-1976.; Man Ray, 1890-1976; Painting from photographs;

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