1999 Lectures and Memoirs
Title | 1999 Lectures and Memoirs PDF eBook |
Author | British Academy |
Publisher | British Academy |
Pages | 590 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780197262306 |
Volume 105 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 11 British Academy lectures and 15 obituaries of Fellows of the British Academy.
Lectures and Memoirs
Title | Lectures and Memoirs PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Humanities |
ISBN |
2000 Lectures and Memoirs
Title | 2000 Lectures and Memoirs PDF eBook |
Author | British Academy |
Publisher | Proceedings of the British Aca |
Pages | 736 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780197262597 |
Volume 111 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 12 British Academy lectures and 17 obituaries of Fellows of the British Academy.
Feynman's Lost Lecture
Title | Feynman's Lost Lecture PDF eBook |
Author | David Goodstein |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2009-11-06 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0393078930 |
"Glorious."—Wall Street Journal Rescued from obscurity, Feynman's Lost Lecture is a blessing for all Feynman followers. Most know Richard Feynman for the hilarious anecdotes and exploits in his best-selling books "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" But not always obvious in those stories was his brilliance as a pure scientist—one of the century's greatest physicists. With this book and CD, we hear the voice of the great Feynman in all his ingenuity, insight, and acumen for argument. This breathtaking lecture—"The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun"—uses nothing more advanced than high-school geometry to explain why the planets orbit the sun elliptically rather than in perfect circles, and conclusively demonstrates the astonishing fact that has mystified and intrigued thinkers since Newton: Nature obeys mathematics. David and Judith Goodstein give us a beautifully written short memoir of life with Feynman, provide meticulous commentary on the lecture itself, and relate the exciting story of their effort to chase down one of Feynman's most original and scintillating lectures.
Acts of Meaning
Title | Acts of Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | Jerome Bruner |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0674253051 |
Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as “information processor,” has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can we grasp the special interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture.
Professor at Large
Title | Professor at Large PDF eBook |
Author | John Cleese |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781501716577 |
"Comedian and actor John Cleese in the role of Ivy League professor at Cornell University, where he is currently professor-at-large. This book includes a selection of talks, essays, and lectures and provides a unique view of Cleese's endless pursuit of intellectual discovery across a range of topics"--
Memoirs of a Geisha
Title | Memoirs of a Geisha PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Golden |
Publisher | Longman |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9781405882675 |
"Captivating, minutely imagined . . . a novel that refuses to stay shut" ("Newsweek"), "Memoirs of a Geisha" is now released in a movie tie-in edition.