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Creative Close-Ups: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques
“The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet, like the closing of a gigantic circle,” observes the ever-smaller hero of the 1950s movie The Incredible Shrinking Man. What I love most about close-up photography is the way size, scale and orientation gets lost as you photograph things that are smaller and... | | The Most Important Thing: Discovering Truth at the Heart of Life
From esteemed teacher Adyashanti, a collection of writings on the search for the ultimate reality beneath the narrative of our lives
"Our inner lives are every bit as astonishing, baffling, and mysterious as the infinite vastness of the cosmos." ?Adyashanti
We all define... | | The Harvest of a Century: Discoveries in Modern Physics in 100 EpisodesPhysics was the leading science of the twentieth century and the book retraces important discoveries, made between 1895 and 2001, in 100 self-contained Episodes. Each is a short story of the scientists involved, their time and their work. Together, they formed a mosaic of modern physics: formulating relativity and quantum mechanics, finding the... |
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Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of Disaster
When we catastrophize, we think the worst. We make too much of too little, or something of nothing. Yet what looks simply like a bad habit, Gerard Passannante argues, was also a spur to some of the daring conceptual innovations and feats of imagination that defined the intellectual and cultural history of the early modern ... | | The Big Bang (Science Foundations)
Less than a hundred years ago, science seriously debated whether a cosmic array of stars and galaxies extended beyond the Milky Way. Discoveries and theories have revealed a universe of increasing enormity, complexity, and mystery. Beginning with an overview of the scientific method, "The Big Bang" follows the pioneering... | | Masks of the Universe: Changing Ideas on the Nature of the CosmosIn Masks of the Universe, Edward Harrison brings together fundamental scientific, philosophical and religious issues in cosmology and raises thought provoking questions. Philosophical issues dominated cosmology in the ancient world. Theological issues ranked foremost in the Middle Ages; astronomy and the physical sciences have taken over in more... |
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