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@appassionato@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Chasing the Sun by Richard Cohen, 2010

The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life

In the grand tradition of the scholar-adventurer, acclaimed author Richard Cohen takes us around the world to illuminate our relationship with the star that gives us life. Drawing on more than seven years of research, he reports from locations in eighteen different countries.

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As he soon discovers, the Sun is present everywhere--in mythology, language, religion, politics, sciences, art, literature, and medicine, even in the ocean's depths. For some ancient worshippers, our star was a man abandoned by his spouse because his brightness made her weary. The early Christians appropriated the Sun's imagery, with the cross becoming an emblem of the star and its rays, and the halo a variation of that. Einstein helped replicate the Sun's power to create the atomic bomb, while Richard Wagner had Tristan inveigh against daylight as the enemy of romantic love. In this splendidly illustrated volume packed with captivating facts, extraordinary myths, and surprising anecdotes.
As he soon discovers, the Sun is present everywhere--in mythology, language, religion, politics, sciences, art, literature, and medicine, even in the ocean's depths. For some ancient worshippers, our star was a man abandoned by his spouse because his brightness made her weary. The early Christians appropriated the Sun's imagery, with the cross becoming an emblem of the star and its rays, and the halo a variation of that. Einstein helped replicate the Sun's power to create the atomic bomb, while Richard Wagner had Tristan inveigh against daylight as the enemy of romantic love. In this splendidly illustrated volume packed with captivating facts, extraordinary myths, and surprising anecdotes.
As he soon discovers, the Sun is present everywhere--in mythology, language, religion, politics, sciences, art, literature, and medicine, even in the ocean's depths. For some ancient worshippers, our star was a man abandoned by his spouse because his brightness made her weary. The early Christians appropriated the Sun's imagery, with the cross becoming an emblem of the star and its rays, and the halo a variation of that. Einstein helped replicate the Sun's power to create the atomic bomb, while Richard Wagner had Tristan inveigh against daylight as the enemy of romantic love. In this splendidly illustrated volume packed with captivating facts, extraordinary myths, and surprising anecdotes.
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earthling
@appassionato@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall & Douglas Abrams, 2021

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?

Looking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval—it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed.

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In this urgent book, Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist and Douglas Abrams, internationally-bestselling co-author of The Book of Joy, explore—through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue—one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. In The Book of Hope, Jane focuses on her "Four Reasons for Hope": The Amazing Human Intellect, The Resilience of Nature, The Power of Young People, and The Indomitable Human Spirit.
In this urgent book, Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist and Douglas Abrams, internationally-bestselling co-author of The Book of Joy, explore—through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue—one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. In The Book of Hope, Jane focuses on her "Four Reasons for Hope": The Amazing Human Intellect, The Resilience of Nature, The Power of Young People, and The Indomitable Human Spirit.
In this urgent book, Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist and Douglas Abrams, internationally-bestselling co-author of The Book of Joy, explore—through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue—one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. In The Book of Hope, Jane focuses on her "Four Reasons for Hope": The Amazing Human Intellect, The Resilience of Nature, The Power of Young People, and The Indomitable Human Spirit.
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earthling
@appassionato@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Jane Goodall The Woman Who Redefined Man by Dale Peterson, 2006

This essential biography of one of the most influential women of the past century shows how truly remarkable Jane Goodall's accomplishments have been.

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 Goodall was a secretarial school graduate when Louis Leakey, unable to find someone with more fitting credentials, first sent her to Gombe to study chimpanzees. In this acclaimed work, Dale Peterson details how this young woman of uncommon resourcefulness and pluck would go on to set radically new standards in the study of animal behavior. He vividly captures the triumphs and setbacks of her dramatic life, including the private quest that led to her now-famous activism.
Peterson, a longtime Goodall collaborator, has a unique knowledge of his subject. Candid and illuminating, this work will be a revelation even to readers who are familiar with the public Goodall as presented in her own writing.
Goodall was a secretarial school graduate when Louis Leakey, unable to find someone with more fitting credentials, first sent her to Gombe to study chimpanzees. In this acclaimed work, Dale Peterson details how this young woman of uncommon resourcefulness and pluck would go on to set radically new standards in the study of animal behavior. He vividly captures the triumphs and setbacks of her dramatic life, including the private quest that led to her now-famous activism. Peterson, a longtime Goodall collaborator, has a unique knowledge of his subject. Candid and illuminating, this work will be a revelation even to readers who are familiar with the public Goodall as presented in her own writing.
Goodall was a secretarial school graduate when Louis Leakey, unable to find someone with more fitting credentials, first sent her to Gombe to study chimpanzees. In this acclaimed work, Dale Peterson details how this young woman of uncommon resourcefulness and pluck would go on to set radically new standards in the study of animal behavior. He vividly captures the triumphs and setbacks of her dramatic life, including the private quest that led to her now-famous activism. Peterson, a longtime Goodall collaborator, has a unique knowledge of his subject. Candid and illuminating, this work will be a revelation even to readers who are familiar with the public Goodall as presented in her own writing.
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Niklas Pivic
@pivic@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Every company with AI.

Courtesy of Eleanor Morton, comedian.

#EleanorMorton#AI#ArtificialIntelligence #funny #humour#NonFiction

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Niklas Pivic
@pivic@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Every company with AI.

Courtesy of Eleanor Morton, comedian.

#EleanorMorton#AI#ArtificialIntelligence #funny #humour#NonFiction

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"Of course, you and I can be addicted to any number of things - to love, to sex, to worship of our children or our parents, to dominance, to submission. We can even be addicted to ourselves (see Charlie Sheen, Donald Trump). Such individuals can be absolutely fascinating at the same time as they're boring as hell."

#StevenPressfield, Going Pro, 2012

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Matt Keil
@mattkeil@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Hey so, my mastodon feed has basically become an RSS feed as I mainly follow news/tech websites.

I’m looking for cool people to follow. Come say hi! #introduction

I’m into:
#Tech, #Apple, #Switch2, #Steamdeck, #3dprinting (newbie), #metal, #synthwave, #nonfiction books, music #composition, #logicpro

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@mattkeil@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Hey so, my mastodon feed has basically become an RSS feed as I mainly follow news/tech websites.

I’m looking for cool people to follow. Come say hi! #introduction

I’m into:
#Tech, #Apple, #Switch2, #Steamdeck, #3dprinting (newbie), #metal, #synthwave, #nonfiction books, music #composition, #logicpro

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