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This book celebrates Dorothy Burnham’s many contributions to ongoing research on the Museum’s ethnographic collections from the Northern Athabaskan, Arctic, Plateau and Eastern Woodlands regions of North America. Eleven papers highlight the important role that comprehensive study of museum collections can play in material culture studies, as well as the value of detailed information for those seeking to revive traditional skills.

This book shows you - through examples and puzzles and intriguing questions - how to make your computer reason logically. The automation of reasoning has advanced markedly in the past few decades, and this book discusses some of the remarkable successes that automated reasoning programs have had in tackling challenging problems in mathematics, logic, program verification, and circuit design. Because the intended audience includes students and teachers, the book provides many exercises as well as tutorial chapters that introduce readers to the field of logic and to automated reasoning in general. For more advanced researchers, the book presents challenging questions, many of which are still unanswered.

This book is the proceedings of an International Conference on Challenges of Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century: Psychoanalysis, Health and Psychosexuality in the Era of Virtual Reality, held 15-17 September, 2000, in Geneva, Switzerland. Psychoanalysis has become a basic psychiatric science in very much the same way as the neurosciences or epidemiology. However, there is a certain present-day discrediting of psychoanalysis as a therapeutic tool stemming, to some extent, from the reluctance of psychoanalysts to submit their theories and practice to scientific scrutiny. However, as we see in this book, there is a certain movement in psychoanalysis to introduce reliable measures that would allow for a scientific evaluation of its results as a therapeutic device. Although there are great variations in respect to the role ascribed to psychoanalytic techniques in different countries, a clear upsurge of interest is apparent nowadays. During discussion of psychoanalysis and virtual reality in the new millennium, it was predicted that in the next century the differences between the conscious, unconscious, and the pre-conscious will have to be reconsidered in view of the ever-expanding concepts created by virtual reality. There will be virtual sexual acts over the Internet, ovum parthenogenesis will be possible without the intervention of the male, and clonic reproduction of the human being will be carried out in the laboratory. The child born in these circumstances will relate to a widening array of potential parental figures: the classic heterosexual couple, the single-parent family, the homosexual couple, the transsexual figure, etc. All this will of course alter the classic Oedipal constellation and without doubt the gender identity of the child. There will be attempts to undergo psychoanalysis via the Internet in the same way that other kinds of psychotherapy are being virtualized. But this will force us to redefine transference. On the other hand, it seems likely that psychoanalysis as a psychotherapeutic tool will, in the 21st century, relate more to somatic, medical patients or to the `worried well' than to psychiatric patients. These brief considerations on the scope of our deliberations in some way explain the diversity of this book, but also justify its interest.

A memorable look at a decade that sums up all that is exciting about the American spirit. A lively, full-color celebration of an automotive era that began with '30s-fashion cars and ended with recognizably modern vehicles. It's also the story of how America's automakers helped the Allies win World War II. Uses the proven picture-caption format, with over 1,400 photos of every major make of 1940s American car, plus classic independents, such as Hudson and Studebaker. Also includes period "lifestyle" photos, contemporary auto ads, and compelling war-production art. Shows how carmakers emerged from the Great Depression, turning out guns and fighting aircraft before basking in a postwar seller's market.

Discover the mystical mystery of everyday life! Immerse yourself in a world full of fascinating magic and experience a deeper contemplation beyond the known. My book "The Magic of Everyday Life: The Fascinating Application of Hermetic Principles" reveals hidden mysteries that will lift your life to a whole new level. What awaits you in the mysterious pages of this book? Here are some magical highlights: The creative power of the mind: enter the world of thoughts and affirmations and use them to shape your reality and make your desires come true. The hidden connections in the universe: discover the mysterious threads of synchronicities, cosmic patterns and reflections that guide and connect your life. The power of vibration: Immerse yourself in the magical world of energy and frequencies to enhance your well-being and resonate in harmony. The interplay of opposites: Master the fascinating play of polarities and create a magical evolution of yourself through the balance of positive and negative energy. The cyclical patterns of life: Listen to the mysterious rhythm of natural cycles and seasons and use timing and patience as the key to your destiny. The consequences of our actions: Recognise the magical power that lies in your thoughts, words and actions and consciously create positive causes for amazing effects. The union of masculine and feminine: Explore the mystical interplay of your inner polarities and harness the magical energies of masculine and feminine for creativity and balance. Hermetic Meditation Techniques: Delve into the mysterious alchemy of thought and learn to transmute negative thought patterns and expand your consciousness. Hermetic Lightwork: Experience the magical purification and strengthening of your energy field, activate your chakras and let the energy and aura unfold their true magic. Hermetic Principles in the Modern World: Experience the fascinating applications and practical use of symbols, rituals and magical wisdom in your daily life. This book is not only a guide to the fascinating world of Hermeticism, but also a magical key that offers you concrete instructions and exercises to integrate the mysterious magic into your everyday life. Let yourself be enchanted by the powers of Hermetics and experience a deeper connection to yourself and the unseen worlds around us. Don't wait any longer! Immerse yourself in the mystical magic of everyday life and order this book now. Open the gates to a mysterious new world full of possibilities and let your magical journey into the depths of everyday magic begin!

England, throughout its history, has been the birthplace of countless inspirational people. Some have become household names around the world. Many more deserve to be, but are as yet unsung heroes. In this unique story collection from The Amazing People Club®, take a journey through the lives of some of England's most amazing people. Meet Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer, from the mid 19th Century! Learn the life events that propelled Shakespeare and Dickens to their literary pinnacles and subsequent fame. Find out how Thomas Newcomen invented the first practical steam engine, and how Francis Crick, the molecular biologist, became the co-founder of the structure of the DNA molecule, thus discovering 'the secret of life'! Join all these amazing people and many more as they tell their own stories through BioViews®. A BioView® is a short biographical story, similar to an interview, about an amazing person. These stories offer an inspirational way of learning about people who made major contributions to our world. The unique format and flow enables each person's story to come alive, as if it is being personally told to you, and reflects their interests, emotions and passions.

All too often in contemporary discourse, we hear about science overstepping its proper limits—about its brazenness, arrogance, and intellectual imperialism. The problem, critics say, is scientism: the privileging of science over all other ways of knowing. Science, they warn, cannot do or explain everything, no matter what some enthusiasts believe. In Science Unlimited?, noted philosophers of science Maarten Boudry and Massimo Pigliucci gather a diverse group of scientists, science communicators, and philosophers of science to explore the limits of science and this alleged threat of scientism. In this wide-ranging collection, contributors ask whether the term scientism in fact (or in belief) captures an interesting and important intellectual stance, and whether it is something that should alarm us. Is scientism a well-developed position about the superiority of science over all other modes of human inquiry? Or is it more a form of excessive confidence, an uncritical attitude of glowing admiration? What, if any, are its dangers? Are fears that science will marginalize the humanities and eradicate the human subject—that it will explain away emotion, free will, consciousness, and the mystery of existence—justified? Does science need to be reined in before it drives out all other disciplines and ways of knowing? Both rigorous and balanced, Science Unlimited? interrogates our use of a term that is now all but ubiquitous in a wide variety of contexts and debates. Bringing together scientists and philosophers, both friends and foes of scientism, it is a conversation long overdue.

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