Author: Samuel; McCracken, Ruth (editor) Sagan
Publisher: Clairvision School Ltd.
Keywords: consciousness, map, language
Published: 2001
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Author: Steven W. Smith
Publisher: California Technical Pu
Keywords: consciousness, theory, light, inner
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 2002-02-02
ISBN-10: 0966017617
ISBN-13: 9780966017618

The human mind appears to us in two completely different ways. On one hand, science sees the mind as the operation of the brain, the electrochemical activity in a vast network of nerve cells. But on the other hand, we each see ourselves as a conscious being, capable of thinking, feeling, and experiencing the world around us. We see the redness of a rose, smell its fragrance, and appreciate its beauty. We contemplate the meaning of life, and freely decide how to think and act. These aspects of the mind seem to entail something beyond the physical world, something that is fundamentally different

Author: Corliss Lamont
Publisher: Humanist Pre
Keywords: humanism, philosophy
Number of Pages: 371
Published: 2009-01-01
ISBN-10: 0931779073
ISBN-13: 9780931779077

Released by Humanist Press in its degenderized eighth edition, this powerful book is the definitive study of the history and growth of the humanist movement in North America. Renowned philosopher and activist Corliss Lamont offers a vigorous argument for humanism and provides an affirmative, intelligent guidebook for shaping a better life in today’s complex world. From the Publisher: Corliss Lamont was a prolific writer. In his lifetime he authored, co-authored,  and edited 22 books, wrote 29 pamphlets in what was known as the "Basic Pamphlets" series, and had literally hundreds o

Author: Peter Watt
Publisher: Tor Book
Keywords: blindsight
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-03-04
ISBN-10: 0765319640
ISBN-13: 9780765319647

The Hugo Award–nominated novel by “a hard science fiction writer through and through and one of the very best alive.” —The Globe and Mail Two months have past since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens have been silent since—until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Something talks out there: but not to us. Who should we send to meet the alien, when the alien doesn’t want to meet? Send a linguist with multiple-personality disorder and a biologist so spliced with machinery that he can’t feel his own flesh. Send a pacif

Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: pocket, classics, enriched, crusoe, robinson
Number of Pages: 487
Published: 2008-12-30
ISBN-10: 141656151X
ISBN-13: 9781416561514

When Robinson Crusoe left the English coast for Africa, he never dreamed he’d soon find himself on a desert island, the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Daniel Defoe’s gripping adventure-one of the first English novels-chronicles Crusoe’s experiences on the island, which include finding a human footprint on the shore, encountering cannibals, and befriending a native whom Crusoe calls Friday. Crusoe’s story is also an account of one man’s physical survival and his psychological and spiritual development in an alienating and dangerous solitude. This classic novel, publ