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human being --- religion and society --- economics --- management and business --- art --- culture and identity

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A startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature. As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we've inured ourselves to the wild intelligence of our flesh, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. This book subverts that distance, drawing readers ever deeper into their animal senses in order to explore, from within, the elemental kinship between the body and the breathing Earth. Abram shows that from the awakened perspective of the human animal, awareness (or mind) is not an exclusive possession of our species but a lucid quality of the biosphere itself--a quality in which we, along with the oaks and the spiders, steadily participate..

Anthropology --- Human being --- Biosphere --- Human ecology --- Cosmology --- Perception --- Nature --- Relations homme-animal. --- Animaux et civilisation. --- Animalité (philosophie) --- Homme --- Écologie humaine. --- Animalité.

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Education --- Psychology --- Psychology. --- Philosophy --- Philosophy. --- Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Industries --- modern education --- philosophy of education --- neurosciences --- cognitive psychology --- future of the human being --- Human biology --- Soul --- Mental health --- Éducation --- Psychologie --- Philosophie

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This book is a series of case studies with a common theme. Some refer closely to previous work by the author, but contrast with how they have been treated before, and some are new. Comparisons are drawn using various sorts of psychological and psychophysiological data that characteristically are particularly nonlinear, non-stationary, far from equilibrium and even chaotic, exhibiting abrupt transitions that are both reversible and irreversible, and failing to meet metric properties. A core idea is that both the human organism and the data analysis procedures used are filters, that may variously preserve, transform, distort or even destroy information of significance.

Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Sciences - General --- Chaotic behavior in systems --- Time-series analysis --- Mathematical models. --- Chaos in systems --- Chaos theory --- Chaotic motion in systems --- Differentiable dynamical systems --- Dynamics --- Nonlinear theories --- System theory --- reliability --- psychological tests --- psychometrics --- human being --- classification --- case study --- Attractor --- Eigenvalues and eigenvectors --- Markov chain --- Stationary process --- Time series

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More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology. This dazzling, cutting-edge synthesis, written for a wide audience by an archaeologist who has long been at the center of these debates, tells the scientific story of the first Americans: where they came from, when they arrived, and how they met the challenges of moving across the vast, unknown landscapes of Ice Age North America. David J. Meltzer pulls together the latest ideas from archaeology, geology, linguistics, skeletal biology, genetics, and other fields to trace the breakthroughs that have revolutionized our understanding in recent years. Among many other topics, he explores disputes over the hemisphere's oldest and most controversial sites and considers how the first Americans coped with changing global climates. He also confronts some radical claims: that the Americas were colonized from Europe or that a crashing comet obliterated the Pleistocene megafauna. Full of entertaining descriptions of on-site encounters, personalities, and controversies, this is a compelling behind-the-scenes account of how science is illuminating our past.

Glacial epoch - North America. --- Glacial epoch --North America. --- North America - Antiquities. --- North America --Antiquities. --- Paleo-Indians - North America. --- Paleo-Indians --North America. --- Paleo-Indians --- Glacial epoch --- North America --- Antiquities. --- american archeology. --- anthropology. --- appearance of human being. --- archaeology. --- climates. --- colonization. --- colonized. --- controversy. --- earliest americans. --- early peopling. --- environments. --- first americans. --- genetics. --- geology. --- glaciers. --- global climates. --- humans. --- ice age north america. --- ice age. --- linguistics. --- new world. --- north america. --- north american history. --- physical anthropology. --- prehistory. --- remote places. --- retrospective. --- science. --- skeletal biology.