Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download All About Nothing PDF full book. Access full book title All About Nothing.
| Author | : Written By Deeya Nayar |
| Publisher | : Tulika Books |
| Total Pages | : 24 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9788188733095 |
A simple and fictional take, based on actual research, on how zero came to be used in mathematical calculations. Was it Muchu the merchant's idea, maybe? Illustrations have bright earthy colours.
| Author | : Walter Kempowski |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2018-02-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1681372061 |
A wealthy family tries--and fails--to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers. In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-year-old son, Peter. As the road fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof begins to receive strange visitors--a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee. Yet in the main, life continues as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the family, until their caution, their hedged bets, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine. All for Nothing, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germany's most acclaimed and popular writers.
| Author | : Eli J. Finkel |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2019-01-08 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 1101984341 |
“After years of debate and inquiry, the key to a great marriage remained shrouded in mystery. Until now...”—Carol Dweck, author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Eli J. Finkel's insightful and ground-breaking investigation of marriage clearly shows that the best marriages today are better than the best marriages of earlier eras. Indeed, they are the best marriages the world has ever known. He presents his findings here for the first time in this lucid, inspiring guide to modern marital bliss. The All-or-Nothing Marriage reverse engineers fulfilling marriages—from the “traditional” to the utterly nontraditional—and shows how any marriage can be better. The primary function of marriage from 1620 to 1850 was food, shelter, and protection from violence; from 1850 to 1965, the purpose revolved around love and companionship. But today, a new kind of marriage has emerged, one oriented toward self-discover, self-esteem, and personal growth. Finkel combines cutting-edge scientific research with practical advice; he considers paths to better communication and responsiveness; he offers guidance on when to recalibrate our expectations; and he even introduces a set of must-try “lovehacks.” This is a book for the newlywed to the empty nester, for those thinking about getting married or remarried, and for anyone looking for illuminating advice that will make a real difference to getting the most out of marriage today.
| Author | : Martin Burckhardt |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 2017-10-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0262534258 |
Why 1 = presence and 0 = absence and the digital world formula is x = xn: an exploration of meaning in a universe of infinite replication. In the beginning was the Zero, and the Zero was with God, and God was the One. —All and Nothing In 1854, the British mathematician George Boole presented the idea of a universe the elements of which could be understood in terms of the logic of absence and presence: 0 and 1, all and nothing—the foundation of binary code. The Boolean digits 0 and 1 do not designate a quantity. In the Boolean world, x times x always equals x; all and nothing meet in the formula x = xn. As everything becomes digitized, God the clockmaker is replaced by God the programmer. This book–described by its authors as “a theology for the digital world”—explores meaning in a digital age of infinite replication, in a world that has dissolved into information and achieved immortality by turning into a pure sign. All and Nothing compares information that spreads without restraint to a hydra—the mythological monster that grew two heads for every one that was cut off. Information is thousand-headed and thousand-eyed because Hydra's tracks cannot be deleted. It shows that when we sit in front of a screen, we are actually on the other side, looking at the world as an uncanny reminder of the nondigitized. It compares our personal data to our shadows and our souls, envisioning the subconscious laid out on a digital bier like a corpse. The digital world, the authors explain, summons forth fantasies of a chiliastic or apocalyptic nature. The goal of removing the representative from mathematics has now been achieved on a greater scale than Boole could have imagined.
| Author | : Paul W. Franks |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 462 |
| Release | : 2005-10-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780674018884 |
Interest in German Idealism--not just Kant, but Fichte and Hegel as well--has recently developed within analytic philosophy, which traditionally defined itself in opposition to the Idealist tradition. Yet one obstacle remains especially intractable: the Idealists' longstanding claim that philosophy must be systematic. In this work, the first overview of the German Idealism that is both conceptual and methodological, Paul W. Franks offers a philosophical reconstruction that is true to the movement's own times and resources and, at the same time, deeply relevant to contemporary thought. At the center of the book are some neglected but critical questions about German Idealism: Why do Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel think that philosophy's main task is the construction of a system? Why do they think that every part of this system must derive from a single, immanent and absolute principle? Why, in short, must it be all or nothing? Through close examination of the major Idealists as well as the overlooked figures who influenced their reading of Kant, Franks explores the common ground and divergences between the philosophical problems that motivated Kant and those that, in turn, motivated the Idealists. The result is a characterization of German Idealism that reveals its sources as well as its pertinence--and its challenge--to contemporary philosophical naturalism.
| Author | : Michael Whitby |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2006-04 |
| Genre | : African American men |
| ISBN | : 9780974507576 |
In this coming of age story Anthony Ant Fennel is introduced. Born with the will to survive, he struggles to make it through his world of murder and pandemoinium, by ANY MEANS NECESSARY. Anthony knows that when it comes to the game there is only one thing to remember: Only the strong survive!
| Author | : Wanda Gág |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 50 |
| Release | : 1941 |
| Genre | : Dogs |
| ISBN | : 9781452907024 |
The picture-story of an invisible dog who gradually becomes visible.
| Author | : Julia Kuo |
| Publisher | : Roaring Brook Press |
| Total Pages | : 19 |
| Release | : 2022-03-22 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1250874548 |
Let's Do Everything and Nothing is a lush and lyrical picture book from Julia Kuo celebrating special moments—big and small—shared with a child. Will you climb a hill with me? Dive into a lake with me? Reach the starry sky with me, and watch the clouds parade? Love can feel as vast as a sky full of breathtaking clouds or as gentle as a sparkling, starlit night. It can scale the tallest mountains and reach the deepest depths of the sea. Standing side by side with someone you love, the unimaginable can seem achievable. But not every magical moment is extraordinary. Simply being together is the best journey of all.
| Author | : Nala Emme |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 499 |
| Release | : 2021-06-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1664181180 |
Prose and poetry tell the multi-narrative story of one pivotal summer during the lives of four interconnected individuals as they grapple with family conflict, friendship, and individuality, with first love and second chances, with impermanence and spirituality, and with the sweeping awareness of mortality.
| Author | : Mike McKinney |
| Publisher | : Exisle Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2016-09-01 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 1775593061 |
In this fascinating and empowering book, clinical psychologist Mike McKinney takes an informed look at the often talked about but little understood phenomenon of the ‘all or nothing’ personality: a personality type that is driven to focus on one task or area of life to the exclusion of all else. While often bringing great rewards in terms of career achievement, this approach can commonly lead to other aspects of life being adversely affected and can result in problems such as difficulty maintaining relationships or not having a life outside work. It’s also one of the main causes of burn-out. The author looks at how this personality type can develop (through, for example, a deep fear of failure, a desire to please others, or childhood expectations that you must ‘always do your best’) and, more importantly, he explores how balance can be brought to the all-or-nothing personality, so that its best qualities can be retained while the potential negatives are mitigated, resulting in a more meaningful and rewarding life.
