The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life (book)
Added by: cumartesileri | Karma: 111.83 | Fiction literature | 22 June 2007
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The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life By Robert Becker, Gary Selden
The Body Electric tells the fascinating story of our bioelectric selves. Robert O. Becker, a pioneer in the filed of regeneration and its relationship to electrical currents in living things, challenges the established mechanistic understanding of the body. He found clues to the healing process in the long-discarded theory that electricity is vital to life. But as exciting as Becker's discoveries are, pointing to the day when human limbs, spinal cords, and organs may be regenerated after they have been damaged, equally fascinating is the story of Becker's struggle to do such original work. The Body Electric explores new pathways in our understanding of evolution, acupuncture, psychic phenomena, and healing.
Other amazing and instructive tales for your attention!
Here you’ll find the following stories:
1. The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
2. The Tale Of The Flopsy Bunnies.
3. Rapunzel.
4. Jack And The Beanstalk.
5. The Story of Snow White.
6. Petie's Peanut Butter Pizza.
Just For Fun: The Story of An Accidental Revolutionary
The autobiography of a career computer programmer, even an unorthodox
one, may sound less than enthralling, but this breezy account of the
life of Linux inventor Torvalds not only lives up to its insouciant
title, it provides an incisive look into the still-raging debate over
open source code. In his own words (interspersed with co-writer
Diamond's tongue-in-cheek accounts of his interviews with the
absentminded Torvalds), the programmer relates how it all started in
1981 with his grandfather back in Finland, who let him play around on a
Vic 20 computer. At 11 years old, Torvalds was hooked on
computersespecially on figuring out how they ran and on improving their
operating systems. For years, Torvalds did little but program,
upgrading his hardware every couple of years, attending school in a
desultory fashion and generally letting the outside world float by
unnoticed, until he eventually wrote his own operating system, Linux.
In a radical move, he began sharing the code with fellow OS enthusiasts
over the burgeoning Internet in the early 1990s, allowing others to
contribute to and improve it, while he oversaw the process. Even though
Torvalds is now a bigger star in the computer world than Bill Gates,
and companies like IBM are running Linux on their servers, he has
retained his innocence: the book is full of statements like "Open
source makes sense" and "Greed is never good" that seem sincere.
Leavened with an appealing, self-deprecating sense of humor and a
generous perspective that few hardcore coders have, this is a
refreshing read for geeks and the techno-obsessed.
Added by: cumartesileri | Karma: 111.83 | Fiction literature | 12 June 2007
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Mendel's Accordion (Kar-Ben Favorites)
By Heidi Smith Hyde
From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 2—This gentle, picture-book history of klezmer music may have difficulty finding an audience. Mendel plays the accordion and forms a traveling band, but when life gets difficult in the old country, he leaves for America. On the way, he meets other musicians and starts a new group. In New York, he marries
and has children and grandchildren, who love different kinds of music. Finally, his great-grandson finds the old instrument in the attic and has it fixed, and a new generation of klezmorim emerges. The text is unremarkable and lacks transitions in places; but the simple language is accessible and makes the complex story of
immigration comprehensible for a young audience. The attractive folksy watercolor illustrations move the story along effectively and capture life in the various settings. The characters are representative of Jewish culture without being caricatures; the joy of music is clear on their faces. An endnote discusses immigration, klezmer music and its resurgence, and the history of the accordion.
