Author: W. David Woods File Type: pdf Stung by the pioneering space successes of the Soviet Union - in particular, Gagarin being the first man in space, the United States gathered the best of its engineers and set itself the goal of reaching the Moon within a decade. In an expanding 2nd edition of How Apollo Flew to the Moon, David Woods tells the exciting story of how the resulting Apollo flights were conducted by following a virtual flight to the Moon and its exploration of the surface. From launch to splashdown, he hitches a ride in the incredible spaceships that took men to another world, exploring each step of the journey and detailing the enormous range of disciplines, techniques, and procedures the Apollo crews had to master. While describing the tremendous technological accomplishment involved, he adds the human dimension by calling on the testimony of the people who were there at the time. He provides a wealth of fascinating and accessible material the role of the powerful Saturn V, the reasoning behind trajectories, the day-to-day concerns of human and spacecraft health between two worlds, the exploration of the lunar surface and the sheer daring involved in traveling to the Moon and the mid-twentieth century. Given the tremendous success of the original edition of How Apollo Flew to the Moon, the second edition will have a new chapter on surface activities, inspired by readers comment on Amazon.com. There will also be additional detail in the existing chapters to incorporate all the feedback from the original edition, and will include larger illustrations. **

Author: Radmila Moacanin File Type: pdf The Essence of Jungs Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism cuts to the heart of two very different yet remarkably similar traditions. The author touches on many of their major ideas the collective unconscious and karma, archetypes and deities, the analyst and the spiritual friend, and mandalas. Within Tibetan Buddhism she focuses on tantra and relates its emphasis on spiritual transformation, also a major concern of Jung. This expanded edition includes new material on the integration of the two traditions, and the importance of these paths of the heart in todays unsteady world. **

Author: Marie Berne File Type: pdf Le terme idiotie est cree au debut du 19e siecle pour remplacer celui didiotisme qui designait a la fois labsence de culture et la stupidite au sens medical. Pourtant lorigine grecque introduit une nuance idios signifie ce qui est special, propre ou original. De la, dire que lidiot, de Dostoievski notamment, appartient a la categorie des melancoliques, etres exceptionnels et artistes selon Aristote dans le Probleme XXX, encourage une nouvelle definition du terme. Cet Eloge de lidiotie observe pour la premiere fois de pres le phenomene de lidiotie romanesque en Occident a travers le 20e siecle. A la difference du 19e, le personnage idiot ne transmet pas seulement un theme mais bien une nouvelle facon de sexprimer et decrire. Mettant en dialogue les termes idiotie et rhetorique, cette etude offre un examen meticuleux de quatre textes choisis et reunis de facon inedite Nadja de Breton, Le Bruit et la Fureur de Faulkner, LInnommable de Beckett et Marelle de Cortazar. Nadja, Benjy, lInnommable et la Maga manifestent une ignorance et une singularite qui font deux ces idiots persecutes du fait de leur perception anormale de la realite. Tout sinverse lorsque leurs propos etranges se melent a la langue originale de chacun des livres. Proche de lecrivain, lidiot est a son tour metaphore de la rhetorique a luvre, la figure ideale pour remettre en question toute pretendue intelligence ou raison au profit de leloge dune forme de naivete, une bienheureuse ethique de lidiotie. On doit a Marie Berne une remarquable etude de cette idiotie litteraire, quelle analyse a travers quatre romans ou recits du siecle dernier [...]. Elle sinspire a son tour de la definition proposee par Clement Rosset, mais elle ne loublie pas en route et, surtout [...] elle lapplique efficacement au domaine litteraire Alain Roger (Breviaire de la Betise. Bibliotheque des idees. Paris NRF, Gallimard, 2008, pp.195)**

Author: Renaissance Society At The University Of Chicago File Type: pdf Iconoclast and artist Pope.L uses the body, sex, and race as his materials the way other artists might use paint, clay, or bronze. His work problematizes social categories by exploring how difference is marked economically, socially, and politically. Working in a range of media from ketchup to baloney to correction fluid, with a special emphasis on performativity and writing, Pope.L pokes fun at and interrogates American societys pretenses, the bankruptcy of contemporary mores, and the resulting repercussions for a civil society. Other favorite Pope.L targets are squeamishness about the human body and the very possibility of making meaning through art and its display. Published to accompany his wonderfully inscrutable exhibitionForlesenat the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Pope.L Showing Up to Withhold is simultaneously an artists book and a monograph. In addition to reproductions of a number of his most recent artworks, it includes images of significant works from the past decade, and presents a forum for reflection and analysis on art making today with contributions by renowned critics and scholars, including Lawrie Balfour, Nick Bastis, Lauren Berlant, and K. Silem Mohammad.