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The UK paperback was released by Vintage on 5 March 2015 while the US paperback, retitled The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm, was published on 10 March 2015 by Penguin Books. The book is written as a quick-start guide to restarting civilization following a global catastrophe.
Around this time, Senechal met and fell in love with a yearling horse and developed a deep interest in understanding the horse, directly through the communications of the horse, itself. Senechal began research in evidence-based methods to enable animals to communicate their needs and wants to humans (modeled initially after the techniques used ...
Rhodes Must Fall movement is said to have been motivated by a desire to decolonize knowledge and education in South Africa. [1] Decolonization of knowledge (also epistemic decolonization or epistemological decolonization) is a concept advanced in decolonial scholarship [note 1] [note 2] that critiques the perceived hegemony of Western knowledge ...
Definitions of knowledge aim to identify the essential features of knowledge. Closely related terms are conception of knowledge, theory of knowledge, and analysis of knowledge. Some general features of knowledge are widely accepted among philosophers, for example, that it involves cognitive success and epistemic contact with reality.
The Onion Book of Known Knowledge is a satirical encyclopaedia written by the staff of The Onion, an American satirical newspaper. [1] The book was published by Little, Brown and Company on October 23, 2012. [2] The book satirizes topics in a wide range of fields, including politics, history, entertainment, medicine and religion. [2] [1]
[8] In his view, the book "entirely overturns" such preconceptions, with what Godfrey-Smith calls "an independent experiment in the evolution of large brains and complex behaviour" forming a "fascinating case study". In Hoare's view, Godfrey-Smith's empathy with the animals comes from his personal observation, scuba diving in the Pacific Ocean ...
Newport used the term "deep work", that existed in a psychological [11] or religious sense, [12] in his book Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (2016). Newport uses it to refer to studying or working for focused chunks of time without distractions such as email and social media. [ 13 ]
Deepness won the 2000 Hugo Award for Best Novel, [3] the 2000 John W. Campbell Memorial Award, [3] the 2000 Prometheus Award [4] and the 2004 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Best Foreign Fiction; [5] as well, it was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel, [6] the 2000 Arthur C. Clarke Award, [3] and the 2000 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction ...