Emma's World

Emma's World
Author: Shirley Blotnick Moskow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1990
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This book contains a collection of letters written to Emma Sargent Barbour Whitney by family and friends from both North and South. The describe their customs, styles, hardships, and politics during the Civil War era.

Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 18

Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 18
Author: James D. Westwood
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 792
Release: 2011
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1607507056

Since the debut of the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) conference in 1992, MMVR has served as a forum for researchers harnessing IT advances for the benefit of patient diagnosis and care, medical education and procedural training. At MMVR, virtual reality becomes a theatre for medicine, where multiple senses are engaged - sight, sound and touch - and language and image fuse. Precisely because this theatre is unreal, it is a valuable tool: the risks of experimentation and failure are gone, while the opportunity to understand remains. Improvement of this tool, through steady technological progress, is the purpose of MMVR. This book presents papers delivered at the MMVR18 / NextMed conference, held in Newport Beach, California, in February 2011, with contributions from international researchers whose work creates new devices and methods at the juncture of informatics and medicine. Subjects covered include simulation and learning, visualization and information-guided therapy, robotics and haptics, virtual reality and advanced ICT in Europe, validation of new surgical techniques, and many other applications of virtual-reality technology. As its name suggests, the NextMed conference looks forward to the expanding role that virtual reality can play in global healthcare. This overview of current technology will interest those who dedicate themselves to improving medicine through technology.

Emma's Turtle

Emma's Turtle
Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781590783504

When Emma's box turtle digs his way out of his pen, he imagines that he is have adventures in Africa, India and other faraway lands that Emma has described to him.

Externalism

Externalism
Author: Mark Rowlands
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317489292

It is commonly held that our thoughts, beliefs, desires and feelings - the mental phenomena that we instantiate - are constituted by states and processes that occur inside our head. The view known as externalism, however, denies that mental phenomena are internal in this sense. The mind is not purely in the head. Mental phenomena are hybrid entities that straddle both internal state and processes and things occurring in the outside world. The development of externalist conceptions of the mind is one of the most controversial, and arguably one of the most important, developments in the philosophy of mind in the second half of the twentieth century. Yet, despite its significance most recent work on externalism has been highly technical, clouding its basic ideas and principles. Moreover, very little work has been done to locate externalism within philosophical developments in both analytic and continental traditions. In this book, Mark Rowlands aims to remedy both these problems and present for the reader a clear and accessible introduction to the subject grounded in wider developments in the history of philosophy. Rowlands shows that externalism has significant and respectable historical roots that make it much more important than a specific eruption that occurred in late twentieth-century analytic philosophy.

Emma's Rainy Day

Emma's Rainy Day
Author: Jane Gillespie
Publisher: Beachhouse Pub.
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre:
ISBN: 9781933067360

An imaginative girl enjoys an adventure one rainy day in Hawaii.

The Socialist Manifesto

The Socialist Manifesto
Author: Bhaskar Sunkara
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1786636921

The success of Jeremy Corbyn's left-led Labour Party and Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign revived a political idea many had thought dead. But what, exactly, is socialism? And what would a socialist system look like today? In The Socialist Manifesto, Bhaskar Sunkara, editor of Jacobin magazine, argues that socialism offers the means to achieve economic equality, and also to fight other forms of oppression, including racism and sexism. The ultimate goal is not Soviet-style planning, but to win rights to healthcare, education, and housing and to create new democratic institutions in workplaces and communities. The book both explores socialism's history and presents a realistic vision for its future. A primer on socialism for the 21st century, this is a book for anyone seeking an end to the vast inequities of our age.

Modern Physics

Modern Physics
Author: Gary N. Felder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 759
Release: 2022-09-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1108842895

An accessible and pedagogically rich Modern Physics textbook, with step-by-step explanations and extensive resources to support active learning.

Emma's Gems

Emma's Gems
Author: Anne Renaud
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2019-09
Genre: Generosity
ISBN: 9781927735657

"The moments Emma shares with Grandpa Phil are always filled with beautiful discoveries. That is because her grandfather knows so much.. He even knows how to change simple stones into precious gems...."--

Emma's Rug

Emma's Rug
Author: Allen Say
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2003-05-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547347553

In a story of warmth and surprise, Allen Say explores the origins of artistic inspiration. Elegant illustrations portray the journey of a child who discovers that creativity ultimately comes from within.