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It is widely acknowledged that Gregory Bateson’s ideas have been influential in a number of fields. Unfortunately, the importance of his ideas for understanding why public schools and universities continue to perpetuate ecologically unsustainable ways of thinking has not been adequately recognized. Given the deepening ecological and economic crises, this book is particularly timely as it clarifies how Bateson’s five key ideas, when taken as a whole, provides the conceptual framework for introducing educational reforms that address both problems. That is, he explains why educators unconsciously continue to perpetuate the deep cultural assumptions that were constituted before there was ...

Philosophy can be an intimidating word. For some, philosophy evokes images of old bearded men in togas, thinking about everything and asking questions with no real purpose or answer. For others, it may just be a class that they have to pass in order to finish college. While there is a certain element of truth in both, philosophy is much more than hard questions and college classrooms. Philosophy is the love and pursuit of knowledge. Natural philosophy is the quest to understand the natural world through study and observation. By extension, natural philosophy helps us to better know and understand the creator who designed that world. In that way, natural philosophy is the study of G ...

This is the scientific program of the 10th International Congress of Dipterology, held in Reno, Nevada, USA, from 16-21 July 2023. The program consists of 20 symposia and a General session, five plenary addresses (one each day), a Book Launch event (Tuesday evening), a Congress banquet address (Wednesday evening), and a Poster session (Wednesday and Thursday). Besides the list of talks and the schedule of events, there is a list of registered delegates and accompanying persons.

PROJECT 274 provides documented proof of atavistic behaviors from the past presenting in present day. A deep dive from a clinical, behavioral, and genetic application is applied for the collective consciousness to witness and the personal consciousness to examine from within. While promoting "Changing the Cycle" as the only identifier to prevent decompensation of society in its entirety, Kiing educates on misconceptions that has plagued the Black community as well as quotes from past and current influences from both sides of ongoing conflicts. This project has been used during symposiums as a rebuttal to the denial of Critical Race Theory or Black History being a relevant necessity th ...

For all those who wonder how Eclipses work over a Flat Earth, these Book completely covers it while utterly destroying the Globular version. Also a very intriguing history behind the Cosmology.

Some of the things every birder wishes they had been told right at the beginning. 7 precepts that will make anyone a better birder. 1) Don’t bother the birds 2) Ears before eyes, eyes before binoculars 3) Bird a lot 4) Attempt to recognize every bird you see 5) Study 6) Keep Records 7) Enjoy

John Beardsley, a Friend of Hampden and Parallax, proves earth is not a sphere, but it is flat. Also the debates on the Refutting of the figure and motion of earth contained in the English Mechanics versus Proctor.

Scientists in the Year 2111 receive a mysterious document from a Machine of the Year 2511 which seems to pertain to a rather peculiar Collegiate Organization of the Year 2011 that may have unwittingly perturbed a Machine of the Year 2511. "The Anthropologist, it should be noted, is falling deeper and deeper into an area where it should not be. It has slipped past the guard..." Wilted Vine. Volume 1. Wherein the potentiograms of a nonceman are discussed in some detail, with implications for future research.

This latest book by Chet Bowers, The Way Forward: Educational Reforms that Focus on the Cultural Commons and the Linguistic Roots of the Ecological/Cultural Crises, provides a more in-depth examination of several themes he has introduced before, as well as an introduction to issues that other environmental and educational writers have ignored. The former includes understanding cultures, including daily cultural practices, as ecologies—and how these micro-ecologies affect the life-sustaining viability of natural ecologies. Also explored in greater depth are how the community-centered cultural commons represent the early stages of a post-industrial future, as well as how public schools, un ...