Altri libri che potrebbero interessarti

• 

  True Deathbed Stories...

  Tales Of Afterlife

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the final moments of life reveal humanity's greatest mystery? Journey through extraordinary documented cases of deathbed visions that challenge everything we think we know about death and dying. From Steve Jobs's profound final words "Oh wow" to scientifically documented encounters with deceased loved ones, this compelling exploration examines end-of-life experiences that transcend cultural, religious, and medical boundaries. Drawing from the groundbreaking Osis-Haraldsson study of over 50,000 dying patients, discover how hospice workers, doctors, and researchers have documented remarkably consistent patterns in deathbed visions across the globe. These aren't random hallucinations or medication-induced fantasies—they're coherent, meaningful encounters that bring profound peace to the dying and challenge our understanding of consciousness itself. Witness accounts of patients who see deceased relatives they've never met, describe burial clothes they never saw, and experience transformative visions that replace fear with wonder. Medical professionals share their most compelling cases, from children who meet grandparents who died before they were born to skeptics whose final moments reveal unexpected spiritual dimensions. Through careful scientific analysis and deeply moving personal stories, explore how these near-death phenomena offer comfort to grieving families and potentially revolutionary insights into human consciousness. Whether you're facing your own mortality, supporting a loved one through their final journey, or simply curious about life's greatest mystery, these true accounts provide both scientific rigor and profound emotional healing about what may await us all.

  Mostra libro

• 

  Finite Element Analysis

  James Mandel

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  There are several objectives in this book. These include teaching the history, basic principles, and the theory of finite element analysis. The students will be introduced to applications of finite element analysis to real-world applications. These applications include, but are not limited to, analysis of thin shells, fracture mechanics, analysis of reinforced beams and columns, stress analysis, earthquake analysis of structures, buckling, seepage under a dam, a medical example, registration of MRI and PET scans, and a finite element analysis of the Golden Gate Bridge. These examples come from my own personal work experiences, research, and technical publications authored by me and persons instrumental in the development of the finite element method. James A. Mandel, P.E., is a registered professional engineer. He designed bridges on the interstate highway system. He also did the structural design of the Gemini Ballute. He was a full-time professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Syracuse University from 1967 to 2008.

  Mostra libro

• 

  Bad Nature - How Rat Control...

  Andrew McCumber

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Offers insights into the social and cultural implications of humans’ relationships with rats and the natural world. Apart from the occasional pet owner who has rats, most people regard rats as disease-carrying nocturnal pests, scurrying around dumpsters and dragging slices of pizza through New York City subways. Since rats are seemingly omnipresent in human life, why do we harbor such negative feelings about them, and why are they among the creatures most frequently targeted for systematic extermination?In Bad Nature, sociologist Andrew McCumber draws out the cultural underpinnings of rat extermination across three countries and two continents. Drawing from ethnographic, interview, and textual data from the frigid prairie of Alberta, Canada; the heart of downtown Los Angeles, California; and the iconic Galápagos Islands of Ecuador, McCumber studies how humans have sought to suppress and exterminate rat populations in a variety of environmental, social, and political situations. He shows how, in these disparate locations, rat control is a social practice that draws and clarifies the spatial and symbolic boundaries between “good” and “bad” forms of nature. Rats are near the bottom of a symbolic hierarchy of species that places human life at the top, companion animals and majestic wildlife just below them, and the “invasive species” that call for systematic extermination at the very bottom. This hierarchy of living things that places rats at the bottom, McCumber argues, mirrors human systems of social inequalities and power dynamics.  Both original and engaging, Bad Nature urges readers to consider, when charting a just and sustainable future, where will the rats be placed in the worlds we envision?

  Mostra libro

• 

  Our Hope for Gene Therapy - None

  Ian M MacDonald

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Our Hope for Gene Therapy traces the developments in eye genetics and our undrstanding of choroideremia, an inhertied retinal disorder. A first-in-Canada test of an experimental gene therapy to halt its proression started in Edmonton, Alberta in 2015. Nothing about the experiment was simple - but it taught Dr. MacDonald and his team a great deal and laid the foundations for future genetic therapies.

  Mostra libro

• 

  What's Hidden Inside Planets?

  John Wenz, Sabine Stanley

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  A guided journey through the inner workings of Earth, the cloaked mysteries of other planets in our solar system, and beyond. 
   
   
   
  Earth, from space, looks like a shimmering gem suspended in an inky, infinite expanse. But this serene image masks the magnificent and volatile interior forces that make life possible for millions of species on the surface. The placid appearances of our neighboring planets similarly belie their powers—and science fiction-worthy features, like diamond rain. The daily machinations of Earth's deep interior make the planet a habitable, yet sometimes treacherous, place to live. Drill down thousands of miles through our built environments and soil, sand, water, rock, and minerals to the outer (mainly liquid iron with nickel) and inner core, encountering intense convection, roiling metals, hidden continents, and shifting tectonic plates. Discover the effects of magnetism, rotation, and seismic activity seen and sensed in the forms of auroras, hurricanes, volcanoes, and earthquakes, among other manifestations. 
   
   
   
  Join this exciting journey to far-flung interstellar locations and the center of the Earth to learn what lies beneath our feet, and why it's the best real estate in our solar system.

  Mostra libro

• 

  Better Not Burn Your Toast - The...

  Dr. Joe Schwarcz

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  If you have an appetite for digestible science, you will find plenty of tasty morsels here. 
   
   
   
  Discover why some people see red over red food dyes, why Sherlock Holmes was interested in jellyfish, why King George III was plagued with purple urine, and why phrenology is a pseudoscience. You will learn about the links between the Pope, Lionel Messi, and yerba mate, Harry Potter and the mandrake root, and how Bicycle Day came to commemorate the first use of LSD. Have you ever wondered whether negative ions have positive effects, if memory supplements work, if performance-enhancing supplements really enhance performance, or if taurine in Red Bull is a lot of bull? Look no further. Are you confused about ultra-processed foods, free radicals, calcium propionate in your daily bread, endocrine disruptors, preservatives, rejuvenation, aspartame, Ozempic, Oxycontin, or whether you can eat to beat disease? You've come to the right place. 
   
   
   
  You will also find out why Woody Allen's "orgasmatron" in Sleeper was a parody of an actual device created by Wilhelm Reich, how time-restricted eating works, why kimchi traveled to outer space, and where not to stick a magnesium rod. Then, of course, you will also discover why you should not burn your toast!

  Mostra libro