[PDF] Wood Floats And Other Brilliant Observations eBook

Author : Chris Loper
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 2021-05-28
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What could go wrong if you do backflips on the school bus? How exactly does a potato cannon become a flamethrower? Are bananaberries real? The answers to these questions and so much more await you inside this hilarious collection of short stories from the life of Chris Loper. It's a lighthearted mix of '90s nostalgia, teenage hijinks, and mountain adventures, with a few actual life lessons thrown in for good measure. Totally Real Testimonials "I'm so glad I met him AFTER all of the events in this book." -Chris's partner "I swear it's not our fault. Look at our other son! He's very responsible." -Chris's parents "Really makes me look good by comparison." -Chris's brother "But 'Safety' really IS my middle name!" -Chris's best friend "No, no it's not." -Chris's best friend's wife

Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0547527543

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National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry