Michael Dawson: 15 books
Selling Out or Buying In?
Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945-1985
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Until the late 1950s residents of Vancouver and Victoria negotiated a shopping landscape that would be unrecognizable to today’s consumers: most stores were closed for at least half the day on Wednesdays, prevented from opening during the evenings, and were banned from operating on Sundays. Since...
by Michael Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Health is inner peace.... Healing involves an understanding of what the illusion of sickness is for. Healing is impossible without this. From A Course in Miracles.Identification with the body as our home is the origin of all our physical and psychological suffering. Whilst we desire to remain separate...
From Bricks to Brains
The Embodied Cognitive Science of Lego Robots
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive science, and illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction and observation of LEGO Mindstorms robots.Discussing the characteristics that distinguish embodied cognitive science from classical cognitive science, From Bricks to Brains...
The Voice Of The Jamaican Ghetto
Incarcerated but not Silenced
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2012
As strange as this may sound , I hope you do not enjoy this book, I hope it disturbs you. I hope after reading you realize there is something wrong with Jamaica that needs to be fixed......I hope you will never look at a ghetto person the same again. I hope you will never see a young girl in a compromising...
by Michael Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
True forgiveness asks us to stop pointing our finger at the people and events in the world as the cause of our pain, and turn instead to the unforgiven thoughts in our own minds. Here we can create change, which will lead to an ever-increasing sense of inner peace.The book outlines simple, practical...
by Michael Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
A Course in Miracles can be difficult to understand on first reading as it is written on quite a high intellectual level. It can help to read some introductory material alongside a study of the Course. This series of articles and diagrams is presented with that in mind.This eBook begins with some brief,...
Not in Our Lifetimes
The Future of Black Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, polls revealed that only 20 percent of African Americans believed that racial equality for blacks would be achieved in their lifetime. But following the election of Barack Obama, that number leaped to more than half. Did that dramatic shift in opinion really...
Mind Games
Eight Science Fiction Thrillers With Attitude
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Adventures among aliens and alternative worlds are more intense when your own mind becomes one of the enemies.
Lovers of science fiction will sample a rich variety in these novels of possible futures. This collection features brain-bending thrillers and many of the books will take you into...
Uncanny Magazine Issue 26
January/February 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
The January/February 2019 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Fran Wilde, Natalia Theodoridou, Senaa Ahmad, Delilah S. Dawson, Marissa Lingen, and Inda Lauryn. Reprinted fiction by Ellen Kushner, essays by Linda D. Addison, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Alec Nevala-Lee,...
by Michael C. Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The radical black left has largely disappeared from the struggle for equality and justice. Michael Dawson examines the causes and consequences, and argues that the conventional left has failed to take race seriously as a force in reshaping American institutions and civil society. Black politics needs to find its way back to its radical roots.
Connectionist Representations of Tonal Music
Discovering Musical Patterns by Interpreting Artifical Neural Networks
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Previously, artificial neural networks have been used to capture only the informal properties of music. However, cognitive scientist Michael Dawson found that by training artificial neural networks to make basic judgments concerning tonal music, such as identifying the tonic of a scale or the quality...
Mind, Body, World
Foundations of Cognitive Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that a number of disciplines, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting. Perhaps owing to the field’s immediate origins in cybernetics, as well as to the foundational assumption that cognition...
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality
Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers...
Northern Gospel, Northern Church
Reflections on Identity and Mission
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
“Enlightening, thought provoking and honest, a bit like the North itself” — Kate Bottley (the “Gogglebox Vicar”)
Foreword by John Sentamu, Archbishop of York
A must-have book for anyone seeking to understand the challenges of proclaiming the Gospel in the North of England.
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