Resonant Histories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Resonant Histories write by Alison Clark. This book was released on 2018-12-03. Resonant Histories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the complex relational assemblage that is the ethnographic collection of Admiral Edward Henry Meggs Davis, made during the three voyages of the H.M.S Royalist between 1890-1893. The collection is indicative not just of a period of colonial collecting in the Pacific, but also the development of museum collections in the UK and Europe. This period of history also affects the way that Pacific Islanders think about their own lives today.Using the collections as a starting point the book is divided into three parts. The first will provide the historical background to the three voyages of the H.M.S Royalist, discussing each voyage, its aims and outcomes, and the role that Davis played within this. This will then provide the context for the large collection of 1400 objects made by Davis during his time as Captain of the Australian naval cruiser. It will then interrogate the motivations of Davis to collect and the various means of collecting that he employed.The second section will consider what happened to the collection once Davis returned to England, where and how it was sold, and how the collection became a part of and subject to the networks of museums, and private collectors in the UK and Europe during the end of the 19th century beginning of the 20th century.Finally the third section will look at history and contemporary change. Focusing on three Pacific Islands- one from each voyage- this section will explore how indigenous people discuss the arrival of the H.M.S Royalist in relation to contemporary life- often as a means of understanding current social, political or environmental issues -, and consider the contemporary significance of these dispersed collections to Pacific Islanders today.
Resonate
Resonate - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Resonate write by Nancy Duarte. This book was released on 2013-07-02. Resonate available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reveals the underlying story form of all great presentations that will not only create impact, but will move people to action Presentations are meant to inform, inspire, and persuade audiences. So why then do so many audiences leave feeling like they've wasted their time? All too often, presentations don't resonate with the audience and move them to transformative action. Just as the author's first book helped presenters become visual communicators, Resonate helps you make a strong connection with your audience and lead them to purposeful action. The author's approach is simple: building a presentation today is a bit like writing a documentary. Using this approach, you'll convey your content with passion, persuasion, and impact. Author has a proven track record, including having created the slides in Al Gore's Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth Focuses on content development methodologies that are not only fundamental but will move people to action Upends the usual paradigm by making the audience the hero and the presenter the mentor Shows how to use story techniques of conflict and resolution Presentations don't have to be boring ordeals. You can make them fun, exciting, and full of meaning. Leave your audiences energized and ready to take action with Resonate.
The Resonance of Unseen Things
The Resonance of Unseen Things - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Resonance of Unseen Things write by Susan Lepselter. This book was released on 2016-03-03. The Resonance of Unseen Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An interdisciplinary study of how conspiracy theories and stories persist and resonate among different Americans
Resonant Histories
Resonant Histories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Resonant Histories write by Alison Clark (Research fellow). This book was released on 2018. Resonant Histories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores a complex relational assemblage, a collection of 1481 Pacific artefacts brought together by Captain Edward Henry Meggs Davis, during the three voyages of HMS Royalist between 1890-1893. The collection is indicative not just of a period of colonial collecting in the Pacific, but also the development of ethnographic collections in the UK and Europe. This period of history remains present in the social and cultural lives of many Pacific Islanders today. Using the collections as a starting point the book is divided into two parts. The first provides the historical background to the three voyages of HMS Royalist, discussing each voyage, its aims and outcomes, and the role that Davis played within this. Davis’ motivations to collect and the various means of collecting that he employed are then explored within this historical context. Finally the first part considers what happened to the collection once it was sent from the Pacific to England, where and how it was sold, and how the collection was a part of and subject to the networks of museums, and private collectors in the UK and Europe during the end of the 19th century beginning of the 20th century. It offers a detailed view of the contents and development of the collection, and what the collection can tell us about British ethnographic collecting at the end of the nineteenth century. The second part of the book explores the traces left by the ship amongst the Pacific Islands communities it visited. Focusing on three Pacific Islands- Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Kiribati- the chapters in this section interrogate the contemporary relevance of this period of colonial history for Islanders today, exploring current social, political and environmental issues.
Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain
Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain write by Stephen Grossberg. This book was released on 2021. Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How does your mind work? How does your brain give rise to your mind? These are questions that all of us have wondered about at some point in our lives, if only because everything that we know is experienced in our minds. They are also very hard questions to answer. After all, how can a mind understand itself? How can you understand something as complex as the tool that is being used to understand it? This book provides an introductory and self-contained description of some of the exciting answers to these questions that modern theories of mind and brain have recently proposed. Stephen Grossberg is broadly acknowledged to be the most important pioneer and current research leader who has, for the past 50 years, modelled how brains give rise to minds, notably how neural circuits in multiple brain regions interact together to generate psychological functions. This research has led to a unified understanding of how, where, and why our brains can consciously see, hear, feel, and know about the world, and effectively plan and act within it. The work embodies revolutionary Principia of Mind that clarify how autonomous adaptive intelligence is achieved. It provides mechanistic explanations of multiple mental disorders, including symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, autism, amnesia, and sleep disorders; biological bases of morality and religion, including why our brains are biased towards the good so that values are not purely relative; perplexing aspects of the human condition, including why many decisions are irrational and self-defeating despite evolution's selection of adaptive behaviors; and solutions to large-scale problems in machine learning, technology, and Artificial Intelligence that provide a blueprint for autonomously intelligent algorithms and robots. Because brains embody a universal developmental code, unifying insights also emerge about shared laws that are found in all living cellular tissues, from the most primitive to the most advanced, notably how the laws governing networks of interacting cells support developmental and learning processes in all species. The fundamental brain design principles of complementarity, uncertainty, and resonance that Grossberg has discovered also reflect laws of the physical world with which our brains ceaselessly interact, and which enable our brains to incrementally learn to understand those laws, thereby enabling humans to understand the world scientifically. Accessibly written, and lavishly illustrated, Conscious Mind/Resonant Brain is the magnum opus of one of the most influential scientists of the past 50 years, and will appeal to a broad readership across the sciences and humanities.
