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Romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson and Paul Rudd. Former athlete Lisa (Witherspoon) meets troubled business executive George (Rudd) at a bad time. While Lisa is facing a difficult transition in her life, feeling past her athletic prime and questioning her current relationship with egotistical baseball player Manny (Wilson), George is facing the prospect of financial ruin as his father's company is subject to a federal investigation for shady dealing. But can romance blossom despite the odds? And how do you kn.
Love asks different creatures, objects, and ideas what they know and each responds with quiet observations of how they shape and view their world.
How Do You Know? explores problems of knowledge that arise in everyday life. If you are not an expert, how can you know that another person is an expert? If experts are politically biased should you still trust them? More generally, how should you approach the testimony of other people: treat it all as "innocent until proven guilty," or is that too simple? Does the internet make us better knowers, or is it just a minefield of misinformation? Is it always irrational to believe a conspiracy theory? Suppose someone just as intelligent and well-informed as you are disagrees with you about something, how should that affect your belief? Can we have knowledge of what is right and wrong? How Do You Know? approaches these issues through the lens of social epistemology and via the preeminently social genre of philosophical dialogue. Its characters think and speak like real people in the world today, discussing and debating issues that are current, practically relevant, and even controversial—while equipping readers with tools and concepts to see more clearly for themselves.
This book thoroughly explains how computers work. It starts by fully examining a NAND gate, then goes on to build every piece and part of a small, fully operational computer. The necessity and use of codes is presented in parallel with the apprioriate pieces of hardware. The book can be easily understood by anyone whether they have a technical background or not. It could be used as a textbook.
How do we know anything? Do we know because 'science says so' or because 'the Bible tells me so' or because 'it just feels right and I know it inside myself'? Do we know everything in the same way? Can different ways of knowing fit together in one life and reality? In this concise volume, the second book of a trilogy, international speaker Ellis Potter shows how four basic ways of knowing can be integrated to make us more fully human. His first book--3 Theories of Everything--has been translated into fourteen languages since its publication in 2012.
‘A child comes to terms with the fact that she and her family are leaving the prairie. . . . As she talks herself into acceptance, her Mama helps her let go, commenting that the baby will need someone to tell him where he came from. So the girl gathers mementoes—a bag of earth and a piece of cottonwood tree. . . .A novel hides in these few pages. As with Sarah, Plain and Tall, the subext vibrates. So much is told in each perfectly chosen phrase. The story is deep and specific, but the pain and denial of a child leaving a known and loved place is all too universal. Moser’s finely-wrought engravings, enhanced by moody tints, record the departure.’—SLJ. 1995 "Pick of the Lists" (ABA)
Here are 20 chapters of all new material--tests that will challenge anyone's knowledge of popular culture in myriad ways. Each chapter is accompanied by humorous, insightful commentary by a college professor who is determined to convince everyone that learning really can be fun.
Describes some of the signs of spring, including changes in light and temperature, plant growth, buds on trees, baby animals, and other differences, and suggests related activities.
