The Tree of Knowledge

Author: Daniel G. Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578753201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
A Booklife Editor's Pick "Filled with fascinating characters, breathtaking action... this novel grabs one's interest from page one."-Kat Kennedy, The US Review of Books Knowledge is power. It is said that the greatest chess masters can envision a match's outcome ten moves before it occurs. Imagine a person who can visualize ten steps ahead, not simply in the game of chess, but in every human interaction. Imagine a person who can see a punch before it is thrown; who knows what you are going to say before you say it; who can see every political and economic move long before it happens. Imagine a secret that can make this all possible. Mathematics professor Albert Puddles exposes this secret for himself as he is thrust into a murder investigation on the Princeton campus. The discovery leads Albert to delve into ancient religious interpretation and unmask new analytical abilities, all while teaming up with an aging mentor, a curious teaching assistant, and an elite Book Club on a frantic chase across America to recover this world-changing knowledge before it falls into dangerous hands. Albert-now embedded in a national cat-and-mouse political power play-rediscovers a woman from his past and is forced to confront his own understanding of love, rationality, power, and the true limits of the human mind.

Tree Of Life, Tree Of Knowledge

Author: Michael Rosenak
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000009920
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
From the Preface: THE IDEA OF THIS BOOK came to my mind many years ago, after several conversations with my friend and colleague in Jewish educational studies Joseph Lukins professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He had suggested that an educated Jew is, among other things, one who lives in some spiritual and cognitive proximity to the weekly Torah reading, the parashat hashavua, "portion of the week." He insisted that issues in the philosophy of education might be in the liturgy's scriptural readings,that even the way messages of tradition divided the Torah into "portions" reflected discrete modes of teaching Torah.In this book, theoretical conceptions, garnered from many places, even if they do not precede reading of Torah, are certainly prisms through which I can read it.

Tree of Knowledge

Author: Humberto R. Maturana
Publisher: Shambhala
ISBN: 9780877736424
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
"Knowing how we know" is the subject of this book. Its authors present a new view of cognition that has important social and ethical implications, for, they assert, the only world we humans can have is the one we create together through the actions of our coexistence. Written for a general audience as well as for students, scholars, and scientists and abundantly illustrated with examples from biology, linguistics, and new social and cultural phenomena, this revised edition includes a new afterword by Dr. Varela, in which he discusses the effect the book has had in the years since its first publication.

The Tree of Knowledge

Author: Jeremy Streich
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781641379410
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
The last of the archivists, Aeron Mason is wrongly imprisoned and must clear his family name to claim his rightful place in Pangaea. His life takes a turn for the magical when an ancient artifact chooses him to be the millennium's next Sage. But as Aeron seeks answers, he attracts unwanted attention: powerful forces that will tear the world apart to get to him. Paloma Murravillow, a star athlete and member of a powerful family, accepts a quest to seek out Aerth's legendary last ranger and soon crosses paths with Aeron Mason on an island of exiles. Together, they struggle to overcome the vicissitudes of Aerth's most insidious primen. But as their friendship grows, Paloma finds out her family is the reason why Aeron is an outcast and a criminal. The Tree of Knowledge is an adventure novel that explores free will and control in a world where Pangaea has not split apart... yet. The series is a must read for those with an active imagination who enjoy Harry Potter A Game of Thrones Hunger Games The Witcher Eragon Neverwhere Outlander The Chronicles of Narnia The Lord of the Rings.

The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis

Author:
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 9780802136107
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
Hailed as "the most radical repackaging of the Bible since Gutenberg", these Pocket Canons give an up-close look at each book of the Bible.

The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil Revealed

Author: Michael Dale
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365100561
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
'The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil Revealed' is a journey into the true meaning, function, and purpose of the Tree of Knowledge. The author provides new scripture based insights into the matter helping the reader gain a clear understanding of the Tree of Knowledge's full significance. Included in the discussion is how the Tree of Knowledge affects man as whole mentally, spiritually, and physically; the role that it plays in the battle between good and evil; how it permeates every area of people activities; and its role in God's overall redemptive plan for creation.

The Tree of Knowledge

Author: Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781463523466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
The story of Creation in Genesis contains the item that represents mankind as having been condemned to eternal death as the consequence of our first parents' disobedience to God's command not to eat of the fruit of the tree of life and knowledge which is in the midst of the Garden of Eden. Here we are confronted with another of those features of the great allegorical drama of creation that has more than baffled the best efforts of theologians and scholars for two millennia. It provides another instance and example of the pitiful manner in which stupid attempt to interpret the Bible literally and factually has made of scholarship and Bible exegesis a laughing-stock and a mockery of sense and sanity for lo! these many centuries of Christian religionism. The story of how allegedly learned savants in the field of religious study have been misled and duped by the subterfuges of ancient methodology in the writing of sacred Scripture is one of the most astounding, indeed well-nigh incredible, narratives that, unfortunately, must now be told. - Alvin Boyd Kuhn

Consecrated Venom

Author: Caryl Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
Explores the nature of human awareness as represented in the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac, and humanity’s covenant with God.

The Tree of Knowledge and Other Essays

Author: Wright
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004450556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
In an autobiographical introduction the author tells about the two forces which have shaped his intellectual life: philosophy as an academic profession and philosophy as a search for a view of life. The book, accordingly, divides in two parts. The essays in the first part survey developments in logic and analytical philosophy in the perspective of the closing century and in the light of the author's long experience and participation in them. There are also essays on Musil's criticism of Mach, on the Finnish philosopher Eino Kaila's search for a monistic world view, and on Wittgenstein's place on the cultural map of the century. The papers in the second part deal with traits of contemporary civilization which have become problematic thanks to the impact of technological developments on political and social forms of life. Humanism, modernity, and scientific rationality are key-ideas taken up for critical scrutiny.

The Tree of Knowledge

Author: Claudio Ronchi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783319346526
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Whether considered a divine gift or a Promethean conquest, science has indisputably and indelibly marked the course of human history. A product of the intellectual elite, but always nourished by the many fruits of its applications, science appears today to be a perfect system, whose laws and discoveries guide all human activities. Yet the foundations of its authority remain an open question, entailing disquieting aspects that are also to be identified in modern science. Furthermore it is seen to be exerting an increasing power over mankind. Readers are invited to follow an itinerary through the history of science, a voyage which, in the end, enables them to catch a glimpse of two divergent futures: One in which science accelerates the downfall of Homo sapiens, and another in which it helps our species to engage in a new and positive adventure, whose outcome nobody can know.