This Element is an attempt to contribute to the extant literature on boards and corporate governance by exploring in detail the active involvement of the board in the purpose and strategy of the corporation in order to cope with a complex and uncertain environment.
Robert Harrison and Robert Browne were the initiators of the principles of English Separatism and Congregationalism. The ideas of these two men profoundly influenced the Puritan movement both of England and America.
From biology to culture to the new new economy, the buzzword on everyone's lips is "meme." How do animals learn things? How does human culture evolve? How does viral marketing work? The answer to these disparate questions and even to what is the nature of thought itself is, simply, the meme. For decades researchers have been convinced that memes were The Next Big Thing for the understanding of society and ourselves. But no one has so far been able to define what they are. Until now. Here, for the first time, Robert Aunger outlines what a meme physically is, how memes originated, how they developed, and how they have made our brains into their survival systems. They are thoughts. They are parasites. They are in control. A meme is a distinct pattern of electrical charges in a node in our brains that reproduces a thousand times faster than a bacterium. Memes have found ways to leap from one brain to another. A number of them are being replicated in your brain as you read this paragraph. In 1976 the biologist Richard Dawkins suggested that all animals -- including humans -- are puppets and that genes hold the strings. That is, we are robots serving as life support for the genes that control us. And all they want to do is replicate themselves. But then, we do lots of things that don't seem to help genes replicate. We decide not to have children, we waste our time doing dangerous things like mountain climbing, or boring things like reading, or stupid things like smoking that don't seem to help genes get copied into the next generation. We do all sorts of cultural things for reasons that don't seem to have anything to do with genes. Fashions in sports, books, clothes, ideas, politics, lifestyles come and go and give our lives meaning, so how can we be gene robots? Dawkins recognized that something else was going on. We communicate with one another and we get ideas, and these ideas seem to have a life of their own. Maybe there was something called memes that were like thought genes. Maybe our bodies were gene robots and our minds were meme robots. That would mean that what we think is not the result of our own creativity, but rather the result of the evolutionary flow of memes as they wash through us. What is the biological reality of an idea with a life of its own? What is a thought gene? It's a meme. And no one before Robert Aunger has established what it physically must be. This elegant, paradigm-shifting analysis identifies how memes replicate in our brains, how they evolved, and how they use artifacts like books and photographs and advertisements to get from one brain to another. Destined to inflame arguments about free will, open doors to new ways of sharing our thoughts, and provide a revolutionary explanation of consciousness, The Electric Meme will change the way each of us thinks about our minds, our cultures, and our daily choices.
As a rejoinder to the fundamentalist assumptions of Pastor Rick Warren's "The Purpose-Driven Life," a biblical scholar offers a witty, thoughtful, and detailed critique.
The author relates to the thought processes and deeds of an average person who constantly seeks improvement in the way the human mind and the world works. Moving through philosophy, belief, and relationship phenomena, the book also describes the authors personal experiences of such events as took place in Libya during the six-day war in 1967 between Egypt and Israel, plus a historical incident in Canada involving the American Indian Movement and the FBI in the 1970s.
Thanks for reading this. It has been my plesure to write this and it will be my pleasure to teach and expand this knowledge. Robert Antill ( all I said was that this fish was definately not good enough for Jehovah ) Thanks to everyone in the world for your help and for your inspiration I am looking forward to a brighter future for all of us
New Zealand businessman Robert Laidlaw wrote this little booklet, a distillation of his discovery of a credible Christianity, for his nearly 3000 employees, and now shares it with a larger audience.
This text has been updated to reflect the newest developments in patient care during the perioperative period. Its pages cover general concepts of (1) advantages and disadvantages of perioperative transfusion, (2) the indications and contraindications for intraoperative and postoperative recovery and reinfusion, (3) the possible complications, and (4) administrative aspects that are often overlooked. Yet, it also digs into more detail -- for example, exploring washing vs nonwashing of reinfused bood and the use of partially filled bowls.
This dictionary includes every area of agriculture, from traditional farming to the latest techniques in biotechnology and genetics. The dictionary provides standardized definitions that establish common ground between the various types of practitioners involved in agriculture. It defines terminology in areas such as agricultural economics and business, agroecology, agronomy, animal science, aquaculture, botany, conservation, dairy science, entomology, food science, forestry, horticulture, natural resource management, and much more.
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