In the beginning of the 20th century, the methodological developments in physics led to a particular contention between neo-positivist empiricism and the scientific expansionism of the scientific method. This work demonstrates examples of how modern theology is influenced by the new physics.

The New Physics and a New Theology

Religion & Spirituality

Heller, Michael

Religious Studies

Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Twenty-five new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America; fifty patent owners are blocking a major drug company from creating a cancer cure; 90 percent of our broadcast spectrum sits idle while American cell phone service suffers. These problems have solutions that can jump-start innovation and help save our troubled economy. So, what's holding us back?
Michael Heller, a leading authority on property, reveals that while private ownership creates wealth, too much ownership means that everyone loses. Startling and accessible, The Gridlock Economy offers insights on how we can overcome this preventable paradox.

The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives

Business & Money

Economics

Basic Books

25 new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America. Why can’t we build them? 50 patent owners are blocking a major drug maker from creating a cancer cure. Why won’t they get out of the way? 90% of our broadcast spectrum sits idle while American cell phone service lags far behind Japan’s and Korea’s. Why are we wasting our airwaves? 98% of African American–owned farms have been sold off over the last century. Why can’t we stop the loss? All these problems are really the same problem—one whose solution would jump-start innovation, release trillions in productivity, and help revive our slumping economy.Every so often an idea comes along that transforms our understanding of how the world works. Michael Heller has discovered a market dynamic that no one knew existed. Usually, private ownership creates wealth, but too much ownership has the opposite effect—it creates gridlock. When too many people own pieces of one thing, whether a physical or intellectual resource, cooperation breaks down, wealth disappears, and everybody loses. Heller’s paradox is at the center of The Gridlock Economy. Today’s leading edge of innovation—in high tech, biomedicine, music, film, real estate—requires the assembly of separately owned resources. But gridlock is blocking economic growth all along the wealth creation frontier.
A thousand scholars have applied and verified Heller’s paradox. Now he takes readers on a lively tour of gridlock battlegrounds. Heller zips from medieval robber barons to modern-day broadcast spectrum squatters; from Mississippi courts selling African-American family farms to troubling New York City land confiscations; and from Chesapeake Bay oyster pirates to today’s gene patent and music mash-up outlaws. Each tale offers insights into how to spot gridlock in operation and how we can overcome it.
The Gridlock Economy is a startling, accessible biography of an idea. Nothing is inevitable about gridlock. It results from choices we make about how to control the resources we value most. We can unlock the grid; this book shows us where to start.

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dialogue with a range of sensory and affective modalities, including physical co-presence, textual interference, and spectral haunting. The text investigates sound that is experienced in other parts of the body, altered by cross-wirings of the senses, weaponized by the military, or mediated and changed by cultural practices and memory. Building on recent scholarship in sound studies and affect theory, Heller questions not only how sound propagates acoustically but how sonic presences temper our total experience of the world around us.

Just Beyond Listening: Essays of Sonic Encounter (California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media) (Volume 5)

Arts & Photography

Music

University of California Press

Since the beginning, firemen have been competing with each other for the honor of being first to a fire. In New York State, firematic contests between "drill teams" of volunteer firefighters have reached a level of competition that is unique in the entire world; there is nowhere else in terms of speed. technique or sophistication that even comes close. Chariots of Firefighters chronicles the growth of these contests, from foot races and fistfights between neighboring fire companies in New York City to the formation of the New York State Volunteer Firemen's Parade and Drill Team Captain's Association and the over 350 teams from over 260 fire districts that make up its 200-year history. From simple hand-pumping duels to modern-day drills of speed and refined technique, the story of how these competitions evolved - through wars, riots and celebrations, public scorn and praise of cheering throngs - is one that anyone with any interest in the fire service - or sports in general - will want to read.

Chariots of Firefighters

History

Michael P Heller

Since the beginning, firemen have been competing with each other for the honor of being first to a fire. In New York State, firematic contests between "drill teams" of volunteer firefighters have reached a level of competition that is unique in the entire world; there is nowhere else in terms of speed. technique or sophistication that even comes close. Chariots of Firefighters chronicles the growth of these contests, from foot races and fistfights between neighboring fire companies in New York City to the formation of the New York State Volunteer Firemen's Parade and Drill Team Captain's Association and the over 350 teams from over 260 fire districts that make up its 200-year history. From simple hand-pumping duels to modern-day drills of speed and refined technique, the story of how these competitions evolved - through wars, riots and celebrations, public scorn and praise of cheering throngs - is one that anyone with any interest in the fire service - or sports in general - will want to read.

Chariots of Firefighters (Black & White Version)

Michael Heller

Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Concise text for emergency physicians and residents on the principles of ultrasound and their clinical applications in the emergency room. Groups primary and other applications in the E.R. Halftone illustrations. 2 U.S. contributors. DNLM: Ultrasonography.

Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine

Jehle, Dietrich

Medical Books

W.B.Saunders Co.

Conviction's Net of Branches: Essays on the Objectivist Poets and Poetry

This is the first book devoted to Objecti­vist poets Louis Zukofsky, George Op­pen, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, and Lorine Niedecker, who initially were in­fluenced by early American modernist poets William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and the Imagist poets. Heller examines the contribution and continuing influence of the Objectivist movement on contemporary poetry. Though not a historical study, his work explores the roots of the Objectivist po­etry and poetics in the Pound-Williams tradition, discusses significant diver­gences from the tradition, and suggests through individual studies of each of the poets the existence of an Objectivist tradition. Heller concludes his study by examin­ing considerations and implications that may be drawn from the work of the Ob­jectivists. He explores the meaning and importance of their tradition not only for writers and scholars but for poetry itself as significant knowledge of our world.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Southern Illinois University Press

This is the first book devoted to Objectivist poets Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, and Lorine Niedecker, who initially were influenced by early American modernist poets William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and the Imagist poets. Heller examines the contribution and continuing influence of the Objectivist movement on contemporary poetry. Though not a historical study, his work explores the roots of the Objectivist poetry and poetics in the Pound-Williams tradition, discusses significant divergences from the tradition, and suggests through individual studies of each of the poets the existence of an Objectivist tradition. Heller concludes his study by examining considerations and implications that may be drawn from the work of the Objectivists. He explores the meaning and importance of their tradition not only for writers and scholars but for poetry itself as significant knowledge of our world.

Lemaitre, Big Bang, and the Quantam Universe: With His Original Manuscript (History of Astronomy Series)

Science & Math

Lemaître, Georges

Astronomy & Space Science

Pachart Pub. House

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The New Physics and a New Theology

The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives

The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives

Just Beyond Listening: Essays of Sonic Encounter (California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media) (Volume 5)

Chariots of Firefighters

Chariots of Firefighters (Black & White Version)

Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine

Conviction's Net of Branches: Essays on the Objectivist Poets and Poetry

Conviction's Net of Branches: Essays on the Objectivist Poets and Poetry

Lemaitre, Big Bang, and the Quantam Universe: With His Original Manuscript (History of Astronomy Series)