Blank Slate

Download or read book The Blank Slate written by Steven Pinker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. "Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Updated with a new afterword One of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.

Download or read book Genesis Girl written by Jennifer Bardsley and published by Month9books. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eighteen-year-old Blanca has lived a sheltered life. Her entire childhood has been spent at Tabula Rasa School where she's been protected from the Internet. Blanca has never been online and doesn't even know how to text. Her lack of a virtual footprint has made her extremely valuable and upon graduation Blanca, and those like her, are sold to the highest bidders. Blanca is purchased by Cal McNeal, who uses her to achieve personal gain. But the McNeals are soon horrified by just how obedient and non-defiant Blanca is. All those mind-numbing years locked away from society have made her mind almost impenetrable. By the time Blanca is ready to think for herself, she is trapped. Her only chance of escape is to go online."--Page [4] of cover.

Download or read book Blank Slate written by Cordelia Craigie and published by Die Gestalten Verlag. This book was released on 2013 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides graphic designers and advertisers with photographic templates for the true-to-life and convincing presentation of their designs.

Download or read book Blank Slate written by Lia McIntosh and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church must get “unstuck” from its current context in order to address the context of younger generations; otherwise, it will not be relevant to younger people and will die with the older generations. As an example, a letter from the Younger Generations to Baby Boomers: Dear Baby Boomers, Thank you for all you've done, but I don't want your church. I want you, our relationship, our engagement, but not your church structure and outdated assumptions. Signed, The Younger Generations Blank Slate guides leaders to envision, and actually design, the future church. The authors start by describing each generational group currently living in the US, helping readers understand the varied context of people in every age group. Next, they explore five innovative secular organizations, drawing sharp lessons for the church. The last section includes a seven-step process for ministry leaders to engage current and upcoming generations. This book, with questions for individual and group reflection in each chapter, is a powerful planning tool for ministry teams. “In a time when so many of us want a blueprint for how to do ministry in a rapidly changing world, McIntosh, Smothers, and Smothers hand us a pencil and tell us to draw it ourselves. God has entrusted us to be the designers and visionaries for a new way. Blank Slate is the guide that you and your team need to design a new future together.” –Jacob Armstrong, pastor, Providence Church, Mt. Juliet, TN

Download or read book Blank Slate, Vol. 1 written by Aya Kanno and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zen’s unearthly charm attracts a veritable rogues gallery. A bounty hunter becomes obsessed enough to become his new partner, while the daughter of a general treats him like some sort of guru. But when he meets a mysterious doctor who may know him from the past, Zen learns that the secret of his lost memory is definitely more sinister than saintly. -- VIZ Media

Download or read book Stock N' Trade written by Rich Elliot and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collaborative story written by 4 members of the Blank Slate Writers' Group. Written from a prompt that appeared in the Blank Slate Newsletter.

Download or read book Blank Slate written by Tiffany Snow and published by Montlake Romance. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a cyber-hacker born into a family of thieves, Clarissa O'Connell thinks she's seen the worst the criminal underworld has to offer--until her brother is arrested and she's forced into a pact with the notorious crime boss known only as Solomon to free him. For FBI agent Erik Langston, the world is divided into black and white, wrong and right. So he's made it his life's mission to hunt down Solomon. When Clarissa's cyberattacks begin to topple Solomon's enemies, Erik is hot on her trail, believing her to be the key to bringing down Solomon and his empire. But in a single instant, everything changes. Loyalties shift, the past loses meaning, and the hunter becomes the hunted. Now Erik and Clarissa are running for their lives, desperate to stay one step ahead of Solomon's assassins. Survival means challenging everything they thought they knew--and daring to trust each other.