Bøger af Dale DeBakcsy

In 1969, Elton John and Bernie Taupin gave the world Empty Sky, a heady mix of rock, folk, rhythm and blues, jazz, psychedelia, and classicism that announced the arrival of one of the most potent creative teams in the history of popular music. In the fifty-five years since that release, Elton's astounding output of thirty-one studio albums, nine soundtrack albums (ten if you count the unreleased Lestat!), and three collaboration albums has enchanted new generations, as grandparents who grew up with "Your Song" and "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" on their turntables have shared their love of Elton with parents who played "Sacrifice" and "The One" on their cd players who in turn are sharing it with their children who know The Lion King soundtrack by heart and dance to "Cold Cold Heart" in their bedrooms through Spotify playlists and YouTube remixes.Elton John: Album by Album takes you on a guided journey through those forty-four albums that have engaged three full generations of music lovers, exploring the history behind the production of each, uncovering the hidden stories and meanings of each track, and delving into the musical nuts and bolts of Elton John's unique gift for conveying the meaning of Bernie Taupin's lyrics through his unrivalled and almost otherworldly sense of tonal architecture.Whether you have been spinning Elton records since the days of "Lady Samantha", or found your way to his work in the post-Rocketman revival of appreciation for his legendary career, Elton John: Album by Album has what you need to navigate your way through the vast richness of his recorded catalogue, allowing you to answer such questions as "How did Ray Cooper make a gong sound like a spaceship?", "Why is "Ego" in Lokrian mode anyway?" and "Just what is the Pilot, and why would anybody want to be taken there?"

Since virtually its first moments as an academic science, women have played a major role in the development of psychology, gaining from the outset research opportunities and academic positions that had been denied them for centuries in other branches of scientific investigation. Look wherever you will, in any branch of psychology or neuroscience in the last century and a half, and what you will find are a plethora of women whose discoveries fundamentally changed how we view the brain and its role in the formation of our perceptions and behaviors. A History of Women in Psychology and Neuroscience tells the story of 267 women whose work opened new doors in humanity's ongoing attempt to learn about its own nature, from Christine Ladd Franklin's late 19th century studies of how the brain perceives color to Virginia Johnson's pioneering studies of the human sexual response, and Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke's early association of neurological conditions with their underlying brain regions to May-Britt Moser's Nobel-winning discovery a century later of the grid cells that allow us to mentally model our surroundings. Here are the stories of when and how we learned how memories are formed, what role an enriched environment plays in mental development, why some individuals are better able to cope with chronic stress than others, how societal stereotypes unconsciously feed into our daily interactions with other people, what role evolution might have played in the formation of our social habits, what light the practices of sign language might shed on our brain's basic capacity for language, how children internalize the violence they experience from others, and hundreds of other tales of the women who dug deep into the structures of the human mind to uncover, layer by layer, the answers to millennia-old questions of what humans are, and why they behave as they do.

It's TheHumanist.com's popular comic series, The Cartoon History of Humanism, now in book form! With extra bonus comics, The Cartoon History of Humanism follows the adventures of Dave, who carelessly made fun of a logical positivist when he was a child. As punishment, the logical positivist cursed Dave to wander time and space to converse with humanist philosophers until he learned his lesson. On his journey, Dave meets an array of famous skeptics, atheists, writers and thinkers who have all influenced humanist philosophy. Readers will no doubt recognize familiar figures such as David Hume, Baruch Spinoza, John Stuart Mill and Leonardo DaVinci. But they may also be surprised to find that Mark Twain, Karl Marx, Mary Ann Evans (pen name George Eliot) and King Ashoka all influenced humanist thought as well. Additionally, audiences can learn more about humanist thinkers such as Arabic philosopher Ibn Rushd, Italian Renaissance leader Isabella d'Esta and Nineteenth Century novelist Fanny Lewald, among numerous others. Through Dave's humorous time-traveling adventures, DeBakcsy weaves the compelling history of humanist ethics and the brave individuals who defied the religious authorities of their time periods to advance rationality and freethought. The Cartoon History of Humanism is an excellent read for anyone who's looking for an accessible and fun book to acquaint them with humanism, and it will also be a delight to committed humanists who are seeking a fresh and engaging perspective on their familiar philosophical views.

What does Humanist Culture look like? About what you'd expect when you get a bunch of philosophy and science nerds together and tell them to go nuts. In these articles, Dale DeBakcsy answers the big questions about how music, board games, comic books, literature, drama, psychology, science, and romance novels are all reacting to the emerging, and lusciously dorky, humanism of the twenty-first century, while at the same time casting a glance at some of the more amusing/terrifying (amusrifying?) holdovers from our religious past. All in the service of the great query - how do you have fun when you know you're a deterministic bag of chemicals?

The first history of women astronomers in English to cover individuals from antiquity to the modern day. Features 30 in-depth biographies and 99 brief portraits of women astronomers, space explorers, and astrophysicists.

In these twenty-six portraits of great historical and current women of science, Dale DeBakcsy (Frederick the Great, The Cartoon History of Humanism) offers the now inspiring, now tragic tales of some of the greatest thinkers of the human story. Accompanying each biography is a comic strip celebrating the brilliance of these scientists and the absurdities that too often surrounded them. Now with 12% more Emmy Noether!

Paleontologists and Oceanographers and Programmers, oh my! Are you ready for twenty six scientists who shaped the world as we know it against overwhelming odds? Then prepare your sensory organs for the work and lives of these magnificent minds as written by Dale DeBakcsy (Godless Nerdistry, The Cartoon History of Humanism) and illustrated by Count Dolby von Luckner (Frederick the Great, The Vocate)! Featuring Mildred Dresselhaus! Mary Anning! Irene Joliot-Curie! Barbara McClintock! Marie Tharp! Margaret Sanger! Julia Robinson! Belle Benchley! Grace Hopper! Lauren Uhde! Gerty Cori! Maria Mitchell! Florence Sabin! Maria Goeppert-Mayer! Fay Ajzenberg-Selove! Eugenie Clark! Sally Ride! Annie Alexander! Ada Lovelace! Agnes Arber! Toni Morelli! Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin! Hypatia! Rosalind Franklin! Anna Zakrisson! and Caroline Herschel!