The Bridge To Understanding
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The Bridge to Understanding
Author: Pasquale De Marco
language: en
Publisher: Pasquale De Marco
Release Date: 2025-07-19
In a world where division and misunderstanding seem to be on the rise, The Bridge to Understanding offers a timely and essential guide to building bridges between people from all walks of life. This comprehensive book explores the importance of understanding in our personal lives, our communities, and the world at large. It provides practical tools and strategies for developing the skills and knowledge needed to understand others, even when they come from different cultures, backgrounds, or perspectives. The book begins by examining the foundations of understanding, including the importance of empathy, active listening, and open-mindedness. It then delves into the challenges to understanding, such as prejudice, discrimination, and conflict. The author provides guidance on how to overcome these challenges and build bridges of communication and connection. The book also explores the role of understanding in various aspects of our lives, including relationships, community, the workplace, and the global stage. It offers insights into how understanding can help us build stronger relationships, create more inclusive communities, foster collaboration and teamwork, and address global issues such as poverty, inequality, and climate change. With its clear and engaging writing style, The Bridge to Understanding is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to improve their ability to understand others and build stronger connections with the world around them. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to: * Build stronger relationships with family, friends, and colleagues * Create a more inclusive and harmonious community * Thrive in a diverse and globalized workplace * Make a positive impact on the world The Bridge to Understanding is the key to a better world, where everyone feels valued, respected, and connected. If you like this book, write a review!
Understanding Bridge Collapses
In a straightforward style, this book presents a detailed overview of 20 cases of famous and other highly interesting bridge collapses over the last two centuries. Every case is illustrated and described in detail and the failure analyses made are supported by well-known explanations and, in some cases, by new theories. The chronological order makes it easy to follow the gradual development in the use of different bridge types and the choice of construction material. The increase of knowledge and experience in the structural engineering discipline over the years is clearly observable, although every modern engineer will admit that both fatigue and buckling are very complex phenomena and that knowledge about them can increasingly profit from studying past bridge construction projects failures. Intended for consulting engineers (bridges, steel and metal structures) and for advanced-level and postgraduate students in structural and bridge engineering.
Across the Bridge
Author: Henry Gee
language: en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date: 2018-07-04
“Addresses an important topic for biologists and zoologists about vertebrates’ place in the ‘grand scheme’ . . . genuinely witty and charming . . . magnificent.” —Neil J. Gostling, University of Southampton Our understanding of vertebrate origins and the backbone of human history evolves with each new fossil find and DNA map. Many species have now had their genomes sequenced, and molecular techniques allow genetic inspection of even non-model organisms. But as longtime Nature editor Henry Gee argues in Across the Bridge, despite these giant strides and our deepening understanding of how vertebrates fit into the tree of life, the morphological chasm between vertebrates and invertebrates remains vast and enigmatic. As Gee shows, even as scientific advances have falsified a variety of theories linking these groups, the extant relatives of vertebrates are too few for effective genetic analysis. Moreover, the more we learn about the species that do remain—from sea-squirts to starfish—the clearer it becomes that they are too far evolved along their own courses to be of much use in reconstructing what the latest invertebrate ancestors of vertebrates looked like. Fossils present yet further problems of interpretation. Tracing both the fast-changing science that has helped illuminate the intricacies of vertebrate evolution as well as the limits of that science, Across the Bridge helps us to see how far the field has come in crossing the invertebrate-to-vertebrate divide—and how far we still have to go. “A beautiful ode to some of the least appreciated animals . . . guides the reader joyfully through deuterostomes—weaving disparate elements of embryology, paleontology, and morphology into an unprecedented and accessible narrative.” —Jakob Vinther, University of Bristol