The Knowledge von Lewis Dartnell
With so many of us across the world stuck at home, humanity's thoughts have turned to what we'll do when we can resume our normal lives.
With so many of us across the world stuck at home, humanity's thoughts have turned to what we'll do when we can resume our normal lives.
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About the Book First published by Penguin Press in hardcover as The knowledge: how to rebuild our world from scratch, 2014. Book Synopsis How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch? If our technological society collapsed tomorrow what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of the postapocalyptic survivors? What crucial knowledge would they need to survive in the immediate aftermath and to rebuild civilization as quickly as possible? Human knowledge is collective, distributed across the population. It has built on itself for centuries, becoming vast and increasingly specialized. Most of us are ignorant about the fundamental principles of the civilization that supports us, happily utilizing the latest--or even the most basic--technology without having the slightest idea of why it works or how it came to be. If you had to go back to absolute basics, like some sort of postcataclysmic Robinson Crusoe, would you know how to re-create an internal combustion engine, put together a microscope, get metals out of rock, or even how to produce food for yourself?Lewis Dartnell proposes that the key to preserving civilization in an apocalyptic scenario is to provide a quickstart guide, adapted to cataclysmic circumstances. The Knowledge describes many of the modern technologies we employ, but first it explains the fundamentals upon which they are built. Every piece of technology rests on an enormous support network of other technologies, all interlinked and mutually dependent. You can't hope to build a radio, for example, without understanding how to acquire the raw materials it requires, as well as generate the electricity needed to run it. But Dartnell doesn't just provide specific information for starting over; he also reveals the greatest invention of them all--the phenomenal knowledge-generating machine that is the scientific method itself. The Knowledge is a brilliantly original guide to the fundamentals of science and how it built our modern world. Review Quotes Wall Street Journal "'The Knowledge" is a fascinating look at the basic principles of the most important technologies undergirding modern society... a fun read full of optimism about human ingenuity." Boston Globe "[Dartnell's] plans may anticipate the destruction of our world, but embedded in them is the hope that there might be a better way to live in the pre-apocalyptic world we inhabit right now." New York Post "A stimulating read, a grand thought experiment on re-engineering the food, housing, clothing, heat, clean water and every other building block of civilization." Booklist "Dartnell's vision is a great start in understanding what it took to build our world." The Times "This book is an extraordinary achievement. With lucidity and brevity, Dartnell explains the rudiments of a civilisation. It is a great read even if civilisation does not collapse. If it does, it will be the sacred text of the new world -- Dartnell that world's first great prophet." The Independent "The Knowledge is premised on an ingenious sleight of hand. Ostensibly a manual on rebuilding our technological life-support system after a global catastrophe, it is actually a glorious compendium of the knowledge we have lost in the living; the origins of the material fabric of our actual, unapocalyptic lives....The most inspiring book I've read in a long time." The Guardian "The Knowledge is a terrifically engrossing history of science and technology.... [A] cunningly packaged yet entertainingly serious essay in the history of practical ideas." Times Higher Education "A whirlwind tour of the history of human endeavour in terms of scientific and technological discovery.... Readers will certainly come away better informed, more knowledgeable about, and hopefully more interested in the fundamental science and technology necessary to rebuild a civilised society." The Daily Mail "Dartnell's guide to surviving the apocalypse is as breezy and engaging as it is informative. I now know exactly what I'm going to do as soon as a mushroom cloud appears on the horizon. Leap in my golf cart and go straight round to Dartnell's place." The Observer "A crash course in the scientific fundamentals underpinning modern-day living. The Knowledge impresses as a condensed history of scientific progress, and will pique curiosity among readers who regret daydreaming throughout school chemistry lessons." New Statesman "A crash course in the scientific fundamentals underpinning modern-day living. The Knowledge impresses as a condensed history of scientific progress, and will pique curiosity among readers who regret daydreaming throughout school chemistry lessons." Nature "The ultimate do-it-yourself guide to 'rebooting' human civilization. With scientific nous, Dartnell depicts probable environmental scenarios on a stricken Earth and offers putative survivors instruction in the technologies needed to craft a culture from the ground up. Many will thrill to this reminder of our species' prodigious resilience." Seth Mnookin, New York Times bestselling author of The Panic Virus and associate director of MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing: "A marvelously astounding work: In one graceful swoop, Lewis Dartnell takes our multi-layered, interconnected modern world, shows how fragile its scaffolding is, and then lays out a how-to guide for starting over from scratch. Imagine Zombieland told by Neil deGrasse Tyson and you'll get some sense of what a delight The Knowledge is to read." Ken MacLeod, author of Intrusion and Descent "Dartnell makes the technology and science of everyday life in our civilization fascinating and understandable. This book may or may not save your life but it'll certainly make it more interesting. This is the book we all wish we'd been given at school: the knowledge that makes everything else make sense." Roger Highfield, journalist, author, and Science Museum executive "For all those terrified by runaway climate change, super-eruptions, planet-killer asteroids, doomsday viruses, nuclear terrorism and absolute domination by super-intelligent machines, Lewis Dartnell has written a long-overdue guide to what you should do after the apocalypse: an illuminating and entertaining vision of how to reboot life, civilization and everything. Dartnell's vision of the survival of the smartest in a post-apocalyptic world offers a remarkable and panoramic view of how civilization actually works." S. M. Stirling, New York Times bestselling author of The Given Sacrifice "This book is useful if civilization collapses, and entertaining if it doesn't. After the cometary impact it may save your life, and if it doesn't at least you'll know why you perished." About the Author Dr. Lewis Dartnell is a UK Space Agency research fellow at the University of Leicester and writes regularly for New Scientist, BBC Focus, BBC Sky at Night, Cosmos, as well as newspapers including The Times, The Guardian, and The New York Times. He has won several awards, including the Daily Telegraph Young Science Writer Award. He also makes regular TV appearances and has been featured on BBC Horizon, Stargazing Live, Sky at Night, and numerous times on Discovery and the Science channel. His scientific research is in the field of astrobiology he works on how microorganisms might survive on the surface of Mars and the best ways to detect signs of ancient Martian life. He is thirty-two years old.
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My Fun Letters book is for the first stage of kindergarten and My Fun Words for the second stage of kindergarten are a step to rebuild a civilization which started education beginning at infancy. About the new My Fun Words book: A suitable book for second stage kindergarten kids who mastered the letters of the Arabic language, how to write it and trained on them. The book introduces children characters: Ahmad and Zaynab. They are five years old. All the curriculum words revolve around them and we made sure that the first word the child learns in this book is زرع (planted) so we can plant the concept of work and building civilization in children's minds. Each word in the book has a picture so that the child wouldn't read a word he doesn't know its meaning but looks at the picture, understands the meaning and knows the word. Then he knows how to write it and compares it with other similar words, and so My Fun Words book is good for Muslim children who were born in the western world whose parents want to teach them the Arabic language because by looking at the picture, learning and understanding is easy. The book in its first part discusses three main chapters: Al-Fatha, Al-Dumma, and Al-Kasra, wherein the child learns to read words of three letters only so it's easy to read and understand. In the second book, however, there are four chapters: Al-Sukoon, Al-Mad Bi Al-Alif, Al-Mad Bi Al-Waw, and Al-Mad Bi Al-Ya’. It starts gradually with the child reading at the beginning of this book words consisting of two letters, then of three letters, then of four letters, then he reads sentences of two or three words. The book mixes between education, fun, making special experiments, fun artworks and telling pleasant stories. He surpasses his classmates! This book prepares the child for first grade because it graduates a child who can read to read 185 words, who is able to join the first grade curriculum without a time to prepare or to review or to introduce the basics. The child who studied My Fun Letters book and My Fun Words book and graduated from kindergarten precedes his classmates in first grade because he can read simple stories while his classmates are still reviewing the alphabet. Raising the Level of Education This is an invitation for the educators of public and private schools to apply this curriculum to raise the level of education in the Arab world and interests the child to learn the Arabic language. This curriculum with these two productions combines education, fun, amusement, painting, coloring and hearing stories. We won't miss to invite the one in charge of kindergarten to invest these two years of the child's life in the correct establishment of Arabic language through excitement. Goals of this book: Publishing a special curriculum for the second stage of kindergarten Teaching the principles of reading and writing on a correct basis Raising children to love their beautiful Arabic language Achieving a distinguished addition to Arabic library in education field New in this book: Logical process in teaching the principles of Arabic language Presenting the curriculum in a modern way that makes the child draw, color, and makes things with his hands Entertainment, fun, and amusement through connecting letters with pictures, art works and stories Planting the correct concepts through presenting some stories from the Holy Qur’an and the sunnah Dealing with the word as a building and the child as a builder Our ambition: To build a complete curriculum to teach reading and writing for all school stages where "My Fun Letters" book is the cornerstone.This series consists of 4 levels containing 2 parts each, with a student and teacher book, as well as two supplemental books. قبل سنوات عديدة... عندما كانت حضارة الإسلام هي الأولى في العالم... كان تعليم الأطفال يبدأ في سن مبكرة.. فما أن يبلغ الطفل أربع سنوان حتى يتعلم الحروف، وقراءة الكلمات، فإذا بلغ السادسة بدأ يقرأ القرآن. فالإمام الشافعي مثلاُ انخرط في سلم التعلّم مبكراً، إذ بدأ يتعلم الحروف عندما بلغ الثالثة من العمر، فلما بلغ التاسعة كان قد أتقن القراءة وحفظ القرآن كاملاً! هكذا كان المسلمون الأوائل، يهتمون بثقافة الطفل في سنوات الطفولة الأولى، وينظرون إليه على أنه كنز ثمين عليهم إتقان تعليمه وتربيته. فكان لهم من وراء ذلك حضارة عظيمة، ملكوا من خلالخا الأرض، ودانت لهم الشعوب. إن كتاب (حروفي الممتعة) للصف الأول روضة، و(كلماتي الممتعة) للصف الثاني روضة.. خطوة نحو إعادة بناء تلك الحضارة التي بدأت بالتعليم منذ الصغر..الجديد الذي يقدمه كتاب (كلماتي الممتعة) كتاب مناسب لأطفال الصف الثاني روضة الذين أتقنوا معرفة حروف اللغة العربية، وطريقة كتابتها وتدربوا عليها. يقدم الكتاب شخصية طفلين هما: أحمد وزينب، وهما في الخامسة من العمر، وجميع كلمات المنهج تدور حولهما، وحرصنا على أن تكون أول كلمة يتعلمها الطفل في هذا الكتاب هي كلمة (زَرَعَ) لنغرس في ذهن الأطفال مفهوم العمل وبناء الحضارة. كل كلمة في الكتاب لها صورة مرسومة، فلا يقرأ الطفل كلمة لا يدري معناها، بل ينظر إلى الصورة ويفهم المغزى ويتعرف إلى الكلمة، ثم يعرف طريقة كتابتها ويقارن بينها وبين الكلمات المشابهة لها، لذلك فإن كتاب (كلماتي الممتعة) يصلح أيضاً للأطفال المسلمين الذين ولدوا في العالم الغربي ويرغب أهلهم في تعليمهم اللغة العربية، لأنه بالنظر إلى الصورة يسهل الفهم والتعلّم. يتناول الكتاب في جزئه الأول.. ثلاثة فصول رئيسية وهي: (الفتحة، الكسرة، الضمة) فيتعلم الطفل قراءة كلمات من ثلاثة أحرف فقط، ليسهل عليه القراءة والفهم والاستيعاب. أما الجزء الثاني ففيه أربعة فصول هي: (السكون، المد بالألف، المد بالواو، المد بالياء) ويبدأ مع الطفل بالتدريج والتسلسل، إذ يقرأ الطفل في بداية هذا الجزء كلمات من حرفين، ثم ثلاثة أحرف، ثم أربعة أحرف، ثم يقرأ جملاً من كلمتين أو ثلاثة كلمات. يدمج الكتاب بين: التعليم والمتعة، وإجراء التجارب المميزة والأعمال الفنية المسلية وراوية القصص الممتعة. إنه يسبق زملائه الأخرين! إن هذا الكتاب يهيىءالطفل للصف الأول الابتدائي لأنه يُخَرِّجُ طفلاً متمكناً من قراءة (185) كلمة، قادراً على الانخراط في منهج الصف الأول بلا فترة تهيئة أو مراجعة أو تعريف بالأساسيات... والطفل الذي درس كتابَيْ (حروفي الممتعة) و (كلماتي الممتعة) وتخرج من مرحلة رياض الأطفال يسبق زملائه الآخرين في الصف الأول الابتدائي، لأنه قادر على قراءة قصص بسيطة في حين ما زال زملائه يراجعون الحروف الهجائية!! رفعُ مستوى التعليمإنها دعوة لاصحاب المدارس الخاصة والحكومية إلى تطبيق هذا المنهج لرفع مستوى التعليم في العالم العربي، وترغيب الطفل في تعلم اللغة العربية. وقد أصبح المنهج بهذين الإنتاجين يجمع بين العلم والمتعة والمرح والرسم والتلوين وسماع القصص. ولا يفوتنا أن ندعو القائمين على مرحلة رياض الأطفال إلى استثمار هذين العامين من عمر الطفل في التأسيس السليم للغة العربية من خلال التشويق.أهداف هذا الكتاب: إصدار منهج خاص للصف الثاني روضة. تعلم مبادىء القراءة والكتابة على أسس سليمة. تنشئة الأطفال على حب لغتهم العربية الجميلة. تحقيق إضافة متميزة للمكتبة العربية في مجال التعليم. الجديد في هذا الكتاب: التدرج المنطقي في تعلم مبادئ العربية. عرض المنهج بأسلوب عصري يجعل الطفل يرسم، ويلون ويصنع أشياء بيده. الترفيه والتسلية والإمتاع من خلال ربط الحروف بالصور والأعمال الفنية والقصص. غرس المفاهيم الصحيحة من خلال عرض بعض قصص القرآن الكريم والسيرة النبوية. التعامل مع الكلمة على أنها بناء، وأن الطفل هو البنّاء. طموحنا:أن نبني منهاجاً متكاملاً لتعليم القراءة والكتابة في جميع المراحل الدراسية، يكون كتاب حروفي الممتعة اللبنة الأساسية له.
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