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Not only does the reader get the particular ideas of each philosophy and era of thought, but also the cultural influence and the context out of which each philosophy arose. Tarnas presents a history of thought with a level of insight and understanding that reaches depths previously not considered possible for an introductory work. Unlike other Western philosophy books that can become dry and tedious even for a person with a moderate philosophical appetite, this book reads like a novel. If you have been searching for a book that covers the entire corpus of Western philosophical thought in one volume, you have to stop at The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas. Richard Tarnas, The Passion of the Western Mind, New York: Random House, 1991. The ‘wrong-way-round idea’ dominates the book, because this kind of game was a favourite of Carroll’s. However, Carroll met Alice Raikes in August 1868, when the story was already well advanced, so this story is doubtful ( Carroll x). He tied the chess stories and the other individual ideas together into a single story with the use of two main themes: chess and mirror images.Ĭarroll’s distant cousin Alice Raikes suggested that she gave him the idea for the Looking-Glass theme, when he asked her to stand in front of a mirror, holding an orange, and tell him in which hand she was holding it. Many of these stories were also used for his second ‘Alice’ story. He made up stories to illustrate the moves of the pieces and the rules of the game. In the six years since he wrote Alice in Wonderland, Carroll had been teaching Alice and her sisters the game of chess. “ Looking-Glass made up almost wholly of bits and scraps, single ideas that came of themselves.” In the article ‘ Alice on the Stage‘ he remarked: While writing the ‘Looking-Glass’ story, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) used a lot of material that he had come up with earlier. Publishing date: December 1871 (but dated 1872).Author: Lewis Carroll (pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). He seems like a fun dude to hang out with in real life so I imagine all the industry people who vote in the Eisners just like him as a person – he’s a horrible writer. The Chip Zdarsky-scripted Namor issue in particular was painful to read – how this dude ever got an Eisner is beyond me. The Doctor Strange and Silver Surfer issues were the definition of workmanlike. None of the specials stood out as worth reading. The only connecting thread between them is that someone in a bedsheet is stabbing people – I’ve already forgotten who and why! And it all leads up to fighting a giant space squid?! What a load of crap. The “story” is a disjointed mess of uninteresting garbage. The Best Defense is the worst Defenders book I’ve read yet! Doctor Strange is dead, Hulk, Namor and Silver Surfer are putzing about, and someone wearing a sheet is stabbing people. So the children band together in order to defeat the evil themselves, before the ancient horror engulfs the town and enslaves the world in a reign of terror. The children try to enlist help from their parents and other adults, but the adults ignore the children whom are, from the adults’ point of view, just being foolish and making things up. In Summer of Night, a group of children in the quiet small town of Elm Haven, Illinois, discover a growing evil in the shuttered Old Central School. The life-affirming story in Summer of Night reminds me of Stephen King’s It, as well as his short story “The Body,” in that all three stories depict youthful innocence corrupted by unspeakable terrors. Hugo award-winning author Dan Simmons captures this age of innocence perfectly in Summer of Night, but then he lets the monsters loose in this old school horror story about how the carefree lives of a group of children are quickly torn from them as they confront their ultimate nightmares. Many of us have fond memories of childhood, especially those lazy summers when schools were out, the days were hot, and the neighborhoods were ripe for exploration with friends. Wings with all his might, the wind suddenly whipped at my face as it changed Sky and sea were being projected on my fingers and face. Sparkling blue sky, and the deeper blue of the sea-projections. The swallow that had been sent from the Philippines was male. It was after I gave him the Japanese female name Akane that I realized Gravity was also matched to the 0.973 m/s 2 of the sky On the stage where the 50 kph wind was blowing, the Interesting how my fingers on the inside of the cage felt a slight Middle of the room, and pulled myself toward the blue glow inside. The titanium cage surrounding the round, two-meter observation stage in the In the center of the zero-gravity lab, in which I was alone, a wind with the salty smell of theĪir eighty meters above the East China Sea was blowing at 50 kph.īody parallel to the floor while I was controlling the wind, I placed a hand on All readers should be over 18 so I don’t have to answer any awkward emails from your parents or dodge pitchforks when I’m doing my weekly shopping. Triggers: It goes without saying that this book contains dark elements that some readers may find uncomfortable including offensive language, graphic violence, and sexual situations. This book plays with the darker side of love such as obsession, infatuation, and the power plays made to obtain it. Wright, Coerce 2 likes Like I don’t want to be your friend, Ivy. Atlas is an Antihero in every sense of the word. Wright 2,306 ratings, 3.91 average rating, 419 reviews Coerce Quotes Showing 1-2 of 2 You can love a monster, it can even love you back, but that doesn’t change its nature. Not when I’ll own every inch of her body, heart, and soul.Īuthor note: If you’re looking for a White Knight, you might want to look elsewhere. She’ll never forgive me, and I’ll never set her free. Until I have her exactly where I want her.īy the time she realizes it’s a trap, it will be too late. I’ve never been touched by its light or fallen into its depths,Įach move I make is calculated and methodical, I didn’t realize he’d been playing me all along Surrendering to Atlas in the most delectable way, I never thought I’d ignore the red flags and wave a white one. After witnessing its devastation, I’ve shied away from it, In this visually powerful annotated edition, acclaimed Oxford don and literary critic Merve Emre gives us an authoritative version of this landmark novel, supporting it with generous commentary that reveals Woolf’s aesthetic and political ambitions-in Mrs. Dalloway has long been viewed not only as Woolf’s masterpiece, but as a pivotal work of literary modernism and one of the most significant and influential novels of the twentieth century. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” So begins Virginia Woolf’s much-beloved fourth novel. Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking novel, in a lushly illustrated hardcover edition with illuminating commentary from a brilliant young Oxford scholar and critic. select and use appropriate registers for effective communication.gain, maintain and monitor the interest of the listener(s).participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play/improvisations and debates. speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of Standard English.give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings.articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions.You can preorder the hardback from Bookshop. And, as debut authors go, Alston is definitely one to watch.Īmari and the Night Brothers is due for release in the UK on the 21st January 2021. I understand a Hollywood movie adaptation is in the offing and this highly immersive Black-led fantasy, filled with heart and determination, certainly has all the makings of an epic. Sandwiched between the two European empire, the Iroquois Confederacy played one off the other successfully for many years. This war and its legacy is the subject of this superb book, one that offers a complex and inter-layered narrative of the origins, conduct, and consequences of this often-ignored conflict.Īnderson begins by examining the interaction between the British, the French, and the Iroquois in the Ohio Valley. Yet ironically in doing so, it sowed the seeds for the eventual collapse of Britain’s own empire in the Americas by expanding it beyond a manageable size and creating pressures that ultimately led the thirteen colonies to rebel. Fought in the untamed wilderness which both France and Britain claimed, the struggle brought an end to the French empire in North America. Though long overshadowed in the traditional historical narrative by the American Revolution, the Seven Years’ War, as Fred Anderson argues, is the most important event in the eighteenth-century North American history. |