![]() Reaction' or Mendel's laws of genetics or the Ideal Gas Law?" So you may be thinking, "OK, but what do those principles have to do with science? Whatĭoes 'I think, therefore I am' have to do with 'For every action there is an equal and opposite (In Part Four he also presented an argument to show that a benevolent,Īll-powerful, infinite, eternal, all-knowing divine being exists.) Place and depended on no material thing.") He will try to corroborate this one in Part Five.ĭescartes argued that these principles had to be true because his conceptions of them were veryĬlear and distinct, and argued that clear and distinct ideas were guaranteed to be true by theĭivine being. ![]() Whole essence or nature of which was merely to think, and which, in order to exist, needed no independence of mind from body (Descartes had concluded that he was "a substance the.The basic principles that Descartes discovered in Part Four, the two main things he concluded He did this because he wished to "seek truth in the sciences" (as the title of theĭiscourse indicates), and he held that the sciences took their basic principles from philosophy. ![]() In Part Four, Descartes had applied his 4-step method of investigation to some basic problems in ![]() ![]() Notes on Part Five of Descartes' Discourse Notes on Part Five of Descartes' Discourse ![]()
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![]() To order a copy for £11.99 (RRP £16.99) go to or call 03. Registration for April’s session, exploring Ethan Hawke’s new novel, A Bright Ray of Darkness, opens on Tuesday, March 9 at 4pm. Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood is published by Hogarth. Words, Words, Words discusses Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed on March 4, 2021. Published as part of the Hogarth Shakespeare Project that reimagines the Bards plays in a modern context, Atwoods Hag-Seed is one of riotous fun and yet. ![]() Q&A: Tracy Chevalier on New Boy, her retelling of Shakespeare’s Othello.Macbeth: Jo Nesbø retells the Scottish Play.Excerpt – Miranda in Milan by Katharine DuckettĭISCOVER other Hogarth Shakespeare editions.Excerpt – Mad Blood Stirring by Simon Mayo.Prospero’s epilogue as Shakespeare’s farewell? Excerpt – This is Shakespeare by Emma Smith.Strange Shakespeare: Transforming The Tempest, Classifying Caliban.Picturing The Tempest in the Folger’s collection. ![]() A Book Behind Bars: The Robben Island Shakespeare. ![]() Shakespeare in prison: How Richard II and Macbeth speak to those in solitary confinement.Episode 115: Simon Mayo: “Mad Blood Stirring”ĮXPLORE related articles and collection items.Episode 75: The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Digital Tempest. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() This healer is near the bottom of the rung when it comes to social standings because she’s a…Gypsy (gasp). Good old Dukey (yes, another bloody Duke) is getting matched up with a healer. I think it makes it a little more believable when they are both at the same level in social standings. I kind of need (in my previous reads) for the hero and heroine to be on equal footing. I really enjoyed The Highland Duke, and I was very surprised at how much I loved it. Well, The Highland Duke has given me a great introduction to Amy Jarecki AND she has a backlog…SCORE!!!! There’s just something about the big braw Scottish dudes wearing a kilt, with a sword in one hand, a flask of whisky tucked into his sporran and riding a wee beastie, that gets my heart pumping. When I find a new author to me who writes Historical Highlander set way…way back in the day, you may catch me doing a shake and shimmy happy dance. I see the word Highland or Highlander in a title and I get a wee bit excited. Shake and shimmy happy dance.I found a new author. ![]() ![]() Though this is McIntire’s debut novel, it never feels that way. The book has the same sort of modern but off-kilter beauty about it. Happily, the gorgeous cover and its unusual feel work very well for the book. The cover on this book captured me immediately. This mysterious, romantic and paranormal read mixes science fiction and fantasy into our modern world. As Emerson finds herself electrically drawn to the dark, mysterious Michael, she also wonders about the mysterious Hourglass organization he works for. She didn’t expect to find a consultant who is not only completely hot, but who also understands her situation so completely. So when her brother hires another consultant to try to cure her, Emerson agrees. The visions have plagued her since before her parents’ death but now they seem to be getting larger and one, who calls himself Jack, even talks directly to her. ![]() Emerson wants to be cured more than anything! That way she can stop seeing the ghosts around her and start being normal. ![]() ![]() ![]() The former is what draws James towards the Dufresne Gallery, where he gets a job as an assistant. He’s self-indulgent and allergic to work, but what famous artist isn’t? That just necessitates the insertion of handlers like James (Christopher Briney), a recent art school graduate with an eye for detail and the face of an angel in a Renaissance painting. So why does she pull her punches here?ĭalí is a more sympathetic character than either Manson or Andy Warhol, for starters - as low of a bar as that may be to clear. ![]() ![]() (It all comes down to power in the end.) Harron has fearlessly explored similar territory in the past with films like “Charlie Says,” about the woman of Charles Manson’s “family,” and “I Shot Andy Warhol,” based on the life of “SCUM Manifesto” author Valerie Solanas. On paper, Mary Harron was the ideal director for “Dalíland.” Set in the bohemian underground of Manhattan circa 1974, the film takes the kinky, codependent marriage between Salvador Dalí (Ben Kingsley) and his wife/business manager/mother figure/financial dominatrix Gala (Barbara Sukowa) and uses it as a case study for a larger deconstruction of gender, fame, wealth, and power. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Beginning in 1957, his first essay collection, The Immense Journey, demonstrates his literary skills as he plunges into prehistoric ecosystems looking for “living fossils.” In The Firmament of Time (1960) Eiseley considers how cultural forces have shaped and held back scientific theories and explorations as well as how man’s imagination in turn has allowed science to grow and thrive. This hard-cover two volume set contains the contents of Eiseley’s six published books as well as uncollected prose pieces. ![]() this wonderful collection would make a proud addition to any home, school or public library.”Įiseley’s keen observational skills, married with his innate sense of wonder of the natural world and its processes, led him to pen essays of great emotional depth, filled with an underlying longing for fuller insight into the universe’s mysteries. Loren Eiseley (1907-1977) has been described as “a paleontologist with the spirit of a poet.” His works have drawn comparisons to the great naturalist-writer Henry David Thoreau and have inspired other great scientist-authors such as Carl Sagan, Stephen Jay Gould and Neil deGrasse Tyson. Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos ![]() ![]() ![]() To begin with it sold fairly well, as did its sequel, My Friend Leonard, which recounted the now sober Frey's life after rehab and a jail sentence. It is a brutal, foul-mouthed, utterly compelling book. In one memorable scene he undergoes back-to-back root-canal surgery, but as he is in withdrawal he is forced to weather the entire procedure without anaesthetic, pressing his pain into two tennis balls until his fingernails crack. Over the course of 500 pages he wrestles a swarthy rage he names "the Fury", battens down his cravings, sprays spit and snot and blood and urine, recounts his misdemeanours, finds friendship, and falls in love. Published in 2003, it is a memoir of the author's time as a 23-year-old alcoholic drug addict and former criminal in a rehabilitation centre in the American midwest. ![]() ![]() Frey is the author of A Million Little Pieces, one of the bestselling books of recent years. ![]() ![]() MCCAMMON: You open up this book by talking about how you came to write it. It's called "Wholehearted Faith." And full disclosure - I've known Jeff for several years and consider him a friend. Jeff Chu took on the challenge of turning Rachel Held Evans' notes into a book. Along the way, she earned both criticism and accolades from fellow Christians and opportunities, like joining a presidential council. She embraced her enduring and doubt-filled faith. ![]() In her work, Rachel Held Evans asked pointed questions about the evangelical church. And all of her books explored her Christian faith. She left behind a husband, two very young children and part of a book. ![]() The 37-year-old writer died suddenly 2 1/2 years ago after a series of health complications. ![]() Rachel Held Evans died too soon and with so much left undone. ![]() ![]() ![]() "No one does doom like Neal Shusterman – the breathtakingly jagged brink of apocalypse is only overshadowed by the sense that his dystopias lie just below the surface of readers’ fragile reality. Its been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared since Scythe Goddard. Like Hunger Games, Scythe invites readers to both turn pages quickly but also furrow their brows over the ethical questions it asks It asks enough difficult questions to stick in the mind, but it never asks them at the expense of pacing or story." Maggie Stiefvater on Scythe. The explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Arc of a Scythe series. Of Scythe: "Pretty much a perfect teen adventure novel Over the years, I've heard many books touted as the successor to Hunger Games, but Scythe is the first one that I would really, truly stand behind, as it offers teens a complementary reading experience to that series rather than a duplicate one. In this pulse-pounding finale to Neal Shusterman's internationally bestselling trilogy, constitutions are tested and old friends are brought back from the dead. It’s been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared since Scythe Goddard came into power since the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone but Grayson Tolliver. The Toll Book 3 of Arc of a Scythe By Neal Shusterman Trade Paperback LIST PRICE 13.99 PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER Get a FREE ebook by joining our mailing list today Plus, receive recommendations and exclusive offers on all of your favorite books and authors from Simon & Schuster. ![]() ![]() ![]() The explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Arc of a Scythe series. ![]() ![]() "The success of his social comedy comes, however, at a slight cost in psychological precision. ![]() Wholeheartedly, receiving from her three or four true poems." In this book he appears to be kidding with his Muse, now and then wooing her it also shows Updike to be on occasion a poet of rare depth and competence. In 'TheĬentaur' he is still lost in a maze of pretentious experimentation." Unfortunately, he has been extravagantly over-praised by several critics. "John Updike is a brilliantly talented and versatile young writer. Is no longer pirouetting, however gracefully, out of a simple delight in motion, but is beginning to serve his deepest insight. not just a book of very brilliant short stories it is a demonstration of how the most gifted writer of his generation is coming to maturity it shows us that Mr. Here is the conflict of real ideas of real personalities here is a work of intellectual imagination and great charity. ![]() ![]() John Updike Reads From 'Licks of Love' (Nov.Going Home Again, an interview with John Updike.Scott Reviews 'Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel' (Nov. With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times ![]() |