5/13/2023 0 Comments New Science by Giambattista Vico![]() ![]() It is a great advantage to have reprinted with the text of the New Science as it offers some of Vico's views on the application of his science. This new edition of the famous Bergin and Fisch translation of Vico's Scienza nuova, originally published in 1948 and reissued in a revised edition in 1968, includes a translation of a piece of Vico's work called the Practica. ![]() ![]() It represents the most ambitious attempt before Comte at comprehensive science of human society and the most profound analysis of the class struggle prior to Marx. About the Book A pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vico's "New Science" is acknowledged today to be one of the few works of authentic genius in the history of social theory.Ī pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vico's New Science is acknowledged today to be one of the few works of authentic genius in the history of social theory. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Huntress malinda lo![]() ![]() A world on the verge of dying (I’m a big fan of dystopians). I knew that I wanted certain things in the story: A girl having an adventure. From that kernel, I began to spin out a story about the very first huntress in the Kingdom. I started to wonder how exactly that had come to be. The part that I kept returning to was the idea that the huntress was appointed to go between the human and fairy worlds - sort of as an ambassador. If they ever did not say the spell together before she left for the fairy court, she might never be able to return.” But in order for the spell to hold, each time the huntress went into that other world, she had to gather all of her hunters together to chant the words, for that would bind her to this world. “It is said that many hundreds of years ago, when fairies still walked the land and the King’s Huntress was appointed to go between both courts, a powerful greenwitch was called upon to cast a spell that would ensure the huntress’s safe return each time she visited the fairy court. At one point in Ash, Kaisa explains to Ash: ![]() She and her hunters dance around the bonfire and sing an old hunting song. ![]() If you’ve read Ash, you’ll remember that every year during Yule, the King’s Huntress leads her hunters into the City square and tosses out gold coins to the citizens. ![]() During the course of writing Ash I became curious about exactly how the job of the huntress originated. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Tissue function eventually becomes strained, biosynthetic pathways falter, ATP synthesis declines and the delicate web of symbiosis between tissues begins to fray,” writes the author. The vicissitudes of life unravel the delicate symbiosis between living tissues, and hypoxia, infections, inflammation, and mutations all hamper energy flow. All creatures produce energy, and all living tissues consume it the second law of thermodynamics assures that this process is imperfect. Lane, a professor of evolutionary biology and author of The Vital Question and Life Ascending, reminds us that energy flow animates cells and sets them apart from inanimate matter. An enthusiastic, up-to-date overview of the biochemistry of life. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Howl and other poems![]() ![]() I appreciate it for what it was, but it had no use for me. The kind of emotions a teenager or one who has long been bitter and never healed from trauma might express. But I didn't feel like he contributed much to these topics other than raw anger or disgust. They are at least cohesive in the sense that they swirl around a particular subject war, tragedy, personal and pollical greed, injustice, and so on. All the poems had the feel of someone taking a stab at automatic writing, very free-associative, stream of consciousness stuff. I don't know if it would have been possible, some of the recordings are just so muddy and I didn't like the way in which the audience reactions sometimes drowned out the readings. The audio quality was just bad, nothing done to clean these up. The poems are delivered by the original author and the recordings are clearly taken from his public appearances where he performed these pieces. ![]() ![]() This was recommended to me by a friend and it clearly resonated with him, so I bought it as we have similar tastes. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Hannah fry algorithms![]() Items are usually dispatched within twenty-four to seventy-two hours. Orders are processed and dispatched Monday to Friday. ![]() In Hello World she lifts the lid on their inner workings, demonstrates their power, exposes their limitations, and examines whether they really are an improvement on the humans they are replacing. So how much should we rely on them? What kind of future do we want?Hannah Fry takes us on a tour of the good, the bad and the downright ugly of the algorithms that surround us. Yet a human can look you in the eye before passing sentence.Welcome to the age of the algorithm, the story of a not-too-distant future where machines rule supreme, making important decisions – in healthcare, transport, finance, security, what we watch, where we go even who we send to prison. Who would you rather determined your fate – a human or an algorithm?An algorithm is more consistent and less prone to error of judgement. Would you let an algorithm determine your fate? Hannah Fry lifts the lid on the world of algorithms, examining how they impact our future and whether they really are an improvement on the humans they replace.You are accused of a crime. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But in 1979, the year Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 appeared, that crown belonged to Carr, and he had no less than four books - including three Year’s Best - place ahead of Dozois’ own Year’s Bestinstallment in the annual Locus Poll for Best Anthology. Before he died in 2018, Gardner Dozois was seen as the preeminent editor and taste-maker in 21st Century science fiction, winning the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor a record-shattering 15 times, and editing 35 volumes of the perennially popular The Year’s Best Science Fiction. So fans today could be forgiven for not understanding how thoroughly Carr dominated the field during his lifetime. A whole generation of fans has arrived since his death, discovered science fiction, argued over the Star Warsequels, and settled comfortably into middle age to raise contentious young SF fans of their own. The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 (Del Rey, July 1979) ![]() ![]() ![]() They followed up with paperback reprints of his first two novels. Moon of the Wolf was adapted into a made-for-TV movie of the same name it aired in 1972 as an ABC Movie of the Week. Whitten’s fourth novel was an occult thriller, The Alchemist, which sold to Charterhouse in 1973 and was subsequently released in paperback by Avon. These books were originally published by Doubleday and later released in paperback editions by Ace. He followed up two years later with Moon of the Wolf. He started his fiction career as an author of Gothic horror with his 1965 novel Progeny of the Adder. Whitten is the author of eleven novels and a few non-fiction titles. The couple eventually moved back to Maryland, and Whitten worked as an investigative reporter for the Washington Post. ![]() They spent most of the 1950s in Europe, where Whitten got his start in journalism. He met his lifelong wife, Phyllis in Paris where they were married in 1951. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Whitten spent most of his life in the northeastern United States, where he attended Lehigh University for a while before taking off to Paris and then Mexico, and then back to Paris. Whitten is an American author and journalist. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Heist society book![]() Caught between Interpol and a far more deadly enemy, Kat’s dad needs her help.įor Kat, there is only one solution: track down the paintings and steal them back. Only a master thief could have pulled this job, and Kat's father isn't just on the suspect list, he is the list. But he has a good reason: a powerful mobster has been robbed of his priceless art collection and wants to retrieve it. Soon, Kat's friend and former co-conspirator, Hale, appears out of nowhere to bring Kat back into the world she tried so hard to escape. Unfortunately, leaving “the life” for a normal life proves harder than she’d expected. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own-scamming her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business behind. ![]() ![]() ![]() For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria…to steal the crown jewels. When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her on a trip to the Louvre…to case it. ![]() ![]() OL65435W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.41 Pages 266 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0786508485 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:19:13 Boxid IA154001 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY DonorĪlibris Edition Special Markets hardcover ed. The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories podcast on demand - Edna Pontellier has everything that a woman and mother should want two wonderful sons, a husband, and good financial fortune. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Discworld 37![]() ![]() ![]() The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Unseen Academicals is the seventh book in the Wizards series. Terry Pratchetts Discworld series comprises of a staggering 41 novels, 32 years in the. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman, who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt) but there is something powerful, and dark, locked away inside him.Īs the match approaches, secrets are forced into the light and four lives will be entangled and changed for ever. ![]() This is not going to be a gentleman's game. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. įootball has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is. Or, to borrow another phrase, it's about life, the Universe and everything' The Times 'This isn't just football, it's Discworld football. ![]() |