Lectures and Essays on Various Subjects
Author : William Sidney Gibson
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 1858
Category : English essays
ISBN :
Lectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford, F.R.S
Author : William Kingdon Clifford
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781015826175
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Lectures and Essays
Author : Goldwin Smith
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 1881
Category :
ISBN :
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Toward Natural Right and History
Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 022651224X
Book Description
Collected lectures and essays offering insight into the philosopher and his ideas on politics, natural law, and social sciences. Toward Natural Right and History collects six lectures by Leo Strauss, written while he was at the New School, and a full transcript of his 1949 Walgreen Lectures. These works show Strauss working toward the ideas he would present in fully matured form in his landmark work, Natural Right and History. In them, he explores natural right and the relationship between modern philosophers and the thought of the ancient Greek philosophers, as well as the relation of political philosophy to contemporary political science and to major political and historical events, especially the Holocaust and World War II. Previously unpublished in book form, Strauss’s lectures are presented here in a thematic order that mirrors Natural Right and History and with interpretive essays by J. A. Colen, Christopher Lynch, Svetozar Minkov, Daniel Tanguay, Nathan Tarcov, and Michael Zuckert that establish their relation to the work. Rounding out the book are copious annotations and notes to facilitate further study.
Lectures on Various Subjects
Author : Horace Mann
Publisher :
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN :
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How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 26,95 MB
Release : 2001-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 158297103X
Book Description
Learn to write science fiction and fantasy from a master You've always dreamed of writing science fiction and fantasy tales that pull readers into extraordinary new worlds and fantastic conflicts. Best-selling author Orson Scott Card shows you how it's done, distilling years of writing experience and publishing success into concise, no-nonsense advice. You'll learn how to: • utilize story elements that define the science fiction and fantasy genres • build, populate, and dramatize a credible, inviting world your readers will want to explore • develop the "rules" of time, space and magic that affect your world and its inhabitants • construct a compelling story by developing ideas, characters, and events that keep readers turning pages • find the markets for speculative fiction, reach them, and get published • submit queries, write cover letters, find an agent, and live the life of a writer The boundaries of your imagination are infinite. Explore them with Orson Scott Card and create fiction that casts a spell over agents, publishers, and readers from every world.
Telling Tales and Crafting Books
Author : Dorsey Armstrong
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1580442293
Book Description
The great corpus that is medieval literature contains, at its very center, the tale. These verse and prose fictional narratives, as well as stories that are grounded in some degree of historical truth, are the foundation of what readers, scholars, and enthusiasts often point to as signifiers of the medieval age. These tales - from the skillfully crafted to the more rudimentary and plain - often make familiar to modern readers what seems so distant and foreign about the Middle Ages. This volume of essays focuses on the tale and its ability to create "mirth," what modern audiences would often define as "happiness" or "joy," and the significance that the book has had on the transference of this mirth to audiences. This volume also celebrates the scholarship of Thomas H. Ohlgren, a medievalist whose work encompasses a number of different areas, but at its center lives the power of the tale and its ability to create a lasting impression on readers, both medieval and modern.
For the Love of Physics
Author : Walter Lewin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 145160713X
Book Description
Original publication and copyright date: 2011.
In Search of a Better World
Author : Karl Popper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,96 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1135975086
Book Description
'I want to begin by declaring that I regard scientific knowledge as the most important kind of knowledge we have', writes Sir Karl Popper in the opening essay of this book, which collects his meditations on the real improvements science has wrought in society, in politics and in the arts in the course of the twentieth century. His subjects range from the beginnings of scientific speculation in classical Greece to the destructive effects of twentieth century totalitarianism, from major figures of the Enlightenment such as Kant and Voltaire to the role of science and self-criticism in the arts. The essays offer striking new insights into the mind of one of the greatest twentieth century philosophers.
Why I Write
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1913724263
Book Description
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
