Author : Marjorie Perloff
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811215718
A fascinating memoir of refugee flight and survival, intellectual yet highly personal, by one America's eminent literary critics.
Author : Henry Green
Publisher : Random House
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1409090469
Henry Green wrote his autobiography in 1940, aged only thirty-five, because he was convinced he wouldn't survive the war. The result is a delightfully wayward and incisive portrait of English society and of the man himself. From reminiscences of a childhood spent among the gentry, to searing descriptions of Eton and Oxford, to reflections on the author's first experiments with prose and with sex, all Green's unique talents as a writer are on offer here, at their most dazzling and accessible.
Author : Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 2006-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393327604
"An introduction to the life and thought of Kurt Gödel, who transformed our conception of math forever"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Andreas Wagner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0300156375
What can a fingernail tell us about the mysteries of creation? In one sense, a nail is merely a hunk of mute matter, yet in another, it's an information superhighway quite literally at our fingertips. Every moment, streams of molecular signals direct our cells to move, flatten, swell, shrink, divide, or die. Andreas Wagner's ambitious new book explores this hidden web of unimaginably complex interactions in every living being. In the process, he unveils a host of paradoxes underpinning our understanding of modern biology, contradictions he considers gatekeepers at the frontiers of knowledge. Though we tend to think of concepts in such mutually exclusive pairs as mind-matter, self-other, and nature-nurture, Wagner argues that these opposing ideas are not actually separate. Indeed, they are as inextricably connected as the two sides of a coin. Through a tour of modern biological marvels, Wagner illustrates how this paradoxical tension has a profound effect on the way we define the world around us. Paradoxical Life is thus not only a unique account of modern biology. It ultimately serves a radical--and optimistic--outlook for humans and the world we help create.
Author : Joseph Mazur
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780525949923
Traces the epic history of Greek philosopher Zeno's yet-unsolved paradox of motion, citing the contributions of top minds to the scientific community's understanding of the elusive basic structure of time and space.
Author : Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 2006-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393242455
"A gem…An unforgettable account of one of the great moments in the history of human thought." —Steven Pinker Probing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning—and brought him to the edge of madness.
Author : Thomas Hippler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 0191043869
'Peace' is often simplistically assumed to be war's opposite, and as such is not examined closely or critically idealized in the literature of peace studies, its crucial role in the justification of war is often overlooked. Starting from a critical view that the value of 'restoring peace' or 'keeping peace' is, and has been, regularly used as a pretext for military intervention, this book traces the conceptual history of peace in nineteenth century legal and political practice. It explores the role of the value of peace in shaping the public rhetoric and legitimizing action in general international relations, international law, international trade, colonialism, and armed conflict. Departing from the assumption that there is no peace as such, nor can there be, it examines the contradictory visions of peace that arise from conflict. These conflicting and antagonistic visions of peace are each linked to a set of motivations and interests as well as to a certain vision of legitimacy within the international realm. Each of them inevitably conveys the image of a specific enemy that has to be crushed in order to peace being installed. This book highlights the contradictions and paradoxes in nineteenth century discourses and practices of peace, particularly in Europe.
Author : Stefanie Moshammer
Publisher : Fotohof
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 35,6 MB
Release : 2015-09-11
Category :
ISBN : 9783902993137
Author : Megan Brandow-Faller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 1000646068
Erasures and Eradications in Modern Viennese Art, Architecture and Design challenges the received narrative on the artists, exhibitions, and interpretations of Viennese Modernism. The book centers on three main erasures—the erasure of Jewish artists and critics; erasures relating to gender and sexual identification; and erasures of other marginalized figures and movements. Restoring missing elements to the story of the visual arts in early twentieth-century Vienna, authors investigate issues of gender, race, ethnic and sexual identity, and political affiliation. Both well-studied artists and organizations—such as the Secession and the Austrian Werkbund, and iconic figures such as Klimt and Hoffmann—are explored, as are lesser known figures and movements. The book’s thought-provoking chapters expand the chronological contours and canon of artists surrounding Viennese Modernism to offer original, nuanced, and rich readings of individual works, while offering a more diverse portrait of the period from 1890, through World War II and into the present. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, history, design history, architectural history, and European studies.
Author : Karl Raimund Popper
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : 9780415285940
Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the fundamental idea that guided his work: not only our knowledge, but our aims and our standards, grow through an unending process of trial and error.
