Author : Nicola Davies
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1913634612
Rosie is given a sheepdog puppy to rear who looks and behaves differently to the other sheepdogs on the farm and is too friendly to herd the sheep. When she overhears her parents referring to her as their 'little mistake', her puppy teaches her that not all mistakes are bad in this charming story about belonging and finding your place.The Little Mistake is one in a series of Country Tales, written by award-winning children's author Nicola Davies and illustrated by Cathy Fisher.
Author : Roel Konijnendijk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 900435557X
What determined the choices of the Greeks on the battlefield? Were their tactics defined by unwritten moral rules, or was all considered fair in war? In Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History, Roel Konijnendijk re-examines the literary evidence for the battle tactics and tactical thought of the Greeks during the 5th and 4th centuries BC. Rejecting the traditional image of limited, ritualised battle, Konijnendijk sketches a world of brutally destructive engagements, restricted only by the stubborn amateurism of the men who fought. The resulting model of hoplite battle does away with most received wisdom about the nature of Greek battle tactics, and redefines the way they reflected the values of Greek culture as a whole.
Author : Norman Manea
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300197802
At the center of The Hooligan’s Return is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism and communism to exile in America. But while Norman Manea’s book is in many ways a memoir, it is also a deeply imaginative work, traversing time and place, life and literature, dream and reality, past and present. Autobiographical events merge with historic elements, always connecting the individual with the collective destiny. Manea speaks of the bloodiest time of the twentieth century and of the emergence afterward of a global, competitive, and sometimes cynical modern society. Both a harrowing memoir and an ambitious epic project, The Hooligan’s Return achieves a subtle internal harmony as anxiety evolves into a delicate irony and a burlesque fantasy. Beautifully written and brilliantly conceived, this is the work of a writer with an acute understanding of the vast human potential for both evil and kindness, obedience and integrity.
Author : Steven Poole
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 162872224X
The Edge calls Trigger Happy a "seminal piece of work." For the first time ever, an aficionado with a knowledge of art, culture, and a real love of gaming takes a critical look at the future of our videogames, and compares their aesthetic and economic impact on society to that of film. Thirty years after the invention of the simplest of games, more videogames are played by adults than children. This revolutionary book is the first-ever academically worthy and deeply engaging critique of one of today's most popular forms of play: videogames are on track to supersede movies as the most innovative form of entertainment in the new century.
Author : Eric G. Wilson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1429944218
Americans are addicted to happiness. When we're not popping pills, we leaf through scientific studies that take for granted our quest for happiness, or read self-help books by everyone from armchair philosophers and clinical psychologists to the Dalai Lama on how to achieve a trouble-free life: Stumbling on Happiness; Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment; The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living. The titles themselves draw a stark portrait of the war on melancholy. More than any other generation, Americans of today believe in the transformative power of positive thinking. But who says we're supposed to be happy? Where does it say that in the Bible, or in the Constitution? In Against Happiness, the scholar Eric G. Wilson argues that melancholia is necessary to any thriving culture, that it is the muse of great literature, painting, music, and innovation—and that it is the force underlying original insights. Francisco Goya, Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, and Abraham Lincoln were all confirmed melancholics. So enough Prozac-ing of our brains. Let's embrace our depressive sides as the wellspring of creativity. What most people take for contentment, Wilson argues, is living death, and what the majority takes for depression is a vital force. In Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy, Wilson suggests it would be better to relish the blues that make humans people.
Author : Nicola Davies
Publisher : Tiny Owl Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 2020-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781910328644
Author : Paula McLain
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2009-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 031608266X
An astonishing memoir that "demonstrates the true meaning of family" from the author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go Dark, detailing the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early 1970s and (Chicago Tribune). As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next 14 years moving from foster home to foster home. The dislocations, confusions, and odd pleasures of an unrooted life form the basis of one of the most compelling memoirs in recent years -- a book the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's The Boys of My Youth and Mary Karr's The Liar's Club. McLain's beautiful writing and limber voice capture the intense loneliness, sadness, and determination of a young girl both on her own and responsible, with her siblings, for staying together as a family.
Author : Margaret B. Jones
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Compact discs, Book
ISBN : 9781594489778
A former child gang member who followed her foster brothers into the Bloods at the age of eight reveals her participation in drug activities and violence before finding the strength within herself to graduate college and break free.
Author : Stephen Wolfram
Publisher :
Page : 1197 pages
File Size : 17,6 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Cellular automata
ISBN : 9780713991161
This work presents a series of dramatic discoveries never before made public. Starting from a collection of simple computer experiments---illustrated in the book by striking computer graphics---Wolfram shows how their unexpected results force a whole new way of looking at the operation of our universe. Wolfram uses his approach to tackle a remarkable array of fundamental problems in science: from the origin of the Second Law of thermodynamics, to the development of complexity in biology, the computational limitations of mathematics, the possibility of a truly fundamental theory of physics, and the interplay between free will and determinism.
Author : Bruce Jay Friedman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 2000-10
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0226263509
This collection of essays, published from the 1960s to the 1990s, relates Friedman's humorous yet scrutinizing thoughts on a variety of subjects, from a butler school in Houston to numerous personalities such as Castro and Clinton.
