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Author : Samuel Butler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: Ex voto written by Samuel Butler and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Nation and Athenæum written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven L. Shrewsbury
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Hawg written by Steven L. Shrewsbury and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2020-01-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blue-collar tough Andrew White knows that in the rural community of Montrose bad things are best left in the dark. He soon learns that monsters wear many shapes. In a populace rife with of vice and deception, something has broken loose. Something hidden and feral. Set free from a neighbor's barn, a force rampages through the locality. Hungry and insatiable, the berserk wrath unleashed from Mr. Solow's shed is holds a darker secret than anyone could imagine. Only a factory worker, a twisted biker, an unsure sheriff, and a wounded addict stand in the way of the beast. Can they put aside their differences and defeat what lurks inside them in time to defend what they love? Come, peer inside the souls of Montrose and see if they possess the courage to stop the primal fury that is HAWG.
Author : Alfred Edward Housman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book A Shropshire Lad written by Alfred Edward Housman and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The New Statesman written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Gillott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351550187
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Samuel Butler against the Professionals written by David Gillott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the 2009 Darwin bicentenary, Samuel Butler (1835-1902) is becoming as well known for his public attack on Darwin's character and the basis of his scientific authority as for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh. In the first monograph devoted to Butler's ideas for over twenty years, David Gillott offers a much-needed reappraisal of Butler's work and shows how Lamarckian ideas pervaded the whole of Butler's wide-ranging ouevre, and not merely his evolutionary theory. In particular, he argues that Lamarckism was the foundation on which Butler's attempt to undermine professional authority in a variety of disciplines was based. Samuel Butler against the Professionals provides new insight into a fascinating but often misunderstood writer, and on the surprisingly broad application of Lamarckian ideas in the decades following publication of the Origin of Species.
Author : C. P. Stephens
Publisher : Ultramarine Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780893662097
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)
Download or read book A Checklist of Standard Sets written by C. P. Stephens and published by Ultramarine Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Author : Rémi Brague
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 026810428X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)
Download or read book The Kingdom of Man written by Rémi Brague and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was humanity created, or do humans create themselves? In this eagerly awaited English translation of Le Règne de l’homme, the last volume of Rémi Brague's trilogy on the philosophical development of anthropology in the West, Brague argues that, with the dawn of the Enlightenment, Western societies rejected the transcendence of the past and looked instead to the progress fostered by the early modern present and the future. As scientific advances drained the cosmos of literal mystery, humanity increasingly devalued the theophilosophical mystery of being in favor of omniscience over one’s own existence. Brague narrates the intellectual disappearance of the natural order, replaced by a universal chaos upon which only humanity can impose order; he cites the vivid histories of the nation-state, economic evolution into capitalism, and technology as the tools of this new dominion, taken up voluntarily by humans for their own ends rather than accepted from the deity for a divine purpose. Brague’s tour de force begins with the ancient and medieval confidence in humanity as the superior creation of Nature or of God, epitomized in the biblical wish of the Creator for humans to exert stewardship over the earth. He sees the Enlightenment as a transition period, taking as a given that humankind should be masters of the world but rejecting the imposition of that duty by a deity. Before the Enlightenment, who the creator was and whom the creator dominated were clear. With the advance of modernity and banishment of the Creator, who was to be dominated? Today, Brague argues, “our humanism . . . is an anti-antihumanism, rather than a direct affirmation of the goodness of the human.” He ends with a sobering question: does humankind still have the will to survive in an era of intellectual self-destruction? The Kingdom of Man will appeal to all readers interested in the history of ideas, but will be especially important to political philosophers, historical anthropologists, and theologians.
Author : Michael Gurvitch
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811260028
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Brave New E-world (In 2 Volumes) written by Michael Gurvitch and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this two-volume work, writing for a general audience, Dr Michael Gurvitch proposes a unifying concept of electronics which combines the history of electronics with the science of evolution. Drawing on his long experience in scientific development, Gurvitch illuminates electronics from the inside using the point of view of a practicing scientist. What is elusive and often overlooked becomes palpable, engaging and even humorous with the author's tireless and methodical exposition of fundamental scientific roots from which electronics grew and continues to grow.This set contains both volumes of Brave New e-World, presenting the historical review of electronics from the middle of the 18th century to the present day. From the telegraph to the quantum computer and superconductors, Gurvitch combines personal recollections with scientific knowledge to advance the final thesis: the representation of a new non-biological evolution in electronics. This is all done in an intellectually engaging way: spiced by historical anecdotes, warmed by Gurvitch's enthusiastic love for science, and completed with the full participation of the reader. The concluding argument on electronic evolution is alarming, but it might prove to be a necessary concern in the continual development of electronic technologies.
Author : George Dyson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374710074
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Analogia written by George Dyson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of WIRED’s "The Best Pop Culture That Got Us Through 2020" In Analogia, technology historian George Dyson presents a startling look back at the analog age and life before the digital revolution—and an unsettling vision of what comes next. In 1716, the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz spent eight days taking the cure with Peter the Great at Bad Pyrmont in Saxony, trying to persuade the tsar to launch a voyage of discovery from Russia to America and to adopt digital computing as the foundation for a remaking of life on earth. In two classic books, Darwin Among the Machines and Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson chronicled the realization of the second of Leibniz’s visions. In Analogia, his pathbreaking new book, he brings the story full circle, starting with the Russian American expedition of 1741 and ending with the beyond-digital revolution that will complete the transformation of the world. Dyson enlists a startling cast of characters, from the time of Catherine the Great to the age of machine intelligence, and draws heavily on his own experiences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and onward to the rain forest of the Northwest Coast. We are, Dyson reveals, entering a new epoch in human history, one driven by a generation of machines whose powers are no longer under programmable control. Includes black-and-white illustrations
Author : George B. Dyson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465046975
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Darwin Among The Machines written by George B. Dyson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As timely now as it was when it was first published in 1997, Darwin Among the Machines tells the story of humankind's long journey into the digital age. Historian of technology George Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives and work of visionaries -- from Thomas Hobbes to John von Neumann -- who foresaw the development of artificial intelligence, artificial life, and artificial mind. Weaving a convincing, occasionally frightening narrative of the evolution of the global network, Dyson explores the limits of Darwinian evolution to suggest what lies ahead. Computer programs and worldwide networks are combining to produce an evolutionary theater in which the distinctions between nature and technology are increasingly obscured, he argues. We are living in the midst of an experiment -- one that echoes the prehistory of human intelligence and the origins of life. Now in a new paperback edition, this classic work on the emergence of collective mechanical intelligence will resonate for generations to come.
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442658320
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book The Secular Scripture and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976–1991 written by Northrop Frye and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northrop Frye’s The Secular Scripture was first published in 1976 and was soon recognized as one of his most influential works, reflecting an extensive development of Frye’s thoughts about romance as a literary form. This new edition in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series brings The Secular Scripture together with thirty shorter pieces pertaining to literary theory and criticism from the last fifteen years of Frye’s life. Frye’s study illuminates the enduring attraction and deep human significance of the romance genre in all its forms. He provides a unique perspective on popular fiction and culture and shows how romance forms have, by their very structural and conventional features, an ability to address both specific social concerns and deep and fundamental human concerns that span time and place. In distinguishing popular from elite culture, Frye insists that they are both ultimately two aspects of the same “human compulsion to create in the face of chaos.” The additional late writings reflect Frye’s sense at the time that he was working “toward some kind of final statement,” which eventually saw the light of day, only months before his death, as Words with Power (1990).
Author : James G. Paradis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442692308
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Samuel Butler, Victorian Against the Grain written by James G. Paradis and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-12-29 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Victorian satirist, critic, and visual artist, possessed one of the most original and inquiring imaginations of his age. The author of two satires, Erewhon (1872) and The Way of All Flesh (1903), Butler's intellectually adventurous explorations along the cultural frontiers of his time appeared in volume after eccentric volume. Author of four works on evolution, he was one of the most prolific evolutionary speculators of his time. He was an innovative travel writer and art historian who used the creative insights of his own painting, photography, and local knowledge to invent, in works like Alps and Sanctuaries (1881), a vibrant Italian culture that contrasted with the spiritually frigid experience of his High Church upbringing. Despite his range and achievement, there remains surprisingly little contemporary analytical commentary on Butler's work. Samuel Butler, Victorian against the Grain is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that provides a critical overview of Butler's career, one which places his multifaceted body of work within the cultural framework of the Victorian age. The essays, taken together, discuss the formation of Victorian England's ultimate polymath, an artistic and intellectual ventriloquist who assumed an extraordinary range of roles - as satirist, novelist, evolutionist, natural theologian, travel writer, art historian, biographer, classicist, painter, and photographer.
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Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Collection of the Public General Statutes written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melissa Shields Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317136292
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Fatherhood, Authority, and British Reading Culture, 1831-1907 written by Melissa Shields Jenkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a period when the idea of fatherhood was in flux and individual fathers sought to regain a cohesive collective identity, debates related to a father’s authority were negotiated and resolved through competing documents. Melissa Shields Jenkins analyzes the evolution of patriarchal authority in nineteenth-century culture, drawing from extra-literary and non-narrative source material as well as from novels. Arguing that Victorian novelists reinvent patriarchy by recourse to conduct books, biography, religious manuals, political speeches, and professional writing in the fields of history and science, Jenkins offers interdisciplinary case studies of Elizabeth Gaskell, George Meredith, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Samuel Butler, and Thomas Hardy. Jenkins’s book contributes to our understanding of the part played by fathers in the Victorian cultural imagination, and sheds new light on the structures underlying the Victorian novel.
Author : Ralf Norrman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134918067X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Samuel Butler and the Meaning of Chiasmus written by Ralf Norrman and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-01-20 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
