Author: J. D. Beresford
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The Wonder is a sci-fi story by J.D. Beresford. Victor Stott is a giant-headed, awkward boy who never says a word. It soon becomes apparent, that he is gifted with a superhuman intellect...
The Fate of Wonder
Author: Kevin M. Cahill
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231528116
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Kevin M. Cahill reclaims one of Ludwig Wittgenstein's most passionately pursued endeavors: to reawaken a sense of wonder around human life and language and its mysterious place in the world. Following the philosopher's spiritual and cultural criticism and tying it more tightly to the overall evolution of his thought, Cahill frames an original interpretation of Wittgenstein's engagement with Western metaphysics and modernity, better contextualizing the force of his work. Cahill synthesizes several approaches to Wittgenstein's life and thought. He stresses the nontheoretical aspirations of the philosopher's early and later writings, combining key elements from the so-called resolute readings of the Tractatus with the "therapeutic" readings of Philosophical Investigations. Cahill shows how continuity in Wittgenstein's cultural and spiritual concerns informed if not guided his work between these texts, and in his reading of the Tractatus, Cahill identifies surprising affinities with Martin Heidegger's Being and Time—a text rarely associated with Wittgenstein's early formulations. In his effort to recapture wonder, Wittgenstein both avoided and undermined traditional philosophy's reliance on theory. As Cahill relates the steps of this bold endeavor, he forms his own innovative, analytical methods, joining historicist and contextualist approaches to text-based, immanent readings. The result is an original, sustained examination of Wittgenstein's thought.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231528116
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Kevin M. Cahill reclaims one of Ludwig Wittgenstein's most passionately pursued endeavors: to reawaken a sense of wonder around human life and language and its mysterious place in the world. Following the philosopher's spiritual and cultural criticism and tying it more tightly to the overall evolution of his thought, Cahill frames an original interpretation of Wittgenstein's engagement with Western metaphysics and modernity, better contextualizing the force of his work. Cahill synthesizes several approaches to Wittgenstein's life and thought. He stresses the nontheoretical aspirations of the philosopher's early and later writings, combining key elements from the so-called resolute readings of the Tractatus with the "therapeutic" readings of Philosophical Investigations. Cahill shows how continuity in Wittgenstein's cultural and spiritual concerns informed if not guided his work between these texts, and in his reading of the Tractatus, Cahill identifies surprising affinities with Martin Heidegger's Being and Time—a text rarely associated with Wittgenstein's early formulations. In his effort to recapture wonder, Wittgenstein both avoided and undermined traditional philosophy's reliance on theory. As Cahill relates the steps of this bold endeavor, he forms his own innovative, analytical methods, joining historicist and contextualist approaches to text-based, immanent readings. The result is an original, sustained examination of Wittgenstein's thought.
Wonder Woman: Power Outage
Author: Michael Teitelbaum
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765364791
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Combines a mystery theme with interactive puzzle activities that readers must solve to determine subsequent plots, in an adventure that finds Wonder Woman returning to Paradise Island to discover why her powers have been disappearing.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765364791
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Combines a mystery theme with interactive puzzle activities that readers must solve to determine subsequent plots, in an adventure that finds Wonder Woman returning to Paradise Island to discover why her powers have been disappearing.
Arts of Wonder
Author: Jeffrey L. Kosky
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226451062
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Kosky focuses on a handful of artists - Walter De Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, and Andy Goldsworthy - to show how they introduce spaces hospitable to mystery and wonder, redemption and revelation, and transcendence and creation.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226451062
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Kosky focuses on a handful of artists - Walter De Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, and Andy Goldsworthy - to show how they introduce spaces hospitable to mystery and wonder, redemption and revelation, and transcendence and creation.
Wonder Woman Vol. 8: A Twist of Fate
Author: Meredith Finch
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN: 1401269400
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Wonder Woman must decide her Fate in this epic story from acclaimed creative team Meredith Finch (TALES FROM OZ) and David Finch (BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT)!Wonder Woman may have gotten a handle on juggling her responsibilities as both Queen of the Amazons and God of War, but that hasn’t stopped her enemies from trying to claim her titles.Although Donna Troy was imprisoned on Mount Olympus after trying to kill Diana and take her crown, Wonder Woman still believes the Amazon deserves a second chance. But when Donna escapes her cell, it’s up to Wonder Woman to stop her before she’s let loose on Man’s World. Meanwhile, a new villain has set his sights on the super-heroine, one who is obsessed with claiming Diana’s godhood for himself-whatever the cost!Collects WONDER WOMAN #41-47.
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN: 1401269400
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Wonder Woman must decide her Fate in this epic story from acclaimed creative team Meredith Finch (TALES FROM OZ) and David Finch (BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT)!Wonder Woman may have gotten a handle on juggling her responsibilities as both Queen of the Amazons and God of War, but that hasn’t stopped her enemies from trying to claim her titles.Although Donna Troy was imprisoned on Mount Olympus after trying to kill Diana and take her crown, Wonder Woman still believes the Amazon deserves a second chance. But when Donna escapes her cell, it’s up to Wonder Woman to stop her before she’s let loose on Man’s World. Meanwhile, a new villain has set his sights on the super-heroine, one who is obsessed with claiming Diana’s godhood for himself-whatever the cost!Collects WONDER WOMAN #41-47.
The Wonder
Author: J. D. Beresford
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The Wonder is a sci-fi story by J.D. Beresford. Victor Stott is a giant-headed, awkward boy who never says a word. It soon becomes apparent, that he is gifted with a superhuman intellect...
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The Wonder is a sci-fi story by J.D. Beresford. Victor Stott is a giant-headed, awkward boy who never says a word. It soon becomes apparent, that he is gifted with a superhuman intellect...
The Wonder
Author: Susanna Centlivre
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551114545
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Susanna Centlivre’s play The Wonder (1714) was one of the most popular works on the eighteenth-century English stage. Set in Lisbon, the plot interweaves two romantic intrigues around one “secret”: the heroine Violante is hiding her best friend, Isabella (who is the sister of her own lover, Don Felix) from Isabella’s father who wishes to marry her off to a rich but decrepit old merchant. Because she is sworn to secrecy, Violante cannot reveal Isabella’s whereabouts, nor can she explain to Felix why Isabella’s new lover, a dashing British soldier, happens to be about the house, prompting Felix’s intense jealousy. Centlivre’s critique on the tyrannical patriarchs in the world of the play is at the same time a veiled critique of similar conditions in Augustan-era Britain. This Broadview edition includes contemporary responses (by Richard Steele and Arthur Bedford), biographical accounts, selections of Centlivre’s poetry, and early nineteenth-century criticism (by Elizabeth Inchbald and William Hazlitt).
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551114545
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Susanna Centlivre’s play The Wonder (1714) was one of the most popular works on the eighteenth-century English stage. Set in Lisbon, the plot interweaves two romantic intrigues around one “secret”: the heroine Violante is hiding her best friend, Isabella (who is the sister of her own lover, Don Felix) from Isabella’s father who wishes to marry her off to a rich but decrepit old merchant. Because she is sworn to secrecy, Violante cannot reveal Isabella’s whereabouts, nor can she explain to Felix why Isabella’s new lover, a dashing British soldier, happens to be about the house, prompting Felix’s intense jealousy. Centlivre’s critique on the tyrannical patriarchs in the world of the play is at the same time a veiled critique of similar conditions in Augustan-era Britain. This Broadview edition includes contemporary responses (by Richard Steele and Arthur Bedford), biographical accounts, selections of Centlivre’s poetry, and early nineteenth-century criticism (by Elizabeth Inchbald and William Hazlitt).
Fate of the Fallen
Author: Kel Kade
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250293804
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Fate of the Fallen is the start of a brand new adventure from New York Times bestselling author Kel Kade Not all stories have happy endings. Everyone loves Mathias. Naturally, when he discovers it’s his destiny to save the world, he dives in head first, pulling his best friend Aaslo along for the ride. However, saving the world isn’t as easy, or exciting, as it sounds in the stories. The going gets rough and folks start to believe their best chance for survival is to surrender to the forces of evil, which isn’t how the prophecy goes. At all. As the list of allies grows thin, and the friends find themselves staring death in the face they must decide how to become the heroes they were destined to be or, failing that, how to survive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250293804
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Fate of the Fallen is the start of a brand new adventure from New York Times bestselling author Kel Kade Not all stories have happy endings. Everyone loves Mathias. Naturally, when he discovers it’s his destiny to save the world, he dives in head first, pulling his best friend Aaslo along for the ride. However, saving the world isn’t as easy, or exciting, as it sounds in the stories. The going gets rough and folks start to believe their best chance for survival is to surrender to the forces of evil, which isn’t how the prophecy goes. At all. As the list of allies grows thin, and the friends find themselves staring death in the face they must decide how to become the heroes they were destined to be or, failing that, how to survive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Sense of Wonder
Author: Matthew Salesses
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316425915
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
From the author of PEN/Faulkner finalist Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear and Craft in the Real World comes a "a smart, very meta take" (Kirkus Reviews) on the ways Asian Americans navigate the thorny worlds of sports and entertainment when everything is stacked against them. An Asian American basketball star walks into a gym. No one recognizes him, but everyone stares anyway. It is the start of a joke but what is the punchline? When Won Lee, the first Asian American in the NBA, stuns the world in a seven-game winning streak, the global media audience dubs it “The Wonder”—much to Won’s chagrin. Meanwhile, Won struggles to get attention from his coach, his peers, his fans, and most importantly, his hero, Powerball!, who also happens to be Won’s teammate and the captain. Covering it all is sportswriter Robert Sung, who writes about Won's stardom while grappling with his own missed hoops opportunities as well as his place as an Asian American in media. And to witness it all is Carrie Kang, a big studio producer, who juggles a newfound relationship with Won while attempting to bring K-drama to an industry not known to embrace anything new or different. The Sense of Wonder follows Won and Carrie as they chronicle the human and professional tensions exacerbated by injustices and fight to be seen and heard on some of the world’s largest stages. An incredibly funny and heart-rending dive into race and our “collective imagination that lays bare our limitations before blasting joyfully past them” (Catherine Chung). This is the work of a gifted storyteller at the top of his game. USA Today's 20 Most Anticipated Books of Winter Salon's 22 Books We're Looking Forward to in 2023 Philadelphia Inquirer's Best New Books to Kick Off 2023 Los Angeles Times's Best Books of January Esquire's January 2023 Book Club Pick Vulture's 30 Books We Can't Wait to Read This Winter Chicago Review of Books's 12 Must-Read Books of January 2023 The Orange County Register's Most Anticipated of 2023 Powell's Picks of the Month Book Culture's Most Anticipated Books of January Apple Books's Staff Picks of January Vanity Fair's 8 Books We Can't Stop Talking About This Month Literary Hub's Best Book Covers of January
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316425915
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
From the author of PEN/Faulkner finalist Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear and Craft in the Real World comes a "a smart, very meta take" (Kirkus Reviews) on the ways Asian Americans navigate the thorny worlds of sports and entertainment when everything is stacked against them. An Asian American basketball star walks into a gym. No one recognizes him, but everyone stares anyway. It is the start of a joke but what is the punchline? When Won Lee, the first Asian American in the NBA, stuns the world in a seven-game winning streak, the global media audience dubs it “The Wonder”—much to Won’s chagrin. Meanwhile, Won struggles to get attention from his coach, his peers, his fans, and most importantly, his hero, Powerball!, who also happens to be Won’s teammate and the captain. Covering it all is sportswriter Robert Sung, who writes about Won's stardom while grappling with his own missed hoops opportunities as well as his place as an Asian American in media. And to witness it all is Carrie Kang, a big studio producer, who juggles a newfound relationship with Won while attempting to bring K-drama to an industry not known to embrace anything new or different. The Sense of Wonder follows Won and Carrie as they chronicle the human and professional tensions exacerbated by injustices and fight to be seen and heard on some of the world’s largest stages. An incredibly funny and heart-rending dive into race and our “collective imagination that lays bare our limitations before blasting joyfully past them” (Catherine Chung). This is the work of a gifted storyteller at the top of his game. USA Today's 20 Most Anticipated Books of Winter Salon's 22 Books We're Looking Forward to in 2023 Philadelphia Inquirer's Best New Books to Kick Off 2023 Los Angeles Times's Best Books of January Esquire's January 2023 Book Club Pick Vulture's 30 Books We Can't Wait to Read This Winter Chicago Review of Books's 12 Must-Read Books of January 2023 The Orange County Register's Most Anticipated of 2023 Powell's Picks of the Month Book Culture's Most Anticipated Books of January Apple Books's Staff Picks of January Vanity Fair's 8 Books We Can't Stop Talking About This Month Literary Hub's Best Book Covers of January
The Wonder!
Author: Susanna Centlivre
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Wonder
Author: John Davys Beresford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description