Author: John D Lyons
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748653791
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Provides a new account of the crucial shift from the classical and medieval conception of Fortune to the modern notion of chance or randomness.
Phantom of Chance
Author: John D Lyons
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748653791
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Provides a new account of the crucial shift from the classical and medieval conception of Fortune to the modern notion of chance or randomness.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748653791
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Provides a new account of the crucial shift from the classical and medieval conception of Fortune to the modern notion of chance or randomness.
The Phantom Twin
Author: Lisa Brown
Publisher: First Second
ISBN: 1250780543
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
A young woman is haunted by the ghost of her conjoined twin, in Lisa Brown's The Phantom Twin, a sweetly spooky graphic novel set in a turn-of-the-century sideshow. Isabel and Jane are the Extraordinary Peabody Sisters, conjoined twins in a traveling carnival freak show—until an ambitious surgeon tries to separate them and fails, causing Jane's death. Isabel has lost an arm and a leg but gained a ghostly companion: Her dead twin is now her phantom limb. Haunted, altered, and alone for the first time, can Isabel build a new life that's truly her own?
Publisher: First Second
ISBN: 1250780543
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
A young woman is haunted by the ghost of her conjoined twin, in Lisa Brown's The Phantom Twin, a sweetly spooky graphic novel set in a turn-of-the-century sideshow. Isabel and Jane are the Extraordinary Peabody Sisters, conjoined twins in a traveling carnival freak show—until an ambitious surgeon tries to separate them and fails, causing Jane's death. Isabel has lost an arm and a leg but gained a ghostly companion: Her dead twin is now her phantom limb. Haunted, altered, and alone for the first time, can Isabel build a new life that's truly her own?
Phantom Shadows
Author: Dianne Duvall
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 1420128361
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
A doctor and a reformed bad-boy vampire struggle with danger and their desires in this New York Times–bestselling paranormal romantic suspense novel. Dr. Melanie Lipton is no stranger to the supernatural. She knows immortals better than they know themselves, right down to their stubborn little genes. So although a handsome rogue immortal seems suspicious to her colleagues, Sebastien Newcombe intrigues Melanie. His history is checkered, his scars are impressive, and his ideas are daring. But it's not his ideas that have Melanie fighting off surges of desire… Bastien is used to being the bad guy. In fact, he can't remember the last time he had an ally he could trust. But Melanie is different—and under her calm, professional exterior he senses a passion beyond anything in his centuries of experience. Giving in to temptation is out of the question—he can't put her in danger. But she isn't asking him… RT Book Reviews“With this excellent entry, rising star Duvall is fast proving to be a major player in paranormal romance!”— “With a deeply emotional love story, two beautiful, complex main characters, and a pulse-pounding adventure that won’t let up, this book was haunting and addictive.”—The Romance Reviews
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 1420128361
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
A doctor and a reformed bad-boy vampire struggle with danger and their desires in this New York Times–bestselling paranormal romantic suspense novel. Dr. Melanie Lipton is no stranger to the supernatural. She knows immortals better than they know themselves, right down to their stubborn little genes. So although a handsome rogue immortal seems suspicious to her colleagues, Sebastien Newcombe intrigues Melanie. His history is checkered, his scars are impressive, and his ideas are daring. But it's not his ideas that have Melanie fighting off surges of desire… Bastien is used to being the bad guy. In fact, he can't remember the last time he had an ally he could trust. But Melanie is different—and under her calm, professional exterior he senses a passion beyond anything in his centuries of experience. Giving in to temptation is out of the question—he can't put her in danger. But she isn't asking him… RT Book Reviews“With this excellent entry, rising star Duvall is fast proving to be a major player in paranormal romance!”— “With a deeply emotional love story, two beautiful, complex main characters, and a pulse-pounding adventure that won’t let up, this book was haunting and addictive.”—The Romance Reviews
Descartes's Fictions
Author: Emma Gilby
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019256790X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Descartes's Fictions traces common movements in early modern philosophy and literary method. Emma Gilby reassesses the significance of Descartes's writing by bringing his philosophical output into contact with the literary treatises, exempla, and debates of his age. She argues that humanist theorizing about poetics represents a vital intellectual context for Descartes's work. She offers readings of the controversies to which this poetic theory gives rise, with particular reference to the genre of tragicomedy, questions of verisimilitude or plausibility, and the figures of Guez de Balzac and Pierre Corneille. Drawing on what Descartes says about, and to, his many contemporaries and correspondents embedded in the early modern republic of letters, this volume shows that poetics provides a repository of themes and images to which he returns repeatedly: fortune, method, error, providence, passion, and imagination, for instance. Like the poets and theorists of his age, Descartes is also drawn to the forms of attention that people may bring to his work. This interest finds expression in the mature Cartesian metaphysics of the Meditations, as well as, later, in the moral philosophy of his correspondence with Elisabeth of Bohemia or the Passions of the Soul. This volume thus bridges the gap between Cartesian criticism and late-humanist literary culture in France.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019256790X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Descartes's Fictions traces common movements in early modern philosophy and literary method. Emma Gilby reassesses the significance of Descartes's writing by bringing his philosophical output into contact with the literary treatises, exempla, and debates of his age. She argues that humanist theorizing about poetics represents a vital intellectual context for Descartes's work. She offers readings of the controversies to which this poetic theory gives rise, with particular reference to the genre of tragicomedy, questions of verisimilitude or plausibility, and the figures of Guez de Balzac and Pierre Corneille. Drawing on what Descartes says about, and to, his many contemporaries and correspondents embedded in the early modern republic of letters, this volume shows that poetics provides a repository of themes and images to which he returns repeatedly: fortune, method, error, providence, passion, and imagination, for instance. Like the poets and theorists of his age, Descartes is also drawn to the forms of attention that people may bring to his work. This interest finds expression in the mature Cartesian metaphysics of the Meditations, as well as, later, in the moral philosophy of his correspondence with Elisabeth of Bohemia or the Passions of the Soul. This volume thus bridges the gap between Cartesian criticism and late-humanist literary culture in France.
Signals
Author: Brian Skyrms
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191614904
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Brian Skyrms presents a fascinating exploration of how fundamental signals are to our world. He uses a variety of tools — theories of signaling games, information, evolution, and learning — to investigate how meaning and communication develop. He shows how signaling games themselves evolve, and introduces a new model of learning with invention. The juxtaposition of atomic signals leads to complex signals, as the natural product of gradual process. Signals operate in networks of senders and receivers at all levels of life. Information is transmitted, but it is also processed in various ways. That is how we think — signals run around a very complicated signaling network. Signaling is a key ingredient in the evolution of teamwork, in the human but also in the animal world, even in micro-organisms. Communication and co-ordination of action are different aspects of the flow of information, and are both effected by signals.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191614904
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Brian Skyrms presents a fascinating exploration of how fundamental signals are to our world. He uses a variety of tools — theories of signaling games, information, evolution, and learning — to investigate how meaning and communication develop. He shows how signaling games themselves evolve, and introduces a new model of learning with invention. The juxtaposition of atomic signals leads to complex signals, as the natural product of gradual process. Signals operate in networks of senders and receivers at all levels of life. Information is transmitted, but it is also processed in various ways. That is how we think — signals run around a very complicated signaling network. Signaling is a key ingredient in the evolution of teamwork, in the human but also in the animal world, even in micro-organisms. Communication and co-ordination of action are different aspects of the flow of information, and are both effected by signals.
With a Wink and a Nod
Author: Dallas A. Davis
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 151443007X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
WITH A WINK AND A NOD By Dallas Adrienne Davis Dr. Laura Willows (Protagonist), a woman in her 30s, reflects on the past as she drives into a New England town to start a new life in a new City. Her work at a government experimental lab went awry when two of her colleagues were poisoned. Although she is pro-life Laura chooses to work for an Abortion Clinic; hoping to get completely away from her life at the government lab and out of the lime light of society. Her supervisor, Dr. Charles Knight (Antagonist), blackmails her into doing the unspeakable. Lauras ex-coworker, Dr. Chauncey Sinclair (Protagonist), enters the picture in the guise of being in Dr. Knights corner. Chauncey and Laura team up against Dr. Knight, in hopes of bringing him to his knees. Chauncey Sinclair, a secret government agent, brings his team of men into the plot to overthrow the scientists who have joined Dr. Knight in their pursuit of a Perfect Society. Chauncey (Lauras pet name for him is Chance) and his team are members of the National Independent Covert Agency. The N.I.C.A. is a secret agency under the direction of one man in the C.I.A., code named Chameleon. Dr. Knight has built a complex in the mountains of Wyoming with state-of-the-art equipment under an enormous dome with fruit trees, vegetable gardens and housing for several hundred people. A conflict ensues and the good guys win, with a few mishaps. The complex is redirected and turned into a youth camp for needy and orphaned children.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 151443007X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
WITH A WINK AND A NOD By Dallas Adrienne Davis Dr. Laura Willows (Protagonist), a woman in her 30s, reflects on the past as she drives into a New England town to start a new life in a new City. Her work at a government experimental lab went awry when two of her colleagues were poisoned. Although she is pro-life Laura chooses to work for an Abortion Clinic; hoping to get completely away from her life at the government lab and out of the lime light of society. Her supervisor, Dr. Charles Knight (Antagonist), blackmails her into doing the unspeakable. Lauras ex-coworker, Dr. Chauncey Sinclair (Protagonist), enters the picture in the guise of being in Dr. Knights corner. Chauncey and Laura team up against Dr. Knight, in hopes of bringing him to his knees. Chauncey Sinclair, a secret government agent, brings his team of men into the plot to overthrow the scientists who have joined Dr. Knight in their pursuit of a Perfect Society. Chauncey (Lauras pet name for him is Chance) and his team are members of the National Independent Covert Agency. The N.I.C.A. is a secret agency under the direction of one man in the C.I.A., code named Chameleon. Dr. Knight has built a complex in the mountains of Wyoming with state-of-the-art equipment under an enormous dome with fruit trees, vegetable gardens and housing for several hundred people. A conflict ensues and the good guys win, with a few mishaps. The complex is redirected and turned into a youth camp for needy and orphaned children.
The Phantom of the Open
Author: Scott Murray
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0224083171
Category : British Open (Golf tournament)
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
When 46-year-old crane driver and former comedy stunt-driver Maurice Flitcroft chanced his way into the Open having never before played a round of golf in his life he ran up a record worst score of 121. The sport's ruling classes went nuclear and banned him. He didn't take it lying down. This book tells his story.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0224083171
Category : British Open (Golf tournament)
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
When 46-year-old crane driver and former comedy stunt-driver Maurice Flitcroft chanced his way into the Open having never before played a round of golf in his life he ran up a record worst score of 121. The sport's ruling classes went nuclear and banned him. He didn't take it lying down. This book tells his story.
Phantom
Author: Susan Kay
Publisher: Llumina Press
ISBN: 1605948454
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
An imaginative and sensitive story of the life of the Phantom of the Opera; winner of the Boots Romantic Novel Award.
Publisher: Llumina Press
ISBN: 1605948454
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
An imaginative and sensitive story of the life of the Phantom of the Opera; winner of the Boots Romantic Novel Award.
The New sporting magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Pages : 598
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Chambers's Journal
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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