Author: Elizabeth Lyttleton Sturz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social history
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Documentary novel of life in an Andalusian fishing village since the days of the Spanish civil war--a tribute to the dignity of a people under an oppressive regime.
Reapers of the Storm
Author: Elizabeth Lyttleton Sturz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social history
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Documentary novel of life in an Andalusian fishing village since the days of the Spanish civil war--a tribute to the dignity of a people under an oppressive regime.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social history
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Documentary novel of life in an Andalusian fishing village since the days of the Spanish civil war--a tribute to the dignity of a people under an oppressive regime.
George Stubbs, Painter
Author: Judy Egerton
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300125092
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
George Stubbs is one of the greatest of British eighteenth-century painters, with a deep and unaffected sympathy for country life and the English countryside. This fully illustrated book outlines his career, followed by a catalogue raisonne (the first since Sir Walter Gilbey's short listing of 1898) of all his known works. One of the stickiest labels in the history of British art attached itself to Stubbs as 'Mr Stubbs the horse painter'. Over half of his paintings were of horses, each founded on the pioneering observations assembled (in 1766) in his book The Anatomy of the Horse; but Stubbs's wide-ranging subjects included portraits, conversation pieces and paintings of exotic animals from the Zebra to the Rhinoceros, as well as an extraordinarily sympathetic series of portraits of dogs.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300125092
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
George Stubbs is one of the greatest of British eighteenth-century painters, with a deep and unaffected sympathy for country life and the English countryside. This fully illustrated book outlines his career, followed by a catalogue raisonne (the first since Sir Walter Gilbey's short listing of 1898) of all his known works. One of the stickiest labels in the history of British art attached itself to Stubbs as 'Mr Stubbs the horse painter'. Over half of his paintings were of horses, each founded on the pioneering observations assembled (in 1766) in his book The Anatomy of the Horse; but Stubbs's wide-ranging subjects included portraits, conversation pieces and paintings of exotic animals from the Zebra to the Rhinoceros, as well as an extraordinarily sympathetic series of portraits of dogs.
Soul Anarchy 1-4
Author: Ace Finlay
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359902367
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Compendium of the first four soul anarchy books/journals.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359902367
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Compendium of the first four soul anarchy books/journals.
Soul Anarchy 2
Author: Ace Finlay
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359328431
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Second volume of paradoxes. I recommend reading Soul Anarchy I before this because those came before these. These are pretty hardcore existential stuff so be sure you want to put these there before putting them there. Enjoy: D/ Good Searchin, Ace
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359328431
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Second volume of paradoxes. I recommend reading Soul Anarchy I before this because those came before these. These are pretty hardcore existential stuff so be sure you want to put these there before putting them there. Enjoy: D/ Good Searchin, Ace
Infinity, Causation, and Paradox
Author: Alexander R. Pruss
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192538284
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Infinity is paradoxical in many ways. Some paradoxes involve deterministic supertasks, such as Thomson's Lamp, where a switch is toggled an infinite number of times over a finite period of time, or the Grim Reaper, where it seems that infinitely many reapers can produce a result without doing anything. Others involve infinite lotteries. If you get two tickets from an infinite fair lottery where tickets are numbered from 1, no matter what number you saw on the first ticket, it is almost certain that the other ticket has a bigger number on it. And others center on paradoxical results in decision theory, such as the surprising observation that if you perform a sequence of fair coin flips that goes infinitely far back into the past but only finitely into the future, you can leverage information about past coin flips to predict future ones with only finitely many mistakes. Alexander R. Pruss examines this seemingly large family of paradoxes in Infinity, Causation and Paradox. He establishes that these paradoxes and numerous others all have a common structure: their most natural embodiment involves an infinite number of items causally impinging on a single output. These paradoxes, he argues, can all be resolved by embracing 'causal finitism', the view that it is impossible for a single output to have an infinite causal history. Throughout the book, Pruss exposits such paradoxes, defends causal finitism at length, and considers connections with the philosophy of physics (where causal finitism favors but does not require discretist theories of space and time) and the philosophy of religion (with a cosmological argument for a first cause).
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192538284
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Infinity is paradoxical in many ways. Some paradoxes involve deterministic supertasks, such as Thomson's Lamp, where a switch is toggled an infinite number of times over a finite period of time, or the Grim Reaper, where it seems that infinitely many reapers can produce a result without doing anything. Others involve infinite lotteries. If you get two tickets from an infinite fair lottery where tickets are numbered from 1, no matter what number you saw on the first ticket, it is almost certain that the other ticket has a bigger number on it. And others center on paradoxical results in decision theory, such as the surprising observation that if you perform a sequence of fair coin flips that goes infinitely far back into the past but only finitely into the future, you can leverage information about past coin flips to predict future ones with only finitely many mistakes. Alexander R. Pruss examines this seemingly large family of paradoxes in Infinity, Causation and Paradox. He establishes that these paradoxes and numerous others all have a common structure: their most natural embodiment involves an infinite number of items causally impinging on a single output. These paradoxes, he argues, can all be resolved by embracing 'causal finitism', the view that it is impossible for a single output to have an infinite causal history. Throughout the book, Pruss exposits such paradoxes, defends causal finitism at length, and considers connections with the philosophy of physics (where causal finitism favors but does not require discretist theories of space and time) and the philosophy of religion (with a cosmological argument for a first cause).
The Voice of the People?
Author: Wim Blockmans
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003830102
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Over the last two centuries, Europe has developed various forms of political representation from which democratic parliamentary systems gradually emerged. This book unravels the conditions, scale and impact under which political participation of common burghers and peasants emerged. Political participation in Europe before the Revolutions moved away from the traditional focus on ‘Three Estates’ which has often blurred the interpretation of popular participation’s role in societies. This book instead examines Europe’s key political variants such as high levels of commercialization and urbanization, combined with a balance of powers between competing categories of actors in society controlling relatively independent resources which lead to political participation forming across the continent. Instead of starting from any ideal type of political participation, this book focuses on the variation through time and space, its composition and activity, helps to explain the functions particular institutional settings fulfilled. The time frame 1100–1800 sheds light on the long-term evolutions such as institutional inertia and processes of oligarchizing. To reveal a correlation of economic and demographical growth with the claim of rising social classes to voice their interests. It also points to the opposite tendency: the formation of fiscalmilitary monarchical states. This book is essential reading for those interested in the formation of Europe’s political structures and students of premodern political history.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003830102
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Over the last two centuries, Europe has developed various forms of political representation from which democratic parliamentary systems gradually emerged. This book unravels the conditions, scale and impact under which political participation of common burghers and peasants emerged. Political participation in Europe before the Revolutions moved away from the traditional focus on ‘Three Estates’ which has often blurred the interpretation of popular participation’s role in societies. This book instead examines Europe’s key political variants such as high levels of commercialization and urbanization, combined with a balance of powers between competing categories of actors in society controlling relatively independent resources which lead to political participation forming across the continent. Instead of starting from any ideal type of political participation, this book focuses on the variation through time and space, its composition and activity, helps to explain the functions particular institutional settings fulfilled. The time frame 1100–1800 sheds light on the long-term evolutions such as institutional inertia and processes of oligarchizing. To reveal a correlation of economic and demographical growth with the claim of rising social classes to voice their interests. It also points to the opposite tendency: the formation of fiscalmilitary monarchical states. This book is essential reading for those interested in the formation of Europe’s political structures and students of premodern political history.
The Artist
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Cincinnati Magazine
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.
The Friendly companion, and illustrated instructor
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Reaper's Lottery
Author: Gre7g Luterman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781721905225
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
"They've put Kaz on trial for the murders!" cried Aziz. "They're going to execute her as the killer!"Tori shook her head in an attempt to wake more fully. "What? No. That's a mistake. Kaz wouldn't harm an insect. There's no way a court could find her guilty.""The krakun legal system doesn't give a damn about geroo. They find everyone guilty!"Their first-ever serial killer is stalking the crew, and though the Reaper's Harvest III is a high-tech starship, Tori has no access to any forensic science. If she wants to save her best friend's life, she needs to think of a new way to solve the crimes ... and fast!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781721905225
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
"They've put Kaz on trial for the murders!" cried Aziz. "They're going to execute her as the killer!"Tori shook her head in an attempt to wake more fully. "What? No. That's a mistake. Kaz wouldn't harm an insect. There's no way a court could find her guilty.""The krakun legal system doesn't give a damn about geroo. They find everyone guilty!"Their first-ever serial killer is stalking the crew, and though the Reaper's Harvest III is a high-tech starship, Tori has no access to any forensic science. If she wants to save her best friend's life, she needs to think of a new way to solve the crimes ... and fast!