![]() ![]() ![]() Hecht's historical survey of doubt is a lot of things and seems to do them all very well. ![]() ― Jennifer Michael Hecht, Doubt: A History “The history of doubt is not only a history of the denial of God it is also a history of those who have grappled with the religious questions and found the possibility of other answers.” This is an account of the world's greatest ‘intellectual virtuosos,' who are also humanity's greatest doubters and disbelievers, from the ancient Greek philosophers, Jesus, and the Eastern religions, to modern secular equivalents Marx, Freud and Darwin-and their attempts to reconcile the seeming meaninglessness of the universe with the human need for meaning, This remarkable book ranges from the early Greeks, Hebrew figures such as Job and Ecclesiastes, Eastern critical wisdom, Roman stoicism, Jesus as a man of doubt, Gnosticism and Christian mystics, medieval Islamic, Jewish and Christian skeptics, secularism, the rise of science, modern and contemporary critical thinkers such as Schopenhauer, Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, the existentialists. ![]() In the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions that distinguish the Western mind especially-from Socrates to Galileo and Darwin to Wittgenstein and Hawking. ![]()
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![]() This history begins with three key bodies: the Crown, the Church and the aristocracy. Who Owns England? makes it clear that the current issues with land ownership are systemic and result from a long history of unjust land use and distribution. ![]() Without knowing who owns land it is difficult to assign responsibility for it. ![]() This is in spite of its far-reaching consequences for the wider public, particularly at a time of climate change and ecological destruction. This is significant because landowners have control over, but limited responsibility for, their land. Just 25,000 landowners own half of England. The purpose of the book lies in highlighting the unequal distribution of land ownership in England, and how secretive this ownership is. ![]() In Shrubsole’s words, ‘We need land to grow our food, build our homes and provide space for the ecosystems that clean our air and provide us with fresh water’. This is primarily because land underpins so much of our society. Who Owns England? by Guy Shrubsole advocates that land should form a more central role in societal, cultural and political debate. Who Owns England?, by Guy Shrubsole, London, Williams Collins, 2019 How land is used, its value to society, and its ownership are therefore vital issues for architects to contemplate and discuss. ![]() Architecture occupies land, it is made from the land, and its waste products adversely affect it. ![]() ![]() Resurrected by an ancient power, she finds herself with the new ability to manipulate life force. When she stumbles across a dead body on her patrol, two fellow officers gruesomely murder her and dump her into the harbor. She's barely holding it together, haunted by memories of a lover who vanished and voices that float in and out of her head like radio signals. ![]() Yat has recently been demoted on the force due to "lifestyle choices" after being caught at a gay club. But, after a devastating war and a sweeping biotech revolution, all its inhabitants want is peace, no one more so than Yat Jyn-Hok a reformed-thief-turned-cop who patrols the streets at night. ![]() The port city of Hainak is alive: its buildings, its fashion, even its weapons. Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun in this queer, Māori-inspired debut fantasy about a police officer who is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked with protecting her city from an insidious evil threatening to destroy it. ![]() ![]() Lynsey "Lyn" Gala started writing in the back of her science notebook in third grade and hasn’t stopped since. Liam is his family, and Ondry will protect him with his last breath… assuming that he can recognize the dangers in time to do so. ![]() He does know one thing that humans seem to constantly forget-that the peaceful Rownt are predators and when their families are threatened, Rownt become deadly killers. Unfortunately, new humans bring new conflicts and he is not sure how to protect Liam. ![]() Ondry has no hope of understanding human psychology in general, he only knows that he will hold onto his palteia with the last breath in his body, and he'd like to keep his status and his wealth too. ![]() He also wants to serve Ondry with not only the pleasures of the nest but also by bringing human profits. Liam wants to help the people he left and the worlds being torn apart. When political changes at the human base lead Ondry to attempt a difficult trade, the pair find themselves entangled in human affairs. Ondry and Liam have settled into a good life, but their trading is still tied up with humans, and humans are always messy. ![]() ![]() Her books include Mary Queen of Scots, Cromwell, the Lord Protector, Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration, and Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King. She is the recipient of the Wolfson Prize for History, the Saint Louis Literary Award, and the 2000 Norton Medlicott Medal of Britain's Historical Association. ![]() Since 1969 Antonia Fraser has written many acclaimed historical works that have been international bestsellers. MUST YOU GO? is a testament to one of modern literature’s most celebrated marriages. ![]() Fraser shares Harold Pinter's own revelations about his past, as well as observations by his friends. Fraser's diaries, written by a biographer living with a creative artist and observing the process firsthand, also provide a unique insight into Harold Pinters writing and portray a literary marriage unfolding in real time. In MUST YOU GO?, Lady Antonia Fraser recounts the life she shared with the internationally renowned dramatist and Nobel Prize winner, Harold Pinter. The book is based on diaries she has kept since October 1968. ![]() ![]() ![]() This was very different from Forshaw's book, but in a good way. She chooses to tell it in short, spare, lyrical chapters, like snapshots, regaling Larsson’s readers with the inside account of how he wrote, why he wrote, who the sources were for Lisbeth and his other characters-graciously answering Stieg Larsson’s readers’ most pressing questions-and at the same time telling us the things we didn’t know we wanted to know-about love and loss, death, betrayal, and the mistreatment of women. In “There Are Things I Want You to Know” about Stieg Larsson and Me, Eva Gabrielsson accepts the daunting challenge of telling the story of their shared life steeped in love and sharpened in the struggle for justice and human rights. ![]() ![]() Her name is Eva Gabrielsson.Įva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson shared everything, starting when they were both eighteen until his untimely death thirty-two years later at the age of fifty. Only one person in the world knows that story well enough to tell it with authority. ![]() Here is the real inside story-not the one about the Stieg Larsson phenomenon, but rather the love story of a man and a woman whose lives came to be guided by politics and love, coffee and activism, writing and friendship. ![]() ![]() ![]() There's a collective 'we' in that identity, because when one black person wins, we feel like we all win, because we know what we're fighting against." "I think the other part is being black and doing something to really show black people that they can be the heroes, that they can ride the giant lion, that they can have that epic adventure and love story. So it's really an honor to write for such a passionate and engaged group. "When you're writing for young adults, they take this seriously, and the stories they love, they will defend those stories. On what the book means to Adeyemi's readers and fans Here & Now's Robin Young talks with Adeyemi ( about the book, a bestseller that has been optioned for a film. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) This article is more than 4 years old.įirst-time author Tomi Adeyemi channeled her outrage over shootings of unarmed black men by police into her young adult fantasy novel " Children of Blood and Bone." "Children of Blood and Bone," by Tomi Adeyemi. ![]() ![]() ![]() The way to Snæfells is nice, but nothing too flashy when compared to the glaciers and waterfalls on other parts of the island. Unlike other Icelandic volcanoes, this one seems to be particularly quiet: the last eruption was around 200 AD and, taking into account that I’m quite the jinx and it did not so much as shake during my visit, it looks like it will stay that way. This volcano was the Snæfellsjökull (Snæfells glacier), a stratavolcano around 1,200 meters (3,937 feet) high. Its snowy summit, by an optical illusion not unfrequent in mountains, seemed close to us, and yet how many weary hours it took to reach it! The stones, adhering by no soil or fibrous roots of vegetation, rolled away from under our feet, and rushed down the precipice below with the swiftness of an avalanche. We were now beginning to scale the steep sides of Snæfell. In his novel, Jules Verne describes how professor Otto Lidenbrock’s expedition travels all the way to a volcano in Iceland, which he believes to lead to the center of the Earth after decoding some ancient notes in a runic manuscript (chapter XV): ![]() ![]() ![]() "Inspired by the book 'H is for hawk' by Helen MacDonald." In English with optional English subtitles descriptive audio.Įditor, Nigel Buck director of photography, George Woodcock music, Cody Westheimer. NATURE: H Is for Hawk - A New Chapter / DVD / Special Interest-Nature / 841887032117. "Subtitles are a function of the disc and serve the same purpose as closed-captions"-Container. Distributor: : Distributed by PBS Distribution,.Physical Description: videodisc 1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color 4 3/4 in. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maddie's going to find the truth about Cleo's life and death. ![]() No one seems to know or care why she was killed except Maddie-and the dead woman herself. ![]() Cleo Sherwood was a young African-American woman who liked to have a good time. Working at the newspaper offers Maddie the opportunity to make her name, and she has found just the story to do it: a missing woman whose body was discovered in the fountain of a city park lake. Drawing on her own secrets, she helps Baltimore police find a murdered girl-assistance that leads to a job at the city's afternoon newspaper, the Star. ![]() Maddie wants to matter, to leave her mark on a swiftly changing world. This year, she's bolted from her marriage of almost twenty years, determined to make good on her youthful ambitions to live a passionate, meaningful life. Last year, she was a happy, even pampered housewife. In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know-everyone, that is, except Madeline "Maddie" Schwartz. The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the murder of a forgotten young woman. ![]() |