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![]() As Godfrey-Smith stresses, it is a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how subjective experience crept into being-how nature became aware of itself. How is it that a creature with such gifts evolved through an evolutionary lineage so radically distant from our own? What does it mean that evolution built minds not once but at least twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. ![]() In captivity, octopuses have been known to identify individual human keepers, raid neighboring tanks for food, turn off lightbulbs by spouting jets of water, plug drains, and make daring escapes. Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. ![]() ![]() When the chance to win a $200,000 scholarship comes up, Eva and her best friend Annie take off on a road trip across the country. Heartbroken, Eva searches long and far to find an excuse good enough for her over-protective mom to let her go. After he kisses her and they bond over poetry and plan hangouts in the Strand over the summer, Will announces that he’s moving to California. ![]() When she starts tutoring Will, a handsome boy whose family owns a cupcake store, she wants to ride off into the sunset with him. ![]() Ever since her dad died, she’s found solitude in them: she loves the happy endings and hopes for one herself. HELLO EVERYONE! I am so excited to be participating in the Sunday Street Team for KISSING IN AMERICA by Corey Ann Haydu! KISSING IN AMERICA release this Tuesday, May 26, and I’m so excited to share this book with you! Take a look at the my review of the book and click the cover to add it to your TBR on Goodreads!įind it: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, GoodreadsĮva is a New York City girl, who has a small (alright, pretty big) obsession with romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even though Beauvoir’s influence on the works of such radical feminists as Firestone and Kate Millet has been widely acknowledged, not much attention has been given to Beauvoir’s connection to Andrea Dworkin, arguable one of the most provocative and controversial figures in radical feminism. It is no surprise that one of the most prominent radical feminists of the 1960s, Shulamith Firestone, dedicated her famous work, The Dialectics of Sex, to Beauvoir, as Firestone owes much of her view on ontology of the female body to Beauvoir’s ontology. While Simone de Beauvoir is not commonly regarded as a radical feminist, if one were to analyze critically her ontological and ethical positions, one would be able to make the connection between her work-in particular, The Ethics of Ambiguity and The Second Sex-and the positions later taken by radical feminists in second wave feminist thought. ![]() ![]() ![]() Conversations with Friends is frequently beautiful and steadfastly naturalistic – we see the characters in transit, getting dressed, texting with clear timestamps for the summer of 2019 – but keeps its characters terse, two-dimensional and frustratingly inscrutable. ![]() ![]() (Rooney co-wrote the first half of Normal People, but has no official role in this series.)Ĭarrying over both Rooney’s reticent style and digital communication is a tall order, and the loss to translation is a palpable absence. Key figures from Normal People – Irish production company Element Pictures, director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Alice Birch – strive for a similar quiet, meditative realism on Conversations, with characters who communicate more frequently, and significantly, through text and email. It’s a murkier tangle than Normal People, made even more inaccessible by the characters’ psychological opaqueness and general aversion to speaking. ![]() The book and series follow a thorny quadrangle of sex and friendship between two best friends/ex-lovers and an older married couple – none of whom, in classic Rooney fashion, seem party to their own motivations. Conversations with Friends is a harder sell. ![]() ![]() She wrote numerous books and articles, the most notable of which was Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures which had sold over nine million copies as of 2001. She also founded the Christian Science Monitor, a Pulitzer Prize winning secular newspaper, in 1908 and three religious magazines: the Christian Science Sentinel, The Christian Science Journal, and The Herald of Christian Science. Mary Baker Glover Eddy (1821-1910) was an American religious leader and author who founded The Church of Christ, Scientist, in New England in 1879. The book was selected as one of the "75 Books By Women Whose Words Have Changed The World," by the Women's National Book Association. However, she would continue working on it and making changes for the rest of her life. Mary Baker Eddy described it as her "most important work." She began writing it in February 1872 and the first edition was published in 1875. ![]() This nondenominational book has a 119-year history of healing and inspiration. ![]() See images for the condition of this book.īlurb: The foundational text of Christian Science. 2009 by Mary Baker Eddy (Author) 243 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition £0.49 Read with Our Free App Audiobook £0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover £17.76 5 Used from £17.05 9 New from £17. A one page article and photos of Mary Baker Eddy are glued to the contents page closest to spine. Mary Baker Eddy Science and Health: With Key to the Scriptures - Blue Edition Paperback 1 Mar. Discoloration and fading to boards and spine but interior is clean and unmarked. Hardcover has embossed cloth boards, gold designs and lettering on front & spine, but no DJ. ![]() ![]() Condition: Acceptable: Signs of wear and consistent use. ![]() ![]() Owen knows that better than anyone, what with the real world’s homework and chores.īut everything changes the day Owen sees the impossible happen-his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the library. Life is very boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series. (The books blurbs come from the pages for the books at. This a list of the books already published in the series. Remember, before posting or editing anything, please read the wiki rules :) This is a relatively new wiki and does not have many pages, so we need lots of help! that isn't created yet and add information about them! Or start by editing one of the already-created pages on this website! Then, feel free to add a page on a character, person, book, place, etc. If you want to help out this wiki, start by reading at least the first book (if you haven't already). You can find the link to HUAT's wiki here. James Riley is also the author of the New York Times bestselling Half Upon A Time series and the Revenge of Magic series. The books in the series include: Story Thieves, and Worlds Apart, which came out on March 20, 2018. This is a fan-made wiki about the series Story Thieves by James Riley. ![]() Welcome to The Story Thieves Wiki! Please read through the rules before editing. 4.2 Story Thieves #2: "The Stolen Chapters".2 Please read through the rules before editing. ![]() ![]() ![]() My work has included developing computer approaches, models, and tools to help health and healthcare decision makers in all continents (except for Antarctica). My previous positions include serving as Professor By Courtesy at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Executive Director of the Global Obesity Prevention Center (GOPC) at Johns Hopkins University, Associate Professor of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Associate Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh, and Senior Manager at Quintiles Transnational, working in biotechnology equity research at Montgomery Securities, and co-founding a biotechnology/bioinformatics company. Currently, I am a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Public Health, Executive Director of PHICOR and Center for Advanced Technology and Communication in Health (CATCH), and founder and CEO of Symsilico. I am a writer, journalist, professor, systems modeler, computational, AI, and digital health expert, medical doctor, avocado-eater, and entrepreneur, not always in that order. ![]() ![]() No matter the narrative is propelled by Cai's acutely observant voice and vibrant personality: cocksure, scheming, dishonest, sullen, passionate, painfully insecure and utterly irresistible. While the austerely elegant prose skillfully evokes two very different vanished worlds, readers unfamiliar with the minutiae of Anglo-Saxon history may find themselves lost in its convoluted politics others may be disconcerted when memorable characters and intriguing plot threads are introduced only to disappear. Adopting the roles of slave, hostage, foster-son, witch, spy, warrior and even prince, Cai struggles to determine who he truly is and where he belongs. When betrayal sends him in chains to his parents' remote homeland, he is ensnared by the bloody heritage his father strove to keep hidden. Despite his barbarous British parentage, Cai thinks of sophisticated seventh-century Constantinople as home, using his semi-magical powers of stealth and cajolery to gain renown as a thief. ![]() ![]() A boy becomes entangled in his family's mysterious past in this stand-alone sequel to Bloodline (2009). ![]() ![]() Tolkien originally pitched The Silmarillion as his follow-up to The Hobbit. ![]() But the roots of the books are far humbler than their success would suggest. Here are a few things even Middle-earth superfans might not know. More than 65 years later, The Lord of the Rings still stands as a cultural touchstone, inspiring new generations of authors, filmmakers, and other creative minds in the fantasy genre. In the sprawling blend of high fantasy and real-world mythology, Tolkien transported readers to a wonderous, fictional land complete with its own languages, civilizations, and conflicts. When Fellowship of the Ring-the first book in The Lord of the Rings trilogy-hit shelves in 1954, there wasn’t much to compare it to. The ring, however, now rests in the hands of a lowly hobbit named Frodo Baggins, who, alongside his trusty fellowship, must travel to the fires of Mount Doom to destroy it. Tolkien’s sprawling The Lord of the Rings saga, the Dark Lord Sauron has returned to Middle-earth to hunt down the all-powerful One Ring, which would give him dominion over the land. ![]() |