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The themes of God, Mind and Knowledge are central to the philosophy
of religion but they are now being taken up by professional
philosophers who have not previously contributed to the field. This
book is a collection of original essays by eminent and rising
philosophers and it explores the boundaries between philosophy of
religion, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology. Its
introduction will make it accessible to newcomers to the field,
especially those approaching it from theology. Many of the book's
topics lie at the focal point of debates - instigated in part by
the so-called New Atheists - in contemporary culture about whether
it is rational to have religious beliefs, and the role these
beliefs can or should play in the life of individuals and of
society.
The themes of God, Mind and Knowledge are central to the philosophy
of religion but they are now being taken up by professional
philosophers who have not previously contributed to the field. This
book is a collection of original essays by eminent and rising
philosophers and it explores the boundaries between philosophy of
religion, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology. Its
introduction will make it accessible to newcomers to the field,
especially those approaching it from theology. Many of the book's
topics lie at the focal point of debates - instigated in part by
the so-called New Atheists - in contemporary culture about whether
it is rational to have religious beliefs, and the role these
beliefs can or should play in the life of individuals and of
society.
The largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a
cross between a banana and a mango. It grows wild in twenty-six
states, gracing Eastern forests each fall with sweet-smelling,
tropical-flavored abundance. Historically, it fed and sustained
Native Americans and European explorers, presidents, and enslaved
African Americans, inspiring folk songs, poetry, and scores of
place names from Georgia to Illinois. Its trees are an organic
grower's dream, requiring no pesticides or herbicides to thrive,
and containing compounds that are among the most potent anticancer
agents yet discovered. So why have so few people heard of the
pawpaw, much less tasted one? In Pawpaw-a 2016 James Beard
Foundation Award nominee in the Writing & Literature
category-author Andrew Moore explores the past, present, and future
of this unique fruit, traveling from the Ozarks to Monticello;
canoeing the lower Mississippi in search of wild fruit; drinking
pawpaw beer in Durham, North Carolina; tracking down lost cultivars
in Appalachian hollers; and helping out during harvest season in a
Maryland orchard. Along the way, he gathers pawpaw lore and
knowledge not only from the plant breeders and horticulturists
working to bring pawpaws into the mainstream (including Neal
Peterson, known in pawpaw circles as the fruit's own "Johnny
Pawpawseed"), but also regular folks who remember eating them in
the woods as kids, but haven't had one in over fifty years. As much
as Pawpaw is a compendium of pawpaw knowledge, it also plumbs
deeper questions about American foodways-how economic, biologic,
and cultural forces combine, leading us to eat what we eat, and
sometimes to ignore the incredible, delicious food growing all
around us. If you haven't yet eaten a pawpaw, this book won't let
you rest until you do.
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Bug-Jargal (Paperback)
Victor Hugo; Edited by Andrew Moore
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Discovery Miles 4 410
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Bug-Jargal (1826; first published as a short story in 1819) is an
early novel by French writer Victor Hugo (1802-1885). It describes
the friendship between the enslaved African prince Bug-Jargal and
Leopold D'Auverney, a French military officer, during the slave
revolt in Santo Domingo of August, 1791, that would eventually lead
to the creation of the republic of Haiti in 1804. --- Bug-Jargal,
black slave and son of a king, is a man "of the noblest moral and
intellectual character, passionately in love with a white woman,
yet tempering the wildest passion with the deepest respect... There
is no reader of the tale, who can forget the entrancing interest of
the scenes in the camp of the insurgent chief Biassou, or the
death-struggle between Habibrah and D'Auverney, upon the brink of
the cataract. The latter, in particular, is drawn with such intense
force, that the reader seems almost to be a witness of the changing
fortunes of the fight, and can hardly breathe freely till he comes
to the close." (The Edinburgh Review)
Andrew Moore's new book, Blue Alabama, focuses on the American
South, depicts the economic, social and cultural divisions that
characterize the South and the love of history, tradition and land
that binds its citizens. Following upon in-depth explorations of
the economically ravaged city of Detroit (2007 - 2009) and the
mythic high plains region along the 100th Meridian (2011 - 2014),
Blue Alabama continues the artist's investigation of "the inner
empire" of the United States.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
"Colas Breugnon" is a charming romance of life in Burgundy three
hundred years ago. It is an "autobiographical" novel, the story
being told in the first person by Colas, who reviews his fifty
years of life, and describes all its joys and sorrows. The story is
gay and humorous, and full of wise observations about life. ---
"Colas Breugnon is the jovial Burgundian, the lusty wood-carver,
the practical joker always fond of his glass, the droll fellow.
Before everything, Colas Breugnon is a free man. He loves his king,
but only so long as the king leaves him his liberty; he loves his
wife, but follows his own bent; he is on excellent terms with the
priest of a neighboring parish, but never goes to church; he
idolizes his children, but his vigorous individuality makes him
unwilling to live with them. He is friendly with all, but subject
to none; he is freer than the king; he has that sense of humor
characteristic of the free spirit to whom the whole world belongs.
From the artistic point of view, 'Colas Breugnon' may perhaps be
regarded as Rolland's most successful work. This is because it is
woven in one piece, because it flows with a continuous rhythm,
because its progress is never arrested by the discussion of thorny
problems. It is written throughout in the same key. The first
sentence gives the note like a tuning fork, and thence the entire
book takes its pitch. Throughout, the same lively melody is
sustained. The writer employs a peculiarly happy form. His style is
poetic without being actually versified; it has a melodious measure
without being strictly metrical. This work is unlike any of
Rolland's other writings. It is not an historic study, a critical
appreciation, a philosophic essay, nor yet even, in the strictest
sense of the word, a novel. It is rather a volume of reminiscences
as told by a man of fifty; and the very aimlessness with which this
man talks is in itself a pleasure; for Breugnon is himself the one
subject of the book, holding our attention by the display of a
wayward, sympathetic, and aggressive personality." (Stefan Zweig)
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer best
remembered today for his science fiction works. Wells and Jules
Verne are each sometimes referred to as "The Father of Science
Fiction." --- He has foretold many futures for us, some utterly
abhorrent, others more or less attractive... There was, for
example, "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" "his name was George
McWhirter; ... he was a little man and had eyes of a hot brown,
very erect red hair, a mustache with ends he twisted up, and
freckles." This unpromising looking individual, and he was a
blatant skeptic, too, becomes suddenly possessed of the power to
make anything happen that he wills, but he finds the use of this
mysterious gift by no means to his advantage. It brings him and
others into all sorts of trouble, and only his renunciation of it
saves the world from destruction. --- We shudder at the thought of
humanity being suffocated on a blazing world as in "The Star," ...
which is a little gem in its way without a superfluous word or a
false tone... Those were the days when Mr. Wells was writing for
pleasure. He was enabled to throw off in the early nineties a swift
succession of short stories astonishingly varied in style and
theme. As he became more experienced in the art of writing, or
rather of marketing manuscripts, he seems to have regretted this
youthful prodigality of bright ideas. Many of them he later worked
over on a more extensive scale as the metallurgist goes back to a
mine and with an improved process extracts more gold from the
tailings and dump than the miner got out of the ore originally. ---
In its power to forecast the future science finds both its
validation and justification. By this alone it tests its
conclusions and demonstrates its usefulness. In fact, the sole
object of science is prophecy... The mind of the scientific man is
directed forward and he has no use for history except as it gives
him data by which to draw a curve that he may project into the
future. It is, therefore, not a chance direction of his fancy that
so many of Wells's books, both romances and studies, deal with the
future. It is the natural result of his scientific training, which
not only led him to a rich unworked field of fictional motives, but
made him consider the problems of life from a novel and very
illuminative point of view. (Edwin E. Slosson)
The Paston Treasure, a spectacular painting from the 1660s now held
at Norwich Castle Museum, depicts a wealth of objects from the
collection of a local landed family. This deeply researched volume
uses the painting as a portal to the history of the collection,
exploring the objects, their context, and the wider world they
occupied. Drawing on an impressive range of fields, including
history of art and collections, technical art history, musicology,
history of science, and the social and cultural history of the 17th
century, the book weaves together narratives of the family and
their possessions, as well as the institutions that eventually
acquired them. Essays, vignettes, and catalogue entries comprise
this multidisciplinary exposition, uniting objects depicted in the
painting for the first time in nearly 300 years. Published in
association with the Yale Center for British Art Exhibition
Schedule: Yale Center for British Art (02/15/18-05/27/18) Norwich
Castle Museum & Art Gallery (06/23/18-09/23/18)
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