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'A cult figure.' Guardian 'A dark and brilliant achievement.' Ian
McEwan 'Shamelessly clever ... Exhilaratingly subversive and
funny.' Independent 'A modern classic ... As relevant now as when
it was first published. ' John Banville A young woman is in love
with a successful surgeon; a man torn between his love for her and
his womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her
life as a series of betrayals; while her other lover stands to lose
everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives
are shaped by choices and events, and everything occurs but once,
existence seems to lose its substance and weight - and we feel 'the
unbearable lightness of being'. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
encompasses passion and philosophy, infidelity and ideas, the
Prague Spring and modern America, political acts and private
desires, comedy and tragedy - in fact, all of human existence. What
readers are saying: 'Some books change your mind, some change your
heart, the very best change your whole world ... A mighty piece of
work, that will shape your life forever.' 'One of the best books
I've ever read ... A book about love and life, full of surprises.
Beautiful.' 'This book is going to change your life ... It
definitely leaves you with a hangover after you're done reading.'
'A must read - loved it, such beautiful observations on life, love
and sexuality.' 'Kundera writes about love as if in a trance so the
beauty of it is enchanting and dreamy ... Will stay with you
forever.' 'A beautiful novel that helps you understand life better
... Loved it.' 'One of those rare novels full of depth and insight
into the human condition ... Got me reading Camus and Sartre.' 'One
of the best books I have ever read ... An intellectual love story
if ever there was one.'
In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number
Devil, who leads him to discover the amazing world of numbers:
infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, numbers that
magically appear in triangles, and numbers that expand without end.
As we dream with him, we are taken further and further into
mathematical theory, where ideas eventually take flight, until
everyone -- from those who fumble over fractions to those who solve
complex equations in their heads -- winds up marveling at what
numbers can do.
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Milan Kundera; Translated by Michael Henry Heim
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The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following
in his own country and launched his worldwide literary reputation.
In his foreword Kundera explains why this completely revised
translation is the definitive edition of his work. 'It is
impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom
of this very beautiful novel. The author of The Joke is clearly one
of the best to be found anywhere.' Salman Rushdie, Observer
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover--these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our private actions, but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.
Adventures in Immediate Irreality, the masterwork of Max Blecher a
magnificent writer who brings to mind Bruno Schulz paints in vivid
colors the crises of irreality that plagued him in his youth, eerie
mirages wherein he would glimpse future events, glowing glimpses
unsettling in every way. In gliding chapters that move with a
peculiar dream logic of their own, this memoiristic novella
sketches the tremulous, frightening and exhilarating awakenings of
a very young man."
Law Without Force is a landmark in political and social philosophy.
It proposes nothing less than a completely new basis for
international law. As relevant today as when it was first published
nearly sixty years ago, it commands the attention of all concerned
with what the future may bring to the law of nations. The great
scope of Niemeyer's undertaking draws respect even from those who
disagree with his challenging analysis of the historical past and
his suggestions for the future of international law. In his new
introduction, Michael Henry observes that Law Without Force
provides us with a foundation of Niemeyer's thinking. Published in
1941, when Hitler was swallowing up Europe, this volume shows how a
first-rate mind grappled with a legal, historical, social, and
ultimately metaphysical problem. It provides in detail the
reasoning behind Niemeyer's rejection of a foreign policy based on
morality and his distinction between authoritarian and totalitarian
governments; and it provides us with the first stage of his lengthy
and prodigious effort to understand "this terrible century." It is
a book that no serious student of Niemeyer can afford to ignore. At
the very heart of the author's vigorous discussion may be found his
rejection of a moral basis for international law and his suggestion
that a functional basis should be substituted for it. The book
incisively reviews the relation between traditional international
law and the changing structure of international politics concluding
that the traditional system of law has operated as an agency of
disharmony and conflict. After an investigation of the traditional
legal system, the author then asks, "What type of law fits the
social structure of this modern world?" The answers are presented
in the last part of the book, as Neimeyer offers his case for a
functional system of law, divorced from moral exhortations or
appeals to shattered authority. Philosophy, sociology, and legal
theory are brilliantly interwoven in this volume, which will engage
serious readers interested in political and social theory.
"Law Without Force" is a landmark in political and social
philosophy. It proposes nothing less than a completely new basis
for international law. As relevant today as when it was first
published nearly sixty years ago, it commands the attention of all
concerned with what the future may bring to the law of nations. The
great scope of Niemeyer's undertaking draws respect even from those
who disagree with his challenging analysis of the historical past
and his suggestions for the future of international law.
In his new introduction, Michael Henry observes that Law Without
Force provides us with a foundation of Niemeyer's thinking.
Published in 1941, when Hitler was swallowing up Europe, this
volume shows how a first-rate mind grappled with a legal,
historical, social, and ultimately metaphysical problem. It
provides in detail the reasoning behind Niemeyer's rejection of a
foreign policy based on morality and his distinction between
authoritarian and totalitarian governments; and it provides us with
the first stage of his lengthy and prodigious effort to understand
"this terrible century." It is a book that no serious student of
Niemeyer can afford to ignore.
At the very heart of the author's vigorous discussion may be
found his rejection of a moral basis for international law and his
suggestion that a functional basis should be substituted for it.
The book incisively reviews the relation between traditional
international law and the changing structure of international
politics concluding that the traditional system of law has operated
as an agency of disharmony and conflict. After an investigation of
the traditional legal system, the author then asks, "What type of
law fits the social structure of this modern world?" The answers
are presented in the last part of the book, as Neimeyer offers his
case for a functional system of law, divorced from moral
exhortations or appeals to shattered authority. Philosophy,
sociology, and legal theory are brilliantly interwoven in this
volume, which will engage serious readers interested in political
and social theory.
HEAL YOUR DEPRESSION AND REGAIN YOUR LIFE-WITH THREE NEW TOOLS ON
THE CUTTING EDGE OF TREATMENT Everyone feels depressed sometimes.
But a sustained lack of energy, a pro-found inability to enjoy
life, or an overwhelming sadness that can render unbearable pain
may be symptoms of something more. If you suffer from any of these
symptoms, you may be one of 300 million people worldwide who have
depression. While we often think of pharmaceutical treatments as
the best way to treat depression, the truth is that for many people
they either don't work or lose their efficacy after a time. But
there is hope in the form of three groundbreaking therapies:
ketamine, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). In Brain Reboot, you'll learn: *
How to get an accurate diagnosis * How to determine what
treatment(s) are best for you * The efficacy of ketamine, TMS, and
ECT * A clear summary of benefits and potential side effects *
Step-by-step information for each treatment and FAQs * Tips for
supplementing your recovery with exercise, nutrition, and sleep *
Treatments on the horizon Dr. Michael Henry's life mission is to
help anyone suffering with treatment-resistant depression; in Brain
Reboot he provides everything you need to know about using
ketamine, TMS, and ECT to regain your self and your life.
This book provides an up-to-date guide to managing Country Risk. It
tackles its various and interlinked dimensions including sovereign
risk, socio-political risk, and macroeconomic risk for foreign
investors, creditors, and domestic residents. It shows how they are
accentuated in the global economy together with new risks such as
terrorism, systemic risk, environmental risk, and the rising trend
of global volatility and contagion. The book also assesses the
limited usefulness of traditional yardsticks of Country Risk, such
as ratings and rankings, which at best reflect the market consensus
without predictive value and at worst amplify risk aversion and
generate crisis contamination. This book goes further than
comparing a wide range of risk management methods in that it
provides operational and forward-looking warning signs of Country
Risk. The combination of the authors' academic and market-based
backgrounds makes the book a useful tool for scholars, analysts,
and practitioners.
A part of the "return to religion" now evident in European
philosophy, this book represents the culmination of the career of a
leading phenomenological thinker whose earlier works trace a
trajectory from Marx through a genealogy of psychoanalysis that
interprets Descartes's "I think, I am" as "I feel myself thinking,
I am."
In this book, Henry does not ask whether Christianity is "true" or
"false." Rather, what is in question here is what Christianity
considers as truth, what kind of truth it offers to people, what it
endeavors to communicate to them, not as a theoretical and
indifferent truth, but as the essential truth that by some
mysterious affinity is suitable for them, to the point that it
alone is capable of ensuring them salvation. In the process, Henry
inevitably argues against the concept of truth that dominates
modern thought and determines, in its multiple implications, the
world in which we live.
Henry argues that Christ undoes "the truth of the world," that He
is an access to the infinity of self-love, to a radical
subjectivity that admits no outside, to the immanence of affective
life found beyond the despair fatally attached to all objectifying
thought. The Kingdom of God accomplishes itself in the here and now
through the love of Christ in what Henry calls "the auto-affection
of Life." In this condition, he argues, all problems of lack,
ambivalence, and false projection are resolved.
Both a unique witness of transformative events in the late 20th
century, and a prescient analysis of our present economic crises
from a major French philosopher, Michel Henry's From Communism to
Capitalism adds an important economic dimension to his earlier
social critique. It begins by tracing the collapse of communist
regimes back to their failure to implement Marx's original insights
into the irreplaceable value of the living individual. Henry goes
on to apply this same criticism to the surviving capitalist
economic systems, portending their eventual and inevitable
collapse. The influence of Michel Henry's radical revision of
phenomenological thought is only now beginning to be felt in full
force, and this edition is the first English translation of his
major engagement with socio-economic questions. Now available in
paperback, From Communism to Capitalism reinterprets politics and
economics in light of the failure of socialism and the
pervasiveness of global capitalism, and Henry subjects both to
critique on the basis of his own philosophy of life. His notion of
the individual is one that, as subjective affect, subtends both
Marxist collectivism and liberalism simultaneously. In addition to
providing a crucial economic elaboration of Henry's influential
social critiques, this work provides a context for understanding
the 2008 financial shock and offers important insights into the
political motivations behind the 'Arab spring'.
A unique document: Clint Eastwood's story, as told in his own words
A reference work in which one of the great masters of contemporary
cinema revisits, film by film, his entire career as both a
legendary actor and a remarkable director An insightful
conversation with the critic and documentary filmmaker Michael
Henry Wilson, who has known Eastwood for over twenty years A richly
illustrated, faithful record of Eastwood's work, containing film
stills and set photographs as well as previously unpublished
photographs from his personal collection, dating from his youth and
early years as an actor A potential 2010 bestseller: Eastwood's
recent films - including Million Dollar Baby (2004), Gran Torino
(2008), Changeling (2008) and Invictus (2009) - have enjoyed huge
worldwide success, both at the box office and with the critics
Includes a biography and a complete filmography
This is the only complete and unabridged one-volume edition of
Matthew Henry's famous work.Now, this classic volume has been
re-typset and features a slimmer and handier trim size and an
attractive new cover.First among the mighty (commentaries) for
general usefulness we are bound to mention the man whose name is a
household word, Matthew Henry. He is the most pious and pithy,
sound and sensible, suggestive and sober, terse and trustworthy . .
. he is deeply spiritual, heavenly, profitable; finding good matter
in every text, and from all deducting the most practical and
judicious lessons . . . It is the Christian's companion, suitable
to everybody, instructive to all.
--Charles H. SpurgeonFrom Genesis to Revelation, Matthew Henry
successfully combines practical application, devotional insight,
and scholarship on the entire Bible. Henry has profound insights on
the content, message and nature of God's divine revelation. Perfect
for all readers of the Bible who want a convenient, comprehensive
commentary.- Includes the entire text of Matthew Henry's original
multi-volume commentary
- Modern easy-to-read type
- Portable
- Attractive and affordable
A veritable cookbook of natural plaster recipes and techniques for
beautiful, durable finishes Natural plasters made of clay, lime,
and other materials mixed with sand are beautiful building
finishes. Fun to work with, low-impact, and allowing infinite
creativity, they are high performance and provide proven,
centuries-long durability. Yet until now there's been no resource
that has pulled together the best North American plaster recipes
and how-to into one place. Essential Natural Plasters covers it
all: Sourcing and selecting materials, including site-soils Clay,
lime, and gypsum plasters as well as fibers and amendments Interior
and exterior use and specialty plasters such as tadelakt for
bathrooms Preparing substrates, from straw bales and cob to lath
and Sheetrock How to set up a safe, efficient worksite Mixing,
testing, tinting, repairing, and applying plasters Coveted recipes
from leading plasterers in Ontario, Vermont, New Mexico, France,
and New Zealand. Richly illustrated and deeply researched,
Essential Natural Plasters is the must-have resource for
owner-builders and professionals alike.
This book is Michel Henry's most sustained investigation of
Husserlian phenomenology. With painstaking detail and precision,
Henry reveals the decisive methodological assumptions that led
Husserlian phenomenologyin the direction of Idealism. Returning to
the materiality of life, Henry's material phenomenology situates
central phenomenological themes-intentionality, temporality,
embodiment, and intersubjectivity-within the full concreteness of
life.One of the most accessible of Henry's books, Material
Phenomenology is essential reading for those interested in the
future of phenomenology or in a philosophy of life in the truest
sense.
Thinking of moving to Bali with you family? So you have been to
Bali a couple of times on holiday and now thinking you want to move
there for a year or more. It is often said that living in Bali is
completely different from staying there on a short holiday. So what
exactly is different and how can I prepare for the move? I wrote
"The Expat Family Guide to Living in Bali" to help prepare families
for the big move and settle into their new life. The book covers
all of the essential information you will need, such as choosing a
school, finding accommodation, looking for work, cost of living and
getting the right visa. Get advice also from other expats who have
already made the move. I write about some of the negative aspects
also, including common scams, to help protect your family. Arm
yourself with the latest information on living in Bali and start
packing your bags today
This study oilers a new definition of Shelley s place in English
radical culture. Treating the poet's literary career as an active
intervention in the social world, Professor Scrivener shows how
Shelley designed each text to provoke different audiences in a
Utopian direction, despite the political repression and other
cultural limitations of which he was acutely aware. Originally
published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
The Gram-positive and spore-forming Bacilli are the most dominant
group of bacteria that exist in various ecological niches on the
earth. They represent one of the most important unmapped pools of
biodiversity with immense potential of applications in agriculture,
environment, and industry. As these bacteria are highly tolerant to
stressful environment and enhance plant tolerance to harsh
environment such as salinity, drought, and heavy metal toxicity,
plant-associated Bacilli have high potential for promoting
sustainable crop production. Many species of Bacilli are being
commercially used as phytostimulator and biofertilizer. Some of
them are applied as biopesticide for protecting crop plants from
phytopathogens and insect pests. The Bacillus-based products are
becoming popular in ecologically sound and climate resilient
agricultural production system. In fact, Bacillus and allied
species based formulations are already dominating the biopesticides
market, although, to compete with other formulations and chemical
alternatives, the biology of Bacillus had to be understood from
perspective of such applications. Our understanding of the biology
and molecular-basis of the beneficial effects of plant-associated
Bacilli has greatly been progressed in recent years through
genomics, metagenomics, post-genomics and metabolomics studies. The
volume two of the series Bacilli and Agrobiotechnology
comprehensively reviews and updates current knowledge of Bacilli as
phytostimulant and biological control of plant pests. Better
understanding the biology, ecology and mechanism of action of the
beneficial strains of Bacilli will play a role in the development
of products to support green biotechnology in agriculture and
industries.
Timothy Leary's advice to "tune in, turn on and drop out" was a
1960s exhortation to experiment with LSD, but humans had been
consuming ergot alkaloids related to lysergic acid diethylamide for
at least a thousand years. Opium has been around even longer with
its medicinal uses being known to the Ancient Sumerians as long ago
as 3400 BC. This is the first book to cover all of the major
psychoactive drugs (both natural and synthetic) in one volume, and
the only one to cover all aspects of these drugs from their
anthropological and sociological influences through to their
chemistry and pharmacology. It covers a range of substances
including LSD, opium, heroin, cocaine, cannabis, peyote,
belladonna, mandrake, and absinthe. The book is highly readable and
concentrates on the characters (e.g. authors, painters, pop stars,
hippies, politicians and drug barons), both famous and infamous,
who have ensured that psychoactive drugs hold an enduring
fascination and interest for everyone. The basic chemistry and
pharmacological activity covered together with a brief account of
useful drugs that have emerged from a study of the psychoactive
ones.
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