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A feast of ideas, practical suggestions and background information
on how you can improve your mood instantly, and get on with living
your life. These step by step suggestions are diverse, enjoyable,
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Bill and Evelyn Harrison lead dauntingly normal lives. Until, that
is, they fall victims to their Hormones.Testosterone, in between
working on Bill's bald patch and making him needlessly aggressive,
is spurring him on to make idiotic remarks: 'Oi! You! How dare you
say my wife's attractive!'Evelyn's Oestrogen and Progesterone,
meanwhile, are in love with their power: 'We're soothing.''.but
spiteful.''We're regular.''.but unpredictable.''We could spend the
morning giving her cramps.''.or take the week off an let her worry
about her period being late.''We're a paradox.'They're your
conflicting impulses; they're your basest instincts; they're the
perpetrators of your most embarrassing and humiliating moments, and
the instigators of pure bliss. They're the realisation of your
worst fears.Meet the Hormones.
CLUB TWISTED is one twisted book. With hard hitting stories ranging
from, Crime Fiction, Thriller Suspense to Horror. With stories that
pack punches and twists, with a special surprise in four of them,
and in places you won't imagine. RADIO SMOKE: 'The naked branches
on the trees moved like giant spider legs as the wind blew them,
and the birds in those trees sung weary songs, and the crickets on
the ground were starting their chirping for the evening. Everything
gave the impression that the world was the same; nothing around her
had changed. But she definitely had.' ECHOES: 'The elevator
arrived, giving them both a start as it made a crunching sound when
it stopped. As the elevator doors opened they heard a noise, a
distant noise, like the sound of a speeding train getting nearer.
It came closer and closer and was almost on top of them, when a
pair of terrifying and ear piecing female screams joined in with
the rushing sound, making the most macabre noise the women had ever
heard. They joined hands and moved a step back away from the
elevator's open doors.' THE LIGHTER: 'Eddie was now all secure and
taped to a chair; Dean looked down at him, and thought about what
he had in store for him, and what he would lose if he was caught.
Dismissing the latter, he thought, Fuck it. And stuffed an old rag
into Eddie's mouth then wrapped the tape tight around his head.
Then he snipped the lock on the shed door so they wouldn't be
disturbed.'
The Franciscan William of Ockham was an English medieval philosopher, theologian, and political theorist. Ockham is important not only in the history of philosophy and theology, but also in the development of early modern science and of modern notions of property rights and church-state relations. This volume offers a full discussion of all significant aspects of Ockham's thought: logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics and natural philosophy, epistemology, ethics, action theory, political thought and theology. It is the first study of Ockham in any language to make full use of the new critical editions of his works, and to consider recent discoveries concerning his life, education, and influences.
'This sentence is false' - is that true? The 'Liar paradox'
embodied in those words exerted a particular fascination on the
logicians of the Western later Middle Ages, and, along with similar
'insoluble' problems, forms the subject of the first group of
articles in this volume. In the following parts Professor Spade
turns to medieval semantic theory, views on the relationship
between language and thought, and to a study of one particular
genre of disputation, that known as 'obligationes'. The focus is on
the Oxford scholastics of the first half of the 14th century, and
it is the name of William of Ockham which dominates these pages - a
thinker with whom Professor Spade finds himself in considerable
philosophical sympathy, and whose work on logic and semantic theory
has a depth and richness that have not always been sufficiently
appreciated.
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On the Water (Paperback)
H.M. van den Brink; Translated by Paul Vincent
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A "powerful tale of romantic regret" (The Seattle
Post-Intelligencer), Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001, and
finalist for the French Prix Medicis, On the Water tells the
poignant story of Anton and David, two oarsmen trained by a
mysterious German coach in the golden Amsterdam summer of 1939.
Anton stands on the banks of his beloved river years later, on the
wintry eve of Holland's liberation, and mourns a lost world. David,
his Jewish teammate and quiet obsession from that magical summer,
has disappeared, and the boathouse is now derelict and deserted.
Spare, lyrical, and nuanced, On the Water is quietly enormous,
capturing a moment so precise and exact it is as if caught in amber
-- a rowing club in Amsterdam and two of its competitors from very
different backgrounds, set against the backdrop of the oncoming
war. The menace of tragedy to come is subtly woven into the story
of the two boys whose only concerns are practices, races, and
themselves. In the end, all that is left for Anton is the memory of
his supreme happiness that summer. ."..beautiful, vivid
writing...van den Brink describes the grace, ecstasy, and agony of
rowing, the miracle of its teamwork harmony." -- Carmela Ciuraru,
The Washington Post Book World "[A] small miracle of a book." --
Daniel Topolski, The Guardian
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My Little War (Paperback)
Louis Paul Boon; Translated by Paul Vincent
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R264
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Following in the footsteps of C?line and Joyce, and anticipating
the gritty worldview of Burroughs and Bukowski...
What is memory? Without memory we lose our sense of identity, reasoning, even our ability to perform simple physical tasks. Yet it is elusive and difficult to define, and throughout the ages philosophers and psychologists have used metaphors as a way of understanding it. This fascinating book takes the reader on a guided tour of these metaphors of memory from ancient times to the present day, exploring the way metaphors often derived from the techniques and instruments developed to store information such as wax tablets, books, photography, computers and even the hologram.
This is the first complete English translation of On the Purity of
the Art of Logic, a handbook of logic written in Latin by English
philosopher Walter Burley (c. 1275-1344/5). The work circulated in
the Middle Ages in two versions, a shorter and a longer one, both
translated here by Paul Vincent Spade. The translations arc based
on the only complete edition of Burley's treatises, corrected by
Spade on the basis of one of the surviving manuscripts. The book
also includes an extensive introduction, explanatory notes, a table
of corresponding passages between the two versions, a select
annotated bibliography, and three indexes.
A contemporary of John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham, Burley
was active at the universities of both Paris and Oxford. He became
one of the most important figures in the transformation of medieval
logic and semantics that took place in the early fourteenth
century. Burley used new tools and techniques of logical and
semantical analysis, yet in many cases he used them in defense of
traditional views, such as a realist metaphysical theory of
"universals". On the Purity of the Art of Logic shows both these
sides of Burley -- the innovator and the conservative -- as well as
some of the ways in which his views corresponded or clashed with
those of William of Ockham.
The failure of Germany's first republic after World War I has
aroused several decades of concentrated study. Synthesizing much of
that study, this historical dictionary aims to enhance an
understanding of the Weimar Republic. It includes entries on
individuals as diverse as Bertolt Brecht, Adolf Hitler, the
physicist Lise Meitner and the film director Georg W. Pabst. There
are also entries defining such events as the Beerhall Putsch and
the French occupation of the Ruhr; various organizations and
institutions, such as the Frankfurt School; the complex array of
political parties; and treatment and agreements, such as the
Locarno Treaties of 1925 and the 1929 Young Plan. Arranged as an A
to Z reference source for the study of modern German history, the
dictionary gives substance to cultural terms (such as Dada), to
film and music, and to concepts such as anti-semitism and justice,
deemed vital to an understanding of the period. All entries
conclude with bibliographic references.
From the West Indies to Shanghai, this collection of contemporary
short stories opens up a new world of Dutch writing to English
language readers. Subjects range from poetry to paranoia, power and
desire as the reader is taken on a voyage around the globe, or
focussed on a claustrophobic homeland. The variety of style,
subject and thinking among authors from a small country may
surprise, until we remind ourselves that Holland has been both a
crossroads in Europe and an imperial power. This is an intense,
powerful collection which sets the internal world of individuals
against backgrounds such as the politics of post-Cold War Europe,
and colonial, seafaring traditions. "In Praise of Navigation"
provides an overarching view of twentieth century Dutch writing in
a field where many outstanding writers are poorly represented in
translation and deserve a wider audience. It is a companion volume
to "In a Different Light" - a collection of contemporary
Dutch-language poets in translation, published by Seren in 2002.
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Love's Perfumes (Paperback)
Rita Rahman; Volume editing by Paul Vincent; Translated by Paul Vincent
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Myrna, a caribbean environmentalist, meets Arno, a high ranking
dutch civil servant at the world food summit in the Netherlands.
Arno suffers from delibitating insomnia, and Myrna has access to a
traditional technique of sleep therapy that she has learnet from
her grand mother. The string of stories that Myrna narrates to Arno
as therapy evokes her own journey adulthood. They also describe the
political turmoil of the Caribbean islands, and events unfold the
realities of the colonial past.
The Flemish writer Dani?l Robberechts (1937-1992) refused to
identify his books as novels, stories, or essays, according them
all equal status as, simply, writing. This liberation from genre
gives his work, for all its apparent simplicity, an elusive,
hypnotic quality, and no more so than in his debut, "Arriving in
Avignon," which records a young man's first encounter with that
labyrinthine city, and his likewise meandering relationship with a
girl from his home town--and indeed virtually every woman he meets.
Hesistant and cautious, unable quite to enter nor turn away, the
young man seems to circle Avignon endlessly, in the process
attempting to delay his inevitable descent into maturity and
monogamy. What seems at first like a cross between a memoir and a
guidebook comes in time to be the story of a young man's dogged yet
futile quest to know his own mind--unless it's the ancient city of
Avignon itself that is our real protagonist: a mystery that can be
approached, but never wholly solved.
`I was born in Belgium, I’m Belgian. / But Belgium was never born
in me.’ So writes Leonard Nolens in `Place and Date’, which
captures a mood of political and social disillusionment amid a
generation of Dutch-speaking Belgians. And throughout this
selection we encounter a poet engaged with the question of national
identity. Frequently the poet moves into that risky terrain, the
firstperson plural, in which he speaks as and for a generation of
Flemings, embodying an attitude towards artistic and political
commitment that he considers its defining mark. `We curled up
dejectedly in the spare wheel of May sixtyeight’, he writes in
the selection’s central sequence `Breach’. Nolens’ poetry is
haunted by giants of twentieth-century European lyricism, by Rilke,
Valéry, Neruda, Mandelstam and Celan, with whom he has arguably
more affinity than with much poetry from the Dutch-language canon.
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