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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Can you spot the Big Dipper in the night sky? Or Orion's Belt? Or
Cassiopeia? Even in cities, and without the aid of a telescope,
these are a few of the easier constellations to find. In fact, a
great deal can be seen in the night sky with the naked eye - if you
know what you're looking for. Night Sky presents 200 colour
photographs of stunning nocturnal vistas all visible to the naked
eye. From the majesty of the Northern Lights (Aurora borealis) as
seen from Norway or Canada, and the Southern Lights (Aurora
australis) as seen from Australia, to seeing the clarity of the
Milky Way over an Italian forest, from witnessing a lunar eclipse
in Indonesia to charting the course of the International Space
Station across the Indian night, and from seeing a Geminid meteor
shower in New Mexico to recognizing the Great Bear (Ursa Major)
constellation over New England, the book is a feast of nocturnal
delights. Where necessary, additional inset photographs indicate
the formation of a constellation. Presented in a landscape format
and with 200 outstanding colour photographs supported by
fascinating captions, Night Sky is a stunning collection of images.
Featuring more than 200 intriguing images taken by space probes
travelling billions of kilometres from Earth, The Solar System is
an exhilarating exploration of the mysteries of our local planetary
space. Within the span of a human lifetime, our spacecraft have
visited all eight planets of the Solar System, together with
several dwarf planets, asteroids and comets. We have mapped the
surface of Mercury and Venus in exquisite detail, landed rovers on
Mars, placed orbiters around Jupiter and Saturn, and parachuted to
the surface of Titan. Our emissaries have visited icy worlds five
billion kilometres from home and continued onwards to reach
interstellar space. The pictures and science returned by these
intrepid travellers have transformed our understanding of the Solar
System in which we live.
Sharing Common Ground makes a compelling contribution to an
important emerging field that affects a broad swath of humanities.
It uses historical, photographic, and literary examples, including
an entirely new translation of a little known work by Marguerite
Duras, presented here in full, to showcase the ethical capacity of
art. Robert Harvey deploys critical tools borrowed from literature,
aesthetics, and philosophy to mobilize the thought of several
seminal figures in literature and theory including Michel Foucault,
Marguerite Duras, Georges Didi-Huberman, and Giorgio Agamben, among
a host of others. Construction sites, concentration camps,
cemeteries, slums-such are only a few of the spaces that impel our
imagination naturally toward what we commonly call "cultural
memory." Sharing Common Ground reveals how the endeavor to think
and imagine in common, and especially about the spaces we inhabit
together, is critically important to human beings, artistically,
culturally, and ethically.
This is a work in comparative literature and philosophy that offers
a new and important way of thinking the ethical capacity of human
subjectivity. "Witnessness" posits a universal ethics based neither
on rational mental structures nor on moral principles, but on the
extra-rational powers of the imagination. Harvey pursues this
ethics by staging a speculative reading of Samuel Beckett's
'untranslatable' text, "Worstward Ho", alongside Dante's
"Purgatorio" and Primo Levi's "The Drowned and the Saved" and "If
This Be a Man". Many of the thirty concise chapters that compose
"Witnessness" are built upon notions whose names (e.g. dimness,
lessness) take inspiration from Beckett's unique and precise
vocabulary. Harvey explores the particular experience of the
witness - as recounted in Dante and Levi - for signs of a general,
common, and innate witness-like attitude that protects the other
and that we see expressed in Beckett's penultimate prose piece.
Travelling from the edge of our Solar System, through the Milky Way
and to the outer edges of the observable universe, Deep Space is a
spectacular photographic guide to galaxies, nebulae, supernova,
clusters, black holes and quasars. Learn about the birth of stars
in our own galaxy, planets beyond our own solar system, when they
were first discovered and how we have managed to photograph these
places. Ranging from the Magellanic Clouds within the Milky Way to
stellar life cycles, from other spiral galaxies such as the
Andromeda Galaxy, to the Sombrero Galaxy, and from nebulae such as
the Pillars of Creation to black and white dwarfs, this is
accessibly written for the general reader to grasp the science and
magnitude of deep space. Featuring 200 outstanding colour
photographs and expert captions, Deep Space is most certainly out
of this world.
by the question in its being an answer, if only in a circumstantial
(i. e. inessential) manner. One indeed must question oneself in
order to remember, says Plato, but the dialectic, which would be
scientific, must be something else even if it remains a play of
question and answer. This contradiction did not escape Aristotle:
he split the scientific from the dialectic and logic from
argumentation whose respective theories he was led to conceive in
order to clearly define their boundaries and specificities. As for
Plato, he found in the famous theory of Ideas what he sought in
order to justify knowledge as that which is supposed to hold its
truth only from itself. What do Ideas mean within the framework of
our approach? In what consists the passage from rhetoric to
ontology which leads to the denaturation of argumentation? When
Socrates asked, for example, "What is virtue?," he thought one
could not answer such a question because the answer refers to a
single proposition, a single truth, whereas the formulation of the
question itself does not indicate this unicity. For any answer,
another can be given and thus continuously, if necessary, until
eventually one will come across an incompatibility. Now, to a
question as to what X, Y, or Z is, one can answer in many ways and
nothing in the question itself prohibits multiplicity. Virtue is
courage, is justice, and so on.
'Nobody knows how to write'. Thus opens this carefully nuanced and
accessible collection of essays by one of the most important
writer-philosophers of the 20th century, Jean-Francois Lyotard
(1924-1998). First published in French in 1991 as Lectures
d'enfance, these essays have never been printed as a collection in
English. In them, Lyotard investigates his idea of infantia, or the
infancy of thought that resists all forms of development, either
human or technological. Each essay responds to works by writers and
thinkers who are central to cultural modernism, such as James
Joyce, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Sigmund
Freud. This volume - with a new introduction and afterword by
Robert Harvey and Kiff Bamford - contextualises Lyotard's thought
and demonstrates his continued relevance today.
Abolitionist Leadership in Schools offers school and district
leaders rich insights and approaches for recreating, restructuring,
and reorienting their service to students, families, staff, and
communities in crisis. Though often associated with sudden,
large-scale disruptions, crises are ongoing matters-particularly
among systemically-oppressed people-that underscore the planning
voids, resource inequities, marginalizing policies, and strategic
lapses of any teaching and learning community while perpetuating
students' social-emotional, psychological, and pedagogical traumas.
This expansive book guides school leaders to provide pre-emptive,
premeditated, and progressive leadership while countering the
impacts of racism that endure in our schools. Working from an
abolitionist lineage, author Robert S. Harvey's radically humane
vision explores lessons from our collective national past, provides
strategic planning with creativities and contingencies, and fosters
liberatory decision-making through accountability, communication,
and more.
Two new adventures bringing back one of the Doctor's most `popular'
foes - the Cybermen! Warzone - At Warzone, competitors gather from
across the galaxy to test the limits of their endurance and achieve
their personal best. So,when the TARDIS materialises in the middle
of a racetrack, the Doctor and his friends must literally run for
their lives. Conversion - On the fringes of the galaxy,
techno-pirates and research medics fight for the secrets of
advanced extra-terrestrial technology. For the Doctor, however, a
more personal battle awaits as he confronts his own guilt and the
creatures that killed a friend: the Cybermen. CAST: Peter Davison
(The Doctor), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka),
George Watkins (Marc), David Banks (The Cyber Leader), Timothy
Blore (Morris), Angela Bruce (Herb), Silas Carson (Commentator),
Mark Hardy (Cyber Lieutenant), Pepter Lunkuse (Esma), Liz
Sutherland-Lim (Creasey). Other parts played by members of the
cast.
Born in a northern suburb of Saigon in 1914, Marguerite Duras
became one of the most prolific and analyzed figures in
20th-century French literature and film. She earned initial fame
with her novel, "Moderato Cantabile" (1958), which sold half a
million copies and won the Prix de Mai. At the request of Alain
Resnais, she wrote a scenario on the bombing of Hiroshima.
Resnais's film, "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" (1959), became an immediate
hit at Cannes, thus earning Duras further fame. But even after
these achievements, little was written about her work until the
early 1970s. Since then, the situation has reversed, and a
tremendous number of critical and scholarly works have been written
about her. This bibliography includes annotated entries for works
by and about Duras and includes a brief critical biography and
chronology recounting the major events in her life and career.
This volume documents the tremendous critical response to
Duras's life and work. The book begins with a short critical
biography that discusses some of the major events and themes in her
career. A chronology then recounts her life in capsule form. The
rest of the book presents annotated entries for works by and about
Duras. It includes all works by Duras extant at the time of her
death in March 1996, along with secondary sources published by the
end of 1994. Works by Duras are grouped in chapters listing her
writings, films, print interviews, and broadcast interviews. Works
about Duras are grouped in chapters on books, edited collections,
journals and journal articles, dissertations, reviews, magazine
pieces, and critical editions. Several indexes add to the
usefulness of the work.
In this, one of the last published books planned by one of the
major cultural philosophers of our time, Lyotard addresses, in his
powerful and allusive critical voice, Malraux's reflections on art
and literature. The result, more than a sequel to Lyotard's
acclaimed biography "Signe Malraux," tells us as much about Lyotard
and his critical concerns as it does about Malraux. It gives us
Lyotard's final thoughts on his long study of the critical,
disruptive possibilities of art and of the relation between
aesthetics and politics. At first glance, Lyotard's sympathetic and
generous analysis of Malraux might be surprising to some, for
Malraux's metaphysics of art seems far removed from, if not
diametrically opposed to, Lyotard's postmodern, experimental
approach. But this is perhaps the book's greatest achievement, for
Lyotard succeeds both in giving a compelling critical reading of
Malraux (and through him of an entire era of art criticism) and in
presenting, complicating, and developing his own position on art
and aesthetics.
In order to present Lyotard's exquisitely compact style in the best
possible way, the original French text appears on facing pages with
the English translation.
This collection honors the career of Donald "Sandy" Petrey,
Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New
York at Stony Brook for over forty years. The diversity of essays -
written by colleagues, friends, and former students, and ranging in
subject from the traditional Festschrift theme of the honoree's
compelling contributions to the study of realism and the novel's
role in history, to chapters on Susan Sontag's experimental films,
the thought of the late Marxist philosopher Andre Gorz, silence in
the graphic novel, and linguistic disparities between American and
Standard Italian - attests to the plasticity of Sandy Petrey's mind
and the ample indications of his work. Best-known (and well-loved)
for his often gruff, no-nonsense style in teaching and prose,
Petrey is celebrated by those whose careers and ideas he has helped
to nurture, inform, and embolden. This collection is a fine text
for courses in nineteenth-century as well as contemporary French
studies and literature.
Abolitionist Leadership in Schools offers school and district
leaders rich insights and approaches for recreating, restructuring,
and reorienting their service to students, families, staff, and
communities in crisis. Though often associated with sudden,
large-scale disruptions, crises are ongoing matters-particularly
among systemically-oppressed people-that underscore the planning
voids, resource inequities, marginalizing policies, and strategic
lapses of any teaching and learning community while perpetuating
students' social-emotional, psychological, and pedagogical traumas.
This expansive book guides school leaders to provide pre-emptive,
premeditated, and progressive leadership while countering the
impacts of racism that endure in our schools. Working from an
abolitionist lineage, author Robert S. Harvey's radically humane
vision explores lessons from our collective national past, provides
strategic planning with creativities and contingencies, and fosters
liberatory decision-making through accountability, communication,
and more.
Explore and discover the most beautiful places in Wiltshire. Visit
and photograph the ancient and mysterious sites of Stonehenge,
Avebury and Silbury Hill; the great houses and gardens at Longleat,
Bowood, Wilton, Stourhead; villages and churches; Georgian
Bradford-on-Avon and the chalk White Horses and the Fovant Badges
etched into the hillsides. You will enjoy photographs of the strip
lynchets along the downs where sheep have grazed for centuries; the
big open farmland, the Ridgeway, the chalk streams; Salisbury Plain
and Salisbury Cathedral. With over 500 colour photographs,
Photographing Wiltshire is the definitive visitor and
photo-location guidebook to photographing this fascinating county.
Introductory sections explain the story of Wiltshire's varied
landscape, exceptional cultural heritage and diverse wildlife. It
will appeal to Wiltshire residents, outdoor enthusiasts,
photographers and anyone who loves Wiltshire and would like to
understand it better.
by the question in its being an answer, if only in a circumstantial
(i. e. inessential) manner. One indeed must question oneself in
order to remember, says Plato, but the dialectic, which would be
scientific, must be something else even if it remains a play of
question and answer. This contradiction did not escape Aristotle:
he split the scientific from the dialectic and logic from
argumentation whose respective theories he was led to conceive in
order to clearly define their boundaries and specificities. As for
Plato, he found in the famous theory of Ideas what he sought in
order to justify knowledge as that which is supposed to hold its
truth only from itself. What do Ideas mean within the framework of
our approach? In what consists the passage from rhetoric to
ontology which leads to the denaturation of argumentation? When
Socrates asked, for example, "What is virtue?," he thought one
could not answer such a question because the answer refers to a
single proposition, a single truth, whereas the formulation of the
question itself does not indicate this unicity. For any answer,
another can be given and thus continuously, if necessary, until
eventually one will come across an incompatibility. Now, to a
question as to what X, Y, or Z is, one can answer in many ways and
nothing in the question itself prohibits multiplicity. Virtue is
courage, is justice, and so on.
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The War Master: Anti-Genesis (CD)
Nicholas Briggs, Alan Barnes; Directed by Scott Handcock; Ioan Morris; Cover design or artwork by Tom Newsom; Performed by …
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A brand-new four-part adventure featuring the Master's exploits in
the Time War. In a Time War, there is a crime that not even the
Daleks would dare consider. But the Master has more than considered
- and he is ready to commit. When his TARDIS returns to Gallifrey
carrying his corpse, a chain of events ensues that will change
established history, Old friendships will be destroyed and dark
alliances formed, as the Master exploits a terrifying truth. Even
for the two most powerful races, time can be rewritten. 4.1 From
the Flames by Nicholas Briggs. After the Master's TARDIS returns
his remains to Gallifrey, in accordance with his final wishes, an
intricate plot begins to change the nature of the universe forever.
But even in death the Master threatens life. And only CIA
Coordinator Narvin can hope to stop him. 4.2 The Master's Dalek
Plan by Alan Barnes. As the Master infiltrates the Kaled scientific
elite, the Time Lords seek to counter his interference. But while
Narvin and President Livia try to stabilise the past, a new and
horrifying future dawns in the wastelands of ancient Skaro. 4.3
Shockwave by Alan Barnes. With all known history threatened, the
Daleks take desperate action to preserve their established legacy.
When they cross dimensions to recruit an alternative incarnation of
the Master, an uneasy alliance is formed ... But can either side
truly trust the other? 4.4 He Who Wins by Nicholas Briggs. The
Master has achieved an ultimate victory. But at what cost? Cast:
Derek Jacobi (The Master), Mark Gatiss (The Other Master), Sean
Carlsen (Narvin), Nicholas Briggs (The Daleks), Zaraah Abrahams
(Kaled Corporal), Pippa Bennett-Warner (Livia), Vikash Bhai
(Arfor), Daniel Brocklebank (Yaren), Richard Clifford (Novar), Ben
Crystal (Soogasor), Christopher Harper (Kaled Guard), Will Kirk
(Uglen), Jordan Renzo (Insloy), Gavin Swift (Crazlus), Franchi Webb
(Lamarius). Other parts played by members of the cast.
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