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Michael Crichton, Michael Crichton: Airframe (Hardcover, 1999, B E Trice Pub)
In the early hours on Monday morning, TransPacific Airlines Flight 545, enroute from Hong Kong to Denver, experiences a horrifying โฆ
Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight โฆ
Lear, who already wrote an excellent book on Freud (Love and its Place in Nature), has managed to introduce a Heideggerian conception of world and worldliness into a retelling of the oral history as seen by the last great chief of the Crow. It not only examines the devastation, even if mistakenly well meant, wrought by the white conquest of the native nations but points to a method for examining just how our own civilization is collapsing. This may be the century when the West must say, "after that nothing happened."
Although it was not examined it Lear also notes how the Crow tribe, while complying with the U.S. Governments push to give up the idea of communal property in favor of private property amongst the tribe was turned around making it possible for the tribe to retain communal property in a form.
An excellent book for a new tabletop fantasy RPG in the English speaking world. It has richly detailed cultures. The system is different from d20 versions of D&D and has an interesting character generation method that uses accounting of points based on player choices rather than random die rolls. I only wish they had gone through with the expansion and accessories in English. It's still more popular than D&D in the German speaking world.
Jack London: The Call of the Wild (A Watermill Classics) (Paperback, 1980, Troll Communications)
As Buck, a mixed breed dog, is taken away from his home, instead of facing a feast for breakfast and โฆ
Read this in either Jr. or Sr. High and found it both fascinating and disturbing. The idea that the state of nature of human beings is so depressingly Hobbesian is not something I care to contemplate. This book should be required reading for all students I think by 14-15 years old.
This was a clever move by B&N as I got this book, #6 in the series, as one of their "Free Friday" offers. It is a decent stand-alone book though I bet it would have been much richer for me had I read the first 5 books. This was interesting as it blurred the line between magic in the fantasy genre and mental powers or psionics, which are more typical of science-fiction.
This Gothic novella tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of โฆ
Vampires in the heart of Styria! Published more than a quarter of a century before Dracula and having influenced Stoker (the "missing" first chapter of Dracula, now published as Dracula's Guest, was also set in Styria, Austria), this novella sets it's female villain in the guise of a noble born Austrian girl only some years older than Anne Rice's infamous Claudia who appeared in print more than a century after our not so dearly departed Carmilla. This novella is certainly an entertaining read and establishes much of the lore of vampirism that Stoker and subsequent authors use. It also sets the heart of vampirism further west than the popular Transylvania in, what was at the time of Stoker, Hungary. In Carmilla vampirism finds the heart of its domain in Styria, Austria near the Hungarian border and from there spreads into the Balkans and Eastern Europe as well as north into โฆ
Vampires in the heart of Styria! Published more than a quarter of a century before Dracula and having influenced Stoker (the "missing" first chapter of Dracula, now published as Dracula's Guest, was also set in Styria, Austria), this novella sets it's female villain in the guise of a noble born Austrian girl only some years older than Anne Rice's infamous Claudia who appeared in print more than a century after our not so dearly departed Carmilla. This novella is certainly an entertaining read and establishes much of the lore of vampirism that Stoker and subsequent authors use. It also sets the heart of vampirism further west than the popular Transylvania in, what was at the time of Stoker, Hungary. In Carmilla vampirism finds the heart of its domain in Styria, Austria near the Hungarian border and from there spreads into the Balkans and Eastern Europe as well as north into regions of what are today Germany, The Czech Republic and Poland.
Vampires in the heart if Styria! A great novella recounting vampirism in the heart of Styria more than 25 years before Stoker's Dracula and more than a century before Anne Rice brought the adorable and deadly Claudia to unlife.
Actually, I listened to a reading of this lecture on YouTube and, although I cannot claim to be in anyway a fan of Russell in particular or indeed of analytic philosophy in general I must say that the logic running through this lecture is quite interesting even if not entirely impeccable; nevertheless pointing out the inconsistencies of the dogmatism and hypocrisies of today's self-proclaimed practitioners, and, of course, delivered with that perfect British wit and understatement. It strikes me in fact as a social critique of the practice of Christianity as a deontology.
This volume has proven useful time and again for both personal curiosity into the documents and philosophies of those who founded the United States of America from the colonial period through the Civil War as well as academic research and reference for historical and philosophical papers. It includes not only the major documents concerning the United States but also documents particular to specific state as well as early essays on women's rights and Native Americans by important philosophers, activists, poets, thinkers and tribal leaders. This book is well worth the investment for both personal and professional uses.
