![]() ![]() His interpretations are as fascinating as they are invaluable. It contains chapters on all the books he himself published. Ecce Homo, written in 1898 and first published posthumously in 1908, is Nietzsche's review of his life and works. The second inquiry deals with guilt and the bad conscience the third with ascetic ideals-not only in religion but also in the academy. The first contrasts master morality and slave morality and indicates how the term "good" has widely different meanings in each. ![]() On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) shows him using philsophy, psychology, and classical philology in an effort to give new direction to an ancient discipline. The great philosopher's major work on ethics, along with Ecce Homo, Nietzche's remarkable review of his life and works. United States of America: Vintage Books, 1989. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Lepore’s life of Jane Franklin, with its strikingly original vantage on her remarkable brother, is at once a wholly different account of the founding of the United States and one of the great untold stories of American history and letters: a life unknown. ![]() Making use of an amazing cache of little- studied material, including documents, objects, and portraits only just discovered, Jill Lepore brings Jane Franklin to life in a way that illuminates not only this one woman but an entire world-a world usually lost to history. Benjamin Franklin, who wrote more letters to his sister than he wrote to anyone else, was the original American self-made man his sister spent her life caring for her children. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. ![]() A Finalist for the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfictionįrom one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister and a history of history itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for Dan Simmons and Hyperion "Dan Simmons has brilliantly conceptualized a future 700 years distant. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands. Each carries a desperate hope-and a terrible secret. ![]() On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. ![]() On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multiple-award-winning author of The Hollow Man. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Burgess fossils tell nothing less than the story of the Cambrian explosion-evolution's Big Bang-when relatively simple organisms rapidly diversified into the sorts of animals that live today. ![]() At the end of his first field season here, Walcott wrote in a letter to a colleague that he had "found some very interesting things." Talk about understatement. ![]() Charles Doolittle Walcott, the fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, discovered this rich fossil bed a century ago, in the summer of 1909, and named it for nearby Mount Burgess. The Burgess Shale is Mecca for paleontologists. She bit into an Oreo cookie and fanned her face in nervous excitement. "Yay! Fossils! We're really here!" exclaimed Allison Daley, a graduate student from Sweden's Uppsala University. Eventually the team reunited at the top of the cliff and collapsed, surveying the view over the Burgess Shale. As the others caught their breath, he zipped his way across loose and jagged rock up the final ascent. After four hours of hiking up switchbacks through an evergreen forest deep in the Canadian Rockies, Caron suddenly took off like a mountain goat. ![]() The soundtrack came courtesy of an anti-bear bell attached to the backpack of the group's leader, Jean-Bernard Caron, a curator of invertebrate paleontology at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum. The fossil-hunting expedition began with a lung-busting hike, accompanied by an incessant ring-ding-ting-clank-clank-ring-ting-ding-clank. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It had begun as a bold move led by the British to ultimately capture Constantinople, but this definitive new history explains that from the initial landings - which ended with so much blood in the sea it could be seen from aircraft overhead - to the desperate attacks of early summer and the battle of attrition that followed, it was a lunacy that was never going to succeed.ĭrawing on unpublished personal accounts by individuals at all levels and from all sides - not only from Britain, Australia and New Zealand, but unusually from Turkey and France too - Peter Hart combines his trademark eye for vivid personal stories with a strong narrative to bring a modern view of this military disaster to a popular audience. One of the most famous battles in history, Gallipoli forced Churchill from office, established Turkey's iconic founder Mustafa Kemal ('Ataturk') and marked Australia's emergence as a nation in its own right. Gueprette recalls the damage to the French ship Suffen during a naval battle in 1915. 2022 May 16-23 2022 June 13-20 The Returners Tour to go that. As for our young men, a few minutes ago, so alert, so self-confident, all now lying dead on the bare deck, blackened burned skeletons, twisted in all directions, no trace of any clothing, the fire having devoured all.' Vice Admiral P. Now booking We can announce the dates of our three tours to Gallipoli planned for 2022. 'The scene was tragically macabre: the image of desolation, the flames spared nothing. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the last decade BL has also become a sobstitute term for 'yaoi'. This term has been in use in Japan since the second half of the '90, and included the previously used terms 'tanbi' and 'JUNE'. It is usually created by female authors for a mostly female audience. ![]() The term BL itself has not a clear and defined meaning in Japanese, so it is very complex to define the differences between these genres, but usually Boys' Love (ボーイズラブ, booizu rabu), also known as BL, is a Japanese term that defines a genre of Japanese novels and manga that focuses on homosexual relationships between male characters. ![]() Boys' Love (ボーイズラブ, booizu rabu), also known as BL, is a Japanese term that defines a genre of Japanese novels and manga that focuses on homosexual relationships between male characters. ![]() ![]() If you’ve ever seen the movie Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century then you know what I mean. The one thing that I hate the most is the way they talk. I hate everything about New Pretty Town, it reminds me of the Upper East Side in Gossip Girl. So the beginning of this book was unpleasant for me much like the beginning of Uglies. Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life - because the authorities don’t intend to let anyone with this information survive. Reading it, Tally remembers what’s wrong with pretty life, and the fun stops cold. Then a message from Tally’s ugly past arrives. ![]() It’s everything she’s ever wanted.īut beneath all the fun - the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom - is a nagging sense that something’s wrong. ![]() Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she’s completely popular. Hi friends! 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Sister Carriewas involved in a scandal before it even went to press. ![]() ![]() The person you meet must have visited the cafe before.Didn’t The Umbrella Academy prove that to us – you don’t mess with time travel! In Before The Coffee Gets Cold, there are rules in order to go back in time: Of course, there’s a catch when it comes to time traveling. Time-traveling and coffee? Totally for me! Time Travel Comes With Rules – A Little Spoiler Here ![]() Customers, however, have to sit at a particular seat and return to the present before the coffee gets cold. Written by a Japanese author and translated into English, this book is about a cafe in Tokyo that offers a time-traveling opportunity. Quick Summary of Before The Coffee Gets Cold After reading the summary, the cover of the book perfectly illustrates the setting of the book – which is a small cafe in Tokyo. ![]() Then this book – Before The Coffee Gets Cold caught my eye. I was determined to purchase a book with a Shakespeare & Co. Such a beautiful place, I was there for hours, unwilling to leave. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Paris Architect, Belfoure's first novel, was published by Sourcebooks Landmark on October 8, 2013, in the U.S. Īt one point of his career, he began to write novels. He published several architectural histories and was a recipient of a Graham Foundation national grant for architectural research. He taught at Pratt Institute and at the Goucher College in Baltimore, and has been a freelance contributor to The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. He is a specialist in historic preservation. In 1983 he graduated from the Pratt Institute with a Bachelor in Architecture and in 1993 from the Columbia University with a Master of Science in Real Estate Development. He grew up in Woodlawn, the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, and attended the Woodlawn High School. Navy, who was in service during World War II, Korean and Vietnam War, and Polish immigrant Kristine Vetulani, a celebrated translator, teacher and activist. He was born in 1954 as the son of Charles William Belfoure, a second class yeoman of the U.S. Charles Belfoure (born 19 February 1954) is an American writer, architect and historian specializing in historic preservation, author of several histories and fiction works, including The New York Times best-selling novel The Paris Architect. ![]() |