These violent delights micah nemerever5/10/2023 ![]() Paul sees Julian as his sole intellectual equal-an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. When he meets the worldly Julian in his freshman ethics class, Paul is immediately drawn to his classmate's effortless charm. Sensitive, insecure, and incomprehensible to his grieving family, Paul feels isolated and alone. When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, it's with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father. The Secret History meets Lie with Me in Micah Nemerever's compulsively readable debut novel-a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence. A Paperback Paris Best New LGBTQ+ Books To Read This Year Selection.An Electric Lit Most Anticipated Debut.An O LGBTQ Books That Are Changing the Literary Landscape.A Philadelphia Inquirer 10 Big Books for the Fall. ![]()
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Fool of randomness5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() In Newtonian mechanics, the universe acts as a clockwork mechanism in which all of its components behave in a determined and predictable manner:įull and accurate predictions of the future of the universe are possible under this theory. In physics, determinism allowed Newton to build his cosmological model, even though it was later falsified. A Non-Deterministic Universeĭeterminism proved to be a fruitful approach to science, up until the first half of the 20th century. Once we understand the ontological and epistemological foundation for randomness, we’d then be able to comprehend its usage in practice, in the development of technologies based upon it. ![]() We’re going to study both approaches in this first section of the article. The second, the one that attributes it to the knowledge of the observer, assume instead “epistemological randomness”. The first approach, the one that considers randomness as a property of nature, postulates the so-called “ontological randomness”. ![]() It’s however debated whether randomness exists in the real world, or whether it’s an artifact of the limited knowledge that humans possess. This, in turn, requires a method for solving the sampling bias of collected observations against a larger population more on that later. This is because the validation of scientific hypotheses requires empirical testing. ![]() But also, randomness plays an important role in the methodology, not just theory, of scientific research. ![]() The going to bed book boynton5/9/2023 ![]() ![]()
Wabi sabi ed young5/9/2023 ![]() We think it’s a masterpiece, and the advance reviewers seem to agree. Together Ed, writer Mark Reibstein, and our art director Stewart Cauley embarked on a journey to tell the story of a boy recalling his mom in the simplest, most unadorned way possible-spare words, shaped into a seventeen-syllable form of haiku that Mark calls American Sentences (a term coined by Allen Ginsberg) brown ink drawings by Ed of the utmost simplicity, in which you discern cats and the moon, people, but never without searching and a textured, plainspoken design. ![]() Many things he was working on interested us, but there was one book in particular, something other publishers had turned their backs on as “too sad.” But we didn’t find it sad, it was too emotionally rich to be sad, too true. A couple of years ago we met Ed Young, the multi-Caldecott-winning legendary children’s book author and illustrator, and began traveling up to Hastings-on-Hudson to visit with him in his labyrinthine studio and home. ![]() ![]() ![]() For Morgan in his own way had discovered afresh in America the materialistic conception of history discovered by Marx forty years ago, and in his comparison of barbarism and civilization it had led him, in the main points, to the same conclusions as Marx. No less a man than Karl Marx had made it one of his future tasks to present the results of Morgan’s researches in the light of the conclusions of his own - within certain limits, I may say our - materialistic examination of history, and thus to make clear their full significance. ![]() “The following chapters are, in a sense, the execution of a bequest. The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State. ![]() Barakamon volume 18 15/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Since I don’t want to spoil the surprise, I’ll say only that the included interview and behind the scenes conversation is quite entertaining and the “embarrassing” comparison art is really quite interesting. Lastly, those sealed pages I mentioned earlier. While I’m usually not one to just stare at pretty pictures I do totally appreciate the watercolors and brush stroke artwork Satsuki Yoshino is known for on the covers of the Barakamon manga. Moving on to one of the more exciting features of Barakamon 18+1 is its inclusion of full-color pages! All of the short 4-panel comics are presented in full color and so are the promotional artworks the latter of which make up the back half of the book. A side story that has nothing to do with the real one. ![]() Handa, Naru, Hiroshi, Hina, and the whole gang tackle newfound super powers, then they’re figuring out who’s who during some body-swapping shenanigans, and there’s some standard fare cuteness accompanying this slice of life story. Wait…what’s Naru hiding in those pages!? (A bit more on that later.)įirst off there’s a collection of Specially Drawn Barakamon Stories and while these chapters have absolutely nothing to do with the main story, they’re still a joyous romp through typical Handa-torment-land. It’s divided up into 4-panel comics, short chapter runs, artwork, posters, and even a sealed section. Barakamon 18+1 is a fun return to the Goto Islands and the world of the Barakamon series. ![]() Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck5/9/2023 ![]() Tzu Hsi is portrayed here as a beautiful, ambitious tyrant, scheming to become and then remain Empress. Born in 1892, she would undoubtedly have been old enough to remember the end of Tzu Hsi’s reign and would have hadįirst-hand experience of being a child of foreign Christians during the Boxer Rebellion at the turn of the century. Buck, as the short biography at the end of this new Kindle edition reveals, was the daughter of missionaries and lived in China for many years as both child and adult. For the major part of her reign, Tzu Hsi tried to hold back the tide of progress being forced on her by the various Western powers as they jostled to gain a foothold in this vast country. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the story of Tzu Hsi, who ruled as regent and Empress of China from 1861-1908, effectively the end of the empire, which collapsed just 3 years after her death. ![]() The odyssey by homer5/9/2023 ![]() For those that don't like spoilers, it's best if you skip the introduction and read/listen to it after you're done with the poem. ![]() This was great for someone who already knows the story and wants to learn more before getting into Odysseus's tale. The intro goes into great detail about the controversies about the poem's origins and dives deeply into the poem's many themes. One of the best and worst parts about this version was the introduction to the poem. It has a little bit of everything (magic, monsters, gods, suitors, shipwrecks, action) and touches on so many themes (violence and the aftermath of war, poverty, wealth, marriage and family, betrayal, yearning for ones home, hospitality) that is is easy to see why this poem is so important and how it has inspired many stories to this day. For such a simple premise, the scope is vast. The epic poem relates the story of Odysseus and his trials on his return journey home after the Trojan war. More on that below.For anyone who doesn't know, The Odyssey was written by Homer somewhere around 800 BC. ![]() Given that the story comes from a time of oral tradition I decided to try out the audio book, which I think was the right idea but the wrong narrator for me. I'm happy that I found a different translation to try which made this a much more enjoyable and engaging read. Since then I've learned just how important the translator is when choosing to read ancient classics. I had attempted to read The Odyssey once before and failed miserably. ![]() Goodbye to a river by john graves5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. ![]() ![]() The assassination presented Germany and Kaiser Wilhelm II with an opportunity to push for the conflict they had long prepared for. On June 28, 1914, a nineteen-year-old Bosnian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, shot and killed the Archduke of Austria and heir to the throne, Franz Ferdinand, along with his wife, Sophie, in the capital city of Sarajevo. The forces of nationalism, militarism, and imperialism swelled in the decades following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, gripping the continent with fear, envy, and mistrust.4 Colonial rivalries and a precarious alliance system exacerbated tensions. ![]() ![]() The European crisis had been long in the making. ![]() His thirteen-year-old daughter, Yolande, and his wife, Nina, were scheduled to leave for England at the end of the month.2 Yolande had received admission to the prestigious Bedales boarding school in Hampshire, where, as her father intended, she would be “trained to become a healthy woman, of broad outlook and spiritual resources, able to earn a living in some line of work which she likes and is fitted for.”3 Du Bois believed that Nina should dutifully relocate as well and settle in nearby London to provide motherly support whenever necessary. It was August 1914, and war engulfed Europe. “The present war in Europe is one of the great disasters due to race and color prejudice and it but foreshadows greater disasters in the future.”1ĭU BOIS FEARED FOR his family’s safety. ![]() |