![]() ![]() He continued his education and received his Ph.D. He graduated with Distinction in Mathematics from Stanford University in 1965. He grew up on the campus of Stanford University, where his father was a professor, and he attended the International School of Geneva in 1958–1959. ![]() His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.Ĭontents Early life and education Hofstadter was born in New York City, the son of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Hofstadter. It won both the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and a National Book Award (at that time called The American Book Award) for Science. ![]() He is best known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979. Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on the sense of "I", consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She steps out of her car, ready to go to the Academy of Avalon to train as a Fall faerie and is greeted by Tamani. ![]() ![]() Spells begins six months after Laurel's close encounter with death due to Barnes the troll. She must also choose between her two worlds - and the two guys in them. She expects to be able to return to normal life after her classes have ended, but she quickly realizes that danger is still coming. Six months after discovering that she is a faerie scion and saving the gateway to Avalon, Laurel is summoned to her faerie home to hone her skills as a Fall Faerie. Spells was released in the United States on May 4, 2010, and debuted on the New York Times Best Seller list. It also debuted on the Indie Bestsellers list. It is the sequel to her #1 New York Times best-selling debut, Wings, which introduced readers to Laurel Sewell, a Faerie sent among humans to guard the gateway to Avalon. Spells is a fantasy novel by author Aprilynne Pike. ![]() ![]() ![]() Andrew, Maine, back when it was a Puritan settlement. Her impassioned account begins at the turn of the 19th century in the same small town of St. As she begins to tell her story, Luke finds himself utterly captivated. ![]() He is inexplicably drawn to her…despite the fact that she is a murder suspect with a police escort. A mysterious woman with plenty of dark secrets, Lanny is unlike anyone Luke has ever met. ![]() But the minute Lanore McIlvrae-Lanny-enters his ER, she changes his life forever. Luke Findley is expecting another quiet evening of frostbite and the occasional domestic dispute. On the midnight shift at a hospital in rural Maine, Dr. True love can last an eternity…but immortality comes at a price. From the author of The Hunger-hailed by Stephen King as “deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down”-comes a hauntingly atmospheric tale filled with alchemy, lust, and betrayal. ![]() ![]() ![]() SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! ![]()
![]() Read Full Review >Ĭook remains as dubious of our species’ trajectory as she was in her rich and original short story collection, Man V. ![]() More than timely, it feels timeless, solid, like a forgotten classic recently resurfaced - a brutal, beguiling fairy tale about humanity. But in a novel about how humans might survive when stripped of a modernity that’s gone too far, maybe that’s part of the point: Even the most beautiful sunsets and sage fields become boring when they’re all you have. That pace flags only occasionally, usually during descriptions of the landscape, which are frequent enough to become slightly tedious. It makes a story that might have languished in the valley with its characters move at a brisk pace. Any time we begin to get complacent in the Wilderness State, Cook remakes the universe, shifting the point of view, the time frame, the physical landscape or the emotional one. Cook is a skilled unpeeler of information revelations and discoveries are timed to perfection. Here, we get both: This manages to be a speculative novel about the future and a well-researched tale about living primitively, arrowheads, hides and all. It’s hard to read all this during a pandemic of a respiratory illness caused by an airborne virus without feeling an extra chill, but Cook has always excelled at rendering horror plainly, whether that horror is monstrous or merely human. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cook has deepened and expanded on the concerns first aired in her stories, like a fresh mountain stream running inevitably into a deep, cold lake. ![]() ![]() ![]() My senses were too smitten to have observed a brief outline of her appearance, but keywords for her character-sketch could be: fiery, motherly and definitely a familiar voice if one pays attention. Meena Kandasamy for the first time, in realtime, echoing the ditto of what Shakur has to say. ![]() On 12th of March, in an air-conditioned hall, at the illustrious Jaipur Literature Festival, thankfully saved by the horrid heatwave and anxiety that scurrying footsteps emulate, I am listening to Dr. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. In her autobiography, which she wrote after escaping to Cuba, Shakur wrote: In my days of navigating lives of fugitives and refugees around the world, I found Assata Shakur, the current political exile, former member of the Black Liberation Army, convicted in the first-degree murder, also the first woman to be on the list of FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists, who also happens to be the godmother of Tupac Shakur. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Legions during the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. Arrian was made governor of Cappadocia and had command of two Roman As a Roman subject, the author probably felt he did not have free It was written during the resurgence of Greek literature that began in the era of the accession in 117 CE of the philhellenic emperor Hadrian-the era also included the writers Appian, Pausanias, Galen, & Lucian. The Campaigns of Alexander tells the story of Alexander's campaigns first in Thrace and Greece and then in North Africa and Asia. He was a Roman citizen by virtue of his father's citizenship, and a pupil of the stoic philosopher Epictetus-a man who advocated high moral ![]() ![]() The author' name in transliterated Greek is: Loukios Phlaouios Arrianos, theĪrrian was from Nicomedia in Bithynia (NW Asia Minor near Byzantium). Selected notes and impressions (extracted from the book commentary and from Alan Rawn lectures and notes): 356 and diedģ23) written by a somewhat uninspiring writer. Overall Impression: This is a detailed factual history of the campaigns of Alexander the Great (b. Some of the notes derive from various web sources Quotations are for the most part taken from that work, asĪre paraphrases of its commentary. Summary by Michael McGoodwin, prepared 2002Īcknowledgement: This work has been summarized using the Penguin 1971Įdition, translation by Aubrey de Sélincourt 1958. Arrian: Campaigns of Alexander (Anabasis) ![]() ![]() This year’s volume also pays special attention to black speculative poetry and the power of the word. This anthology series aims to draw attention to the works of Africans and people of African descent, to address visibility and other marginalizing barriers that exist for writers from Africa and the diaspora on the global stage. The second installment of the World Fantasy Award-winning Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction anthology series, published by a collaboration of Caezik Books of Arc Manor and OD Ekpeki Presents, an imprint of Jembefola Press, will be released August 1, 2023, and can be preordered here. It will contain poetry, and cover works from both the 20 years. This year’s volume is guest edited by two strong voices in the Black speculative fiction space, Eugen Bacon and Milton Davis. ![]() ![]() The selections have been announced T he Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022 anthology. ![]() ![]() ![]() BOOKISH REFLECTIONS: TIPS ON READING CLASSICS.BOOK REVIEW: THE MAKER OF SWANS BY PARAIC O'DONNELL.BOOK REVIEW: AUTUMN JOURNAL BY LOUIS MACNEICE.BOOK REVIEW: CATHERINE THE GREAT BY ROBERT K.I think this book offers up a unique perspective and is definitely worth the read, and if you generally like essay collections, I think you'll like this. It's also not quite as on point as I would've wished, although maybe that's how it's meant to be. The first thirty pages or so are very much like this. I did find the writing a bit hard to overcome on occasion, as some parts felt a bit disjointed and slightly difficult to understand. The whole book also feels honest and in parts raw, and I really loved the part towards the end where she discusses feminism (I would have preferred this to be a bit longer actually). ![]() It discusses privilege alongisde race and that isn't something I've seen that often. I think the discussions on race are fascinating and in parts heartbreaking, and I thought it was especially interesting to read about how the author and her likes viewed not only white people, but also other black people. I think this is a lovely book and an interesting look into the life of upperclass African Americans of her time. ![]() ![]() In the aftermath of Suleyman’s succession to the throne in 1520, Suleyman’s ‘favorite’ in a very short time. Ibrahim, who is presented to the service of Suleyman in the years of his princely governorate in Manisa, becomes Ibrahim Pasha, since Ibrahim Pasha is regarded as one of the prominent figures of Sultan Suleyman’s reign. However, in this study, it is aimed to analyze Kyd’s Erastus character constructed on the historical figure ![]() Especially Sultan Suleyman, called ‘Magnificent’ in Europe, is widely depicted on the English Result of cultural interaction, the English playwrights frequently people their plays with Ottoman characters and More specifically, Ottoman presence in the Mediterranean stimulates Anglo-Ottoman relations. Ottoman westward expansion increases cultural interaction between the Ottomans and theĮuropeans. ![]() Ottoman Empire expands its borders towards European territories conquering strategic holds such as Belgrade, In the aftermath of Sultan Suleyman’s succession to the throne, Sixteenth century Ottoman - European relations. In The Tragedy of Soliman and Perseda, Thomas Kyd tends to portray Sultan Suleyman’s reign in the context of ![]() |