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Novel by max porter5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() His most recent project is All Of This Unreal Time, which premiered at Manchester International Festival in July 2021. He frequently collaborates with artists and musicians. Many of our booksellers are huge fans of. Complicité and Wayward’s production of Grief is the Thing with Feathers directed by Enda Walsh and starring Cillian Murphy was performed in Dublin, London and New York. We are delighted to be hosting the only Scottish event to celebrate the publication of Max Porters new novel, Shy. It has been sold in thirty-one territories. His first novel, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, won the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Europese Literatuurprijs and the BAMB Readers’ Award and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. His Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller Lanny was longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize and the 2019 Wainwright Prize, shortlisted for the 2019 Gordon Burn Prize and shortlisted for both Waterstones and Foyles Book of the Year 2019. Max Porter is the author of The Death of Francis Bacon, praised as ‘a miniature masterpiece’, and ‘a feat of empathy, imagination and literary brio’. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Beauty itself is not merely aesthetic, Mehaffy explains, but rather a marker for what is good for us as human beings. ![]() Conscious and unconscious, that culture produced plazas of great beauty in Tuscany hilltowns, the winding and intimate back alleys of Beijing, and iconic US main streets. Historic cities and towns were built by centuries of knowledge encoded into culture. Cities Alive by Michael Mehaffy examines Jacobs and Alexander together to get at the root philosophical problems that created erroneous thinking in city building in the 20th Century, continuing to the present day. Most are are familiar with Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language, both of which have been influential in urban planning, architecture, and other fields.īut something was going on at a deeper level that underlay the dysfunction Jacobs and Alexander fought from the 1960s onward. I realized soon after I delved into Cities Alive that I was reading an important analysis for urbanism-now and in the coming decades. Those in the land-use planning and development business know the stories of urban renewal damage, the failure of modern urban projects like Pruitt-Igoe, and the consequences of suburban sprawl. ![]()
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Gridlock by Alvin Ziegler5/30/2023 ![]() The digital revolution had wound its way to the doctor's office where it was transforming medicine and rewriting healthcare.the same way it had disrupted the newspaper, music, book, and movie industries. Mainstream practices would soon become ancient history. steadily reshaping everything in its wake. Even fewer knew the human genome was being decoded. Petri dishes and microscopes were being replaced with databases and computer workstations. While updating computer networks in Beth Israel Medical Center, I saw firsthand how biology and computers were converging. The isolation of that cross-country trip with recycled jetliner air led to ruminations over my work in a New York hospital. The digital revolution had wound its way to the doc GRIDLOCK germinated in a flight from San Francisco to Florida. ![]() ![]() ![]() GRIDLOCK germinated in a flight from San Francisco to Florida. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() So punches go unpulled, the impersonal becomes personal, and sometimes even the critics get critiqued, as he shares his views on Pauline Kael or Siskel and Ebert. Star Wars? "Luke Skywalker is a nerd and Darth Vader sucks runny eggs." Big Trouble in Little China? "A cheerfully blathering live-action cartoon that will give you release from the real pressures of your basically dreary lives." Despite working within the industry himself, Ellison never learned how to lie. Renowned both for fiction ( A Boy and His Dog) and pop-culture commentary ( The Glass Teat), Ellison offers in this collection twenty-five years' worth of essays and film criticism. ![]() ![]() "An enjoyable, irascible collection" of smart and sometimes-scathing film criticism from a famously candid author ( Library Journal).Įveryone's a critic, especially in the digital age-but no one takes on the movies like multiple award-winning author Harlan Ellison. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The Greek term telos refers to what we might call a purpose, goal, end or true final function of an object. Aristotle was a teleologist because he believed that every object has what he referred to as a final cause. The Function ArgumentĪristotle was a teleologist, a term related to, but not to be confused with, the label “teleological” as applied to normative ethical theories such as Utilitarianism. Indeed, this is what separates Aristotelian Virtue Ethics from both Utilitarianism and Kantian Ethics. It is fitting, therefore, that his moral philosophy is based around assessing the broad characters of human beings rather than assessing singular acts in isolation. – Ivan Panin Aristotelian Virtue Ethics IntroductionĪristotle (384–322 BC) was a scholar in disciplines such as ethics, metaphysics, biology and botany, among others. To seek virtue for the sake of reward is to dig for iron with a spade of gold. ![]()
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The Courage to Love by Samantha Kane5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The Hiding Place is a deeply moving and intensely lyrical novel about love and betrayal.ĪBOUT THE AUTHOR : Trezza Azzopardi was born in Cardiff and lives in Norwich. ![]() It is a time of consolation, of memories and nightmares, and a chance for Dolores to understand the tragedy that has shaped her existence. Thirty years later, the estranged sisters return to Tiger Bay for their mothers funeral. As Dolores grows older, we see this strange underworld through her eyes: Tiger Bay is a place of gaming rooms and cafes, of crumbling houses and burning secrets, and for Dolores and her sisters, their home is a dangerous place, filled equally by fear and love. Growing up in the 1960s in Cardiffs poverty stricken Tiger Bay, her life is cursed from the start when, on the day of her birth, her father gambles and loses everything on a bet that Delores will be a boy. ![]() ![]() Dolores is the youngest of six daughters. My father would have flipped a coin and watched his fate come twirling down to earth. It portrays the life of a child condemned forever to bear the mark of a disintegrating family. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000, this is an extraordinary and heart-breaking novel set in Cardiff's Tiger Bay. The Hiding Place (Picador Classic) with an introduction by D J Taylor. ![]()
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How to do nothing by jenny o dell5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() “I thought it was super-amazing, kind of utopian, and now I’m having this reckoning with what that actually means.” “I’m a kid who grew up in the Bay Area, and grew up with the internet, and it was super-exhilarating and obviously influenced my work,” she says. She teaches at Stanford and has done artist residencies at both Facebook and the San Francisco dump. ![]() ![]() And if you follow Odell on Twitter ( you’ll bless your feed with rare birds, strange plants, local wildlife and oak trees.įor a book about place, it’s crucial that the Cupertino-born Odell is writing from the heart of Silicon Valley. One of her favorite counterexamples is the app iNaturalist, which helps identify flora and fauna in one’s local environment. “Rather,” she writes, “I am opposed to the way that corporate platforms buy and sell our attention, as well as to designs and uses of technology that enshrine a narrow definition of productivity and ignore the local, the carnal, and the poetic.” “How to Do Nothing” is not an antitechnology screed. The subtitle of Odell’s book is “Resisting the Attention Economy,” which, crucially, does not mean a blanket opposition to products like Twitter. I am opposed to the way that corporate platforms buy and sell our attention. ![]()
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Clarke rama series5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In today's frightening episode we have spooky guest Phillip, of the Dead Ringers Podcast, a twice monthly horror podcast covering double features with shared DNA (e.g. Happy Halloween! Welcome to episode 21 of the HoloGraham Media Club Podcast. Email us ideas, thoughts, praise and complaints: Follow us on Insta HoloGrahamMC #BookClub #Sci-fiBooks #AudiobookClub #Sci-FiBookClub #SpeculativeFictionAudiobook #BookReview #Sci-FiBookReview #WilliamGibson #ThePeripheral #AmazonPrime #Mike #SciFi We focus on books but we'll talk about movies, TV, and nerd culture in general. Hope you'll join us for the discussion of this Classic! We're Will and Gavin Graham + Aaron + Andy, a couple of cousins and friends that enjoy speculative fiction, Sci-Fi movies, and all things geeky. You could be on the show too! Just email or get in touch, with or without a book suggestion, and be prepared to talk geek! The next episode will be - 'Flowers For Algernon' by Daniel Keyes. We discussed the book by William Gibson in episode 7 of this podcast. ![]() In today's episode we're joined by Mike, long time friend of Gavin and Aaron as well as Dungeon master for their current campaign! In today's special episode, we discuss the first season of "The Peripheral" which can be viewed on Amazon Prime. Welcome to episode 22 of the HoloGraham Media Club Podcast. ![]()
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Read nijigahara holograph5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() It begins with what was done to her, what kept her in a coma for over a decade, and its effect on classmate Kohta who develops an affinity for those tunnels and, for a bully, quite the protective streak. ![]() It all begins with a girl called Arié who claimed there was a monster in that tunnel. Except that they dont erupt out of nowhere: they come from the human heart and what happened at school and around the Nijigahara Embankment eleven years ago. Its such a gentle, sleepy, dreamy read that when sudden acts of extreme violence erupt seemingly out of nowhere, it is altogether halting. Hes created an elliptical narrative which orbits a cast of characters, gliding in and out of their lives as adults and school children. ![]() Inio Asano, the creator of SOLANIN, wont be holding your hand. It is to be delivered, and soon, for the promised day is coming and the connections will finally be made clear. Kohta entrusts this one to former classmate Maki, now waitress in the café Makota inherited so fortuitously from his dead parents. Its one of a matching pair of pendants which will be lost and found, passed on from one protagonist to the next throughout this book. Kohta has found a butterfly pendant in the pitch-black warren of tunnels behind the school, beneath the Nijigahara Embankment. Look, theres one now crawling from between Kohtas lips! What a very beautiful book and, oh, you will love the clouds of butterflies glowing under the moons reflective gaze and erupting from the oddest of places. The butterflies that had been pulled apart by fate ![]() |