![]() ![]() His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended. ![]() Known for saying that “god is dead,” Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. ![]() 1968, Viking Press, Viking Adult in English. ![]() He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later. The portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1969, Viking Press edition, in English It looks like youre. In Walter Kaufmann (Trans.),The portable Nietzsche. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. Kaufman, W., (1974),Nietzsche, philosopher, psychologist, antichrist. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the worlds leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, Few writers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Centrally directed missions have sometimes succeeded when these conditions are in place Apollo was a response to the Soviet Union’s pioneering launch of a human into space, and the greatest achievement of the USSR was the mobilisation of resources to defeat Nazi Germany. ![]() We need a “solutions based economy”, driven and co-ordinated by more powerful governments engaged in every stage of the process of innovation.īut Apollo was a success because the objective was specific and limited the basic science was well understood, even if many subsidiary technological developments were needed to make the mission feasible and the political commitment to the project was sufficiently strong to make budget overruns almost irrelevant. Mission Economy, the new book from the high-profile economist noted for her advocacy of a more active state, contains many screenshots of the whiteboards beloved of brainstorming meetings, each with an ambitious goal at the top: secure the future of mobility, clean oceans, defeat cancer below is a jumble of boxes and circles linked by multidirectional arrows. Mariana Mazzucato offers an answer: if only governments would apply the mission-driven methods of the Apollo project, they could. ![]() Ever since 1969, people have asked themselves why if humans can land on the moon, can’t they solve pressing problems here on Earth, such as poverty, dementia and climate change. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, Johnson’s lens widens to address the increasing racial divide following Obama’s election, and she dramatizes it through a friendship forged between Ruth and an 11-year-old white boy named Midnight, whose abusive father also lost his job. With the auto plant that employed her brother, Eli, and her grandfather now closed, the town is reeling. Still, Ruth returns to Ganton, determined to find her son before she starts a family with Xavier. Her grandmother, Mama, who raised her, encouraged Ruth to give up her son to fulfill her dreams, and now, after Ruth asks for help in finding him, Mama tells Ruth not to go digging up the past. However, her marriage hits a rocky spot when, during a talk with her husband, Xavier, about having children, she reveals she had a son at age 17. Ruth Tuttle, 29, feels like she’s made it: she’s married to a Pepsi exec and thriving in her own career as a chemical engineer. Johnson’s sharp debut takes a deep dive into the life of a Black Chicago woman after the 2008 presidential election. ![]() ![]() ![]() The woman goes to the window to look directly out of it, and the moment she does, she knows that the curse is upon her. ![]() One day, Sir Lancelot rides by, looking bold and handsome in his shining armor, and singing. The woman is happy to weave, but is tired of looking at life only as a reflection. There is, however, a curse on her the woman does not know the cause of the curse, but she knows that she cannot look directly out of the window, so she views the subjects of her artwork through a mirror that is beside her. Every day, the woman weaves a tapestry picture of the landscape that is visible from her window, including Camelot. "The Lady of Shalott" tells the story of a woman who lives in a tower in Shalott, which is an island on a river that runs, along with the road beside it, to Camelot, the setting of the legends about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. ![]() ![]() These are not novels to be read when tired, jet-lagged and crammed into an economy class plane seat or a rural train in India, beset by noise and jolted repeatedly. I thought I would gain new appreciation for these books by reading them as I traversed Rajasthan and Himalcha Pradesh, particularly as I would be visiting the town where much of Kim was written (Bundi) and where some of it was set (Shimla).īut these were a poor choice. I decided to take two books I had read in the recent past – Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and EM Forster’s A Passage to India. On a recent 6 week trip around Northern India, I chose badly. In the past I have been well-served with Atlas Shrugged, Catch-22 and Shantaram but as I say I was lucky, I did not put too much thought into what to take. It can’t be too artistic, too trying, too innovative requiring too many neurons to appreciate and digest. It needs to be intriguing, entertaining, engaging or stimulating enough that it will keep you turning the pages not matter how tired, jet-lagged, hungry, cold or hot you are. ![]() Something that can be read cover to cover on one plane ride will not suffice. You need a large volume that will occupy those many hours spent on planes, trains and buses, in airports and train stations. Without much thought or planning I have been able to accompany my vacation with a book that gave me what I needed. In the past I have been very fortunate in choosing books to travel with. ![]() Stieg Larsson’s immensely popular Millennium Series offers readers an entertaining diversion but is not without its flaws. ![]() ![]() ![]() You would be hard-pressed to find contemporary radical black thought that is not the inspiration for or confirmation of her literary offerings. Her 1997 book, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-making in Nineteenth-century America, brought whole discourses into being with her urgent and expansive analysis of humanism, empathy and ‘the encumbrance of freedom’ for black people. The brilliance of Hartman’s work is in its wayward reach throughout the diaspora, its dedication to storying black life in relation to specific histories of transatlantic enslavement. ![]() How to honour the soft liquid rigour, the sharp vast tenderness, of a writer like Saidiya Hartman? Or, how might we honour any black woman, in all their loud unlovely nuance and careful wholeness? ![]() It is hard to review a book of such gravitas and importance a text that refuses the boundaries we were meant to exist within. ![]() ![]() ![]() What sites your reviews are posted on (B&N, Amazon, etc.) and whether you send digital (eBook, PDF, Word, etc.) or hard copies of your books to each other for review is up to you. ![]() Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you. This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Review Exchange Program, which is open to all authors and is completely free. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email. You and the author will discuss what sites you will post your review to and what kind of copy of the book you would like to receive (eBook, PDF, Word, paperback, etc.). The author will provide you with a free copy of their book in exchange for an honest review. This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trystan Gardner – Sixteen years old, youngest Gardner sibling. Protective elder brother, master hunter and tracker. Rafe Gardner – Eldest of the Gardner siblings, enrolled in the university. Has a connection to wood, able to see the origin tree to any piece of wood she touches. ![]() Wants to be an apothecary, enjoys making and playing violins. Raised by her uncle with her two brothers out in Halfix (remote Gardneria). I’m begging you.Įlloren Gardner – Seventeen years old, middle child in the Gardner family. Just click away unless you’ve read the book already. Otherwise, do not read on, dear friend, unless you have read the book, and as it is my favorite high fantasy YA series of ALL TIME, I recommend reading it. I’ve already reviewed this book, if you’re looking for a spoiler-free review you can check it out here (it was one of the first ones I ever did): I’m going to be posting my summaries here, just in case anyone else wants to check them out if they don’t have time to re-read the series before The Demon Tide. Hi everyone! So this month in preparation for the release of The Demon Tide, the long awaited new book in the Black Witch series, I’m re-reading the three previous Black Witch books. ![]() ![]() Look, she’s heading for those caves! That must be where her tribe lives. And look, a bunch of wild garlic – is that food, or has she discovered its antiseptic qualities? Let’s follow her to find out. What’s that in her hands? Is it a slingshot? Why, she must have learnt to use tools! Yes, there seems to be a dead rabbit hanging from her back. See the way the homo-sapien child runs through the wildflower meadows. Look at all the vegetation! The clear running water! The sabre tooth tigers! Ahhhh, how idyllic. Specifically, the time when homo sapiens had become a distinct species from our cousins, homo…umm… the other type of early man with the big foreheads that only spoke in grunts. ![]() Woah there, not quite as far as dinosaurs. Welcome, readers to the world of The Unspecified Past. Trigger warnings for rape and violence against women. ![]() ![]() ![]() It has received wide critical acclaim, being credited with redefining the magical girl genre. Whether she likes it or not, Usagi's beautiful transformation marks the start of meeting the mysterious Tuxedo Mask, fighting alongside new comrades, and learning to take responsibility in this acclaimed magical girl classic.ĮditBackground Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon received the 1993 Kodansha Manga Award in the shoujo manga category. Given a special brooch from the black cat named Luna, Usagi can use it to transform into a guardian of justice named Sailor Moon! She is now tasked to protect the Earth from all that is evil and to find both a missing princess and a sacred jewel known as the Mystical Silver Crystal. It is very unlikely that she could be known as anything but a bad influence and a crybaby, but that begins to change when she meets a black cat. She also gets easily upset, whether by baseless insults or reasonable reprimands. ![]() She prefers eating and playing video games to studying, which results in her notably poor grades. Usagi Tsukino is a cheerful 14-year-old who attends Juuban Municipal Junior High School. EditSynopsis "In the name of the moon, I shall punish you!" ![]() |