Raising Steam

Raising Steam

Author: Terry Pratchett

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2014-03-18

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 0385538294

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The international bestselling author of the hilarious Discworld series—a writer who’s been compared to Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut—introduces the first steam engine into his complex, zany fantasy world. “Everything that makes Pratchett one of the world’s most delightful writers.” —Cory Doctorow, author of Boing Boing Mister Simnel has produced a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all the elements—earth, air, fire, and water—and it’s soon drawing astonished crowds. To the consternation of Ankh-Morpork’s formidable Patrician, Lord Vetinari, no one is in charge of this new invention. Who better to take the lead than the man he has already appointed master of the Post Office, the Mint and the Royal Bank? Moist von Lipwig is not a man who enjoys hard work—unless it is dependent on words, which are not very heavy and don’t always need greasing. He does enjoy being alive, however, which makes a new job offer from Vetinari hard to refuse. Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a controller with a history of throwing employees down the stairs, and some very angry dwarfs if he’s going to stop it all from going off the rails.


Skellig

Skellig

Author: David Almond

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Published: 2001-11-13

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 038572988X

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David Almond’s Printz Honor–winning novel celebrates its 10th anniversary! Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage. . . . What is this thing beneath the spiders' webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never before seen? The only person Michael can confide in is his new friend, Mina. Together, they carry the creature out into the light, and Michael's world changes forever. . . .


The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Author: Julian Jaynes

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2000-08-15

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 0547527543

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National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry


Sophie's World

Sophie's World

Author: Jostein Gaarder

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2007-03-20

Total Pages: 735

ISBN-13: 1466804270

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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.


The Confession of a Fallen Angel

The Confession of a Fallen Angel

Author: Penta Gram

Publisher:

Published: 2013-05-31

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781490324005

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"There is little enmity against Satan and his works, because there is so great ignorance concerning his power and malice, and the vast extent of his warfare against Christ and His Church. Multitudes are deluded here. They do not know that their enemy is a mighty general, who controls the minds of evil angels, and that with well-matured plans and skilful movements he is warring against God to prevent the salvation of souls. Among professed Christians, and even among ministers of the gospel, there is heard scarcely a reference to Satan, except perhaps an incidental mention in the pulpit. They overlook the evidences of his continual activity and success; they neglect the many warnings of his subtlety; they seem to ignore his very existence."Yes, a lot of people don't know this... And they do not know it because I did not want them to know. Up until now, my work has been done in complete secrecy. I work best when people are not aware of my existence, my intentions and my modus operandi. Now, however, I decided to change that. From now on, you will know about me.Do you think that what you are doing and what have you been doing is the result of your own thinking and intentions? No. I control you. I misled you in almost every aspect of your life. You are filled with wrong prejudices. You have misplaced priorities in life. I've imposed false life attitudes and beliefs on you. You are in complete darkness. My victory is even greater knowing that I've managed to do it all, leaving you in belief that you are so smart and wise, that you're free to do what ever you want, that you have the opportunity to enjoy life, and that everything you've accomplished is the result of your creativity.Keeping you in ignorance is no longer interesting to me. I've realized that I managed to humiliate the mankind so much that even when you find out almost everything about me, and once you've realized that everything you do is actually a result of what I have imposed on you, you still won't have the strength to change anything.I will go so far and claim that you'll be able to realize, if you read carefully, how to become free, but your ego will be my ally once again, and will continue to hold you under my control.Are you ready? Are you ready to meet the being that is the cause of everything evil on the planet Earth? Are you ready to understand that even if you think that you don't have anything to do with me, you actually belong and serve me? Are you ready to realize that I have decided to rule your life? No? Nobody is ready for that. However, the facts cannot be changed.You think that you're protected from me because you are religious? Because you are a Christian? A good one, perhaps? You think that I can't manipulate you because you aren't religious? Because you do not believe in the Creator? Because you don't believe that I exist?Start reading and find out how I tricked you in so many ways. Find out where and when you willingly crossed to my side. I will show you how I made your life miserable and how I managed to make you believe that you are happy. You'll realize that problems you now have are not result of random coincidences, but in fact are repercussions of my carefully executed plan.You think this is funny? Just keep on reading and I promise you that I will be the one who will laugh last, at the end of this book, as well as the end of your life.The first part of this book will follow biblical chronology. If you haven't read the Bible, all the better for me.The second part of the book is the one where you play the main role... under my direction. Lucifer


Between the Acts

Between the Acts

Author: Virginia Woolf

Publisher: Modernista

Published: 2024-05-30

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9180949541

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In a picturesque English village, residents prepare for an amateur production in the grounds of their manor house. Against the backdrop of World War II looming in the background, the play becomes a microcosm reflecting the anxieties, hopes, and societal changes of the time. Through Virginia Woolf's distinctive narrative style, each character's inner world is intricately woven into the fabric of the performance, blurring the lines between reality and theatricality. Between the Acts stands as Virginia Woolf's final novel, completing her exploration of experimental narrative techniques and modernist themes. Published posthumously in 1941, the novel continues Woolf's profound literary legacy of challenging conventional storytelling and delving into the complexities of human consciousness. VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882–1941] was an English author. With novels like Jacob’s Room [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], To the Lighthouse [1927], and Orlando [1928], she became a leading figure of modernism and is considered one of the most important English-language authors of the 20th century. As a thinker, with essays like A Room of One’s Own [1929], Woolf has influenced the women’s movement in many countries.


Kane Chronicles, The, Book Two: The Throne of Fire

Kane Chronicles, The, Book Two: The Throne of Fire

Author: Rick Riordan

Publisher: Disney Electronic Content

Published: 2011-05-03

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 142315438X

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In this exciting second installment of the three-book series, Carter and Sadie, offspring of the brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane, embark on a worldwide search for the Book of Ra, but the House of Life and the gods of chaos are determined to stop them.


Embodying Contagion

Embodying Contagion

Author: Sandra Becker

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2021-03-15

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1786836920

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Brings together new research that lays out the current state of contagion studies, from the perspective of media studies, monster studies, and the medical humanities. Offers fresh perspectives on contagion studies from disciplines such as the social sciences and the medical humanities, introducing new methods of collaboration and avenues of research, and demonstrating how these disciplines have already been working in parallel for several decades. Covers a wide variety of international media and contexts, including literature, film, television, public policy, and social networks. Includes key, recent case studies (including public health documents and the popular Netflix series Santa Clarita Diet) that have not yet been analysed anywhere else in the field. Bucks the current trend of going back to plague literature and historical plagues in the search for meaning to address current and late-20th century epidemics, diseases, and monsters.


Albion's Seed

Albion's Seed

Author: David Hackett Fischer

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1991-03-14

Total Pages: 981

ISBN-13: 019974369X

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This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.