![]() ![]() Invented by Hailey in the nineteenth century and used as a basis for many other calculations about our solar system.We can only imagine that Hickson must have gritted his teeth when he set himself the challenge of proving Dr. ![]() The popular estimate of approximately ninety-three million miles appeared to be a mistake, as inconceivable as it seemed.Hickson pored through the methods that his predecessors had used to calculate the distance and the accounts of their work, searching for the means to disprove his theory but instead he found a mistake in Dr. The giants of astronomy had miscalculated the distance of the sun from the Earth, it was closer than we ever thought. ![]() At the turn of the twentieth century, Gerrard Hickson stumbled upon a discovery which convinced him of something shocking. ![]()
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![]() Everything about this wonderful novel is exciting and funny and sweet and intelligent and a ripping good story. This is the loveliest romp I've read in some time. Soon the walls around Chase’s heart are crumbling.and he’s in danger of falling, hard. But Alexandra is more than he bargained for: clever, perceptive, passionate. When a stubborn little governess tries to reform him, he decides to give her an education - in pleasure. Like any self-respecting libertine, Chase lives by one rule: no attachments. Somehow, Alexandra must reach his heart.without risking her own. The ladies of London have tried - and failed - to make him settle down. ![]() Try telling that to their guardian, Chase Reynaud: duke’s heir in the streets and devil in the sheets. ![]() ![]() However, the girls don’t need discipline. He’s been a bad, bad rake - and it takes a governess to teach him a lessonĪfter her livelihood slips through her fingers, Alexandra Mountbatten takes on an impossible post: transforming a pair of wild orphans into proper young ladies. ![]() ![]() I was fascinated with the way that human beings had grappled with the ideas of absolute evil and absolute good tempered with love and free will. I was fascinated by Paradise Lost and Dante’s Inferno and Mike Carey’s Lucifer. When I set out to write City of Bones, I was in love with stories about vampires and faeries and warlocks, but I was also in love with the mythological tales of angels and demons. Clary ends City of Bones feeling a true sense of wonder as she flies over New York City, seeing revealed below all the magic and enchantment that had been previously hidden from her. He means that the stories we believe in our hearts-stories in which we are the heroes, stories in which there are good people who rise up to defeat the evil, stories in which there is always hope-are also true. ![]() ![]() He means that everything she’d always been told didn’t exist-vampires, werewolves, faeries, ghosts, and monsters of all shape, size, and intention-did exist after all and that, in fact, the world is full of them. Jace means, of course, more than one thing by this. That’s what Jace Wayland tells Clary Fray in the first book of the Shadowhunters chronicles, City of Bones. ![]() Cover: The Mortal Instruments, the Complete Collection, by Cassandra Clare ![]() ![]() They all wrote about the volume in which Kate has shared what she learned from the leaders and the followers of this movement-how they manage to give a spiritual meaning to anything good or bad in their lives. Her research has been so well received that the largest English-language publications have found it worthwhile to inform their readers about its release: The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Economist, The Washington Post, BBC, NPR, Time and The New Republic. Kate immersed herself with fascination in the study of this subject, and, as a result, in 2013 she published the book “Blessed”. She is considered an expert in the history of the “ gospel of prosperity”-a movement that promotes the belief that God guarantees believers any joy they desire here on this earth. Bowler is a scholar of spiritual traditions and an associate professor of the history of Christianity in North America at Duke Divinity School. ![]() With a master’s degree in religion from Yale, a doctorate from Duke University, a volume published by Oxford University, and appreciated by professors at many prestigious academic institutions including Harvard, Kate is a successful example in a field where, for centuries, men have found it much easier to stand out: the academic world of religion. ![]() ![]() Many people never dare to dream that they might one day reach the professional heights that Kate Bowler reached before the age of 35. ![]() ![]() Soon after Gallus was beheaded, Constantius summoned Julian. He claims that the time studying was the best of his life, though he later indicates a true love of his political power. He'd allowed Constantius and others in power to believe he would become a monk in an effort to prove he had no political aspirations and was not a threat to the throne. Julian himself had agreed to become a monk at an early age, but not through any dedication to the brotherhood. ![]() However, Constantius had Gallus beheaded soon after naming him Caesar. Julian's brother, Gallus, was made Caesar long before Julian even realized he craved the power of the political offices of the day. Julian says he was certain he would be next and spent most of his younger years worrying for his life. His father was then killed by Julian's own cousin, Constantius. As a youngster, Julian was ripped from his home and those he loved - including his father and a beloved teacher. ![]() Julian's early childhood was fraught with danger and intrigue. He does, however, add notes throughout the story, sometimes correcting Julian's take on situations and sometimes adding details not included by Julian. Though Priscus agrees to send a copy of the manuscript to Libanius, he declines to be part of the published project. The story begins as two old friends, Libanius and Priscus, correspond regarding a manuscript written by Julian. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pádraig Ó Méalóid: I had been meaning to ask you, before I started reading this one, if there were going to be any further Grandville books after this, but by the end of it you’ve several trailing story threads that I imagine might take a few more books to sort out. I’d interviewed Bryan pretty comprehensively before ( here & here), so I got in touch to ask him just a few more questions about Grandville, and his future plans for the character. ![]() ![]() Briefly, if you’re not reading Grandville, you’re missing some of the best fun there is to be had between two covers. We also have a messianic unicorn, evil criminals, and a Lucky Luke look-a-like, called Lucas Chance. Wherever LeBrock goes, mayhem and a high body-count ensues, and this book is no different. The fourth of his Grandville books, featuring the adventures of Detective Inspector LeBrock (who is, as the name might suggest to the scholarly, a badger) in an anthropomorphic steampunk Paris, is at least as good as the three previous volumes, if not considerably better. I suspect that I’m not alone in thinking any day that brings new work from Dr Bryan Talbot is a very good day indeed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, he fictionalises his life through using the third person when (conventionally) referring to himself, as he – like Joyce – reveals the profundities of life in the ‘bread’ of everyday experience. Here, the status of raw material is the key for Barthes in no sense becomes a conventional autobiographer. ![]() This is so in two books he wrote towards the end of his life: Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, and Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. Barthes, however, takes them in hand and uses them as the raw material of his own writing, and even of his style. Such elementary facts of biography have often provided the psychocritic with material for explaining underlying (unconscious) aspects of the writer’s oeuvre. He died in Paris in 1980, the same year as Sartre, after having been struck by a van near the Sorbonne. Greimas, then at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Barthes was appointed to the Colle`ge de France in 1977. After teaching in Romania and in Egypt, where he met A. And it was during the periods of enforced convalescence that he read omnivorously and published his first articles on Andre´ Gide. Between 19, he suffered various bouts of tuberculosis. Before completing his later primary and secondary schooling in Paris, Barthes spent his childhood at Bayonne in south-west France. Barely a year later, his father died in naval combat in the North Sea, so that the son was brought up by the mother and, periodically, by his grandparents. ![]() Roland Barthes was born at Cherbourg in 1915. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet in the midst of their peril, love will blossom, and joy, and they will discover sources of strength and perseverance they have not imagined. As they gather at a small Montana town, old alliances will be renewed and tested, from within and without, for the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered. They are drawn together in different ways, by omens sinister and wondrous, to the same shattering conclusion: Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. ![]() In their hands rests nothing less than the survival of humanity itself. It is up to five people to prove him wrong. With a powerful, enigmatic backer and a secret location where the enemies of progress can’t find him, Victor is certain that this time nothing can stop him. Using stem cells, “organic” silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, he will engender a race of superhumans - the perfect melding of flesh and machine. Victor Leben, once Frankenstein, has seen the future - and he’s ready to populate it. It is a story of revenge, redemption, and the thin line that separates human from inhuman. In Frankenstein: Lost Souls, Dean Koontz puts a singular twist on this classic tale of ambition and science gone wrong, to forge a new legend uniquely suited to our times. ![]() ![]() She also loves anime, listening to music, and chocolate, and finds writing about herself in the third person quite odd. She prefers ocean water over lake water, has a fear of heights, and is currently in search of a new bike (her old one, Cliffjumper, can no longer shift gears, which makes steep hills impossible.) When she’s not working on her current project, she can be found deep within the pages of a good book or questing somewhere in Eorzea.Īt times, Heather ventures outside to hike with friends, go biking, or go swimming. She is now hard at work on her next publication, a YA fantasy novel. ![]() Heather wrote her first novel (which will never see the light of day) when she was fourteen, and published her first book, a YA science novella titled Augment, when she was twenty-one. A lot of her free time is spent reading her latest haul from the local library. She does miss that racing MS-DOS game she used to play, but has found other games to spend free time on, such as Final Fantasy XXIV and Magic the Gathering, when she has spare free time. ![]() She can’t remember when she first started tapping away at a keyboard but she’s grateful that those early attempts at writing are lost in the ancient format of floppy disc. Heather Hayden is a writer, gamer, reader, editor, and computer geek, though not in any specific order. ![]() ![]() ![]() In BI: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality, Shaw probes the science and culture of attraction beyond the binary. Despite statistics that show bisexuality is more common than homosexuality, bisexuality is often invisible. Ask people to name famous bisexual actors, politicians, writers, or scientists, and they draw a blank. ![]() ![]() It’s an admission, she writes, that usually causes people’s pupils to dilate, their cheeks to flush, and their questions to start flowing. For psychologist and bestselling author Julia Shaw, this is both professional and personal-Shaw studies the science of sexuality and she herself is proudly and vocally bisexual. Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decades in regards to sexuality, the subject remains one of the most influential but least understood aspects of our lives. ![]() |