![]() ![]() ![]() From questions that we all wrestle with in private to questions that you never thought to ask, Ask a Philosopher will get you thinking"- |c Provided by publisher. Based on real-life questions from his Ask a Philosopher series, Ian Olasov offers his answers to questions such as: - Are people innately good or bad? - Is it okay to have a pet fish? - Is it okay to have kids? - Is color subjective? - If humans colonize Mars, who will own the land? - Is ketchup a smoothie? - Is there life after death? - Should I give money to homeless people? Ask a Philosopher shows that there's a way of making philosophy work for each of us, and that philosophy can be both perfectly continuous with everyday life, and also utterly transporting. |a "A collection of answers to the philosophical questions on people's minds-from the big to the personal to the ones you didn't know you needed answered. Public philosophers have tended to think of their audience as the public, or perhaps a public or counterpublic. |a New York : |b Thomas Dunne Books, |c 2020. |a Ask a philosopher : |b answers to your most important and most unexpected questions / |c Ian Olasov. ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() Little girls begin to view her as a hero and calling her "The Lady Astronaut".Īlthough it is supposed to take place in 1952, all of the sources of conflict and interest in this book are things that happen to be hot topics now in 2018: However, Elma (an accomplished WW II pilot) becomes the public face of a political movement arguing that women should be allowed to be astronauts themselves rather than being relegated to working as "computers". ![]() The tragedy heightens the space race in this alternate universe so that they are quickly talking about manned missions to the moon and Mars. NACA mathematician Elma York survives only because she happens to be vacationing in the mountains with her husband (and because they take quick action when they see the flash, thinking that it was a nuclear bomb). In the world where this story takes place, Washington DC is destroyed by a meteorite impact in 1952 (during President Dewey's administration). ![]() This novel, which is the first in a series of prequels by the author for her Hugo Award-winning story " The Lady Astronaut of Mars", is a sort of alternate history version of Hidden Figures. The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel (2018) ![]() A list compiled by Alex Kasman ( College of Charleston) ![]() ![]() Fearing that the genre would stir anti-imperial sentiment, Zhao says several Chinese dynasties restricted these types of works. ![]() ![]() Zhao adds that xianxia and wuxia primarily arose from common folk rather than the imperial class or nobility. “So much of that genre centers around these legendary heroes who cultivate their power to fight evil and corrupt officials in service of the greater good and for the people.” Amélie Wen Zhao (Courtesy of Charlotte Yuyin Li) “A common theme throughout the genre of xianxia and its sibling genre wuxia is a search for justice,” Zhao says. While writing the book, Zhao drew deeply from xianxia and wuxia: two popular genres of Chinese fantasy. The book follows a young girl and a mysterious practitioner of magic as they bargain with powerful forces to unlock the mysteries buried within their war-torn nation. That's the mythical world of "Song of Silver, Flame Like Night," a new Chinese-history-inspired fantasy novel by Amélie Wen Zhao, which landed on bookshelves Jan. ![]() The cover of "Song of Silver, Flame Like Night." (Courtesy)Ī fallen kingdom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Or head on over to the forums and coordinate with the community on editing, projects, and more.Check out the community portal to see what the community is working on, to give feedback or just to say hi.(Scroll through to see art of each character and art of the full cast) Art by. Check it out on Instagram Meet the characters from Brent Weeks’ Night Angel Nemesisas introduced by the Night Angel himself. You can find a list of useful templates on Category:Templates. Orbit commissioned the brilliant Gregory Titus to illustrate the main players in Brent’s latest book, NIGHT ANGEL NEMESIS.Uploading images is another really easy way to help out - see the Special:Upload page!. ![]()
![]() ![]() So: 1983, King, wrote what really only amounts to a short story but was sold as a novella about a werewolf. I get their point: I'd forgotten what a slip of a book this actually was.) (In the comments of the last Rereading, somebody wished me luck writing about this for an article. Not because it's bad or anything, but because it's just so slight. ![]() ![]() Now, I realise, it's almost the very definition of a book that would have been better off staying in the library. That's not a choice I'm necessarily proud of, now. I wanted to buy Cycle of the Werewolf, but it was just so expensive. ![]() And a lot of the King novels that I took out of the library I then wanted to buy, because I thought I'd read them again and again, to soak them in. When I was a teenager – when every bit of my income (pocket money) was essentially expendable, and when I had the time to do nothing with my weekends and evenings other than indulge in the stuff I loved – I was able to read every book I wanted from the library, listen to every album that my friends copied for me, and rent those terrible films from the video shop that were, frankly, a waste of everybody's time. There was a time when I was far more obsessed with material things than I am now. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first trailer was released on 31 July 2014. Principal photography began on 24 July 2013, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Martin Sheen signed up to play the role of Father Juilliard. On 8 July 2013, Rooney Mara joined the cast to play the role of Olivia, an NGO worker. Screenwriter Richard Curtis was set to adapt the novel and Stephen Daldry was set to direct the film. On 5 April 2011, Working Title Films and PeaPie Films acquired the film rights to Andy Mulligan's 2010 adventure thriller novel Trash. One day they discover a wallet whose contents bring them into conflict with the brutal local police force as they find themselves unlikely whistleblowers in a city rife with corruption. Trash follows three Brazilian street teenagers in Rio de Janeiro Raphael, Gardo, and Rat (Jun-Jun) who spend their time picking through litter in the hope of finding useful waste. The film stars Rooney Mara, Martin Sheen, Wagner Moura, and Selton Mello. ![]() Trash is a 2014 crime drama thriller film directed by Stephen Daldry and written by Richard Curtis, based on the 2010 novel of the same name by Andy Mulligan. ![]() ![]() Gathered here are celebrated iconic essays along with little-known pieces that create a powerful survey of the world we live in, from the jungles of the Zapatistas in Mexico to the splendors of the Arctic. ![]() As the title suggests, the territory of Solnit’s concerns is vast, and in her signature alchemical style she combines commentary on history, justice, war and peace, and explorations of place, art, and community, all while writing with the lyricism of a poet to achieve incandescence and wisdom. ![]() ![]() The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed, prizewinning books of nonfiction including Men Explain Things To Me, brings the same dazzling writing to the essays in The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "globally wide-ranging and topically urgent and the Boston Globe as "luminous and precise.". ![]() ![]() ![]() Putting aside the fact that sanction attempts tend to occur at the 600 schools that educate 80% of students at not-for-profit four-year colleges nationwide, Hobbes is correct that a small number of scholars have been targeted, sanctioned, and fired in comparison to the number of all faculty at American colleges. There are roughly 1.7 million college professors in the US…The idea that these numbers constitute a high-priority threat to education right now is laughable.” Podcaster Michael Hobbes - who frequently denies that cancel culture is a problem - tweeted, “There are 4,000 universities in the United States. However, we want to address one specific criticism that received a fair amount of attention and seeks to delegitimize the purpose of the report. ![]() ![]() Our findings were met with a range of positive responses and were covered by more than a dozen publications. We found more than 1,000 sanction attempts, with more than 600 ending in sanction, and more than 200 resulting in the termination of the targeted scholar’s employment. The report documents attempts from 2000 to 2022 to sanction scholars for speech that is - or in public settings would be - protected by the First Amendment. Last week, FIRE released our annual “Scholars Under Fire” report. ![]() ![]() ![]() His characters aren’t overly complicated, in terms of “could I draw something that looks approximately like that dinosaur? Yes!” but the expressiveness is off the charts. ![]() The thing Mo Willems does best, IMHO, is expressions. His work is exceptional and he understands what kids find funny in a way very few others do. Now, you’re all well aware of my incredible admiration/fandom when it comes to Mr. Thankfully, my kiddos have Mo Willems’ Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs to entertain them. Like, picture your uncle who doesn’t really like children telling you a story just to get it over with. It was the art that won my little heart (it was so chunky and cute), but the story was exceptionally lacklustre. When I was three, my grandma bought me a book called “Goldilocks.” It was the classic tale, but with TOTALLY late-seventies-early-eighties-style art. Published: Balzer & Bray (HarperCollins), 2012 ![]() Title: Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs ![]() ![]() In contrast, Elijah Lander describes the American Dream is a shifting uncertainty, in fact a grand “delusion.” These are perhaps the two opposite poles of belief in the central myths of America. This brutal, stable reality is the American Dream. ![]() How do different characters regard the American Dream in the novel?įor Ridgeway, both the founding principle and the driving engine of America are comprised of a simple principle: if you steal property and keep it, it is yours. Thus the transformation of the Railroad into a literal engine gives Whitehead the opportunity to directly commemorate the courage of the real men and women in history who operated the network and used it to flee. The labor of others, she thinks, is redemptive with it, they have been transformed, and without it, she would never be free. Thousands of former slaves undertook back-breaking work, carving tunnels out of mountains, digging holes in the ground underneath all of America. Cora dwells on the immensity of the labor it must have took to build the railroad. The physical reality of a literal railroad amplifies the colossal effort of those who used the real Underground Railroad. In your opinion, why does Colson Whitehead make the Underground Railroad a literal railroad? What function does this play in the novel? ![]() |