![]() Spell My Name with an S: Their names could be spelled in plenty of different ways.Primordial Chaos: Nenu and Naunet again.Hermaphrodite: Nenu and Naunet, while the others are gender-flipped.This is a given seeing as they are simply primal forces with no characterization and little surviving documents. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Brideshead revisited charles ryder![]() ![]() ![]() Men at Arms (1952) was the first volume of 'The Sword of Honour' trilogy, and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize the other volumes, Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender, followed in 19. In 1942 he published Put Out More Flags and then in 1945 Brideshead Revisited. In 1939 he was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, serving in the Middle East and in Yugoslavia. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). ![]() ![]() Enchanted first by Sebastian Flyte at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognise his spiritual and social distance from them.Įvelyn Waugh (1903-66) was born in Hampstead, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. ![]() ![]() ![]() After the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, he helped procure arms and ammunition for the revolutionary cause, and in late 1775 he was chosen as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress. By 1775 he was the richest man in America. In the aftermath of the French and Indian War, Morris joined with other merchants in opposing British tax policies such as the 1765 Stamp Act. From 1781 to 1784, he served as the Superintendent of Finance of the United States, becoming known as the "Financier of the Revolution." Along with Alexander Hamilton and Albert Gallatin, he is widely regarded as one of the founders of the financial system of the United States.īorn in Liverpool, Morris migrated to North America in his teens, quickly becoming a partner in a successful shipping firm based in Philadelphia. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, the Second Continental Congress, and the United States Senate, and he was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution. (January 20, 1734 – May 8, 1806) was an English-born merchant and a Founding Father of the United States. ![]() ![]() This is primarily because land underpins so much of our society. ![]() This is the history of how England's elite came to own our land - from aristocrats and the church to businessmen and corporations - and an inspiring manifesto for how we can take control back Cataloging source StDuBDS Shrubsole, Guy Dewey number 333. Who Owns England, by Guy Shrubsole, London, Williams Collins, 2019 Who Owns England by Guy Shrubsole advocates that land should form a more central role in societal, cultural and political debate. By Guy Shrubsole (William Collins, 376pp) Andy Wightmans exemplary research in Scotland is the acknowledged inspiration for this eagerly awaited book turning the spotlight on England, where the iniquity all began. ![]() Language eng Summary Who own's England? Behind this simple question lies this country's oldest and darkest secret. Who Owns England How we lost our green and pleasant land, and how to take it back. Label Who owns England? : how we lost our land and how to take it back Title Who owns England? Title remainder how we lost our land and how to take it back Statement of responsibility Guy Shrubsole Creator ![]() ![]() ![]() OL24255012W Page_number_confidence 93.24 Pages 150 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201025124514 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 317 Scandate 20201022153825 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781578988594 Tts_version 4. This English translation was published in 1961. ![]() ![]() Paragraph numbers apply to this excerpt, not the original source. Freud proposes that, in a 'civilized' culture, the more saintly one is, the more sinful one thinks oneself to be. Excerpts from Digitized Original at the Internet Archive. Civilization and its Discontents is a seminal text in the field of psychology, written by Austrian psychologist (and founder of psychoanalysis) Sigmund Freud, published in 1930. The use of a city, particularly a civilization as prominent as Rome, also introduces the theme of comparing the individual psyche with the collective psyche of a civilization. Urn:lcp:civilizationitsd0000freu_z8d5:epub:ffaa4779-2c53-4aca-afbf-14d29a3dc5e8 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier civilizationitsd0000freu_z8d5 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t67469x3j Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781578988594ġ453833897 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.3 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19581 Openlibrary_edition Sigmund Freud Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) Translated by James Strachey. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 03:01:06 Boxid IA1983920 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Our mathematical universe![]() ![]() Tegmark argues that there is no fundamental difference between Level II and III, and that we should adopt a panentheistic view of reality in which all levels are manifestations of a single underlying reality.Tegmark argues that because Level III is a mathematical structure, it is more abstract and can be studied in a more objective way than the other levels. He argues that what we understand as reality today is just a tiny fragment of what is possible. Tegmark believes that by understanding Level III, we can tap into the ultimate nature of reality. By understanding all three levels, he says, we can gain a greater understanding of our place in the universe. He argues that there are three levels of reality which physicists must grapple with: Level I corresponds to the physical world that we observe Level II includes all mathematical structures and Level III is the ultimate level which Tegmark believes is a mathematical structure itself. Tegmark begins by discussing different interpretations of reality. He then turns his attention to the future, asking what lies beyond our current understanding of reality. ![]() Tegmark, a physics professor at MIT, takes us on a journey through the history of cosmology and physics in order to better understand how we got to where we are today. In his book, “Our Mathematical Universe“, Max Tegmark attempts to answer some of the most fundamental questions about our existence. ![]() ![]() If left unchecked, it will eventually consume the entire galaxy. Once thought to be an enormous black hole, the Void, which supposedly contains an entire micro-universe inside an impenetrable event horizon, slowly devours stars to sustain itself. Humankind in the 34th century has effectively conquered mortality, but many humans are still searching for existential transcendence, and a growing number believe the answer can be found inside the Void at the galactic center. ![]() In the tradition of grand-scale SF sagas that explore the potential of human evolution, this densely plotted and intensely thought-provoking opener for Hamilton's Void trilogy takes place roughly 1,000 years after the events of 2006's Judas Unchained. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a hyperconnected world, our identities matter more than ever – they become empowering, weaponised, sanctuary and danger simultaneously and it’s perhaps because of this, that we must now understand identity more than ever before. In his uniquely poetic way, Murakami identified one of the most profound truths of being human that we are a complex mesh of identities, each with narratives, expectations, behaviours and roles – and that such identities, and identity narratives are essential to the operating of our society. It is through such multilayering of roles in our stories that we heal the loneliness of being an isolated individual in the world.” ‘Storyteller’ and at the same time ‘character’. Murakami identified that, “ You are simultaneously subject and object. Such stories go beyond the limited rational system (or the systematic rationality) with which you surround yourself they are crucial keys to sharing time-experience with others…” “ If you lose your ego, you lose the thread of that narrative you call your Self,” wrote Haruki Murakami in his book Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche “ …humans, however, can’t live very long without some sense of a continuing story. ![]() ![]() Someone us killing the psychics in the Twin Cities and it all begins when our hero, Eli Marks, is brought to a local Public TV show as a "debunker" of a "medium." He is not a debunker, but rather is a skeptic and by the end of the show has basically been able to prove how the seer was able to tell the audience members facts about their lives. I was sure I had solved the mystery about 100 pages from the end of he book - WRONG! Some may have solved it early but I really think the author did a fine job is disguising the real murdered and using card trick magic names as part of the solution. Paul, and an interesting plot that kept me guessing until the end. ![]() ![]() An interesting first book that introduces the characters as well as introducing us to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. ![]() ![]() When it seems no one is willing to protect these children, an elderly neighbor takes an interest in Carrie. In desperation, Carrie writes a letter inviting her grandmother to visit. Gradual moves down the economic scale-to another town, another job, another rundown shack-put even more pressure on the family. Despite the brutality of her family life, Carrie finds enjoyment in the woods, in her friends and teachers, and in memories of her dead father, who doted on her. Afterward, Carrie thinks Emma has taken the whipping meant for her, but it’s clear to the adult reader that Emma has been sexually abused. When Richard orders Carrie into his bedroom, Emma takes her place, pushing Carrie out and shutting the door. After his tenth beer he tends to explode, so after the eighth, the two sisters begin a slow retreat to the only safe place in the house, a spot they call “behind-the-couch.” Their mother puts up with Richard’s beatings-she needs the economic support-and urges the girls to behave. ![]() She and Emma even have his temper calibrated. ![]() Carrie’s narrative has a clear-eyed, unsentimental tone: “The first time Richard hit me I saw stars in front of my eyes just like they do in cartoons.” She learns to stay away from home and to stay out of the way after Richard has been drinking. ![]() A credible and appealing eight-year-old narrates the story of her family’s hardscrabble life.Ĭarrie Parker lives in Toast, North Carolina, with her mother, her abusive stepfather, Richard, and her younger sister, Emma. ![]() |