Island Of Ignorance
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Island Of Ignorance
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Author : Ian C. Dozier
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2019-12-05
Island Of Ignorance written by Ian C. Dozier and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-05 with Fiction categories.
The island of Blysse appears peaceful at first glance. But what no one knows is that tensions are mounting between two cities and a dark secret is living deep in the woods with the power to change everything. When seventeen-year-old Prince Lucid of Altheia and his friend, Jon, stumble onto a strange village while exploring the woods one night, they see a beautiful girl standing near the cook fire. After she disappears into the trees, the young men return home, perplexed and curious. Who is she and why doesn’t she look like the others in her village? As the king slips into madness after a tragic loss, Lucid soon falls in love with the mysterious girl. While the king attempts to free his people, Lucid attempts to free Lya, who is desperate to escape the violent tyranny of her leaders. But just as her path leads her toward a new destiny, Lya discovers much more about herself than she ever bargained for. Island of Ignorance is a tale of love, loss, mystery, and deceit as the lives of a young prince and repressed woman intersect and send them both on a journey into the unknown.
Island Of Ignorance
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Author : Geoff Gillan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10-25
Island Of Ignorance written by Geoff Gillan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-25 with categories.
The Island Of Knowledge
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Author : Marcelo Gleiser
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2014-06-03
The Island Of Knowledge written by Marcelo Gleiser and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with Science categories.
Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth? To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of what's "out there." In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence. In so doing, he reaches a provocative conclusion: science, the main tool we use to find answers, is fundamentally limited. These limits to our knowledge arise both from our tools of exploration and from the nature of physical reality: the speed of light, the uncertainty principle, the impossibility of seeing beyond the cosmic horizon, the incompleteness theorem, and our own limitations as an intelligent species. Recognizing limits in this way, Gleiser argues, is not a deterrent to progress or a surrendering to religion. Rather, it frees us to question the meaning and nature of the universe while affirming the central role of life and ourselves in it. Science can and must go on, but recognizing its limits reveals its true mission: to know the universe is to know ourselves. Telling the dramatic story of our quest for understanding, The Island of Knowledge offers a highly original exploration of the ideas of some of the greatest thinkers in history, from Plato to Einstein, and how they affect us today. An authoritative, broad-ranging intellectual history of our search for knowledge and meaning, The Island of Knowledge is a unique view of what it means to be human in a universe filled with mystery.
Black Seas Of Infinity
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Author : Howard Phillips Lovecraft
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Black Seas Of Infinity written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Cthulhu (Fictitious character) categories.
This book contains "...the ... largest collection of H. P. Lovecraft's fiction ever assembled," concentrating on the major phase of his career and including nearly all of his most famous work, and most of the "Cthulhu Mythos" stories.
The Call Of Cthulhu
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Author : H. P. Lovecraft
language : en
Publisher: Memorable Classics Books
Release Date : 2023-08-31
The Call Of Cthulhu written by H. P. Lovecraft and has been published by Memorable Classics Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-31 with Fiction categories.
The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928. Plot: The story consists of three interconnected parts, and is presented as notes belonging to Francis Thurston, a Boston resident investigating the ancient deity Cthulhu. The first part, "The Horror in Clay", concerns a mysterious clay bas-relief depicting Cthulhu. Thurston finds the bas-relief among the belongings of his great-uncle Professor Angell. The bas-relief was created by sculptor Henry Wilcox in March 1925 while half-asleep. At the time Wilcox was haunted by mysterious visions of Cyclopean cities. Angell also discovered reports of local residents — primarily artists, sculptors, architects, and others of a sensitive psyche — experiencing similar nightmares during that period. The next morning, Wilcox was amazed by his creation and took it to Angell, who noted that the bas-relief was reminiscent of a figurine seized by police from members of a New Orleans religious sect in 1907. In the second chapter, "The Tale of Inspector Legrasse", police officer John Legrasse reports at an archaeological society's symposium on his participation in a raid of a sect worshipping Cthulhu, from which the figurine was confiscated. The sect's actions were described as depraved and blasphemous. Local residents feared the sect's orgies, and claimed that human sacrifices were made at these orgies. A team of officers led by Legrasse arrived at the scene in search of several missing squatters. The police detained several sect members, but interrogation yielded little result, as the degraded and insane members stubbornly defended the truth of their cult. One sectarian, Old Castro, proclaimed that Cthulhu's time would come when the stars take a certain position. A phrase chanted by the sect turns out to have been previously used by a tribe of Eskimos, as revealed by one of the symposium's participants.
The Book Of General Ignorance
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Author : John Mitchinson
language : en
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Release Date : 2007-08-07
The Book Of General Ignorance written by John Mitchinson and has been published by Crown Archetype this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-07 with Humor categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British bestseller. Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science, nature, and more,The Book of General Ignorance is a witty “gotcha” compendium of how little we actually know about anything. It’ll have you scratching your head wondering why we even bother to go to school. Think Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe, baseball was invented in America, Henry VIII had six wives, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain? Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong again. You’ll be surprised at how much you don’t know! Check out The Book of General Ignorance for more fun entries and complete answers to the following: How long can a chicken live without its head? About two years. What do chameleons do? They don’t change color to match the background. Never have; never will. Complete myth. Utter fabrication. Total Lie. They change color as a result of different emotional states. How many legs does a centipede have? Not a hundred. How many toes has a two-toed sloth? It’s either six or eight. Who was the first American president? Peyton Randolph. What were George Washington’s false teeth made from? Mostly hippopotamus. What was James Bond’s favorite drink? Not the vodka martini.
Ignorance And Uncertainty
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Author : Olivier Compte
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019
Ignorance And Uncertainty written by Olivier Compte and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Business & Economics categories.
Proposes novel methods to incorporate ignorance and uncertainty into economic modeling without complex mathematics.
The Second Book Of General Ignorance
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Author : John Lloyd
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2011-10-11
The Second Book Of General Ignorance written by John Lloyd and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-11 with Humor categories.
From the brains behind the New York Times' bestseller, The Book of General Ignorance comes another wonderful collection of the most outrageous, fascinating, and mind-bending facts, taking on the hugely popular form of the first book in the internationally bestselling series. Just when you thought that it was safe to start showing off again, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson are back with another busload of mistakes and misunderstandings. Here is a new collection of simple, perfectly obvious questions you'll be quite certain you know the answers to. Whether it's history, science, sports, geography, literature, language, medicine, the classics, or common wisdom, you'll be astonished to discover that everything you thought you knew is still hopelessly wrong. For example, do you know who made the first airplane flight? How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin and it landing on heads? What happens if you leave a tooth in a glass of Coke overnight? What is house dust mostly made from? What was the first dishwasher built to do? What color are oranges? Who in the world is most likely to kill you? Whatever your answers to the questions above, you can be sure that everything you think you know is wrong. The Second Book of General Ignorance is the essential text for everyone who knows they don't know everything, and an ideal stick with which to beat people who think they do.
Uneasy Virtue
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Author : Julia Driver
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-04-23
Uneasy Virtue written by Julia Driver and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-23 with Philosophy categories.
The predominant view of moral virtue can be traced back to Aristotle. He believed that moral virtue must involve intellectual excellence. To have moral virtue one must have practical wisdom - the ability to deliberate well and to see what is morally relevant in a given context. Julia Driver challenges this classical theory of virtue, arguing that it fails to take into account virtues which do seem to involve ignorance or epistemic defect. Some 'virtues of ignorance' are counterexamples to accounts of virtue which hold that moral virtue must involve practical wisdom. Modesty, for example, is generally considered to be a virtue even though the modest person may be making an inaccurate assessment of his or her accomplishments. Driver argues that we should abandon the highly intellectualist view of virtue and instead adopt a consequentialist perspective which holds that virtue is simply a character trait which systematically produces good consequences.
Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 3
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Author : Christopher Sequeira
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06-30
Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 3 written by Christopher Sequeira and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-30 with categories.
In the story that first established the monstrous cosmic terrors of his Mythos writer H. P. Lovecraft said "We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity..." Which makes it all the more fitting that the adepts of Lovecraft's vision writing today would choose to unveil ever-evolving and terrible fears besetting those that live on the largest island on the planet, and force the protagonists of some startling new horror fiction tales in this book to face, indeed, not placidity, but their own black seas of infinity...and madness. Again, some of the greatest scribes of the weird and startling from the land down under bring you brand new stories in the Lovecraftian genre, taking you from the realms of contemporary Australian cities, to the blood-soaked, post-colonial past (touching the powerful original cultures of the land), and even hinting at the disturbing future of Terra Australis. You will fear a sunburnt country. Tales of terror by Alan Baxter, David Conyers, Julie Ditrich, Jason Fischer, Steve Kilbey, Steven Paulsen, Steve Proposch, Alf Simpson, Cat Sparks, Maurice Xanthos. Introduction by Cat Rambo and Afterword by Jack Dann.