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The Big Read
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Big Read written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Libraries categories.
Thieves Of Book Row
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Author : Travis McDade
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-08-06
Thieves Of Book Row written by Travis McDade and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-06 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
In Thieves of Book Row, Travis McDade tells the gripping tale of the worst book-theft ring in American history, and the intrepid detective who brought it down. Both a fast-paced, true-life thriller, Thieves of Book Row provides a fascinating look at the history of crime and literary culture.
Modality Across Syntactic Categories
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Author : Ana Arregui
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Modality Across Syntactic Categories written by Ana Arregui and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume explores the linguistic expression of modality in natural language from a cross-linguistic perspective. Modal expressions provide the basic tools that allow us to dissociate what we say from what is actually going on, allowing us to talk about what might happen or might have happened, as well as what is required, desirable, or permitted. Chapters in the book demonstrate that modality involves many more syntactic categories and levels of syntactic structure than traditionally assumed. The volume distinguishes between three types of modality: 'low modality', which concerns modal interpretations associated with the verbal and nominal cartographies in syntax; 'middle modality', or modal interpretation associated with the syntactic cartography internal to the clause; and 'high modality', relating to the left periphery. It combines cross-linguistic discussions of the more widely studied sources of modality with analyses of novel or unexpected sources, and shows how the meanings associated with the three types of modality are realized across a wide range of languages.
Tremontaine Book 4
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Author : Ellen Kushner
language : en
Publisher: Serial Box
Release Date : 2023-03-28
Tremontaine Book 4 written by Ellen Kushner and has been published by Serial Box this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-28 with Fiction categories.
Sex, Scandal, Swordplay... and Chocolate! The prequel to Ellen Kushner's cult classic Swordspoint is back for a fourth season!
What Makes This Book So Great
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Author : Jo Walton
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-01-16
What Makes This Book So Great written by Jo Walton and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Jo Walton is an award-winning author of, inveterate reader of, and chronic re-reader of science fiction and fantasy books. What Makes This Book So Great? is a selection of the best of her musings about her prodigious reading habit. Jo Walton’s many subjects range from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. Among them, the Zones of Thought novels of Vernor Vinge; the question of what genre readers mean by ‘mainstream’; the under-appreciated SF adventures of C. J. Cherryh; the field’s many approaches to time travel; the masterful science fiction of Samuel R. Delany; Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children; the early Hainish novels of Ursula K. Le Guin; and a Robert A. Heinlein novel you have most certainly never read. Over 130 essays in all, What Makes This Book So Great is an immensely engaging collection of provocative, opinionated thoughts about past and present-day fantasy and science fiction, from one of our best writers.
The Reality Of The Unobservable
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Author : E. Agazzi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-04-17
The Reality Of The Unobservable written by E. Agazzi and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-17 with Science categories.
Observability and Scientific Realism It is commonly thought that the birth of modern natural science was made possible by an intellectual shift from a mainly abstract and specuJative conception of the world to a carefully elaborated image based on observations. There is some grain of truth in this claim, but this grain depends very much on what one takes observation to be. In the philosophy of science of our century, observation has been practically equated with sense perception. This is understandable if we think of the attitude of radical empiricism that inspired Ernst Mach and the philosophers of the Vienna Circle, who powerfully influenced our century's philosophy of science. However, this was not the atti tude of the f ounders of modern science: Galileo, f or example, expressed in a f amous passage of the Assayer the conviction that perceptual features of the world are merely subjective, and are produced in the 'anima!' by the motion and impacts of unobservable particles that are endowed uniquely with mathematically expressible properties, and which are therefore the real features of the world. Moreover, on other occasions, when defending the Copernican theory, he explicitly remarked that in admitting that the Sun is static and the Earth turns on its own axis, 'reason must do violence to the sense' , and that it is thanks to this violence that one can know the tme constitution of the universe.
The Poetry Reader
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Author : Mark Yakich
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2024-12-12
The Poetry Reader written by Mark Yakich and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
You have picked up this book because you are a poetry reader. Or you are about to be one. Because as soon as you read a poem, that's what you are. Filled with the profound, the lyrical, the consoling, and the curious, The Poetry Reader: An Anthology is the book you would hope to find if you washed up alone on a deserted island: this companionable collection shows how poetry itself is a discussion, alive and flowing, and how poems speak to, with, and sometimes over one another. If you are a teacher, this is the anthology you wish you had as a student – a text that doesn't try to survey entire time periods or aesthetic areas, but one that places side-by-side carefully selected poems that speak to each other over time as well as to today's readers. - Section header notes provide critical commentary, framing the poems within their given topic - Discussion and writing suggestions give interesting and actionable prompts - Works as a standalone book, or can easily be used alongside Poetry: A Survivor's Guide, 2nd ed. Drawing on traditional poems and contemporary works, this anthology offers globe-spanning, stylistically diverse poetry, ranging from canonical poems by the likes of Sappho and Shakespeare to those of new voices such as Layli Long Soldier and Mukoma wa Ngugi. As a compact, eclectic, and approachable collection based on specific aspects of poetry and poetic practices – from identity and metaphor to sublimation and spirituality – The Poetry Reader acts as a guide to understanding the essentials of both reading and writing poetry.
A Curious Affair On Campus
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Author : Childs, C.J.
language : en
Publisher: Porridge Publishing
Release Date :
A Curious Affair On Campus written by Childs, C.J. and has been published by Porridge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
Jay Vaudeville is wealthy, spoiled, and oblivious; an Ivy League Richie Rich. Nevin—his artificial intelligence assistant—doesn’t make life easier. Their story is about new friends, first jobs, girl troubles, and a fine-art crime spree. Discover local coffee dives, upscale restaurants, and the shady underground of a big city. Experience the over-the-top indolence of the unaware upper-class with a dash of light humor. It’s The Big Bang Theory meets Bertie & Jeeves.
Rapture For The Geeks
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Author : Richard Dooling
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2008-10-07
Rapture For The Geeks written by Richard Dooling and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-07 with Computers categories.
Will the Geeks inherit the earth? If computers become twice as fast and twice as capable every two years, how long is it before they’re as intelligent as humans? More intelligent? And then in two more years, twice as intelligent? How long before you won’t be able to tell if you are texting a person or an especially ingenious chatterbot program designed to simulate intelligent human conversation? According to Richard Dooling in Rapture for the Geeks—maybe not that long. It took humans millions of years to develop opposable thumbs (which we now use to build computers), but computers go from megabytes to gigabytes in five years; from the invention of the PC to the Internet in less than fifteen. At the accelerating rate of technological development, AI should surpass IQ in the next seven to thirty-seven years (depending on who you ask). We are sluggish biological sorcerers, but we’ve managed to create whiz-bang machines that are evolving much faster than we are. In this fascinating, entertaining, and illuminating book, Dooling looks at what some of the greatest minds have to say about our role in a future in which technology rapidly leaves us in the dust. As Dooling writes, comparing human evolution to technological evolution is “worse than apples and oranges: It’s appliances versus orangutans.” Is the era of Singularity, when machines outthink humans, almost upon us? Will we be enslaved by our supercomputer overlords, as many a sci-fi writer has wondered? Or will humans live lives of leisure with computers doing all the heavy lifting? With antic wit, fearless prescience, and common sense, Dooling provocatively examines nothing less than what it means to be human in what he playfully calls the age of b.s. (before Singularity)—and what life will be like when we are no longer alone with Mother Nature at Darwin’s card table. Are computers thinking and feeling if they can mimic human speech and emotions? Does processing capability equal consciousness? What happens to our quaint beliefs about God when we’re all worshipping technology? What if the human compulsion to create ever more capable machines ultimately leads to our own extinction? Will human ingenuity and faith ultimately prevail over our technological obsessions? Dooling hopes so, and his cautionary glimpses into the future are the best medicine to restore our humanity.
Good Luck Bad Luck
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Author : Jenni Ward
language : en
Publisher: Miraworth Books
Release Date : 2020-06-30
Good Luck Bad Luck written by Jenni Ward and has been published by Miraworth Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-30 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Perhaps it’s not the books that need protecting. Mary’s life is predictable. She takes care of the books to ensure no one tries to destroy them and unleash the curse that guards them. But Mary yearns to leave the village behind and all the memories it holds. With no money or connections that leaves one option: get bound. And what better choice than a dragon in distress? Helping him will mean being blessed with good luck. Then her rescue goes to plan but now she’s got an angry sorceress to deal with. Having destroyed her careful plans the sorceress decides to bestow a special curse on Mary. With the kingdom under threat of a sorceress gaining ultimate power Mary will need to find a way to save them all. If not, the curse will be the least of her problems. A standalone adventure in The Three Kingdoms world.