7/6/2023 0 Comments Robert nozick 1974![]() ![]() Early hailed as "complex, sophisticated, ingenious" ( Economist), Anarchy, State, and Utopia remains "a classic of modern political philosophy. Those individual rights-that freedom-is paramount and the state must always be kept minimal to ensure that individual rights are not threatened. Otherwise, people should essentially be free to live as they wish. Nozick argues that the only legitimate rule of the state is to protect people from aggression through the military, police and courts. It is certainly, and by far, one of the most influential philosophical books of the 20th century" (Hunt, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 1). It "won the National Book Award in 1975 and in 2008 was listed by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the 100 most influential books since WWII. "Nozick's book is a major event in contemporary political philosophy" ( New York Review of Books). National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition of Nozick's powerful and widely influential philosophical argument for broad individual rights, his "complex, sophisticated, ingenious" libertarian reply to John Rawls' Theory of Justice (1971), and winner of the 1975 U.S. "ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY": FIRST EDITION OF NOZICK'S ANARCHY, STATE, AND UTOPIA ![]()
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![]() ![]() In 2009, it won the award of Senior Irish Children's Book of the Year. HarperCollins Audio also publishes the unabridged CD sets of the books read by Rupert Degas. The book did not see release in the US and Canada until 2018. The story follows the sorcerers and detectives Valkyrie Cain and Skulduggery Pleasant and numerous magic-wielding allies as they try to prevent Baron Vengeous and his forces from resurrecting the Grotesquery and returning the Faceless Ones to the world, it also is good for all magic lovers. It is the second of the Skulduggery Pleasant series and sequel to the novel of the same name. ![]() ![]() Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire is a young adult and fantasy novel written by Irish playwright Derek Landy, published in April 2008. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() and five school friends in a small coal mining town entered the new space race, built rockets they merrily named ‘Auk’ (the bird that cannot fly) as answer to the Soviet Union’s Sputnik – the first human-built satellite. In 1957, 14-year old Homer ‘Sonny’ Hickam Jr. He is now an award-winning author (University of Alabama’s Clarence Cason Award, the Appalachian Heritage Writer’s Award) and an enduring inspiration to those aspiring to explore the unknown. is alive and well, aged 73, a Vietnam war veteran, retired NASA aerospace engineer who worked on the Hubble Telescope and trained Space Shuttle crews. Our 21st century lifestyles, immeasurable benefits of technology are a great debt of gratitude we owe to pioneers like Homer Hickam and the spirit of the Rocket Boys from Coalwood town, West Virginia – all who walked a path few dared, and inspired generations to work for their dreams. ![]() An Asia Times interview with Homer Hickam, the legendary ‘Rocket Boy’ from 1950’s USA, as India’s ISRO space agency prepares to deliver 103 satellites in a world-record single rocket launch, early February, 2017. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Book up front bill mauldin![]() ![]() This taut, lushly illustrated biography―the first of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin―is illustrated with more than ninety classic Mauldin cartoons and rare photographs. ![]() "Up Front" featured the wise-cracking Willie and Joe, whose stooped shoulders, mud-soaked uniforms, and pidgin of army slang and slum dialect bore eloquent witness to the world of combat and the men who lived―and died―in it. ![]() Week after week, Mauldin defied army censors, German artillery, and Patton's pledge to "throw his ass in jail" to deliver his wildly popular cartoon, "Up Front," to the pages of Stars and Stripes. "The real war," said Walt Whitman, "will never get in the books." During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the "real war" came through the flashing black lines of twenty-two-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. The definitive biography of the greatest cartoonist of the Greatest Generation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Galeano once described himself as “a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.” Isabel Allende, who said her copy of Galeano’s book was one of the few items with which she fled Chile in 1973 after the military coup of Augusto Pinochet, called Open Veins of Latin America “a mixture of meticulous detail, political conviction, poetic flair, and good storytelling. He is the recipient of many international prizes, including the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, the Casa de las Americas Prize, and the First Distinguished Citizen of the region by the countries of Mercosur. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. ![]() ![]() Born in Montevideo in 1940, he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay. A Uruguayan journalist, writer, and novelist, he was considered, among other things, “a literary giant of the Latin American left” and “global soccer’s preeminent man of letters.” He is the author of the three-volume Memory of Fire, Open Veins of Latin America, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, The Book of Embraces, Walking Words, Upside Down, and Voices in Time. He was the author of the trilogy Memory of Fire, Open Veins of Latin America, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, Days and Nights of Love and War, The Book of Embraces, Walking Words, Voices of Time, Upside Down, Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone, and Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History. About the Author Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015) was one of Latin America’s most distinguished writers. Eduardo Galeano (19402015) was one of Latin America’s most distinguished writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ostensibly a series of vignettes, 100 Boyfriends catalogs the sexual exploits of the unnamed Black, gay men that comprise its central characters. Not quite a novel and not quite a short story collection, its voice is similar to Purnell’s voice in interviews: surprising, irreverent, and at times simply hilarious-the same buzzwords I have no doubt will surface in most reviews of his work and for good reason. And the conventions of the book review may be too stuffy to do full credit to this book’s formless predilections. While racking my brain for some new genre under which this book might fall, the best I could come up with is graveyard of intimacies.ġ00 Boyfriends is a lively graveyard, though. The narrator’s boyfriends are the book’s ghosts and its ghosts are his boyfriends. In his latest offering- 100 Boyfriends-the two aren’t mutually exclusive. ![]() And then, elaborating on his answer: “A bunch of disruptive faggots.” ![]() When asked who he writes for in a recent interview, Brontez Purnell provided as good an answer as I’ve heard in years: “Ghosts” he said. ![]() ![]() For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help Noemí, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past. ![]() Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. But she’s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemi’s dreams with visions of blood and doom. Noemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. She’s not sure what she will find-her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows little about the region. After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments What Light by Jay Asher![]() ![]() Until this particular Christmas, when Sierra meets Caleb, and one life eclipses the other.īy reputation, Caleb is not your perfect guy: Years ago he made an enormous mistake and has been paying for it ever since. And leaving one always means missing the other. So Sierra lives two lives: her life in Oregon and her life at Christmas. Sierra's family runs a Christmas tree farm in Oregon - it's a bucolic setting for a girl to grow up in, except that every year they pack up and move to California to set up their Christmas tree lot for the season. "A beautiful story of love and forgiveness." (Stephen Chbosky, New York Times best-selling author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower ) From Jay Asher, number one New York Times best-selling author of Thirteen Reasons Why, comes a romance that will break your heart but soon have you believing in love again. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments The days of anna madrigal![]() Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her “logical family” in San Francisco: her devoted young caretaker Jake Greenleaf her former tenant Brian Hawkins and his daughter Shawna and Michael Tolliver and Mary Ann Singleton, who have known and loved Anna for nearly four decades. Now ninety-two, and committed to the notion of “leaving like a lady,” Mrs. ![]() The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching novel, follows one of modern literature’s most unforgettable and enduring characters-Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane-as she embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her past. The eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. ![]() Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City ![]() ![]() ![]() To protect her friends, Kaylee will need to find a way to turn the living incarnations of Avarice, Envy and Vanity against one another. Now she's ready to take her school back from the evil hellions, once and forever. ![]() KAYLEE CAVANAUGH's Taking her final STAND! After spending the last year undead, Kaylee has had enough of the paranormal creatures who have plagued her ever since she came into her banshee powers. Yet when one more person close to her is taken, Kaylee realises she can't save everyone she loves. ![]() |