![]() In the Third Edition prologue, MacIntyre revisits the central theses of the book and concludes that although he has learned a great deal and has supplemented and refined his theses and arguments in other works, he has “as yet found no reason for abandoning the major contentions” of this book. ![]() ![]() While the individual chapters are wide-ranging, once pieced together they comprise a penetrating and focused argument about the price of modernity. Now, twenty-five years later, the University of Notre Dame Press is pleased to release the third edition of After Virtue, which includes a new prologue “ After Virtue after a Quarter of a Century.” In this classic work, Alasdair MacIntyre examines the historical and conceptual roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in personal and public life, and offers a tentative proposal for its recovery. Newsweek called it “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” Since that time, the book has been translated into more than fifteen foreign languages and has sold over one hundred thousand copies. ![]() When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In giving us bread, alcohol and life-saving medicines, fungi have shaped human history, and their psychedelic properties, which have influenced societies since antiquity, have recently been shown to alleviate a number of mental illnesses. They can solve problems without a brain, stretching traditional definitions of ‘intelligence’, and can manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. In this captivating adventure, Merlin Sheldrake explores the spectacular and neglected world of fungi: endlessly surprising organisms that sustain nearly all living systems. Its ability to digest rock enabled the first life on land, it can survive unprotected in space, and thrives amidst nuclear radiation. It can be microscopic, yet also accounts for the largest organisms ever recorded, living for millennia and weighing tens of thousands of tonnes. Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. ![]() There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works… ![]() ![]() ![]() Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose, and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everything one of the most lauded books of the last decade. Where A Short History of Nearly Everything was a sweeping panorama of the world, the universe and everything, At Home peers at private life through a microscope. ![]() And he discovered that there is a huge amount of history, interest and excitement - and even a little danger - lurking in the corners of every home. Along the way, he researched the history of anything and everything, from architecture to electricity, from food preservation to epidemics, from the spice trade to the Eiffel Tower, from crinolines to toilets. This inspired him to start a journey around his own house, an old rectory in Norfolk, considering how the ordinary things in life came to be. ![]() Here is Bill Bryson’s entertaining and illuminating book about the history of the way we live - complete, unabridged and read by the author.īill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business. ![]() ![]() ![]() Miranda spent six long years of hard and tireless work on his own brainchild, being inspired by the biography of his native country and its founding fathers, especially the notorious Alexander Hamilton. ![]() Musical «Hamilton», created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, is an outstanding example, of how the history should be revealed. At all the pages of books, written by bored pundits, contain no drop of inspiration, not a grain of creativity. But sometimes there is nothing more fascinating than the history. Can we call a thing more boring than the history? Everyone can remember the long hours spent on the school bench under monotonic and gray monologue of teacher, reading paragraph by paragraph, to enter steadily and firmly in the young stupid heads the chronology from the beginning of times until today. ![]() ![]() ![]() She'll do anything for Hideki, so when he tells her he's low on money, she takes a job. She's the artificially intelligent Persocom that Hideki found, and as she continues to grow and learn, she hopes that Hideki will be her one true love. First, his sexy test-prep teacher asks to sleep over, then the landlady starts doing him favors, and even the really cute girl from work goes out with him. Volume 2 - Hideki's luck with girls seems to be turning around. But even in the future, you get what you pay for, and Hideki soon discovers that real women aren't the only ones who are high maintenance. Pretty persocoms don't come cheap, and Hideki is out of luck.until he finds a cute one in the garbage. ![]() ![]() Like every other guy, Hideki just wants a cool job, a hot ride, and a state-of-the-art robotic girlfriend. Volume 1 - In the future, boys will be boys and girls will be robots. ![]() ![]() Now she was wondering if she’d made a mistake. In fact, booking a place on The Baltic Charisma had been a spontaneous decision that was completely out of character for Marianne. He’s just hoping she hasn’t changed much.Įlsewhere on the ferry, Marianne is experiencing her first cruise of this nature. Although it’s been a while since Albin’s seen Lo. A deeply ingrained bond that Albin has relished. Although she’s a few years older, Lo and him have always shared an understanding. At least his cousin Lo will be joining them. Young teenager Albin Sandén is accompanying his disabled mother and borderline alcoholic father on the cruise. The booze-cruise revellers having already boarded the ferry and the majority invariably now headed straight for the bars. It’s now early November and The Baltic Charisma is setting off on another alcohol-fuelled voyage along the same tired stretch. A booze-cruise bursting at the rafters with eating, drinking and dancing in the no man’s land that is the Baltic. It’s a route the aging vessel has been travelling for years. First published (in English language) in July of 2018, Swedish author Mats Strandberg’s novel ‘Blood Cruise’ was originally published in Swedish under the title ‘Färjan’ back in September of 2015.Įach night the cruise ferry – The Baltic Charisma – would carry some twelve-hundred passengers from Sweden to Finland and then back again. ![]() ![]() Sometimes when you read words you can just feel the emotions on the pages, and that's how I felt about halfway through when Easton felt such anguish (I won't spoil). You find hate in grief, and sometimes, if you're lucky, you find love. ![]() Easton and Cannon have known each other since they were kids, and what began as animosity ended up being so much more. I could barely put it down, constantly needing to read just "one more page". ![]() It was two tales combined into one fabulous story. Easton and Cannon have known each other since the Grief knows grief.ĬE Ricci wrote a beautiful story about love and grief. CE Ricci wrote a beautiful story about love and grief. ![]() 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars ![]() ![]() ![]() But really, the whimpering vampire nursing a hangover wasn’t exactly threatening (although Ross is pretty sure he shouldn’t have given that energy drink to a goblin…).Īs Ross proves he is not easily shaken, more and more creatures of the night come calling, including the clanmaster himself. Instead, he found himself face to face-quite literally-with the supernatural. When Ross started working night shift at a lonely gas station in Salem, he expected quiet nights. “Company policy forbids me from accepting power from customers in exchange for any product on the shelves, my blood, my soul, or my firstborn child…” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I also feel that this would of been a better 2nd or 3rd book in the series but as luck would have it this was the 1st novel released to start off the Quantum Leap Book Series. Although there were times where I was into the story, there were other times I was in a hurry to finish the chapter so that I could put the book down for a while. ![]() I do not believe that it lives up to the other books that she has written for the series. If he doesn't, the ride will crash in 3 days killing onboard it and Bob will get the blame for causing the accident and will get sent to a mental institute where he will die within 10 years.Įven though this is a good book, I would not rate it as one of Ashley McConnell's better Quantum Leap books. Al tells Sam that there is 97% chance that he is to delay the opening of the carnival's new ride, the "Killer Diller". Bob is often the butts of some of the fellow workers joke, but it is usually in good humour that Bob laughs along with. prelude, musical composition, usually brief, that is generally played as an introduction to another, larger musical piece. Sam leaps into Bob Watkins, a mildly disabled Carnival worker. This is the 1st novelised version of Quantum Leap in the Quantum Leap Series. SAMS FIRST LEAP - THE UNTOLD STORY A Novel by Ashley McConnell (From the back cover) Heres how it all began Dr. Carny Knowledge An ok book but not a good start to a Series ![]() ![]() In this award-winning investigation into the overlooked history of the Third World-with a new preface by the author for its fifteenth anniversary-internationally renowned historian Vijay Prashad conjures what Publishers Weekly calls "a vital assertion of an alternative future." The Darker Nations, praised by critics as a welcome antidote to apologists for empire, has defined for a generation of scholars, activists, and dreamers what it is to imagine a more just international order and continues to offer lessons for the radical political projects of today. The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the author ![]() |