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David Kelly is keenly attentive to the still-life moments we can so easily all walk past. His poetry is measured and thoughtful, moving fluidly along the journey of interactions with the handyman, before stretching through to observations of fauna and space and haiku. But just when you think you know where he is leading, he stuns with a brilliant poem like "Seven". From tumbled cats to quicksand, this collection is quietly elegant and profound...

The Symposium is a philosophical text by Plato, dated c.¿385-370 BC. It depicts a friendly contest of extemporaneous speeches given by a group of notable men attending a banquet. The men include the philosopher Socrates, the general and political figure Alcibiades, and the comic playwright Aristophanes. The speeches are to be given in praise of Eros, the god of love and desire. In the Symposium, Eros is recognized both as erotic love and as a...

Siddhartha: An Indian novel is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple, lyrical style. It was published in the US in 1951 and became influential during the 1960s. Hesse dedicated the first part of it to Romain Rolland and the second part to Wilhelm Gundert, his cousin. ...

The Phaedrus, written by Plato, is a dialogue between Socrates, and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues. The Phaedrus was presumably composed around 370 BCE, about the same time as Plato's Republic and Symposium. Although ostensibly about the topic of love, the discussion in the dialogue revolves around the art of rhetoric and how it should be practiced, and dwells on subjects as diverse as metempsychosis (the Greek tradition of rei...

¡Es el Día de campo en el campamento Lottarobotta! Todos los campistas quieren ganar, ¡pero Rad lo desea tanto que le duele su robocorazón! La lucha por la victoria es un cautivador libro infantil que te lleva en un emocionante viaje con Rad, un intrépido robot que lo único que quiere es ganar el Día de Juegos en el campamento Lottarobotta. Pero a medida que Rad se concentra más y más en ganar, se da cuenta de que su búsqueda del primer pues...

It's Field Day at Camp Lottarobotta! All the campers want to win, but Rad wants it so bad that his roboheart hurts! The Fight For First is a captivating children's book that takes you on an exciting journey with Rad, a determined robot who wants nothing more than to win Games Day at Camp Lottarobotta. But as Rad becomes more and more focused on winning, he realizes that his quest for first place has taken a toll on his happiness and self-wor...

In 1920, Andrews began planning for expeditions to Mongolia and drove a fleet of Dodge cars westward from Peking. In 1922, the party discovered a fossil of Indricotherium (then named "Baluchitherium"), a gigantic hornless rhinoceros, which was sent back to the museum, arriving on December 19. The fossil species Andrewsarchus was named after him. Andrews, along with Henry Fairfield Osborn, was a proponent of the Out of Asia theory of humanity'...

A Critic in Pall Mall is an Oscar Wilde literary criticism text that examines the works of English literary giants. The Oscar Wilde book includes these literary studies: The tomb of Keats -- Keats's Sonnet on blue -- Dinners and dishes -- Shakespeare on scenery -- 'Henry the Fourth' at Oxford -- A handbook to marriage -- To read or not to read -- The letters of a great woman -- Béranger in England -- The poetry of the people -- 'The Cenci' --...

Euthyphro, by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue whose events occur in the weeks before the trial of Socrates (399 BC), between Socrates and Euthyphro. The dialogue covers subjects such as the meaning of piety and justice. As is common with Plato's earliest dialogues, it ends in aporia. In this dialogue, Socrates meets Euthyphro at the porch of the archon basileus (the 'king magistrate') at that time. Socrates tells him that he is preparing to go ...

Nature is a book-length essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published by James Munroe and Company in 1836. In the essay Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God, suffuses nature, and suggests that reality can be understood by studying nature. Emerson's visit to the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Pa...

Mia Strauss is trying to be a good mother. She's worked hard to build a stable life since losing her memory at eighteen when the assailant, who shot and killed her famous father, pushed her from the third-story landing of their gold coast mansion. But lately, Mia is losing control and feels she's being watched wherever she goes. The eyes...they are everywhere. She is trying to keep herself together and is taking more and more of her prescripti...

I am valuable. I am brave. I can do anything. This inspirational book of affirmations reminds children of everything they should love about themselves, of their skills and of what they have to offer to the world. These affirmations make them powerful, confident, motivated, and empathic. This is a book that teaches children to believe in themselves and to overcome fears. It's a book that shows that every child has unique abilities and unlimit...

Det är sista konserten för säsongen och nu väntar några månader i studion men Meta har svårt att släppa näringen hon får på scenen. Samtidigt infinner sig en känsla av förväntan inför framtiden, trots att alla hennes önskningar redan slagit in. Dagen efter händer dock något som tycks ge Metas liv en helt annan riktning. I en varm ton med humoristiska inslag skildrar boken hur perspektivet på tillvaron plötsligt vänds upp och ner efter att strå...

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature contends that the processes of enlightenment, modernization, and secularization in nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish society were marked not by a reading revolution but rather by a writing revolution, that is, by a revolutionary change in this society's attitude toward writing. Combining socio-cultural history and literary studies and drawing on a large corpus of autobiograph...

This book examines the nature, sources, and implications of fallacies in philosophical reasoning. In doing so, it illustrates and evaluates various historical instances of this phenomenon. There is widespread interest in the practice and products of philosophizing, yet the important issue of fallacious reasoning in these matters has been effectively untouched. Nicholas Rescher fills this gap by presenting a systematic account of the principal ...

This book analyses major themes in twenty-first-century east African politics. Predominantly authored by researchers and academics from the region, it examines recent political developments, public policy and governance across east and southern African countries. The book advocates for a regionally-focused comparative approach across Africa, arguing that it provides a greater level of analysis than a complete continental study. Adopting a mult...

This Open Access book is drawn from lectures dispensed at the U.S. Particle Accelerator School (USPAS) Summer 2021 Spin Class, by experts in the field. It is an introduction to the dynamics of spin in charged particle accelerators, and to the accelerator components and spin manipulation techniques, including helical snakes and spin rotators, which enable and allow preserving beam polarization. It is aimed at graduate students or upper divi...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an established management focus of today's companies and organizations of different types, scope and size. Communication practices on CSR and sustainability in the media industry, related theoretical concepts, and empirical foundations have not yet been sufficiently explored. This book focuses on a new normative framework of sustainability, bridging the established debate on public value with the curr...

How do Top Producers Dominate in Real Estate? This isn't your typical real estate book, it's really a commercial real estate broker's guide to market domination. In short, it's a revolutionary guide developed over a seven-year quest, demonstrated by author Nathan Matelich's journey from new real estate broker in an unknown city to becoming the #1 producing commercial real estate broker in the State of Montana. What he's learned, he's now shari...

In "My African Teacher, " Sally is curious. She is growing up in a world full of differences. Her growing mind is beginning to question these differences. Her questions may be full of tension, but how would Sally's dad respond? My African Teacher would like to encourage the reader to move from a place of comfort and avoidance to a place of questioning, bravery, and openness.