Download or read book 1999 Lectures and Memoirs written by British Academy and published by British Academy. This book was released on 2000 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 105 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 11 British Academy lectures and 15 obituaries of Fellows of the British Academy.
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Download or read book Proceedings of the British Academy written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 2000 Lectures and Memoirs written by British Academy and published by Proceedings of the British Aca. This book was released on 2001 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 111 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 12 British Academy lectures and 17 obituaries of Fellows of the British Academy.
Download or read book When Memory Speaks written by Jill Ker Conway and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J ill Ker Conway, one of our most admired autobiographers--author of The Road from Coorain and True North--looks astutely and with feeling into the modern memoir: the forms and styles it assumes, and the strikingly different ways in which men and women respectively tend to understand and present their lives. In a narrative rich with evocations of memoirists over the centuries--from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and George Sand to W. E. B. Du Bois, Virginia Woolf, Frank McCourt and Katharine Graham--the author suggests why it is that we are so drawn to the reading of autobiography, and she illuminates the cultural assumptions behind the ways in which we talk about ourselves. Conway traces the narrative patterns typically found in autobiographies by men to the tale of the classical Greek hero and his epic journey of adventure. She shows how this configuration evolved, in memoirs, into the passionate romantic struggling against the conventions of society, into the frontier hero battling the wilderness, into self-made men overcoming economic obstacles to create an invention or a fortune--or, more recently, into a quest for meaning, for an understandable past, for an ethnic identity. In contrast, she sees the designs that women commonly employ for their memoirs as evolving from the writings of the mystics--such as Dame Julian of Norwich or St. Teresa of Avila--about their relationship with an all-powerful God. As against the male autobiographer's expectation of power over his fate, we see the woman memoirist again and again believing that she lacks command of her destiny, and tending to censor her own story. Throughout, Conway underlines the memoir's magic quality of allowing us to enter another human being's life and mind--and how this experience enlarges and instructs our own lives.
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Download or read book Memoir of a Race Traitor written by Mab Segrest and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Courageous and daring, this work documents the reality that political solidarity, forged in struggle, can exist across difference.' bell hooks
Download or read book Acts of Meaning written by Jerome Bruner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as “information processor,” has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can we grasp the special interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture.
Download or read book Feynman s Lost Lecture written by David Goodstein and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-11-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Glorious."—Wall Street Journal Rescued from obscurity, Feynman's Lost Lecture is a blessing for all Feynman followers. Most know Richard Feynman for the hilarious anecdotes and exploits in his best-selling books "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" But not always obvious in those stories was his brilliance as a pure scientist—one of the century's greatest physicists. With this book and CD, we hear the voice of the great Feynman in all his ingenuity, insight, and acumen for argument. This breathtaking lecture—"The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun"—uses nothing more advanced than high-school geometry to explain why the planets orbit the sun elliptically rather than in perfect circles, and conclusively demonstrates the astonishing fact that has mystified and intrigued thinkers since Newton: Nature obeys mathematics. David and Judith Goodstein give us a beautifully written short memoir of life with Feynman, provide meticulous commentary on the lecture itself, and relate the exciting story of their effort to chase down one of Feynman's most original and scintillating lectures.
Download or read book Wildflower written by Drew Barrymore and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actress Drew Barrymore shares funny, insightful, and profound stories from her past and present—told from the place of happiness she's achieved today—in this heart-stirring New York Times bestseller that InStyle called “deeply thoughtful and fun.” Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences she’s had throughout her life. It includes tales of living in her first apartment as a teenager (and how laundry may have saved her life), getting stuck under a gas station overhang on a cross-country road trip, saying good-bye to her father in a way only he could have understood, and many more journeys and lessons that have led her to the successful, happy, and healthy place she is today.
Download or read book Memoirs of a Proof Theorist written by Gaisi Takeuti and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a translation of the book GAdel, written in Japanese by Gaisi Takeuti, a distinguished proof theorist. The core of the book comprises a memoir of K GAdel, Takeuti's personal recollections, and his interpretation of GAdel's attitudes towards mathematical logic. It also contains Takeuti's recollection of association with some other famous logicians. Everything in the book is original, as the author adheres to his own experiences and interpretations. There is also an article on Hilbert's second problem as well as on the author's fundamental conjecture about second order logic. Contents: On GAdel; Work of Paul Bernays and Kurt GAdel; Hilbert and GAdel; Short Biographies of Logicians; Set Theory and Related Topics; From Hilbert to GAdel; Axioms of Arithmetic and Consistency OCo The Second Problem of Hilbert; A Report from GAdel '96; Having Read OC GAdel RememberedOCO A Tribute to the Memory of Professor GAdel' Appendices: On GAdel's Continuum Hypothesis; Birth of Second Order Proof Theory by the Fundamental Conjecture on GLC. Readership: Those interested in mathematics, especially logic or the history of mathematics."
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books in the Circulating Library written by Toronto Public Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lessons of Terror written by Caleb Carr and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2003-03-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military historian Caleb Carr’s groundbreaking work anticipated America’s current debates on preemptive military action against terrorist sponsor states, reorganization of the American intelligence system, and the treatment of terrorists as soldiers in supranational armies rather than as criminals. Carr’s authoritative exploration demonstrates that the practice of terrorism, employed by national armies as well as extremists since the days of ancient Rome, is ultimately self-defeating. Far from prompting submission, it stiffens enemy resolve and never leads to long-lasting success. Controversial on its initial publication in 2002, The Lessons of Terror has been repeatedly validated by subsequent events. Carr’s analysis of individual terrorist acts, and particularly of the history of the Middle East conflict, is fundamental to a deep understanding of the roots of terrorism as well as the steps and reforms that must be taken if the continuing threat of terrorist behavior is to be met effectively today and, finally, eradicated tomorrow.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates C Engineering 1873 written by Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collections of the Advocates Library, with the exception of its legal books and manuscripts, were given by the Advocates to the National Library of Scotland in 1925.
Download or read book Shades of Authority written by Stephen James and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between poetry and power? Should poetry be considered a mode of authority or an impotent medium? And why is it that the modern poets most commonly regarded as authoritative are precisely those whose works wrestle with a sense of artistic inadequacy? Such questions lie at the heart of this study, prompting fresh insights into three of the most important poets of recent decades: Robert Lowell, Geoffrey Hill and Seamus Heaney. Through attentive close reading and the tracing of dominant motifs in each writer’s works, James shows how their responsiveness to matters of political and cultural import lends weight to the idea of poetry as authoritative utterance, as a medium for speaking of and to the world in a persuasive, memorable manner. And yet, as James demonstrates, each poet is exercised by an awareness of his own cultural marginality, even by a sense of the limitations and liabilities of language itself.
Download or read book Moral Lessons From Gandhi S Autobiography And Other Essays written by K.D. Gangrade and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides Fresh Insights Into Gandhi`S Autobiography-My Experiments With Truth And Identifies Moral Lessons It Offers For Individuals And Moral Reconstruction Of Our Society. Contains 3 Case Studies Of Gandhian Way Of Conflict Resolutions. Has 9 Chapters And 3 Appendices. Useful For Those Interested In Gandhiana.
Download or read book Alladi Diary The Memoirs Of Alladi Ramakrishnan written by Alladi Krishnaswami and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a kaleidoscopic account of the remarkable life story of Alladi Ramakrishnan (1923-2008), an internationally reputed physicist, and the son of Sir Alladi Krishnaswami Iyer (1883-1953), one of India's most eminent jurists.Part I of the autobiography gives a fascinating account his early life in Madras, India during the last decades of British colonial rule, and the leading role played by Sir Alladi in drafting the Constitution of India. Then follows the incredible saga of his creation of MATSCIENCE, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, in Madras, inspired by his visit to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the result of a Theoretical Physics Seminar which he organized in his family home Ekamra Nivas in Madras, which received the endorsement of Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr, and the support of India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.Part II covers the period of Ramakrishnan's term as Director of MATSCIENCE, and his visits to about 200 centres of learning the world over, where he interacted with leading scientists and lectured on his research in the fields of Probability, Stochastic Processes, Elementary Particle Physics, Matrix Theory, and on his novel treatment of Einstein's Special Relativity. Historical photos, letters, and documents of special interest are included.
