Download or read book Reason Illusion and Passion written by Émilie du Châtelet and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing scientist, mathematician, philosopher Émilie du Châtelet (1706-49) has widely been hailed as a rare female intellectual in the Enlightenment. At the same time, her own ideas and contributions remain largely unknown and her writings are rarely read. This is unfortunate, since she has interesting contributions to and explanations of physics, metaphysics, religion, translation, the equality of the sexes, and ethics.This book is a selection of du Châtelet's philosophical writings, in new English translations: -Foreword to "Foundations of Physics"-On the Principles of Our Knowledge (From "Foundations of Physics")-On the Existence of God (From "Foundations of Physics")-On Liberty-Translator's Preface to Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees"-On the Resurrection of the Dead (from "Examinations of the Bible")-On Happiness
Download or read book Original Sudoku written by Editors of Nikoli Publishing and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to be obsessed. Match wits with the experts who created Sudoku. Arranged from “Easy” to “Very Hard,” here are over 300 logic puzzles that celebrate the compulsive joy of Sudoku with symmetry, smartness, and elegance—qualities lacking in computer-generated puzzles. It’s fiendish fun…every puzzle is designed by an author who anticipates your next step and obscurest the path, while never leading you into frustration.
Download or read book Glass Beach written by Jill Marie Landis and published by Bell Bridge Books. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even paradise demands a price for love and happiness . . . Widowed Elizabeth Bennett believes her troubles are over. Her loveless marriage is at an end. The death of her husband leaves her free to raise their daughter, Hadley, alone on her beautiful Hawaiian ranch . . . until the handsome Spence Laamea, her husband's heir and illegitimate son from a liaison with a native woman, arrives. Spence takes the estate--and Elizabeth's fate--under his control. Despite her distrust and against a backdrop of disapproval among the island's strict nineteenth-century white society, passions erupt between them. Elizabeth and Spence struggle to build a life for themselves and her daughter. When a deadly hurricane bears down on the island, it tests the bonds of love and loyalty they've tried to deny. A seven-time Romance Writers of America finalist for the RITA Award in both the historical and contemporary categories, Jill Marie Landis has also penned five inspirational historical romances and is now writing The Tiki Goddess Mysteries (set on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, where she lives with her husband, actor Steve Landis). Her next mystery novel is TOO HOT FOUR HULA. Her books are not only known for their intense emotion, but for characters you'll remember long after you turn the last page. Visit her at jillmarielandis.com.
Download or read book Clouds of Secrecy written by Leonard A. Cole and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1989-02-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s Americans learned for the first time that they had been used for decades as unsuspecting guinea pigs in a series of astonishing experiments conducted by the US Army. Military researchers had been secretly spraying clouds of bacteria over populated areas in order to study America''s vulnerability to biological weapons. Many civilians have suffered illness, even death, as a consequence.
Download or read book A Fortunate Age written by Joanna Smith Rakoff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like The Group, Mary McCarthy's classic tale about coming of age in New York, Joanna Smith Rakoff 's richly drawn and immensely satisfying first novel details the lives of a group of Oberlin graduates whose ambitions and friendships threaten to unravel as they chase their dreams, shed their youth, and build their lives in Brooklyn during the late 1990s and the turn of the twenty-first century. There's Lil, a would-be scholar whose marriage to an egotistical writer initially brings the group back together (and ultimately drives it apart); Beth, who struggles to let go of her old beau Dave, a onetime piano prodigy trapped by his own insecurity; Emily, an actor perpetually on the verge of success -- and starvation -- who grapples with her jealousy of Tal, whose acting career has taken off. At the center of their orbit is wry, charismatic Sadie Peregrine, who coolly observes her friends' mistakes but can't quite manage to avoid making her own. As they begin their careers, marry, and have children, they must navigate the shifting dynamics of their friendships and of the world around them. Set against the backdrop of the vast economic and political changes of the era -- from the decadent age of dot-com millionaires to the sobering post-September 2001 landscape -- Smith Rakoff's deeply affecting characters and incisive social commentary are reminiscent of the great Victorian novels. This brilliant and ambitious debut captures a generation and heralds the arrival of a bold and important new writer.
Download or read book Emerging Risks written by Catherine Raimbault and published by Gower Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For boards and executives, high-quality and transparent information is critical to allow effective decision-making. Emerging risks are increasingly challenging issues, both in terms of threats and growth opportunities; not least since the science pertaining to these risks tends to be contested. Emerging Risks: A Strategic Management Guide restores the constructive dialogue between the business professional and the expert/scientist community, essential if companies are to anticipate, plan ahead and exploit leading-edge ideas. It provides insights into some of the major emerging risks of the 21st century and then guides organizations on how to approach and manage those risks proactively in the wake of new regulation, governance and enterprise-wide risk management. The topics covered include: nanotechnologies, covering the industrial revolution of the 21st Century; new information and communication technologies (NICT), discussing the infrastructure of the future; electromagnetic fields (EMF) and their debated health impact; chemical substances/REACH, a regulation with major economic and environmental stakes and an example of emerging risk management; biological risk and its on-going need for international surveillance; supply chain, a top management priority; and country risk, for which security and corporate social responsibility (CSR) are growing issues. The authors assess and propose a process for managing emerging risks and the strategies that need to be put in place, drawing on examples of best practice.
Download or read book In Shelter Cove written by Barbara Freethy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Suddenly One Summer and On Shadow Beach comes a mystery full of suspense, betrayal, and unexpected passion from the most unlikely source... The theft of three priceless paintings sent Derek Kane to prison and destroyed the dreams of his wife, Brianna. When Derek unexpectedly dies just weeks before his release, Brianna returns to Angel’s Bay with her young son, determined to prove her husband’s innocence and find the missing paintings. Her efforts are stymied by Jason Marlow, the police officer who sent Derek to jail—betraying his former friend. And when unexpected passion flares between Brianna and Jason, she must choose between the past and the present, the guilty and the innocent, the truth and the lies. For nothing is what it seems…
Download or read book Imagine This written by Vickie M. Stringer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine This is the sequel to Vickie Stringer's bestselling Let That Be the Reason, her stunning debut novel based on life as she knew it in the shocking underworld of the sex and drug trade. Vickie Stringer has gained a legion of fans for her portrayal of Pamela, a.k.a. Carmen, a woman who had it all but lost out when the love of her life left her penniless and alone to raise their son. Pamela refuses to remain powerless, though. She pulls herself up, becomes a major hustler in the street game, gains independence, and makes big money -- but the consequences are more dreadful than she ever imagined. Imagine This continues the saga of Pamela as she does jail time and has to decide who she really is: Pamela, a woman who, more than anything, loves her son and wants to be there to raise him; or Carmen, the ruthless baller, who does the crime, serves the time, and honors, at any expense, the code of the street.
Download or read book Gemfire written by Robin Lee Hatcher and published by Leisure Books. This book was released on 1991-11 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gem McBride was hardly more than a child when Chase Dupre won her in a lucky hand of poker. Left behind at his sprawling ranch, Gem dreamed of the day when Chase would claim her for his own. But Chase doesn't realize that an innocent girl could become a fiery beauty in his absence, and he returns with another woman at his side.
Download or read book The Official Lloyd Llewellyn Collection written by Daniel Clowes and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lloyd's adventures swing and bop like a tiki orgy hosted by little green hipsters from outer space. 'With untrendy straight lines, Zip-a-tone shades, and sketchy backgrounds, Clowes's LLLL art recalls '50s advertising illos, or architectural drafts seen through a mild hallucinogenic scrim.'- The Village Voice
Download or read book Vargamae Volume 1 of the Truth and Jus written by A.H. TAMMSAARE and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andres, an Estonian peasant, purchases a smallholding in a marshy part of the country, which the novel is named after. He takes his young wife, and an incident with their cow sets the tone for a life of struggle in which the family grows and gradually lifts itself out of extreme poverty. They don't only have to strive against the elements, but also against their neighbor Pearu, a wily and ruthless man. This Tolstoyan epic amongst the peasantry and the restless city (in volumes 2 - 4) tells the story of how Tsarist Estonia developed into the First Republic through the experiences of a family, and in particular the partly autobiographical character of Indrek, who leaves the land to get an education at the end of this volume. This monumental work by Estonia's greatest writer is a European classic which has for too long been neglected in the English-speaking world.
Download or read book Last Chance written by Jill Marie Landis and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1995 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of After All and Until Tomorrow comes a story set on Independence Day, 1894, as the widow Rachel McKenna decides, "I will not wear black tomorrow" and a local gunslinger asks her to dance.
Download or read book Somewhere Home written by Nada Awar Jarrar and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable novel tells the story of three women, each of them far from where they came, all of whom are still searching for somewhere that can be called home. This book was published by Heinemann in 2004. It has been out of print since 2005.
Download or read book Sudoku Enfant 4x4 6x6 9x9 180 Grilles de Sudoku Niveau Facile Avec Difficult Croissante Avec Tutoriels et Solutions Compl tes written by Amelia Baker and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sudoku Enfant regroupe 180 jeux de sudoku spécialement conçus pour les enfants. Avec des grilles 4x4, 6x6 et 9x9 de difficulté croissante, il est parfait pour les enfants de tous âges. Le sudoku convient aux enfants de tous âges et de toutes capacités. Il favorise la pensée logique, la résolution de problèmes, développe les capacités de mémoire et encourage la concentration, tout en étant super amusant et gratifiant. Sudoku Enfant contient : Des tutoriels faciles à lire ainsi que des conseils pratiques pour rendre le sudoku passionnant et simple à comprendre. Wordoku jeux à base de lettres pour ajouter de la variété et de l'intérêt. Des pages grand format (21,5 x 27,9 cm) avec de grands grilles conçus pour des mains plus petites, offrant beaucoup d'espace pour travailler. Des certificats de réussite amusants pour une motivation et une récompense supplémentaires. Des jeux bonus de hashis et chiffres croisés, avec des tutoriels. Développé et testé avec de vrais enfants de 6 à 14 ans et + Des solutions complètes pour tous les jeux sont incluses. Loin d'être un simple livre de grilles, chaque page est magnifiquement décorée pour diversifier l'expérience. Le sudoku est un excellent moyen d'éloigner les enfants des écrans et de les faire utiliser leur cerveau. Il est idéal pour les vacances, les voyages, les divertissements et les confinements de pandémie ! Chaque livre de Amelia Baker contient un ensemble unique de jeux - il n'y a pas de répétition de grilles entre les éditions.
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