Yet Lucretius almost went the way of Didymus. It covers philosophy, physics, optics, cosmology, sociology, psychology, religion and sex the ideas in it influenced Newton and Darwin, among others. Titus Lucretius Carus’ “De Rerum Natura,” or “On the Nature of Things,” is a 7,400-line poem in Latin hexameters written in the first century B.C. Bookworms have eaten them by the dictionary-load.Īmong the works that survived - but only just - is one so beautifully written and so uncannily prescient that it seems to come to us out of a personal dream. They have been rubbed off so that vellum and papyrus could be reused. They have been burned, thrown away, lost to mold or pulverized. Between classical antiquity and us, there has been a hecatomb of words. Didymus Chalcenterus of Alexandria reportedly wrote 3,500 books not one exists today. Aeschylus wrote 80 or 90 plays, and Sophocles 120, yet we have just seven of each.
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OL17064845W Page_number_confidence 95.73 Pages 470 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200619123630 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1641 Scandate 20200601103130 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780099593584 Sent_to_scribe Tts_version 3. Urn:lcp:narrowroadtodeep0000flan:epub:3ad9434c-1aba-48cd-b92d-97e506889fee Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier narrowroadtodeep0000flan Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8gf9p14w Invoice 2089 Isbn 9780701189051Ġ857987925 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.5 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA18103 Openlibrary_edition The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan, Chatto & Windus. Urn:lcp:narrowroadtodeep0000flan:lcpdf:91ffa4bb-1789-4f26-9bd4-150050048ddd Elegantly wrought, measured and without an ounce of melodrama, Flanagan’s novel is nothing short of a masterpiece. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:01:42 Boxid IA1814423 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier The film itself is difficult to describe. This creates the spectacle which prevents people from living authentic lives or developing authentic relationships. At its core, SI believed that capitalist societies had an increased reliance on relationships through objects and images. SI began with an artistic focus but grew to include political theory and activism. During this time, he was connected with several artistic and political groups though he is most closely associated with the Situationist International (SI) a group Debord helped create in 1957. Throughout the film Debord reads excerpts from his book along with quotes from Marx, Machiavelli, Emile Pouget and other political theorists.ĭebord was a prolific writer, artist and political activist in France from the late 1950’s through the 70’s. Society combines still photos, clips from feature films, news footage and more to create a dizzying montage of endlessly shifting imagery. The film serves as a companion piece to Debord’s book by the same name published in 1967. Originally released in 1974, Society of the Spectacle is French writer and director Guy Debord’s critique of an image driven, celebrity obsessed, late-capitalist society. “In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles.” -Society of the Spectacle, 1974 Finding inner strength as she helps lift the veil of oppression and learns valuable lessons about race, social change, and violence, Celeste prepares her adult students for their showdown with the county registrar. As the long, hot summer unfolds, Celeste befriends several members of the community, but there are also those who are threatened by her and the change that her presence in the South represents. When University of Michigan sophomore Celeste Tyree travels to Mississippi to volunteer her efforts in Freedom Summer, shes assigned to help register voters in the small town of Pineyville, a place best known for a notorious lynching that occurred only a few years earlier. Gaines as the most important novelists documenting this era. Nicholas herself has been praised repeatedly over the years for her beautiful prose and is continually mentioned along with Alice Walker and Ernest J. Freshwater Road has been called one of the best novels written about the Civil Rights Movement. Book Synopsis From award-winning actress Denise Nicholas: a ten-year anniversary reissue of her powerful and dramatic coming of age story set in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964. Along the way, Allie meets three other skinjackers, led by a boy named Milos. Meanwhile, together with Mikey, Allie the Outcast travels home to look for her parents and her own life. With her abilities, Nick begins to devise a plan to confront and defeat Mary. Zinnia has the ability to "rip," breaking the barrier between the living world and Everlost to pull or push things through. Nick follows the rumor of "Zack the Ripper", revealed to be Zinnia, a girl who died in the Civil War while pretending to be a boy. Due to the rumors Mary has spread about the Chocolate Ogre Nick is being overwhelmed by the memory of the chocolate stain on his face, and he is unable to stop the chocolate from spreading over his body. Nick, in control of a train, is heading south to gather his own support against Mary. Traveling in the memory of the Hindenburg, Mary spreads her propaganda and attracts Afterlights to her cause at a frightening speed. Allie sets off with Mikey, who was once the terrifying monster, McGill, in the book Everlost, to find her parents in hopes that she might put her spirit to rest meanwhile, Nick finds himself in a race against time to save the Afterlights from endless entrapment in Everlost by the Sky Witch, Mary Hightower. The book is the second book in the Skinjacker Trilogy, which takes place in Everlost, a limbo-like place between life and death.Įverwild continues the stories of Allie and Nick as they pursue separate goals. Everwild is a 2009 fantasy novel by the young adult fiction author Neal Shusterman. In any case, it was likely only Nemolis’ sister, Nemrian, with some inane request. In practice, the delineation between private family affairs and matters of state was often fuzzy, and the secretaries knew all anyway. Formally, the imperial secretaries were not to read private correspondence between members of the ruling family. Nemolis reached across the table to take the letter even as he wondered, once again, why they bothered with this pretence. His attention was on the stack of letters the chief secretary had prepared over the course of the morning and he hastily scribbled his signature across the bottom of each one. He did not so much as glance up to see what had discomforted a member of his staff. “Nemolis, if you would,” Varenechibel said. “This letter concerns the Drazhada household.” “Serenity?” the second assistant secretary said in a tone that suggested he expected to be abraded for the contents of his words. (Thomas Kyd is frequently proposed as the author of the hypothetical Ur-Hamlet that may have been one of Shakespeare's primary sources for Hamlet.) Many elements of The Spanish Tragedy, such as the play-within-a-play used to trap a murderer and a ghost intent on vengeance, appear in Shakespeare's Hamlet. The Spanish Tragedy is often considered to be the first mature Elizabethan drama, a claim disputed with Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine, and was parodied by many Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights, including Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. The play contains several violent murders and includes as one of its characters a personification of Revenge. Highly popular and influential in its time, The Spanish Tragedy established a new genre in English theatre, the revenge play or revenge tragedy. The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 15. Stein has a wife, Miriam, and the couple have a son named Sam. Stein's books have been translated in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Catalan, Dutch, French, and Finnish, and his artwork has appeared in The New York Times and The New Yorker, among other major publications. While studying, he took a year off, during which he lived in Cape Cod and explored puppetry. He attended the Parsons School of Design, where he majored in editorial illustration. His father was a cartographer, and his mother was a painter and editor, both of which inspired him as an artist. The first book of the series has been named a Caldecott Medal honor book. He is best known for his Interrupting Chicken series, which was adapted into an animated television show on Apple TV+ in 2022. David Ezra Stein is an American author and illustrator of children's books. Video is recorded to a Micro SD card (not included) and transferred to your PC via USB connection.Try the following: turn dvr off, disconnect power and all cables, take the battery out, wait a few minutes, replace of cords & turn on dvr for a minute, turn dvr off & replace battery, & turn dvr on. General Troubleshooting NVR DVR Security cameraThe SportsCam supports MicroSD cards up to 16GB and you can swap cards to increase your recording capacity. 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Stoic, broody, and arrogant, elite bodyguard Rhys Larsen has two rules: 1) Protect his clients at all costs 2) Do not become emotionally involved. But despite her broken past, she’s never stopped seeing the beauty in the world…including the heart beneath the icy exterior of a man she shouldn’t want. Driven by a tragedy that has haunted him for most of his life, his ruthless pursuits for success and vengeance leave little room for matters of the heart.But when he’s forced to look after his best friend’s sister, he starts to feel something in his chest that could end his world as he knew it.Īva Chen is a free spirit trapped by nightmares of a childhood she can’t remember. Special editions with a beautiful shiny cover! Four books in one set, discover the addictive world of the Twisted series that has readers obsessed, a viral TikTok sensation!Īlex Volkov is a devil blessed with the face of an angel and cursed with a past he can’t escape. |