![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Belief in the afterlife is simply not there for a non-believer. Some of these manoeuvres are accessible to non-believers and some are not. Alain de Botton (How Proust Can Change Your Life) has written another provocative consideration of one of lifes conundrums: the significance of religion in. They are an attempt to control ourselves, heal ourselves and console ourselves. I think the origins of religion are essentially to do with the challenges of living in a community and the challenges of bad stuff happening to us, of which the ultimate is death. The central idea of the book is that religion supplies lots of useful and supportive structures that atheists have rejected along with the supernatural. I think that’s very much the Dawkins view that essentially religion is a species of stupidity, and this seems to be very narrow-minded. So you don’t agree with the “tough-minded critics” who characterise religious people as simpletons and maniacs? You don’t say “I’m an atheist because I’ve looked at all the evidence and this is what I think.” Similarly you don’t say “I’m religious because I’ve surveyed all the evidence.” As the writer and freelance philosopher Alain de Botton argues in Religion for Atheists, cultural and intellectual institutions are no. No, because I think most of us don’t make up our minds in a rational way. These days politics and culture have more modest aims. Your opening gambit in your new book, Religion for Atheists, is to say, of course religions are not true, and you leave it at that. Read more: “ The God issue: New science of religion“ “I want to make sure atheists are deriving some of the benefits of religion” ![]()
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![]() ![]() This new edition, edited by Holland (The Wilde Album, 1998) and published on the centennial of Wilde’s death, incorporates both revisions and lucid, if generally dry, introductions to each of his genres, offering an opportunity, for those who fondly remember The Importance of Being Ernest or The Ballad of Reading Gaol, to sample more of this writer’s prodigious output. Paper 0-00-472383-X Almost from the moment of his death in1900, Oscar Wilde’s astonishingly large and diverse body of work has been dismissed by a succession of critics as mediocre, distinguished only by-in the words of the Times Literary Supplement-one perfect play, one memorable poem, and -De Profundis.- This hefty gathering of his plays, stories, poems, essays, and criticism has been continuously in print in England since 1948, suggesting that a persistent body of readers feels otherwise. ![]() ![]() ![]() Poverty and human well-being studies in Australia have been led by socioeconomic statistics which are limited in their description of the problem. Whether it is he essential guide I cannot say, but it is definitely the textbook I will be directing my undergraduate and postgraduate research students towards when they are looking for answers to the difficult questions every researcher encounters. ![]() Qualitative Research: The Essential Guide to Theory and Practice makes a big claim in its title. This produces a conceptual web, and reading the book becomes an exploration of thoughts and ideas across the different chapters, epistemologies and paradigms. All the chapters in the book are helpfully self-referential, so if an idea emerges in one that is dealt with in great depth in another a link is made. ![]() section, ‘Writing about the research’ develops ideas about the presentation of the research, the story that will be told. ![]() Following this, the chapter on data interpretation pulls the book around malmost full circle, as the different approaches re-emerge as topics, and the process is shown to be coherent and complete. The chapters on data handling and coding and data analysis are informative about how to think about the analysis as well as how to carry it out. ![]() ![]() ![]() But its Chetan Bhagat “magic” that the book broke all the pre-order records on amazon.in □ I felt like I am reading or watching a bollywood script/movie so just to feel the story, I have imagined like I am watching a Bollywood movie and this movie has a boring climax. It’s a good book but what I dislike is the charaters and some dialogues and conversations. I am not saying it is boring because yeah its not that boring. Well, I just did not like the end, I mean I’m not kidding but for a second I was like “aray, end ho gayi?” □ You know Bhagat has this magic, once you start reading his book, I bet you won’t stop reading till the end. Honestly I didn’t like the book maybe because except some points, I couldn’t fully relate myself with the main character Radhika Mehta. Just like Half Girlfriend, this book too has a catchy title and has a typical filmy story. His previous book Half Girlfriend (Review Here) is very well received by his readers and soon releasing as a movie but it couldn’t impress me much. ![]() One Indian Girl is the 9th book of Chetan Bhagat. Unlike many other people I like his writing and I’m always waiting for his next creation. ![]() So I’d to read this novel because it is Bhagat’s and it is about an “Indian girl”. Hey! Wassup? □ I’m back with another book review and this time it is Chetan Bhagat’s new book “ONE INDIAN GIRL”. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Infamous by lex croucher![]() “You are so odd,” said Rose, but her mouth was already very close to Eddie’s, which softened her words somewhat. ![]() ![]() It was nice before, when you were really digging your nails in.” “Put your hand on the back of my neck again,” Eddie instructed, pleased to be in charge of the operation, where she felt she belonged. She had one hand on Eddie’s shoulder, and her fingers tightened on it as if she were reluctant to let go. I don’t mean to dictate, but as you were the one who wanted to get in the practice, I thought you ought to know.” “What?” said Rose, pulling away, her face very flushed despite the fact that they were sitting in a rather half-hearted tree house on the first chilly evening of a London September. ![]() “Your mouth is too slack,” Eddie said, slightly muffled against Rose’s lips. When the bell rang for supper up at the house, Eddie and Rose were practicing kissing. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The story of o reage![]() By the final scene of the novel, O has apparently lost all humanity: wearing an owl-mask and led around by a chain attached to one of the rings in her labia, she is offered freely to guests at a party, though few show any real interest in her. ![]() ![]() Sir Stephen has O branded on her buttocks, and rings bearing his and her names are attached to her labia. O is also physically attracted to two females, Jacqueline, a young model and Natalie, Jacqueline’s younger sister, both of whom she persuades to visit the château. It seems at first that O’s submissiveness is motivated by her love for René, though during the course of her stay at the château, he ‘gives’ her to an English aristocrat named Sir Stephen, whose fatherly attentions are not without their attractions for her. This process of enslavement involves being chained up in Gothic-style dungeons, frequent whippings and sexual penetration by a number of men, and the insertion into her anus of ever larger ebonite shafts in order to facilitate anal intercourse. The novel takes the form of a third-person narrative, recounting how a young woman identified as O, a Parisian fashion photographer, is taken by her lover, René, to a château in Roissy, where she consents to the gradual erosion of her personal identity and autonomy. ![]() ![]() ![]() tables, the “magic number” that Tufte gave was 20. This should be avoided.Īs for using charts vs. don’t use a chart when a table will do, andĪn example of wasted ink included using internal grid lines, which often reduce the readability of the actual data.Don’t waste “ink” on unnecessary or distracting “chartjunk”,. ![]() It all boils down to just a few principles. The book goes on to highlight many amazing graphs, as well as a few counter-examples, and explains what makes them good or bad. It is so rich in information and so elegant. The graph on it looks like a meaningless jumble of lines, but it actually contains the entire train schedule of France from 1885. “No,” I said as I showed him a fascinating chart of Napoleon’s army’s advance to and retreat from Russia, “I’m actually just reading it for fun.”Īnd despite the fact that the cover looks like required reading for a 1960’s advanced course in Macroeconomics, it WAS fun. “Do you have to read that for a course or something?” “A little light reading, hey?” the doctor from Pennsylvania asked me on a recent flight. ![]() ![]() Anyone who holds copyright can alter a work as they please, especially when dead authors are not around to object. Publishers are choosing to sanitize their literary icons on their own. These rewrites are not censorship, at least not in the legal sense. When publishers defile literature, you know the writing is on the wall. If it seems like small potatoes, you may be missing the big picture. Seuss and Mark Twain have been curbed in other ways. Christie joins Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming on the list of dead literary icons whose works have met similar fates in recent weeks. HarperCollins, their publisher, is removing references to physique, race and ethnicity in new editions of Miss Marple and selected Poirot novels. Last week The Telegraph reported that Agatha Christie’s novels are being sanitized for re-release. In 2023, we are social justice nihilists, driven by cultural self-hate and morally panicked about any representation of historical prejudice. ![]() It expresses narratives that tell societies who they are. ![]() Literature, along with other popular arts like music and movies, is called “culture” for a reason. Which is precisely why her books are ideal for such treatment. Christie is the bestselling novelist of all time. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Calling Tower by Josh Leone![]() ![]() ![]() Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 09725024972502412. Fast and free shipping free returns cash on delivery available on eligible purchase. Acknowledged authors Josh Leone wrote Calling Tower (The Calling Tower Saga) comprising 332 pages back in 2016. ![]() Two Google Arts & Culture exhibits illustrate Rodia's "ship" design and subsequent creation of village space or "pueblo" with high resolution photographs of notable components: towers, spires, house and "pueblo" entrances, the cactus garden sculpture, fountain sculpture, gazebo, ceremonial steps, and exterior street-facing mosaic panels. Buy Calling Tower by Leone, Josh online on Amazon.ae at best prices. It is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. ![]() The Watts Towers site is classified as a Historical Landmark and a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. He built the entire site, including his residence, the towers, sculptures, structures, and mosaics, by hand over a 33-year period. The Watts Towers were called 'Nuestro Pueblo' ('Our Village' in Spanish) by their creator, Simon Rodia. 17 metal and concrete towers ranging up to 99.5 feet high (30m).DESCRIPTION: The Watts Towers consist of a single wedge-shaped site containing 17 integrated sculptural metal and concrete towers, architectural and sculptural features, mosaic panels, and etched pavement, with inlaid and embedded salvaged ceramic, porcelain, glass, shell, rock fragments, "found objects" and artifacts throughout ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Rj yeatman![]() ![]() In this study, we have explored an assumption in which there exists a shift in playing strategy of enzymes from normal to a different biological condition (here cancer) by investigation of pattern alterations in the metabolic subsystem of four cancer cell types (in four cancer stages) using flux calculations and Gene Ontology analysis. Such enzymes behaviors are very similar to a competitive game where different players try to play for reaching a specific outcome, either by a cooperative or selfish strategy. So, it is reasonable to find metabolism variations within a cell in different conditions. Besides, every change in a biological system and its environment within a cell could lead to metabolism alterations due to natural cell response. ![]() In metabolism processes, enzymes are involved in a cooperative manner of step by step mechanisms trying to guarantee cell survival. ![]() |