![]() With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual impose their own 'will to power' upon the world. Nietzsche seeks to demonstrate that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. ![]() The work dramatically rejects traditional Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. 'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael Tanner Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. It promotes a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own 'will to power' upon the world. This work demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. ![]() Rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that covers ideas in his previous work Thus Spoke. Description for Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics) Paperback. ![]()
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From the author of You Are Mighty, a real-life derring-do woman, a collection of exhilarating stories, activities, and tips to inspire girls to pursue a life of adventure and excitement. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments First poldark book![]() Worse still his arrival coincides with the engagement of his cousin Francis to Elizabeth Chynoweth, the woman Ross has been in love with for years. Ross returns to find his inherited home at Nampara grossly neglected by gin-swilling servants Jud and Prudie Paynter and the tin mine on his father’s property shut down. He had no sentimental notions about the sea he had no regard for its dangers or its beauties to him it was a close acquaintance whose every virtue and failing, every smile and tantrum he had come to understand. He felt he would like one more look at the sea, which even now was licking at the rocks behind the house. In the book’s prologue, six months before Ross returns from fighting in America, his father Joshua is close to death. The wind and the sea figure as characters in their own right. Ross Poldark is subtitled “A Novel of Cornwall 1783-1787” and is strongly rooted in the geography, people, and events of the Cornish countryside. Rochester, I decided to read the first novel in Winston Graham’s saga and decide for myself. ![]() ![]() When Laurel Ann Nattress assured Austenprose readers that Ross was a hero every bit as worthy of their warm regard as Mr. ![]() I wondered whether there was more to Ross Poldark than his good looks. Never having watched the original series on Masterpiece Theatre in the 1970s, I was unfamiliar with Ross Poldark and a little curious about the buzz surrounding the new BBC/PBS series starring Aidan Turner. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Lost souls book lisa jackson![]() ![]() ![]() Then the bodies start turning up in ways that frighten even hardened cops like Bentz and his partner, Reuben Montoya. 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The suspense is relentless in #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson’s gripping thriller featuring the daughter of New Orleans Detective Rick Bentz-a resilient young woman whose two-time survival of a serial killer has left her fascinated by the criminal mind, determined to become a true-crime writer-and drawn her once more into a twisted psychopath’s unspeakable crimes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This, friends, is where I got in BIG trouble. This keeps it from popping back up like a window shade pulled too tight. Then, I tried the “all in one” which theoretically you put on over your head, then smooth it all the way down, over your “excess” and then hold in place with a handy little hook and eye fastener in the crotch. I tried just the tops, which smooth out the bra roll, and prop up your breasts, much like wearing a hot water bottle. It holds in your gut and poofs out your butt. ![]() How in the hell do women wear these things? 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These companions lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human devastation. The Mushroom at the End of the World explores the unexpected corners of matsutake commerce, where we encounter Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, Finnish nature guides, and more. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's account of these sought-after fungi offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: What manages to live in the ruins we have made? ![]() Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world - and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the Northern Hemisphere. *One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in Science* *One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in Business and Economics* *One of Times Higher Education’s Best Books of 2015* On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The Wishing Hill by Holly Robinson![]() “A luminous novel of buried secrets.”- New York Times bestselling author Caroline Leavitt **Chosen by Ladies Home Journal as a Great Summer Read** Little does she know that these relationships hold the key to shocking secrets about her family and herself that have been hiding in plain sight.… Instead she meets a man who makes her question every choice and reawakens her spirit, even as she is being drawn into a long-running feud between her mother and a reclusive neighbor. 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Murakami's new novel is at once a classic tale of quest, but it is also a bold exploration of mythic and contemporary taboos, of patricide, of mother-love, of sister-love. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle. ![]() Cats converse with people fish tumble from the sky a ghostlike pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since WWII. Their parallel odysseys are enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerising dramas. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The narrative follows the story of a young 15-year-old boy, Kafka Tamura, who. ![]() 'Kafka On The Shore' follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. 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This is because once, several years ago, when the relatives were over, shouting and laughing and shaking their fists, Leo got squashed in a corner and cried, and when they asked him why he was crying, he said, “I’m just a little sardine, squashed in a tin.” His name is Leonardo, and his friends call him Leo, but his family calls him sardine. “Did you hear me, sardine? You’re going to be in big trouble-” “Hey, sardine! Fog boy! What the heck are you doing? Mom is looking all over for you.” “You saved her life,” the rescue crew tells Leo. By the time the wail of the rescue squad car is heard, she is breathing normally, color returning to her cheeks. “Stand back,” he tells the gathering neighbors as he works at reviving the woman. Leo reaches the old woman, takes her pulse. “Call the rescue squad!” he orders a neighbor peering from her window. Leo leaps from the tree and races down the street. 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