6/28/2023 0 Comments Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan![]() ![]() "A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday.It's a delight" (The New York Times). Carl Sagan takes the reader on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends-and their amazing links to recent discoveries. a consequence of its anatomy and physiology and nothing more"-in reference to the works of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. In the introduction Sagan presents his thesis-that "the mind. ![]() The Dragons of Eden is an expansion of the Jacob Bronowski Memorial Lecture in Natural Philosophy which Sagan gave at the University of Toronto. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. He wrote many popular science books, such as The Dragons of Eden, Brocas Brain and Pale Blue Dot, and narrated and co-wrote the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Inscribed by Carl Sagan on the half-title page. Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. ![]() Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. ![]() The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence.įirst edition of Sagan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work, which combines the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science to give a perspective on how human intelligence may have evolved. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The city was captured on as part of the culmination of a 53-day siege which had begun on 6 April. The fall of Constantinople, also known as the conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 5,607 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization. ![]() Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Archenemies renegades![]() All the storylines converge well here and supers get to do what they do best: wield their cool powers. Their convictions don't stand up, and it's a relief when the action unfolds at the end. The Renegades Trilogy continues, in this fiercely awaited second installment after the New York Times-bestselling Renegades by Marissa Meyer, author of the Lunar Chronicles. ![]() Sure, they let themselves fall for each other, and they have some sweet moments, but they both get stuck in their thinking and author Marissa Meyer gets stuck repeating why Nova still wants revenge and why Adrian can't tell his dads or Nova about his alter-ego. Archenemies picks up where Renegades left off and plot twists are, as always, abundant. Nova and Adrian are stagnant characters in Archenemies. If only all the layers of the story held that depth and cohesion. Especially when both Nova, the spy, and Adrian, the secret vigilante, both voice their fears about what this means for them and society. ![]() ![]() When a super villain is stripped of his power while a horde of Renegades cheer for their new weapon, the line between good and bad guys softens and things get interesting. And it goes deep with themes about power struggles and human rights. Like the first book, this superhero spy sequel takes a while to warm up the plot lines, romance, and intrigue, but pulls it together in a heroic flourish near the end. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Peter carey novel oscar and![]() ![]() She is left, after he has undressed her of her layers of clothing, with her flesh unzipped and peeled away. His stories break away from the Australian tradition of realism as he experiments with surrealism, fantasy, cartoon characterization, and the "tall tale." In the often-anthologized story "Peeling," for example, when an old man's fantasies about his neighbor begin to come to fruition, he realizes that the fantasy is more appealing than the woman herself. ![]() Peter Carey's short story collections The Fat Man in History and War Crimes established his reputation as one of Australia's most skilled and innovative writers of short fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It shows how representation matters in travel writings by bringing reference to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters in the light of Edward Said’s Orientalism. As Curl Jung says, “It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.” This article aims at looking into the question of perception and the issue of representation in travel narratives. Stereotyped perception of a traveller misrepresents another culture in their travel writings. Individual perspectives influence the lens of viewing and representing what they see. Travel narratives represent culture and customs of the visited countries, thereby raising questions of perception and representation. They create interest in the reader’s mind to travel to those countries and provide misrepresentation or “fantasized perception” of those countries to the readers. Hence, travel writings sometimes become a medium to explore the beauty and culture of a land. At other times, travel narratives help the reader to have practical information about traveling costs and procedures of the travelled countries. It is not possible for everyone to travel to every place in the world. Travel narratives influence in creating discourses. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The boy follows him and then shuts the door once the alligator is in the garage. Soon the alligator comes and begins to eat the trail of food. He goes to the kitchen to get some alligator bait, and then makes a trail of sandwiches, fruit, pie, cookies, vegetables, soda and candy from the garage to his bed. His parents can’t see it, so he decides to take matters into his own hands. The unnamed hero knows there is an alligator under his bed, even though every time he looks for it, the alligator hides. This book uses simple, very direct statements to tell the story. ![]() This was a favorite of mine growing up, and my grandparents kept it, along with a plastic alligator, under their bed so we always knew where to find it. Best known as the author of the Little Critter books, Mayer tells the story of a young boy and his ploy to get the alligator out from under his bed. For this week’s Free Friday I’ll be reviewing an old favorite of mine, There’s an Alligator Under My Bed by Mercer Mayer. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Hermann hesse steppenwolf![]() The resulting feeling of isolation and inability to make lasting contact with the outside world led to increasing despair and the return of Hesse's suicidal thoughts. After a short trip to Germany with Wenger, Hesse stopped seeing her almost completely. Upon his return, he rented a separate apartment, adding to his isolation. After several weeks, however, he left Basel, only returning near the end of the year. In 1924, Hermann Hesse married singer Ruth Wenger. ![]() Steppenwolf was wildly popular and has been a perpetual success across the decades, but Hesse later asserted that the book was largely misunderstood. The story in large part reflects a profound crisis in Hesse's spiritual world during the 1920s. The novel was named after the German name for the steppe wolf. Originally published in Germany in 1927, it was first translated into English in 1929. Steppenwolf (originally Der Steppenwolf) is the tenth novel by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Seven little australians![]() That original 1988-89 production is confirmed by musical theatre historian Peter Wylie-Johnson as being the first home grown Australian musical to be commercially successful turning a genuine profit. ![]() The original album released by EMI in 1988 has sold in excess of 11,000 albums during our original tour. It’s never been out of publication and in developing the musical production the creator worked closely with Ethel Turner’s successors so as to preserve integrity and keep the musical traditional relevant and entertaining for a contemporary market. The story is an Australian classic written some one hundred and fifteen years ago by Ethel Turner. ![]() ![]() It won the Haarlem Comic Festival's Willy Vandersteen Award for best Dutch-language graphic novel, and an award at the Angouleme International Comics Festival. ![]() The Wrong Place (2009), started out as a graduation project and was a departure from the more typical comic art of his earlier books. The slightly melodramatic Vincent was released in 2006, followed in 2007 by a little nocturnal fantasy called Night Animals. His debut comic book, A Delivery from Outer Space, was released in 2005. Important mentors were his illustration teacher Goele Dewanckel and cartoonist/comedy coach/zen master Randall Casaer. He followed The Wrong Place up with The Making Belgian cartoonist Brecht Evens was born in 1986 and studied illustration in Ghent, Belgium. ![]() ![]() Belgian cartoonist Brecht Evens was born in 1986 and studied illustration in Ghent, Belgium. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments The lost roses![]() ![]() ![]() For Eliza and Sofya, days that used to be filled with planning the next trip and keeping up with the latest fashions are now filled with fear of the worst. ![]() She, her father, stepmother, and younger sister, Luba, are kept captive in their own home, with Sofya's son Max being spared the worst of the brutality only because he is being tended to by the young but troubled Varinka. ![]() that the peasants do rise up, and what Sofya would not allow herself to imagine has finally happened. It is only after Eliza has safely returned to the U.S. It is when Eliza is visiting Sofya in Russia that she begins to fear for her friend and her safety, though Sofya, a cousin of the Romanov's, is not as concerned. The Situation: Eliza Ferriday and her dear friend from Russia, Sofya Streshnayva, are both young wives and mothers, each with their own societal pressures as the beginning of the Great War comes suddenly and unexpectedly. Lost Roses starts just before World War I, and follows three women across three continents as they attempt to navigate the new realities of war. Martha Hall Kelly follows up her 2016 debut, Lilac Girls, with a novel that takes place a generation before. ![]() |