Author: Rikki Harrison Publisher: ISBN: 9780692843758 Category : Languages : en Pages : 42
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Beatrice and The Purple Shoes is a story about a young girl experiencing multiple changes in her daily life. She goes through different emotions while trying to navigate how to deal with each new occurrence. She receives two gifts: advice from her neighbor, and a pair of purple shoes. Beatrice uses these gifts as tools to build confidence, and gain a positive attitude.
Author: Clive Thomas Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency ISBN: 1631358626 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 485
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“Thursday’s Child,” aka Peter Tobin – foundling, drover, shearer, horse-breaker, soldier, and pastoralist – travelled far and wide throughout the Australian outback in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The legacy of his widely scattered seed is gathered up in this tale of fatal misunderstandings, murder, and altruism, spanning the years 1910 to 1974. Like the Peter Tobin memoir “Thursday’s Child” that precedes it, the author gives a respectful nod to history pedants and reminds them this is a work of fiction.
Author: M. Beatrice Fazi Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1786606097 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 249
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In Contingent Computation, M. Beatrice Fazi offers a new theoretical perspective through which we can engage philosophically with computing. The book proves that aesthetics is a viable mode of investigating contemporary computational systems. It does so by advancing an original conception of computational aesthetics that does not just concern art made by or with computers, but rather the modes of being and becoming of computational processes. Contingent Computation mobilises the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead in order to address aesthetics as an ontological study of the generative potential of reality. Through a novel philosophical reading of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems and of Turing’s notion of incomputability, Fazi finds this potential at the formal heart of computational systems, and argues that computation is a process of determining indeterminacy. This indeterminacy, which is central to computational systems, does not contradict their functionality. Instead, it drives their very operation, albeit in a manner that might not always fit with the instrumental, representational and cognitivist purposes that we have assigned to computing.
Author: Beatrice Adler-Bolton Publisher: Verso Books ISBN: 183976516X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 241
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A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Panel” In this fiery, theoretical tour-de-force, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant offer an overview of life and death under capitalism and argue for a new global left politics aimed at severing the ties between capital and one of its primary tools: health. Written by co-hosts of the hit “Death Panel” podcast and longtime disability justice and healthcare activists Adler-Bolton and Vierkant, Health Communism first examines how capital has instrumentalized health, disability, madness, and illness to create a class seen as “surplus,” regarded as a fiscal and social burden. Demarcating the healthy from the surplus, the worker from the “unfit” to work, the authors argue, serves not only to undermine solidarity but to mark whole populations for extraction by the industries that have emerged to manage and contain this “surplus” population. Health Communism then looks to the grave threat capital poses to global public health, and at the rare movements around the world that have successfully challenged the extractive economy of health. Ultimately, Adler-Bolton and Vierkant argue, we will not succeed in defeating capitalism until we sever health from capital. To do this will require a radical new politics of solidarity that centers the surplus, built on an understanding that we must not base the value of human life on one’s willingness or ability to be productive within the current political economy. Capital, it turns out, only fears health.
Author: Tecia Breen-Bond Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595212077 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 140
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"Cousins" is a sweet story of an inspirational adventure. This adventure is narrated by a ten-year old girl and leads readers along interesting and unexpectedly joyful paths.The story begins at the start of the summer when the narrator is left in the loving care of her two older cousins, seniors in college. Their mothers are off on a long-anticipated trip to Ireland.The neighborhood is also an integral part of this adventure, and the neighbors of this close-knit community play a valuable and insightful part of this ten-year old's enchanting journey.Puppies, too, play an important part in the story, making readers laugh at their unexpected and unpredictable antics. These puppies add to the hilarity and the hope of this fine and moving adventure.Cousins is an uplifting, witty, and touching journey that captivates readers of all ages.This book is truly a "must read."
Author: Rikki Harrison
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