Author: E. F. Benson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9360467316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The story of "Colin II: A Novel" is an interesting look at how complicated people's lives are. It has drama, romance, and deep reflection. The unconventional, written by the great storyteller E. F. Benson, takes readers into a world where the main character, Colin, struggles with love, desire, and finding his own identity. The story shows Colin's journey with nuance and depth, weaving together a tapestry of feelings and relationships against a background of societal changes and personal revelations. The characters come to life in E. F. Benson's writing style, which is known for sharp observations and a diffused sense of humor. This makes the characters likable and appealing to readers. As Colin deals with the ups and downs of his life, "The Radical" grows into more than just a small story; it becomes a study on what it means to be human. The story is about finding out about yourself, the effects of choices, and how fate and free will work together. These themes stay with the reader and make them think about their own paths and decisions. "Colin II: A Novel" is a great example of how good E. F. Benson is at telling stories. It takes readers on an interesting and thought-provoking literary trip that stays with them.
Colin II A Novel
Author: E. F. Benson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9360467316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The story of "Colin II: A Novel" is an interesting look at how complicated people's lives are. It has drama, romance, and deep reflection. The unconventional, written by the great storyteller E. F. Benson, takes readers into a world where the main character, Colin, struggles with love, desire, and finding his own identity. The story shows Colin's journey with nuance and depth, weaving together a tapestry of feelings and relationships against a background of societal changes and personal revelations. The characters come to life in E. F. Benson's writing style, which is known for sharp observations and a diffused sense of humor. This makes the characters likable and appealing to readers. As Colin deals with the ups and downs of his life, "The Radical" grows into more than just a small story; it becomes a study on what it means to be human. The story is about finding out about yourself, the effects of choices, and how fate and free will work together. These themes stay with the reader and make them think about their own paths and decisions. "Colin II: A Novel" is a great example of how good E. F. Benson is at telling stories. It takes readers on an interesting and thought-provoking literary trip that stays with them.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9360467316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The story of "Colin II: A Novel" is an interesting look at how complicated people's lives are. It has drama, romance, and deep reflection. The unconventional, written by the great storyteller E. F. Benson, takes readers into a world where the main character, Colin, struggles with love, desire, and finding his own identity. The story shows Colin's journey with nuance and depth, weaving together a tapestry of feelings and relationships against a background of societal changes and personal revelations. The characters come to life in E. F. Benson's writing style, which is known for sharp observations and a diffused sense of humor. This makes the characters likable and appealing to readers. As Colin deals with the ups and downs of his life, "The Radical" grows into more than just a small story; it becomes a study on what it means to be human. The story is about finding out about yourself, the effects of choices, and how fate and free will work together. These themes stay with the reader and make them think about their own paths and decisions. "Colin II: A Novel" is a great example of how good E. F. Benson is at telling stories. It takes readers on an interesting and thought-provoking literary trip that stays with them.
The Future of Nutrition
Author: T. Colin Campbell
Publisher: BenBella Books
ISBN: 1950665739
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
From the coauthor of The China Study and author of the New York Times bestselling follow-up, Whole Despite extensive research and overwhelming public information on nutrition and health science, we are more confused than ever—about the foods we eat, what good nutrition looks like, and what it can do for our health. In The Future of Nutrition, T. Colin Campbell cuts through the noise with an in-depth analysis of our historical relationship to the food we eat, the source of our present information overload, and what our current path means for the future—both for individual health and society as a whole. In these pages, Campbell takes on the institution of nutrition itself, unpacking: • Why the institutional emphasis on individual nutrients (instead of whole foods) as a means to explain nutrition has had catastrophic consequences • How our reverence for "high quality" animal protein has distorted our understanding of cholesterol, saturated fat, unsaturated fat, environmental carcinogens, and more • Why mainstream food and nutrient recommendations and public policy favor corporate interests over that of personal and planetary health • How we can ensure that public nutrition literacy can prevent and treat personal illness more effectively and economically The Future of Nutrition offers a fascinating deep-dive behind the curtain of the field of nutrition—with implications both for our health and for the practice of science itself.
Publisher: BenBella Books
ISBN: 1950665739
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
From the coauthor of The China Study and author of the New York Times bestselling follow-up, Whole Despite extensive research and overwhelming public information on nutrition and health science, we are more confused than ever—about the foods we eat, what good nutrition looks like, and what it can do for our health. In The Future of Nutrition, T. Colin Campbell cuts through the noise with an in-depth analysis of our historical relationship to the food we eat, the source of our present information overload, and what our current path means for the future—both for individual health and society as a whole. In these pages, Campbell takes on the institution of nutrition itself, unpacking: • Why the institutional emphasis on individual nutrients (instead of whole foods) as a means to explain nutrition has had catastrophic consequences • How our reverence for "high quality" animal protein has distorted our understanding of cholesterol, saturated fat, unsaturated fat, environmental carcinogens, and more • Why mainstream food and nutrient recommendations and public policy favor corporate interests over that of personal and planetary health • How we can ensure that public nutrition literacy can prevent and treat personal illness more effectively and economically The Future of Nutrition offers a fascinating deep-dive behind the curtain of the field of nutrition—with implications both for our health and for the practice of science itself.
Young Skins
Author: Colin Barrett
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802192106
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A blockbuster collection from one of Ireland’s most exciting young voices: “Sharp and lively . . . a rough, charged, and surprisingly fun read” (Interview). A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree * Winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award * Winner of the Guardian First Book Award * Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature Enter the small, rural town of Glanbeigh, a place whose fate took a downturn with the Celtic Tiger, a desolate spot where buffoonery and tension simmer and erupt, and booze-sodden boredom fills the corners of every pub and nightclub. Here, and in the towns beyond, the young live hard and wear the scars. Amongst them, there’s jilted Jimmy, whose best friend Tug is the terror of the town and Jimmy’s sole company in his search for the missing Clancy kid; Bat, a lovesick soul with a face like “a bowl of mashed up spuds” even before Nubbin Tansey’s boot kicked it in; and Arm, a young and desperate criminal whose destiny is shaped when he and his partner, Dympna, fail to carry out a job. In each story, a local voice delineates the grittiness of post boom Irish society. These are unforgettable characters rendered through silence, humor, and violence. “Lyrical and tough and smart . . . What seems to be about sorrow and foreboding turns into an adventure, instead, in the tender art of the unexpected.” —Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize Award–winning author “Sometimes comic, sometimes melancholy, Young Skins touches the heart, as well as the mind.” —Irish American Post
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802192106
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A blockbuster collection from one of Ireland’s most exciting young voices: “Sharp and lively . . . a rough, charged, and surprisingly fun read” (Interview). A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree * Winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award * Winner of the Guardian First Book Award * Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature Enter the small, rural town of Glanbeigh, a place whose fate took a downturn with the Celtic Tiger, a desolate spot where buffoonery and tension simmer and erupt, and booze-sodden boredom fills the corners of every pub and nightclub. Here, and in the towns beyond, the young live hard and wear the scars. Amongst them, there’s jilted Jimmy, whose best friend Tug is the terror of the town and Jimmy’s sole company in his search for the missing Clancy kid; Bat, a lovesick soul with a face like “a bowl of mashed up spuds” even before Nubbin Tansey’s boot kicked it in; and Arm, a young and desperate criminal whose destiny is shaped when he and his partner, Dympna, fail to carry out a job. In each story, a local voice delineates the grittiness of post boom Irish society. These are unforgettable characters rendered through silence, humor, and violence. “Lyrical and tough and smart . . . What seems to be about sorrow and foreboding turns into an adventure, instead, in the tender art of the unexpected.” —Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize Award–winning author “Sometimes comic, sometimes melancholy, Young Skins touches the heart, as well as the mind.” —Irish American Post
The Scots Peerage
Author: James Balfour Paul
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Publications
Singapore Burning
Author: Colin Smith
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141906626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 969
Book Description
Churchill's description of the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942, after Lt-Gen Percival's surrender led to over 100,000 British, Australian and Indian troops falling into the hands of the Japanese, was no wartime exaggeration. The Japanese had promised that there would be no Dunkirk in Singapore, and its fall led to imprisonment, torture and death for thousands of allied men and women. With much new material from British, Australian, Indian and Japanese sources, Colin Smith has woven together the full and terrifying story of the fall of Singapore and its aftermath. Here, alongside cowardice and incompetence, are forgotten acts of enormous heroism; treachery yet heart-rending loyalty; Japanese compassion as well as brutality from the bravest and most capricious enemy the British ever had to face.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141906626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 969
Book Description
Churchill's description of the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942, after Lt-Gen Percival's surrender led to over 100,000 British, Australian and Indian troops falling into the hands of the Japanese, was no wartime exaggeration. The Japanese had promised that there would be no Dunkirk in Singapore, and its fall led to imprisonment, torture and death for thousands of allied men and women. With much new material from British, Australian, Indian and Japanese sources, Colin Smith has woven together the full and terrifying story of the fall of Singapore and its aftermath. Here, alongside cowardice and incompetence, are forgotten acts of enormous heroism; treachery yet heart-rending loyalty; Japanese compassion as well as brutality from the bravest and most capricious enemy the British ever had to face.
Game Theory and Strategy
Author: Philip D. Straffin
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
ISBN: 1470471965
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book is an introduction to mathematical game theory, which might better be called the mathematical theory of conflict and cooperation. It is applicable whenever two individuals—or companies, or political parties, or nations—confront situations where the outcome for each depends on the behavior of all. What are the best strategies in such situations? If there are chances of cooperation, with whom should you cooperate, and how should you share the proceeds of cooperation? Since its creation by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern in 1944, game theory has shed new light on business, politics, economics, social psychology, philosophy, and evolutionary biology. In this book, its fundamental ideas are developed with mathematics at the level of high school algebra and applied to many of these fields (see the table of contents). Ideas like “fairness” are presented via axioms that fair allocations should satisfy; thus the reader is introduced to axiomatic thinking as well as to mathematical modeling of actual situations.
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
ISBN: 1470471965
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book is an introduction to mathematical game theory, which might better be called the mathematical theory of conflict and cooperation. It is applicable whenever two individuals—or companies, or political parties, or nations—confront situations where the outcome for each depends on the behavior of all. What are the best strategies in such situations? If there are chances of cooperation, with whom should you cooperate, and how should you share the proceeds of cooperation? Since its creation by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern in 1944, game theory has shed new light on business, politics, economics, social psychology, philosophy, and evolutionary biology. In this book, its fundamental ideas are developed with mathematics at the level of high school algebra and applied to many of these fields (see the table of contents). Ideas like “fairness” are presented via axioms that fair allocations should satisfy; thus the reader is introduced to axiomatic thinking as well as to mathematical modeling of actual situations.
Hard Line
Author: Colin Dueck
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691141827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Conservatives and liberals alike are currently debating the probable future of the Republican Party. What direction will conservatives and republicans take on foreign policy in the age of Obama? This book tackles this question.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691141827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Conservatives and liberals alike are currently debating the probable future of the Republican Party. What direction will conservatives and republicans take on foreign policy in the age of Obama? This book tackles this question.
The Chiefs of Grant
Publications
Author: New Spalding Club (Aberdeen, Scotland)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description