Author: Steve Laker
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326520431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Before and after The Paradoxicon, there are other stories: The Director's Cut is a collection of six short talees which place the novel into a context, prefaced by the original flash fiction novel. When You Wish Upon a Binary Star [1]: Inspired by and written for two of my closest friends: teenage girls, confused about life and who found reassurance in this story. Solum Oculus Claude: An insight into the world populated by the silent. Master Yehudi's Flying Circuc: A fantastical, whimsical tale with dark undertones. A Message: A tale of anticipation with a sting. Helvetica Haus: ""Written by a genius psychopath."" COGS: ""Utterly disgusting and morally wrong, yet beautifully written."" The Director's cut is the consequence of choice.
The Paradoxicon (Director's cut)
Author: Steve Laker
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326520431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Before and after The Paradoxicon, there are other stories: The Director's Cut is a collection of six short talees which place the novel into a context, prefaced by the original flash fiction novel. When You Wish Upon a Binary Star [1]: Inspired by and written for two of my closest friends: teenage girls, confused about life and who found reassurance in this story. Solum Oculus Claude: An insight into the world populated by the silent. Master Yehudi's Flying Circuc: A fantastical, whimsical tale with dark undertones. A Message: A tale of anticipation with a sting. Helvetica Haus: ""Written by a genius psychopath."" COGS: ""Utterly disgusting and morally wrong, yet beautifully written."" The Director's cut is the consequence of choice.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326520431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Before and after The Paradoxicon, there are other stories: The Director's Cut is a collection of six short talees which place the novel into a context, prefaced by the original flash fiction novel. When You Wish Upon a Binary Star [1]: Inspired by and written for two of my closest friends: teenage girls, confused about life and who found reassurance in this story. Solum Oculus Claude: An insight into the world populated by the silent. Master Yehudi's Flying Circuc: A fantastical, whimsical tale with dark undertones. A Message: A tale of anticipation with a sting. Helvetica Haus: ""Written by a genius psychopath."" COGS: ""Utterly disgusting and morally wrong, yet beautifully written."" The Director's cut is the consequence of choice.
Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox
Author: Dr Peter G Platt
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409475158
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Exploring Shakespeare's intellectual interest in placing both characters and audiences in a state of uncertainty, mystery, and doubt, this book interrogates the use of paradox in Shakespeare's plays and in performance. By adopting this discourse-one in which opposites can co-exist and perspectives can be altered, and one that asks accepted opinions, beliefs, and truths to be reconsidered-Shakespeare used paradox to question love, gender, knowledge, and truth from multiple perspectives. Committed to situating literature within the larger culture, Peter Platt begins by examining the Renaissance culture of paradox in both the classical and Christian traditions. He then looks at selected plays in terms of paradox, including the geographical site of Venice in Othello and The Merchant of Venice, and equity law in The Comedy of Errors, Merchant, and Measure for Measure. Platt also considers the paradoxes of theater and live performance that were central to Shakespearean drama, such as the duality of the player, the boy-actor and gender, and the play/audience relationship in the Henriad, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. In showing that Shakespeare's plays create and are created by a culture of paradox, Platt offers an exciting and innovative investigation of Shakespeare's cognitive and affective power over his audience.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409475158
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Exploring Shakespeare's intellectual interest in placing both characters and audiences in a state of uncertainty, mystery, and doubt, this book interrogates the use of paradox in Shakespeare's plays and in performance. By adopting this discourse-one in which opposites can co-exist and perspectives can be altered, and one that asks accepted opinions, beliefs, and truths to be reconsidered-Shakespeare used paradox to question love, gender, knowledge, and truth from multiple perspectives. Committed to situating literature within the larger culture, Peter Platt begins by examining the Renaissance culture of paradox in both the classical and Christian traditions. He then looks at selected plays in terms of paradox, including the geographical site of Venice in Othello and The Merchant of Venice, and equity law in The Comedy of Errors, Merchant, and Measure for Measure. Platt also considers the paradoxes of theater and live performance that were central to Shakespearean drama, such as the duality of the player, the boy-actor and gender, and the play/audience relationship in the Henriad, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. In showing that Shakespeare's plays create and are created by a culture of paradox, Platt offers an exciting and innovative investigation of Shakespeare's cognitive and affective power over his audience.
Self-Reference
Author: S.J. Bartlett
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940093551X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Self-reference, although a topic studied by some philosophers and known to a number of other disciplines, has received comparatively little explicit attention. For the most part the focus of studies of self-reference has been on its logical and linguistic aspects, with perhaps disproportionate emphasis placed on the reflexive paradoxes. The eight-volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, for example, does not contain a single entry in its index under "self-reference", and in connection with "reflexivity" mentions only "relations", "classes", and "sets". Yet, in this volume, the introductory essay identifies some 75 varieties and occurrences of self-reference in a wide range of disciplines, and the bibliography contains more than 1,200 citations to English language works about reflexivity. The contributed papers investigate a number of forms and applications of self-reference, and examine some of the challenges posed by its difficult temperament. The editors hope that readers of this volume will gain a richer sense of the sti11largely unexplored frontiers of reflexivity, and of the indispensability of reflexive concepts and methods to foundational inquiries in philosophy, logic, language, and into the freedom, personality and intelligence of persons.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940093551X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Self-reference, although a topic studied by some philosophers and known to a number of other disciplines, has received comparatively little explicit attention. For the most part the focus of studies of self-reference has been on its logical and linguistic aspects, with perhaps disproportionate emphasis placed on the reflexive paradoxes. The eight-volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, for example, does not contain a single entry in its index under "self-reference", and in connection with "reflexivity" mentions only "relations", "classes", and "sets". Yet, in this volume, the introductory essay identifies some 75 varieties and occurrences of self-reference in a wide range of disciplines, and the bibliography contains more than 1,200 citations to English language works about reflexivity. The contributed papers investigate a number of forms and applications of self-reference, and examine some of the challenges posed by its difficult temperament. The editors hope that readers of this volume will gain a richer sense of the sti11largely unexplored frontiers of reflexivity, and of the indispensability of reflexive concepts and methods to foundational inquiries in philosophy, logic, language, and into the freedom, personality and intelligence of persons.
Paradox
Author: Jim Al-Khalili
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0552778060
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
How can a cat be both dead and alive at the same time? Why will Achilles never beat a tortoise in a race, no matter how fast he runs? And how can a person be ten years older than their twin? Throughout history, scientists have been coming up with theories and ideas that just do not seem to make sense
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0552778060
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
How can a cat be both dead and alive at the same time? Why will Achilles never beat a tortoise in a race, no matter how fast he runs? And how can a person be ten years older than their twin? Throughout history, scientists have been coming up with theories and ideas that just do not seem to make sense
Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems
Author: Paul A. Czysz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540376410
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
An understandable perspective on the types of space propulsion systems necessary to enable low-cost space flights to Earth orbit and to the Moon and the future developments necessary for exploration of the solar system and beyond to the stars.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540376410
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
An understandable perspective on the types of space propulsion systems necessary to enable low-cost space flights to Earth orbit and to the Moon and the future developments necessary for exploration of the solar system and beyond to the stars.
Impossibility
Author: John D. Barrow
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195130820
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Astronomer John Barrow takes an intriguing look at the limits of science, who argues that there are things that are ultimately unknowable, undoable, or unreachable.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195130820
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Astronomer John Barrow takes an intriguing look at the limits of science, who argues that there are things that are ultimately unknowable, undoable, or unreachable.
Discrete Mathematics with Applications
Author: Thomas Koshy
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080477348
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 1079
Book Description
This approachable text studies discrete objects and the relationsips that bind them. It helps students understand and apply the power of discrete math to digital computer systems and other modern applications. It provides excellent preparation for courses in linear algebra, number theory, and modern/abstract algebra and for computer science courses in data structures, algorithms, programming languages, compilers, databases, and computation.* Covers all recommended topics in a self-contained, comprehensive, and understandable format for students and new professionals * Emphasizes problem-solving techniques, pattern recognition, conjecturing, induction, applications of varying nature, proof techniques, algorithm development and correctness, and numeric computations* Weaves numerous applications into the text* Helps students learn by doing with a wealth of examples and exercises: - 560 examples worked out in detail - More than 3,700 exercises - More than 150 computer assignments - More than 600 writing projects* Includes chapter summaries of important vocabulary, formulas, and properties, plus the chapter review exercises* Features interesting anecdotes and biographies of 60 mathematicians and computer scientists* Instructor's Manual available for adopters* Student Solutions Manual available separately for purchase (ISBN: 0124211828)
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080477348
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 1079
Book Description
This approachable text studies discrete objects and the relationsips that bind them. It helps students understand and apply the power of discrete math to digital computer systems and other modern applications. It provides excellent preparation for courses in linear algebra, number theory, and modern/abstract algebra and for computer science courses in data structures, algorithms, programming languages, compilers, databases, and computation.* Covers all recommended topics in a self-contained, comprehensive, and understandable format for students and new professionals * Emphasizes problem-solving techniques, pattern recognition, conjecturing, induction, applications of varying nature, proof techniques, algorithm development and correctness, and numeric computations* Weaves numerous applications into the text* Helps students learn by doing with a wealth of examples and exercises: - 560 examples worked out in detail - More than 3,700 exercises - More than 150 computer assignments - More than 600 writing projects* Includes chapter summaries of important vocabulary, formulas, and properties, plus the chapter review exercises* Features interesting anecdotes and biographies of 60 mathematicians and computer scientists* Instructor's Manual available for adopters* Student Solutions Manual available separately for purchase (ISBN: 0124211828)
Dragon Magazine Issue #203 March 1994
Author: Kim Mohan
Publisher: TSR
ISBN: 9781560769613
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: TSR
ISBN: 9781560769613
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Does God Have a Big Toe?
Author: Marc Gellman
Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
ISBN: 9780060224325
Category : Bible stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
A collection of humorous stories derived from the Old Testament.
Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
ISBN: 9780060224325
Category : Bible stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
A collection of humorous stories derived from the Old Testament.