![]() ![]() This little book is designed for beginners, either for classroom use or individually. The Summa Theologica is timeless, but particularly important today because of his synthesis of faith and reason, revelation and philosophy, and the Biblical and the classical Greco-Roman heritages. He is a master of metaphysics and technical terminology, yet so full of both theoretical and practical wisdom. His writings combine the two fundamental ideals of philosophical writing: clarity and profundity. ![]() Thomas Aquinas is universally recognized as one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived. In it, there is also much philosophy, which is selected, excerpted, arranged, introduced, and explained in footnotes here by Kreeft, a popular Thomist teacher and writer. The reason for the double shortening is pretty obvious: the original runs some 4000 pages! (The Summa of the Summa was just over 500.) The Summa is certainly the greatest, most ambitious, most rational book of theology ever written. A shortened version of Kreeft's much larger Summa of the Summa, which in turn was a shortened version of the Summa Theologica. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() None of that was exactly clear to Beaton when she set off for Alberta in 2005. ![]() They’re also considered some of the most environmentally destructive oil fields in the world, and Indigenous populations say the mines have been ruinous to their way of life. The mines are large enough to be seen from space. When it’s over, she’ll go back to the real world.Īlberta’s oil sands are the third-largest oil reserve in the world. It will be a break from her life, a lark. Her plan is to work so much that she can pay off her student loans in two years. Saddled with an arts degree that leaves her feeling unemployable and a small mountain of student debt, Beaton leaves her beloved home of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, for the oil sands of Alberta, where work is plentiful and life is cheap. Take Vox’s survey here.ĭucks begins in 2005, with Beaton as a 21-year-old newly minted college graduate. We want to get to know you better - and learn what your needs are. ![]() ![]() To more appropriately acknowledge the character's identity, and to remind all trans people that their names and pronouns should be respected, Gino has asked that George be renamed Melissa's Story. "The title of my book makes it seem as though it is ever okay to use an old name for a person when they have provided you with a different name that works better for them. A big mistake," the author wrote in a recent blog post. "I made a mistake when I named my first published middle grade novel. But, as Gino has explained, this iconic book of support for the trans community is not without its flaws. That book, of course, was George, which, since its release in 2015, has been a staple of LGBTQ+ reading lists, especially for young people. With four starred reviews and a number of honors including a Stonewall Award and a Lambda Literary Award, both critics and readers loved the story of Melissa, a middle grade girl who was then named George. ![]() ![]() Alex Gino's debut novel was a hit from the start. ![]() ![]() ![]() Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.īlyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. Enid Mary Blyton (1897 - 1968) was an English author of children's books.īorn in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() His life has also been filled with various personal problems, from divorce to the death of his cat. He then explains that he has become a successful writer, but that he is deeply unsatisfied by the work. The narrator briefly reminds the reader of that story, which saw his girlfriend disappear after they had stayed at a run-down hotel in Hokkaido called the Dolphin. Plot summary ĭance Dance Dance begins four and a half years after the events depicted in A Wild Sheep Chase. ![]() In 2001, Murakami said that writing Dance Dance Dance had been a healing act after his unexpected fame following the publication of Norwegian Wood and that, because of this, he had enjoyed writing Dance more than any other book. The book is a sequel to Murakami's novel A Wild Sheep Chase. ![]() First published in 1988, it was translated into English by Alfred Birnbaum in 1994. Dance Dance Dance ( ダンス・ダンス・ダンス, Dansu Dansu Dansu) is the sixth novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. ![]() ![]() The Shanxi style is compact, delicate and yet forceful while the Henan style is powerful, vigorous and substantial. ![]() Over the centuries, this school of boxing is now practiced in different styles. Ma Xueli, a Luoyang resident, Dai Longbang of Qixian, Shanxi Province and LiLuoneng, Dai's disciple from Hebei, all contributed to the dissemination and development of the boxing art. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, Xingyi Quan was spread inHenan, Hebei and Shanxi provinces. On his trip to the Southern Shaolin Temple, he passed through Luoyang in the Henan Province and Qiupu in Anhui Province, Ji Jikepassed his art on to Zeng Jiwu. A resident of the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, Ji Jike was also known as Ji Longfeng. ![]() According to historical records, the creator of Xingyi Quan was Ji Jike (1602 - 1682) from the Zuncun village in ShanxiProvince. ![]() ![]() ![]() His collection of books was quite significant at the time. Years later, the author was left with little choice but to downsize. ![]() However, the public responded to his plight so strongly that he eventually decided to keep the store open. Despite garnering a lot of attention and eventually becoming one of the country’s largest used bookstores, Larry McMurtry was initially tempted to close the Archer City Branch in the mid-2000s because he simply could not compete with the online book market. He eventually installed a branch in Archer City. The author opened the first one in 1970 with the help of two partners. He made several friends at Stanford, with some of the most prominent including Ken Kesey and Malcolm Cowley.īesides teaching at Rice University, a position he took up in 1963, Larry also managed a series of bookstores. His education included stints at Stanford University and Rice University. ![]() The author read them until they were in tatters. Some years later, Robert Hilburn, a cousin that was going off to fight in WWII, left several dozen books at the house. At night, they would congregate and tell stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. Book Synopsis Stasiland demonstrates that great, original reporting is still possible. In thetradition of Frederick Taylor s The Berlin Wall andPhilip Gourevitch s WeWish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families, Funder s Stasiland isa masterpiece of investigative reporting, written with novelistic vividness andthe compelling intensity of a universal, real-life story. Claire Tomalin, Guardian Books ofthe Year AnnaFunder delivers a prize-winning and powerfully rendered account of theresistance against East Germany s communist dictatorship in these harrowing, personal tales of life behind the Iron Curtain and, especially, of life underthe iron fist of the Stasi, East Germany s brutal state security force. ![]() About the Book Stasiland demonstrates that great, originalreporting is still possible. ![]() ![]() Before he can carry out his plan, he changes course when he finds a job as a mechanic. Overcome with despair, he decides to take his own life. Tim Draker, a long-unemployed businessman, has wondered the same thing. With little hope for the future as an undocumented immigrant, Linda wonders where her life is going. Years later, Linda nears college graduation. Linda Palacios crossed the border at age three with her mother, Juanita, to escape their traumatic life in Mexico and to pursue the American dream. As circumstances worsen, will their faith carry them through or will their fears drag them down? As circumstances worsen, will their faith carry The fates of an undocumented college student and her mother intertwine with a suicidal businessman’s. ![]() ![]() The fates of an undocumented college student and her mother intertwine with a suicidal businessman’s. Enter for a chance to win an autographed copy of Vivir el Dream by Allison K. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yellow: (he/him) Consults with Blue Leader about handling PreservationAux' systems.Green (no stated pronouns) Part of survey team.Blue Leader: (she/her) Leader of the Gra圜ris team, she sent messages to the PreservationAux survey team and negotiated with Murderbot later Rogue Protocol is the third entry in Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries. ![]() The corporation is headquartered on TranRollinHyfa, and has corporate jurisdiction on the station's upper torus. When it was done it abandoned the platform, then tried to destroy the evidence when GoodNightLander Independent investigates the remains. They try to kill PreservationAux and DeltFall's survey teams in All Systems Red to keep a planet's resources a secret, and when this fails they kidnap Mensah, trying to dismantle the legal cases now waged against them and to extort the Preservation Alliance to pay off the companies they can't threaten.Īt one point Graycris built a supposed terraforming platform over Milu, which was a cover for its illegal mining activities. Gra圜ris is a corporation that mines alien remnants and sells them on the black market. ![]() We were talking about Gra圜ris here, whose company motto seemed to be “profit by killing everybody and taking their stuff.” ( Rogue Protocol) ![]() |