![]() The only thing I wish the book had was a slightly more globalised outlook. All the essays are accessible to the average reader and do a great job of showing that classic scholarship is an ongoing conversation. Beard’s reviews put the book in context and introduce the relevant background information before discussing its merits and demerits, which means that you can read the review and come away learning something new (instead of needing to know, for instance, the basics of Greek humour in order to read the review). Each chapter is adapted from a book review that Beard has written, but you definitely do not have to have had read a library’s worth of books to appreciate this. ![]() But when I saw a copy of Confronting the Classics at an extremely reasonable price, I decided that I had procrastinated long enough and promptly got myself a copy of read.Ĭonfronting the Classics is a fun and engaging read that takes the reader through various issues in the study of classics, from the humour of the Greeks to the appeal of Asterix. ![]() I’ve heard of Mary Beard for quite a few years, and have always intended to read her books, but as you know, my TBR list is long and I haven’t quite gotten around to all of them. ![]()
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![]() The book focuses on the history of the periodic table by way of short stories showing how a number of chemical elements affected their discoverers, for either good or bad. The book was first published in hardback on Jthrough Little, Brown and Company and was released in paperback on Jthrough Little, Brown and Company's imprint Back Bay Books. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, is a 2010 book by science reporter Sam Kean. ( August 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. ![]() ![]() ![]() This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. ![]() ![]() Might there be similar routes out there? I dug out my maps and fired up the computer. The papers described it as ‘one of a kind’ and this sparked my imagination. A cobbled track leading to the Hurler’s stone circle had been uncovered on Bodmin moor during an archeologically dig. In 2013 the newspapers reported that Britain’s oldest pavement had been found in Cornwall. The level of the field I have just crossed to get here is high above me, perhaps as much as 9 or ten feet, it is no wonder that these banks that mark the route’s way have become known as the Giant’s Hedge. The road cuts so deep down into the earth that I am standing on bedrock and that bedrock has a channel worn into it from hundreds of years of rainwater wearing its own path. This route once ran for 10 miles between Lerryn and Looe and was in use around 4000 years old. ![]() I am standing on Cornwall’s oldest ‘road’. ![]() The hedge towers above me, the moss is thick and bright green, lush ferns give the scene an ancient and almost topical feel. ![]() ![]() Dawson cursed his luck and pulled over, hard up against the verge. There was a brief flash of a blue light in his rear-view mirror. Clearly he wasn’t or he wouldn’t have stayed for the extra couple in the Duke of Marlborough. And finally, Katie Isbester and all at Claret Press (including but not exclusively, Isobelle and Josh) for believing in Teapot and in me and striving to help me improve my first rambling manuscript.ĭawson wasn’t expecting the police car. Peter Smith and Trudy Patterson for introducing me to the esoteric delights of the Yackandandah Folk Festival, out of which a germ of an idea was born. ![]() Also, Rob Sheppard and Anna Pitt for their encouragement, support and advice. Firstly, my wife, Anabel, son, Jack, and cat, Poppy, for not appearing to be too overly disturbed by my constant tip-tapping on the keyboard (I am a very heavy typist) for the best part of two years. ![]() There are a number of people I need to thank. 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Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year Winner of the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The daily lives of these three high-profilers-though mostly of Clive and Vernon, who receive the main focus-are nothing if not interesting in the capable hands of McEwan, who shows himself more than plentifully knowledgeable in the details of journalism and music, describing with a Masterpiece Theater color and exactness the torments of composition and the rigors of keeping a big newspaper in business. ![]() These high- visibility figures include internationally famed composer Clive Linley, racing now to complete his overdue magnum opus, a new symphony for the millennium his close friend Vernon Halliday, the liberal, ambitious, idealistic editor of a London newspaper that’s struggling hard to keep its readership and right-winger Thatcherite Julian Garmony, now Britain’s foreign secretary. When she dies of a sudden, rapidly degenerative illness, London glamour photographer Molly Lane is married to rich British publisher George Lane, although numerous erstwhile lovers still live and stir in the controversial Molly’s wake. Winner of this year’s Booker Prize, McEwan’s latest (Black Dogs, 1992 Enduring Love, 1998) is a smartly written tale that devolves slowly into tricks and soapy vapors. ![]() ![]() In a final chapter added to the second Italian edition, Eco examines how Aquinas’s aesthetics came to be absorbed and superseded in late medieval times and draws instructive parallels between Thomistic methodology and contemporary structuralism. He discusses Aquinas’s views on art and compares his poetics with Dante’s. He examines the concrete application of these theories in Aquinas’s reflections on God, mankind, music, poetry, and scripture. Setting the stage with an account of the vivid aesthetic and artistic sensibility that flourished in medieval times, Eco examines Aquinas’s conception of transcendental beauty, his theory of aesthetic perception or visio, and his account of the three conditions of beauty-integrity, proportion, and clarity-that, centuries later, emerged again in the writings of the young James Joyce. Inheriting his basic ideas and conceptions of art and beauty from the classical world, Aquinas transformed or modified these ideas in the light of Christian theology and of developments in metaphysics and optics during the thirteenth century. ![]() ![]() The well-known Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco discloses for the first time to English-speaking readers the unsuspected richness, breadth, complexity, and originality of the aesthetic theories advanced by the influential medieval thinker Thomas Aquinas, heretofore known principally as a scholastic theologian. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jane hasn’t had much luck with her own love life, but her online connection with a loyal reader makes Jane wonder if she could be the one. By night, she puts her steamier side on paper under her pen name: Brie. By day, she works for the family property development business. Jane Breslin works hard to keep her professional and personal lives neatly separated. She’s struck up a flirty online friendship with lesbian romance author Brie, and what could be more romantic than falling in love with her favorite author? The only thing missing is her own real-life romance like the ones she loves to read about, and Rosie has an idea of who she might like to sweep her off her feet. And ever since she took over her mother’s beloved Manhattan bookstore, they’ve become her home too. From award-winning author Rachel Lacey comes a playful romance about a Manhattan bookstore owner and a reclusive author who love to hate - and hate to love - each other.īooks are Rosie Taft’s life. ![]() ![]() ![]() PREVIEW: Check out the book's synopsis and the Kindle Cloud Reader Preview below, as well as its Mixtape, and full details of the series.Įdger Lives is FREE on Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owner's Lending Library.Īuthor David Beem will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour. “A delightfully silly and bizarre superhero tale, with an ending that practically guarantees further installments.”-Kirkus Reviews This is the second book in the Edger series. Thank you for joining us on the Release Celebrations Virtual Book Tour for Edger Lives, a Comedy Action Adventure by David Beem ( 22 March 2019, EscapistPress, 416 pages). ![]() |