Correspondence
Title | Correspondence PDF eBook |
Author | Voltaire |
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Metamorphoses
Title | Metamorphoses PDF eBook |
Author | Emanuele Coccia |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2021-06-09 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1509545689 |
We are all fascinated by the mystery of metamorphosis – of the caterpillar that transforms itself into a butterfly. Their bodies have almost nothing in common. They don’t share the same world: one crawls on the ground and the other flutters its wings in the air. And yet they are one and the same life. Emanuele Coccia argues that metamorphosis – the phenomenon that allows the same life to subsist in disparate bodies – is the relationship that binds all species together and unites the living with the non-living. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, plants, animals: they are all one and the same life. Each species, including the human species, is the metamorphosis of all those that preceded it – the same life, cobbling together a new body and a new form in order to exist differently. And there is no opposition between the living and the non-living: life is always the reincarnation of the non-living, a carnival of the telluric substance of a planet – the Earth – that continually draws new faces and new ways of being out of even the smallest particle of its disparate body. By highlighting what joins humans together with other forms of life, Coccia’s brilliant reflection on metamorphosis encourages us to abandon our view of the human species as static and independent and to recognize instead that we are part of a much larger and interconnected form of life.
Almahide
Title | Almahide PDF eBook |
Author | MADELEINE DE. SCUDERY |
Publisher | Gale Ecco, Print Editions |
Pages | 680 |
Release | 2018-04-25 |
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ISBN | 9781385783733 |
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Harvard University Houghton Library N029846 In fact by Madelène de Scudéry. In three parts, each of three books, but disposed in four sections each having separate pagination and register, as follows: part I; part II; part III, book 1; and part III, books 2 and 3. London: printed by J. M. for Thomas Dring, 1702. [2],225, [1];267, [1];107, [1];76p.; 2°
Philostratus
Title | Philostratus PDF eBook |
Author | Philostratus (the Athenian) |
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Pages | 280 |
Release | 1912 |
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Eat Sleep Bagpipes Repeat
Title | Eat Sleep Bagpipes Repeat PDF eBook |
Author | Mirako Press |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 2018-07-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781723229053 |
This adorable music notebook is perfect for staffs, kids and musicians. The high-quality manuscript book includes 110 pages of 12 staves. Let exercise your composing skills with this well-designed music sketchbook! Enjoy!
Analecta: Or, Materials For a History of Remarkable Providences; Mostly Relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians
Title | Analecta: Or, Materials For a History of Remarkable Providences; Mostly Relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Wodrow |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2024-05-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3385129664 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
The Open Work
Title | The Open Work PDF eBook |
Author | Umberto Eco |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780674639768 |
This book is significant for its concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its anticipation of two themes of literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interaction between reader and text.