![]() He travelled constantly, living out of a plastic bag and had no interest in food, sex, companionship, art - all that is usually indispensible to a human life. 'A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject - he thought and wrote mathematics for nineteen hours a day until he died. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. ![]() ![]() The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - The Story of Paul Erdios and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman $14.00 NZD ![]()
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![]() ![]() McHarg (1920–2001) a landscape architect and regional planner at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). It was the publication of Design with Nature by Ian L. ![]() ![]() 171).įifty years ago a new human aspiration-indeed one of the “new rules” that Leicester spoke about-had its inauguration. What we need is a Second Enlightenment” ( 2010, p. He explains that we are subject to “rapid technological change, new interconnectedness, speed of advance we are in a world we don’t understand anymore. To make this new direction perfectly clear and understood, Leicester drew on “the metaphor of the enlightenment” to make sense of our current complex reality. Our sense of future consciousness is that the thing that we want to and need to maintain and sustain is human aspiration” ( 2010, p. It would be a start, but it’s not enough. Andrews in Scotland, Graham Leicester, director of the International Futures Forum, quietly, yet firmly proclaimed, “Mere survival actually doesn’t inspire any of us. At a round table discussion of fresh and fertile minds at the University of St. It was in the summer of 2006 when I encountered a kindred spirit urging that humankind must move from a technological culture to an ecological culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1978, she was ``officially rehabilitated'' and allowed to travel to the US, where she remains. Cheng has written a lengthy adult book (Life and Death in Shanghai, 1987) about these events the New York Times called it ``an absorbing story of resourcefulness and courage,'' while the Christian Science Monitor marveled at ``an indefatigable woman struggling to maintain her pride, dignity, sanity, and faith.'' Sommer's simple portrait is in the same vein, outlining the frightening arrest by angry young members of the Red Guard, the irrational questioning, Cheng's steadfast refusal to confess, her daughter's ``suicide'' (actually murder) when she too was imprisoned, Cheng's deteriorating health, torture, and eventual release. In ``The Library of Famous Women,'' the experiences of a wealthy Chinese woman, imprisoned (1966-73) during the Cultural Revolution. ![]() ![]() ![]() You don’t have to read Grant Morrison’s run or all of Batman’s stories from The Modern Age. This is when Scott Snyder became the main writer on the Batman series, working with Greg Capullo on 52 issues. Also published in a Deluxe hardcover edition. ![]() Also published in a hardcover edition.Ĭollects Batman: Gates of Gotham #1-5, Detective Comics Annual #12 and Batman Annual #28. He worked on two stories:Ĭollects Detective Comics #871-881. Like Grant Morrison did before him, Scott Snyder didn’t begin writing Batman with the main series. For Snyder and everyone else’s Bat-titles reading order, follow that guide.īatman by Scott Snyder Reading Order: Batman by Scott Snyder: Before the New 52 The impact of his work on the character is important and there are a lot of great stories to read, so here is the guide.Īlso, even if this reading guide covers a lot of New 52 Batman, it’s not a full reading order for this era. Mostly working with artist Greg Capullo and writer James Tynion IV, Scott Snyder gave us one of the best Batman and a lot of great adventures. With stories about The Court of Howls, Batman Eternal, the Dark Nights: Metal & Death Metal events, and more, Snyder became one of the major authors of the decade. ![]() After that came the New 52 and Scott Snyder. The end of Grant Morrison famous run on Batman in 2011 was also the end of the long post-Crisis era. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() White says that “…more than any other city Paris is still constructed to tempt someone out for an aimless saunter, to walk on just another hundred yards - and then another.” That’s so true. And Paris is the most serendipitously generous city I’ve been fortunate to visit in my life. ![]() Just about anywhere I go in search of pictures, I go serendipitously. I’ve always been drawn to the edges of an event or a place, whether it’s meandering the streets of a city neighbourhood, frequenting a visually beckoning cafe or bar, roaming the cavernous rooms of fine museums, or probing the wings and the back stages at music events or fashion shows that’s where I love to visually explore. In the words of Edmund White, author of The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris, a book I consider akin to a bible of human observation-at least as regards the streets of Paris – I have often been an “aimless stroller who loses himself in the crowd, who has no destination and goes where ever caprice or curiosity directs his or her footsteps.” Within my profession I have long been considered a ‘street shooter’. ![]() But for more than 50 years as a photographer – no matter where in the world my magazine assignments or self-determined travels have taken me in quest of imagery – I have, in fact, adapted the manner of a flaneur: I have always preferred to simply wander and watch. I sometimes wonder if perhaps I flatter myself by using the French term flaneur to describe how I photograph when in Paris. ![]() ![]() On Thanksgiving Day in 1904, this tracked machine, known as No.77, was given its first field test and performed admirably. After some research, Holt instructed his mechanics to remove the rear wheels from a Holt steam tractor and replace them with a pair of tracks he had designed. Holt’s main market was agricultural fields around the San Joaquin River Valley in Northern California, and the area’s geography made it difficult to prepare for crops, as the heavy steam tractors would get stuck in the soggy peat soil. ![]() The Emergence of TracksĮver the inventor, Holt was always looking for ways to improve his company’s products, which at the time included combine harvesters and wheeled steam tractors. This invention not only became one of our cornerstone products, but its development also led to the name we have today: Caterpillar. The most significant engineering innovation attributed to Benjamin Holt, one of our founders, was the invention of the first commercially successful track-type tractor – today’s dozer. ![]() ![]() ![]() It has been stated that he read whatever material his hands could get hold of. From there onward, Douglass took to self-educating himself. ![]() But his tutoring days were short lived after Sophia’s husband, Hugh Auld, asked Sophia to desist from educating Douglass. Kind courtesy to his slave master’s wife, Sophia, Douglass was able to learn the English alphabet starting around the age of 12. Authored five brilliant and critically acclaimed autobiographies Shortly after he was safe and sound, he changed his surname from Bailey to Douglass. It was Murray’s money that Douglass used to take a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland.ĭisguised as a sailor, and with the help of some identification documents given to him by a free African American, Douglass was able to flee from slave owner Edward Covey to the residence of David Ruggles, a famous abolitionist from New York. He was assisted by Anna Murray, a free woman and later his future wife. Did you know that Douglass failed on two occasions as he tried to escape from his slave masters? It was only on the third attempt (in 1838) that he was successful. ![]() ![]() ![]() Adam recently lost his best friend, Igor Hall, who died from a drug overdose, and since then, Adam has been acting strangely and has distanced himself from his parents. Hence, without any further ado, let’s explore the intricate world created by Harlan Coben.Īnna Barczyk is an orthopedic doctor who lives in the suburbs of Warsaw with her husband, Michal, an 18-year-old son, Adam, and a preteen daughter, Ola. ![]() Similar to Coben’s signature style, the mini-series branches into two major plots one being Anna and her struggle to find Adam, and the other part follows an ex-army-cum-assassin, Natan, who abducts and brutally kills his victim while trying to locate a mysterious video for his friend, who served with him in Afghanistan. “Hold Tight” is a Polish drama series that consists of six episodes of 40 minutes each. ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s what this book was always going to be about.īut then came the issue of structure – in which order should the countries be covered? Geographically? Thematically? By drawing balls out of bowls at UEFA’s headquarters? It immediately became clear that the story wasn’t simply about the different style of each country. It’s about how referees officiate and what the supporters cheer. ![]() It’s about the experiences of a country’s players when moving abroad, and about the success of its imports. It’s not simply about the national side’s characteristics, but about the approach of its dominant clubs, the nature of its star players and the philosophy of its coaches. The primary intention was to analyse the various playing styles that dominate Europe’s seven most influential footballing countries – the Netherlands, Italy, France, Portugal, Spain, Germany and England – a fairly unarguable septet, based on a combination of recent international performance and the current strength of their domestic leagues.Ī nation’s footballing style is reflected in various ways. Despite this book’s chronological nature, it was not originally intended to be a history of modern European football. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story is told through both mothers’ points of view, which makes the misunderstanding between them at the end more tragic. Of course, the second mother has a story as well, but the first never asks, and the two never reach a satisfying understanding. Informed by a dysfunctional upbringing, the “happier” mom has second thoughts when she sees the living conditions of the puppy’s owner who is also a mother. ![]() The points of view are ironic, yes, but they are also sympathetic.Īnother example of Saunders’s use of perspective for this dual purpose occurs in “Puppy”, in which a mother who is trying to keep her kids happy visits the home of a less privileged family to buy a puppy for her children. There is darkness, but the reader does Tenth of December a disservice by missing the light. Similar examples can be found in each of the stories in the collection: humanity of characters shining light into the surrounding darkness. He also allows genuine human moments, like the narrator noticing a life-affirming leaf after a tragedy strikes a friend from work, or his two daughters’ tenderness towards each other at an unlikely time, to shine through. Saunders is careful to mock one but not the other. In “The Semplica Girl Diaries”, for example, the narrator is oblivious to why the Girls (called SGs) would be unhappy, but his concern for his wife and children, while misguided, is genuine. ![]() : George Saunders – The Tenth of December ![]() |