Lantern

Lantern
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Publisher: International Publications Media Group
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2013-05-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1614309701
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Sakiko knew instantly that Mizuno was the love of her life upon setting eyes on him. So when the opportunity materializes for her to show her appreciation for him, she does without hesitation. However, this act puts her in trouble with the police and ushers the young lady into a state of frenzy and publicity she has never encountered before. Lantern explores Sakiko's mind state as she tries to balance love, family and the perception of society in a small community.

English

English
Author: Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2006-04-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198038976
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It is widely accepted that English is the first truly global language and lingua franca. Anna Wierzbicka, the distinguished linguist known for her theories of semantics, has written the first book that connects the English language with what she terms "Anglo" culture. Wierzbicka points out that language and culture are not just interconnected, but inseparable. She uses original research to investigate the "universe of meaning" within the English language (both grammar and vocabulary) and places it in historical and geographical perspective. This engrossing and fascinating work of scholarship should appeal not only to linguists and others concerned with language and culture, but the large group of scholars studying English and English as a second language.

Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150–1750

Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150–1750
Author: Lorraine Daston
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1998-05
Genre: History
ISBN:
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Discusses how European scientists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonders, monsters, curiosities, marvels, and other phenomena to envision the natural world.

Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics

Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics
Author: Graham Harman
Publisher: re.press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:
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Prince of Networks is the first treatment of Bruno Latour specifically as a philosopher. It has been eagerly awaited by readers of both Latour and Harman since their public discussion at the London School of Economics in February 2008. Part One covers four key works that display Latour’s underrated contributions to metaphysics: Irreductions, Science in Action, We Have Never Been Modern, and Pandora’s Hope. Harman contends that Latour is one of the central figures of contemporary philosophy, with a highly original ontology centered in four key concepts: actants, irreduction, translation, and alliance. In Part Two, Harman summarizes Latour’s most important philosophical insights, ...

Memoirs of a Superfluous Man

Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
Author: Albert Jay Nock
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2007
Genre:
ISBN: 9781610160353
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Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers, set out to write his autobiography but he ended up doing much more. He presents here a full theory of society, state, economy, and culture, and does so almost inadvertently. His stories, lessons, observations, and conclusions pack a very powerful punch, so much so that anyone who takes time to read carefully cannot but end up changed in intellectual outlook. One feels that one has been let in a private club of people who see more deeply than others. This is truly an American classic.