Queen Victoria: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert Book Description
First time in paperback: An intimate
biography of a larger-than-life persona-and a radical reassessment of a
monarch we thought we knew. In
this surprising new life of Victoria, Christopher Hibbert, master of
the telling anecdote and peerless biographer of England's great
leaders, paints a fresh and intimate portrait of the woman who shaped a
century. His Victoria is not only the formidable, demanding, capricious
queen of popular imagination-she is also often shy, diffident, and
vulnerable, prone to giggling fits and crying jags. Often censorious
when confronted with her mother's moral lapses, she herself could be
passionately sensual, emotional, and deeply sentimental. Ascending to
the throne at age eighteen, Victoria ruled for sixty-four years-an
astounding length for any world leader. During her reign, she dealt
with conflicts ranging from royal quarrels to war in Crimea and
rebellion in India. She saw monarchs fall, empires crumble, new
continents explored, and England grow into a dominant global and
industrial power. This personal history is a compelling look at the
complex woman whom, until now, we only thought we knew. (Amazon.com)
"Psychophysiological Thought Reading by Banachek and How to Read People's Minds" by H.J. Burlingame
Psychophysiological Thought Reading is a must-have for anyone interested in learning contact-mind reading, and when combined with Burlingame, also a must-have for anyone interested in mentalism history. It is the most complete treatment of ideomotor effects I have seen written for mentalists." -Christopher Carter
In From Molecule to Metaphor, Jerome Feldman proposes a theory of language and thought that treats language not as an abstract symbol system but as a human biological ability that can be studied as a function of the brain, as vision and motor control are studied. This theory, he writes, is a "bridging theory" that works from extensive knowledge at two ends of a causal chain to explicate the links between. Although the cognitive sciences are revealing much about how our brains produce language and thought, we do not yet know exactly how words are understood or have any methodology for finding out.
The History of Economic Thought by Jeff Biddle and John Bryan Davis
Assembling contributions from top thinkers in the field, this companion offers a comprehensive and sophisticated exploration of the history of economic thought. The volume has a threefold focus: the history of economic thought, the history of economics as a discipline, and the historiography of economic thought. The essays in the first section focus on the history of economic ideas, with topics ranging from ancient, medieval and Islamic thought, to Marxian, Utopian and post-war thought. The second section explores important historiographical topics, including the sociology of economics, methodology, exegesis, and textuality.Each chapter serves as a complex introduction to the chosen topic, and gathered together they provide an extensive synthesis of the field as a whole. The volume is an essential resource for anyone researching or studying the history of economic thought, and will also serve as an excellent text for courses in this area.
The starship crew was stuck on a planet where the well-meaning schemes of ivory tower social engineers had created a nightmare of battling gangs. So they pretended to be the "Royal Legions" from a distant star kingdom in hot pursuit of an unspeakably evil and nearly all-powerful villain who was hiding somewhere on the planet.
Things went even better than they had hoped, and the planet was rapidly becoming civilized . . . and then the
real Royal Flagship showed up. They thought they were doomed, but instead the new arrivals (who also weren't quite what they claimed to be) thought the crew had shown just the sort of initiative and ingenuity that the Interstellar Patrol was looking for. So they were inducted into the Patrol.
