Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 31 October 2011
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The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eerily prescient and now provide greater perspective on our computer-dominated culture. Ballard's voice and vision have long served as a font of inspiration for today's cyber-punks, the authors and futurist who brought the information age into the mainstream.
PhonERA (Phonetic Easy Recording Assistant) is a program that emulates a few basic functions of a multimedia language laboratory. You can:
listen to sound files (phonetic audio texts and exercises...) with traditional functions to pause, rewind, wind forward, roll back;
record Your own voice and listen to this recording afterwards;
process the so-called 'marked recording' - this is when Your voice is recorded into the pauses left specially by the speaker; it is especially useful as You can compare Your pronunciation with that of the native speaker phrase by phrase.
David Wolfe's life is approaching an exhilarating peak: he's a successful San Francisco lawyer, he's about to get married, and he's being primed for a run for Congress. But when the phone rings and he hears the voice of Hana Arif the Palestinian woman with whom he had a secret affair in law school he begins a completely unexpected journey.
The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought is a collection of essays by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff, and Peter Schwartz, and edited by Leonard Peikoff. It appeared in 1989. The essays by Rand originally appeared in a variety of places, including Rand's newspaper column and in The Objectivist Newsletter, The Objectivist, The Ayn Rand Letter, and The Objectivist Forum. The essays by Peikoff are based on his talks at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, which he carried on after Rand. Schwartz's essay is an expanded version of an article in The Intellectual Activist. This book is volume five of the "Ayn Rand Library" series edited by Peikoff.
In epistemology the nagging voice of the sceptic has always been present, whispering that "You can't know that you have hands, or just about anything else, because for all you know your whole life is a dream." Philosophers have recently devised ingenious ways to argue against and silence this voice, but Bryan Frances now presents a highly original argument template for generating new kinds of radical scepticism, ones that hold even if all the clever anti-sceptical fixes defeat the traditional sceptic. Sharp, witty, and fun to read, Scepticism Comes Alive will be highly provocative for anyone interested in knowledge and its limits.
