In this new revised edition, we journey through the Milky Way, our home galaxy and explore the violent surface of our star, the Sun. You will find out all about the ongoing search for extra terrestrial life, and discover the real science of interstellar space travel which has inspired science fiction and fired the imaginations of many.
Once regarded as a minor Socratic school, Cynicism is now admired as one of the more creative and influential philosophical movements in antiquity. First arising in the city-states of late classical Greece, Cynicism thrived through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, until the triumph of Christianity and the very end of pagan antiquity. In every age down to the present, its ideals of radical simplicity and freedom have alternately inspired and disturbed onlookers.This book offers a survey of Cynicism, its varied representatives and ideas, and the many contexts in which it operated.
Patricia Anne “PA” Dolan is an artist, teacher and a storyteller. She lives in Chilliwack B.C. where one day she happened to read “Letters to Santa” in the local newspaper. One letter in particular stood out and tugged at her heart strings. That short letter (see the back cover) inspired her and she began to think about how Santa might get into houses without chimneys. This story is the result.
Ned Maddstone has the world at his feet. He is handsome, talented and about to go to Cambridge, after which he is expected to follow his father into politics. But an unfortunate confrontation with a boy in his school results in a prank that goes badly wrong and suddenly he's incarcerated - without chance of release. So begins a year long process of torment and hopelessness, which will destroy his very identity, until almost nothing remains of him but this unquenchable desire for revenge.
Inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo, Stephen Fry's psychological thriller is written with the pace, wit and shrewd insight that we have come to expect from one of our finest novelists.
From Plato to Groucho, this comprehensive edition features some of the most quotable people who ever lived. They are the famous, infamous, the little-known, and the unknown, inspired enough by life to comment on it, and smart enough to be clever about it.
