Dieser Autor hat sich durch den Erfolg einer der meistverkauften Science-Fiction-Reihen, die ihm ermöglichte, seinen Lebenstraum vom hauptberuflichen Schreiben zu verwirklichen, einen Namen gemacht. Seine Werke befassen sich mit fesselnden Themen wie dem zukünftigen Potenzial und den existenziellen Risiken von Posthumanismus und superintelligenter künstlicher Intelligenz. Dieser literarische Erfolg hat ihm auch die Möglichkeit eröffnet, über diese visionären Themen zu sprechen und seine Erkenntnisse einem breiteren Publikum mitzuteilen.
The book offers a detailed exploration of prophecies from both the Old and New Testaments, providing context and explanations for each. David Simpson aims to enhance readers' understanding of biblical messages related to hope and salvation. This guide serves as a valuable resource for those looking to deepen their faith and biblical knowledge.
Focusing on the modernization process, this book delves into agricultural economics and various growth theories related to economic development. It critically examines the challenges and issues associated with growth, offering insights into the complexities of modernizing economies. Through a thorough analysis, it seeks to illuminate the intricate relationship between agricultural practices and economic progress.
Recent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our lives. But, while it is widely acknowledged that civility works against violence, and that literature generates or accompanies civility and engenders tolerance, civility has also been understood as violence in disguise, and literature, which has only rarely sought to claim the power of violence, has often been accused of inciting it. This book sets out to describe the ways in which these words—violence, literature and civility—and the concepts they evoke are mutually entangled, and the uses to which these entanglements have been put. Simpson's argument follows a broadly historical trajectory through the long modern period from the Renaissance to the present, drawing on the work of historians, political scientists, literary scholars and philosophers. The result is a distinctly new argument about the complex and often mystified entanglements between literature, civility and violence in the anglophone Atlantic sphere. What now are our expectations of civility and literature, separately and together? How do these long-familiar but residually imprecise concepts stand up to the demands of the modern world? Simpson's argument is that, despite and perhaps because of their imperfect conceptualization, both persist as important protocols for the critique of violence.
Sapphire & Steel charted the efforts of two mysterious ‘agents’, named Sapphire (Joanna Lumley) and Steel (David McCallum), as they were given a number of ‘assignments’. featuring everything from a faceless man and a vengeful soldier, to living nursery rhymes and a time-trapped motorway cafe.The series was innovative, intelligent and terrifying, and it has stayed in the memories of all who saw it.In this guide, Richard Callaghan delves into the six televised ‘assignments’ and finds out what made them tick. He explores the continuity and background to the show, and gives all the facts and figures as well as a critical commentary. The show’s spin-off books and audio adventures are also discussed and reviewed.This edition of the book has been fully revised and updated including new interviews with key cast and crew, and new and updated facts and figures relating to the show.
How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philology of terror, tracking the concept’s long, complicated history across literature, philosophy, political science, and theology—from Plato to NATO. Introducing the concept of the “fear-terror cluster,” Simpson is able to capture the wide range of terms that we have used to express extreme emotional states over the centuries—from anxiety, awe, and concern to dread, fear, and horror. He shows that the choices we make among such words to describe shades of feeling have seriously shaped the attribution of motives, causes, and effects of the word “terror” today, particularly when violence is deployed by or against the state. At a time when terror-talk is widely and damagingly exploited by politicians and the media, this book unpacks the slippery rhetoric of terror and will prove a vital resource across humanistic and social sciences disciplines.
Sacred literature: - Shewing the Holy Scriptures to be superior to the most celebrated writings of antiquity, by the testimony of above five hundred witnesses, and also by a comparison of their several kinds of composition - Vol. 4 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1788. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
This new title in the Crossbill Guides covers the well-known region of Dordogne in southwestern France. This title poses and answers two key questions: what makes this area so special and how you can experience this uniqueness for yourself and describes the flora and fauna, landscape and traditional land use of this region.
This practical resource provides evidence-based strategies for enhancing social skills for children and adolescents diagnosed with high-functioning autism.
Luke Henderson, seller of antiquarian and rare books in York's Micklegate, is not what he seems. Part human, part angel, Luke protects the weak, dealing out vengeance to evildoers. But his powers conflict with his humanity - Luke falls in love with nightclub worker Claire, who is caught up in a terrifying power- struggle between the club's owners.