He writes, ‘If I ask about the magnitude of the world with respect to space and time, … it is just as impossible to assert that it is infinite as that it is finite. This anomaly is compounded by the fact that what Kant thinks he can pronounce about the size and age of the physical universe, and in particular what he thinks he can pronounce about whether the physical universe is infinite or finite in each of these respects, is that it is, in each of these respects, neither-the point being that, despite his hostility to logical positivism, he subscribes to a sort of verificationism that makes both these possibilities variations on the same problematic theme. Surely not: surely we must once again defer to physicists. There is a similar anomaly in §52, where Kant thinks he can pronounce on the size and age of the physical universe on purely a priori grounds. Indeed I cannot myself see how he falls short of simply asserting something that we know from physicists to be false, namely that physical space is Euclidean.
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Ensuing spreads detail how they live in a trailer on their new property while slowly building the house: setting the corners of the foundation digging out the basement gathering rocks and using them in the foundation measuring, marking and cutting timber for the frame and so on. The oversized, portrait format echoes the height of the house the family builds, but front endpapers first show a vast, rural landscape in the foreground of which lies the “weedy field Dad and Mom bought from a farmer.” Frontmatter depicts them packing and leaving the city. Told from the perspective of Bean’s older sister, the story revels in the practical work of house-building, demystifying the stages of construction in a matter-of-fact, engaging tone. Bean sets aside the urban setting of his Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner, At Night (2007), in this homage to his back-to-the-land parents, who built his childhood home in the 1970s. 6/12/2023 0 Comments Automating inequality eubanksHer writing about technology and social justice has appeared in The American Prospect, The Nation, Harper’s and Wired. She is the author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age and co-editor, with Alethia Jones, of Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith. Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. "This book is downright scary,” says Naomi Klein, “but with its striking research and moving, indelible portraits of life in the ‘digital poorhouse,’ you will emerge smarter and more empowered to demand justice.” About Virginia The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile. In Automating Inequality, Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. Virginia Eubanks joins us for a rousing conversation about her timely and provocative book, Automating Inequality. Her celebrated TED Talks have garnered more than 30 million views and her international bestseller Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence is a global phenomenon that has been translated into nearly 30 languages. Fluent in nine languages, she helms a therapy practice in New York City and serves as an organizational consultant for Fortune 500 companies around the world. Psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel is recognized as one of today’s most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. Esther is also an executive producer and host of the popular podcasts Where Should We Begin? and How’s Work? Learn more at or by following on Instagram. Her newest book is the New York Times bestseller The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity. 6/11/2023 0 Comments At Grave's End by Jeaniene Frost"Time to die, suck head." Okay, cheesy, but if he was piling on the dramatics, so was I. I hid my smile and stood, holding a crossbow at the ready. Even his long dark hair swirled around him, blown as if by an invisible breeze. "You shouldn't have come, Reaper." A show hound, Bones had called him. He spread his arms and let the emerald beams in his eyes settle on the shocked faces turned toward him. His body was in stark outline against the wide screen behind him. Vlad Tepesh rose out of his seat in the front row as if he'd been pulled by strings. More chance to show off the aerial abilities of the undead. It helped that this was an upscale theater with balcony seating. Today's six o'clock showing of a romantic comedy starring two big-named Hollywood actors was about to get interesting. Of course, one establishment was notoriously busy. 6/11/2023 0 Comments Harlan coben missing you reviewShips from: Sold by: List Price:27.95Details The List Price is the suggested retail price of a new product as provided by a manufacturer, supplier, or seller. With lives on the line, including her own, Kat must venture deeper into the darkness than she ever has before, and discover if she has the strength to survive what she finds there. From the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger comes the 1 New York Times bestseller about the ties we have to our pastand the lies that bind us togetheras the ultimate Internet scam unfolds.Surfing an online dating site, NYPD detective Kat Donovan feels her whole world explode. Missing You has been added to your Cart Buy new: 15.8215.82 FREE delivery: Wednesday, April 26 on orders over 25.00 shipped by Amazon. But when she reaches out to the man in the profile, her reawakened hope quickly darkens into suspicion and then terror as an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light, in which monsters prey upon the most vulnerable.Īs the body count mounts and Kat's hope for a second chance with Jeff grows more and more elusive, she is consumed by an investigation that challenges her feelings about everyone she ever loved-her former fiancé, her mother, and even her father, whose cruel murder so long ago has never been fully explained. Kat feels a spark, wondering if this might be the moment when past tragedies recede and a new world opens up to her. Staring back at her is her ex-fiancé Jeff, the man who shattered her heart-and who she hasn’t seen in 18 years. It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as emotions she’s ignored for decades come crashing down on her. Rafe was warned to never mix the business of marriage with pleasure, but when it comes to Lady Charlotte…oh, business would be a splendid pleasure. Only, when he calls on a potential bride, he instead finds the pert, fresh-faced Lady Charlotte. But the only thing stronger than the duke is his mother, and she lays down the highest ultimatum: he’ll need to find a duchess, immediately. Rafe Dorchester, Duke of Rockford, has done what every self-respecting duke must do-avoid marriage at all costs. Now it’s too late to admit she’s just plain Charlotte of no particular importance-with cinder-stained hands, a wretched stepfather, and no prospects for marriage. What on earth possessed her to tell the Duke of Rockford that she is a lady? But something about the duke’s handsomeness and kind intelligence makes Charlotte blurt out the teeniest, tiniest falsehood. Charlotte Browne could just kick herself. Although Jeanette happens to feel greatly connected to her church and her church’s teachings, this fidelity towards the supposed perfection of the church becomes challenged as she realizes that she is sexually and romantically drawn towards women. There were friends and there were enemies” (3). As Jeanette, the narrator, mentions early on in the novel, her mother “had never heard of mixed feelings. Jeanette’s mother believes in literal translations of the Bible, and she freely uses religious rhetoric to accommodate her black and white fashion of viewing the world. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (henceforth OANOF) is a 1985 Bildungsroman(novel of development) centered on the life of Jeanette, a girl who is adopted and raised by a woman who happens to be a fundamentalist Christian. Front cover of Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) 6/10/2023 0 Comments Blackout by john roccoand there's a party going on! The whole neighborhood has come outdoors and come alive as a result of the blackout. In an attempt to escape the dark, frustrating heat, the family heads up to the roof of their building where they get a bird's-eye view of their block. The phones, the computers, the TV, the kitchen stove, are all useless. All of a sudden, the power goes out, and the whole neighborhood is left in the dark. Everyone in his family is too busy to play with him: his older sister is on the phone, Dad is cooking dinner, Mom is working on the computer. "It started out as a normal summer night," and the young boy in the book is bored. In this plugged-in world we live in, can you imagine the panic one family feels when the lights go out in the city one hot summer night? Well-known author and illustrator John Rocco was inspired to write this book after the widespread blackout in New York City in 2003, when the typically bustling city was rendered dark and quiet by a massive electrical outage. Until the Primal of Death’s unexpected words and deeds chase away the darkness gathering inside her. A specter never fully formed yet drenched in blood. If she fails, she dooms her kingdom to a slow demise at the hands of the Rot. Make the Primal of Death fall in love, become his weakness, and then…end him. However, Sera’s real destiny is the most closely guarded secret in all of Lasania-she’s not the well protected Maiden but an assassin with one mission-one target. Chosen before birth to uphold the desperate deal her ancestor struck to save his people, Sera must leave behind her life and offer herself to the Primal of Death as his Consort. Armentrout returns with book one of the all-new, compelling Flesh and Fire series-set in the beloved Blood and Ash world.īorn shrouded in the veil of the Primals, a Maiden as the Fates promised, Seraphena Mierel’s future has never been hers. #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. |