Most reviewers praised it as an elegant and elaborate presentation of a very distinctive position, but the position itself was vigorously attacked from all sides, although some assailants admitted to illumination while some were shocked. In this brilliant and widely acclaimed book, winner of the 1975 National Book Award, Robert Nozick challenges the most commonly held political and social positions of. Any more extensive activities by the state, he demonstrates, will inevitably violate individual rights.Īmong the many achievements of the work are an important new theory of distributive justice, a model of utopia, and an integration of ethics, legal philosophy and economic theory into a profound position in political philosophy which will be discussed for years to come. When Anarchy, State, and Utopia was published, it received a mixed reception to say the least. The author argues that the state is justified only when it is severely limited to the narrow function of protection against force, theft and fraud and to the enforcement of contracts. "Individuals have rights," Nozick writes in his opening sentence, "and there are things no person or group may do to them without violating their rights." The work that follows is a sophisticated and passionate defence of the rights of the individual as opposed to the state. Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age - liberal, socialist and conservative.
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Granted a £1.99 ebook cannot provide such content but I would be happy to pay 10 x that amount for a true paper back version of something more fleshy. I suppose what I was hoping for was a more thorough guide to Hogwarts – something along the lines of Hermione s favourite tome – Howarts: A History The same with the house ghosts, their backstorys in detail would have been a great addition as would more details on the house founders and headmasters. įor example, whilst there is detail dedicated to the Hufflepuff common room, the other house rooms have been left out – granted fans have knowledge of them through the original books but a guide to Hogwarts really needs all four. It’s name is perfect, however, it does feel rather incomplete being only 8 chapters long and there’s a feeling there would be plenty more to really make this an amazing book. Potter heads may be dissapointed at the fact there is apparently nothing new here, the contents already having been shared on the Harry Potter encyclopedia type website Pottermore.įans who are a little rusty or who (myself included) have found Pottermore difficult to navigate will enjoy the addition to the Potter canon. įocusing on a dual purpose of providing the history of Hogwarts in bits and pieces it also offers insights from J K Rowling herself on plot development, inspiration and unused characters. Full of tantalising trivia, Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide is a fascinating short story book for any Potter fan. The book questions the nature of grief and whether or not returning to normality afterward is even possible within the realm of human existence on earth. The book helped inspire a 1985 television movie, Shadowlands, as well as a 1993 film of the same name.Ī Grief Observed explores the processes undergone by the human brain and mind over the course of grieving. Lewis' stepson (Joy's son) Douglas Gresham pointed out in his 1994 introduction that the indefinite article 'a' in the title makes it clear that Lewis' grief is not the quintessential experience of the loss of a loved one but just one individual's perspective among countless others. He illustrates the everyday trials of life without Joy and explores fundamental questions of faith and theodicy. The book is compiled from the four notebooks used by Lewis to vent and explore his grief. Though republished in 1963 under his own name after his death, the text still refers to his wife as “H” (her seldom used first name was Helen). Clerk because Lewis wished to avoid the connection. The book was published in 1961 under the pseudonym N.W. Lewis's reflections on his experience of bereavement following the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, in 1960. 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Galadriel has managed to survive three years at her deadly magical school, the Scholomance, with her junior year capped by an epic battle against a fearsome assembly of maleficaria (magical creatures that feast on wizards, especially youthful ones), as related in the first book in this fantasy series, A Deadly Education. If you haven't, read both!! Here's my full review, first posted on : But STILL! If you've read the first book, definitely read this one, even if you weren't so excited by A Deadly Education. okay, maybe except for the jaw-dropping ending. On sale now! I can't even say how much I loved this book. While she’s in prison, Zita tries to find out what happened to her friends, plan a rescue, and save Earth from a nefarious attack scheme. She’s thrown into jail, where she befriends her cellmates, a pile of rags named Raggy and a skeleton named Femur. She’s even called “Zita the Crime Girl”, which is just rude. By the time we begin Return of Zita the Spacegirl, Zita and her friends have been split up, and she’s hauled into a prison on the Dungeon World on trumped-up charges of destroying an asteroid (to save a planet), interfering with a species immigration, theft of a spacecraft, and consorting with “known criminals and public nuisances”. Zita is a young girl who, with her friend Joseph, found herself on an outer space adventure after discovering a device in a crater while out playing one day. I quickly read Legends of Zita the Spacegirl, and was delighted when a review copy of Return of Zita the Spacegirl showed up on my doorstep a couple of weeks ago. I first met her when Chuck, our editor monkey, handed me a copy of the first book and said, “You have to read this. For anyone who hasn’t heard of Ben Hatke’s Zita the Spacegirl, I urge you to get to a library, a bookstore, or a friend with an enviable graphic novel collection and check her out, because she is fantastic. That destination definitely won’t be Hestia, the perpetual trouble spot of humanity. The Military is helping by sending their fighter team on a mission somewhere inconspicuously boring until the medal ceremony. It’s vital that Drago keeps both of them out of trouble and away from nosy reporters until the medal ceremony, because Jaxon could do or say something that deeply embarrasses both the Military and their Betan clan. Worryingly, Drago learns Jaxon has a mysterious secret and a past history of erratic behaviour. Now he’s discovering that saving a world can be simple compared to living with the consequences.īoth Drago and his team leader and second cousin, Jaxon, are famous now, given rapid field promotions, and are due to be awarded medals. Lieutenant Drago Tell Dramis’s first mission as a newly qualified fighter pilot ended with him and his team leader saving one of humanity’s oldest colony worlds, Hera, from destruction. Hestia 2781 is the first of two full-length novels set immediately after the short story Hera 2781. Published by Wallam-Crane Press on June 30, 2021 Bateman, in his late 20s when the story begins, narrates his everyday activities, from his recreational life among the Wall Street elite of New York to his forays into murder by night. Set in Manhattan during the Wall Street boom of the late 1980s, American Psycho follows the life of wealthy young investment banker Patrick Bateman. I was so on the defensive because of the reaction to that book that I wasn't able to talk about it on that level. It came from a much more personal place, and that's something that I've only been admitting in the last year or so. It wasn't that I was going to make up this serial killer on Wall Street. That is where the tension of American Psycho came from. I was slipping into a consumerist kind of void that was supposed to give me confidence and make me feel good about myself but just made me feel worse and worse and worse about myself. It initiated because of my own isolation and alienation at a point in my life. He did not come out of me sitting down and wanting to write a grand sweeping indictment of yuppie culture. In 2010, to one interviewer, Ellis commented: “ His first draft of American Psycho left all the grisly scenes until last, to be added in later. Ellis researched murders at the New York Public Library. "A gorgeous book about monsters and monstrousness, chockablock with action, cleverness, and wit. And the first thing I've got to do now, having miraculously gotten out of the Scholomance, is turn straight around and find a way back in. Someone else has picked up the project of destroying enclaves in my stead, and probably everyone we saved is about to get killed in the brewing enclave war. Ha, only joking! Actually, it's gone all wrong. Our graduation plan worked to perfection: We saved everyone and made the world safe for all wizards and brought peace and harmony to all the enclaves everywhere. So much for my great-grandmother's prophecy of doom and destruction. I'm out, we're all out-and I didn't even have to turn into a monstrous dark witch to make it happen. But it's all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we'll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls.Īnd now the impossible dream has come true. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out. 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