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Author : Howard Waldrop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : 1882968387
Presents a collection of science fiction novellas that describes alternate histories for places around the world throughout the twentieth century.
Author : Howard Waldrop
Publisher : Small Beer Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618730800
Seven novellas that cover ground the way that only Waldrop can featuring Wagner, Fats Waller, Picasso, Thomas Wolfe, and more.
Author : John W. Traphagan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319417455
This book explores humanity’s thoughts and ideas about extraterrestrial life, paying close attention to the ways science and culture interact with one another to create a context of imagination and discovery related to life on other worlds. Despite the recent explosion in our knowledge of other planets and the seeming era of discovery in which we live, to date we have found no concrete evidence that we are not alone. Our thinking about life on other worlds has been and remains the product of a combination of scientific investigation and human imagination shaped by cultural values--particularly values of exploration and discovery connected to American society. The rapid growth in our awareness of other worlds makes this a crucial moment to think about and assess the influence of cultural values on the scientific search for extraterrestrial life. Here the author considers the junction of science and culture with a focus on two main themes: (1) the underlying assumptions, many of which are tacitly based upon cultural values common in American society, that have shaped the ways researchers in astrobiology and SETI have conceptualized the nature of their endeavor and represented ideas about the potential influence contact might have on human civilization, and (2) the empirical evidence we can access as a way of thinking about the social impact that contact with alien intelligence might have for humanity.
Author : Howard Waldrop
Publisher : Small Beer Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618730749
Literary mashup master Waldrop is back with new stories of pirates, hidden movie history, the Wolfman of Alcatraz, and more.
Author : Alexander Harvey,A Layman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Future punishment
ISBN : UVA:X004060481
Author : Bruce Langtry
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191608148
God, the Best, and Evil is an original treatment of some longstanding problems about God and his actions towards human beings. First, Bruce Langtry explores some implications of divine omnipotence, omniscience, and perfect goodness for God's providence. In particular, he investigates whether God is in some sense a maximizer. Second, he assesses the strength of objections to the existence of God that are based on the apparent fact that God could have created a better world than this one. Finally, he assesses the strength of objections to the existence of God that focus on the problem of evil. To create a (possible) world is to strongly or weakly actualize it. A world is prime if God can create it, and he cannot create a world better than it. This book's conclusions include the following: (1) If there is at least one prime world, then if God does create some world he will create a prime world. (2) If there are no prime worlds, then it does not follow that God does not exist. Instead, what follows is that if God creates a world he will create one that is good enough, despite the fact that he could create a world which is better. (3) This conclusion does not give rise to a good objection to theism, based on the apparent fact that the actual world is improvable and yet it is not good enough (4) Even if there is a best world, or several equal-best worlds, God cannot create any of them. (5) A good partial theodicy for evil can be provided, appealing to goods bound up with human free will, moral responsibility, and the roles of individuals' own personal traits in shaping their own and other people's lives. The partial theodicy is neutral between Theological Compatibilism and libertarianism. (6) The problem of evil does not provide a very strong objection to the existence of God.
Author : Christopher Perry
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781490801070
Reflections for a Better Life grew out of a desire to answer questions about the relevance of the biblical message to modern life, and particularly, how to live a better life. Although most of them are exhortatory, many are simply meditations on common themes and are meant to be thought- and action-provoking, rather than authoritative pronouncements on faith or morals. Like the Bible itself, they are often meant to call the reader him- or herself into question and to facilitate reflections on ones life and ones relationship to God.
Author : Lucy Larcom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Christian poetry, American
ISBN : HARVARD:HNZXZU
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781609576943
Author : Breathings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000549613
Author : Miguel Estrada
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781477298749
English is not the native language of the author, Miguel Estrada. Reason why he felt the need to write in simple, easy reading, English language, this mix of fiction / non-fiction, romantic, adventurous, book/novel. He bases the fiction part of his book in one of his many love songs hes written. Besides adding a little humor, he also explores how abandonment can sometimes haunt even the most successful among us. In the non-fiction part, he likes to share with the world all the struggles and adversities he endured growing up as a multi racial child in a small village of the Atlantic Coast of his native Panama, in Central America. And all the difficulties he went through as he hitchhiked his way from his country to The U.S, not knowing for sure where he was going, let alone the English language. He also speaks of the government corruption that goes on in his country and many other third world countries. Which compelled him to leave home in search of a better life for him and his family. He also emphasizes a great deal of gratitude, throughout his book. But most of all, he emphasizes gratitude through the whole book.
Author : William L. Rowe
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191513480
In the three major religions of the West, God is understood to be a being whose goodness, knowledge, and power is such that it is impossible for any being, including God himself, to have a greater degree of goodness, knowledge, and power. This book focuses on God's freedom and praiseworthiness in relation to his perfect goodness. Given his necessary perfections, if there is a best world for God to create he would have no choice other than to create it. For, as Leibniz tells us, 'to do less good than one could is to be lacking in wisdom or in goodness.' But if God could not do otherwise than create the best world, he created the world of necessity, not freely. And, if that is so, it may be argued that we have no reason to be thankful to God for creating us, since, as parts of the best possible world, God was simply unable to do anything other than create us - he created us of necessity, not freely. Moreover, we are confronted with the difficulty of having to believe that this world, with its Holocaust, and innumerable other evils, is the best that an infinitely powerful, infinitely good being could do in creating a world. Neither of these conclusions, taken by itself, seems at all plausible. Yet each conclusion appears to follow from the conception of God now dominant in the great religions of the West. William Rowe presents a detailed study of this important problem, both historically in the writings of Gottfried Leibniz, Samuel Clarke, Thomas Aquinas, and Jonathan Edwards, as well as in the contemporary philosophical literature devoted to the issue. Rowe argues that this problem is more serious than is commonly thought and may require some significant revision in contemporary thinking about the nature of God.
Author : Lucy Larcom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021211814
Author : Howard Waldrop
Publisher : Small Beer Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781931520188
First paperback edition of a landmark collection of maverick science fiction.
Author : Howard Waldrop
Publisher : Old Earth Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X030197014
The only problem with THINGS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME is that it's not nearly long enough. Sure, sure, it's chock full of great stories by the best short fiction writer of his generation, modern classics like "The Ugly Chickens" and "Flying Saucer Rock n Roll" and "Heart of Whitenesse" and many more... but there are two or three times as many terrific Waldrop stories, equally good and sometimes even better, that have been left out for want of space. There's only one solution. Read this book... and then go out and track down all of Waldrop's other collections and read them too.
