Tabula Rasa

Author : Kristen Lippert-Martin
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab ®
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781606845196

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Tabula Rasa by Kristen Lippert-Martin Pdf

The Bourne Identity meets Divergent in this action-packed debut thriller with a Katniss-esque heroine fighting to regain her memories and stay alive, set against a dystopian hospital background. Sarah finds herself in a battle for her life within the walls of her hospital-turned-prison. A procedure to eliminate her memory goes awry, and she starts to remember snatches of her past. Was she an urban terrorist or vigilante? Has the procedure been her salvation or her destruction? The answers lie trapped within her mind. To access them, she'll need the help of the teen computer hacker who's trying to bring the hospital down for his own reasons, and she'll need to evade an army of mercenary soldiers poised to eliminate her for good. If only she knew why . . .

Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781101200322

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The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker Pdf

A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. "Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Updated with a new afterword One of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.

Author : Carles Boix
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107089433

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Political Order and Inequality by Carles Boix Pdf

The fundamental question of political theory, one that precedes all other questions about the nature of political life, is why there is a state at all. This book describes the foundations of stateless societies, why and how states emerge, and the basis of political obligation.

Author : Ruth Downie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781620403235

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Tabula Rasa by Ruth Downie Pdf

The medicus Ruso and his wife Tilla are back in the borderlands of Britannia, this time helping to tend the builders of Hadrian's Great Wall. Having been forced to move off their land, the Britons are distinctly on edge and are still smarting from the failure of a recent rebellion that claimed many lives. Then Ruso's recently arrived clerk, Candidus, goes missing. A native boy thinks he sees a body being hidden inside the wall's half-finished stonework, and a worrying rumor begins to spread. When the soldiers ransack the nearby farms looking for Candidus, Tilla's tentative friendship with a local family turns to anger and disappointment. It's clear that the sacred rites to bless her marriage to Ruso will have to wait. Tensions only increase when Branan, the family's youngest son, also vanishes. He was last seen in the company of a lone and unidentified soldier who claimed he was taking the boy to see Tilla. As Ruso and Tilla try to solve the mystery of the two disappearances-while at the same time struggling to keep the peace between the Britons and the Romans-an intricate scheme involving slavery, changed identities, and fur trappers emerges, and it becomes imperative that Ruso find Branan before it's too late.

Author : Shelly Reuben
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 015101079X

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Tabula Rasa by Shelly Reuben Pdf

Investigating a house fire that has killed two young children, arson detective Billy Nightingale and his brother-in-law, officer Sebastian Bly, discover a baby underneath the porch, whom they raise without an awareness of her violent origins.

Author : Bryony Roberts
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3037784911

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Tabula Plena by Bryony Roberts Pdf

Edited by Bryony Roberts, a collaboration of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation In contrast to tabula rasa urbanism, this book considers strategies for tabula plena -- urban sites that are full of existing buildings of multiple time periods. Such dense sites prompt designers to work between the fields of architecture, historic preservation, and urban planning, developing methods for collaborative authorship and interlocking architectural forms. The book grew from a collaboration between the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation on the planning of the government quarter in Oslo. Emerging from this process, the book asks larger questions about how we practice, teach, and theorise engagement with existing architecture on an urban scale. It contains a compilation of short essays addressing theoretical questions, a sampling of design projects offering different July formal strategies for architectural design, and a series of discussions about pedagogical strategies. 149 images

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374717193

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The Patch by John McPhee Pdf

The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction master, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It is divided into two parts. Part 1, “The Sporting Scene,” consists of pieces on fishing, football, golf, and lacrosse—from fly casting for chain pickerel in fall in New Hampshire to walking the linksland of St. Andrews at an Open Championship. Part 2, called “An Album Quilt,” is a montage of fragments of varying length from pieces done across the years that have never appeared in book form—occasional pieces, memorial pieces, reflections, reminiscences, and short items in various magazines including The New Yorker. They range from a visit to the Hershey chocolate factory to encounters with Oscar Hammerstein, Joan Baez, and Mount Denali. Emphatically, the author’s purpose was not merely to preserve things but to choose passages that might entertain contemporary readers. Starting with 250,000 words, he gradually threw out 75 percent of them, and randomly assembled the remaining fragments into “an album quilt.” Among other things, The Patch is a covert memoir.

Author : Kevin Karnes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190468989

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Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa by Kevin Karnes Pdf

The first book dedicated to the breakthrough work by one of the most acclaimed composers today, Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa tells the story of its composition and premiere against the backdrop of late Soviet culture and the end of the Cold War

Author : Zoltan Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578587823

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Tabula Rasa by Zoltan Powell Pdf

This book is about Zoltan Powell's story and his personal experience living in an orphanage for nearly nine years. He vividly depicts his journey in Romania as he takes you through his personal struggles of living within a communist institution through his tears, laughter, and despair.

Author : Kevin C. Karnes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190469009

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Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa by Kevin C. Karnes Pdf

One of today's most widely acclaimed composers, Arvo Pärt broke into the soundscape of the Cold War West with Tabula Rasa in 1977, a work that introduced his signature tintinnabuli style to listeners throughout the world. In the first book dedicated to this pathbreaking composition, author Kevin C. Karnes tells the story of Tabula Rasa as one of Pärt and of Europe itself, traced over the course of a quarter-century that saw momentous transitions in European culture and politics, history and memory. Beginning at the site of the work's creation in the Estonian SSR, and drawing extensively upon a range of previously unexamined archival materials, Karnes recounts Pärt's discovery of tintinnabuli amidst his experiments with the music of the Western and Soviet avant-gardes. He examines Tabula Rasa in relation to modernist conceptions of musical structure, the ascetic practice of Orthodox Christianity, postwar experiences of electronic music, and the polystylistic approaches to composition that have become emblematic of the Soviet 1970s. Tracing the export of Tabula Rasa to the West and Pärt's emigration in 1980, the book reveals intersections of critical commentary with visions of the "end of history" that attended the collapse of European communism to suggest that it was in this confluence of listening, discovery, and geopolitical reordering that enduring lines of conversation about Pärt and his music took shape.

Author : Ana Waters
Publisher : Beauty for Ashes
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1735103608

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Tabula Rasa by Ana Waters Pdf

Thirty-two-year-old Rebecca Ivy finds love and healing when she embarks on a romance with her Jewish co-worker, Ted Margolin. Her faith in Jesus defies a lifetime of suffering, and it forces Ted to examine his own, confusing beliefs about God. Together, they battle to wipe the slate clean from the past and create their own, triumphant story.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Psychology
ISBN : OCLC:952935102

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De Anima by Aristotle Pdf

Author : John Locke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : UOM:39015003762963

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke Pdf

Author : John F. Russo
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1500550329

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Tabula Rasa by John F. Russo Pdf

Regardless of their career choices, would the very nature of the unlikelihood of a beautiful, hard-nosed business woman, Angela Fournier, and a devoted missing child investigator, Jeff Malardo, with only one common thread, be able to join forces to unravel the clues set before them? The death of her mentor, George Stanza, sets the stage for the international flights of intrigue and suspense to unite their drive against the psychopath, Anthony Micholanetti, (alias Reverend Michaels), from destroying their lives. Was this all contrived as a master plan? Would their personal integrity prevail or would their opposite involvement in the underworld of prostitution destroy her longing to be accepted, unconditionally, by the very one who is chasing her? Should she trust love or let her natural instinct handle the decaying situation. Had her mentors' instructions been sufficient for her to clean her slate and start over again?

Author : Roger Shattuck
Publisher : Kodansha Globe
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1568360487

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The Forbidden Experiment by Roger Shattuck Pdf

A haunting account by an award-winning cultural historian that addresses still pertinent issues, such as nature vs. nurture, the acquisition of language in children, and the socialization of deaf and mute children.