The Certainties

Author : Aislinn Hunter
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735276888

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The Certainties by Aislinn Hunter Pdf

A vivid, moving novel reminiscent of Anthony Doerr and Michael Ondaatje, about the entwined fates of two very different refugees. In 1940, as the shadow of war lengthens over Europe, three mysterious travelers enter a village in Spain. They have the appearance of Parisian intellectuals, but the trio of two men and a woman are starving and exhausted from crossing illegally through the Pyrenees. Their story, told over a period of 48 tense hours, is narrated by one of the men, who slowly accepts his unthinkable fate. In a voice despairing and elegant, he calmly considers what he should do, and weighs what any one life means. As he does so, his attention is caught by a five-year-old named Pia who wanders near his cafe table. To Pia he begins to address all that he thinks and feels in his final hours--envisioning a rich future life for her that both reflects and contrasts with his own. Meanwhile, in the 1980s, a woman named Pia seeks solitude on a remote island in the Atlantic, where she works at an inn and reflects on her chaotic childhood. As Pia's story begins, a raging storm engulfs the island and a boat flounders offshore. Pia and her fellow islanders rush to help--and past and present calamities collide. By turns elegiac and heart-pounding, a love letter in the guise of a song of despair, The Certainties is a moving and transformative blend of historical and speculative fiction--a novel that shows us what it means to bear witness, and to attend to those who seek refuge, past and present.

Author : Madeleine Thien
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551991610

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Certainty by Madeleine Thien Pdf

Madeleine Thien’s stunning debut novel fulfills all her early promise and introduces a young novelist of vision, maturity, and style. Gail Lim, a producer of radio documentaries in present-day Vancouver, finds herself haunted by events in her parents’ past in wartorn Asia, a past which remains a mystery that fiercely grips her imagination. As a child, Gail’s father, Matthew Lim, wandered the Leila Road and the jungle fringe with his lovely Ani, a girl whose early bond with Matthew will affect his life always. As children, they found themselves together under the terrifying shadow of war in Japanese-occupied Sandakan, Malaysia. The war shatters their families and splits the two apart until years later, when they remeet only to be separated again. The legacy of their connection is later inherited by Matthew’s wife, Clara, in unexpected ways. Gail’s journey to unravel the mystery of her parents’ lives takes her to Amsterdam, where she meets the war photographer Sipke, who tells his story of Ani and their relationship, which began in Jakarta, a story that will bring Gail face to face with the complications in her own life and lead her closer to the truth. Vivid, poignant, wise, at once sweeping and intimate, Certainty is a novel about the legacies of loss, about the dislocations of war and the redemptive qualities of love. Thien reveals herself as a novelist of rare and potent talent.

Author : William Sidney Gibson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Bible and geology
ISBN : OXFORD:590414945

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The Certainties of Geology by William Sidney Gibson Pdf

Author : Barbara Fuchs,Mercedes García-Arenal
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487535490

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The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe by Barbara Fuchs,Mercedes García-Arenal Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection explores how the early modern pursuit of knowledge in very different spheres – from Inquisitional investigations to biblical polemics to popular healing – was conditioned by a shared desire for certainty, and how epistemological crises produced by the religious upheavals of early modern Europe were also linked to the development of new scientific methods. Questions of representation became newly fraught as the production of knowledge increasingly challenged established orthodoxies. The volume focuses on the social and institutional dimensions of inquiry in light of political and cultural challenges, while also foregrounding the Hispanic world, which has often been left out of histories of scepticism and modernity. Featuring essays by historians and literary scholars from Europe and the United States, The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe reconstructs the complexity of early modern epistemological debates across the disciplines, in a variety of cultural, social, and intellectual locales.

Author : Jean-Luc Marion
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226807102

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Negative Certainties by Jean-Luc Marion Pdf

Now in paperback, Jean-Luc Marion's groundbreaking philosophy of human uncertainty. In Negative Certainties, renowned philosopher Jean-Luc Marion challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions we have developed about knowledge: that it is categorical, predicative, and positive. Following Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger, he looks toward our finitude and the limits of our reason. He asks an astonishingly simple—but profoundly provocative—question in order to open up an entirely new way of thinking about knowledge: Isn’t our uncertainty, our finitude, and rational limitations, one of the few things we can be certain about? Marion shows how the assumption of knowledge as positive demands a reductive epistemology that disregards immeasurable or disorderly phenomena. He shows that we have experiences every day that have no identifiable causes or predictable reasons and that these constitute a very real knowledge—a knowledge of the limits of what can be known. Establishing this “negative certainty,” Marion applies it to four aporias, or issues of certain uncertainty: the definition of man; the nature of God; the unconditionality of the gift; and the unpredictability of events. Translated for the first time into English, Negative Certainties is an invigorating work of epistemological inquiry that will take a central place in Marion’s oeuvre.

Author : Wendy James
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415107903

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The Pursuit of Certainty by Wendy James Pdf

An exploration of the effect of anthropology's inherited tradition of tolerance and cross-cultural understanding has on the new pursuits of truth.

Author : Martin Lings
Publisher : Golden Palm S.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Myticism
ISBN : UVA:X002215130

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The Book of Certainty by Martin Lings Pdf

'To express in the language of Sufism, that is, Islamic mysticism, some of the universal truths which lie at the heart of all religions'--this is the book's avowed purpose. It came into being because the author was asked by a friend to set down in writing what he considered to be the most important things that a human being can know. He was also asked to make it very easy, and despite the depth of all that it contains, it has in fact a remarkable simplicity and clarity, due no doubt to the constant use of traditional imagery which awakens and penetrates the imagination.

Author : Rose Connors
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743233668

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Absolute Certainty by Rose Connors Pdf

Rose Connors's Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning legal thriller follows Assistant DA Marty Nickerson as she investigates a serial murder in a small Cape Cod town. As an assistant D for Massachusetts's Barnstable County, Marty Nickerson sees her job as a means for doing right. When a jury finds Manuel Rodriguez guilty of a brutal murder committed on a Cape Cod beach at the beginning of last year's tourist season, Marty feels vindicated. But then another body turns up as this year's vacationers begin to arrive and Marty has to wonder: Did they target the wrong man? The DA refuses to reopen the high-profile case, but Marty fears that the real killer will strike again. With her career on the line and lives at stake, she must rely on her own moral compass, legal savvy, and gut instinct as she matches wits with a twisted killer.

Author : Michael G. Titelbaum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780199658305

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Quitting Certainties by Michael G. Titelbaum Pdf

This book presents a new Bayesian framework for modeling rational degrees of belief, called the Certainty-Loss Framework.

Author : Aislinn Hunter
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385680653

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The World Before Us by Aislinn Hunter Pdf

The brilliant, hauntingly beautiful second novel, twelve years in the making, from a writer whose previous novel Stay was a Globe and Mail Top 100 pick, a finalist for the Amazon First Novel Award, and made into a feature film. When she was just fifteen, smart, sensitive Jane Standen lived through a nightmare: she lost the sweet five-year-old girl she was minding during a walk in the woods. The little girl was never found, leaving her family, and Jane, devastated. Now the grown-up Jane is an archivist at a small London museum that is about to close for lack of funding. As her one last project, she is searching the archives for scraps of information related to another missing person--a woman who disappeared some 125 years ago from a Victorian asylum. As the novel moves back and forth between the museum in contemporary London, the Victorian asylum, and a dilapidated country house that seems to connect both missing people, it unforgettably explores the repercussions of small acts, the power of affection, and the irrepressible vitality of everyday objects and events. Here is a rivetting, gorgeously written novel that powerfully reminds us of the possibility that we are less alone than we might think.

Author : Anatol Rapoport
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015049717013

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Certainties and Doubts by Anatol Rapoport Pdf

The autobiography of Anatol Rapoport--concert pianist, lecturer, mathematician, scientist, philosopher, psychologist, journallist, author, humanitarian.

Author : Mark Schaefer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532653438

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The Certainty of Uncertainty by Mark Schaefer Pdf

The world is full of people who are very certain—in politics, in religion, in all manner of things. In addition, political, religious, and social organizations are marketing certainty as a cure all to all life’s problems. But is such certainty possible? Or even good? The Certainty of Uncertainty explores the question of certainty by looking at the reasons human beings crave certainty and the religious responses we frequently fashion to help meet that need. The book takes an in-depth view of religion, language, our senses, our science, and our world to explore the inescapable uncertainties they reveal. We find that the certainty we crave does not exist. As we reflect on the unavoidable uncertainties in our world, we come to understand that letting go of certainty is not only necessary, it’s beneficial. For, in embracing doubt and uncertainty, we find a more meaningful and courageous religious faith, a deeper encounter with mystery, and a way to build strong relationships across religious and philosophical lines. In The Certainty of Uncertainty, we see that embracing our belief systems with humility and uncertainty can be transformative for ourselves and for our world.

Author : Neil O'Hara
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319754444

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Moral Certainty and the Foundations of Morality by Neil O'Hara Pdf

What lies at the foundation of our moral beliefs? If we dig down far enough do we find that our moral values have no ground at all to stand on, and so are apt to collapse upon serious philosophical investigation? This book seeks to answer these and related questions by positing an indubitable foundation for our moral beliefs – they arise from the phenomenon of ‘primary recognition’, and are fundamentally shaped by ‘basic moral certainties’. Drawing on philosophers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and Knud Ejler Løgstrup, this book draws together insights from both Analytic and Continental philosophy to provide a convincing new picture of our moral foundations. And it does so in a way that eschews moral conservativism and opens the way for a rich understanding of the variety and particularity of our human moral systems, while also keeping a significant place for those moral beliefs that occur universally, across cultures.

Author : Bernard Cornwell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405928342

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Excalibur (Book Three) by Bernard Cornwell Pdf

From the No. 1 bestselling author of WAR LORD comes an epic retelling of the Arthurian legend, from the bestselling Last Kingdom series After rebellions and betrayals by those he believed loved him most, Arthur looks at his most weak. His Saxon enemies decide to strike before he regains his strength, plunging Britain into war. It will require all Arthur's leadership and military cunning to win this last battle. But in this final struggle of the warlord, the intrigues of Mordred, now the adult heir to the throne of Britain, and the dark magic of the priestess Nimue could conspire to bring about Arthur's downfall. Even his trusty blade Excaliber may not be sharp enough to save him . . . From the epic and bestselling author who has gripped millions, Bernard Cornwell concludes The Warlord Chronicles, bringing the Arthurian legend to thrilling new life. _______ 'A powerful and dramatic retelling of the Arthurian legend' Sharon Penman 'Of all the books I have written these are my favourites' Bernard Cornwell

Author : A. Coliva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230289697

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Moore and Wittgenstein by A. Coliva Pdf

Does scepticism threaten our common sense picture of the world? Does it really undermine our deep-rooted certainties? Answers to these questions are offered through a comparative study of the epistemological work of two key figures in the history of analytic philosophy, G. E. Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein.