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  • WORDS IN PAIN

    Letters on Life and Death

    Edited by Trevor Moore, Jocelyn Catty ...
    First published anonymously in 1919, these letters from a dying woman to her doctor display an attitude to death which is fiercely independent of religion but full of hope. The book will appeal to diverse readers: it is a picture of family life and love, interspersed with clear-headed musings on the nature of illness, loss and death; it illuminates the development of rationalist thought, humanism ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dark Thread

    From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales

    by John D. Lyons, Hervé-Thomas Campangne, David LaGuardia, Timothy Chesters, Kathleen Long, Marina S. Brownlee, Maria Tausiet, Michael Meere, Caroline Warman, Guy Spielmann0, Philippe Roger1, Alison Booth2, Jennifer Tsien3, Jocelyn Moore4 ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    In The Dark Thread, scholars examine a set of important and perennial narrative motifs centered on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American literatures. Over fourteen essays, contributors highlight the connections between works from early modernity and subsequent texts from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, in which incidents such as ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • The Logical Alien

    Conant and His Critics

    by James Conant, Jocelyn Benoist, Matthew Boyle, Martin Gustafsson, Arata Hamawaki, Adrian Moore, Barry Stroud, Peter Sullivan, Charles Travis ...
    “A remarkable book capable of reshaping what one takes philosophy to be.”—Cora Diamond, Kenan Professor of Philosophy Emerita, University of VirginiaCould there be a logical alien—a being whose ways of talking, inferring, and contradicting exhibit an entirely different logical shape than ours, yet who nonetheless is thinking? Could someone, contrary to the most basic rules of logic, think that two ... Read more

    $54.19 USD

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    What Stars Are Made Of

    The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

    by Donovan Moore ...
    Narrated by Donovan Moore, Elizabeth Wiley ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 47 min

    It was not easy being a woman of ambition in early twentieth–century England, much less one who wished to be a scientist. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin overcame prodigious obstacles to become a woman of many firsts: the first to receive a PhD in astronomy from Radcliffe College, the first promoted to full professor at Harvard, the first to head a department there. And, in what has been called "the most ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • What Stars Are Made Of

    The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

    by Donovan Moore ...
    The history of science is replete with women getting little notice for their groundbreaking discoveries. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a tireless innovator who correctly theorized the substance of stars, was one of them.It was not easy being a woman of ambition in early twentieth-century England, much less one who wished to be a scientist. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin overcame prodigious obstacles to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

    by Neil deGrasse Tyson ...
    Narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 41 min

    The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and bestselling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the ... Read more

    $14.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook