5/24/2023 0 Comments Turing enigma book![]() ![]() Seriousness is not solemnity: readers will find here a delightful story about Keynes admiring Alan Turing’s fingernails at King’s College, Cambridge. Yet by taking his personal life and sexual identity seriously, Davenport-Hines achieves an outstanding unification. Richard Davenport-Hines has divided up his account into ‘seven lives’. ![]() My fourth pick is another biography, of the economist John Maynard Keynes. ![]() The theory is highly controversial but has set a remarkable twenty-first-century agenda, inspiring new experiments to push at the boundaries in many fields. His humour and wonderful pictures enhance the direct personal engagement. Penrose’s books are not about science, they are actually doing scientific thinking. Turing famously promoted the prospects for computer-based Artificial Intelligence, but he would have taken this anti-AI thesis more seriously than any other argument: it takes up his own interests and develops his own kind of thinking. It claims that the brain must exploit quantum-mechanical physics that no computer can emulate. This book explains the theory he developed. Years later, Penrose announced an astonishing thesis relating logic and physics. This greatly impressed a student, Roger Penrose, who was also studying the quantum mechanics and relativity that had first fascinated the young Turing. In 1955, Turing’s colleague Max Newman gave a talk on logic in his honour. My second choice relates more subtly to Turing’s sudden end in 1954. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Lovecraft called The Night Land âone of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written.â On his journey the narrator is beset by countless horrifying monsters, many of them mutated former-humans. The human survivors soon receive a distress signal sent by a long-forgotten lesser pyramid, and the narrator embarks on a bloody quest to rescue the maiden of the pyramidâwhich he knows to be his lost love, somehow transcending time and space. What remains of humanity lives in titanic mile-high pyramids surrounded by energy shields to protect them from the abhuman monsters lurking in the darkness. He soon discovers himself somehow reanimated in Earthâs far future, millions of years from now, when the sun has died and the Earth has become a hellish waste. Published in 1912, the book introduces a 17th-century gentleman who loses his wife. The Night Land is science fiction ahead of its time. Standard Ebooksġ97,186 words (11 hours 58 minutes) with a reading ease of 64.41 (average difficulty) ![]() The Night Land, by William Hope Hodgson - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers should laugh along with the antics, empathize with Farmer Bob's dismay, and cheer in the end when Moby's skills finally come in handy. ![]() Readable rhyming couplets set up the action. Praise for Ninja on the Farm (Scholastic Reader, Level 1: Moby Shinobi):"Colorful digital artwork with an animation aesthetic depicts farm animals and humans alike. Certain to stealthily jump off the shelves into readers' hands, ninja-style." - School Library Journal The art shows lots of movement and will likely inspire everyone's finest ninja moves. 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Molly Keane (20 July 1904 – 22 April 1996) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born Mary Nesta Skrine in Ryston Cottage, Newbridge, County Kildare). ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Hyperion omnibus![]() ![]() Zologar 19 August 2020: hulchul film dikhao Yonris 24 September 2020: watch cupcake wars full episodes online free ![]() Mular 4 November 2020: matilda the movie part 2 And the secrets they contain mean that nothing-nothing anywhere in the universe-will ever be the same. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. Now, in the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. Thanks to FTL and wormhole tech, humanity has reached out to the stars and made new homes, united under the Hegemony/5(). Hyperion Cantos By Dan Simmons Publisher: GuildAmerica Published In: New York, NY, USA Date: Pgs: Summary: Humanity has left Earth behind. 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This book’s sampling is selected by Justice Ginsburg and her authorized biographers Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. ![]() Throughout her life Justice Ginsburg has been (and continues to be) a prolific writer and public speaker. My Own Words offers Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and the value of looking beyond US shores when interpreting the US Constitution. The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993-a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women’s rights, and popular culture. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The wheel of time series![]() ![]() ![]() The series concluded as recently as 2013. Jordan’s first book, The Eye of the World, hit shelves back in 1990. Those planning on catching up to the show - or staying ahead - will want to get an early start. In total, The Wheel of Time is made up of 14 novels, all of which make for a lengthy read. But how many books are in The Wheel of Time, and what order should you read them in? ‘The Wheel of Time’ consists of 14 books, plus companions Josha Stradowski, Marcus Rutherford, Barney Harris | Amazon Content Services LLC and Sony Pictures Television Inc./Jan Thijs And Jordan’s novels are likely to see an uptick in interest as the adaptation finds new fans. The Wheel of Timeis based on Robert Jordan’s best-selling book series of the same name. Of course, not everyone tuning in for the show is familiar with the source material. 19, and the TV series is already attracting fantasy lovers looking for the next big thing. The Wheel of Time premiered on Amazon Prime Video on Nov. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Someday in Paris by Olivia Lara![]() ![]() The kind of love I wish for you.' A magical new love story about star-crossed lovers, perfect for hopeless romantics and fans of One Day and The Notebook. The kind of love that survives time, distance. But will they ever find a way to be together? 'It's about dreams and taking chances. Over the course of twenty years, Zara and Leon are destined to fall in love again and again. When they meet at an exhibition, they don't recognise each other – yet the way they feel is so familiar. After dreaming about him for years, Zara thinks she has already found him. In Paris, Leon no longer believes he will ever find the girl he lost that night. Both know their lives will never be the same. ![]() During a power cut in a small French museum, the two spend one short hour in the dark talking about their love for art, Monet and Paris. Zara is fifteen the first time she meets Leon. 'A deeply moving, richly evocative story of love, loss and the power of hope' Miranda Dickinson. 'An absolutely unforgettable love story' Mandy Baggot. 'An epic, sweeping romance about soulmates and second chances' Holly Miller. ![]() ![]() She discovers that God's silence is ultimately God's new way of communication with her, and emerges with a deeper intimacy with God.Īs Weems has embraced marriage and motherhood, it has grown harder and harder for her to retreat from the world in order to approach God. Weems grasps her spiritual "silent seasons" firmly and wrests blessing from them. Weems's description of this process reminded me of Jacob wrestling with the angel, refusing to abandon the struggle until the angel blessed him. Silence is not quickly mistaken for rejection anymore." an insight, a revelation, a wild and crazy grace, a glimpse of eternity inserts itself upon the pages of my journal that leaves me hushed. She finds that "every now and then, in between the muck and mire. ![]() "Stalking epiphanies," Weems turns to journaling prayer to "grope, stammer, and sniff" her way to God. 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