![]() ![]() In broad daylight with no comprehension, she watched. The sparks spiraled upward in swirls like funnel clouds. “The flame now appeared to lift from individual treetops in showers of orange sparks, exploding the way a pine log does in a campfire when it’s poked. Flight Behavior represents contemporary American fiction at its finest. Kingsolver's riveting story concerns a young wife and mother on a failing farm in rural Tennessee who experiences something she cannot explain, and how her discovery energizes various competing factions-religious leaders, climate scientists, environmentalists, politicians-trapping her in the center of the conflict and ultimately opening up her world. ![]() ![]() Kingsolver has constructed a deeply affecting microcosm of a phenomenon that is manifesting in many different tragic ways, in communities and ecosystems all around the globe.” - Seattle TimesĪ truly stunning and unforgettable work from the extraordinary New York Times bestselling author of The Lacuna (winner of the Orange Prize), The Poisonwood Bible (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), and Animal, Vegetable, Miracleįlight Behavior is a brilliant and suspenseful novel set in present day Appalachia a breathtaking parable of catastrophe and denial that explores how the complexities we inevitably encounter in life lead us to believe in our particular chosen truths. ![]() "An intricate story that entwines considerations of faith and faithlessness, inquiry, denial, fear and survival in gorgeously conceived metaphor. ![]()
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![]() With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual impose their own 'will to power' upon the world. ![]() Nietzsche seeks to demonstrate that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. The work dramatically rejects traditional Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. 'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael Tanner Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. ![]() It promotes a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own 'will to power' upon the world. Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that covers ideas in his previous work Thus Spoke. This work demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. ![]() Rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Description for Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics) Paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He returns after what seems to be only a few days but was actually eight months to him. Meanwhile, Omni-Man is kidnapped by aliens, taken to another dimension. His exploits range from discovering that his physics teacher has been turning his students into human bombs, to foiling a plan by the Mauler Twins to make an army of robots. Initially the first three volumes focuses on Mark as Invincible, begins working as a superhero with his father acting as his mentor, and meeting other heroes (including Robot, Rex Splode, Dupli-Kate and Atom Eve). At age 17, Mark begins to display superpowers, which come from his father being a member of the Viltrumite race, who, according to Nolan, pioneer the galaxy on a mission of benevolence and enlightenment. Mark Grayson is a normal high school senior with a normal part-time job whose father Nolan is the alien (but human-appearing) Omni-Man, the most powerful superhero on the planet. An animated television adaptation began streaming on Amazon Prime Video on March 25, 2021, to critical acclaim. The series began publication on January 22, 2003, concluding on February 14, 2018, with 144 issues. Set in the Image Universe, Invincible follows the coming of age of superhero Mark Grayson / Invincible, a Viltrumite and first-born son of Omni-Man, the most powerful superhero on Earth. Invincible is an American comic book series written by Robert Kirkman, illustrated by Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley, and published by Image Comics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However much Honoré insists that the slow lane isn’t only for “affluent epicures,” it seems that’s exactly for whom his slow “revolution” is made. Only those who have it all – i.e., decadent North Americans and Western Europeans – have the temerity to proselytize that less is more. It’s difficult to muster much sympathy for harried, “time-poor” urbanites who fail to find time to make home-cooked meals or enjoy museums when there is a much bigger cult of water-poor, housing-poor, food-poor, human rights-poor (but civil war-rich) people known as The Rest of the World. However, it’s open to debate whether there is, in fact, a worldwide connection between distant pockets of people longing for Tantric sex, super-slow workouts, home schooling, Chinese medicine, slow food, and pedestrian-friendly neighbourhoods. Honoré provides plenty of anecdotal evidence that people are fed up with the fast-paced world of 21st-century hyper-capitalism, with its attendant burnout, ulcers, heart attacks, latchkey kids, road rage, low-nutrition meals, and noxious TV as wallpaper/babysitter/narcotic. Ironically, he does this through what appears to be a regimen of frantically paced travel. Honoré serves up a neo-Zen, less-is-more manifesto with In Praise of Slow. When he found himself trying to read his child one-minute bedtime stories, he decided enough was enough. ![]() London-based Canadian journalist Carl Honoré has seen the evils of the fast-paced world. ![]() |