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![]() It was like Newton writing out the laws of motion for mechanics." (Shannon Collected Papers, p. " At a stroke transformed the understanding of the process of electronic communication, by providing it with a mathematics, a general set of theorems called 'information theory.' With lucid brilliance, Shannon wrote out the basic principles of the signaling of information. Also includes "Recent Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Communication" by Warren Weaver of the Rockefeller Foundation, first published in this form (a condensed version was published in Scientific American July 1949). It reprints "the Mathematical Theory of Communication" by Claude Shannon, first published in the Bell System Technical Journal in 1948, with minor corrections and additional references. The first hardcover edition of Shannon's most important work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Those characters may outright win, or they may not. It is reminiscent of Grisham’s very early novel The Rainmaker, where a rookie lawyer with some luck and intelligence has to fight against a big law firm with unlimited resources. Like in other Grisham novels, the main characters in The Rooster Bar are young people trying to navigate their lives by fighting against seemingly invincible forces. The novel’s plot is consistent with his established formula. They practice law without a license, which leads to complications, and more complications come as they graduate to more serious felonies. They skip classes while their student loans keep mounting. They are convinced that they will never get a proper job, even if they graduate and pass the bar exam. In their last semester, Mark, Todd (Grisham apparently likes generic Anglophone names) and Zola decide that they have had enough. ![]() The novel tells the story of three law school students who struggle with student loans. ![]() ![]() These main characters are spread out over the city and rarely interact until the end. My four star rating is centered around the disjointed feeling I got while reading it. ![]() I was sad I didn’t see them together as much in this story, but the snippets I got, YES. They are the sweetest, strongest couple and I can’t get enough of watching them interact. Speaking of those I was stoked to see get a happy ending (italicized because frankly, this book didn’t end with rainbows and unicorns, but it was still a good ending)…WOFLE & SANTI. Bold, brash, deceiving yet loyal, he was someone I begged to have a happy ending. I absolutely adore Jess and thought he was the perfect MC. Does he ever stay away from danger? NOPE. I immediately dove into the action as Jess was recovering from the ending of the last book (trying to keep large spoilers out) and trying to kill himself yet again at the beginning of this one. I was giddy with joy that I received an ARC because I wanted to know how the fate of the library would at last, unfold. ![]() ![]() Thank you to Berkley Books and Netgalley for the eARC. ![]() ![]() Drawing on the work of Diane Reay, examining working class children’s mobility within urban spaces, the paper will discuss how the political, physical and social challenges of working class children moving through London replicate the challenges of classic portal-quest fantasy Lord of the Rings. Later books feature other areas of inner London, including Stepney and Camden. ![]() Borribles live in geographically centred groups, with the action in the first book starting with Battersea Borribles. The landscape of inner city London is the backdrop for the Borribles’ quests. The Borribles trilogy (1976, 1981, 1986) tells the story of the Borribles, homeless children who survive by squatting in unused buildings and stealing food and their epic journeys across London. Using Farah Mendlesohn’s taxonomy of fantasy, this paper seeks to examine how the tropes of a portal-quest fantasy can be applied to The Borribles trilogy, and how this in turn is used to demonstrate how the Borribles become more alienated and excluded from London by adult characters seeking to destroy them and their anarchic way of life. ![]() ![]() A paper delivered to Current Research in Speculative Fiction, University of Liverpool, 8th June 2015. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I hope survivors reading this book come away knowing they’ve been heard. “There are few things more healing than being heard,” Good shared. Good explained that as Indigenous people work through their healing, and non-Indigenous Canadians come to understand what truly happened at these schools, she hopes her novel aids in the healing process. Good notes that the slow process was necessary, saying that it’s not a subject she wanted to approach lightly. The story takes place over decades and shows the five friends crossing paths time and time again as they work through the trauma they endured at the residential school.įrom writing the first paragraph to publication, it took nine years for Five Little Indians to be finished. The novel follows five students-Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie, and Maisie-as they leave the church-run residential school in British Columbia and adjust to a new life in Vancouver. ![]() ![]() ![]() SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Though Benson is afflicted with what a friend calls the "Stanley syndrome" - he never stops telling you that Kubrick is a "genius" and "a perfectionist" - his book is filled with nifty stories. ![]() I saw it again a few days ago, inspired by Michael Benson's terrific new book, Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. An avant-garde art film dressed in Hollywood money, it unknowingly foreshadowed the future of movies as effects-driven blockbusters. 1 box office movie of 1968 - young people flocked to it to have their minds blown - but in international polls, 2001 routinely ranks as one of the top 10 films of all time. You see, even if you don't like the movie - and I don't, particularly - the one thing that's undeniable is that it's a cinematic landmark. The critics were harsh, with Variety dismissively saying flatly, " 2001 is not a cinematic landmark." It's hard to imagine being more wrong. Nobody was quite sure what to make of it. And that was pretty much the reaction that greeted the film itself when it premiered 50 years ago this week. Near the beginning of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a big black monolith appears in an African desert, leaving a group of prehistoric ape-men standing there baffled. ![]() Keir Dullea played astronaut David Bowman in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her shenanigans always enthused me, and I understood feeling like adults and older children were mean and didn’t take time to listen to me. She was relatable - Cleary managed to successfully write from the perspective of a little girl, as I remember reading these books when I was 6, 7, and 8 and seeing myself in Ramona Quimby. It’s sadly been so long that I struggle to remember the names of the books (Ramona the past, Ramona the brave, was there one later on called Ramona’s world or am I wrong?)īut I just remember having always been so engrossed in the world of Ramona Quimby when I was little. I always associate those years with sunny days reading Beverly Cleary novels at the park. I just have such positive memories of reading the Ramona Quimby books when I was in first, second and third grade. ![]() ![]() Archetypal energies can be notoriously destructive, and yet they also hold the treasure of life’s deep meanings and purposes, and are responsible for the world’s greatest works of art and creative expression. ![]() They are powerful multidimensional forces that can overtake one’s state of consciousness, flood one with emotions, images, and somatic sensations, and possess an entire culture or epoch. ![]() For the archetypes that Jung helped the modern age become aware of are not just concepts, dry intellectual abstractions. ![]() We need what James Hillman called “an archetypal eye” with which to discern the patterns and powers that inform both the larger zeitgeist of the collective psyche and the unfolding experience and life challenges of each individual. Seldom has an age been so profoundly in need of critical insight into the underlying forces at work in the human psyche and their role in shaping the historical moment the world finds itself in. ![]() The archetype is not just the formal condition for mythological statementsīut an overwhelming force comparable to nothing I know. Archetypal Patterning and Archetypal Cosmology for the 21st century ![]() |