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Copywriting from the heroine's perspective: The little singer Yan Li was reborn. The family was poor, and her parents favored boys over girls. She and her sister Yan Fu were forced to go out to sing, and it was common for them to be teased and insulted. When she was seventeen years old, her sister was sold to a vulgar butcher for the sake of the family's livelihood, and was tortured to death within six months. Half a year later, Yan Li also hanged herself from a beam on the night she was carried into Ying's mansion because she did not want to be a concubine to Master Ying, a wealthy businessman in Lingcheng. Both sisters' lives were short and miserable. When Yan Li woke up, she was being beaten and kicked by her fat brother.
This title chronicles the life of Albert Hastings, an octogenarian living alone in a small flat in Wales. Bert's writing is paired with Deveney's photographs and together they tell a story of fulfilment, lonliness, hope and beauty.
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Technological progress has shifted scarcity for humanity. When we were foragers, food was scarce. During the agrarian age, it was land. Following the industrial revolution, capital became scarce. With digital technologies, scarcity is shifting once more. We need to figure out how to live in The World After Capital in which the only scarcity is our attention.
The imaginings of a boy lead to confusion in love and relationships in later life. A particular sort of boy, a dreamer by nature perhaps, finds real life difficult to discover; and those around him are caught up in his struggles.
In 2014, ex marine and mercenary Albert Crowther has a vision to set up a floating island: a modern day Ark! He said he had had enough of those political fat cat bastards with their taxes, rules and regulation! He was sick of ever increasing violence, shootings, stabbings, drug and alcohol abuse on Britains streets. He convinced his long suffering wife Amy that they needed to get of the planet, set up a group of like minded people and start a new life away from the corruption of modern day living. Relationships developed on the Ark with friendships, love and romance, affairs, steamy sex, marital problems and friction. Daily life was peppered with humour; drama; births, deaths and marriages; ...
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Focusing on the medieval reception of Book Zeta of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Volume One of this work offers an unprecedented and philosophically oriented study of medieval ontology against the background of the current metaphysical debate on the nature of material objects. Volume Two makes available to scholars one of the culminating points in the medieval reception of Aristotle’s metaphysical thought by presenting the first critical edition of Book VII of Paul of Venice’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics (1420-1424).”
Profiles the career and accomplishments of Albert Einstein, the most famous physicist of the twentieth century.