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Em 26 de dezembro de 2004, Deborah e Marie, amigas havia quinze anos, enfrentaram uma catástrofe natural de proporções bíblicas. Durante uma viagem de férias à Tailândia, um tsunami transformou o paraíso em um cenário de caos e destruição. Este relato, escrito a quatro mãos, alterna as experiências de ambas desde o impacto das ondas até a luta pela sobrevivência. Por meio de uma narrativa inquietante, as autoras se transportam para o coração do desastre revelando a força brutal das ondas e a determinação implacável das duas aventureiras. "Tinha um tsunami no caminho" é um testemunho poderoso sobre a força da natureza e a resistência humana, mas é, sobretudo, um trabalho memorialístico traçado a partir das cicatrizes, belas e trágicas, e da profunda amizade entre duas mulheres unidas de maneira definitiva.
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An innovative perspective on the relationship between philosophy and the Bible. The early modern philosophers’ interpretations of the Scriptures allow deciphering the breeding ground of the freedom of philosophizing, the theological-political debate, and the new conception of nature.
Brown and Normore show how Descartes accounted for the complex and diverse objects of human experience within his metaphysical system. They argue that, far from reducing them all to two basic categories of substance, mind and body, he recognized irreducible composites that resist reduction and require their own distinctive modes of explanation.
This book offers a comprehensive and unitary study of the philosophy of Francis Bacon, with special emphasis on the medical, ethical and political aspects of his thought. It presents an original interpretation focused on the material conditions of nature and human life. In particular, coverage in the book is organized around the unifying theme of Bacon’s notion of appetite, which is considered in its natural, ethical, medical and political meanings. The book redefines the notions of experience and experiment in Bacon’s philosophy of nature, shows the important presence of Stoic themes in his work as well as provides an original discussion of the relationships between natural magic, prudence and political realism in his philosophy. Bringing together scholarly expertise from the history of philosophy, the history of science and the history of literature, this book presents readers with a rich and diverse contextualization of Bacon’s philosophy.
In Echoes of an Invisible World Jacomien Prins offers an account of the transformation of the notion of Pythagorean world harmony during the Renaissance and the role of the Italian philosophers Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) and Francesco Patrizi (1529-1597) in redefining the relationship between cosmic order and music theory. By concentrating on Ficino’s and Patrizi’s work, the book chronicles the emergence of a new musical reality between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a reality in which beauty and the complementary idea of celestial harmony were gradually replaced by concepts of expressivity and emotion, that is to say, by a form of idealism that was ontologically more subjective than the original Pythagorean and Platonic metaphysics.
This book explores the rich range of meanings that Shakespeare finds in the natural world, enabling new readings of his works.