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Across 10 exciting stories, Robin and his grandad explore car boot sales, bring toys to life and learn some important lessons.
In November 1985, York. Robin Harry is the only legitimate who has trained to master the Harry Style martial arts under his strict father in the Harry House from his childhood. However, one day a mysterious man named Leon murders his father and takes the scepter his father was protecting. Robin is determined to find the truth behind his father's murder but soon finds himself getting stuck in a war between the underground organizations. Traveling from York to Dragon City, Robins's long journey begins!
Continuing on to the electronic revolution, Martin's account takes in the changes wrought on writing by computers and electronic systems of storage and communication, and offers surprising insights into the influence these new technologies have had on children born into the computer age. The power of writing to influence and dominate is, indeed, a central theme in this history, as Martin explores the processes by which the written word has gradually imposed its logic on society over four thousand years. The summation of decades of study by one of the world's great scholars on the subject, this fascinating account of writing explains much about the world we inhabit, where we uneasily confer, accept, and resist the power of the written word.
For much of the twentieth century, French intellectual life was dominated by theoreticians and historians of mentalité. Cristina Chimisso reconstructs the world of these intellectuals and presents the key debates in the philosophy of mind of this time, and the social and institutional context in which these ideas were formulated. This study will be invaluable for scholars studying the history and historiography of science and philosophy.
The Great Depression was defined by poverty and despair, but visionary American filmmaker Busby Berkeley (1895-1976) managed to divert the public's attention away from the economic crash with some of the most iconic movies of all time. Known for his kaleidoscopic dance numbers featuring multitudes of performers in extravagant costumes, his musicals provided a brief respite for an audience whose reality was hard and bitter. Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley is a revealing study of the director, drawing from interviews with his colleagues, newspaper and legal records, and Berkeley's own unpublished memoirs to uncover the life of a Hollywood legend renowned for his talent and creativity....
The night of the Savior Festival is a night that Nig can be sure to get lots of good and warm food with his five-finger discount, but what he didn't know was this year he would be getting more than just food-for it is on the night of the Savior Festival that Nig receives a special gift that will teach him of his past and take him on a journey to fulfill his destiny. Join Nig and his friends as they fight the evil that looms over Watair!
Fourteen new essays discuss Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion in a convenient, accessible guide that analyzes the intellectual and social background of his thought as well.
In a bold challenge to the long-held scholarly notion that Rabbinic Judaism already was an established presence during the Second Temple period, Boccaccini argues that Rabbinic Judaism was a daring reform movement that developed following the destruction of the Jerusalem temple and took shape in the first centuries of the common era.