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Julius was a candy maker and candy makers rarely encounter evil. On a cold winter day that could very well be his last on Earth. Julius comes face to face with the Nazi war machine that is ravaging his people. This and five other heartfelt and exciting tales are included in this collection of short stories. Take a fictional journey through a crumbling family run circus and run the ramparts of a starship as its crew revolts to bring the truth to light about its hidden cargo. Step into the life of a woodworker as he contemplates the loss of his hobby. Ride along with a police officer in a future dominated by the technology we want so desperately to possess. And finally step past the gates of hell with the gatekeeper.
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Ideal for students and practitioners in science, engineering and medicine, this book gives an insight into science's place in society.
When we think about the Victorian age, we usually envision people together with animals: the Queen and her pugs, the sportsman with horses and hounds, the big game hunter with his wild kill, the gentleman farmer with a prize bull. Harriet Ritvo here gives us a vivid picture of how animals figured in English thinking during the nineteenth century and, by extension, how they served as metaphors for human psychological needs and sociopolitical aspirations. Victorian England was a period of burgeoning scientific cattle breeding and newly fashionable dog shows; an age of Empire and big game hunting; an era of reform and reformers that saw the birth of the Royal SPCA. Ritvo examines Victorian thin...
A century after ‘On Denoting’ was published, the debate it initiated continues to rage. On the one hand, there is a mass of new historical scholarship, about both Russell and Meinong, which has not circulated very far beyond specialist scholars. On the other hand, there are continuing problems and controversies concerning contemporary Russellian and Meinongian theories, many of them involving issues that simply did not occur to the original protagonists. This work provides an overview of the latest historical scholarship on the two philosophers as well as detailed accounts of some of the problems facing the current incarnations of their theories.