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The Citadel of the Autarch is a science fantasy novel by American writer Gene Wolfe, first released in 1983. It is the fourth and final volume in the four-volume series The Book of the New Sun . In 1987, Wolfe followed this fourth volume with a coda novel entitled The Urth of the New Sun , after complaints from readers that it ended abruptly ...
The Act of Creation is divided into two books. In the first book, Koestler proposes a global theory of creative activity encompassing humour, scientific inquiry, and art. Koestler's fundamental idea is that any creative act is a bisociation (not mere association) of two (or more) apparently incompatible frames of thought. [1]
Alexander, Charles, ed. (1995) Talking the Boundless Book: Art, Language, and the Book Arts; Bernhard Cella(2012) Collecting Books: A selection of recent Art and Artists' Books produced in Austria, a YouTube Video that is part of the project. Bleus, Guy (1990) Art is Books; Borsuk, Amaranth (2018). The Book. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press
In his 1983 book Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis, Bernstein diagnosed a serious issue that affects much of modern philosophy as it oscillates between two untenable positions; on the one hand, the dogmatic search for absolute truths, and on the other, the conviction that "anything goes" when it comes to the ...
Below is a list of all the major and minor characters in the book, in order of appearance, with plot detail. Elijah Baley: a Plainclothesman (police detective) who works on Earth. He is called to solve the case on Aurora. Jezebel "Jessie" Baley: Elijah’s wife (mentioned only). Bentley Baley: Elijah’s son.
June 13 – Pioneer 10 passes the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to travel beyond the major planets of the Solar System. September 26 – The Soyuz T-10-1 mission ends in a pad abort at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, when a pad fire occurs at the base of the Soyuz U rocket during the launch countdown.
The idea of structural art as a creative subdiscipline of structural engineering originates from the scholarship of Prof. David P. Billington of Princeton University. The term appears to have been coined in his 1983 book The Tower and the Bridge, and arose out of scholarly study of great works of structural design made by engineers starting in the late 18th century with the beginning of the ...
In March 2022, MIT Press published Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner's book The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be. [ 9 ] At the start of 2024, Gardner was the most cited Educational Scholar in the United States, according to the Edu-Scholar Public Influence Ratings.