![]() ![]() For example, it’s not necessary to know how to type in order to use a computer-you can hunt and peck, as I do-, but nevertheless typing skills are very useful in using a computer. For even if apologetics should turn out not to be absolutely necessary, it doesn’t follow that it is therefore useless. ![]() ![]() To begin with, I think we ought to distinguish between apologetics’ necessity and utility. Tonight we ask ourselves the fundamental question: Christian apologetics-who needs it? He encouraged me to draw upon my years of experience as a Christian apologist to share some very practical thoughts on this discipline. But President Plantinga encouraged me instead to address the question of Christian apologetics, a topic apparently dear to the heart of Henry Stob but somewhat neglected in recent years. I had thought to speak on some key topics in Christian philosophical theology. But a phone call from President Plantinga made it quite clear to me that such was consistent with neither the intended purpose nor the audience of these lectures. There’s a temptation to try to justify one’s selection as the Stob lecturer by giving some hopefully impressive, scholarly pair of lectures. Indeed, I’m a bit embarrassed by all the fuss you’ve made. I am honored and deeply humbled by the privilege of being invited to give the Stob Lectures this year. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Everyone’s been quarantined inside the All Species’ Library of Linguistics and Culture, including over a hundred disgruntled alien scholars. When Evan Gooseberry tries to help, he is shattered to learn he himself isn’t entirely Human and begins to suspect his new friend Esen isn’t what she seems.Ĭomplicating matters, a mysterious contagion has killed the crew of the ship that brought the chimeras - and Evan - to Botharis. Esen must find a way to rescue a hapless group of chimeras, beings who are a new and unique blend of species she knows, when she can’t become one herself. Relationships get complicated when you don’t know who - or what - you really are. The second book in the Web Shifter's Library series returns to the adventures of Esen, a shapeshifting alien who must navigate the perils of a hostile universe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() make the cutĥ books not to miss: Richard Power’s ‘Bewilderment,’ Anderson Cooper’s ‘Vanderbilt’īenny’s had a hard year. National Book Award nominees: Lauren Groff's 'Matrix,' Robert Jones Jr. Though Benny gets sent to the principal, then a therapist and finally a children’s psychiatric ward, maybe his is the most rational response to a consumer culture that positions material goods as the sources of our wellbeing. ![]() But as narrated, Benny’s banging on the glass is a perfectly reasonable response to the heartache underlying everything in our world. In some ways this episode could be read as an early symptom of mental illness, and Ozeki leaves that door open. After he starts pounding on the glass to get it to shut up, he’s sent to the principal’s office. When a sparrow strikes a window in his classroom, the other children return to their work because they “were accustomed to death, and this was a minor one.” But the glass knows it has killed the bird and starts to whimper, “to vibrate as its cries grew shrill.” Because the window is crying, Benny can no longer concentrate on his schoolwork. In Ruth Ozeki's "The Book and Form and Emptiness" (Viking, 560 pp., ★★★★ out of four, out Tuesday), 13-year-old Benny Oh hears voices. Watch Video: Meditation tips for beginners ![]() ![]() an utter delight." - Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever HadĪe-ran Kim's My Brilliant Life explores family bonds and out-of-the-ordinary friendships, interweaving the past and present of a tight-knit family, finding joy and happiness in even the most difficult times.Īreum lives life to its fullest, vicariously through the stories of his parents, conversations with Little Grandpa Jang-his sixty-year-old neighbor and best friend-and through the books he reads to visit the places he would otherwise never see.įor several months, Areum has been working on a manuscript, piecing together his parents' often embellished stories about his family and childhood. "A moving, earnest, and deeply-felt exploration of a unique family in all its joys and disappointments. ![]() My Brilliant Life (A BEST OF THE MONTH SELECTION BY OPRAH MAGAZINE) – BookaliciousMY ![]() ![]() ![]() The “young girl” is Claire, fourteen years old, assigned to be a Birthmother. From the very first line: “The young girl cringed when they buckled the eyeless leather mask around the upper half of her face and blinded her,” Son transported me right back into Lowry’s world, but a much darker, more frightening one than what I remember from The Giver. Son is a far more adult, far more sombre book than The Giver, or perhaps I have just grown up. I’ve grown up with these books, and reaching the end of this series feels, in many ways, like ending a chapter in my own life. ![]() So you can imagine the chill I got when, reading Son at 29, I realized that I must again be fairly close to the age of Jonas in this story. One of the reasons The Giver resonated so much with me is that I read it when I was fairly close to the age of its protagonist Jonas. ![]() Lois Lowry’s The Giver changed my life when I was 14 (see story here), and reading Son feels like coming full circle. I can’t even begin to explain how much this book means to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Department of Tourism and Hotel Management.Department of Translation and Interpretation.Department of Public Administration and Political Science.Department of English Language and Literature.Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design. ![]() Department of Public Relations and Advertising.Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation.Department of Modeling and Design of Engineering Systems.Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering.Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry.Department of Manufacturing Engineering.Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering.Department of Information Systems Engineering.Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences.Department Of Medical Services and Techniques.Department Of Therapy and Rehabilitation.Metallurgical and Materials Engineering.Political Science and Public Administration.Interior Architecture and Environmental Design.School of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture.Social Sciences for University wide Courses. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tags 2020 2021 2022 2023 Adrian Tchaikovsky Adrienne Young Adventure Alex Verus Aliens Alt History Angry Robot Anthony Ryan ARC Artwork Audiobook Beautiful World of Books Benedict Jacka Book Loot Book Review Books Cover Art Covers Currently Reading Cyberpunk Dark Fantasy David B. Since Inhibitor Phase is one of the books I have on tap for Sci-Fi Month, I figured this would be the perfect time to feature some cover art, while at the same time introducing the universe in a bit more detail. There’ve also been a number of novellas and shorts set in the same universe, many of which have been collected within the two omnibus editions found below. ![]() Seven full-length novels have been published to date, of these there have been one standalone (Chasm City), two in the Dreyfus Emergencies, and then four in the Inhibitor Sequence-the most recent being Inhibitor Phase, released just this year. Recommended Age: 16+, mostly for conceptual understanding and attention span. While Alastair Reynolds pens each book as its own complete adventure, the overarching plot is set on a scale much grander, so that it doesn’t take much digging in to the series to realize that there’s more going on than what meets the eye. Dive into a complete series about two sisters separated by intergalactic politics and war and the high-octane treasure hunt that brings them back together as space pirates and shadow governments vie for control of ancient technology and secrets. ![]() While I’ve read remarkably few of this series, even I can’t deny the effect that it’s had on recent science fiction and space opera. One of the hallmarks of modern space opera, Revelation Space has been around for nearly twenty years, having first been published in 2002. ![]() ![]() ![]() After seeing how the different complex systems of the body work together, the crystal is quickly fascinated it isn’t long before he decides that, instead of trying to escape, he wants the body for himself. Thrown into a highly unusual world filled with cells, bacteria, and other dangerous pathogens, the tiny dungeon crystal is, at first, confused by his surroundings. Unbeknownst to the young thief, when he was forced to eat that handful of dirt and rocks…he also ended up swallowing a tiny dungeon crystal. When a special job assigned to him by the Thieves’ Guild went awry, the guild leadership punished him with a beating, compelled him to eat dirt and rocks to soothe his hunger, and left him to die in an abandoned mine. Marstin Hardgrove was orphaned at a young age, forced to live on the streets, and needed to turn to thievery to survive. In the icy north exists a young orphan, and a war on a microscopic scale. ![]() ![]() and India, a frequent collaborator with multimedia performance groups based in New York, and serves on the Board of Kweli Journal. She lives in New York City with her family and teaches at Spalding University’s brief-residency MFA in Writing Program. ![]() ![]() in American Cultural Studies and an MFA in Writing. etina (cs) Deutsch (de) English (en) Español. Also an audio book narrator, she received a Grammy for her narration of I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World-and multiple Audies for other work. You have given me a country by Neela Vaswani, 2010, Sarabande Books edition, in English - 1st ed. She is the recipient of the American Book Award, a PEN/O.Henry Prize, the ForeWord Book of the Year Gold Medal, the Italo Calvino Prize for Emerging Writers, and other literary honors. Neela Vaswani is the author of the short story collection, Where the Long Grass Bends the mixed-genre memoir, You Have Given Me a Country the middle-grade novel, Same Sun Here (co-written with Silas House), and the picture book, This is My Eye (author and illustrator). ![]() ![]() ![]() You don't have to like sports to like this novel. ![]() The brilliance of Habash is reminding us that life is a thriller, especially for a young man involved in college competitive sporting. Even if you could not really call this a thriller, it is written with that crazy intensity. The narrator is Stephen himself, and one of the great merits of the novel is that you never know what is going to happen next. ![]() Through Stephen we see a whole universe of the troubled and troubling people which surround him, his peers, teachers, his deceased parents, his crazy aunt. In this day and age of literary and politically correct stereotypes, Stephen is a full fledged human being, alienated but not crazy, determined to win because winning is meaning. Stephen is the narrator, and he is as human and real a character as you are likely to come into contemporary fiction. The intensity and precision with which Habash goes into the mind of the lead character, the lonely, brilliant, borderline crazy and determined Stephen Florida is dazzling. I'm amazed that this book was not on all the best of the year lists of 2017. Gabe Habash presents himself as a major talent with his debut. ![]() |