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Author : Rivers
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Book Synopsis Nexus of Illusions by : Rivers
Download or read book Nexus of Illusions written by Rivers. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phoenix Rivers
Release : 2023-06-15
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Book Synopsis The Nexus of Illusions by : Phoenix Rivers
Download or read book The Nexus of Illusions written by Phoenix Rivers. This book was released on 2023-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Nexus of Illusions: A Journey through the Mind's Eye" is a spellbinding tale that sparks the imagination, challenges perception, and celebrates the transformative power of dreams.
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Release : 2021-03-23
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Lost Souls by : Honoré de Balzac
Download or read book Lost Souls written by Honoré de Balzac. This book was released on 2021-03-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first new translation of Balzac’s 1847 novel Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes in half a century, fully annotated and with an extensive introduction In Lost Souls, Honoré de Balzac’s brilliant evocation of nineteenth-century Paris, we enter a world of glittering wealth and grinding poverty, teeming with strivers, poseurs, and pleasure seekers along with those who struggle merely to survive. Between the heights of Parisian society and the criminal world lurking underneath, fate is about to catch up with Lucien de Rubempré, last seen in Lost Illusions, as his literary aspirations, his love for the courtesan Esther van Gobseck, and his scheme to marry the wealthy Clotilde become entangled in the cunning and ultimately disastrous ambitions of the Abbé Herrera, a villain for the ages. An extraordinary volume in Balzac’s vast Human Comedy (in which he endeavored to capture all of society), Lost Souls appears here in its first new English translation in half a century. Keenly attuned to the acerbic charm and subtleties of Balzac’s prose, this edition also includes an introduction presenting thorough biographical, literary, and historical context, as well as extensive notes throughout the text—an invaluable resource for today’s readers as they navigate Balzac’s copious allusions to classical and contemporaneous politics and literature.
Author : Bill Valiontis
Release : 2023-12-28
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Artifact Of Time by : Bill Valiontis
Download or read book The Artifact Of Time written by Bill Valiontis. This book was released on 2023-12-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a distant future, the time-traveling historian, Elysia, found herself amidst the towering remnants of an advanced civilization long forgotten by the ebb and flow of time. She discovers a mysterious artifact that will transcended the boundaries of time itself.
Author : Bruce Hood
Release : 2012-06-15
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis The Self Illusion by : Bruce Hood
Download or read book The Self Illusion written by Bruce Hood. This book was released on 2012-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us believe that we are unique and coherent individuals, but are we? The idea of a "self" has existed ever since humans began to live in groups and become sociable. Those who embrace the self as an individual in the West, or a member of the group in the East, feel fulfilled and purposeful. This experience seems incredibly real but a wealth of recent scientific evidence reveals that this notion of the independent, coherent self is an illusion - it is not what it seems. Reality as we perceive it is not something that objectively exists, but something that our brains construct from moment to moment, interpreting, summarizing, and substituting information along the way. Like a science fiction movie, we are living in a matrix that is our mind. In The Self Illusion, Dr. Bruce Hood reveals how the self emerges during childhood and how the architecture of the developing brain enables us to become social animals dependent on each other. He explains that self is the product of our relationships and interactions with others, and it exists only in our brains. The author argues, however, that though the self is an illusion, it is one that humans cannot live without. But things are changing as our technology develops and shapes society. The social bonds and relationships that used to take time and effort to form are now undergoing a revolution as we start to put our self online. Social networking activities such as blogging, Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter threaten to change the way we behave. Social networking is fast becoming socialization on steroids. The speed and ease at which we can form alliances and relationships is outstripping the same selection processes that shaped our self prior to the internet era. This book ventures into unchartered territory to explain how the idea of the self will never be the same again in the online social world.
