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It's taken some time to come, but I've finally released the new book "The Incredible Eddie Reynolds - Escapologist .... and Womaniser!"
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The inspiration comes from a genuine character in the family who my Gran described exactly that way (escapologist and womaniser). I don't know anything else about him, so the work is all fiction, apart from the historical setting of Sheffield / Britain in the 1930 Read more of this blog post »
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Anarchy, State, and Utopia:
"This is a work of political philosophy arguing for minimal government, the libertarian counterpart and answer to the liberal John Rawls' A Theory of Justice. This is as far from a popular treatment of the subject (such as say Ayn Rand or the like) as"
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"Robert Nozick is a promising young philosophical illusionist whose act at the exclusive Harvard club wows the crowd every night. He can pull a synthetic a priori proposition out of a hat and then juggle six syllogisms while making it all look easy. H"
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| This is a difficult one to edit. As a lay person (read a lot about philosophy / A level qualification but not degree level) this book wavers between being totally accessible - and fascinating - and fairly dense / oblique (and dull?). Still, the good ...more | |
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| An improvement on The Queen of Air and Darkness. The narrative is sharper and the tone suitably darker. However, White still seems to struggle with how to use anachronism and the examples sometimes seem both clumsy AND out of date. | |
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A real disappointment after The Sword in the Stone. White seems to struggle more with his tone here, not quite sure whether to retain the lightness of TSITS or use more gravitas for a more serious subject. Still unique, but not quite so special |
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A real disappointment after The Sword in the Stone. White seems to struggle more with his tone here, not quite sure whether to retain the lightness of TSITS or use more gravitas for a more serious subject. Still unique, but not quite so special |
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| A brilliantly original take on the Arthurian legends, with a very deft comic touch and a smart use of intentional anachronisms. Possibly this book - of the series - tends more towards children and I remember the magic of my parents reading this to me ...more | |
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| A brilliantly original take on the Arthurian legends, with a very deft comic touch and a smart use of intentional anachronisms. Possibly this book - of the series - tends more towards children and I remember the magic of my parents reading this to me ...more | |
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Let me say straight off the bat that I love The Band, I think Bob Dylan is the greatest songwriter in popular music, The Basement Tapes is one of my favourite albums and Marcus's "Mystery Train" is my favourite book on music. All of which makes this a ...more |
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| My guess is that unless you're at degree level philosophy there will be parts of this book that will be a struggle, but Chalmers does a pretty good job of keeping an enormously complex - and elusive - subject accessible to most of the readers, most o ...more | |
