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    The Atheist's Bible: Diderot's 'Éléments de physiologie' (PDF) by Caroline Warman

    Published 2020
    “…‘Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten’: Denis Diderot’s Éléments de physiologie presents a world in flux, turning on the relationship between man, matter and mind. …”
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    The Atheist's Bible: Diderot's 'Éléments de physiologie' (XML) by Caroline Warman

    Published 2020
    “…‘Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten’: Denis Diderot’s Éléments de physiologie presents a world in flux, turning on the relationship between man, matter and mind. …”
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    Quite early one morning / broadcasts by Dylan Thomas ; preface by Aneirin Talfan Davies. by Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953

    Published 1954
    Table of Contents: “…Reminiscences of childhood -- Quite early one morning -- A child's Christmas in Wales -- Holiday memory -- A story -- The crumbs of one man's year -- Laugharne -- Return journey -- Our country -- Welsh poets -- Wilfrid Owen -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Artists of Wales -- Walter de la Mare as a prose writer -- A dearth of comic writers -- The English festival of spoken poetry -- On reading one's own poems -- Three poems -- Replies to an enquiry -- On poetry -- How to be a poet -- How to begin a story -- The Festival Exhibition, 1951 -- The International Eisteddfod -- A visit to America.…”
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    The complete tales of Henry James / edited with an introduction by Leon Edel by James, Henry, 1843-1916

    Published 1962
    Table of Contents: “…Contents: Osborne's revenge - A light man - Gabrielle de Bergerac - Travelling companions - A passionate pilgrim - At Isella - Master Eustace - Guest's confession…”
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    The complexity of responsible design - key factors affecting the consultant industrial designer's opportunity to implement sustainable design and innovation by Norman Stevenson, Vicky Lofthouse, Debra Lilley, Alistair Cheyne

    Published 2011
    “…Issues such as an ageing population, social inequalities and environmental crisis, coupled with an awareness of design’s potential to have a more positive influence, have raised a wide felt concern (not least of all by designers themselves) for the implications and responsibilities of industrial design’s current role (Sparke, 1987; Whiteley, 1993; Cooper, 2005; Fuad-Luke, 2009; Bhamra & Lofthouse, 2007; Walker, 2006). Design may well be “the most powerful tool yet given to man with which to shape his products, his environment, and, by extension, himself” (Papanek, 1984, p.102) but the real opportunity for designers to affect positive change is determined by a myriad of complex elements, seldom regarded or accurately accounted for in the debates and rhetoric surrounding these topics. …”
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    Politics and poetics in post-9/11 US and UK fiction, 2003–2008 by Mohammad Hazazi

    Published 2018
    “…Thus, Chapter One is concerned with novelistic responses to the destruction of the Twin Towers itself, and it takes as its case studies Falling Man (2007) by Don DeLillo and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) by Jonathan Safran Foer. …”
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    Matters of grave importance: style in Norman Mailer's 'The Executioner's Song' by Brian Jarvis

    Published 2019
    “…in lieu... the opening paragraph. Matters of grave importance: style in Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song …to send my style through a circus of variations and postures, a fireworks of virtuosity… a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching style. …”
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