Author: Bernard de MandevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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The fable of the Bees
Author: Bernard de MandevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits
Author: Bernard MandevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charity-schools
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
The Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits
Author: Bernard MandevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charity-schools
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Reflections Upon Laughter
Author: Francis HutchesonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Laughter
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings
Author: Emilie Du ChâteletPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226168085
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Though most historians remember her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie Du Châtelet (1706–49) was an accomplished writer in her own right, who published multiple editions of her scientific writings during her lifetime, as well as a translation of Newton’s Principia Mathematica that is still the standard edition of that work in French. Had she been a man, her reputation as a member of the eighteenth-century French intellectual elite would have been assured. In the 1970s, feminist historians of science began the slow work of recovering Du Châtelet’s writings and her contributions to history and philosophy. For this edition, Judith P. Zinsser has selected key sections from Du Châtelet’s published and unpublished works, as well as related correspondence, part of her little-known critique of the Old and New Testaments, and a treatise on happiness that is a refreshingly uncensored piece of autobiography—making all of them available for the first time in English. The resulting volume will recover Châtelet’s place in the pantheon of French letters and culture.
To Bee Or Not to Bee
Author: John PenberthyPublisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402747656
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Peppered with aphorisms and laced with wit and humour, this text is a clever, inspirational allegory about living life to its fullest.
Of Bees and Mist
Author: Erick SetiawanPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416598480
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Erick Setiawan's richly atmospheric debut is a beautiful, engrossing fable of three generations of women in two families; their destructive jealousies, their loves and losses, their sacrifices and deeply rooted deceptions, and their triumphs. Of Bees and Mist is a fable of one woman's determination to overcome the haunting magic that is created by the people she loves and the oppressive secrets behind their broken lives. Raised in a sepulchral house where ghosts dwell in mirrors, Meridia spends her childhood feeling neglected and invisible. Every evening her father vanishes inside a blue mist without so much as an explanation, and her mother spends her days beheading cauliflowers in the kitchen. At sixteen, desperate to escape, Meridia marries a tenderhearted young man. Little does she suspect that his family is harboring secrets of their own. There is a grave hidden in the garden. There are two sisters groomed from birth to despise each other. And there is Eva, the formidable matriarch whose grievances swarm the air like an army of bees—the wickedest mother-in-law imaginable. Erick Setiawan takes Meridia on a tumultuous ride of hope and heartbreak as she struggles to keep her young family together and discovers long-kept secrets about her own past as well as the shocking truths about her husband's family.
Aesop's Fables
Author: AesopPublisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853261282
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.
The Secret Life of Bees
Author: Sue Monk KiddPublisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0143124323
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Now in paperback comes the intoxicating debut novel of "one motherless daughter's discovery of ... the strange and wondrous places we find love" ("The Washington Post"). Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing work is set in South Carolina in 1964.
Ned Kelly and the City of Bees
Author: Thomas KeneallyPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504038681
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Ned Kelly would never have imagined shrinking his size in order to escape the dreary hospital bed where he’s recovering from appendicitis. But, that’s exactly what Apis, his new friend (who happens to be a bee), helps him do with the aid of a special gold liquid. At apian size, Ned flies off with Apis and Nancy Clancy (who speaks only in rhyme) to try life in the hive. Although he questions some of their practices, like disposing of old drones who can’t work anymore, Ned soon makes friends with the bees, including Romeo, a drone lovesick for the Queen, Basil, a drone-rights activist, and even the haughty Queen herself.