Lifehacks. Free. Computerscience. Fiction. Giallo. The Turn of the Screw. The Turn of the Screw, originally published in 1898, is a gothic ghost story novella written by Henry James. Due to its original content, the novella became a favourite text of academics who subscribe to New Criticism. The novella has had differing interpretations, often mutually exclusive. Many critics have tried to determine the exact nature of the evil hinted at by the story. However, others have argued that the true brilliance of the novella comes with its ability to create an intimate confusion and suspense for the reader.
Plot summary[edit] An unnamed narrator listens to Douglas, a friend, read a manuscript written by a former governess whom Douglas claims to have known and who is now dead. The boy, Miles, is attending a boarding school, while his younger sister, Flora, is living at a country estate in Essex. Miles soon returns from school for the summer just after a letter arrives from the headmaster stating that he has been expelled. Major themes[edit] References[edit] Neil Gaiman's Bookshelves. Shelfari has always been a place where people come together to talk about their books. A place where you can show off your virtual bookshelf and where communities form around your favorite books and authors. It’s no surprise to us that you can learn a lot about someone by seeing what’s on his or her bookshelf.
Which is why we thought it would be fun to take a look at what’s on the bookshelves of some of our favorite authors. What books do they love, or consider to have been particularly enlightening, informative or just plain fun? So we asked one of our all-time favorites, Neil Gaiman, if he’d be willing to give us a peek into his personal library, and he graciously agreed. Gaiman first gained wide acclaim with his complex and literate 75-issue comic series The Sandman, and has since broadened his scope to write award-winning and bestselling novels (American Gods, Anansi Boys), screenplays (“Beowulf”) and yes, he still continues to write comics. The Amazon Kindle: We Like It Very Much. The tag line for the International Lisp Conference 2009 was Lisp: The Next 50 Years. I am very interested in the future of Lisp, and hope to be one of many participants in creating that future.
A widely-read paper from 1991 introduced the world to the phrase and philosophy called Worse is Better, and says that this philosophy should be used for the design of the next Lisp. What does that mean, and what parts of the argument still apply and should guide us? Richard Gabriel and Worse is Better Richard P. He has written extensively about the process by which new technological ideas move to the marketplace. His first essay on this topic is called Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big, originally published in 1989. The part that got the widest attention was Section 2.1, “The Rise of Worse is Better.” It characterizes a school of design which Gabriel attributes to MIT and Stanford and calls “the right thing”. His account is basically right. What does this mean for the future of Lisp?
P.S. Kurt Vonnegut | Salon Books. On about February 14th the Americans came over, followed by the R.A.F. [T]heir combined labors killed 250,000 [sic] people in 24 hours and destroyed all of Dresden — possibly the world’s most beautiful city. But not me. After that we were put to work carrying corpses from Air-Raid shelters; women, children, old men; dead from concussion, fire or suffocation. Civilians cursed us and threw rocks as we carried bodies to huge funeral pyres in the city. Although the young private overstated the number killed during the bombings — current estimates run between 25,000 and 40,00 — his correspondence, reproduced in its original form, is the most fascinating document in Vonnegut’s new posthumous collection, “Armageddon in Retrospect.” The letter — both its candor and its smart-alecky tone — helps us understand how a Midwestern ne’er-do-well became the foremost literary pacifist of the 20th century.
Here, he began working as a writer in earnest. His earliest draft takes a conventional approach. Scientific Speed Reading: How to Read 300% Faster in 20 Minutes. (Photo: Dustin Diaz) How much more could you get done if you completed all of your required reading in 1/3 or 1/5 the time? Increasing reading speed is a process of controlling fine motor movement—period. This post is a condensed overview of principles I taught to undergraduates at Princeton University in 1998 at a seminar called the “PX Project.”
The below was written several years ago, so it’s worded like Ivy Leaguer pompous-ass prose, but the results are substantial. In fact, while on an airplane in China two weeks ago, I helped Glenn McElhose increase his reading speed 34% in less than 5 minutes. I have never seen the method fail. The PX Project The PX Project, a single 3-hour cognitive experiment, produced an average increase in reading speed of 386%.
It was tested with speakers of five languages, and even dyslexics were conditioned to read technical material at more than 3,000 words-per-minute (wpm), or 10 pages per minute. The Protocol 1) Trackers and Pacers (to address A and B above) Book Synopsis of 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy. The World's Biggest Free Book Club - Catch and Release Used. How to Design Worlds: Imaginative Programming in DrScheme. Get the Book You can download the entire book as a single PDF file, free-of-cost.
On this site, you will find the projects referred to in the book, and their solutions (some of which are password protected). Get the Software Please use DrSchemeversion 4.1 (and subsequent releases). If you must use DrScheme version 4 (instead of 4.1 or later), replace key=? With equal?. Revisions 2008-09-01: put the animated GIFs back in, to co-exist with Flash 2008-08-18: updated version information, replaced animated GIFs with Flash Acknowledgment All the solutions in this version were prepared by Danny Yoo (WPI) and Zhe Zhang (Brown).
Are you a User? If you're using this in a classroom (teaching at a University, College, High School, Grammar School, Hochschule, Gymnasium, etc.), please let us know! About the Authors Matthias Felleisen is Trustee Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University. The Book Seer. Books That Have Shaped How I Think. By Tim O'Reilly In The Meaning of Culture , John Cowper Powys makes the point that the difference between education and culture is that culture is the incorporation of music, art, literature, and philosophy not just into your library or your CV but into who you are. He talks too about the interplay of culture and life, the way that what we read can enrich what we experience, and what we experience can enrich what we read.
To make his point, I always like to cite an experience I had when I was fourteen and had just read The Golden Warrior , Hope Muntz's classic novel of Harold, last of the Saxon kings. Harold's story fired my imagination, particularly the idea of the compact between a leader and his people, the compact that led Harold to march south to face William the Conqueror at Hastings, despite having just repelled an invasion by his half brother Tostig and his Viking allies up in Yorkshire. So there, I've told you about two books that made a huge impression on me. 10 Spectacular second novels - Times Online. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide. Discovering a Lost Genre: Safari Stories. Editor’s note: This post is from Chris Hutcheson, a former guest writer, and now official Art of Manliness contributor. His friend, Josh Parchman, helped research this article.
Thanks Josh. Welcome Hutch! The site is even manlier with you on board. “Nowhere on earth (and possibly space either) can the senses as well as the emotions wallow in a combination of stimulate such as are found in the African bush: The whine of flies, the moan of a sway-bellied lion leaving his kill in the carmine dawn, the hacksaw rasp of a leopard in the gloom, the bowel-freezing scream of a bull elephant catching your wind. The musk of sweat-lacquered black skins blending with the smoke of the dying mopane fires; the wild, sweet decay of buffalo dung; the odd, heady cloy of cordite and the conglomerate of red, sun-raped dust mixed with the powdery fragments of crushed, dry, golden grass.
“On safari, there is exhilaration. “In hunting, the finding and killing of game is after all but a part of the whole. Books: 100 novels. The Guardian is publishing lists of novels everyone should read, and here are their science fiction/fantasy selections: As many people have already pointed out, many of these titles are not SFF. But what the heck, right!?! Every time lists like this one appear, I realize that I'm not as well-read as I'd like. In addition, I realize that many books that critics adore put me right to sleep and were a waste of my time. Still, I take heart from the fact that I agree with many of these selections. . .:-) iReadFast. Friends of the George Mason Regional Library - FCPL. 10 Must-Read Books for Geeks.
By Patrick Biz Contributing Writer, [GAS] In this two-post series, I will share my thoughts and recommendations on what I consider to be great books for the geek nation. I have paid attention to cover a wide variety of topics that fall into one large common category: technology. These must-read books can all be purchased online from Amazon. iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It Authors: Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith Publisher: W.
If you want to understand how the Apple fairy tale began in the seventies, then iWoz is a must read. Showstopper! Author: G. Showstopper is the story of Windows NT. The Ultimate History of Video Games Author: Steven L. For you gamers out there, this is THE ultimate book to own. The Google Story Authors: David Vise, Mark Malseed Publisher: Delta 336 pagesBook homepage This book takes you back to 1998 before the PageRank algorithm was born. Does IT Matter? Author: Nicholas G. Don’t Miss Part II.