Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics: Jim DeRogatis: 9781569802762: Amazon.com: Books. Rock Books - The best and the worst. : Music. Bookworm Redditors - List 3 Books that [in your opinion] have made you a better and much more educated , and enlightened, person. : AskReddit. Internet Public Library. Home. I spent the past few months building an alternative to Goodreads. Less noise, no spam, better ratings and recs. : books. 3 Grown-Up Books For The Hogwarts Grad. iStockphoto.com The Harry Potter franchise has its last hurrah on Friday, and fans like me are facing a forcible graduation from the protection of a fictional universe we've always known. I was 7 when Harry began, but I'm 21 now, and it's time to broaden my horizons beyond Hogwarts. But what to pick up first? To me, the perfect post-Potter book isn't an imitator, but rather something entirely different (darker, perhaps, or less padded with childhood optimism) that's laced with threads of familiar territory.
Through striking and unexpected lenses, these three books give new life to my favorite foundations of Harry's literary magic. The Magicians By Lev Grossman, Paperback, 416 pages, Viking Adult, list price: $16. Cry derivative all you want — Lev Grossman's novel, hailed as Harry Potter for adults, is all that and more. Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card, Paperback, 352 pages, Top Science Fiction, List Price $6.99. The Secret History These books aren't the fantastical J.K. What books have inspired you as a web entrepreneur/design/developer? : webdev. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Chapter One A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory.
Wintriness responded to wintriness. The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. "And this," said the Director opening the door, "is the Fertilizing Room. " "Just to give you a general idea," he would explain to them. "To-morrow," he would add, smiling at them with a slightly menacing geniality, "you'll be settling down to serious work. Responds by budding. Mr. Suggested reading. Archaeology and Anthropology Suggested reading for Archaeology and Anthropology (55 kb) You may also like to take a look at the website Discover Anthropology. Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Suggested reading for prospective Biochemistry applicants can be found on the Department of Biochemistry website.
Biological Sciences At present we do not produce a reading list for students applying for Biological Sciences but we encourage you to read New Scientist, National Geographic or any other Biology materials which you find interesting. Biomedical Sciences Introductory Reading for Biomedical Sciences1.pdf (71 kb) Chemistry Introductory reading for Chemistry (7 kb) You may also like to read Chemistry World magazine, and see other resources on Chemnet. Classical Archaeology and Ancient History There is no reading list for students applying for Classical Archaeology and Ancient History, as we encourage students to engage with whatever they find interesting about the ancient world.
Classics Fine Art Law. The 100 Best Books of All Time. Many publishers have lists of 100 best books, defined by their own criteria. This article enumerates some lists of "100 best" books for which there are fuller articles. Among them, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (Xanadu, 1985) and Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels (Grafton, 1988) are collections of 100 short essays by a single author, David Pringle, with moderately long critical introductory chapters also by Pringle. For publisher Xanadu, Science Fiction was the first of four "100 Best" books published from 1985 to 1988.
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