[PDF] All Men Are Mortal eBook

Author : Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393308457

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After a beautiful and accomplished young actress revives a downcast stranger at a French resort, he reveals that he is immortal.

Author : Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0679724516

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The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.

Author : Steven London
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
ISBN : 9781980971467

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For nearly seven continuous years the "Warriors" maintained a combat presence in some of the most austere and remote locations during the height of the war in Afghanistan. Through written accounts, photographs and interviews, the soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment illuminate the shadows of war to provide personal insight into the tolls of combat. From its opening words to its closing remarks, 'Mortal Men, Immortal Warriors' leads you across an uncharted terrain within narrative non-fiction. Journey alongside with them in this compelling tribute to one of the United States Army's unsung military units.

Author : Thomas Nagel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 15,10 MB
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107604710

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Preface Sources 1 Death 2 The absurd 3 Moral luck 4 Sexual perversion 5 War and massacre 6 Ruthlessness in public life 7 The policy of preference 8 Equality 9 The fragmentation of value 10 Ethics without biology 11 Brain bisection and the unity of consciousness 12 What is it like to be a bat? 13 Panpsychism 14 Subjective and objective Index.

Author : Norman Rush
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307789365

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The greatly anticipated new novel by Norman Rush—whose first novel, Mating, won the National Book Award and was everywhere acclaimed—is his richest work yet. It is at once a political adventure, a social comedy, and a passionate triangle. It is set in the 1990s in Botswana—the African country Rush has indelibly made his own fictional territory. Mortals chronicles the misadventures of three ex-pat Americans: Ray Finch, a contract CIA agent, operating undercover as an English instructor in a private school, who is setting out on perhaps his most difficult assignment; his beautiful but slightly foolish and disaffected wife, Iris, with whom he is obsessively in love; and Davis Morel, an iconoclastic black holistic physician, who is on a personal mission to “lift the yoke of Christian belief from Africa.” The passions of these three entangle them with a local populist leader, Samuel Kerekang, whose purposes are grotesquely misconstrued by the CIA, fixated as the agency is on the astonishing collapse of world socialism and the simultaneous, paradoxical triumph of radical black nationalism in South Africa, Botswana’s neighbor. And when a small but violent insurrection erupts in the wild northern part of the country, inspired by Kerekang but stoked by the erotic and political intrigues of the American trio—the outcome is explosive and often explosively funny. Along the way, there are many pleasures. Letters from Ray’s brilliantly hostile brother and Iris’s woebegone sister provide a running commentary on contemporary life in America. Africa and Africans are powerfully evoked, and the expatriate scene is cheerfully skewered. Through lives lived ardently in an unforgiving land, Mortals examines with wit and insight the dilemmas of power, religion, rebellion, and contending versions of liberation and love. It is a study of a marriage over time, and a man’s struggle to find his way when his private and public worlds are shifting. It is Norman Rush’s most commanding work.

Author : Matt Haig
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 23,90 MB
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525522891

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library, “a quirky romcom dusted with philosophical observations….A delightfully witty…poignant novel.” (The Washington Post) Soon to be a TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch How many lifetimes does it take to learn how to live? Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old history teacher, but he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen it all. As long as he keeps changing his identity he can keep one step ahead of his past - and stay alive. The only thing he must not do is fall in love . . .