In the 19th century, pure mathematics research reached a climax in Germany, and Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) was an epochal example. August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868) was his doctoral student whose work was profoundly influenced by him. In the 18th century, it had been mostly the French school of applied mathematics that enabled the rapid developments of science and technology in Europe. How could this shift happen? It can be argued that the major reasons were the devastating consequ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Critias, one of Plato"s late dialogues, contains the story of the mighty island kingdom Atlantis and its attempt to conquer Athens. Critias is the second of a projected trilogy of dialogues, preceded by Timaeus and followed by Hermocrates, though the latter was possibly never written and Critias was left incomplete.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Often considered obscure and repulsive by modern readers, Plato's Timaeus is presented along with a detailed and well-thought 215 page introduction and analysis, which discusses contemporary applications and interest in Timeaeus, insights on Plato as derived from the work, its profound impact on the ancient and medieval world, and long-standing issues with interpretation, among many other philosophical points of interest.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Timaeus, one of Plato's acknowledged masterpieces, is an attempt to construct the universe and explain its contents by means of as few axioms as possible. The result is a brilliant, bizarre, and surreal cosmos-- the product of the rational thinking of a creator god and his astral assistants, and of purely mechanistic causes based on the behaviour of the four elements. At times dazzlingly clear, at times intriguingly opaque, this was sta...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The question The Republic sets out to define is "What is justice?" Given the difficulty of this task, Socrates and his interlocutors are led into a discussion of justice in the city, which Socrates suggests may help them see justice in the person, but on a grander (and therefore easier to discuss) scale ("suppose that a short-sighted person had been asked by some one to read small letters from a distance; and it occurred to some one els...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus AureliusV. 3: Bacon, Milton, BrowneV. 4: John Milton

Cave BlindnessLike Plato's cave-dwellers who only saw inaccurate reflections of reality on the wall, America has been blinded to dangerous realities inside and outside our borders, argues award-winning journalist Mort Rosenblum. Our ignorance is not just deplorable, it is literally killing us—and others.Rosenblum—who has reported from more than one hundred countries, many of which he has outlived—explains how we all can and must learn more about what's really happening in the...

- Analizar, poner a punto y realizar el proceso de ejecución y conservación de elaboraciones básicas de múltiples aplicaciones que resulten aptas para la elaboración posterior de platos con carnes, aves y caza. - Analizar, poner a punto y aplicar las técnicas básicas de cocinar carnes, aves y caza, y, en su caso, de conservación, para obtener elaboraciones culinarias y platos elementales. - Analizar, poner a punto y realizar el proceso de regeneración que precisan las elaboraciones culinar...

Recetas auténticas en un tiempo récord.Una experiencia al alcance de todos, con ingredientes fáciles de encontrar y pasos ilustrados comprensibles de un solo vistazo.Con trucos y páginas sobre los esenciales de la gastronomía japonesa.Con estas recetas japonesas en cuatro pasos podrá descubrir la cocina japonesa, de la que se dice a menudo que es compleja y necesita decenas de ingredientes. Los platos se han simplificado para adaptarlos al d...

Martín Berasategui nos propone en este libro de cocina 84 recetas de ensaladas, elaboradas con productos de temporada.«Las ensaladas son una opción espléndida para todas las estaciones, de hecho en este libro están divididas por temporadas según el producto principal protagonista de cada receta. Hay ensaladas frescas, sugerentes, reconfortantes, delicadas, livianas, contundentes y hasta descaradas... El mundo de la ensalada es un apasionante campo sin puertas, en e...

Love in the Post (2013) is inspired by Jacques Derrida’s book The Post Card. Like the book, the film plays with fact and fiction, weaving together the stories of a scholar of literature and a film director, alongside insights from critics and philosophers.Theo Marks works in a university department that is soon to be closed. His wife Sophie, enigmatic and distant, is in analysis. Filmmaker Joanna struggles to make a film about The Post Card. These people are set on a collision cour...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus AureliusV. 3: Bacon, Milton, BrowneV. 4: John Milton