The 6 most magnificent libraries in the world
Magnificent libraries in the world. We love books, and so do libraries! Whether it is a university library or a public library, it does not matter.
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Reading New Atlantis beyond both the old world and the new
New Atlantis is an incomplete utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon, published posthumously in 1626. It appeared unheralded and tucked into the back of a longer work of natural history,
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Mine Söğüt: Hope primarily means awareness
Mine Söğüt, a Turkish literary writer who has been a journalist for many years, delighted her readers with her latest novel, The God of Others. We asked Mine Söğüt questions about her latest novel.
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Suzanne Goodwyn keeps romance alive in a new venue
Nicholas Sparks gets some competition with “Wrightsville Beach,” Suzanne Goodwyn’s debut novel about romance in Wilmington and its vicinity. One of the lead characters is Hank Atwater. a tall, handsome surfer. Hank went into an alcoholic tailspin after his older brother died. He was just 18 at the time, but since Hank was 6-foot-4, he seldom got carded.
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Why should we read Crime and Punishment?
Classics… Crime and Punishment… Dostoyevsky… “How can I read the 700-page book, do I have time?” “I watch the movie Go.” “E summary is everywhere.” It is not unusual to make these sentences in the internet age, where information is now presented to us like a pill. However, patience, understanding, art and literature are needed most in this period. We need to take refuge in literature in order to get rid of the loneliness of modern people and to hold a mirror to the world and most of all to ourselves.
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What did Carl Sagan mean when he said “The cosmos is within us”?
I have read the 2009 fifth edition of Cosmos, one of Carl Sagan’s most important works, which is one of the few popular science books to enter the worldwide bestseller list. The book, which was first published in the United States in 1980 is a book of Sagan’s documentary series of the same name.
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Sailing into a stormy romance with Beethoven
In order to understand Beethoven and to interpret his works, it is necessary to explore the history of the period in which the composer lived, the political events of that period and the inner world of the composer, as well as the musical terminology. If this composer is a composer like Beethoven, this situation can get even more complicated.
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Harry Potter with the candid narration of his creator J.K. Rowling
The Harry Potter books, which started to make a sound worldwide from the first date their books were published, and actually managed to establish a secret bond between every child and even every adult who read those books at that age, It is a literary series poured from the unique pen of J.K. Rowling.
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15 Best quotes from “Meditations”, Marcus Aurelius’ masterpiece
Do you know Marcus Aurelius? He is the last of the Five Good Emperors who ruled the Roman Empire between 61 and 180 and served between 96 and 180. Marcus, who received a good education in his childhood, was influenced by the Stoic Philosophy, which Zeno pioneered, which argues that being happy comes from being virtuous.
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Thomas More’s utopia: Is it really utopia or dystopia?
2016 is the 500th edition of Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), and this anniversary has been instrumental in celebrations and symposiums in England, where More was born and lived. More is known for painting an ideal world in his work Utopia, which is generally believed to express a radical political view.
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