This Element supports the Computational Theory of Mind by its contribution to solving the mind-body problem, its ability to explain mental phenomena, and the success of computational modelling and artificial intelligence.
Focusing on the reactions of ordinary Arab-speaking social media users to Islamic State propaganda, this book shifts the narrative from the typical analysis of IS's targeting strategies. It provides a detailed examination of the Arabic discourse surrounding IS from its peak in October 2014 to the fall of Raqqa in September 2017. Analyzing approximately 29 million Arabic tweets, the authors highlight recurring themes and key events, offering insights into the evolving political landscape and the dynamics of online conversations between IS and its adversaries.
The hero-narrator is a sixteen-year-old native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. After leaving his prep school in Pennsylvania, he spends three days navigating New York City. Holden is both simple and complex, making it difficult to draw definitive conclusions about him or his experiences. He is deeply drawn to beauty, almost to the point of being trapped by it. The novel features various voices—children's, adults', and underground—but Holden's voice stands out as the most powerful. His expression transcends his own vernacular while remaining true to it, delivering a poignant mix of pain and pleasure. Like many artistic souls, he internalizes much of his pain, choosing to share his joy with others. This emotional complexity is available for readers who can appreciate it. J.D. Salinger's classic tale of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951 and has been recognized as one of the best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has faced challenges for its candid language and themes of sexuality, becoming a must-read for many teenage boys in the 1950s and 60s.
Terwijl de zomer van 2004 op zijn einde loopt, proberen zakenpartners en beste vrienden Archy Stallings en Nat Jaffe hun platenzaak van de ondergang te redden. Brokeland Records op Telegraph Avenue in Californië is het laatste bastion tegen alles wat naar vooruitgang riekt - er wordt alleen vinyl verkocht en espressomachines komen er niet in. De toonbank is een verzamelplaats en hangplek voor buurtbewoners. Ondertussen hebben hun echtgenotes Gwen Shanks en Aviva Jaffe-Roth het druk met hun vroedvrouwenpraktijk en vechten ze tegen de heersende vooroordelen; nee, ze beoefenen écht geen voodoo. Gwen verwacht haar eerste kindje en komt erachter dat haar man Archy er een affaire op nahoudt. Aviva en Nat proberen hun puberzoon Julius in het gareel te houden, maar moeten lijdzaam toezien dat hij de beste vriend wordt van Titus, een zonderlinge jongen. Dan opent een megastore zijn deuren en dreigt Brokeland Records van de kaart te worden geveegd. De onderlinge verhoudingen komen op scherp te staan en allemaal moeten ze kiezen: jeugddromen blijven najagen of volwassen worden.
Satirisch verhaal over een 13-jarig meisje dat na haar dood in de hel belandt en daar als telemarketeer aan de slag gaat.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune). One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. “Pitch perfect.... Darkly, rippingly funny.... Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.” —The New York Times Book Review
A gang of adolescent terrorists, a spelling bee, and a terrible plan masquerading as a science project: This is Operation Havoc. Pygmy is one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the US disguised as exchange students. Living with American families to blend in, they are planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism that will bring this big dumb country and its fat dumb inhabitants to their knees. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this indoctrinated little killer in a cunning double-edged satire of American xenophobia.
Diary, ca. 1830-1860, of an unidentified traveler in India, Egypt, Turkey and Greece.
From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a novel about a porn queen's attempt to break the world's record for consecutive acts of sexual intercourse on film - or die trying.
*A collection of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the No. 1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favorite Humorist. číst celé
Cavie è un romanzo composto da ventitré delle più terrificanti, comiche, avvincenti, stomachevoli storie che abbiate mai letto. A raccontarcele è un gruppo di aspiranti autori che hanno risposto all'annuncio "Ritiro per scrittori: abbandona la tua vita per tre mesi" e sono stati spinti a credere che lì finalmente si sarebbero lasciati alle spalle tutte le distrazioni della "vita reale", il vero ostacolo alla creazione del loro capolavoro. Ma "lì" non è altro che un vecchio teatro in disuso dove, ermeticamente isolati dal resto del mondo, vedono giorno dopo giorno ridursi cibo, riscaldamento ed elettricità. Quanto più le circostanze si fanno disperate, tanto più a forti tinte si fanno le storie che raccontano. E tanto più ambigui e feroci si fanno i loro intrighi e le loro lotte per diventare l'eroe, o eroina, di questa terribile vicenda così simile al più sensazionale e volgare dei reality show. Il risultato è un susseguirsi ipnotico di narrazioni sempre più estreme in cui lo stile inconfondibile, grottesco e dark di Palahniuk si spinge fin sull'orlo dell'abisso.
Van de brandende zon in Californië tot de toppen van de berg Kilimanjaro, van de rivieren van Costa Rica tot het eiland Skye staan de zoektocht naar waarheid en liefde en het vertrek uit de bekende omgeving centraal in Hoe hongerig wij zijn, de eerste verhalenbundel van Dave Eggers. Jonge, hoopvolle en onvergetelijke personages, superieure humor en de liefde voor het fysieke zijn volop aanwezig in deze bundel, die alle fans van Dave Eggers zowel zal aanspreken door de bekende thema's als verrassen voor Eggers' vernieuwende vormexperimenten.
Al Franken, one of America's savviest satirists has studied the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of slander, bias and even treason. He's even watched Fox News. A lot. And in this fair and balanced report, he bravely exposes them all for what they are: liars.
