Bandon Public Library

For every mother who desires to cultivate a lasting foundation of curiosity and wonder for her children from home, whilst continuing a rich life of learning for herself. "Modern Miss Mason is your invitation into an adventure, a call to turn a corner on your already incredible journey of parenting and let Leah Boden show you the fresh face of an age-old perspective on motherhood, childhood, and education. As a young mother and new home educator,...

From worrying when excited to forgiving while still hurting, children experience everyday paradoxes as they embrace their full potential.

Un menú pitagórico vegano, un menú kantiano servido a la hora en punto, una comida medieval con fondo de Carmina Burana o un Banquete digno del mejor Sócrates. Un ameno recorrido por lo que pensaron sobre la comida —y lo que comieron o bebieron— algunos de los filósofos más ilustres. Mediado el siglo XIX, el pintoresco pensador alemán Eugen von Vaerst escribió un delicioso texto titulado Gastrosophie, una elegía hedonista a la comunión...

¿En qué consiste ser mujer? ¿Depende de unas características objetivas, o basta con sentirse como tal? En este libro, Kathleen Stock articula una crítica incisiva y sólidamente argumentada a la principal tesis de la identidad de género, según la cual el género que cada cual "siente" y se adscribe de forma subjetiva es más relevante que la realidad objetiva del sexo biológico, cuya existencia llega incluso a negarse. La profesora Kathleen...

"One of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between them. For centuries, we have searched for these laws by studying the results of experiments. Since the 1970s, however, experiments at the world's most powerful atom-smashers have offered few new clues. So some of the...

Byung-Chul Han reflexiona en este ensayo sobre la crisis temporal contemporánea, en diálogo con Nietzsche y Heidegger. La fugacidad de cada instante y la ausencia de un ritmo que dé un sentido a la vida y a la muerte, nos sitúa ante un nuevo escenario temporal, que ya ha dejado atrás la noción del tiempo como narración. Según Byung-Chul Han, no estamos ante una aceleración del tiempo, sino ante la atomización y dispersión temporal —a...

"For most of the 2,000-plus years since its foundation as a discipline by ancient Greek thinkers, rhetoric-the art of using language to persuade-was a keystone of a Western education. But in the early 20th century, studying rhetoric fell out of fashion. In The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself, Robin Reames, one of the world's leading scholars of rhetoric, argues that it's high time to bring it back. Drawing on examples ranging from the Sophist...

"From the eponymous subject of the beloved classic Tuesdays with Morrie comes an insightful, poignant masterpiece on staying vibrant and connected for life. Who am I really? What have I done? What is important and meaningful to me? What difference does it make that I have lived? What does it mean to be truly human, and where am I on that scale? Morrie Schwartz, the beloved subject of the classic, multimillion-copy number one bestseller Tuesdays with...

What’s a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what’s contemporary culture sup­posed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the “white elephant” role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing range of answers.
A constellation of previously published pieces and new essays as provocative and idiosyncratic as any he’s...

"Far from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon holds the answers to some of science's central questions. Silent, dry, and barren, Earth's 4.34-billion-year-old companion is essential to life on earth. Its gravity stabilized the Earth's orbit, and, as it once guided evolution, its tide stirring up nutrients that fostered complex life, it now influences everything from animal migrations and reproduction to the movements of plants' leaves....