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It was suicide: arthur koestler had been suffering terribly from parkinson's disease and leukaemiaoxfam bookshop cheltenham in march , the bodies of arthur and cynthia koestler were discovered in their home at montpelier squarehe was 77, she was 55see oxfam website for delivery information read morecynthia, his second wife and former secretary, had devoted her life to him and now seemed to have sacrificed it completely
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From describing and comparing many different examples of invention and discovery, koestler concludes that they all share a common pattern which he terms "bisociation" - a blending of elements drawn from two previously unrelated matrices of thought into a new matrix of meaning by way of a process involving comparison, abstraction and categorisation, analogies and metaphorsoxfam bookshop newport a study of the processes of discovery, invention, imagination and creativity in humour, science, and the artsone or two underlinings in pen; one or two marginal annotations in pencil - otherwise clean/intactit lays out koestler's attempt to develop an elaborate general theory of human creativityunclipped d/j is tatty with a number of tears around the edgessee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe regards many different mental phenomena based on comparison (such as analogies, metaphors, parables, allegories, jokes, identification, role-playing, acting, personification, anthropomorphism etcfirst published in ; this is the scarcer danube edition, with a new preface by the author), as special cases of "bisociation"hence low price for this item
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With the reluctant help of diana and abby whelan (rose byrne and lara robinson), the daughter and granddaughter of the now-deceased writer of the predictions, koestler sets out on a race against time to solve the riddles and do what he can to avert destruction on a global scaleoxfam bookshop carlisle action thriller starring nicolas cage as john koestler, a teacher who opens a time capsule that has been unearthed in the grounds of his son's schoolthe capsule contains some chilling predictions, some of which have already occurred, and other still worse prophecies that have yet to happensee oxfam website for delivery information read moredisc and case in very good condition
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With the reluctant help of diana and abby whelan (rose byrne and lara robinson), the daughter and granddaughter of the now-deceased writer of the predictions, koestler sets out on a race against time to solve the riddles and do what he can to avert destruction on a global scalethe capsule contains some chilling predictions, some of which have already occurred, and other still worse prophecies that have yet to happenoxfam shop dumfries action thriller starring nicolas cage as john koestler, a teacher who opens a time capsule that has been unearthed in the grounds of his son's schoolsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Edmunds this book tells the tragic story of the spanish civil war through the eyes of writers, artists and musicians who were deeply involved and close to itby means of chronological chapters covering the major phases the author describes the roles of figures such as arthur koestler, ernest hemingway, pablo picasso, george orwell, esmond romilly, martha gellhorn (hemingway's lover), salvador dali, the poet federico lorca (who was killed) etcthis is a highly informative and interesting work covering a period of military history that has been largely neglectedthe progress of the war is followed from the outbreak rebellion of summer , through seville, the war in the aragon mountains, madrid, malaga, the arrival of the international brigades in , the notorious destruction of guernika by the german condor legion, barcelona and franco?s victorious march, checked briefly on the ebrosee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music bury stother famous names include the spies kim philby and anthony blunt
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So koestler went to india and to japan to test this ideaoxfam bookshop newport this book was written at a time when there was a sense of malaise in europe - people felt that western civilisation was on its last legs and did not have much to contribute any moreex-library with usual stamps and markingswe had reached the limits of rationalisation and the enlightenment, and the spiritual traditions of asia had something special to teachsee oxfam website for delivery information read moretext block is clean/intact and free from highlighting or other notes fair conditionthere was a lot of fear of nuclear war and it was also the time when people began to say that the orient had a certain wisdom to impartfirst published ; this is the scarcer danube edition of
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Oxfam bookshop carlisle the sleepwalkers: a history of man's changing vision of the universe is a book by arthur koestlerhe suggests that discoveries in science arise through a process akin to sleepwalkingnot that they arise by chance, but rather that scientists are neither fully aware of what guides their research, nor are they fully aware of the implications of what they discoversee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit traces the history of western cosmology from ancient mesopotamia to isaac newtonexcellent pages, some edge and board wear
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