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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 metaphors), as special cases of "bisociation"he regards many different mental phenomena based on comparison (such as analogies, metaphors, parables, allegories, jokes, identification, role-playing, acting, personification, anthropomorphism etcit lays out koestler's attempt to develop an elaborate general theory of human creativityfirst published in ; this is the scarcer danube edition, with a new preface by the authorsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreunclipped d/j is tatty with a number of tears around the edgeshence low price for this itemone or two underlinings in pen; one or two marginal annotations in pencil - otherwise clean/intactoxfam bookshop newport a study of the processes of discovery, invention, imagination and creativity in humour, science, and the arts
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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 scalesee oxfam website for delivery information read moredisc and case in very good conditionoxfam 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 happen
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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 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 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 more
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Other famous names include the spies kim philby and anthony bluntby 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) etcedmunds 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 itsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe 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 ebrooxfam books & music bury stthis is a highly informative and interesting work covering a period of military history that has been largely neglected
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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 morefirst published ; this is the scarcer danube edition ofsee oxfam website for delivery information read moretext block is clean/intact and free from highlighting or other noteswe had reached the limits of rationalisation and the enlightenment, and the spiritual traditions of asia had something special to teachthere 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 impart fair conditionex-library with usual stamps and markings
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Oxfam bookshop carlisle the sleepwalkers: a history of man's changing vision of the universe is a book by arthur koestlerexcellent pages, some edge and board wearit traces the history of western cosmology from ancient mesopotamia to isaac newtonsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe 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 discover
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