Tag: books
What is Zen ? — My Wandering Books (Reblog)
History of Zen Zen Buddhism is a mixture of Indian Mahayana Buddhism and Taoism. It began in China, spread to Korea and Japan, and became very popular in the West from the mid 20th century. The essence of Zen is attempting to understand the meaning of life directly, without being misled by logical thought or […]
What is Zen ? — My Wandering Books
Review: Foundation or the best chess game ever! — (Reblog)
Hello people! I hope you all are well! Today I am really excited because I am here with the first review for Sci-Fi Month, and I am reviewing a book that took me completely by surprise, so… let’s start! Title: FoundationSeries: Foundation #1Author: Isaac AsimovPage Count: 244 For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has […]
Review: Foundation or the best chess game ever! —
Fenland Noir! Book Review with Milly Reynolds
2020 Booker Prize Winner — Book Review
The man who printed the world of plants — The Renaissance Mathematicus (Reblog)
Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598) is justifiably famous for having produced the world’s first modern atlas, that is a bound, printed, uniform collection of maps, his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Ortelius was a wealthy businessman and paid for the publication of his Theatrum out of his own pocket, but he was not a printer and had to employ […]
The man who printed the world of plants — The Renaissance Mathematicus
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Meant to Read In 2020 but Didn’t Get To — The Book Lovers’ Sanctuary (Reblog)
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. PREVIOUS TOP TEN TUESDAY TOPICS: December 15: Books on my Winter TBR […]
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Meant to Read In 2020 but Didn’t Get To — The Book Lovers’ Sanctuary
Renaissance Science – I — The Renaissance Mathematicus (Reblog)
To paraphrase what is possibly the most infamous opening sentence in a history of science book[1], there was no such thing as Renaissance science, and this is the is the start of a bog post series about it. Put another way there are all sorts of problems with the term or concept Renaissance Science, several […]
Renaissance Science – I — The Renaissance Mathematicus
Book Review: Good Girl, Bad Blood, Holly Jackson — The Book Lovers’ Sanctuary (Reblog)
“What do you do when the things that are supposed to protect you, fail you like that” A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder seemed to explode over my social media last year – and it warranted the press and publicity once I got round to reading it. Pip Fitz-Amobi’s investigation into Andie Bell’s disappearance and […]
Book Review: Good Girl, Bad Blood, Holly Jackson — The Book Lovers’ Sanctuary
