Alex's fervent love for adventure and thrill-seeking video games overshadowed his academic responsibilities from a young age. Despite his parents' efforts to encourage him to focus on school, he remained disinterested, believing that his true calling lay in creating video games. Driven by a desire to inspire future generations, Alex aspires to become a video game designer, prioritizing his passion over traditional education.
The narrative follows Etienne, who has transformed from a bullied child into a figure of strength and fear among his peers. As he and his friends navigate their newfound powers, a shift in circumstances threatens their confidence and camaraderie, forcing them back into a combative mindset. With looming challenges ahead, Etienne must confront formidable opponents that test his abilities and resolve. The story explores themes of growth, courage, and the struggle to maintain one's identity amidst external pressures.
Set in the late 19th century, this reprint captures the experiences of Uncle Ben as he navigates a world filled with hypocrisy. The narrative explores themes of integrity and moral conflict, offering a critical lens on societal norms of the time. Through Uncle Ben's encounters, the story delves into the complexities of human nature and the challenges of maintaining one's principles amidst deceit. This edition preserves the authenticity of the original text, inviting readers to reflect on the timeless relevance of its message.
Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In The Outward Mind, Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an important origin point for current attempts to understand art or beauty using the tools of the sciences. Moving chronologically from natural theology in the early nineteenth century to laboratory psychology in the early twentieth, Morgan draws on little-known archives of Victorian intellectuals such as William Morris, Walter Pater, John Ruskin, and others to argue that scientific studies of mind and emotion transformed the way writers and artists understood the experience of beauty and effectively redescribed aesthetic judgment as a biological adaptation. Looking beyond the Victorian period to humanistic critical theory today, he also shows how the historical relationship between science and aesthetics could be a vital resource for rethinking key concepts in contemporary literary and cultural criticism, such as materialism, empathy, practice, and form. At a moment when the tumultuous relationship between the sciences and the humanities is the subject of ongoing debate, Morgan argues for the importance of understanding the arts and sciences as incontrovertibly intertwined.