Aquinas, Thomas, Summa Theologica, Editiones Paulinae 1962 Advertenda: 'Cum Summa Theologia Divi Thomas usitatissimus in scholis theologicis evadat, saepius temporibus anteactis forma manuali edita est, ut facilius eius usus redderetur; tamen hucusque impossibile fuit editionem manualem unico volumine parare. Nunc progressus artis typographicae ad hoc optima media praebet et ideo desiderium omnium professorum at alumnorum adimplere nisi sumus, illis Summam Theologiae unico volumine, forma manuali et scholaris, cum typis maxime perspicuis, offerendo et hoc modo magno incommoda editionum in prluribus voluminis evadendo.'back

Augustine, Saint, and Edmond Hill (Introduction, translation and notes), and John E Rotelle (editor), The Trinity, New City Press 1991 Written 399 - 419: De Trinitate is a radical restatement, defence and development of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. Augustine's book has served as a foundation for most subsequent work, particularly that of Thomas Aquinas.  
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Fortun, Mike, and Herbert J Bernstein, Muddling Through: Pursuing Science and Truths in the Twenty-First Century, Counterpoint 1998 Amazon editorial review: 'Does science discover truths or create them? Does dioxin cause cancer or not? Is corporate-sponsored research valid or not? Although these questions reflect the way we're used to thinking, maybe they're not the best way to approach science and its place in our culture. Physicist Herbert J. Bernstein and science historian Mike Fortun, both of the Institute for Science and Interdisciplinary Studies (ISIS), suggest a third way of seeing, beyond taking one side or another, in Muddling Through: Pursuing Science and Truths in the 21st Century. While they deal with weighty issues and encourage us to completely rethink our beliefs about science and truth, they do so with such grace and humor that we follow with ease discussions of toxic-waste disposal, the Human Genome Project, and retooling our language to better fit the way science is actually done.' 
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Jones, Gareth Stedman, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion, Bellnap Press 2016 Acknowledgements: '. . . However interesting Marx's life was, his enduring importance derives from the impact of the ideas he developed in a remarkable series of texts, whose status and meaning have been the occasion of fierce political arguments since their inception. Perhaps in order to steer clear of once violent and still simmering political passions surrounding these texts, scholarly biographers of Marx have tended to offer descriptive account of Marx's theoretical writings, and have preferred to concentrate on his life. By contract, I have decided to may as much attention to his thought s to his life. I treat his writings as the interventions of an author within particular political and philosophical contexts that the historian must carefully reconstruct. For all his originality, Marx was not a solitary explorer advancing along an untrodden path toward a novel and hitherto undiscovered theory. Instead, whether as a philosopher, political theorist or critic of political economy, his writing were intended as interventions in already existing field of discourse. . . . That is why I have paid as much attention to the utterances and reactions of contemporaries as to Marx's own words.' 
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Lonergan, Bernard J F, and Michael G Shields (translator), Robert M Doran & H Daniel Monsour (editors), The Triune God: Systematics, University of Toronto Press 2007 Translated from De Deo Trino: Pars systematica (1964) by Michael G Shields. Amazon Product Description 'Buried for more than forty years in a Latin text written for seminarian students at the Gregorian University in Rome, Bernard Lonergan's 1964 masterpiece of systematic-theological writing, De Deo trino: Pars systematica, is only now being published in an edition that includes the original Latin along with an exact and literal translation. De Deo trino, or The Triune God, is the third great installment on one particular strand in trinitarian theology, namely, the tradition that appeals to a psychological analogy for understanding trinitarian processions and relations. The analogy dates back to St Augustine but was significantly developed by St Thomas Aquinas. Lonergan advances it to a new level of sophistication by rooting it in his own highly nuanced cognitional theory and in his early position on decision and love. Suggestions for a further development of the analogy appear in Lonergan's late work, but these cannot be understood and implemented without working through this volume. This is truly one of the great masterpieces in the history of systematic theology, perhaps even the greatest of all time.' 
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Mandelbrot, Benoit B , The Fractal Geometry of Nature, Freeman 1988 Jacket: 'A rarity: a picture book of sophisticated contemporary research ideas in mathematics. Here, it concerns recursively defined curves and shapes, whose dimensionality is not a whole number. Amazingly, Mandelbrot shows their relvance to practically every branch of science.' Douglas R. Hofstadter 
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Rushdie, Salman, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Granta Books/Penguin 1991 Amazon customer review: 'This book works simply as a beautiful fantasy story about a boy who saves a world of make believe, and can also be taken as a deeper meditation on creativity, the dangers of authoritarianism, the value and the honest weaknesses of democracy, the important of history, and the occasional importance of maintaining an illusion. It is easy to read, great for children, and illuminating for adults. An excellent introduction to Salman Rushdie.' Russell Belfer 
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Adam Ni, Beijing is moving to stamp out the Hong Kong protests - but it may have already lost the city for good, ' But deeper down at the heart of this crisis is a conflict over the longer-term vision for the city – over its soul. . . . Beijing has effectively torn up its promises, made before the British handover, to keep Hong Kong’s political system intact until 2047. In recent years, it has undermined the “one country, two systems” framework through political interference, the changing of electoral and other laws, and the penetration of Hong Kong’s social institutions.' back

Altamira (film) - Wikipedia, Altamira (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Finding Altamira (released as Altamira in Spain) is a 2016 Spanish biographical drama film starring Antonio Banderas, and directed by Hugh Hudson. It is Hudson's first fiction film since I Dreamed of Africa in 2000. It was shot in Santillana del Mar, Comillas, Puente San Miguel and Santander at the end of 2014 and was released at the beginning of 2015. . . .The film chronicles the groundbreaking discovery of stone age cave paintings in the Cave of Altamira in Cantabria, Spain, and the subsequent controversy by leading religious and scientific figures of the day.' back

Deadly force - Wikipedia, Deadly force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Deadly force, as defined by the United States Armed Forces, is the force which a person uses, causing—or that a person knows, or should know, would create a substantial risk of causing—death or serious bodily harm. In most jurisdictions, the use of deadly force is justified only under conditions of extreme necessity as a last resort, when all lesser means have failed or cannot reasonably be employed.' back

Dor Shilton, 'Israel Can't Afford to Be a Sweetie': Martin Amis on Writing, Innocence and Jewish Manhood, 'Amis is already widely recognized as one of the greatest living stylists of the English language. His position was cemented in the late 1980s and early ‘90s, with the publication of the London Trilogy – the novels “Money,” “London Fields” and “The Information” – which, though loosely related to each other, mark Amis’ coming of age. “Money,” the first, was his breakthrough “talent novel”; “London Fields” is often considered his best work; and “The Information,” although plagued by scandals, kept up the momentum.' back

E. J. Dionne Jr., The steep price of Trump's incoherent nihilism, ' Our president has already done grave damage to our nation’s domestic fabric by dividing us against one another, provoking both racism and nativism, and seeking to delegitimize all who stand against him. Now, his nihilism is wreaking havoc on our economy and around the world. This is the place where a slapdash, value-free approach to governing was bound to lead us.' back

Easy Rider - Wikipedia, Easy Rider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Easy Rider is a 1969 American independent road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper. Fonda and Hopper played two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South carrying the proceeds from a cocaine deal. The success of Easy Rider helped spark the New Hollywood era of filmmaking during the early 1970s. . . . Easy Rider was released by Columbia Pictures on July 14, 1969, grossing $60 million worldwide from a filming budget of no more than $400,000.[1][2] Critics have praised the performances, directing, writing, soundtrack, visuals, and atmosphere. The film was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1998.' back

Holy See, Catechism of the Catholic Church - Mary - Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church 966, '966 "Finally the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things, so that she might be the more fully conformed to her Son, the Lord of lords and conqueror of sin and death."508 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is a singular participation in her Son's Resurrection and an anticipation of the resurrection of other Christians: . . . ' back

Jude McCulloch, Jane Maree Maher, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate and Jasmine McGowan, The link between lone attacks and violence against women hides in plain sight, ' . . . violence against women, particularly against intimate partners and other family members, is often part of the biography of lone attackers. Violence against women that are known to these men often immediately precedes these attacks. Just two days before the Sydney attack, a 20-year-old Norwegian man entered a mosque, shooting and wounding one person before he was stopped. The body of his 17-year-old step-sister was found at their home after the shooting.' back

Laura Tingle, Political Amnesia: How We Forgot To Govern, ' This essay is about the role of memory in politics and policy-making in Australia. It is about the dangers of having little, if any, memory of what has gone before. It is about the collapse of the institutions that once formed a safe archive of these memories. I argue that a powerful reason our politics has become not only inane and ugly but dangerous is our growing political and policy amnesia.' back

Link Ray - Wikipedia, Link Ray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray, Jr. (May 2, 1929 – November 5, 2005) was a Shawnee rock and roll guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist who became popular in the late 1950s. Building on the distorted electric guitar sound of early records, his 1958 instrumental hit "Rumble" by Link Wray & His Ray Men popularized "the power chord, the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarists," facilitating the emergence of "punk and heavy rock". . . . Though he began in country music, his musical style went on to consist primarily of rock and roll, rockabilly, and instrumental rock.' back

Marc Cohen, Aristotle on the Soul, ' Since form is what makes matter a “this,” the soul is substance in the sense of the form (412a20) or essence (412b12) of a living thing. Here is Aristotle’s first answer to the question of what the soul is (412a20): The soul, then, must be substance as the form of a natural body that is potentially alive. Note that ‘form’ here does not mean shape, but rather actuality (412a21): Now substance is actuality; hence the soul will be the actuality of this specific sort of body. So the soul is the actuality of a natural body that is potentially alive.' back

Michael O'Keefe, Pacific Island nations will no longer stand for Australia' inaction on climate change , ' The Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Tuvalu this week has ended in open division over climate change. Australia ensured its official communique watered down commitments to respond to climate change, gaining a hollow victory. . . . The cost of Australia’s victory is likely to be great, as it questions the sincerity of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s commitment to “step up” engagement in the Pacific.' . . . If winning the geopolitical contest with China in Pacific is Canberra’s priority, then far greater creativity will be needed as meeting the Pacific half way on climate change is a prerequisite for success.' back

Parmenides - Wikipedia, Parmenides - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Parmenides of Elea (early 5th century BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast of Italy. He was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy, his only known work is a poem which has survived only in fragmentary form. In it, Parmenides describes two views of reality. In the Way of Truth, he explained how reality is one; change is impossible; and existence is timeless, uniform, and unchanging. In the Way of Opinion, he explained the world of appearances, which is false and deceitful. These thoughts strongly influenced Plato, and through him, the whole of western philosophy.' back

Peter Simpson, Chinese artist and author Chiang Yee takes rightful place in British cultural history, ' . . . now, more than 40 years after his death, with a new generation facing new tensions between East and West, a band of academics, writers and readers, have given Chiang the recognition they believe he deserves. It is an honour usually reserved for the likes of legends, and the locations in which they lived in Britain: Arthur Conan Doyle in Westminster, John F. Kennedy in Kensington, Karl Marx in Camden. And Winston Churchill, of course. This year, Chiang has been honoured with his own blue plaque , forever linking him to his place of work and his place in British history – affixed to the wall of 28 Southmoor Road, Oxford.' back

Potential energy - Wikipedia, Potential energy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In physics, potential energy is the energy of an object or a system due to the position of the body or the arrangement of the particles of the system. The SI unit for measuring work and energy is the joule (symbol J). The term potential energy was coined by the 19th century Scottish engineer and physicist William Rankine although it has links to Greek philosopher Aristotle's concept of potentiality. Potential energy is associated with a set of forces that act on a body in a way that depends only on the body's position in space.' back

Redbone, Come and Get Your Love: LIVE 1974 The Midnight Special (Guardians Of The Galaxy), 'Avengers Endgame! From the movie soundtrack. live at the midnight special! ' Lyrics:
Hail (hail)
What's the matter with your head, yeah
Hail (hail)
What's the matter with your mind
And your sign an-a, oh-oh-oh
Hail (hail)
Nothin' the matter with your head
Baby find it, come on and find it
Hail, with it baby
'Cause you're fine
And you're mine, and you look so divine
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Hail (hail)
What's the matter with you feel right
Don't you feel right baby
Hail, oh yeah
Get it from the main vine, all right
I said-a find it, find it
Go on and love it if you like it, yeah
Hail (hail)
It's your business if you want some, take some
Get it together baby
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love, now
(repeat x4)
Hail (hail)
What's the matter with you feel right
Don't you feel right baby
Hail, oh yeah
Get it from the main vine, all right
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
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Rob Knell, Belligerent beetles show that fighting for mates could help animals survive habitat loss, '. . . strong competition between males for mates means that only a few particularly strong, healthy or energetic males “win” and father the majority of the next generation. If the environment is changing, then males that are genetically best suited to the new environment are likely to be in the best condition. If these males end up as the winners in the competition for mating then their well-adapted genes will spread very rapidly. So strong sexual selection could make animal populations adapt faster to new environments, making them more resilient in the face of it changing.' back

Rod Glove & Beth Noveck, To restore trust in government, we need to reinvent how the pubic service works, ' Around the world, the most informed and effective public servants are changing the way they develop policy and services. Australian public servants are eager to do the same, but their leaders are not supporting them to do so. This is the key message from our new research on innovation in the public service, conducted for the Australian and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG).' back

Rolf Landauer, Information is a Physical Entity, 'Abstract: This paper, associated with a broader conference talk on the fundamental physical limits of information handling, emphasizes the aspects still least appreciated. Information is not an abstract entity but exists only through a physical representation, thus tying it to all the restrictions and possibilities of our real physical universe. The mathematician's vision of an unlimited sequence of totally reliable operations is unlikely to be implementable in this real universe. Speculative remarks about the possible impact of that on the ultimate nature of the laws of physics are included.' back

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World - Wikipedia, Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World is a Canadian documentary film directed by Catherine Bainbridge and co-directed by Alfonso Maiorana, released in 2017. The film profiles the impact of Indigenous musicians in Canada and the United States on the development of rock music.[1] Artists profiled include Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Link Wray, Jesse Ed Davis, Stevie Salas, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Robbie Robertson, Randy Castillo, Jimi Hendrix, Taboo and others. The title of the film is a reference to the pioneering instrumental "Rumble", released in 1958 by the American group Link Wray & His Ray Men. The instrumental piece was very influential on many artists.' back

Sadiq Khan, Its no time to play parliamentary poker. Let the people decide on Brexit, ' He [Boris Johnson] has now decided that it is in his own personal interests to pursue an extreme hard Brexit whatever the cost, and to embrace the divisive, backward-looking and illiberal views of the hard-line rightwingers to whom he has handed top cabinet jobs. This is the most extreme rightwing government anyone can remember, and its representatives more closely reflect the social beliefs held in the 1930s than they do the views of modern and open Britain.He has now decided that it is in his own personal interests to pursue an extreme hard Brexit whatever the cost, and to embrace the divisive, backward-looking and illiberal views of the hard-line rightwingers to whom he has handed top cabinet jobs. This is the most extreme rightwing government anyone can remember, and its representatives more closely reflect the social beliefs held in the 1930s than they do the views of modern and open Britain.' back

Shireen Daft, Environmental destruction is a war crime, but it is almost impossible to fall foul of the laws, ' . . . environmental destruction is already recognised as a war crime by the International Criminal Court. The existing legal framework governing armed conflict also provides some protections for the environment. The problem is these protections are inadequate, inconsistent, unclear, and most military behaviour won’t fall foul of these laws.' back

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles (English Translation), ' The Author's Intention: . . . in the name of the divine Mercy, I have the confidence to embark upon the work of a wise man, even though this may surpass my powers, and I have set myself the task of making known, as far as my limited powers will allow, the truth that the Catholic faith professes, and of setting aside the errors that are opposed to it. To use the words of Hilary: “I am aware that I owe this to God as the chief duty of my life, that my every word and sense may speak of Him” [De Trinitate I, 37].' back

Toure, Slavery in America reminds us: Trump is far from an aberration, ' In 1619, over 20 Africans were trafficked to the United States and arrived in Virginia against their will. They were destined to work for free to build European settlements in the new world. In subsequent years, as more Africans arrived and were put to work as slaves, it became clear that there needed to be boundaries put in place to protect the slave trade, so in 1705 Virginia instituted a law requiring non-slaveholding white people to man slave patrols and police escape routes. With that legislation, poor white colonizers were given a social status above the black enslaved people and a clear reason to support the system of slavery. It gave them a chance to view themselves as allied with rich whites.' back

Xan Brooks, Pedro Almodovar: 'I can no longer hide', ' Actually, I don’t think Almodóvar has ever hidden behind his movies. Or if he has, the disguise has never amounted to more than a playful fig-leaf, a bit of powder and paint. In his rude, boisterous youth he made rude, boisterous pictures. In well-upholstered middle-age he made plush melodramas and thrillers. But he’s now knocking 70 and suffering through an undignified low comedy of back problems, tinnitus and spiritual malaise. Pain and Glory, then, is an old man’s confessional. It may also turn out to be his late-life masterpiece.' back