books about: prometheus     books:       Rescuing Prometheus: Four Monumental Projects That Changed the Modern World1 review Thomas P. Hughes Vintage, 2000 Boring telling of an interesting tale Hughes has picked out an interesting subject to write a book about--namely the rise of large scale technological projects in the post WWII world. Unfortuantely, I don't think he's enough of a writer to bring it off. The best popular science/history hybrids bring you a sense of the excitement of the technological advance, a new knowledge of the problems faced and solutions found, and an insight ...             Lobster Johnson Volume 1: Iron Prometheus4 reviews Mike Mignola, Jason Armstrong, ... Dark Horse, 2008 Lobster Johnson - the Iron Prometheus Mike Mignola's Pulp character, Lobster Johnson, whose cameos in the "Hellboy" and "BPRD" series have proved popular, gets a solo runout in this book. Think "the Rocketeer" meets "Batman" and you get the idea. All the usual Mignola Pulp touches and nuances are here - Nazi agents, mad science, enigmatic Chinese gents and huge, world-destroying monsters, plus yet more retro-cybernetic hardware! A ...             Prometheus Bound9 reviews Aeschylus Kessinger Publishing, 2004 Stunningly Modern Translation This is a stunningly modern translation of The Prometheus Bound. James Scully, the poet-translator, has done the impossible, he's turned one of the world's oldest dramas into a can't-put-it-down pageturner. If you've never read the Prometheus or read it and found it dull and archaic, read this translation. Additionally, there's a fascinating discussion at the end of what territory the next two ...             The Prometheus Deception160 reviews Robert Ludlum St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2001 A Fast Read for 509 Pages. The author can write is a huge understatement, the man has style. His descriptions of events, places, & persons can make the reader feel like he/she is there experiencing{breathing, smelling, & seeing it}, what he is reading. He deserves 3 stars just for that. Good action, but not in the over the top James Bond genre, more like the "Saint or Secret agent man." The novel opens in Tunisia, Abu & ...             American Prometheus72 reviews Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin Atlantic Books, 2008 How the bomb got built here first My father spent most of his career in nuclear engineering researching the mathematics of nuclear reactors at Brookhaven. My father had visited all the national labs and got to know all the key players in nuclear physics in the period from 1950-1970. Growing up in that environment I naturally knew a bit about Oppenheimer and Teller and others. It was clear to me that my father had sympathy for ...             Prometheus Rising68 reviews Robert Anton Wilson New Falcon Publications, 1992 Prometheus Rising 'Prometheus Rising' reemerged from my first year at university, a time when people like Wilson, Carroll, Leary and Burroughs rocked my world, and I couldn't understand anything that wasn't said with their language. I decided to go through the book again, this time thinking more about each idea and doing (some of) the exercises. Many things that I've liked in the past haven't survived this test ...             The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the ...1 review David S. Landes Cambridge University Press, 2003 While Europe worked, China and Islam did nothing good I read this book, here in Brazil.This book is good and easy to read.The main idea of this book is that while Europe (and also its son:USA) worked, Islam and China did nothing.In Islam, the religion bought and today bringhs everything linked to VII Century, in the Dark Ages.In China, bad government stoped everything. This book has some failures.One of them are the anti-catholic prejudices, that ...             THE PROMETHEUS DESIGN (Star Trek #5)9 reviews Sondra Marshak, Myrna Culbreath Pocket Books, 1992 Mediocre execution of a potentially great story idea� Seemingly omnipotent aliens are conducting dreadful experiments and hastening the demise of the galaxy in an effort to solve the age old ?Promethean? question of good v/s evil. This story has its moments but in the end it tends to confuse more than enlighten or even entertain. The character of the Vulcan Admiral Savaj has tremendous potential and the insights into Vulcan culture are ...             The Prometheus Project: Trapped (Richards, Douglas E. Prometheus Project)13 reviews Douglas E. Richards Dna Press, 2005 Trapped The Resnick family has just moved to the most boring place on earth, Brewster, Pennsylvania. The kids, Ryan and Regan, can't figure out why their parents choose to take this job. Their parents had been offered plenty of great jobs all over the world and they'd always declined. Then, out of the blue, their parents suddenly tell them that they are moving to the middle of no where. What Ryan and ...             Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persian ...5 reviews Philip Vellacott Penguin Classics, 1961 Excellent translations of the four non-Oresteian plays. Vellacott has supplied us with excellent translations with commentaries on the four non-Oresteian plays. The seven plays of Aeschylus should be read by every college-level student, irrespective of their major (I'm in the sciences and I have enjoyed them). The popular "Prometheus Bound" is concerned with the conflict between force and injustice on one side and intelligence, justice, and ...             Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley Folio Society, 2004             Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound2 reviews Paul Roche Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1990 Force vs. altruism. The Titan Prometheus has stolen fire from heaven and given it to Earth's mortal inhabitants. He is punished for his presumption by being bound to a rock on Mount Caucasus and tortured. Prometheus, who can foretell the future, refuses to tell Zeus the secret of Zeus' downfall. This is a play of the conflict between force and injustice on one side and intelligence, justice, and altruism on the ...             Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley BookSurge Classics, 2002 The story of Victor Frankenstein and his pursuit to unnaturally create man. Shelly?s Frankenstein shows us that when man tries to be God, he ultimately dooms himself.             Prometheus Unbound - A Lyrical Drama1 review Percy Bysshe Shelley Book Jungle, 2007 Prometheus Unbound In the third and second acts of Prometheus Unbound, foundation of a new order meets the audience. But just before it, in the first scene of Act III, Shelley makes the audience see the situational irony between Jupiter's initial pride of his omnipotence and his ultimate collapse. This first scene of the third act reminds me of Shakespeare's Richard II. As you remember, just like Jupiter, Richard ...             The Prometheus Deception1 review Robert Ludlum Orion, 2001 Story did not survive attack of the twists Nicholas Bryson spent years as a secret member of the Directorate, an undercover organization that does the things that go beyond the scope of CIA or MI-5. When one mission goes horribly wrong, Bryson decides to retire and become a professor at a renowned University. Years later, he gets violently in contact with some old enemies and knows that his cover is gone. Quick investigations bring him to ...             Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence1 review Carl Kerenyi Princeton University Press, 1997 An Exciting Study of an Important Mythological Figure Kerenyi's book on Prometheus is among the most exciting monographs on a single mythological figure written since the mid-twentieth century. Kerenyi reviews the origins of the myth of Prometheus in early Greek poetry and the visual arts with thought-provoking references to other mythological, artistic, and literary traditions such as the Hittite, the Roman, and the German. Kerenyi worked closely ...             Prometheus Unbound3 reviews Percy, Bysshe Shelley Black Box Press, 2007 CraniOcean Unbound This book is totally awesome. It's best to read it out loud. I never knew this other side of Percy B. Shelly. Both Percy and his dear wife, Mary, were great fans of what Benjamin Franklin was doing at the time, and taken by Franklin's miraculous discovery of...electricity! This was in the days of the great American Statesmen...Franklin was seen then as very cool and his discovery shook the ...             Aeschylus, 2 : The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Bound (Penn Greek Drama Series)1 review Aeschylus, Gail Holst-Warhaft, ... University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998 Poor translation of The Persians I must preface this by saying that my view of this book is colored by the translation of the Persians, which is the only play I will discuss hear. It is hard for anyone who has read Aeschylus' work to fathom how Slavitt could call his interpretation of The Persians a translation. The fact that he inserts a new character, "The Prologue", automatically qualifies it as a far cry from "loyal to the ...             Prometheus: The Life of Balzac1 review Andre Maurois Carroll & Graf, 1993 Balzac as Balzacian character The immense energy and appetite for life, the struggle to make a ' picture ' of a whole society and world, the vast creative strength that worked as a physical hunger and passion , the working himself all night through endless coffee- drinking, the quest for social status and position, the provincial making his inroads into society, and beginning his long climb upwards, the apprenticeship in ...              search for books aeschylus, against, american, archetypal, changed, classics, deception, development, douglas, existence, frankenstein, industrial, johnson, lobster, lyrical, monumental, penguin, persian, persians, present, project, projects, prometheus, rescuing, richards, suppliants, technological, trapped, unbound, western books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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