Bøger af Roger Taylor

Therese & Tiamat is a novella and a fantasy, but rooted in real history. It is about the unnoticed, their enemies, about their escape and their dream-time. Its subject is a French woman, largely unnoticed, alive in the C18th, who was midwife to the French Revolution and its Terror. Therese Levasseur is this woman. She lived with Jean Jacques Rousseau as his servant. A reputed dullard and shrew. She was scolding ditch-water in the eyes of the intelligentsia and so they were blind to how she was a tributary leading back to the sea of Tiamat. Tiamat is a Babylonian sea-dragon and goddess. She is pure myth. She represents life in the warm waters of the primeval sea before the urge to leave these waters and be human: life before culture and civilization, life as ecstatic dream. It is this Therese glimpses as she comes to terms with Rousseau's betrayal of her and the trauma it introduces into her life. Her way back to Tiamat requires the destruction of her society and she does this by leading Rousseau's theoretical enterprise far beyond territory he would ever have had the courage or desire to cross alone. She is the unseen muse in Rousseau's life, she drives him mad and then she kills him.

A philosophical work on the theory of consciousness. This book gives a new dimension to 'the hard problem' confronting the myopia of smart, scientific and philosophical accounts of consciousness.The author Roger Taylor writes: "Well I am not saying to consciousness GBWY, it is just, as my years advance, I am closing in on not being conscious, ever again, and, in Cartesian spirit, it is tempting to say, if I am not conscious ever again then I am not (not now but when I am never conscious again). This though just like the Cogito is not conclusive. We say 'she is not conscious she is asleep'. But if she is dreaming to an extent she is conscious. If asleep and not dreaming, a loud noise or a shaking will awaken her and how is this possible unless to an extent she is conscious, or is this like there being an on and off switch. What though if she is in a coma? We do not know but she may well not be capable of dreaming at all, and a loud noise will not restore her to consciousness, yet it is not that she is not. And what if from being in a coma she goes on to die? We cannot say that while in the coma she was not. 'If I am dead I am not' is the stronger candidate. But if I am not conscious, ever again, this surely is tantamount to not being. Perhaps my point is that saying 'hello' to consciousness and saying 'goodbye' to consciousness depends on consciousness: without consciousness neither is possible. And of course, as previous remarks imply, the existence of consciousness does not depend upon such higher-order abilities as being able to say 'hello' or 'goodbye'. But for physical things of a certain kind, having consciousness is a discovery within consciousness and this allows a consciousness of the end of consciousness, and so to an inclination to understand what it is one has but will sometime lose, not in the sense of being intact but missing a limb but in the sense of a complete self-erasure, erasure of the self. But this language of the self is dangerous although convenient, like Allen Ginsberg talking of the soul but going on to say 'I mean that which differs man from thing, i.e. person -not mere mental consciousness- but feeling bodily consciousness.' Ginsberg, TLS, August 6, 1964."

Arnold-Baker on Local Council Administration, often referred to as 'the bible', is a complete statement of the law relating to parish and community councils, in the form of an extensive though succinct narrative accompanied by comprehensive statutory materials.

From Unmi Abkin and Roger Taylor, owners of the popular western Massachusetts restaurant Coco and The Cellar Bar, come the secrets to creating bold, balanced dishes built on the foundational flavours of Asian cooking in the home kitchen.

George Washington Wilson is the definitive account of one of Scotland's leading photographers of the Victorian era and comes complete with 3-D stereo images and a 3-D viewer. Roger Taylor, the world's foremost authority on George Washington Wilson, presents a stunning view into the life and work of this singular artist.

Greater transparency is increasingly seen as the answer to a wide range of social issues by governments, NGOs and businesses around the world. However, evidence of its impact is mixed. Using case studies from around the world including India, Tanzania, the UK and US, Transparency and the open society surveys the adoption of transparency globally, providing an essential framework for assessing its likely performance as a policy and the steps that can be taken to make it more effective. It addresses the role of transparency in the context of growing use by governments and businesses of surveillance and database driven decision making. The book is written for anyone involved in the use of transparency whether campaigning from outside or working inside government or business to develop policies.

The NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Interfaces, Quantum Wells and Superlattices" was held from August 16th to 29th, 1987, in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Aimed at the field geologist working without technical support, this book covers textural recognition, beginning with infill, alteration and overprinting and ending with a detailed examination of textures associated with tectonic and intrusive breccias.

The NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Interfaces, Quantum Wells and Superlattices" was held from August 16th to 29th, 1987, in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

This illustrated book serves as a field guide to gossans and leached outcops for exploration geologists and prospectors. The only modern text on the subject, it is a senior undergraduate text and is also a guide for lecture teaching.

Presents a collection of Carroll photographs, and illuminates his relationships with the children he photographed in light of the idealism and social conventions of the day.