Allure of the Incomplete, Imperfect, and Impermanent: Designing and Appreciating Architecture as Nature
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Architects have long operated based on the assumption that a building is 'complete' once...
A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen
David Hockney and Martin Gayford
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The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a...
A Talent for Adventure: The Remarkable Wartime Exploits of Lt Col Pat Spooner MBE
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Books on prison camps, daring escapes and life with the Resistance abound. Pat Spooner's story is...
When the Lamps Went Out: Reporting the Great War, 1914-1918
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"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our life-time". (Sir...
Beauty is a Wound
Eka Kurniawan and Annie Tucker
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A colour-drenched epic set in Indonesia, filled with vivid sex and violence, from the Man Booker...
My Monster Secret: Vol. 4
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My Monster Secret is a new, ongoing manga series that combines both supernatural and...
Jesters_folly (230 KP) rated Ergo Proxy in TV
Jul 18, 2020
Earth had become un-inhabitable and the remaining humans live in the Utopian domed city of Romdo aided in their lives by autoReiv's, androids that act as anything from butlers to children. However, things in Romdo are not as idyllic as they seem, the AutoReiv's are being infected with a virus that gives them emotions, the ruler is close to death and mysterious monster known as a proxy is on the loose . It falls to Re-l Mayer, a female detective and her friends, Vincent Law, an immigrant and Pino, an autoReiv child to go down to the the dead planet and find out the secrets of the Proxy's.
Ergo Proxy is a philosophical story that is almost always questioning what it is to be human, the story is very slow paced giving the characters time to reflect on what is happening.
There are a few times where the plot seems to contradict its self but these issues are solved by the final episode.
The characters are interesting and the story draws on inspiration from other works such as Pinocchio, the Wizard of Oz and Icarus all mixed together in a dystopian, cyberpunk future.
Sushi: Easy Recipes for Making Sushi at Home
Emi Kazuko, Fiona Smith and Elsa Petersen-Schepelern
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Sushi is delicious as a quick snack or as part of a more substantial Japanese dinner and makes...
Dogen and Soto Zen
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This volume continues the work of a recent collection published in 2012 by Oxford University Press,...