Books with author Simon T. Bailey

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are three of philosophy’s greatest contributors. You already knew that. But what you might not know is that they all lived in classical Athens at around the same time. You might not know that Socrates was executed for practicing free speech. You might not know that Plato was sold into slavery for making the Tyrant of Syracuse angry. And you might not know that Aristotle tutored the famous Alexander the Great. The philosophers were part of some crazy world events as well. The Peloponnesian War, the Macedonian takeover, the thirty tyrants who thought they could wipe out Athenian democracy…it’s all there.Truth to be told, there’s not a lot of testimony out there detailing what their lives were like. Historians of those days were more concerned with documenting the perpetual civil wars, and the philosophers’ students were more concerned with recording their teachers’ ideas. However, this book by Simon T. Bailey entitled Greek Philosophers: The Lives and Times of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle is a look into what it might have been like for Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle to live in Athens in the fourth and fifth centuries BCE.If you’re looking for a dry professorial work full of archaeological evidence, then this book isn’t going to be your cup of tea, but if you’re looking for a partially fictionalized rendition of the philosophers’ lives and thoughts that seeks to humanize those marble statues or are looking for something to wet your palate and get you excited about ancient Greek history and philosophy, then this book is your boon.

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are three of philosophy’s greatest contributors. You already knew that. But what you might not know is that they all lived in classical Athens at around the same time. You might not know that Socrates was executed for practicing free speech. You might not know that Plato was sold into slavery for making the Tyrant of Syracuse angry. And you might not know that Aristotle tutored the famous Alexander the Great. The philosophers were part of some crazy world events as well. The Peloponnesian War, the Macedonian takeover, the thirty tyrants who thought they could wipe out Athenian democracy…it’s all there. Truth to be told, there’s not a lot of testimony out there detailing what their lives were like. Historians of those days were more concerned with documenting the perpetual civil wars, and the philosophers’ students were more concerned with recording their teachers’ ideas. However, this book by Simon T. Bailey entitled Greek Philosophers: The Lives and Times of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle is a look into what it might have been like for Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle to live in Athens in the fourth and fifth centuries BCE. If you’re looking for a dry professorial work full of archaeological evidence, then this book isn’t going to be your cup of tea, but if you’re looking for a partially fictionalized rendition of the philosophers’ lives and thoughts that seeks to humanize those marble statues or are looking for something to wet your palate and get you excited about ancient Greek history and philosophy, then this book is your boon.

Billy Mouse often feels like the odd one out. As a small, Tolkien-obsessed son of a coffin maker, he has never really fit in. Then, one September morning, the first day of a new school year, things seem even more bewildering. Overnight, his neighbour has managed to regrow her perm, the ‘Woodcock Drive’ sign has again been snapped off in an ‘amusing’ place and when he arrives at school his new form room is full of older pupils and his class are back where they were the year before. When his form tutor arrives with her dress tucked in her knickers… exactly as she did twelve months earlier, Billy knows something really weird is happening. A glance outside confirms that the new astroturf pitch has somehow no longer been built and then Jess Walker walks in. She was murdered last June...All cats are grey is a coming of age novel that will appeal to anyone who has ever felt like the underdog. Its central character Billy is immediately cast into the role of prospective hero and he realises that he has somehow been given a chance to solve the mystery of who killed Jess and to stop it happening again / at all. The problems are that a) he will have to get to know her properly to help her and he’s really really rubbish at talking to girls and that b) he will have to be strong and brave rather than an undersized and mostly anonymous lad who is more used to painting hobbit figurines.The novel tracks the path Billy takes, uncovering clue after clue whilst trying to deny to himself that he’s actually fallen for the enigmatic Jess. From the boy most likely to be completely forgotten by anyone he meets, he’s suddenly housebreaking, spying, truanting, attacking people with artificial legs and Hello Kitty penknives and getting involved in fights. Well, getting hit a lot...As he searches for answers, Billy works out that literally everybody is now a suspect. Even himself. (What if he is somehow enabling, somehow pushing things on rather than helping to stop them? It is far-fetched but... if the whole time-space continuum is distorted, could indeed anything this time impact upon last time or vice versa? Thinking about it too much makes his head hurt. Like watching Back to the Future 2.)..And meanwhile the clock is ticking and the past / future has a nasty habit of repeating itself...

Memoirs are generally written by people who are well into adulthood and who have led extraordinary lives.So why would Tess, a shy seventeen-year-old, feel compelled to start writing hers? Sure, things aren’t great. It’s 1982. She has fractious family relationships. She has good friends, but she’s too shy to approach boys. There is a boy who seems to like her, and he’s definitely her intellectual equal, but he’s the most unpopular kid in town, and their ‘friendship’ would render her a social pariah if anyone found out.It’s when she’s at a typewriter, or with pen and paper, that she really shines. So, what’s she going to write about? That adults – whether they’re good or bad – wield all the power? Her creepy uncle? Her foray into civil disobedience when she was only twelve years of age? The plethora of quirky types that populate the small town where she lives? Her secret underground newspaper?But what event would trigger a self-conscious and introverted teenager to attempt her life story?Howling on a Concrete Moon is a coming-of-age story that will in turn make you laugh, cringe, and cry as you share Tess’s emotional journey.

Billy Mouse often feels like the odd one out. As a small, Tolkien-obsessed son of a coffin maker, he has never really fit in. Then, one September morning, the first day of a new school year, things seem even more bewildering. Overnight, his neighbour has managed to regrow her perm, the ‘Woodcock Drive’ sign has again been snapped off in an ‘amusing’ place and when he arrives at school his new form room is full of older pupils and his class are back where they were the year before. When his form tutor arrives with her dress tucked in her knickers… exactly as she did twelve months earlier, Billy knows something really weird is happening. A glance outside confirms that the new astroturf pitch has somehow no longer been built and then Jess Walker walks in. She was murdered last June.All cats are grey is a coming of age novel that will appeal to anyone who has ever felt like the underdog. Its central character Billy is immediately cast into the role of prospective hero and he realises that he has somehow been given a chance to solve the mystery of who killed Jess and to stop it happening again / at all. The problems are that a) he will have to get to know her properly to help her and he’s really really rubbish at talking to girls and that b) he will have to be strong and brave rather than an undersized and mostly anonymous lad who is more used to painting hobbit figurines. The novel tracks the path Billy takes, uncovering clue after clue whilst trying to deny to himself that he’s actually fallen for the enigmatic Jess. From the boy most likely to be completely forgotten by anyone he meets, he’s suddenly housebreaking, spying, truanting, attacking people with artificial legs and Hello Kitty penknives and getting involved in fights. Well, getting hit a lot. As he searches for answers, Billy works out that literally everybody is now a suspect. Even himself. (What if he is somehow enabling, somehow pushing things on rather than helping to stop them? It is far-fetched but... if the whole time-space continuum is distorted, could indeed anything this time impact upon last time or vice versa? Thinking about it too much makes his head hurt. Like watching Back to the Future 2.)And meanwhile the clock is ticking and the past / future has a nasty habit of repeating itself...

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