Its programme of exploration changed the way we saw the universe but, more importantly, it changed the way we saw ourselves.
The game is an elegiac exploration of the way in which we inherit not only our ancestors' likenesses but also, sadly, their traumas and taboos.
Several, in fact - but there's no doubting the commitment of this energetic ensemble to their exploration of "the way human bodies interact with objects".
In her latest solemnly perceptive mystery, THE INDIAN BRIDE (Harcourt, $23), Karin Fossum continues her exploration of the way violent crime can crack open the unwritten laws and social taboos of rural Norway.
Set in 1940 at the start of the Nazi occupation, "Strayed" (opening Friday) isn't a war movie but an exploration of the way war radically deranges people's lives, for good and ill.
It needs some fleshing out: there are some narrative confusions, and it would be nice to see more exploration of the way that Terry is so reliant on the women in his life.
Plum works in the café because she is too fat for the slender magazine journalists, who feel ill at ease with her in their glamorous office.In this section Stones that speak Size matters Stranger and stranger Early days yet Beachcombing ReprintsSarai Walker's first novel, "Dietland", is a curious concoction part exploration of the way society treats the female body, part thriller.
Grossman's book was not only a cracking yarn but also an exploration of the way fantasy entices the reader — especially the teenage reader — with visions of a majestic alternate future, a place where meaningful quests are handed out to those otherwise at sea.
This means that we are more committed to going to other planets — and I'm all for space exploration, by the way — than we are to getting to the more than seventy per cent of our own planet that has never been explored.
