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Book Synopsis The Song of Achilles by : Madeline Miller
Download or read book The Song of Achilles written by Madeline Miller and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfill his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.
Book Synopsis Capitalism's Achilles Heel by : Raymond W. Baker
Download or read book Capitalism's Achilles Heel written by Raymond W. Baker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-08-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over forty years in more than sixty countries, Raymond Baker has witnessed the free-market system operating illicitly and corruptly, with devastating consequences. In Capitalism’s Achilles Heel, Baker takes readers on a fascinating journey through the global free-market system and reveals how dirty money, poverty, and inequality are inextricably intertwined. Readers will discover how small illicit transactions lead to massive illegalities and how staggering global income disparities are worsened by the illegalities that permeate international capitalism. Drawing on his experiences, Baker shows how Western banks and businesses use secret transactions and ignore laws while handling some $1 trillion in illicit proceeds each year. He also illustrates how businesspeople, criminals, and kleptocrats perfect the same techniques to shift funds and how these tactics negatively affect individuals, institutions, and countries.
Book Synopsis The Shield of Achilles by : W. H. Auden
Download or read book The Shield of Achilles written by W. H. Auden and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden’s National Book Award–winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readers The Shield of Achilles, which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W. H. Auden’s most important, intricately designed, and unified book of poetry. In addition to its famous title poem, which reimagines Achilles’s shield for the modern age, when war and heroism have changed beyond recognition, the book also includes two sequences—“Bucolics” and “Horae Canonicae”—that Auden believed to be among his most significant work. Featuring an authoritative text and an introduction and notes by Alan Jacobs, this volume brings Auden’s collection back into print for the first time in decades and offers the only critical edition of the work. As Jacobs writes in the introduction, Auden’s collection “is the boldest and most intellectually assured work of his career, an achievement that has not been sufficiently acknowledged.” Describing the book’s formal qualities and careful structure, Jacobs shows why The Shield of Achilles should be seen as one of Auden’s most central poetic statements—a richly imaginative, beautifully envisioned account of what it means to live, as human beings do, simultaneously in nature and in history.
Book Synopsis Evolution's Achilles' Heels by : Carl Wieland
Download or read book Evolution's Achilles' Heels written by Carl Wieland and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "9 Ph.D. scientists explain evolution's fatal flaws, in areas claimed to be its greatest strengths."--Cover.
Book Synopsis Achilles in Vietnam by : Jonathan Shay
Download or read book Achilles in Vietnam written by Jonathan Shay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. In this moving, dazzlingly creative book, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. A classic of war literature that has as much relevance as ever in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is a “transcendent literary adventure” (The New York Times) and “clearly one of the most original and most important scholarly works to have emerged from the Vietnam War” (Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried).
Download or read book The Iliad written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Achilles' Heel to Zeus's Shield by : Dale Corey
Download or read book From Achilles' Heel to Zeus's Shield written by Dale Corey and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many words and expressions commonly used in English are rooted in Mythology. Dibbley looks at the most colorful ones, briefly recounting the stories of the gods and heroes and their trials and tribulations that inspired them in the first place.
Download or read book Achilles' Heel written by Sean Flannery and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-07-26 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. military defense analyst Bill Lane is on the trail of a Russian sub that was to be harmlessly scuttled. An ex-KGB agent who masterminds the theft is supposed to be dead. But Lane will have to prepare himself for one more surprise when he finally tracks down his target and faces an opponent.
Book Synopsis The Heel of Achilles by : E. M. Delafield
Download or read book The Heel of Achilles written by E. M. Delafield and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I am an orphan,” reflected Lydia Raymond, with immense satisfaction. She was a very intelligent little girl of twelve years old, and she remembered very well that when her father had died out in China, three years ago, it was her mother who had been the centre of attention and compassion. People had spoken about her poor dead father, and had praised him and pitied him, but their real attention had all been for the widow, who was there under their eyes, pathetic and sorrow-stricken. Lydia herself had been “poor little thing,” but Grandpapa and her aunts and uncle had all told her that it was her mother who must be thought of now, and she knew that they kept on saying to one another that “the child will be a comfort to poor Mary.” Her own individuality, which she felt so strongly, did not seem to count at all, and Lydia had, quite silently, resented that intensely, ever since she could remember anything at all. Once her mother had read her some extracts of old letters from her dead father, letters which had once come so regularly every week in thin blue envelopes with the Hong Kong postmark. “Kiss our baby Lydia for me. I hope she is a good little thing always ... some day, when these years of hard work are over, you won’t have to sacrifice yourself any more, my poor Mary....” And, later on, in the last letter of all: “The child’s life is only a continuation of ours, my Mary.” Long afterwards, Lydia, who never forgot the words, came to see them as the expression of man’s eternal wistful attempt to live on in the generation supplanting his own, but when her mother read them aloud to her, in a voice choked with tears, something in Lydia revolted violently. “My life is my own,” she thought stubbornly, “not just a continuation of somebody else’s.” With that acute clarity of vision that enabled her to analyze certain aspects of her childhood’s world with such astonishing maturity, she once told herself: “They don’t love me for myself at all. Grandpapa doesn’t love me the least bit—he doesn’t love anybody. And mother loves me because I’m her child, and the aunts love me because I’m father’s child, and they think I’m a comfort to mother.” She could hardly remember her father, and though at first she had shed tears over his death, Lydia had quickly dried them. “Now, dear, you must be a good little girl and not cry and make poor mother more unhappy than she is already,” had said harassed-looking Aunt Evelyn. “You know you must think of her now. You’ll have to be her comfort.”
Download or read book Achilles' Heel written by Sean Flannery and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-08-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. military intelligence analyst Bill Lane is on the trail of a Romeo-class Russian sub. The sub was supposed to be harmlessly scuttled at a submarine graveyard, and the mastermind behind its theft, an ex-KGB agent named Valeri Yernin, was supposed to be dead. But Bill Lane will have to prepare himself for one more surprise when he finally tracks down his target--because his opponent will be devastatingly ready for him. "Top-flight adventure writer Flannery brings back U.S. military intelligence analyst Bill Lane and his lover, British agent Frannie Shipley, this time hot on the trail of an old Russian submarine, which is said to have been sunk with all hands but has in fact been sold to unfriendly powers. " - Publishers Weekly At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis The Greek Tycoon's Achilles Heel by : Lucy Gordon
Download or read book The Greek Tycoon's Achilles Heel written by Lucy Gordon and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lysandros Demetriou: shipping magnate and Athens' most-sought-after bachelor. Glamorous women compete for this brooding playboy's attention, but his focused ambitions ensure that they don't outstay their welcome! Until Petra Radnor whirls into his life. Her beauty is a lure Lysandros cannot resist—she awakens something within him that he's kept hidden for years. When their scorching desire shows no sign of burning out, Lysandros has to decide whether his need for Petra is a temporary craving or a lifelong obsession….
Book Synopsis The Heel of Achilles by : E. M. Delafield
Download or read book The Heel of Achilles written by E. M. Delafield and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-19 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Achilles Heel of God by : Johnny Mays
Download or read book The Achilles Heel of God written by Johnny Mays and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books purpose is to offer you some thoughts to consider that God is truthful, faithful, and he does indeed have a divine purpose for your life. If you are already, a believer maybe, it will be able to confirm your faith to a greater measure. As the apostle Paul paints his picture concerning the reality of God, this book will help you paint a picture for your life.
Book Synopsis The Achilles Heel of Democracy by : Rachel E. Bowen
Download or read book The Achilles Heel of Democracy written by Rachel E. Bowen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine generated contents note: 1. Societally penetrated judiciaries and the democratic rule of law; 2. The evolution of judicial regimes; 3. Costa Rica: a liberal judicial regime; 4. Government control regimes in Central America versus the rule of law; 5. Clandestine control in Guatemala; 6. Partisan systems; Conclusion
Book Synopsis COERCION: THE ACHILLES' HEEL OF EDUCATION by : ROMÉO GAUVREAU, B.A., Ph.D.,?in B.S.
Download or read book COERCION: THE ACHILLES' HEEL OF EDUCATION written by ROMÉO GAUVREAU, B.A., Ph.D.,?in B.S. and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My goal in writing this book is not to try to instruct you or to indoctrinate you. It's rather to present you with a menu of theories, reflections and certain facts concerning civilization and its difficulties in advancing to the next level. That next level, for me, would be to take heed of and to put into practice the 2600 year old Golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". It's a rule that everybody understands, but somehow, we have not yet succeeded to apply it at all levels of the world's societies. Family is the institution where we apply it the most; although more in some than in others. The school is an institution where the golden rule is sacrificed in great part due to its coercive approach and its lame pedagogy. The government is the institution where it's the least applied, due to corruption and abuse of power, and the omnipresent coercion towards other countries and towards its own citizen. Is it to say that we're doomed and that there's nothing to be done? I tried ...and hope I succeeded in answering that question in this book.
Book Synopsis The Twenty-second Book of the Iliad by : Homer
Download or read book The Twenty-second Book of the Iliad written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reconstructing the Shield of Achilles by : Kathleen Vail
Download or read book Reconstructing the Shield of Achilles written by Kathleen Vail and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the author's reconstruction of the shield of Achilles, using Homer as her guide in the creative process.
