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Author : Frances Kroll Ring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780887390159
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Against the Current written by Frances Kroll Ring and published by . This book was released on 1987-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remembrance of one of America's greatest modern authors by his last secretary.
Author : Isaiah Berlin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400843235
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Against the Current written by Isaiah Berlin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-02 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, Berlin brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times--and still challenge conventional wisdom. In a new foreword to this corrected edition, which also includes a new appendix of letters in which Berlin discusses and further illuminates some of its topics, noted essayist Mark Lilla argues that Berlin's decision to give up a philosophy fellowship and become a historian of ideas represented not an abandonment of philosophy but a decision to do philosophy by other, perhaps better, means. "His instinct told him," Lilla writes, "that you learn more about an idea as an idea when you know something about its genesis and understand why certain people found it compelling and were spurred to action by it." This collection of fascinating intellectual portraits is a rich demonstration of that belief.
Author : Chris Blake
Publisher : Pacific Press Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780816321414
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Swimming Against the Current written by Chris Blake and published by Pacific Press Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Brosnan
Publisher : Michael Brosnan
ISBN 13 : 0435081403
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Against the Current written by Michael Brosnan and published by Michael Brosnan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The schools in Providence, Rhode Island, like those in most large and midsize cities, suffer alarming drop-out rates. In 1989, Urban Collaborative, an independent, public middle school for teenagers at risk of dropping out, was founded. The results have been phenomenal. More than 80 percent of the students go on to graduate from high school. Michael Brosnan uses the stories of the director, students, and teachers to explain how and why this school succeeds where so many have failed. It's founder and director, Rob DeBlois, quadriplegic since a diving accident when he was twenty-one, has had to face many challenges of his own, and the determination, enthusiasm, and ambition he brings to the Urban Collaborative are keys to its success. Rather than just detailing the woes of America's inner-city schools, this book offers new insights into the complexity of education reform and provides practical suggestions for ways our schools can be transformed.
Author : Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Against the Current written by Pierre Elliott Trudeau and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-catalogued Oct04. Table of contents: Part I Studies & travel; Part II Early political writings; Part III On nationalism; Part IV On the constitution; Part V From 1968 to 1984; Part VI Einstein and Ralston prize lectures.
Author : Isaiah Berlin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691156107
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Against the Current written by Isaiah Berlin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-02 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, Berlin brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times--and still challenge conventional wisdom. In a new foreword to this corrected edition, which also includes a new appendix of letters in which Berlin discusses and further illuminates some of its topics, noted essayist Mark Lilla argues that Berlin's decision to give up a philosophy fellowship and become a historian of ideas represented not an abandonment of philosophy but a decision to do philosophy by other, perhaps better, means. "His instinct told him," Lilla writes, "that you learn more about an idea as an idea when you know something about its genesis and understand why certain people found it compelling and were spurred to action by it." This collection of fascinating intellectual portraits is a rich demonstration of that belief.
Author : Barry Cole
Publisher : GoodDog Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0578164019
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (781 download)
Download or read book Against The Current written by Barry Cole and published by GoodDog Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1900,Thomas Cunningham begins work on a device that will harvest the inexhaustible energy found in magnetic fields. At the same time, the largest oil company in the U.S. implements its plan to monopolize energy and will stop at nothing to prevent the emergence of this new technology. This is a story of discovery, intrigue, murder and the dogged perseverance of a family that chooses to go AGAINST THE CURRENT.
Author : Mike Bodnar
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784625388
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Against the Current written by Mike Bodnar and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the Current is an oblique look at travelling through France on a boat by two people with no experience or qualifications, with imaginative asides and whimsies. Would you leave your job, sell your house, abandon your family and friends and move half way round the world to live on a boat? With no income, and no idea what the next day would bring? Probably not. But that’s what Mike and Liz did, choosing to cast off from corporate life to live on and travel the waterways of France. They’re boarded by armed police, nearly lose their boat, and pull a near-drowned body from the water. With a blade against his neck, Mike’s fate rests on a soccer game, and he and Liz accuse a Frenchman of not knowing how to soil a bat. This is their adventure, a book for anyone who’s ever thought they might like to just get away from it all, throw caution to the wind and see what tomorrow feels like. It will take you to the limits, bring you down to earth, but most of all it will make you laugh out loud. Join Mike and Liz, as they go sailing on a notion. Against the Current is an engaging travel memoir that will appeal particularly to boat lovers. This is a book for anyone who’s ever thought they might like to just get away from it all, throw caution to the wind and see what tomorrow feels like. It will take you to the limits, bring you down to earth, but most of all it will make you laugh out loud.
Author : Brian L. MacLearn
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
ISBN 13 : 1622875974
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Against the Current written by Brian L. MacLearn and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The premise: You take two boys who meet at age 12 and then show their relationship 25 years later. One has his promise taken from him by the controlling influence of first, the bully, and later, the grand manipulator. What begins as a story of constant abuse and the struggle to break free, turns into a psychological suspense thriller, as not all is what it seems. The victim is in some ways as calculating as the bully, and willing to sacrifice himself for the sake of others. The power hungry manipulator will stop at nothing to keep his power, and to keep his golden ticket from rising up against him. One moment of bravery becomes the catalyst that ignites the war of attrition. With the help of a kindred spirit, the victim realizes that to break free from the tyranny of oppression, the bully has to be thoroughly stopped. A chess match of deathly proportions ensues within a thirty-six hour period that leaves several people dead and the two men facing each other in a classic battle of, "to the death." Against the Current answers the question of what happens if the bully is still in your life after twenty-five years and you've been pushed hard enough to fight back. The characters are rich and believable, true to themselves. The setting is a mid-sized Iowa town. Evil comes in many forms and wears many faces. Against the Current explores the evil behind the need to manipulate others, and the inner strength of goodness that compels some of us to stand up to that evil.
Author : Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110322005
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Against the Current written by Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present collection of seventeen papers, most of them already published in international philosophical journals, deals both with issues in the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language and epistemology. The first part contains critical assessments and somewhat deviant renderings of the work of two seminal philosophers, Frege and Husserl, as well as of the young Carnap and Kripke. The second part contains analyses of central issues in the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of mathematics and semantics, including arguments on behalf of Platonism in the philosophy of mathematics, a defense of second-order logic, a new definition of analyticity, a sketch of a semantics for mathematical statements and a critique of Kripke’s possible world semantics for modal logic.
Author : Jim Hightower
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470121513
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Swim Against the Current written by Jim Hightower and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "New York Times" bestselling author and America's funniest activist gives the lowdown on how to put up--not shut up--in the fight for the country's future. Hightower introduces readers to people from across the country who are taking charge, living their values, doing good, and doing well.
Author : Barry Strauss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684863308
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Rowing Against the Current written by Barry Strauss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-04-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of the standard, dreary midlife crisis -- complete with wine-tasting courses, yoga classes, and a failed attempt at a first novel -- forty-year-old Barry Strauss falls unexpectedly and passionately in love with rowing, a sport in which a twenty-seven-year-old is a has-been. Strauss, a professor of classics and history, writes about the unanticipated delights of an affair that, like so many others, begins as a casual dalliance and develops into a full-blown obsession. Drawn to the sport in part because of his affinity for Greek antiquity, he develops a love for old boathouses, a longing for rivers at dawn, a thirst to test himself, and, ultimately, a renewed sense of self-reliance -- as someone who had experienced sports humiliation as far back as Little League suddenly finds himself bursting into athleticism at an unlikely age. From the awe-inspiring feats of the war-bound Greek triremes with their crews of 172 men rowing on three levels to the solitary pride of finishing a first race in which he gets stuck in the weeds and has to be fished out, Barry Strauss shows us why "there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half as much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."
Author : Lewis Perry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742522503
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Boats Against the Current written by Lewis Perry and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boats Against the Current provides a fascinating account of how American culture emerged from the sheltered, elitist world of the eighteenth century into the dynamic, turbulent civilization that reached full bloom after the Civil War. The antebellum years were times of flux and change, years of a society rushing into the western wilds, muscular and ambitious, yet haunted by uncertainty about its future and its past. Renowned scholar Lewis Perry begins his study with a fresh look at Andrew Jackson--vividly recreating a time when Americans, feeling their ties to the past disintegrating, fostered a new fascination with history. Then Perry introduces us to the observations of such articulate foreign travelers as Alexis de Tocqueville and Fredrika Bremer. He deftly weaves together these writers' perspectives to provide a fascinating look at our emergent nation. Here, too, are the women of the cities and frontier, the peddlers, preachers, and showmen, along with such writers as Hawthorne, Emerson, Whittier, and Parker. Perry brings these personalities and writings together to show us how early nineteenth century America saw itself, in both its promise and its fears. Now available for the first time in paperback, Boats Against the Current offers a brilliant portrait of a society in the midst of change, expansion, and reflection about its own future and past. Written by one of our leading intellectual historians, it makes a major contribution to our understanding of the emergence of modern American culture.
Author : Albert Edelson
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1482892170
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Sailing against the Current written by Albert Edelson and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like piecing together a complex mosaic from tiny colored tiles, author Albert Edelson sets out to piece together his memories with the sociological, historical, and political factors contributing to the world as he witnessed it in order to create a complete record of his seventy years. In this memoir and history, set in the form of a ship's logbook, he recalls the events of the emotional and geographical journeys that characterized his life. Edelson was set afloat on the torrential river of life in a very dark time. Born to Jewish parents in Belgium in 1941, Edelson survived the annihilation of the Jewish population of Belgium by being separated from his parents and hidden away as an orphan in a Catholic convent. It wasn't until five years after the end of the war that Edelson was reunited with his mother and father. After integrating back into his biological family, Edelson embarked on a series of adventures that took him all over world and exposed him to many different civilizations and sociopolitical frameworks. This intriguing history shares one man's unique journey in short but detailed installments, each a tile in the great mosaic of life.
Author : Shaul Seidler-Feller
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
ISBN 13 : 1644693755
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Swimming against the Current written by Shaul Seidler-Feller and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swimming against the Current comprises a collection of essays celebrating the career and achievements of Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, who served as Executive Director of Hillel at UCLA for forty years and continues to be an influential leader in the Los Angeles and wider American Jewish community. These articles, like the honoree, challenge intellectual convention and accepted wisdom by breaking new ground in how they approach their subjects. They are divided into four categories that hold special interest for Seidler-Feller: Bible and Talmud, Jewish Thought and Theology, Modern Jewish History and Sociology, and Zionism and Jewish Politics. The volume also includes a sketch of Seidler-Feller’s life and work, a bibliography of his publications, and tributes by students and colleagues.
Author : Bob Segalman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578616756
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Against the Current written by Bob Segalman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the Current is a wonderful account of how grit, grace, and intelligence can overcome significant disability.
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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595468764
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)
Download or read book Boats Against the Current written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
