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Another Sort of Life

Author : John Calvert
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465326383
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Another Sort of Life written by John Calvert and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spurred by boredom and maybe a touch of mid-life crisis, a political science professor quits the security of academic life and with just the cash in his pocket, a worn-out station wagon and a cargo of books hits the road in search of something different. economy and the highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression. His new colleagues include neer-do-wells, zanies, bohemians, underachievers, and people temporarily or permanently down on their luck. He joins the new poor an unprecedented class of downwardly mobile people for whom university degrees, diligence, and doing everything right have lost their force and he becomes himself a misfit who cant, or wont, hang onto a job. During his travels he makes a catch-as-catch-can living as an adjunct professor, a field worker, a department store clerk, a civil servant, a door-to-door salesman, a janitor, a car washer, a day laborer, even a seller of blood his own. This is a close-up view of the dark (and now largely neglected) side of the 1980s, also of a subculture which lives just below the surface of middle-class American life and which shares neither in its affluence nor its aspirations. Its a fouryear stroll on the wrong side of the tracks, a tale reminiscent of George Orwells Down and Out in Paris and London, yet leavened with a dash of humor.

Another Sort of Learning

Author : James V. Schall
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681490412
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Another Sort of Learning written by James V. Schall and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noting the widespread concern about the quality of education in our schools, Schall examines what is taught and read (and not read) in these schools. He questions the fundamental premises in our culture which do not allow truth to be considered. Schall lists various important books to read, and why.

A Different Sort of Normal

Author : Abigail Balfe
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241508800
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book A Different Sort of Normal written by Abigail Balfe and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I REALLY love it. Buy it for your kids, your parents, your grandparents. Mostly buy it for yourself' Holly Smale, author of the Geek Girl series 'This book is what I needed as a kid! Empathetic, joyful and beautifully authentic. I loved it!' Elle McNicoll, author of A Kind of Spark *The beautiful true story of one girl's journey growing up autistic - and the challenges she faced in the 'normal' world* I'm not like the other children in my class . . . and that's an actual scientific FACT. Hi! My name is Abigail, and I'm autistic. But I didn't know I was autistic until I was an adult-sort-of-person*. This is my true story of growing up in the confusing 'normal' world, all the while missing some Very Important Information about myself. There'll be scary moments involving toilets and crowded trains, heart-warming tales of cats and pianos, and funny memories including my dad and a mysterious tub of ice cream. Along the way you'll also find some Very Crucial Information about autism. If you've ever felt different, out of place, like you don't fit in . . . this book is for you. *I've never really felt like an actual-adult-person, as you'll soon discover in this book... 'Funny, fascinating . . . a rewarding and highly entertaining read' Guardian Told through the author's remarkable words, and just as remarkable illustrations, this is the book for those who've never felt quite right in the 'normal' world.

A Knight of Another Sort

Author : Gary DeNeal
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 080932217X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book A Knight of Another Sort written by Gary DeNeal and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1998-12-10 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Birger's legacy is that of the most popular and, arguably, the most violent gangster in southern Illinois during the 1920s. A Russian immigrant who first proved his grit on the streets of St. Louis as a newsboy, Birger later excelled in boxing and breaking horses in the West. But the coming of Prohibition to the coal fields of southern Illinois provided the opportunity for Birger to become a key figure in a maelstrom of violence that would shock the country. Bolstered by years of research and interviews, Gary DeNeal tenders an insightful biography of this controversial character. Enhanced by newly discovered photographs and a new chapter, the second edition of A Knight of Another Sort brings Birger and his bloody era vividly to life.

LIFE

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1971-02-12 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Another Sort of Learning

Author : James V. Schall
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 089870183X
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Another Sort of Learning written by James V. Schall and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noting the widespread concern about the quality of education in our schools, Schall examines what is taught and read (and not read) in these schools. He questions the fundamental premises in our culture which do not allow truth to be considered. Schall lists various important books to read, and why.

Aristotle and Other Platonists

Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801441646
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Aristotle and Other Platonists written by Lloyd P. Gerson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aristotle versus Plato. For a long time that is the angle from which the tale has been told, in textbooks on the history of philosophy and to university students. Aristotle's philosophy, so the story goes, was au fond in opposition to Plato's. But it was not always thus."--from the Introduction In a wide-ranging book likely to cause controversy, Lloyd P. Gerson sets out the case for the "harmony" of Platonism and Aristotelianism, the standard view in late antiquity. He aims to show that the twentieth-century view that Aristotle started out as a Platonist and ended up as an anti-Platonist is seriously flawed. Gerson examines the Neoplatonic commentators on Aristotle based on their principle of harmony. In considering ancient studies of Aristotle's Categories, Physics, De Anima, Metaphysics, and Nicomachean Ethics, the author shows how the principle of harmony allows us to understand numerous texts that otherwise appear intractable. Gerson also explains how these "esoteric" treatises can be seen not to conflict with the early "exoteric" and admittedly Platonic dialogues of Aristotle. Aristotle and Other Platonists concludes with an assessment of some of the philosophical results of acknowledging harmony.

Some Sort of a Life

Author : Miriam Karlin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178319460X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Some Sort of a Life written by Miriam Karlin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I have never, ever wanted to write an autobiography. The number of times I have been approached and every time I said no, no, it’s a wank” Miriam Karlin is that rare creature: a pillar of the British acting establishment who is at the same time a thoroughgoing maverick. During sixty distinguished, workaholic years of acting, she has been a West End regular and RSC company actor, a pioneering performer on live television, half of a radio double-act with Peter Sellers, a stand-up comic, a scene-stealing character actor in such films as The Entertainer and A Clockwork Orange, and, of course, the truculent, whistle-blowing shop steward Paddy in the long-running TV sitcom The Rag Trade, with her catchphrase “Everybody Out!” Parallel to her career as an actor are her lifelong socialist beliefs, her unerring sense of justice and her political activism. Miriam’s life also has been a long battle against addiction; to alcohol, prescription drugs, gambling, cigarettes, and dieting (she recently revealed herself in the Observer as “the world’s oldest bulimic”) challenges she describes in Some Sort of a Life with great humour and irreverence. Dictated to Jan Sargent as Miriam was recovering from mouth cancer (an experience she describes in a chapter typically entitled ‘Sans teeth, sans f ckin’ everything’) she is compellingly candid about the people in her life: her family (part of which perished in the holocaust), her friends and the eminent figures she has worked with, such as Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellars, Stanley Kubrick, Tony Hancock and Barry Humphries. Above all though, she is utterly honest about herself: her love affairs and abortions, her battles with eating disorders and illness, her gradual disillusionment with the Labour Party and the state of Israel, and her own compulsive nature, which accounts for many of the highs and lows of her fascinating life. Some Sort of a Life is an autobiography refreshingly free of self-justification and recrimination, and full of the passion and earthy humour of one of our finest character actors.

Pleasure and the Good Life

Author : Fred Feldman
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 019926516X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Pleasure and the Good Life written by Fred Feldman and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since ancient times, hedonism has been one of the most attractive and controversial theories. In this text, the author presents a careful, modern formulation of hedonism, defending the theory against some of the most important objections.

Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays

Author : D. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521252522
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays written by D. H. Lawrence and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-07-25 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D. H. Lawrence's 'Study of Thomas Hardy', written in the early months of World War I, was originally intended to be a short critical work on Hardy's characters, but developed into a major statement of Lawrence's philosophy of art. The introduction to this work shows its relation to Lawrence's final rewriting of The Rainbow and its place among his continual attempts to express his philosophy in a definitive form. Previously published posthumously from a corrupt typescript, the 'Study' is now more firmly based on Koteliansky's typescript - Lawrence having destroyed the manuscript. The other essays in this volume span virtually the whole of Lawrence's writing career, from 'Art and the Individual' (1908) to his last essay 'John Galsworthy', written in 1927. The introduction sets these essays in the context of Lawrence's life and work. The textual apparatus gives variant readings, and explanatory notes identify references and quotations, and offer background information.

The Works ... , to which is Prefixed the Life and Character of Him Written by a Particular Friend

Author : William I Temple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Works ... , to which is Prefixed the Life and Character of Him Written by a Particular Friend written by William I Temple and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God and the Meanings of Life

Author : T. J. Mawson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474212573
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book God and the Meanings of Life written by T. J. Mawson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some philosophers have thought that life could only be meaningful if there is no God. For Sartre and Nagel, for example, a God of the traditional classical theistic sort would constrain our powers of self-creative autonomy in ways that would severely detract from the meaning of our lives, possibly even evacuate our lives of all meaning. Some philosophers, by contrast, have thought that life could only be meaningful if there is a God. God and the Meanings of Life is interested in exploring the truth in both these schools of thought, seeking to discover what God could and couldn't do to make life meaningful (as well as what he would and wouldn't do). Mawson espouses a version of the 'amalgam' or 'pluralism' thesis about the issue of life's meaning – in essence, that there are a number of different legitimate meanings of 'meaning' (and indeed 'life') in the question of life's meaning. According to Mawson, God, were he to exist, would help make life meaningful in some of these senses and hinder in some others. He argues that whilst there could be meaning in a Godless universe, there could be other sorts of meaning in a Godly one and that these would be deeper.

Dr. Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris

Author : Charles Boyle Earl of Orrery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris written by Charles Boyle Earl of Orrery and published by . This book was released on 1745 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spirits of Another Sort

Author : M. Cody Poulton
Publisher : U of M Center for Japanese Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Spirits of Another Sort written by M. Cody Poulton and published by U of M Center for Japanese Studies. This book was released on 2001 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first work in any language to focus on the plays of Izumi Kyoka, a major literary figure in modern Japan

Bakhtin and his Others

Author : Liisa Steinby
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857283103
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Bakhtin and his Others written by Liisa Steinby and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Bakhtin and his Others’ aims to develop an understanding of Mikhail Bakhtin’s ideas through a contextual approach, particularly with a focus on Bakhtin studies from the 1990s onward. The volume offers fresh theoretical insights into Bakhtin’s ideas on (inter)subjectivity and temporality – including his concepts of chronotope and literary polyphony – by reconsidering his ideas in relation to the sources he employs, and taking into account later research on similar topics. The case studies show how Bakhtin's ideas, when seen in light of this approach, can be constructively employed in contemporary literary research.

Fellow Creatures

Author : Christine M. Korsgaard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191068373
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Fellow Creatures written by Christine M. Korsgaard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, she offers an explanation of why animals are the sorts of beings for whom things can be good or bad. She then turns to Kant's argument for the value of humanity to show that rationality commits us to claiming the standing of ends-in-ourselves, in two senses. Kant argued that as autonomous beings, we claim to be ends-in-ourselves when we claim the standing to make laws for ourselves and each other. Korsgaard argues that as beings who have a good, we also claim to be ends-in-ourselves when we take the things that are good for us to be good absolutely and so worthy of pursuit. The first claim commits us to joining with other autonomous beings in relations of moral reciprocity. The second claim commits us to treating the good of every sentient creature as something of absolute importance. Korsgaard argues that human beings are not more important than the other animals, that our moral nature does not make us superior to the other animals, and that our unique capacities do not make us better off than the other animals. She criticizes the "marginal cases" argument and advances a new view of moral standing as attaching to the atemporal subjects of lives. She criticizes Kant's own view that our duties to animals are indirect, and offers a non-utilitarian account of the relation between pleasure and the good. She also addresses a number of directly practical questions: whether we have the right to eat animals, experiment on them, make them work for us and fight in our wars, and keep them as pets; and how to understand the wrong that we do when we cause a species to go extinct.

Riding Into Your Mythic Life

Author : Patricia Broersma
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 157731574X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Riding Into Your Mythic Life written by Patricia Broersma and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2007 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By their very nature, horses are mythic creatures that represent the human journey at its greatest. In her book, therapeutic-riding instructor Broersma invites readers on an experiential journey of transformation through these amazing animals.