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In Our Time

Author : Melvyn Bragg
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 144474285X
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book In Our Time written by Melvyn Bragg and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time series regularly enlightens and entertains substantial audiences on BBC Radio 4. For this book he has selected episodes which reflect the diversity of the radio programmes, and takes us on an amazing tour through the history of ideas, from philosophy, physics and history to religion, literature and biology. We can discover the reasons for the fall of the Byzantine empire, and why women were persecuted as witches in the seventeenth century. What happened in the peasants' revolt? What shape is the origin of life? Where does our calendar come from? We can unearth the influence of great Islamic thinkers, prime numbers, Socrates and Tectonic plates. Melvyn Bragg orchestrates the ideas of leading academics in each field so that the dynamic and lively discussion from the programmes comes through vividly on the page. In Our Time brings to life the signposts of history, the moments that significantly changed the world as we know it, and the individuals and ideas that made us what we are today.

In Our Time

Author : Melvyn Bragg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471174506
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book In Our Time written by Melvyn Bragg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Bragg gives short shrift to pretension of any kind, while remaining stalwart in his search for knowledge. His methodology in In Our Time is... not unlike that of a man throwing a stick at a dog: he chucks his questions ahead, and if the chosen academic fails to bring it right back, he chides them. He retains enough of his bluff Cumbrian origins not to be taken in by gambolling and tweedy high spirits.' - Will Self, from a February 2010 issue of London Review of Books In Our Time has been the cornerstone of broadcasting every Thursday morning on BBC Radio 4 for the past twenty years, with over 800 episodes since its launch in October 1998. Presented by one of Britain’s greatest champions of the arts, Melvyn Bragg, the show explores ideas across history, religion, philosophy, science and culture. With a vast array of contributors from the world of academia, such as Mary Beard, Angie Hobbs and Diarmaid MacCulloch, it is one of Radio 4’s most successful programmes, attracting a weekly live audience exceeding 2 million listeners, and, per episode, it is one of the world’s most downloaded podcasts. To honour this majoranniversary of BBC broadcasting, this beautifully illustrated book provides a lively and colourful guide to fifty of the most captivating discussions from the past two decades of In Our Time, as chosen by Melvyn and the producer Simon Tillotson and influenced by listeners who have recommended their favourite programmes from those years. Highlights include ‘Romulus and Remus’, ‘The Death of Elizabeth I’, ‘Ada Lovelace’, ‘The Gin Craze’, the ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’ and ‘The Salem Witch Trials’, and there are additional behind-the-scenes insights, peppered with Melvyn Bragg’s remarks both on and off air. This is a captivating gift for all fans and a celebration of this iconic series.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Author : R. A. Waldron
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810103283
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written by R. A. Waldron and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.

In Our Time

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Our Time written by Ernest Hemingway and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

King Lear in our Time

Author : Maynard Mack
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136563210
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book King Lear in our Time written by Maynard Mack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition first published in 1966. Previous edition published 1965 by the University of California Press. Perhaps more than any other play of Shakespeare's King Lear has been subjected to almost totally contradictory interpretations. In the first historical section of the book the author describes the varying concepts of the play and the distortions of text and even plot that have been widely used. Garrick's playing of Lear as a pathetic and down-trodden old man. Laughton's and Olivier's versions and Herbert Blaus's theory of the 'subtext' are described and analysed. The central section of the book examines the medieval, folk and romance sources of the play. The final chapter illustrates how the action of the play and its pervading violence and evil are not explained in terms of human motive and rely for their meaning more on their effects than their antecedents. An important theme is the play's examination of society and the ties of service and family love.

Henry Fielding In Our Time

Author : J. A. Downie
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527561828
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Henry Fielding In Our Time written by J. A. Downie and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Fielding In Our Time publishes many of the papers presented at the international conference held at the University of London 19-21 April 2007 to commemorate the tercentenary of his birth. Written by established scholars, including the acknowledged doyen of Fielding scholars, Martin C. Battestin of the University of Virginia, as well as younger scholars who successfully bring their recent research to bear on neglected areas of Fielding’s life and works, the essays offer a cross-section of current approaches to Fielding and his writings, from his ballad operas, poetry and political journalism , via Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones and Amelia—the novels for which he is still best known—to the social pamphlets written during his years at Bow Street as magistrate for Westminster and Middlesex. The collection should appeal both to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academics and general readers interested in the eighteenth-century in general, and Fielding’s contribution to the emergence and development of the novel form in particular.

Anna Karenina in Our Time

Author : Gary Saul Morson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300100709
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Anna Karenina in Our Time written by Gary Saul Morson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this invigorating new assessment of Anna Karenina, Gary Saul Morson overturns traditional interpretations of the classic novel and shows why readers have misunderstood Tolstoy's characters and intentions. Morson argues that Tolstoy's ideas are far more radical than has been thought: his masterpiece challenges deeply held conceptions of romantic love, the process of social reform, modernization, and the nature of good and evil. By investigating the ethical, philosophical, and social issues with which Tolstoy grappled, Morson finds in Anna Karenina powerful connections with the concerns of today. He proposes that Tolstoy's effort to see the world more wisely can deeply inform our own search for wisdom in the present day. The book offers brilliant analyses of Anna, Karenin, Dolly, Levin, and other characters, with a particularly subtle portrait of Anna's extremism and self-deception. Morson probes Tolstoy's important insights (evil is often the result of negligence; goodness derives from small, everyday deeds) and completes the volume with an irresistible, original list of One Hundred and Sixty-Three Tolstoyan Conclusions.

The New Experience of the Supersensible

Author : Jesaiah Ben-Aharon
Publisher : Temple Lodge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781902636849
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The New Experience of the Supersensible written by Jesaiah Ben-Aharon and published by Temple Lodge Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, the greatest spiritual event of our time is the renewal and reawakening of our human suprasensory relationship to the higher spiritual worlds. The force that leads to this development--called by various names in different cultural and religious traditions--is called the "Christ impulse" by Anthroposophy, in accordance with Christian terminology. Because of new, naturally endowed suprasensory faculties, human beings are increasingly able to experience and perceive, through an act of grace, the great spiritual force of the Christ impulse. This experience is said to be a naturally given initiation, and today we increasingly hear of such suprasensory experiences. Today, however, a healthy approach to these "natural" phenomena requires us to comprehend suprasensory experiences with full awareness and clear thinking. This book builds an all-important bridge between the naturally given suprasensory experience and its conscious cognition. As a result, empirical suprasensory research "can investigate the different aspects of Christ's etheric becoming and appearance in a way that, both methodically and experientially, fulfils the justified cognitive and scientific requirements of our age." This new paperback edition adds a new introductory chapter.

America in Our Time

Author : Godfrey Hodgson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691122885
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book America in Our Time written by Godfrey Hodgson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new afterword by the author

Art in Our Time

Author : Harriet Schoenholz Bee
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 : 9780870700019
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art in Our Time written by Harriet Schoenholz Bee and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume chronicles the Museum's story from its opening, ten days after the stock market crash of 1929, in a few rented rooms in a midtown office building, up to the present day, in its new building on West Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth streets. The book presents a pictorial and documentary review of each year, and each important period, of the Museum's history. It tells the story of how The Museum of Modern Art, New York, began as a small set of art galleries inaugurated by three ladies of means who had a passion for modern art. Through a selection of photographs, official documents, letters, quotations, newspaper clippings, cartoons, and other ephemera, the complex and multilayered history of the Museum unfolds in a visual march through time, revealing the extraordinary vision of a determined group of individuals who had the ability and courage to translate their vision into reality" -- OhioLink Library Catalog.

Jewish Theology in Our Time

Author : David J. Wolpe
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580236308
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Theology in Our Time written by David J. Wolpe and published by Jewish Lights Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and challenging examination of what Jews believe today¿ by a new generation¿s dynamic and innovative thinkers. New in Paperback! At every critical juncture in Jewish history, Jews have understood a dynamic theology to be essential for a vital Jewish community. This important collection sets the next stage of Jewish theological thought, bringing together a cross section of interesting new voices from all movements in Judaism to inspire and stimulate discussion now and in the years to come. Provocative and wide-ranging, these invigorating and creative insights from a new generation¿s thought leaders provide a coherent and inspiring picture of Jewish belief in our time. The passionate voices of a new generation of Jewish thinkers continue the dialogue with God, examining the dynamics of what Jews can believe today. They explore: ¿ A dynamic God in process ¿ The canon of Jewish literature and its potential to be both contemporary and authentic to tradition ¿ Critical terms and categories for discussing Jewish theology ¿ The ongoing nature of the Jewish search for God ¿ Ruptures within the modern Jewish condition ¿ And much more

The Anatomy of Evil in Our Time

Author : Adam Michaelis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 8776910296
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of Evil in Our Time written by Adam Michaelis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2005 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In lucid dreams, astral experience and paranormal epiphany Adam Michaelis encountered the extrasensory reality of evil powers like Lucifer, Ahriman, and Sorath - and those otherworldly entities were suddenly seen operative in different patterns of contemporary culture and personal psychology. Adam's candid biography brings evidence of an impending evil, as foretold by Rudolf Steiner, and offers the reader a comprehensive perspective and a minute understanding of the nature and purpose of evil in our time and in evolution. This exceptional material and transformative insight is highlighted in a penetrating and critical analysis of New Age philosophy, guruism, paganism and modern cultural development. Finally the teachings of Jesus on evil are made topical, and the Christian ethics and philosophy of life are interpreted as the true human response to suffering. In sum, we find here an astonishing and truly original document on one of the fundamental questions of humanity and a profound explanation of the human predicament.

Writing in Our Time

Author : Pauline Butling
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889205272
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Writing in Our Time written by Pauline Butling and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Process poetics is about radical poetry — poetry that challenges dominant world views, values, and aesthetic practices with its use of unconventional punctuation, interrupted syntax, variable subject positions, repetition, fragmentation, and disjunction. To trace the aesthetically and politically radical poetries in English Canada since the 1960s, Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy begin with the “upstart” poets published in Vancouver’s TISH: A Poetry Newsletter, and follow the trajectory of process poetics in its national and international manifestations through the 1980s and ’90s. The poetics explored include the works of Nicole Brossard, Daphne Martlatt, bpNichol, George Bowering, Roy Kiyooka, and Frank Davey in the 1960s and ’70s. For the 1980-2000 period, the authors include essays on Jeff Derksen, Clare Harris, Erin Mour, and Lisa Robertson. They also look at books by older authors published after 1979, including Robin Blaser, Robert Kroetsch, and Fred Wah. A historiography of the radical poets, and a roster of the little magazines, small press publishers, literary festivals, and other such sites that have sustained poetic experimentation, provide context.

Sondheim in Our Time and His

Author : William Anthony Sheppard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019760319X
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Sondheim in Our Time and His written by William Anthony Sheppard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sondheim in Our Time and His offers a wide-ranging historical investigation of the landmark works and extraordinary career of Stephen Sondheim, a career which has spanned much of the history of American musical theater. Each author uncovers those aspects of biography, collaborative process, and contemporary context that impacted the creation and reception of Sondheim's musicals. In addition, several authors explore in detail how Sondheim's shows have been dramatically revised and adapted over time. Multiple chapters invite the reader to rethink Sondheim's works from a distinctly contemporary critical perspective and to consider how these musicals are being reenvisioned today. Through chapters focused on individual musicals, and others that explore a specific topic as manifested throughout his entire career, plus an afterword by Kristen Anderson-Lopez; by digging deep into the archives and focusing intently on his scores; from interviews with performers, directors, and bookwriters, and close study of live and recorded productions--volume editor W. Anthony Sheppard brings together Sondheim's past with the present, thriving existence of his musicals.

Christian Faith in Our Time

Author : Paul Jersild
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498295878
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Christian Faith in Our Time written by Paul Jersild and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jersild responds to a fundamental issue in the theology of the church: what is the nature of our language in addressing the mysteries of our faith, such as speaking of God, or of the incarnation? Advocating a "modest" theology in facing the mystery of God, and acknowledging the impact of postmodern sensibilities, he lifts up the metaphorical language of Jesus as the key to a responsible theology. Jersild makes his case for a "faith-based imagination" centering on the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus as God's man who brings a divine, redemptive love to the human story. Theology does not give us a line in the sand that divides the saved from the lost, nor is it the truth that makes all other religions false. This is a book for seekers as well as many church members who harbor questions and doubts about the church's theology.

Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time

Author : Walter Jost
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300068368
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time written by Walter Jost and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking book initiates a dialogue among scholars in rhetoric and hermeneutics in many areas of the humanities. Twenty leading thinkers explore the ways these two powerful disciplines inform each other and influence a wide variety of intellectual fields. Walter Jost and Michael J. Hyde organize pivotal topics in rhetoric and hermeneutics with originality and coherence, dividing their book into four sections: Locating the Disciplines; Inventions and Applications; Arguments and Narratives; and Civic Discourse and Critical Theory. Contributors to this volume include Hans-Georg Gadamer (one of whose pieces is here translated into English for the first time), Paul Ricoeur, Gerald L. Bruns, Charles Altieri, Richard E. Palmer, Calvin O. Schrag,.Victoria Kahn, Eugene Garver, Michael Leff, Nancy S. Streuver, Wendy Olmsted, David Tracy, Donald G. Marshall, Allen Scult, Rita Copeland, William Rehg, and Steven Mailloux. For readers across the humanities, the book demonstrates the usefulness of rhetorical and hermeneutic approaches in literary, philosophical, legal, religious, and political thinking. With its stimulating new perspectives on the revival and interrelation of both rhetoric and hermeneutics, this collection is sure to serve as a benchmark for years to come.

History in Our Time

Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300077025
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book History in Our Time written by David Cannadine and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verzameling opstellen over het 19e- en 20e eeuwse Groot-Brittannië, waarin veel bekende persoonlijkheden voor het voetlicht treden