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Book Synopsis Quixotic Frescoes by : Frederick A. De Armas
Download or read book Quixotic Frescoes written by Frederick A. De Armas and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quixotic Frescoes delves into the politics of imitation, self-censorship, religious ideology expressed through the pictorial, as well as the gendering of art as reflected in Cervantes' work.
Book Synopsis That Quixotic Lady by : Shirley Butler LaRocca
Download or read book That Quixotic Lady written by Shirley Butler LaRocca and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jane McManus was a little girl, her father told her she would make an outstanding lawyerif only she were a boy. Jane decided then to learn everything a boy couldonly better. The Quixotic Lady is the fictional story of the life of Jane McManus, a rare female figure in the 1800s. After her failed marriage to Allan Storm, Jane became associated with some of the most powerful men of the time; in the nineteenth century it was rare to find a woman who so influenced the politics of the day. From her writings in the New York newspapers, the politicians gauged public reaction. Jane rallied from one cause to another such as the Texas annexation, the Mexican War, the political sentiment over whether Americans should help the Cubans obtain freedom from Spain, and the annexation of the Dominican Republic. However, these daring undertakings met more failure than success. Jane McManus Storm Cazneau, a beautiful young woman, whose spirit was not broken by failures, never ceased to gamble along lines far removed from staid conformity in her quest for an elusive fortune. Her story, That Quixotic Lady, is one of a remarkable woman, whom history failed to remember.
Book Synopsis Profiles in Courage by : John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Download or read book Profiles in Courage written by John Fitzgerald Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book More Than Courage written by Harold Coyle and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Harold Coyle is a superbly talented storyteller ... the Tom Clancy of ground warfare."--W.E.B. Griffin Courage is often enough to drive a soldier forward, to cause him to climb out of his foxhole and face enemy fire. But it takes a little more than courage to keep him going when every instinct dictates that he should do otherwise. This truth becomes self-evident when the men belonging to Recon Team Kilo, a Special Forces A-Team operating deep in hostile territory, are overwhelmed by indigenous forces. Without leadership and unit cohesion, the survivors struggle to stay faithful to their code of conduct in the face of brutal imprisonment and an uncertain future. An elite force, ready to place themselves in harm's way to save their own, is sent on a dangerous mission to rescue the POWs. They're lead by Lieutenant Colonel Harry Shaddock, whose men would follow him anywhere. His mission is to save fellow soldiers while putting his own in harm's way. As the families of the imprisoned soldiers learn that their loved ones are being killed off one by one, the operation becomes more dangerous than anyone had imagined. In order to triumph all must draw upon something from within. SOMETHING MORE THAN COURAGE. "Nobody knows war like Harold Coyle, and nobody writes it better."--Stephen Coonts
Book Synopsis Hearings by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Perilous Statecraft by : Michael Arthur Ledeen
Download or read book Perilous Statecraft written by Michael Arthur Ledeen and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author worked for Alexander Haig and was on the White House staff as a high-level messenger and consultant during the early 1980s. Based on his astute observation and interviews with some key participants, he explores the environment that made the Iran-Contra connection possible. ISBN 0-684-18994-1: $19.95.
Book Synopsis Nietzsche's Moral Psychology by : Mark Alfano
Download or read book Nietzsche's Moral Psychology written by Mark Alfano and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Nietzsche's thinking on the virtues using a combination of close reading and digital analysis.
Book Synopsis When I in Awesome Wonder by : Jill Y. Crainshaw
Download or read book When I in Awesome Wonder written by Jill Y. Crainshaw and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of life is liturgy. People encounter God as they live, work, and play in human communities and as they work to sustain the health of communities and the ground on which communities are built. Liturgy is distilled from everyday life when we peer through the mist and see the sacramental and spiritual dimensions of daily actions, objects, conversations, and events. In When I in Awesome Wonder, Jill Y. Crainshaw explores this dimension of spirituality and celebrates the ways God's sacramental gifts and presence arise from and return to everyday human experiences.
Book Synopsis The Essence of Leadership by : S Manikutty
Download or read book The Essence of Leadership written by S Manikutty and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding leadership is really about understanding life, and this starts with gaining an understanding of the self. Traditional management approaches, based on 'scientific' analysis, cannot contribute much towards understanding leadership. This book shows how leadership can be better understood by reading and interpreting masterpieces of world literature, and relating them to leadership issues. The book starts with Cervantes' masterpiece Don Quixote, whose main character asserts, 'I know who I am', and believes in himself. This is followed by other works to highlight important issues: ambition and purpose in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, faith vs. reason in Bertolt Brecht's The Life of Galileo, awakening the human spirit in Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, authenticity in Girish Karnad's Tughlaq, and the old Sanskrit play Mudra Rakshasa by Visakhadatta, leaders and society in Arthur Miller's All My Sons, the role of illusions in Ibsen's The Wild Duck, taking a stand in A Dolls' House, the epic Mahabharata for development of perspective, and Herman Hesse's Siddhartha for understanding the process of self-development and realisation of one's potential. Based on the experience of the authors teaching a course on leadership for the last 20 years at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, this is an enlightening and illuminating read for both academicians and corporate leaders.
Book Synopsis Martin Luther King, the Inconvenient Hero by : Vincent Harding
Download or read book Martin Luther King, the Inconvenient Hero written by Vincent Harding and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these eloquent essays, the noted scholar and activist Vincent Harding reflects on the forgotten legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the meaning of his life today. Many of these reflections are inspired by the ambiguous message surrounding the official celebration of King's birthday. Harding sees a tendency to freeze an image of King from the period of his early leadership of the Civil Rights movement, the period culminating with his famous "I Have a Dream Speech". Harding writes passionately of King's later years, when his message and witness became more radical and challenging to the status quo at every level. In those final years before his assassination King took up the struggle against racism in the urban ghettos of the North; he became an eloquent critic of the Vietnam war; he laid the foundations for the Poor People's Campaign. This widening of his message and his tactics entailed controversy even within his own movement. But they point to a consistent expansion of his critique of American injustice and his solidarity with the oppressed. It was this spirit that brought him to Memphis in 1968 to lend his support to striking sanitation workers. It was there that he paid the final price for his prophetic witness.
Book Synopsis Saints and Revolutionaries by : Marcia A. Morris
Download or read book Saints and Revolutionaries written by Marcia A. Morris and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of literary works spanning more than seven centuries, this volume studies the ascetic hero and asceticism, exploring the elusive interplay between religion, politics, and belles lettres in Russia. The first part places works including the thirteenth-century Kievan Crypt Patericon and Life of Avraamii Smolenskii, Epifanii's Life of Sergii Radonezhskii, and other lives written in the north of Russia, in the context of crucial religious doctrines such as apocalypticism and deification. The author shows how Old Russian literature plays a major cultural role in the continuing development of these doctrines on Russian soil. The second part traces a revival of the Russian fascination with themes of apocalypse and perfectibility to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Morris also documents the development of a divergence in ideological approach between Russian writers who continued to view apocalypticism and deification as religious phenomena and those who used them as tools of social and political struggle. Works by Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chernyshevsky, and Gorky, as well as classic novels of the socialist realist tradition are analyzed as evidence of the underlying unity of the literary manifestations of this ostensibly bifurcated intellectual tradition.
Download or read book Roosevelt written by Sean J. Savage and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FDR—the wily political opportunist glowing with charismatic charm, a leader venerated and hated with equal vigor—such is one common notion of a president elected to an unprecedented four terms. But in this first comprehensive study of Roosevelt's leadership of the Democratic party, Sean Savage reveals a different man. He contends that, far from being a mere opportunist, Roosevelt brought to the party a conscious agenda, a longterm strategy of creating a liberal Democracy that would be an enduring majority force in American politics. The roots of Roosevelt's plan for the party ran back to his experiences with New York politics in the 1920s. It was here, Savage argues, that Roosevelt first began to perceive that a pluralistic voting base and a liberal philosophy offered the best way for Democrats to contend with the established Republican organization. With the collapse of the economy in 1929 and the discrediting of Republican fiscal policy, Roosevelt was ready to carry his views to the national scene when elected president in 1932. Through his analysis of the New Deal, Savage shows how Roosevelt made use of these programs to develop a policy agenda for the Democratic party, to establish a liberal ideology, and, most important, to create a coalition of interest groups and voting blocs that would continue to sustain the party long after his death. A significant aspect of Roosevelt's leadership was his reform of the Democratic National Committee, which was designed to make the party's organization more open and participatory in setting electoral platforms and in raising financial support. Savage's exploration of Roosevelt's party leadership offers a new perspective on the New Deal era and on one of America's great presidents that will be valuable for historians and political scientists alike.
Book Synopsis Exiled in Paradise by : Anthony Heilbut
Download or read book Exiled in Paradise written by Anthony Heilbut and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant look at the writers, artists, scientists, movie directors, and scholars—ranging from Bertolt Brecht to Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Mann, and Fritz Lang—who fled Hitler's Germany and how they changed the very fabric of American culture. In a new postscript, Heilbut draws attention to the recent changes in reputation and image that have shaped the reception of the German exiles. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983 with a paperback in 1997.
Book Synopsis William Faulkner by : Daniel Joseph Singal
Download or read book William Faulkner written by Daniel Joseph Singal and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid all that has been published about William Faulkner, one subject--the nature of his thought--remains largely unexplored. But, as Daniel Singal's new intellectual biography reveals, we can learn much about Faulkner's art by relating it to the cultural and intellectual discourse of his era, and much about that era by coming to terms with his art. Through detailed analyses of individual texts, from the earliest poetry through Go Down, Moses, Singal traces Faulkner's attempt to liberate himself from the repressive Victorian culture in which he was raised by embracing the Modernist culture of the artistic avant-garde. To accommodate the conflicting demands of these two cultures, Singal shows, Faulkner created a complex and fluid structure of selfhood based on a set of dual identities--one, that of a Modernist author writing on the most daring and subversive issues of his day, and the other, that of a southern country gentleman loyal to the conservative mores of his community. Indeed, it is in the clash between these two selves, Singal argues, that one finds the key to making sense of Faulkner.
Book Synopsis Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great Britain by : Victoria Institute (Great Britain)
Download or read book Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great Britain written by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume includes list of members, and "objects of the institute" (except v. 31, which has no list of members). Beginning with v. 12, a list of the papers contained in preceding volumes is issued regularly with each volume.
Book Synopsis Quixotic Shadows: Cervantes, Conrad, Dumas Adventure [Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra/ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad/The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet] by : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Download or read book Quixotic Shadows: Cervantes, Conrad, Dumas Adventure [Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra/ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad/The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet] written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-06-21 with total page 2729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1: Embark on a whimsical and adventurous journey with “Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.” Cervantes's masterpiece introduces readers to the idealistic and delusional Don Quixote and his loyal squire, Sancho Panza, as they tilt at windmills and navigate a world that blurs the lines between reality and imagination. Book 2: Explore the heart of darkness within the human soul in “Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.” Conrad's novella delves into the psychological and moral complexities of colonialism as Marlow ventures into the African Congo, confronting the darkness that resides in the depths of human nature. Book 3: Experience the epic tale of revenge and redemption in “The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet.” Dumas's classic novel follows Edmond Dantès as he transforms from an unjustly imprisoned man into the enigmatic Count of Monte Cristo, weaving a narrative of betrayal, intrigue, and ultimate justice.
Book Synopsis Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great Britain by :
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