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The Doubter's Companion

Author : John Ralston Saul
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476718946
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Doubter's Companion written by John Ralston Saul and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long and distinguished tradition of writers have used the form of a satirical dictionary to undermine the received ideas of their day. Voltaire wrote a sharply humorous "Philosophical Dictionary," while Samuel Johnson's dictionary of the English language was derisive and opinionated. These early dictionaries and encyclopedias were really weapons in a struggle for the soul of civilization between forces of humanistic enlightenment and the forces of orthodoxy and dogmatism. Their authors attacked and exposed the half-truths of their day by showing that it was possible to think differently about the social and political arrangements that everyone took for granted. But as John Ralston Saul argues in this decidedly unorthodox book, modern dictionaries have once again been captured by the forces of orthodoxy—albeit this time a rationalist orthodoxy. Our language has become as predictable, fragmented, and rhetorical as it was in the 18th century, divided as it is by special interest groups into dialects of expertise that are hermetically sealed off and inaccessible to citizens. In The Doubter's Companion, a marvelous subversive contribution to the great 18th century tradition of the humanist dictionary, Saul skewers and discredits the accepted content of common terms like Advertising, Academics, and Air Conditioning (defined as "an efficient means for spreading disease in enclosed public spaces"); Cannibal, Conservative, and Croissant; Dandruff, Death, and Dictionary ("opinions presented as truth in alphabetical order"); and several hundred others, including Biography ("a respectable form of pornography"), Museum ("safe storage for stolen objects"), and Manners ("people are always splendid when they're dead"). There is much in this volume that will stimulate, offend, provoke, perplex, and entertain. But Saul deploys these tactics of guerilla lexicography to advance the more serious purpose of reclaiming public language from the stultifying dialects of modern expertise.

The Modern Classics:Doubters Companion

Author : John Ralston Saul
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0143192108
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Classics:Doubters Companion written by John Ralston Saul and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How are citizens to enter into a public debate if the concepts which define our society and decide the manner in which we are governed are open neither to understanding nor to questioning?" According to bestselling novelist and essayist John Ralston Saul, the ramifications of asking this question are enormous. We live in an era of specialization, where decision makers, administrators, and process-minded experts have fortified their positions of authority by insulating themselves from public accountability. An important instrument in their ascension has been language; or more precisely, a language so technically specific and laden with jargon that it has isolated the individual citizen.

The Doubters' Club: Good-Faith Conversations with Skeptics, Atheists, and the Spiritually Wounded

Author : Preston Ulmer
Publisher : NavPress
ISBN 13 : 1641583355
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book The Doubters' Club: Good-Faith Conversations with Skeptics, Atheists, and the Spiritually Wounded written by Preston Ulmer and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to grow in our Christian faith without engaging the doubter or the skeptic? And if growing in our faith means growing closer to the doubter, how do we do that without compromising what we believe to be true?

The Writing Workshop Note Book

Author : Alan Ziegler
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593763395
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book The Writing Workshop Note Book written by Alan Ziegler and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2007-11-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Writing Workshop Notebook is devoted to making, remaking, and remarking on writing. Ziegler's text is animated by a concern about how we relate to our own and others’ writing and by a desire to have a suitable effect on the reader’s experience with writing and critiquing. The book is supported by the author's experience from decades of leading writing workshops.

How to Deal with Doubts and Doubters

Author : Henry Clay Trumbull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Deal with Doubts and Doubters written by Henry Clay Trumbull and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Author : Eugene Benson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134468474
Total Pages : 2597 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English written by Eugene Benson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 2597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. In three volumes, this Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.

Fluidity - the way to true DemoKratia

Author : David Campbell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326933256
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Fluidity - the way to true DemoKratia written by David Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we are to save the planet, if we are to save democracy we must create a new way. That new way is Fluidity. Put universal income with a new currency and a monetary flow siphon and you have a stable base to build anew. In two parts and 300+ pages David J Campbell tells us why our economic and social systems are flawed and how to fix them. This is not a flippant ""we should do this"" or ""we could implement that"" but rather a simple but profound change that harmonises the revolutions that are already radically changing our lives. Embracing technological change and innovation, from AI to cryptocurrencies, Fluidity says a lack of work is a good thing. More leisure makes us happier, healthier, smarter and thus more inventive. We do not need our leaders to make these changes but rather we can create a new socioeconomic system in parallel with the old. It will make you question your beliefs. It will inspire you. It will give you answers. Fluidity is the future.

Reflections on War, Diplomacy, Human Rights and Liberalism

Author : Adam Hughes Henry
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527563251
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on War, Diplomacy, Human Rights and Liberalism written by Adam Hughes Henry and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most people, the idea that extremist ideologies glorify themselves through warfare, and commit crimes against humanity and genocide, is the natural extension of their moral and philosophical failings. As this volume outlines, liberal democracies such as Australia, and others, also glorify in war and they may also, at various times, engage in, support, or turn a blind eye to crimes against humanity or genocide. However, liberal democracies such as Australia, the US, and the UK, among others, routinely present themselves as arbiters of liberal values, defenders of human rights, and guardians of virtue. This book explores the obvious contradiction between the ideals of liberalism and how liberal democracies ignore, and at times even justify, their failure to uphold the principles they espouse.

B.H. Roberts, Moral Geography, and the Making of a Modern Racist

Author : Clyde R. Forsberg Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527578674
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book B.H. Roberts, Moral Geography, and the Making of a Modern Racist written by Clyde R. Forsberg Jr. and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transdisciplinary Mormon history, this book is a work of American religious history, theology, science history, and cultural and historical geography. It deconstructs the âraceâ creationism, White supremacy, and Christian imperialism of leading interwar Mormon theologian B.H. Roberts. Roberts hoped to introduce the front-rank post-Darwinian, scientific, and philosophical postulates of his timeâpolygeny, preadamitism, electromagnetism, idealism, the multiverse, infinity, and interstellar travelâto an increasingly fundamentalist Mormon establishment. Church authorities, however, including eventual âprophetâ Joseph Fielding Smith Jr., proscribed and rejected Robertsâ modernist manuscript, The Truth, The, Way, The Life: An Elementary Treatise on Theology, circa 1930. Paradoxically, however, Robertsâ thinking appeared uncited in Smithâs 1954 theology, Man, His Origin and Destiny. Here, Smith accelerated Robertsâ racism toward African Americans, while reviling science, philosophy, and free thought. This book contextualizes all such fundamentalist Mormon thinking within todayâs struggle for social and environmental justice, and especially the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Comeback

Author : John Ralston Saul
Publisher : Penguin Canada
ISBN 13 : 0143193155
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Comeback written by John Ralston Saul and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once again, John Ralston Saul presents the story of Canada’s past so that we may better understand its present – and imagine a better future. Historic moments are always uncomfortable, Saul writes in this impassioned argument, calling on all of us to embrace and support the comeback of Aboriginal peoples. This, he says, is the great issue of our time – the most important missing piece in the building of Canada. The events that began late in 2012 with the Idle No More movement were not just a rough patch in Aboriginal relations with the rest of Canada. What is happening today between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals is not about guilt or sympathy or failure or romanticization of the past. It is about citizens’ rights. It is about rebuilding relationships that were central to the creation of Canada. These relationships are just as important to its continued existence. The centrality of Aboriginal issues and peoples has the potential to open up a more creative way of imagining ourselves and a more honest narrative for Canada. Wide in scope but piercing in detail, The Comeback presents a powerful portrait of modern Aboriginal life in Canada, in contrast with the perceived failings so often portrayed in politics and in media. Saul illustrates his arguments by compiling a remarkable selection of letters, speeches and writings by Aboriginal leaders and thinkers, showcasing the extraordinarily rich, moving and stable indigenous point of view across the centuries.

Voltaire's Bastards

Author : John Ralston Saul
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476718938
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Voltaire's Bastards written by John Ralston Saul and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new Introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. With a new introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) astutely dissects the political, economic and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. The Western world is full of paradoxes. We talk endlessly of individual freedom, yet we’ve never been under more pressure to conform. Our business leaders describe themselves as capitalists, yet most are corporate employees and financial speculators. We call our governments democracies, yet few of us participate in politics. We complain about invasive government, yet our legal, educational, financial, social, cultural and legislative systems are deteriorating. All these problems, John Ralston Saul argues, are largely the result of our blind faith in the value of reason. Over the past 400 years, our “rational elites” have turned the modern West into a vast, incomprehensible, directionless machine, run by process-minded experts—“Voltaire’s bastards”—whose cult of scientific management is empty of both sense and morality. Whether in politics, art, business, the military, entertainment, science, finance, academia or journalism, these experts share the same outlook and methods. The result, Saul maintains, is a civilization of immense technological power whose ordinary citizens are increasingly excluded from the decision-making process. In this wide-ranging anatomy of modern society and its origins—whose “pages explode with insight, style and intellectual rigor” (Camille Paglia, The Washington Post)—Saul presents a shattering critique of the political, economic and cultural establishments of the West.

THE LADIES COMPANION AND MONTHLY MAGAZINE

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book THE LADIES COMPANION AND MONTHLY MAGAZINE written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reading Writers Reading

Author : Danielle Schaub
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888644596
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Reading Writers Reading written by Danielle Schaub and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am a writer because I was a reader first." Alison Gordon. "Nobody has ever written who never read." Mavis Gallant. "Reading is a connection, at once a way and a goal, a liberating destiny." Robert Kroetsch. Over 160 Canadian writers, in English and French, write about their experiences of reading. With striking photographs of each writer, Reading Writers Reading offers a sublime voyage into the heart of literary creation.

Winona Echoes

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winona Echoes written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reflections on African and Global Affairs

Author : Aremu, Issa
Publisher : Malthouse Press
ISBN 13 : 978533211X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on African and Global Affairs written by Aremu, Issa and published by Malthouse Press. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vice president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Issa Aremu, has been writing a column in the Daily Trust, Nigeria for several years and has been an occasional contributor to a number of other Nigerian publications. Covered in this volume: politics in Liberia, salutary effects of elections in Ghana, constitutional manipulations in Niger, canons of Kwame Nkrumah to sobering reflections on Nigeria, what he calls the rise and fall of Nigeria's diplomacy, and the import of Hilary Clinton's assessment of state of governance. In East Africa violent elections in Kenya, the complexities of the Zimbabwe situation, and the person of Robert Mugabe himself. South Africa, from the shocking wave of explosive manifestations of xenophobia to bilateral relations with Nigeria. For the African continent attention is given to a variety of events: developments in the European Union, American foreign policy and the dominance of CNN. Present throughout is a concern for proper governance and development that should encourage critical thinking and thus eliminate the poverty of ideas among the African political and bureaucratic policy makers.

Reflections on Friends, Comrades and Heroes

Author : Aremu, Issa
Publisher : Malthouse Press
ISBN 13 : 9785332152
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Friends, Comrades and Heroes written by Aremu, Issa and published by Malthouse Press. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vice president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Issa Aremu, has been writing a column in the Daily Trust, Nigeria for several years and has been an occasional contributor to a number of other Nigerian publications. Covered in this volume Prof. Aremu recounts his personal experiences with individuals whose ideas, lives and brilliant minds have been applied to the critical examination of the human condition, the African condition: Fidel Castro; Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Wole Soyinka, Fela Kuti and others.

The Holy War

Author : John Bunyan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725246724
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Holy War written by John Bunyan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four years after John Bunyan released his instantly popular journey allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, he published The Holy War--a battle allegory and companion volume. His first book explores salvation of the individual Christian; the second portrays the battle for sanctification. While Christian struggles with questions about assurance of salvation, the collective Mansoul labors with the challenges of being led by and filled with the Holy Spirit. The Pilgrim's Progress focuses on the individual's struggle against sin; The Holy War portrays the Church in a corporate struggle against systemic evil. Bunyan wrote that The Holy War originates in "the same heart, and head, fingers and pen" as The Pilgrim's Progress. Both books present separate dimensions of Bunyan's spiritual journey. Taken together, the journey allegory and the battle allegory capture the full range and depth of the biblical message that consumed Bunyan's imagination. He credits his own salvation to these two things: The grace of God and tenacious, continual, holy warfare. The Holy War is testimony to a spiritual battle he fought, and won. This edition provides annotations that clarify Bunyan's first edition language and message for readers in a post-Puritan world.