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The Taming of Fate

Author : S. Macamo
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 2869787405
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book The Taming of Fate written by S. Macamo and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how extreme situations appearing to have a destructive potential can actually be used to produce meaningful individual and social lives. It is about the taming of fate. This notion means and accounts for the ability of individuals and communities to rebuild their lives against all odds. The book is based on case-studies that draw from theoretical insights derived from the sociology of disasters. It addresses some limitations of the sociology of risk, chief among which is the rejection of the relevance of the notion of risk to the study of technologically non-advanced societies. The book argues that this rejection has deprived the study of the human condition of an important analytical asset. The book claims that risk is a property of social action which can best be understood through the analytical scrutiny of its role in the historical constitution of social relations.

The Hour of Fate

Author : Susan Berfield
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635572479
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Hour of Fate written by Susan Berfield and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting narrative of Wall Street buccaneering, political intrigue, and two of American history's most colossal characters, struggling for mastery in an era of social upheaval and rampant inequality. It seemed like no force in the world could slow J. P. Morgan's drive to power. In the summer of 1901, the financier was assembling his next mega-deal: Northern Securities, an enterprise that would affirm his dominance in America's most important industry-the railroads. Then, a bullet from an anarchist's gun put an end to the business-friendly presidency of William McKinley. A new chief executive bounded into office: Theodore Roosevelt. He was convinced that as big business got bigger, the government had to check the influence of the wealthiest or the country would inch ever closer to collapse. By March 1902, battle lines were drawn: the government sued Northern Securities for antitrust violations. But as the case ramped up, the coal miners' union went on strike and the anthracite pits that fueled Morgan's trains and heated the homes of Roosevelt's citizens went silent. With millions of dollars on the line, winter bearing down, and revolution in the air, it was a crisis that neither man alone could solve. Richly detailed and propulsively told, The Hour of Fate is the gripping story of a banker and a president thrown together in the crucible of national emergency even as they fought in court. The outcome of the strike and the case would change the course of our history. Today, as the country again asks whether saving democracy means taming capital, the lessons of Roosevelt and Morgan's time are more urgent than ever. Winner of the 2021 Theodore Roosevelt Association Book Prize Finalist for the Presidential Leadership Book Award

Taming Fate

Author : Amalia Dillin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692232750
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Taming Fate written by Amalia Dillin and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in her many lives, Eve would rather be anywhere but home.In 15th Century France, Eve would have burned as a witch if it hadn't been for the too-timely arrival of the Marquis DeLeon to save her skin. But Eve didn't ask to be rescued, and their hasty marriage is off to anything but a smooth start. As tensions in the town grow and plague threatens, Ryam DeLeon knows if he and Eve cannot find common ground, their first Christmas may be their last.

Facets of Fate

Author : Amalia Dillin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781973858805
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (588 download)

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Download or read book Facets of Fate written by Amalia Dillin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete collection of Fate of the Gods novellas and stories, together for the first time in one volume, featuring an all new novella, Finding Fate, the newly revised and republished short story, Bride Price, and a never before seen bonus scene set during the events of Forged by Fate. Tempting Fate (Book 1.5) Mia's lived in her sister's shadow long enough. (First time in paperback!) Bride Price (Book 1.75) Mia may have chosen Adam, but that doesn't mean Jean is through with him yet. (Newly revised, first time in paperback!) Taming Fate (Book 2.5) As tensions in the town grow and plague threatens, Ryam DeLeon knows if he and Eve cannot find common ground, their first Christmas may be their last. Finding Fate (Book 3.5) An All New Epilogue to Beyond Fate: Now that Marcus knows the truth about Eve, what is he going to make of it?

The Taming of the Shrew

Author : Dana E. Aspinall
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815335153
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book The Taming of the Shrew written by Dana E. Aspinall and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Taming of the Shrew, Critical Essays provides comprehensive and up-to-date critical readings of the play. The editor has selected essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play.

The better Angels Of Capitalism

Author : Andrew Herman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000314855
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The better Angels Of Capitalism written by Andrew Herman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores, through an ethnographic examination of life stories of wealthy men, a historical analysis of the moral meanings of wealth and power in Western capitalism, and a mapping of different symbolic spaces in contemporary American culture.

The Life of Pat F. Garrett and the Taming of the Border Outlaw

Author : John Milton Scanland
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Pat F. Garrett and the Taming of the Border Outlaw written by John Milton Scanland and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life of Pat F. Garrett and the Taming of the Border Outlaw" is the firs hand account of Pat Garrett's life. Written in 1908, the year Garett was murdered, this book is an excellent source of information about one of Wild West's greatest sheriffs.

Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism

Author : Phyllis Cole
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195152005
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism written by Phyllis Cole and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Moody Emerson has long been a New England legend, the "eccentric Calvinist aunt" of Ralph Waldo Emerson, wearing a death-shroud as her daily garment. This exciting new study, based on the first reading of all her known letters and diaries, reveals a complex human voice and powerful forerunner of American Transcendentalism. From the years of her famous nephew's infancy, in both private and published writings, she celebrated independence, solitude in nature, and inward communion with God. Mary Moody Emerson inherited both resources and constraints from her family, a lineage of Massachusetts ministers who had earlier practiced spiritual awakening and political resistance against England. Cole discovers a previously unexamined Emerson tradition of fervent piety in the ancestors' own writing and Mary's preservation of their memory. She also examines the position of a woman in this patriarchal family. Barred from the pulpit and university by her sex, she also refused marriage to become a reader, writer, and religious seeker. Cole's biography explores this reading and writing as both a woman's vocation and a gift to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Helping to raise her nephews after their father's death, Mary Moody Emerson urged Waldo the college student to seek solitude in nature and become a divine poet. Cole's pioneering study, tracing crucial lines of influence from Mary Emerson's heretofore unknown texts to her nephew's major works, establishes a fresh and vital source for a central American literary tradition.

The Taming of the Demons

Author :
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834843749
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Taming of the Demons written by and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newly translated volume of the centuries-old spiritual epic of King Gesar. For centuries, the epic tale of Gesar of Ling has been told across Asia. This epic is a living oral tradition, performed widely by singers and bards and beloved especially in Tibet. Considered the longest single piece of literature in the world canon, the epic of Gesar chronicles the legend of King Gesar of Ling, a heroic figure known for his fearless leadership. The epic encompasses some 120 volumes and nearly 20 million words, and there are numerous versions across cultures. This book is the first English translation of the fourth volume of this sweeping literary work, with stories from after Gesar's coronation to the throne of Ling. This volume focuses on battles won and strategies applied, as the warrior-king Gesar fended off demons and liberated his foes. Though largely a violent account focused on his superhuman prowess in battle, this volume is rich with ethical proverbs that inform Tibetan culture to this day. A significant work of legend, the epic of Gesar is also a vital part of Tibetan Buddhism, as Gesar is said to have been chosen by celestial beings to restore order and destroy anti-Buddhist forces. The epic of Gesar is the cultural touchstone of Tibet, analogous to the Iliad or the Odyssey. While Book One covers Gesar's birth, youth, and rise to power, this volume recounts the martial victories and magical feats that made him a legendary figure to so many.

The Taming of the Samurai

Author : Eiko Ikegami
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067425466X
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Taming of the Samurai written by Eiko Ikegami and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-25 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic accessible to us through a sweeping investigation into the roots of Japanese organizational structures. She accomplishes this by focusing on the diverse roles that the samurai have played in Japanese history. From their rise in ancient Japan, through their dominance as warrior lords in the medieval period, and their subsequent transformation to quasi-bureaucrats at the beginning of the Tokugawa era, the samurai held center stage in Japan until their abolishment after the opening up of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century. This book demonstrates how Japan’s so-called harmonious collective culture is paradoxically connected with a history of conflict. Ikegami contends that contemporary Japanese culture is based upon two remarkably complementary ingredients, honorable competition and honorable collaboration. The historical roots of this situation can be found in the process of state formation, along very different lines from that seen in Europe at around the same time. The solution that emerged out of the turbulent beginnings of the Tokugawa state was a transformation of the samurai into a hereditary class of vassal-bureaucrats, a solution that would have many unexpected ramifications for subsequent centuries. Ikegami’s approach, while sociological, draws on anthropological and historical methods to provide an answer to the question of how the Japanese managed to achieve modernity without traveling the route taken by Western countries. The result is a work of enormous depth and sensitivity that will facilitate a better understanding of, and appreciation for, Japanese society.

Hypermodernity and Visuality

Author : Peter R. Sedgwick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786604914
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Hypermodernity and Visuality written by Peter R. Sedgwick and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages with the question of making sense of seeing in today’s technologically dominated world. It does so by exploring the notion of the ‘hypermodern’, a term which is used to capture the drive in contemporary culture to achieve ever greater speed and efficiency. The volume draws principally on the thought of Paul Virilio and Friedrich Nietzsche. The text’s key argument is that destabilizing tendencies, which become increasingly evident in hypermodern culture, spring from its having a dual character. This duality turns on hypermodernity’s uncomfortable, unstable and possibly unsustainable relation to its own past. The volume engages with this dual character in a unique way. Its discussions are prefaced by poems and photographic images which together frame and permeate the text’s arguments and analyses. Part One offers linked engagements with Virilio’s articulation of the hypermodernized cultural-visual environment, Nietzsche’s accounts of history, power and archaic visuality, and briefer discussions of various other writers. Part Two presents a creative elaboration of these engagements through a combination of poetry, image and aphorism. Through this combination the digital image, a quintessentially hypermodern form of representation, is turned against itself to allow for reflection on the ethics and politics of seeing today. The volume concludes with an open-ended dialogue on visual culture, the archaic and the hypermodern.

Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature

Author : Dan Imhoff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780970950031
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature written by Dan Imhoff and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature addresses an urgent and complex issue facing communities and cultures throughout the world: the need for heightened land stewardship and conservation in an era of diminishing natural resources. Agricultural lands in rural areas are being purchased for development. Water scarcities are pitting urban and development expansion against agriculture and conservation needs. The farming population is ageing and retiring, while those who remain struggle against low commodity prices, international competition, rising production costs, and the threat of disappearing subsidies. We are living amidst a major extinction crisis—much of it driven by agriculture—as well as an increasing shift toward a global urban populace. The modern diet, driven by a grain-fed livestock industry, is no longer connected with the ecosystems that support it. In international circles, experts are arguing that further intensification of agriculture (through industrialization and genetic modification) will be necessary to both feed an exploding human population and to save what is left of wild biodiversity. This book takes up where its predecessor, the award-winning Farming with the Wild, left off. Featuring a wide range of in-depth essays, articles, and other materials by such authors as Aldo Leopold, Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, Fred Kirschenmann, and Daniel Imhoff, this book persuasively demonstrates that farm and ranch operations which coexist with wild nature are necessary to sustain biodiversity and beauty on the landscape. In fact, as this invaluable educational resource demonstrates, they are essential in the challenge of building sane, healthy, and hopeful human societies.

The Book of Fate

Author : Raphael
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Fate written by Raphael and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Taming of the Shrew: The State of Play

Author : Jennifer Flaherty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350138207
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Taming of the Shrew: The State of Play written by Jennifer Flaherty and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Taming of the Shrew has puzzled, entertained and angered audiences, and it has been reinvented many times throughout its controversial history. Offering a focused overview of key emerging ideas and discourses surrounding Shakespeare's problematic comedy, the volume reveals and debates how contemporary readings and adaptions of the play have sought to reconsider and resolve the play's contentious portrayal of gender, power and identity. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to the needs of students, teachers and researchers. Key themes and issues include: · Gender and Power · History and Early Modern Contexts · Performance and Politics · Adaptation and Afterlife All the essays offer new perspectives and combine to give readers an up-to-date understanding of what's exciting and challenging about The Taming of the Shrew.

The Taming of Chance

Author : Ian Hacking
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521388849
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book The Taming of Chance written by Ian Hacking and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-08-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve.

The Taming of the Shrew

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140714517
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book The Taming of the Shrew written by William Shakespeare and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new Pelican Shakespeare series incorporates the more than thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the acclaimed original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. The general editors of the new series of forty volumes-the renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA-have assembled a team of eminent scholars who have, along with the general editors themselves, prepared new introductions and notes to all of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Redesigned in an easy-to-read format that preserves the favorite features of the original, including an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, an introduction to the individual play, and a note on the text used. The new Pelican Shakespeare will be an excellent resource for students, teachers, and theatre professionals well into the twenty first century.

How to Tell Fate from Destiny

Author : Charles Harrington Elster
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 1328583236
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book How to Tell Fate from Destiny written by Charles Harrington Elster and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In this part-thesaurus, part-hilarious manual of style, Elster breaks down the most common mistakes of the English language.”—Booklist If you have trouble distinguishing the verbs imitate and emulate, the relative pronouns that and which, or the adjectives pliant, pliable, and supple, never fear—How to Tell Fate from Destiny is here to help! With more than 500 headwords, the book is replete with advice on how to differentiate commonly confused words and steer clear of verbal trouble. Whether you’re a boomer, a Gen-Xer, or a millennial, if you peruse, browse, or even skim these spindrift pages you will (not shall) become versed in the fine art of differentiation. You will learn, for example, how to tell whether you suffer from pride, vanity, or hubris how to tell whether you’re contagious or infectious how to tell if you’re pitiful or pitiable how to tell if you’re self-centered or self-absorbed how to live an ethical life in a moral universe “This appealing book will help readers over countless lexical stumbling blocks, and encourage clearer and more precise speaking and writing.”—Publishers Weekly “The author of this charming and useful book has made a career out of literary finesse. In his latest effort to ‘clarify the mind and general discourse,’ the ‘professional distinctioneer’ offers witty, wise advice on the right way to deploy some of the English language’s trickiest words, from a and an to zero, zeros, zeroes.”—Yale Alumni Magazine