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The Unruly City

Author : Mike Rapport
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465094953
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Unruly City written by Mike Rapport and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lauded expert on European history paints a vivid picture of Paris, London, and New York during the Age of Revolutions, exploring how each city fostered or suppressed political uprisings within its boundaries In The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport offers a vivid history of three intertwined cities toward the end of the eighteenth century-Paris, London, and New York-all in the midst of political chaos and revolution. From the British occupation of New York during the Revolutionary War, to agitation for democracy in London and popular uprisings, and ultimately regicide in Paris, Rapport explores the relationship between city and revolution, asking why some cities engender upheaval and some suppress it. Why did Paris experience a devastating revolution while London avoided one? And how did American independence ignite activism in cities across the Atlantic? Rapport takes readers from the politically charged taverns and coffeehouses on Fleet Street, through a sea battle between the British and French in the New York Harbor, to the scaffold during the Terror in Paris. The Unruly City shows how the cities themselves became protagonists in the great drama of revolution.

Unruly Words

Author : Diana Raffman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199915105
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Unruly Words written by Diana Raffman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Unruly Words, Diana Raffman advances a new theory of vagueness which, unlike previous accounts, is genuinely semantic while preserving bivalence. According to this new approach, called the multiple range theory, vagueness consists essentially in a term's being applicable in multiple arbitrarily different, but equally competent, ways, even when contextual factors are fixed.

Freedom

Author : Annelien De Dijn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674988337
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Freedom written by Annelien De Dijn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the PROSE Award An NRC Handelsblad Best Book of the Year “Ambitious and impressive...At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain, books like this are more important than ever.” —The Nation “Helps explain how partisans on both the right and the left can claim to be protectors of liberty, yet hold radically different understandings of its meaning...This deeply informed history of an idea has the potential to combat political polarization.” —Publishers Weekly “Ambitious and bold, this book will have an enormous impact on how we think about the place of freedom in the Western tradition.” —Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough “Brings remarkable clarity to a big and messy subject...New insights and hard-hitting conclusions about the resistance to democracy make this essential reading for anyone interested in the roots of our current dilemmas.” —Lynn Hunt, author of History: Why It Matters For centuries people in the West identified freedom with the ability to exercise control over the way in which they were governed. The equation of liberty with restraints on state power—what most people today associate with freedom—was a deliberate and dramatic rupture with long-established ways of thinking. So what triggered this fateful reversal? In a masterful and surprising reappraisal of more than two thousand years of Western thinking about freedom, Annelien de Dijn argues that this was not the natural outcome of such secular trends as the growth of religious tolerance or the creation of market societies. Rather, it was propelled by an antidemocratic backlash following the French and American Revolutions. The notion that freedom is best preserved by shrinking the sphere of government was not invented by the revolutionaries who created our modern democracies—it was first conceived by their critics and opponents. De Dijn shows that far from following in the path of early American patriots, today’s critics of “big government” owe more to the counterrevolutionaries who tried to undo their work.

The 7 Secrets to Peace of Mind

Author : Tony Charles
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781475918540
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book The 7 Secrets to Peace of Mind written by Tony Charles and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The 7 Secrets to Peace of Mind, author Tony Charles delivers new insights to spur a new life outlook. In this motivating guide, he demonstrates how to attain peace of mind, including wisdom, knowledge, understanding, real love, tranquility, motivation, and inspiration. Through a step-by-step format, Charles reveals deep secrets, offers positive steps to raise self-esteem, and empowers you to obtain an in-depth understanding of the following powerful inner secrets that will change your life for the better: The secret formula for transforming your whole life The secret formula for overcoming and achieving anything The secret to the power of positive thinking The secret to prosperity and inner peace The secret to the rule of life The secret to longevity and well-being The secret formula for believing in your humanity and divinity Filled with exercises to help you get to where you want to be, The 7 Secrets to Peace of Mind explores new ways of looking at communication that can facilitate a powerful transformation and help you achieve personal and business success.

Unruly Gods

Author : Meir Shahar
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824865421
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Unruly Gods written by Meir Shahar and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study in English to offer a systematic introduction to the Chinese pantheon of divinities. It challenges received wisdom about Chinese popular religion, which, until now, presented all Chinese deities as mere functionaries and bureaucrats. The essays in this volume eloquently document the existence of other metaphors that allowed Chinese gods to challenge the traditional power structures and traditional mores of Chinese society. The authors draw on a variety of disciplines and methodologies to throw light on various aspects of the Chinese supernatural. The gallery of gods and goddesses surveyed demonstrates that these deities did not reflect China's socio-political order but rather expressed and negotiated tensions within it. In addition to reflecting the existing order, Chinese gods shaped it, transformed it, and compensated for it, and, as such, their work offers fresh perspectives on the relations between divinity and society in China.

Rules of the Wild

Author : Bridget Levin
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452137188
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Rules of the Wild written by Bridget Levin and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhyming text explores how proper behavior for young animals is different from what is expected of young children.

The Pennsylvania Medical Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Pennsylvania Medical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essays of Today

Author : Francis Henry Pritchard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Essays of Today written by Francis Henry Pritchard and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dangerous Ideas

Author : Eric Berkowitz
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807036242
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Ideas written by Eric Berkowitz and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating examination of how restricting speech has continuously shaped our culture, and how censorship is used as a tool to prop up authorities and maintain class and gender disparities Through compelling narrative, historian Eric Berkowitz reveals how drastically censorship has shaped our modern society. More than just a history of censorship, Dangerous Ideas illuminates the power of restricting speech; how it has defined states, ideas, and culture; and (despite how each of us would like to believe otherwise) how it is something we all participate in. This engaging cultural history of censorship and thought suppression throughout the ages takes readers from the first Chinese emperor’s wholesale elimination of books, to Henry VIII’s decree of death for anyone who “imagined” his demise, and on to the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the volatile politics surrounding censorship of social media. Highlighting the base impulses driving many famous acts of suppression, Berkowitz demonstrates the fragility of power and how every individual can act as both the suppressor and the suppressed.

Evil in All Its Disguises

Author : Hilary Davidson
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1466802294
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Evil in All Its Disguises written by Hilary Davidson and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Award-winner Hilary Davidson weaves a thrilling story of paranoia, vengeance, and murder with Evil in All Its Disguises. When travel writer Lily Moore joins a group of journalists for an all-expenses-paid press junket to Acapulco, Mexico, she expects sun, sand, and margaritas. Instead, she finds that the Mexican city, once the playground of Hollywood stars, is a place of faded glamour and rising crime. Even the luxurious Hotel Cerón, isolated from the rest of the town, seems disturbing to her, with its grand, empty rooms, ever-watchful staff, and armed guards patrolling the grounds. Lily isn't the only one who suspects something rotten under the hotel's opulent facade. Skye McDermott, another journalist on the trip, asks Lily for help with an article she's working on about fraud and corruption in the hotel industry. Skye claims she's eager to write a piece of real journalism rather than the fluff she's known for. But she also lets slip that she's deeply upset at a lover who jilted her, and she plans to exact her revenge by exposing his company's illegal activities. After Skye disappears suddenly, Lily suspects that her friend is in grave danger. But the hotel's staff insists that everything is fine and refuses to contact the police. Only after Lily tries—and fails—to leave the Hotel Cerón does she discover the truth: the journalists are prisoners in a gilded cage. Too late, Lily realizes that she has been maneuvered into the role of bait in a vicious, vengeful plot. Faced with unthinkable choices, Lily must summon all her strength to survive, confront the past she's still running from, and save other lives. "Smoothly sinister characters and a creepy Poe-like atmosphere keep the pages turning."—Publishers Weekly on Evil in All Its Disguises At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Munsey's Magazine for ...

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1142 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Munsey's Magazine for ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Look Gorgeous Always (52 Brilliant Ideas)

Author : Linda Bird
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101221127
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Look Gorgeous Always (52 Brilliant Ideas) written by Linda Bird and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-01-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking beautiful comes naturally...to about one person in a thousand. The rest of us have to work at it. Look Gorgeous Always shows women how to uncover their most intoxicating, sensual, radiant selves by revealing how to walk the walk, flatter their figures, build confidence, and take good care of their bodies and souls. Among the 52 Brilliant Ideas: - Idea #4: Lose pounds without trying - Idea #6: Look great in photos - Idea #10: Purify your mind - Idea #12: Luscious lips - Idea #22: Breathe for beauty - Idea #26: Lighten up - Idea #39: Playing with color

Indecent Exposure

Author : Nicole Nolan Sidhu
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812292685
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Indecent Exposure written by Nicole Nolan Sidhu and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men and women struggling for control of marriage and sexuality; narratives that focus on trickery, theft, and adultery; descriptions of sexual activities and body parts, the mention of which is prohibited in polite society: such are the elements that constitute what Nicole Nolan Sidhu calls a medieval discourse of obscene comedy, in which a particular way of thinking about men, women, and household organization crosses genres, forms, and languages. Inviting its audiences to laugh at violations of what is good, decent, and seemly, obscene comedy manifests a semiotic instability that at once supports established hierarchies and delights in overturning them. In Indecent Exposure, Sidhu explores the varied functions of obscene comedy in the literary and visual culture of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England. In chapters that examine Chaucer's Reeve's Tale and Legend of Good Women; Langland's Piers Plowman; Lydgate's Mumming at Hertford, Troy Book, and Fall of Princes; the Book of Margery Kempe, the Wakefield "Second Shepherds' Play"; the Towneley "Noah"; and other works of drama, Sidhu proposes that Middle English writers use obscene comedy in predictable and unpredictable contexts to grapple with the disturbances that English society experienced in the century and a half following the Black Death. For Sidhu, obscene comedy emerges as a discourse through which writers could address not only issues of gender, sexuality, and marriage but also concerns as varied as the conflicts between Christian doctrine and lived experience, the exercise of free will, the social consequences of violence, and the nature of good government.

The System of Nature

Author : Baron D'Holbach
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752304189
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book The System of Nature written by Baron D'Holbach and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The System of Nature by Baron D'Holbach

Locating China

Author : Jing Wang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134212283
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Locating China written by Jing Wang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume examines the relationship between space and the production of local popular culture in contemporary China. The international team of contributors examine the inter-relationship between the cultural imaginary of a given place and China’s continuing drive towards urbanization. This has led to the development of new spaces and places, and new forms of spatial practices that destabilize old concepts of the ‘local’ and ‘locality’. Delivering ethnographic observations and theoretical speculations, this work furthers our understanding of the link between spatial thinking and the production of consumer culture in China.

Raising Pre-teens (52 Brilliant Ideas)

Author : Sabina Dosani
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440620202
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Raising Pre-teens (52 Brilliant Ideas) written by Sabina Dosani and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 52 fresh ways to help kids-and parents-survive the terrible tweens. From reading, pets, cooking, and music to the maintenance of good behavior and boundary keeping, Raising Pre-Teens presents practical and ingenious ideas to help parents navigate the tough terrain of raising adolescents so they and their children can get the most out of family life.

Essays of To-day

Author : Francis Henry Pritchard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Essays of To-day written by Francis Henry Pritchard and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: