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Author : Leigh Hadley Irvine
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Follies of the Courts written by Leigh Hadley Irvine and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Crews
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1593761015
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)
Download or read book Follies of the Wise written by Frederick Crews and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006-03-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author and Berkeley professor of thirty years Frederick Crews has always considered himself a skeptic. Forty years ago he thought he had found a tradition of thought — Freudian psychoanalytic theory — that had skepticism built into it. He gradually realized, however, that true skepticism is an attitude of continual questioning. The more closely Crews examined the logical structure and institutional history of psychoanalysis, the more clearly he realized that Freud's system of thought lacked empirical rigor. Indeed, he came to see Freudian theory as the very model of a modern pseudoscience. Follies of the Wise contains Crews's best writing of the past fifteen years, including such controversial and widely quoted pieces as "The Unknown Freud" and "The Revenge of the Repressed," essays whose effects still reverberate today. In addition, his topics range from "Intelligent Design" creationism to theosophy, from psychological testing to UFO zaniness, from American Buddhism to the current state of literary criticism. A single theme animates his bracing and witty discussions: the temptation to reach for deep wisdom without attending to the little voice that asks, "Could I, by any chance, be deceiving myself here?"
Author : Michael D. Bailey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467306
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies written by Michael D. Bailey and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people reading their horoscopes or avoiding black cats. Certain religious practices might also come to mind—praying to St. Christopher or lighting candles for the dead. Benign as they might seem today, such practices were not always perceived that way. In medieval Europe superstitions were considered serious offenses, violations of essential precepts of Christian doctrine or immutable natural laws. But how and why did this come to be? In Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies, Michael D. Bailey explores the thorny concept of superstition as it was understood and debated in the Middle Ages. Bailey begins by tracing Christian thinking about superstition from the patristic period through the early and high Middle Ages. He then turns to the later Middle Ages, a period that witnessed an outpouring of writings devoted to superstition—tracts and treatises with titles such as De superstitionibus and Contra vitia superstitionum. Most were written by theologians and other academics based in Europe’s universities and courts, men who were increasingly anxious about the proliferation of suspect beliefs and practices, from elite ritual magic to common healing charms, from astrological divination to the observance of signs and omens. As Bailey shows, however, authorities were far more sophisticated in their reasoning than one might suspect, using accusations of superstition in a calculated way to control the boundaries of legitimate religion and acceptable science. This in turn would lay the conceptual groundwork for future discussions of religion, science, and magic in the early modern world. Indeed, by revealing the extent to which early modern thinkers took up old questions about the operation of natural properties and forces using the vocabulary of science rather than of belief, Bailey exposes the powerful but in many ways false dichotomy between the "superstitious" Middle Ages and "rational" European modernity.
Author : Bernd H. Dams
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pleasure Pavilions and Follies in the Gardens of the Ancien Régime written by Bernd H. Dams and published by Flammarion-Pere Castor. This book was released on 1995 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of these buildings have been destroyed or severely altered and the only records that survive are the drawings, engravings, architectural plans, and, more rarely, paintings of the period.
Author : Robert Jerome Glennon
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597267872
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)
Download or read book Water Follies written by Robert Jerome Glennon and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Santa Cruz River that once flowed through Tucson, Arizona is today a sad mirage of a river. Except for brief periods following heavy rainfall, it is bone dry. The cottonwood and willow trees that once lined its banks have died, and the profusion of birds and wildlife recorded by early settlers are nowhere to be seen. The river is dead. What happened? Where did the water go. As Robert Glennon explains in Water Follies, what killed the Santa Cruz River -- and could devastate other surface waters across the United States -- was groundwater pumping. From 1940 to 2000, the volume of water drawn annually from underground aquifers in Tucson jumped more than six-fold, from 50,000 to 330,000 acre-feet per year. And Tucson is hardly an exception -- similar increases in groundwater pumping have occurred across the country and around the world. In a striking collection of stories that bring to life the human and natural consequences of our growing national thirst, Robert Glennon provides an occasionally wry and always fascinating account of groundwater pumping and the environmental problems it causes. Robert Glennon sketches the culture of water use in the United States, explaining how and why we are growing increasingly reliant on groundwater. He uses the examples of the Santa Cruz and San Pedro rivers in Arizona to illustrate the science of hydrology and the legal aspects of water use and conflicts. Following that, he offers a dozen stories -- ranging from Down East Maine to San Antonio's River Walk to Atlanta's burgeoning suburbs -- that clearly illustrate the array of problems caused by groundwater pumping. Each episode poses a conflict of values that reveals the complexity of how and why we use water. These poignant and sometimes perverse tales tell of human foibles including greed, stubbornness, and, especially, the unlimited human capacity to ignore reality. As Robert Glennon explores the folly of our actions and the laws governing them, he suggests common-sense legal and policy reforms that could help avert potentially catastrophic future effects. Water Follies, the first book to focus on the impact of groundwater pumping on the environment, brings this widespread but underappreciated problem to the attention of citizens and communities across America.
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Author : Thomas Holcroft
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Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Follies of a Day; a Comedy, in Three Acts. [Paginated with Garrick (David) Miss in Her Teens.] written by Thomas Holcroft and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Carrington Bolton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Follies of Science at the Court of Rudolph II written by Henry Carrington Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert R. Nordhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108334091
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Energy Follies written by Robert R. Nordhaus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations about energy law and policy are paramount, undergoing new scrutiny and characterizations. Energy Follies: Missteps, Fiascos, and Successes of America's Energy Policy explores how a century of energy policies, rather than solving our energy problems, often made them worse; how Congress and other federal agencies grappled with remedying seemingly myopic past decisions. Sam Kalen and Robert R. Nordhaus investigate how misguided or naïve energy policy decisions caused or contributed to past energy crises, and how it took years to unwind their effects. This work recounts the decades-long struggles to move to market supply and pricing policies for oil and natural gas in order to make competition work in the electric power industry and to tame emissions from the coal fleet left to us by the 1970s coal policies. These historic policies continue to present struggles, and this book reflects on how future challenges ought to learn from our past mistakes.
Author : Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Miscellanies written by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carolyn Anderson
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 080938292X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Documentary Dilemmas written by Carolyn Anderson and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1991-04-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A case history of the only American film under court-imposed restrictions for reasons other than obscenity or national security. Titicut Follies is an excoriating depiction of conditions in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater, a prison-hospital for the criminally insane. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts took Wiseman to court, seeking to prevent the exhibition of Titicut Follies soon after its release in 1967. This account of the Titicut Follies case is based on ten years of research and relies on interviews, journalistic accounts, and especially on the legal record, including the Commonwealth v. Wiseman transcript, to describe the entire process of independent documentary filmmaking. The trials of Titicut Follies raise crucial questions about the relation of social documentary to its subjects and audiences.
Author : James Edward Murdoch
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Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Stage written by James Edward Murdoch and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Wilstach
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Richard Mansfield written by Paul Wilstach and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The follies of a day written by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Jay Osborn
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ISBN 13 : 9780395270974
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Associates written by John Jay Osborn and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert Greenhough Smith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Strand Magazine written by Herbert Greenhough Smith and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
