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Book Synopsis In the Shadow of Statues by : Mitch Landrieu
Download or read book In the Shadow of Statues written by Mitch Landrieu and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts the racism that shapes us and argues for white America to reckon with its past. A passionate, personal, urgent book from the man who sparked a national debate. "There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence for it." When Mitch Landrieu addressed the people of New Orleans in May 2017 about his decision to take down four Confederate monuments, including the statue of Robert E. Lee, he struck a nerve nationally, and his speech has now been heard or seen by millions across the country. In his first book, Mayor Landrieu discusses his personal journey on race as well as the path he took to making the decision to remove the monuments, tackles the broader history of slavery, race and institutional inequities that still bedevil America, and traces his personal relationship to this history. His father, as state legislator and mayor, was a huge force in the integration of New Orleans in the 1960s and 19070s. Landrieu grew up with a progressive education in one of the nation's most racially divided cities, but even he had to relearn Southern history as it really happened. Equal parts unblinking memoir, history, and prescription for finally confronting America's most painful legacy, In the Shadow of Statues contributes strongly to the national conversation about race in the age of Donald Trump, at a time when racism is resurgent with seemingly tacit approval from the highest levels of government and when too many Americans have a misplaced nostalgia for a time and place that never existed.
Book Synopsis Statues Without Shadows by : Anna Swan
Download or read book Statues Without Shadows written by Anna Swan and published by . This book was released on 2006-05-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunting, poignant memoir of the author's quest to discover the shocking truth about her past, spanning three generations of a fascinating but flawed family. Anna grew up accepting that her parents were glamorous but mysterious figures, who had both died by the time she was seven. It was only when she was in her thirties that she discovered they had both committed suicide. As she began to search for the truth about her parents, she uncovered details about their fascinating and incredibly divergent backgrounds: her father's family can trace their ancestry to King James II. Her mother came from a Welsh mining family. They met in 1950s literary London and fell in love. But a year after Anna was born, her mother was dead. The book explores the nature of loss, exile, betrayal and Anna's own deep-rooted instinct to refuse the horrors of her past and transcend the legacy of her parents. This is a compelling, moving story of uncovering the past in order to reclaim the future.
Book Synopsis Silent Shadows (English Edition) by : Kirsten Nimwey
Download or read book Silent Shadows (English Edition) written by Kirsten Nimwey and published by Kirsten Nimwey. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silent Shadows is the new dark fantasy title by Kirsten Nimwey. It is the spin-off of her novel series, The Explorers that features Reinhardt Foster, the Darkness Wielder. In this novel, he will be making his special appearance as a shadowless Grim Reaper named Rei. The great turmoil abounds in the human world when Corvus, the bogeyman enters and produces a deadly, dark mist and black rains to turn it into the world of Shadows. The living humans’ shadows, which believe to be the human souls are turned into Shadows of Darkness by inhaling the mist, causing the victims to die and turn into stones. Alexis Briant, who is an asthmatic high school teacher also inhales the deadly mist and loses consciousness to his death. But fortunately, his life is spared when someone saves him before he completely dies from suffocation. When he regains his consciousness, he meets Rei - a mysterious masked man who claims to be the Reaper with no shadow and has his mission to defeat Corvus to reverse his cursed fate. With Alexis' help, they must journey to Corvus' castle in the new world of Shadows and this is how their thrilling adventure begins... Print edition in Filipino language is now available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Shadows-Tagalog-Kirsten-Nimwey/dp/1514849402/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Like Silent Shadows? Give it a high rating and review! Visit and like Kirsten Nimwey on Facebook: facebook.com/kirstennimweyofficial Twitter: twitter.com/kirstennimwey
Book Synopsis Possibilities of Perception by : Jennifer Church
Download or read book Possibilities of Perception written by Jennifer Church and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Church presents a new account of perception, which shows how imagining alternative perspectives and possibilities plays a key role in creating and validating experiences of self-evident objectivity. She explores the nature of moral perception and aesthetic perception, and argues that perception can be both literal and substantive.
Book Synopsis Decolonisation of Materialities or Materialisation of (Re-)Colonisation by : Nhemachena, Artwell
Download or read book Decolonisation of Materialities or Materialisation of (Re-)Colonisation written by Nhemachena, Artwell and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary scholarly discourses about decolonising materialities are taking two noticeable trajectories, the first trajectory privileges establishing “connections”, “relationships” and “associations” between human beings and nature. The second trajectory privileges restoration, restitution, reparations for colonial dispossessions, lootings and disinheritance. While the first trajectory presupposes that colonialism was merely about “separation”, “alienation”, and “disconnections” between human beings and nature, the second trajectory stresses the colonialists’ dispossession, disinheritance and privations of Africans. Drawing on contemporary discourses about materialities in relation to semiotics, (non-)representationalism, rhetoric, ecocriticism, territorialisation, deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation, translation, animism, science and technology studies, this book teases out the intellectually rutted terrain of African materialities. It argues that in a world of increasing impoverishment, the significance of materialities cannot be overemphasised: more so for the continent of Africa where impoverishment “materialises” in the midst of resource opulence. The book is a pacesetter in no holds barred interrogation of African materialities.
Book Synopsis Splitting the Difference by : Wendy Doniger
Download or read book Splitting the Difference written by Wendy Doniger and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled. This text recounts and compares a range of these. The comparisons show that differences in gender are more significant than differences in culture.
Download or read book Shadows written by Roberto Casati and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-08-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original, wide-ranging, and endlessly thought-provoking work of popular nonfiction, a leading science writer uncovers the pervasive presence of shadows in our world. For Plato, shadows were the symbol of our limitations. For Galileo, they knocked the Earth from the center of the cosmos. They are a source of fear and a symbol of ignorance, and they loom large in art and design, mythology and folklore, physics and metaphysics, and architecture and urban planning. From shadows puppets and the psychology of shadows to the role of shadows in astronomy and the influence of shadows on the architectural profiles of our cities, Roberto Casati awakens our fascination in this tour-de-force of investigation and imagination.
Book Synopsis Levels of Argument by : Dominic Scott
Download or read book Levels of Argument written by Dominic Scott and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Levels of Argument, Dominic Scott compares the Republic and Nicomachean Ethics from a methodological perspective. In the first half he argues that the Republic distinguishes between two levels of argument in the defence of justice, the 'longer' and 'shorter' routes. The longer is the ideal and aims at maximum precision, requiring knowledge of the Forms and a definition of the Good. The shorter route is less precise, employing hypotheses, analogies and empirical observation. This is the route that Socrates actually follows in the Republic, because it is appropriate to the level of his audience and can stand on its own feet as a plausible defence of justice. In the second half of the book, Scott turns to the Nicomachean Ethics. Scott argues that, even though Aristotle rejects a universal Form of the Good, he implicitly recognises the existence of longer and shorter routes, analogous to those distinguished in the Republic. The longer route would require a comprehensive theoretical worldview, incorporating elements from Aristotle's metaphysics, physics, psychology, and biology. But Aristotle steers his audience away from such an approach as being a distraction from the essentially practical goals of political science. Unnecessary for good decision-making, it is not even an ideal. In sum, Platonic and Aristotelian methodologies both converge and diverge. Both distinguish analogously similar levels of argument, and it is the shorter route that both philosophers actually follow--Plato because he thinks it will have to suffice, Aristotle because he thinks that there is no need to go beyond it.
Book Synopsis OCR Philosophy of Religion for AS and A2 by : Jill Oliphant
Download or read book OCR Philosophy of Religion for AS and A2 written by Jill Oliphant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structured directly around the specification of the OCR, this is the definitive textbook for students of Advanced Subsidiary or Advanced Level courses. The updated third edition covers all the necessary topics for Philosophy of Religion in an enjoyable student-friendly fashion. Each chapter includes: a list of key issues OCR specification checklist explanations of key terminology overviews of key scholars and theories self-test review and exam practice questions. To maximise students’ chances of success, the book contains a section dedicated to answering examination questions. It comes complete with diagrams and tables, lively illustrations, a comprehensive glossary and full bibliography. Additional resources are available via the companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/mayled.
Book Synopsis With a Thousand Antennas by : Allen H. Agnitti
Download or read book With a Thousand Antennas written by Allen H. Agnitti and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 19th century the True, the Good, and the Beautiful preserved their precarious existence… But their very earnestness was their undoing… ~ Bertrand Russell In following a dilettante’s story, the reader will find a sense of what culture past and present can offer in the way of “the True, the Good, and the Beautiful” — a vision of life that rarely appears in contemporary discourse, even though this conceptual trinity was once a major element in Western civilization’s intellectual foundation. Analytic and artistic voices, evoking this concept in one way or another, are presented as the author chronicles his own intellectual excursions, while reviving a sense of the true dilettante. With a Thousand Antennas indicates how a lively curiosity, a moral sense, and an esthetic sensibility can provide a handle on life, a means to obtain a stable perspective on how to proceed through our allotted time.
Book Synopsis Materializing Magic Power by : Wei-Ping Lin
Download or read book Materializing Magic Power written by Wei-Ping Lin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Materializing Magic Power paints a broad picture of the dynamics of popular religion in Taiwan. The first book to explore contemporary Chinese popular religion from its cultural, social, and material perspectives, it analyzes these aspects of religious practice in a unified framework and traces their transformation as adherents move from villages to cities. In this groundbreaking study, Wei-Ping Lin offers a fresh perspective on the divine power of Chinese deities as revealed in two important material forms—god statues and spirit mediums. By examining the significance of these religious manifestations, Lin identifies personification and localization as the crucial cultural mechanisms that bestow efficacy on deity statues and spirit mediums. She further traces the social consequences of materialization and demonstrates how the different natures of materials mediate distinct kinds of divine power. The first part of the book provides a detailed account of popular religion in villages. This is followed by a discussion of how rural migrant workers cope with challenges in urban environments by inviting branch statues of village deities to the city, establishing an urban shrine, and selecting a new spirit medium. These practices show how traditional village religion is being reconfigured in cities today.
Download or read book Black Belt written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oldest and most respected martial arts title in the industry, this popular monthly magazine addresses the needs of martial artists of all levels by providing them with information about every style of self-defense in the world - including techniques and strategies. In addition, Black Belt produces and markets over 75 martial arts-oriented books and videos including many about the works of Bruce Lee, the best-known marital arts figure in the world.
Book Synopsis Ethics for Criminal Justice Professionals by : Cliff Roberson
Download or read book Ethics for Criminal Justice Professionals written by Cliff Roberson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing concerns about the accountability of criminal justice professionals at all levels has placed a heightened focus on the behavior of those who work in the system. Judges, attorneys, police, and prison employees are all under increased scrutiny from the public and the media. Ethics for Criminal Justice Professionals examines the myriad of e
Book Synopsis Classical Literature & History of English Literature For B.A. (Sem.-5) According to NEP-2020 by : R. Bansal
Download or read book Classical Literature & History of English Literature For B.A. (Sem.-5) According to NEP-2020 written by R. Bansal and published by SBPD Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: 1. Important Concepts In English Literature 2. The Republic (By Plato) 3. Iliad (By Homer) 4. Oedipus Rex (By Sophocles) 5. Shakuntala (By Kalidasa) 6. Chaucer To Renaissance (14th To 16th Century) 7. Neoclassicism And Growth Of Romantic Literature (17th And 18th Century) 8. Flourishing Victorian Era (Romantic Age And 19th Century) 9. Modernist Experimentation (20th Century). Additional Information: The author of this book is R. Bansal.
Book Synopsis The Complete Kane Chronicles by : Rick Riordan
Download or read book The Complete Kane Chronicles written by Rick Riordan and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 1353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection fit for the (Egyptian) gods! All three books in the blockbuster Kane Chronicles trilogy are together at last! This series will be treasured by readers of all ages, whether they're experiencing Sadie and Carter's amazing adventures for the first time or are faithful fans eager to devour the saga all over again.
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Book Synopsis UKCAT For Dummies by : Chris Chopdar
Download or read book UKCAT For Dummies written by Chris Chopdar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully updated to include the review materials and practice you need for the new Situational Judgment Test The expert advice, instruction, review and practice students need to score high on the UKCAT. If you’re planning on applying to medical or dental school, the new edition of UKAT For Dummies provides a proven formula for success. It’s packed with practice questions, in-depth answers, and strategies and tips for scoring well on each of the test sections, including the Situational Judgment Test and the new question types introduced for the Verbal Reasoning and Abstract Reasoning test sections.
