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Author : André Malraux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226502915
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Temptation of the West written by André Malraux and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pankaj Mishra
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330434683
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Temptations of the West written by Pankaj Mishra and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his new book, Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on travels that are at once epic and personal as he sees the pressures of Western-style modernity, prosperity, and globalization on a rapidly changing region.
Author : Werner Sollors
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674052439
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Temptation of Despair written by Werner Sollors and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Germany the end of World War II calls forth images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and ghostly monuments to Nazi crimes. Drawing on diaries, photographs, essays, reports, fiction and film, Werner Sollors makes visceral the sorrow and anger, guilt and pride, despondency and resilience of a defeated people--and the paradoxes of occupation.
Author : Victor Neumann
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 : 1785511866
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (855 download)
Download or read book The Temptation of Homo Europaeus written by Victor Neumann and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newly illustrated and revised edition of Victor Neumann's ground-breaking study into the development of Eastern European thought. "My perspective is that of a phenomenologist and specialist in French and Spanish cultures. As such, the book left a special impression on me: Neumann does not limit himself to the mentioned areas of Europe, but understands the continent in its entirety, that is, ‘West’ and ‘East’ as a whole." — World Complexity Science AcademyThe Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment - these seismic developments in Western thought were not confined to Italy and her near neighbours, but were paralleled across the vast and culturally diverse territory stretching from Vienna to Constantinople. Drawing on an array of sources, many of which were little-known before he made this ground-breaking study, Victor Neumann charts the development of Eastern European thought and its literary and artistic expression from the Middle Ages to the modern age. First published, to great acclaim in Romania in 1991, this newly revised, updated and illustrated edition has been published as Neumann's home city of Timișoara prepares to receive visitors from across the world as European Capital of Culture, and at a time when the question of what it means to be European is being debated more than ever.
Author : Donna Leon
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 13 : 0802165613
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Temptation of Forgiveness written by Donna Leon and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling series transports us to “Donna Leon’s enticing, troubled and beautiful Venice . . . Her latest mystery is one of her best” (Providence Journal). A New York Times Book Review Best Crime Book of the Year • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A Financial Times Summer Book Pick • A Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine Most Anticipated Mystery of the Year Commissario Guido Brunetti is surprised by the appearance of a friend of his wife’s, fearful that her son is using drugs and hopeful Brunetti can somehow intervene. When the woman’s husband is found unconscious with a serious brain injury at the foot of a bridge in Venice after midnight, Brunetti is drawn to pursue a possible connection to the boy’s behavior. But the truth, as Brunetti has experienced so often, is not straightforward. While Brunetti pursues several false and contradictory leads, he becomes exasperated by the petty bureaucracy that constantly bedevils him and threatens to expose Signorina Elettra, his superior’s secretary. But steadied by the embrace of his own family and by his passion for the classics, he reads Sophocles’s Antigone, and, in its light, considers the terrible consequences to which the actions of a tender heart can lead. “It’s the living, bleeding humanity of the characters that makes Donna Leon’s police procedurals so engaging. . . . Tagging along after this sleuth is a wonderful way to see Venice like a native.” ―The New York Times Book Review “[A] droll and intelligent series.” ―The Wall Street Journal “[A] richly rewarding series . . . from a master of character-rich crime fiction.” ―Booklist
Author : André Malraux
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226502902
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Conquerors written by André Malraux and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conquerors describes the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communists in the Cantonese revolution of the 1920s. It is both an exciting war story and a gallery of intellectual portraits: a ruthless Bolshevik revolutionary, a disillusioned master of propaganda, a powerful Chinese pacifist, and a young anarchist. Each of these "conquerors" will be crushed by the revolution they try to control. In a new Foreword, Herbert R. Lottman discusses the political background of the book, and the extent to which Malraux invented the history he wrote about. "[The Conquerors] is a valuable introduction to Malraux himself, who would, like his fictional counterpart, become an analgam of talents as novelist, essayist, Leftist and Gaullist, Resistance hero and art critic. He was among the most 'universal' of French men of letters."—Choice "The novel can be enjoyed as a remarkable work of modernism. With images derived from the silent cinema and prose from the telegraph, it moves at a tremendous pace. Canton all comes to violent life, seen as though from a speeding car."—Kirkus "No other writer of the 20th century had the same capacity to translate his personal adventure into a meeting with history and a dialogue of civilization."—Carlos Fuentes, New York Times Book Review
Author : Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Publisher : Aegitas
ISBN 13 : 0369401247
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (694 download)
Download or read book Dangerous Connections written by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 American period romantic drama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, based on his play Les liaisons dangereuses, which was itself adapted from the 18th-century French novel of the same name by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. It stars Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Mildred Natwick, Peter Capaldi, Keanu Reeves and Uma Thurman. Dangerous Liaisons was released theatrically on December 16, 1988, by Warner Bros. It received generally positive reviews from critics with praise for Close and 's and Pfeiffer and 's performances and the screenplay, production values and costumes. Although it was a moderate commercial success grossing $34.7 million against its $14 million budget, it was cited as a box office disappointment. The film received seven nominations at the 61st Academy Awards, including for Best Picture and won three: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, and Best Production Design.
Author : Rudy Wiebe
Publisher : Vintage Books Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780676972191
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (721 download)
Download or read book The Temptations of Big Bear written by Rudy Wiebe and published by Vintage Books Canada. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction.
Author : Pankaj Mishra
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429954647
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Temptations of the West written by Pankaj Mishra and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2002-04-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid, often surprising account of South Asia today by the author of An End to Suffering In his new book, Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on travels that are at once epic and personal. Traveling in the changing cultures of South Asia, Mishra sees the pressures—the temptations—of Western-style modernity and prosperity, and teases out the paradoxes of globalization. A visit to Allahabad, birthplace of Jawaharlal Nehru, occasions a brief history of the tumultuous post-independence politics Nehru set in motion. In Kashmir, just after the brutal killing of thirtyfive Sikhs, Mishra sees Muslim guerrillas playing with Sikh village children while the media ponder a (largely irrelevant) visit by President Clinton. And in Tibet Mishra exquisitely parses the situation whereby the Chinese government—officially atheist and strongly opposed to a free Tibet—has discovered that Tibetan Buddhism can "be packaged and sold to tourists." Temptations of the West is a book concerned with history still in the making—essential reading about a conflicted and rapidly changing region.
Author : Jean-François Revel
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Totalitarian Temptation written by Jean-François Revel and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1978 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Kennedy
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407009575
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Temptation written by Douglas Kennedy and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Armitage - husband, father and failure - has lived the life of an unsuccessful screenwriter for eleven years. When one of his scripts is bought for television, David's life is transformed, more dramatically than he could have ever imagined. An overnight success and suddenly the toast of Tinseltown, David's upward trajectory finally gives him everything he had ever hoped for. New found success means total reinvention, and initiation into the Hollywood world of high-flyers. Life for David quickly becomes a heady rush of celebrities, parties and women - but everything comes at a price. Walking out on his wife and daughter, David climbs to dizzy new heights, brimming with luxury, opulence and scandal. But before long a dark figure casts a shadow on the horizon. When an influential film director presents David with an offer, the opportunity of a lifetime - could this temptation be one that jeopardises everything David has worked for. Enthralling, vivid and addictive, Douglas Kennedy's Temptation masterfully explores the destructive power of success,and the choices we have to make between personal gain and the people closest to our hearts.
Author : E. M. Cioran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628724951
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)
Download or read book The Temptation to Exist written by E. M. Cioran and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers. The Temptation to Exist first introduced this brilliant European thinker twenty years ago to American readers, in a superb translation by Richard Howard. This literary mystique around Cioran continues to grow, and The Temptation to Exist has become an underground classic. In this work Cioran writes about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, about mystics, apostles, philosophers. For those to whom the very word philosophy brings visions of arduous reading, be assured: Cioran is crystal-clear, his style quotable and aphoristic. “A sort of final philosopher of the Western world. His statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning”—The Washington Post
Author : David Lewis
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Temptations of Tyranny in Central Asia written by David Lewis and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains why the US alliance with Uzbekistan failed to produce reform and instead ended with the massacre of hundreds of civilians in Andijan. This book provides an account of the 2005 revolution in Kyrgyzstan, investigates the bizarre dictatorship in Turkmenistan that threatens to be the next North Korea, and examines the Islamic militant groups.
Author : Jack Turner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307491226
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Spice written by Jack Turner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an era—from ancient times through the Renaissance—when what we now consider common condiments were valued in gold and blood. Spices made sour medieval wines palatable, camouflaged the smell of corpses, and served as wedding night aphrodisiacs. Indispensible for cooking, medicine, worship, and the arts of love, they were thought to have magical properties and were so valuable that they were often kept under lock and key. For some, spices represented Paradise, for others, the road to perdition, but they were potent symbols of wealth and power, and the wish to possess them drove explorers to circumnavigate the globe—and even to savagery. Following spices across continents and through literature and mythology, Spice is a beguiling narrative about the surprisingly vast influence spices have had on human desire. Includes eight pages of color photographs. One of the Best Books of the Year: Discover Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle
Author : Mon Ito
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN 13 : 4596021600
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)
Download or read book THE TEMPTATION GAME written by Mon Ito and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2020-12-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate night leads to a painful discovery… Rachel is reunited with Gabriel after years apart when he comes home for his father’s funeral. Rachel had grown up with Gabriel after her mother and his father became romantically involved. But their relationship became complicated when Rachel turned nineteen. She and Gabriel shared a passionate night…only to find out soon after that they are half siblings! They’d decided to live separately with that secret forever. But now that the funeral has brought them together again, they must confront the past…and their feelings.
Author : Joanna Hathaway
Publisher : Tor Teen
ISBN 13 : 0765396432
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Dark of the West written by Joanna Hathaway and published by Tor Teen. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A novel of court intrigue and action-packed military adventure,"* Joanna Hathaway's Dark of the West, is a breathtaking YA fantasy debut--first in the Glass Alliance series. A pilot raised in revolution. A princess raised in a palace. A world on the brink of war. Aurelia Isendare is a princess of a small kingdom in the North, raised in privilege but shielded from politics as her brother prepares to step up to the throne. Halfway around the world, Athan Dakar, the youngest son of a ruthless general, is a fighter pilot longing for a life away from the front lines. When Athan’s mother is shot and killed, his father is convinced it’s the work of his old rival, the Queen of Etania—Aurelia’s mother. Determined to avenge his wife’s murder, he devises a plot to overthrow the Queen, a plot which sends Athan undercover to Etania to gain intel from her children. Athan’s mission becomes complicated when he finds himself falling for the girl he’s been tasked with spying upon. Aurelia feels the same attraction, all the while desperately seeking to stop the war threatening to break between the Southern territory and the old Northern kingdoms that control it—a war in which Athan’s father is determined to play a role. As diplomatic ties manage to just barely hold, the two teens struggle to remain loyal to their families and each other as they learn that war is not as black and white as they’ve been raised to believe. “Heart-pounding . . . will leave the reader wanting more.”—*#1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Václav Havel
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802131003
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Temptation written by Václav Havel and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his most challenging work to date, Czech playwright Vaclav Havel has given the Faust legend a provocative twist. His setting is 'the Institute, ' whose mission is to combat the 'irrational tendencies' in society through its scientific work. Personal and professional relationships at this 'lighthouse of truthful knowledge' are a tissue of lies and sycophancy in which all concerned willingly collude.
