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Book Synopsis Unsceptred Isle by : Joseph V. Sultana
Download or read book Unsceptred Isle written by Joseph V. Sultana and published by Percy Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society has gone to Hell. And as the collapse spreads, Jon Maitland is building a wall. A wall that cost him his family. As the world implodes, Baker has become abandoned and lost in this new world. Maitland needs out, Baker wants out, does Lattimer hold the Key to the Unsceptred Isle?
Book Synopsis The Social Construction of What? by : Ian Hacking
Download or read book The Social Construction of What? written by Ian Hacking and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social construction, Ian Hacking reminds us. His book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality. Especially troublesome in this dispute is the status of the natural sciences, and this is where Hacking finds some of his most telling cases, from the conflict between biological and social approaches to mental illness to vying accounts of current research in sedimentary geology. He looks at the issue of child abuse—very much a reality, though the idea of child abuse is a social product. He also cautiously examines the ways in which advanced research on new weapons influences not the content but the form of science. In conclusion, Hacking comments on the “culture wars” in anthropology, in particular a spat between leading ethnographers over Hawaii and Captain Cook. Written with generosity and gentle wit by one of our most distinguished philosophers of science, this wise book brings a much needed measure of clarity to current arguments about the nature of knowledge.
Book Synopsis A History of the Highland Clearances by : Eric Richards
Download or read book A History of the Highland Clearances written by Eric Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985, A History of the Highland Clearances: Volume 2 explores the various types of communal and intellectual responses, contemporary and retrospective, to the experience of the clearances. The first section considers the legacy of the two hundred years’ debate about the Highland problem and the place of the clearances therein. The second section assesses the scale, range and timing of the emigrations of the Highlanders, as well as some of the motivations. The third section contemplates the direct popular response to the clearances, the collective memory and the tradition of physical resistance. The fourth section is about the career, trial and reputation of Patrick Sellar, which together embodied much of the social history, ruling ideas, and the necessary mythology of the clearances. The final section considers the fundamental economic problem of the Highlands in the age of the clearances, and the moral and economic alternatives that faced the community, the landlords, and the nation.
Book Synopsis The Candour A.B.C. of Politics by : Rosine de Bounevialle
Download or read book The Candour A.B.C. of Politics written by Rosine de Bounevialle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Candour A.B.C. of Politics was originally serialised in Candour between August 1989 and August 1995. It was intended to publish in book form the text that Rosine de Bounevialle referred to as her "only literary baby" long ago, but it was not to be in her lifetime. The text is an idiosyncratic and wonderful testament of her values. One hundred years after her birth it is fitting that that such an influential and elemental force be remembered and recognised.
Book Synopsis The Highland Clearances by : Eric Richards
Download or read book The Highland Clearances written by Eric Richards and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Highland Clearances stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland. This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. In considering both the terrible suffering of the Highland people as well as the stark choices that faced landowners during a period of rapid economic change, it shows how the Clearances were one of many 'attempted' solutions to the problem of how to maintain a population on marginal and infertile land, and were, in fact, part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation. In drawing attention away from the mythology to the hard facts of what actually happened, The Highland Clearances offers a balanced analysis of events which created a terrible scar on the Highland and Gaelic imagination.
Book Synopsis Thinking with Shakespeare by : Julia Reinhard Lupton
Download or read book Thinking with Shakespeare written by Julia Reinhard Lupton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is a person? What company do people keep with animals, plants, and things? What are their rights? To whom are they obligated? Such questions - bearing fundamentally on the shared meaning of politics and life - animate Shakespearean drama, yet their urgency has been obscured by historicist approaches to literature.
Book Synopsis Lustgarten Plays: 1 by : Anders Lustgarten
Download or read book Lustgarten Plays: 1 written by Anders Lustgarten and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first play collection from Anders Lustgarten, "perhaps Britain's most visible and visibly engaged political playwright" (Time Out London), containing plays from the start of his career up to 2015 with the most recent play in the collection, Shrapnel, and one previously unpublished play. The volume includes an introduction by the playwright. A Day at the Racists (2010, Finborough Theatre) is a devastatingly timely examination of the rise of the BNP in London, which attempts to understand why people might be drawn to the BNP and diagnoses the deeper cause of that attraction: the political abandonment and betrayal of the working class by New Labour. If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep (Royal Court Theatre, 2013) offers an exploration of our current government's politics of austerity and a look at possible alternatives. Black Jesus (Finborough Theatre, 2013) unpicks the political complexities of Zimbabwe through the devastating personal journeys of two very different people, both scarred by one of Africa's most notorious dictatorships. Shrapnel (Arcola Theatre, 2015) takes as its subject The Roboski massacre is one of the most controversial episodes in the 'war on terror'. Piecing together the fragments of the tragedy, Anders Lustgarten's startling new play dares to ask what a massacre is made of. Kingmakers (Salisbury Playhouse, 2015) imagines ten years after the signing of Magna Carta when the barons' takeover isn't quite going to plan. With the peasants grumbling about enormous castles and broken promises, the threat of rebellion hangs in the air. This play has not previously been published. The Insurgents (Finborough Theatre, 2007) is Anders Lustgarten's look at contemporary London and its class divide. Private equity has turned the city into a high-fenced playground for a tax-exempt, big business elite. This play has not previously been published.
Book Synopsis The Magna Carta Plays by : Timberlake Wertenbaker
Download or read book The Magna Carta Plays written by Timberlake Wertenbaker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four new short plays inspired by the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta by internationally renowned playwrights Howard Brenton, Anders Lustgarten, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Sally Woodcock. RANSOMED by Howard Brenton In the sleepy Cathedral City of Melchester, a crime has been committed. The Cathedral’s prize possession, a copy of the original Magna Carta, has been stolen in a daring heist. Who is responsible and what price will the British Government be prepared to pay for the document’s safe return? As the plot thickens, Detective Inspector Ellie Baxter seeks to find the truth in this brilliant new Magna Carta comedy. KINGMAKERS by Anders Lustgarten Ten years after the signing of Magna Carta, the barons' takeover isn’t quite going to plan. With the peasants grumbling about enormous castles and broken promises, the threat of rebellion hangs in the air. Perhaps the solution is to distract and deflect by bringing the confused and humbled king back into the fold? What about a royal wedding? A royal baby? All at the common man’s expense, of course... A fictional story from the 13th century that may just be about now. WE SELL RIGHT by Timberlake Wertenbaker In 1215, when the King of England abuses his extraordinary power, the barons’ take action. In 2015, when the kings of global business and finance abuse their extraordinary power, who will take action and what will confrontation look like? In the decades that follow, what will remain of the values we hold most dear? A gripping drama about the consequences of confronting power on a global scale. PINK GIN by Sally Woodcock In 21st century Africa, a visionary President stands on the cusp of greatness. With international investors poised to develop large tracks of land, the financial future looks bright. But why has it been raining for 97 days, and who is leading the angry mob in the streets outside? A compelling contemporary allegory throwing light on the oft overlooked companion to Magna Carta, The Charter of the Forest.
Book Synopsis The Future of the Highlands by : Derick S. Thomson
Download or read book The Future of the Highlands written by Derick S. Thomson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1968, this book gave a rounded picture of some of the problems which were facing the Highlands of Scotland in the first half of the twentieth century. The contributors examined various aspects of the Highland problem and ways of solving it: how to develop productive industry, stabilize the population, encourage creative growth of community and support Gaelic culture and language. The book takes full account of the historical background, linguistic, literary and economic situation.
Download or read book Poems written by Clifford King and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Countryman written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Humanities Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Edgar Allan Poe, and Other Essays by : George Smith Hood
Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe, and Other Essays written by George Smith Hood and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Isles of Greece by : Frederick Tennyson
Download or read book The Isles of Greece written by Frederick Tennyson and published by London Macmillan 1890.. This book was released on 1890 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Spirit of the Nation. Ballads and Songs by the writers of"The Nation,"with original and ancient Music, arranged for the Voice and Piano-Forte by : Thomas Davis
Download or read book The Spirit of the Nation. Ballads and Songs by the writers of"The Nation,"with original and ancient Music, arranged for the Voice and Piano-Forte written by Thomas Davis and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Spirit of the Nation by : Thomas Osborne Davis
Download or read book The Spirit of the Nation written by Thomas Osborne Davis and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Arts of 17th-century Science by : Claire Jowitt
Download or read book The Arts of 17th-century Science written by Claire Jowitt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary ideals of science representing disinterested and objective fields of investigation have their origins in the seventeenth century. However, 'new science' did not simply or uniformly replace earlier beliefs about the workings of the natural world, but entered into competition with them. It is this complex process of competition and negotiation concerning ways of seeing the natural world that is charted by the essays in this book. The collection traces the many overlaps between 'literary' and 'scientific' discourses as writers in this period attempted both to understand imaginatively and empirically the workings of the natural world, and shows that a discrete separation between such discourses and spheres is untenable. The collection is designed around four main themes-'Philosophy, Thought and Natural Knowledge', 'Religion, Politics and the Natural World', 'Gender, Sexuality and Scientific Thought' and 'New Worlds and New Philosophies.' Within these themes, the contributors focus on the contests between different ways of seeing and understanding the natural world in a wide range of writings from the period: in poetry and art, in political texts, in descriptions of real and imagined colonial landscapes, as well as in more obviously 'scientific' documents.
