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Author : Philip James Howe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Well-tempered Discontent written by Philip James Howe and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan F. P. Rose
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062234749
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book The Well-Tempered City written by Jonathan F. P. Rose and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher In the vein of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser’s Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose—a visionary in urban development and renewal—champions the role of cities in addressing the environmental, economic, and social challenges of the twenty-first century. Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity—and the home of eighty percent of the world’s population by 2050. As the 21st century progresses, metropolitan areas will bear the brunt of global megatrends such as climate change, natural resource depletion, population growth, income inequality, mass migrations, education and health disparities, among many others. In The Well-Tempered City, Jonathan F. P. Rose—the man who “repairs the fabric of cities”—distills a lifetime of interdisciplinary research and firsthand experience into a five-pronged model for how to design and reshape our cities with the goal of equalizing their landscape of opportunity. Drawing from the musical concept of “temperament” as a way to achieve harmony, Rose argues that well-tempered cities can be infused with systems that bend the arc of their development toward equality, resilience, adaptability, well-being, and the ever-unfolding harmony between civilization and nature. These goals may never be fully achieved, but our cities will be richer and happier if we aspire to them, and if we infuse our every plan and constructive step with this intention. A celebration of the city and an impassioned argument for its role in addressing the important issues in these volatile times, The Well-Tempered City is a reasoned, hopeful blueprint for a thriving metropolis—and the future.
Author : Paul Hollander
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412821360
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Decline and Discontent written by Paul Hollander and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan-Philipp Sendker
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590516400
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book A Well-tempered Heart written by Jan-Philipp Sendker and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to the international best-selling novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats. Almost ten years have passed since Julia Win came back from Burma, her father’s native country. Though she is a successful Manhattan lawyer, her private life is at a crossroads; her boyfriend has recently left her and she is, despite her wealth, unhappy with her professional life. Julia is lost and exhausted. One day, in the middle of an important business meeting, she hears a stranger’s voice in her head that causes her to leave the office without explanation. In the following days, her crisis only deepens. Not only does the female voice refuse to disappear, but it starts to ask questions Julia has been trying to avoid. Why do you live alone? To whom do you feel close? What do you want in life? Interwoven with Julia’s story is that of a Burmese woman named Nu Nu who finds her world turned upside down when Burma goes to war and calls on her two young sons to be child soldiers. This spirited sequel, like The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, explores the most inspiring and passionate terrain: the human heart.
Author : Holger Afflerbach
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857453106
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book An Improbable War? written by Holger Afflerbach and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrophe happened therefore preoccupies historians to this day. The focus of this volume is not on the consequences, but rather on the connection between the Great War and the long 19th century, the short- and long-term causes of World War I. This approach results in the questioning of many received ideas about the war's causes, especially the notion of "inevitability."
Author : Steven M. Parish
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512805432
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Hierarchy and Its Discontents written by Steven M. Parish and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The caste system fascinates Western scholars because it forms the basis for South Asian society—but how does it affect its participants?
Author : Eugene Szekeres Bagger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Francis Joseph written by Eugene Szekeres Bagger and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745656854
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Postmodernity and its Discontents written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the constraint of impulse, the limiting of self expression. Today, in the time of modernity, Bauman argues, Freud's analysis no longer holds good, if it ever did. The regulation of desire turns from an irritating necessity into an assault against individual freedom. In the postmodern era, the liberty of the individual is the overriding value, the criterion in terms of which all social rules and regulations are assessed. Postmodernity is governed by the 'will to happiness': the result, however, is a sacrificing of security. The most prominent anxieties in our society today, Bauman shows, derive from the removal of security. The world is experienced as overwhelmingly uncertain, uncontrollable and frightening. Totalitarian politics frightened by its awesome power; the new social disorder frightens by its lack of consistency and direction. The very pursuit of individual happiness corrupts and undermines those systems of authority needed for a stable life. This book builds imaginatively upon Bauman's earlier contributions to social theory. It consolidates his reputation as the interpreter of postmodernity. The book will appeal to second-year undergraduates and above in sociology, cultural studies, philosophy and anthropology.
Author : Gordon McMullan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198704623
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Late Style and Its Discontents written by Gordon McMullan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late Style and its Discontents interrogates the critical cliche of "late style," questioning whether Titian, Beethoven, Goethe and others can usefully be assimilated to one another, as though their particular social and historical circumstances had been transcended by a singular existential predicament.
Author : Francis Davis
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786749814
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Jazz And Its Discontents written by Francis Davis and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Frank Sinatra to Sun Ra, from the jazz age to middle age, with thoughts on everything in-between, Francis Davis has been writing about American music and American culture for more than twenty years. His essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and the Village Voice among countless other publications from coast to coast. And now, for the first time, here are his most important writings of his impressive career-the quintessential Davis on everything from why Rent set musicals back two decades, to what Ken Burns should have filmed. And Davis's writing is as enjoyable as the music of which he writes. The New York Times Book Review has compared Davis's work to "a well-blown solo."
Author : Jan-Philipp Sendker
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590516419
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book A Well-tempered Heart written by Jan-Philipp Sendker and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to the international best-selling novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats. Almost ten years have passed since Julia Win came back from Burma, her father’s native country. Though she is a successful Manhattan lawyer, her private life is at a crossroads; her boyfriend has recently left her and she is, despite her wealth, unhappy with her professional life. Julia is lost and exhausted. One day, in the middle of an important business meeting, she hears a stranger’s voice in her head that causes her to leave the office without explanation. In the following days, her crisis only deepens. Not only does the female voice refuse to disappear, but it starts to ask questions Julia has been trying to avoid. Why do you live alone? To whom do you feel close? What do you want in life? Interwoven with Julia’s story is that of a Burmese woman named Nu Nu who finds her world turned upside down when Burma goes to war and calls on her two young sons to be child soldiers. This spirited sequel, like The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, explores the most inspiring and passionate terrain: the human heart.
Author : Lothar Höbelt
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557532305
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Defiant Populist written by Lothar Höbelt and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great deal has been said and written about Jorg Haider, the charismatic but controversial leader of Austria's Freedom Party. To some he is a neo-Nazi and admirer of fellow Austrian Adolf Hitler's policies. To others he is merely an artful opportunist, a telegenic master of coded sound bites and slogans that means different things to different people. And to that quarter of the country's voters who voted this glamorous rabble-rouser's Freedom Party (FPO) to power in 1999, he represents a fresh alternative to the incestuous two-party oligarchy that had run Austria for a half century. This book goes a long way in explaining how his use of rhetoric and language style reminiscent of Nazi leanings have promoted his meteoric rise to political power, and how this same rhetoric could possibly be this man's downfall. For instance, he has been outspoken about endorsing Hitler's unemployment practices, as well as calling former SS veterans, men of character. As a result, among his FPO party members, there are rumors of a split, for there are some who object to his use of language, and his penchant for using the Nazi agenda as a backdrop for their party's political domination. Defiant Populist is about de-bunking the Haider myth created by the love-hate relationship of a clever maverick and the media who feed upon one another. To be understood, the Haider phenomenon needs to be seen in the context of the strange politics of a country that leads a very sheltered existence in the heart of Europe and yet continues to be the odd man out in more ways than one, from machine politics to neutrality, from its hang-ups about past glories to its ambivalent approach to its German and European identity, from its conservative mentality to its lack of a real conservative tradition in politics. This book explains and analyzes the Haider phenomenon from the context of a country of contrasts: an admirable record of non-violence and social peace with residual anti-Semitism, socialist economics with enviable wealth, staunchly pro-Western values with equally ardent neutralism, and a relatively new Austrian identity with a dark German past. Lothar Hobelt is one of Austria's leading modern political historians. In addition to over a hundred articles, he has published ten books, including Republik im Wandel: Die groÃYe Koalition und der Aufstieg der Haider-FPÃ-, and Von der Vierten Partei zur Dritten Kraft: Die Geschichte des VdU. He appears regularly in print, radio, and television media, both at home and abroad, as an authority on Jörg Haider and the Freedom Party. Dr. Hobelt has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Chicago and New Orleans, and has taught since 1983 at the University of Vienna.
Author : Edmond Taylor
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y : Doubleday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Fall of the Dynasties written by Edmond Taylor and published by Garden City, N.Y : Doubleday. This book was released on 1963 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph W. Esherick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742578151
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Empire to Nation written by Joseph W. Esherick and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2006-05-04 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fall of empires and the rise of nation-states was a defining political transition in the making of the modern world. As United States imperialism becomes a popular focus of debate, we must understand how empire, the nineteenth century's dominant form of large-scale political organization, had disappeared by the end of the twentieth century. Here, ten prominent specialists discuss the empire-to-nation transition in comparative perspective. Chapters on Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Russia, and China illustrate both the common features and the diversity of the transition. Questioning the sharpness of the break implied by the empire/nation binary, the contributors explore the many ways in which empires were often nation-like and nations behaved imperially. While previous studies have focused on the rise and fall of empires or on nationalism and the process of nation-building, this intriguing volume concentrates on the empire-to-nation transition itself. Understanding this transition allows us to better interpret the contemporary political order and new forms of global hegemony.
Author : Mrs. Molesworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hathercourt Rectory written by Mrs. Molesworth and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lewis Wingfield
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338510825X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Gehenna: Or, Havens of Unrest written by Lewis Wingfield and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : Sir Valentine Chirol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Indian Unrest written by Sir Valentine Chirol and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
