![]() ![]() Against the State provides a rigorous and provocative foil to the classic texts, and also serves as a concise statement of the anarchist challenge. He concludes by articulating a positive vision of an anarchist future, based on the "individualism" of such figures as Emerson and Thoreau. Against the state : an introduction to anarchist political theory Bookreader Item Preview. ![]() Sartwell argues that the state rests on nothing but deadly force and its accompanying coercion, and that no one is under any obligation to obey the law merely because it is the law. He separates the traditional pro-state arguments into three classes: social contract theories, utilitarian justifications, and justicial views, all while attacking both general strategies and particular formulations. Being declared an enemy of the PAS is sufficient for being blacklisted in academia, but sometimes it takes a little something extra to be totally thrown over the edge. Sartwell considers the classics of Western political philosophy-Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Hume, Bentham, Rawls, and Habermas, among others-and argues that their positions are not only wrong but also embarrassingly bad. Sartwell became an official enemy of the Professional Academic State (PAS) when he criticized the APA statement on bullying. ![]() In Against the State, Crispin Sartwell unleashes a quick and brutal rejection of the traditional arguments for state legitimacy. ![]()
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![]() He talked about losing his mother and father at an early age but working to keep the family together by staying with an aunt. The title of Rajat’s book came from a collection of Tagore’s poems, “Where the Mind is Without Fear.” Rajat had been a fan of Tagore from his early days of growing up in Calcutta. The talk was moderated by Suresh Shenoy, the president of the WHEELS global foundation. Witty Bindra, President Emeritus of Pan IIT USA, and who was instrumental in organizing the event, talked about Rajat’s background and introduced him to the audience. The event was kicked off by Jagdip Ahluwalia, the Executive Director of the IACCGH, followed by a few words from Swapan Dhairyawan, the current president of IACCGH. All of this is covered in detail in his new book, “Mind without Fear.” But more importantly, Rajat shared his side of the story about the SEC charges, his conviction and time in prison, and the toll on his family. The sold-out event provided glimpses of Rajat’s life from his early days to his time at IIT Delhi and then at Harvard Business School, followed by his 37 years at McKinsey & Company. The IIT Alumni of Greater Houston (IITAGH) and the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Houston (IACCGH) hosted a Fireside Chat with Rajat Gupta at the Hess Club on December 11, 2019. ![]() ![]() “You can’t control what happens to you, but you can control how you react to it.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir.These books will show you how to write a moving memoir or autobiography. Storytelling and the Art of Imagination.Long Story Short: The Only Storytelling Guide You’ll Ever Need.Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama.Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writer’s Guide.The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human.These books show you how to harness the power of storytelling to write compelling nonfiction narrative. Word Up! 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The Odyssey, moreover, could be thought of as awaiting its translator: until Robert Fitzgerald came along. The Iliad is a far more formidable object, a huge uncompromising tragic masterpiece that must be taken on its own terms before it will speak to ours. Odysseus’ series of encounters in books 5-12 will submit to a wide range of interpretation the second half of the poem, though it has its longueurs, provides a narrative action-the hero’s return and recovery of his home-that is exciting in itself and points to further levels of meaning, psychological, social, cosmological, that we can accommodate readily enough. Though the Odyssey is not “our first novel,” there is just enough life in the cliché to allow translator and reader to collaborate in the pleasures of a narrative mode that has not been improved on. Far more sharply than with the Odyssey he faces the problem of what to turn the poem into. ![]() Of the many difficulties that test the translator of the Iliad two are worth singling out. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And Steve Best, the best man, is just as bad, a drifter whose ambitions seem limited to checking out the local music scene. As it turns out, the groom, a self-described ""bearer of the message of Jesus,"" and the bride, a homeopathic therapist who rejects the idea of dressing up ""just to get hitched,"" aren't exactly the endearing young people Kitty has imagined. ![]() When Kitty's American granddaughter comes to London to get married, Kitty prevails on Thea to put the best man up at her flat for a few days. She enjoys the small freedoms of her dull but comfortable existence and just tolerates the only family she has-her husband's two cousins, Kitty and Molly, and their spouses. At 70, Dorothea May has been a widow 15 years. When youth and age collide, the fallout, as charted by veteran Booker Prize winner Brookner, is funny, unexpected and moving. ![]() ![]() If life at home is difficult, then school is torture, with the nuns watching every move she makes. ![]() John's, Maureen is the second-youngest daughter of a bitter and angry mother and a beaten-down father who tells the best stories (but only when he's drunk). "A page-turner with an indelible heroine." -Ann-Marie MacDonaldĬanadian actor, comedian and social activist Mary Walsh explodes onto the literary scene with this unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age in late 1960s Newfoundland ![]() ![]() Plutarch, one of the great early biographers summarizes the lives of Greek and Roman military and political leaders and compares them to illuminate the virtues and failings of their leadership. ".beyond this there is nothing but prodigies and fictions, the only inhabitants are the poets and inventors of fables" Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Vol 1. Theseus, Romulus, Lycurgus, Numa, Solon, Poplicola, Themistocles, Camillus, Pericles, Fabius, Alcibiadas, Coriolanes, Timoleon, Aemilius Paulus, Pelopidas, Marcellus, Aristides, Marcus Cato, Philopoemen, Flaminius, Pyrrhus, Caius Marius, Lysander, Sylla, Cimon, Lucullus, Nicias, Crassus ![]() Publisher: Modern Library 2001 Author: Plutarch Translated by: John Dryden Volume: 1 Format: 816 pages, paperback ISBN: 9780375756764 The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius and Pericles, and many more powerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. ![]() Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. ![]() ![]() ![]() It also seems as if King is borrowing back and extending the motifs that have driven a lot of modern horror. The "phoners" affected by the pulse spend their time listening and transmitting soft rock, from Britney Spears to the Carpenters, suggesting that King is having a pop at conformity. Dedicated to George Romero, the horror director best known for his zombie films, Cell initially seems like a similar sort of social satire. ![]() It takes quite a long time for King to reveal his true intentions. ![]() But while Cell is out-and-out horror, it has the deep and disturbing subtexts found only in the best of the genre. While these novels, such as 2001's Dreamcatcher, are invariably satisfying, he makes it look so easy that they usually don't feel quite as bracing as the finest of his genre-stretching fiction. He's right.Įvery now and again, King seemingly gets the urge to go back to basics and write a full-throttle horror novel, almost to prove to himself that he is as capable of scaring the pants off his readers now as he was when he started out. Cell doesn't end with such justifications, having only a short list of acknowledgements, and a handwritten extract from the next novel. In recent years, King has become equivocal about some of his fiction, and recent novels have ended with long afterwords explaining his motivations for writing the books and his attitude to concerns some readers might have with the conclusions. ![]() ![]() ![]() She drew upon her academic background as a historian and her studies of alchemy, magic, and the occult.Ī Discovery of Witches is the first installment in the All Souls trilogy, followed by Shadow of Night (2012) and completed with the third novel in the series The Book of Life (2014). The novel began as a " thought experiment" for Harkness, who had previously only published works of historical non-fiction. Comparisons were made between other popular fantasy series, namely Twilight and Harry Potter. It was praised for its intelligence and the mixture of history and fantasy, although some critics felt the plot was trite and the pacing was slow. ![]() The book received mostly positive feedback from literary critics. ![]() ![]() The novel has been translated into more than 36 languages. It has since been released in paperback and also as an ebook. It follows Diana Bishop, a history of science professor at Yale University, as she embraces her magical blood after finding a long-thought-lost manuscript and engages in a forbidden romance with a charming vampire, Matthew Clairmont.Ī Discovery of Witches was first published in hardcover on February 8, 2011, by Penguin Books, becoming a New York Times Best Seller upon its release. Contemporary fantasy, romance, vampire, witchcraft, alchemyĪ Discovery of Witches is a 2011 historical-fantasy novel and the debut novel by American scholar Deborah Harkness. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She saw similar anxieties in the lives of friends, in the works of writers and artists she admired. Still, the meeting of her parents’ lines in Maud inspired an anxiety that she could not shake a fear that she would replicate their damage. Their divorce, when it came, was a relief. He tried in vain to control Maud’s mother, a whirlwind of charisma and passion given to feverish projects: thirty rescue cats, and a church in the family’s living room where she performed exorcisms. Maud’s father, an aerospace engineer turned lawyer, was a book-smart man who extolled the virtues of slavery and obsessed over the “purity” of his family bloodline, which he traced back to the Revolutionary War. Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated through Maud’s maternal lines, to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts. Her mother’s grandfather killed a man with a hay hook and died in a mental institution. Her mother’s father, who came of age in Texas during the Great Depression, was said to have married thirteen times and been shot by one of his wives. Maud Newton’s ancestors have vexed and fascinated her since she was a girl. ![]() |