Letters To Power

Author : Samuel McCormick
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271072197

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Letters to Power by Samuel McCormick Pdf

Although the scarcity of public intellectuals among today’s academic professionals is certainly a cause for concern, it also serves as a challenge to explore alternative, more subtle forms of political intelligence. Letters to Power accepts this challenge, guiding readers through ancient, medieval, and modern traditions of learned advocacy in search of persuasive techniques, resistant practices, and ethical sensibilities for use in contemporary democratic public culture. At the center of this book are the political epistles of four renowned scholars: the Roman Stoic Seneca the Younger, the late-medieval feminist Christine de Pizan, the key Enlightenment thinker Immanuel Kant, and the Christian anti-philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. Anticipating much of today’s online advocacy, their letter-writing helps would-be intellectuals understand the economy of personal and public address at work in contemporary relations of power, suggesting that the art of lettered protest, like letter-writing itself, involves appealing to diverse, and often strictly virtual, audiences. In this sense, Letters to Power is not only a nuanced historical study but also a book in search of a usable past.

Author : Samuel McCormick
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271072180

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Letters to Power by Samuel McCormick Pdf

Although the scarcity of public intellectuals among today’s academic professionals is certainly a cause for concern, it also serves as a challenge to explore alternative, more subtle forms of political intelligence. Letters to Power accepts this challenge, guiding readers through ancient, medieval, and modern traditions of learned advocacy in search of persuasive techniques, resistant practices, and ethical sensibilities for use in contemporary democratic public culture. At the center of this book are the political epistles of four renowned scholars: the Roman Stoic Seneca the Younger, the late-medieval feminist Christine de Pizan, the key Enlightenment thinker Immanuel Kant, and the Christian anti-philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. Anticipating much of today’s online advocacy, their letter-writing helps would-be intellectuals understand the economy of personal and public address at work in contemporary relations of power, suggesting that the art of lettered protest, like letter-writing itself, involves appealing to diverse, and often strictly virtual, audiences. In this sense, Letters to Power is not only a nuanced historical study but also a book in search of a usable past.

Author : Ryan Ellis
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262538541

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Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things by Ryan Ellis Pdf

An examination of how post-9/11 security concerns have transformed the public view and governance of infrastructure. After September 11, 2001, infrastructures—the mundane systems that undergird much of modern life—were suddenly considered “soft targets” that required immediate security enhancements. Infrastructure protection quickly became the multibillion dollar core of a new and expansive homeland security mission. In this book, Ryan Ellis examines how the long shadow of post-9/11 security concerns have remade and reordered infrastructure, arguing that it has been a stunning transformation. Ellis describes the way workers, civic groups, city councils, bureaucrats, and others used the threat of terrorism as a political resource, taking the opportunity not only to address security vulnerabilities but also to reassert a degree of public control over infrastructure. Nearly two decades after September 11, the threat of terrorism remains etched into the inner workings of infrastructures through new laws, regulations, technologies, and practices. Ellis maps these changes through an examination of three U.S. infrastructures: the postal system, the freight rail network, and the electric power grid. He describes, for example, how debates about protecting the mail from anthrax and other biological hazards spiraled into larger arguments over worker rights, the power of large-volume mailers, and the fortunes of old media in a new media world; how environmental activists leveraged post-9/11 security fears over shipments of hazardous materials to take on the rail industry and the chemical lobby; and how otherwise marginal federal regulators parlayed new mandatory cybersecurity standards for the electric power industry into a robust system of accountability.

Author : John BIGLAND
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021729839

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Letters on Natural History: exhibiting a view of the power, wisdom, and goodness of the Deity ... Illustrated by upwards of one hundred engraved subjects applicable to the work, etc by John BIGLAND Pdf

Author : John Bigland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Natural history
ISBN : OSU:32435076459080

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Letters on Natural History: Exhibiting a View of the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of the Deity, So Eminently Displayed in the Formation of the Universe, and Various Relations of Utility which Inferior Beings Have to the Human Species. Calculated Particularly for the Use of Schools ... by John Bigland Pdf

Author : William H. Pivar,Corinne E. Pivar
Publisher : Dearborn Real Estate
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0793124743

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Power Real Estate Letters by William H. Pivar,Corinne E. Pivar Pdf

Power Real Estate Letters can dramatically cut your writing time AND produce the great letters that are crucial to building a solid list of clients and referrals. Over 279 letters cover a wide range of topics and virtually all your correspondence needs, including: attracting prospective buyers; dealing with conflict; and working with attorneys, loan officers, and other professionals.

Author : Kim Haines-Eitzen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Christian literature, Early
ISBN : 9780195135640

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Guardians of Letters by Kim Haines-Eitzen Pdf

In three attempts at IVF Martina Devlin lost nine embryos. This is the story of her journey, from bewilderment at being diagnosed infertile, through the traumatic process of IVF, to the shattering fall-out when it fails and she realises that, not only will she never have children, but somewhere along the way her marriage has been damaged beyond repair. But Martina also describes how her despair eventually faded, and how she made a new life for herself, taking pleasure in her extended family of nieces and nephews. Most of all, THE HOLLOW HEART is the story of a woman learning to do as her mother always advised - to count her blessings.

Author : Jacques Goldstyn
Publisher : Owlkids
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1771472510

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Letters to a Prisoner by Jacques Goldstyn Pdf

A wordless story about the power of words

Author : Shaun Usher
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838856168

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Letters of Note by Shaun Usher Pdf

Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with fourteen riveting new missives and a new introduction from curator Shaun Usher. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler; and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter, Letters of Note is a celebration of the power of written correspondence which captures the humour, seriousness, sadness and brilliance that make up all of our lives.

Author : Lexie Bean
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784508036

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Written on the Body by Lexie Bean Pdf

Lambda Literary Award Finalist - LGBTQ Anthology Written by and for trans and non-binary survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, Written on the Body offers support, guidance and hope for those who struggle to find safety at home, in the body, and other unwelcoming places. This collection of letters written to body parts weaves together narratives of gender, identity, and abuse. It is the coming together of those who have been fragmented and often met with disbelief. The book holds the concerns and truths that many trans people share while offering space for dialogue and reclamation. Written with intelligence and intimacy, this book is for those who have found power in re-shaping their bodies, families, and lives.

Author : Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1410 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : CORNELL:31924068513120

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The Law Reports by Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales Pdf

Author : Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510014943358

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Gallitzin's Letters by Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin Pdf

Author : David Suzuki
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771640886

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Letters to My Grandchildren by David Suzuki Pdf

In his most important book since "The Sacred Balance" and his most personal ever, revered activist and thinker David Suzuki draws on the experiences and wisdom he has gained over his long life and offers advice, stories, and inspiration to his six grandchildren.

Author : Paola Ceccarelli,Lutz Doering,Thorsten Fögen,Ingo Gildenhard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192526236

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Letters and Communities by Paola Ceccarelli,Lutz Doering,Thorsten Fögen,Ingo Gildenhard Pdf

The writing of letters often evokes associations of a single author and a single addressee, who share in the exchange of intimate thoughts across distances of space and time. This model underwrites such iconic notions as the letter representing an 'image of the soul of the author' or constituting 'one half of a dialogue'. However justified this conception of letter-writing may be in particular instances, it tends to marginalize a range of issues that were central to epistolary communication in the ancient world and have yet to receive sustained and systematic investigation. In particular, it overlooks the fact that letters frequently presuppose and were designed to reinforce communities-or, indeed, to constitute them in the first place. This volume explores the interrelation of letters and communities in the ancient world, examining how epistolary communication aided in the construction and cultivation of group-identities and communities, whether social, political, religious, ethnic, or philosophical. A theoretically informed Introduction establishes the interface of epistolary discourse and group formation as a vital but hitherto neglected area of research, and is followed by thirteen case studies offering multi-disciplinary perspectives from four key cultural configurations: Greece, Rome, Judaism, and Christianity. The first part opens the volume with two chapters on the theory and practice of epistolary communication that focus on ancient epistolary theory and the unavoidable presence of a letter-carrier who introduces a communal aspect into any correspondence, while the second comprises five chapters that explore configurations of power and epistolary communication in the Greek and Roman worlds, from the archaic period to the end of the Hellenistic age. Five chapters on letters and communities in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity follow in the third, part before the volume concludes with an envoi examining the trans-historical, or indeed timeless, philosophical community Seneca the Younger construes in his Letters to Lucilius.

Author : William H. Pivar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Real estate business
ISBN : 1427711402

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Power Real Estate E-mails & Letters by William H. Pivar Pdf

A great deal of real estate business is conducted via written correspondence. This book helps all agents to make the right impression with professionally written templates that are easily adaptable and cover a wide variety of communications needs.