Taming Fate

Author : S. Macamo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782869787407

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The Taming of Fate by S. Macamo Pdf

This book is about how extreme situations appearing to have a destructive potential can actually be used to produce meaningful individual and social lives. It is about the taming of fate. This notion means and accounts for the ability of individuals and communities to rebuild their lives against all odds. The book is based on case-studies that draw from theoretical insights derived from the sociology of disasters. It addresses some limitations of the sociology of risk, chief among which is the rejection of the relevance of the notion of risk to the study of technologically non-advanced societies. The book argues that this rejection has deprived the study of the human condition of an important analytical asset. The book claims that risk is a property of social action which can best be understood through the analytical scrutiny of its role in the historical constitution of social relations.

Author : Amalia Dillin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692232753

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Taming Fate by Amalia Dillin Pdf

For the first time in her many lives, Eve would rather be anywhere but home.In 15th Century France, Eve would have burned as a witch if it hadn't been for the too-timely arrival of the Marquis DeLeon to save her skin. But Eve didn't ask to be rescued, and their hasty marriage is off to anything but a smooth start. As tensions in the town grow and plague threatens, Ryam DeLeon knows if he and Eve cannot find common ground, their first Christmas may be their last.

Author : Andrew Herman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000314854

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The better Angels Of Capitalism by Andrew Herman Pdf

This book explores, through an ethnographic examination of life stories of wealthy men, a historical analysis of the moral meanings of wealth and power in Western capitalism, and a mapping of different symbolic spaces in contemporary American culture.

Author : C.M. Gill
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781599637655

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Essential Writing Skills for College and Beyond by C.M. Gill Pdf

Now with new material on inclusive language, peer review, sample essay prompts, and more, this indispensable guide helps you hone your writing skills for success in college and in life. Every student knows that writing a successful college paper is no small undertaking. To make the grade, you need to express your ideas clearly and concisely. So how do you do it? Essential Writing Skills for College and Beyond offers practical strategies to help you: - Write any type of college paper, including term papers, essays, creative assignments, and more - Improve your writing through the process of brainstorming and organizing ideas, researching like a pro, structuring and drafting your paper, and polishing your writing - Master the nuts and bolts by avoiding common mistakes in grammar, spelling, and punctuation - Stay organized and on-schedule with timelines tailored to a variety of papers - Take it to the next level with advice on writing effectively after graduation and on the job College writing may seem daunting, but it doesn't have to be. No matter what your major or field of study, Essential Writing Skills for College and Beyond helps you take charge of your writing, your grades, and your path to success.

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674261921

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Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers? by Zygmunt Bauman Pdf

Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most admired social thinkers of our time. Once a Marxist sociologist, he has surrendered the narrowness of both Marxism and sociology, and dares to write in language that ordinary people can understand—about problems they feel ill equipped to solve. This book is no dry treatise but is instead what Bauman calls “a report from a battlefield,” part of the struggle to find new and adequate ways of thinking about the world in which we live. Rather than searching for solutions to what are perhaps the insoluble problems of the modern world, Bauman proposes that we reframe the way we think about these problems. In an era of routine travel, where most people circulate widely, the inherited beliefs that aid our thinking about the world have become an obstacle. Bauman seeks to liberate us from the thinking that renders us hopeless in the face of our own domineering governments and threats from unknown forces abroad. He shows us we can give up belief in a hierarchical arrangement of states and powers. He challenges members of the “knowledge class” to overcome their estrangement from the rest of society. Gracefully, provocatively, Bauman urges us to think in new ways about a newly flexible, newly challenging modern world. As Bauman notes, quoting Vaclav Havel, “hope is not a prognostication.” It is, rather, alongside courage and will, a mundane, common weapon that is too seldom used.

Author : Phyllis Cole
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 019515200X

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Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism by Phyllis Cole Pdf

Mary Moody Emerson has long been a New England legend, the "eccentric Calvinist aunt" of Ralph Waldo Emerson, wearing a death-shroud as her daily garment. This exciting new study, based on the first reading of all her known letters and diaries, reveals a complex human voice and powerful forerunner of American Transcendentalism. From the years of her famous nephew's infancy, in both private and published writings, she celebrated independence, solitude in nature, and inward communion with God. Mary Moody Emerson inherited both resources and constraints from her family, a lineage of Massachusetts ministers who had earlier practiced spiritual awakening and political resistance against England. Cole discovers a previously unexamined Emerson tradition of fervent piety in the ancestors' own writing and Mary's preservation of their memory. She also examines the position of a woman in this patriarchal family. Barred from the pulpit and university by her sex, she also refused marriage to become a reader, writer, and religious seeker. Cole's biography explores this reading and writing as both a woman's vocation and a gift to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Helping to raise her nephews after their father's death, Mary Moody Emerson urged Waldo the college student to seek solitude in nature and become a divine poet. Cole's pioneering study, tracing crucial lines of influence from Mary Emerson's heretofore unknown texts to her nephew's major works, establishes a fresh and vital source for a central American literary tradition.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101063693038

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All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Dana E. Aspinall
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0815335156

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The Taming of the Shrew by Dana E. Aspinall Pdf

The Taming of the Shrew, Critical Essays provides comprehensive and up-to-date critical readings of the play. The editor has selected essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015051343187

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The Plays & Poems of Shakespeare: All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Martin Smallridge
Publisher : Lyrics Editorial House
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9798503858525

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Breaking through the inky night by Martin Smallridge Pdf

The publication is a compilation of literary criticism and critical essays written with the author's inherent poetic flair even on seemingly serious matters such as violence or pandemics. The spectrum of portrayals is striking: Smallridge writes about history, solitude, poetry, landscape, writers, violence, politics, he also touches upon social problems, philosophy, and the ultimate, or perhaps even eschatological issues. Repeatedly expressing bold, if not controversial, opinions. The book is captivating, thought-provoking, and often challenges the way we perceive life.

Author : Marcin Malek
Publisher : Lyrics
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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We'll go asleep by Marcin Malek Pdf

We'll go asleep is a second English-language poetry volume in author's rich and varied oeuvre. It futures 31 poems and ballads with 4 micro-essays supplementing some of works. All is illustrated with black & white photographs taken by author. In conclusion, the leitmotif of the piece is a life itself with all its favors and disapprovals.Although it has to be admitted that the book is kept in a rather dark mood, however, this fact does not affect the quality of the so-called Licentia petica, on the contrary, it serves its purpose by giving the volume a unique character.

Author : Jennifer Flaherty,Heather C. Easterling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350138209

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The Taming of the Shrew: The State of Play by Jennifer Flaherty,Heather C. Easterling Pdf

The Taming of the Shrew has puzzled, entertained and angered audiences, and it has been reinvented many times throughout its controversial history. Offering a focused overview of key emerging ideas and discourses surrounding Shakespeare's problematic comedy, the volume reveals and debates how contemporary readings and adaptions of the play have sought to reconsider and resolve the play's contentious portrayal of gender, power and identity. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to the needs of students, teachers and researchers. Key themes and issues include: · Gender and Power · History and Early Modern Contexts · Performance and Politics · Adaptation and Afterlife All the essays offer new perspectives and combine to give readers an up-to-date understanding of what's exciting and challenging about The Taming of the Shrew.

Author : Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : English language
ISBN : UVA:X000737411

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The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare by Mary Cowden Clarke Pdf

Author : Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : English language
ISBN : NLS:V000559083

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The Complete Concordance to Shakspere by Mary Cowden Clarke Pdf

Author : Peter R. Sedgwick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786604910

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Hypermodernity and Visuality by Peter R. Sedgwick Pdf

This book engages with the question of making sense of seeing in today’s technologically dominated world. It does so by exploring the notion of the ‘hypermodern’, a term which is used to capture the drive in contemporary culture to achieve ever greater speed and efficiency. The volume draws principally on the thought of Paul Virilio and Friedrich Nietzsche. The text’s key argument is that destabilizing tendencies, which become increasingly evident in hypermodern culture, spring from its having a dual character. This duality turns on hypermodernity’s uncomfortable, unstable and possibly unsustainable relation to its own past. The volume engages with this dual character in a unique way. Its discussions are prefaced by poems and photographic images which together frame and permeate the text’s arguments and analyses. Part One offers linked engagements with Virilio’s articulation of the hypermodernized cultural-visual environment, Nietzsche’s accounts of history, power and archaic visuality, and briefer discussions of various other writers. Part Two presents a creative elaboration of these engagements through a combination of poetry, image and aphorism. Through this combination the digital image, a quintessentially hypermodern form of representation, is turned against itself to allow for reflection on the ethics and politics of seeing today. The volume concludes with an open-ended dialogue on visual culture, the archaic and the hypermodern.