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The Wreckage of Intentions

Author : David Alff
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812249590

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The Wreckage of Intentions offers a comprehensive account of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century projects—concrete yet incomplete efforts to advance British society during a period defined by revolutions in finance and agriculture, the rise of experimental science, and the establishment of constitutional monarchy.

The Wreckage of Intentions

Author : David Alff
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812294453

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The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain saw the proposal of so many endeavors called "projects"—a catchphrase for the daring, sometimes dangerous practice of shaping the future—that Daniel Defoe dubbed his era a "Projecting Age." These ideas spanned a wide variety of scientific, technological, and intellectual interventions intended for the betterment of England. But for all the fanfare surrounding them, few such schemes actually materialized, leaving scores of defunct visions, from Defoe's own attempt to farm cats for perfume, to Mary Astell's proposal to charter a college for women, to countless ventures for improving land, streamlining government, and inventing new consumer goods. Taken together, these failed plans form a compelling alternative history of a Britain that might have been. The Wreckage of Intentions offers a comprehensive and critical account of projects, exploring the historical memory surrounding these concrete yet incomplete efforts to advance British society during a period defined by revolutions in finance and agriculture, the rise of experimental science, and the establishment of constitutional monarchy. Using methods of literary analysis, David Alff shows how projects began as written proposals, circulated as print objects, spurred physical undertakings, and provoked responses in the realms of poetry, fiction, and drama. Mapping this process discloses the ways in which eighteenth-century authors applied their faculties of imagination to achieve finite goals and, in so doing, devised new ways of seeing the world through its future potential. Approaching old projects through the language, landscapes, data, and personas they left behind, Alff contends this vision was, and remains, vital to the functions of statecraft, commerce, science, religion, and literature.

The Age of Johnson

Author : Jack Lynch,J. T. Scanlan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684483013

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Volume 24 features commentary on a range of Johnsonian topics: his reaction to Milton, his relation to the Allen family, his notes in his edition of Shakespeare, his use of Oliver Goldsmith in his Dictionary, and his always fascinating Nachleben. The volume also includes articles on topics of strong interest to Johnson: penal reform, Charlotte Lennox's professional literary career, and the "conjectural history" of Homer in the eighteenth century.

Hostile Intent

Author : James Allen
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462805143

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Matt McKenzie is a covert agent in America’s most secret counterterrorism agency; an agency so highly classified that only the president knows of its existence. While investigating the disappearance of his sister, who vanished while working for FutureTech, a powerful defense contractor, he makes a chilling discovery: a plot to use a futuristic weapon to assassinate the president and overthrow the American government. Matt suddenly finds himself in the most desperate fight of his life as he struggles to stop a ruthless CEO and a self-righteous politician from bringing the country to its knees and throwing the world into chaos.

Projecting Spirits

Author : Pasi Väliaho
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503631946

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The history of projected images at the turn of the seventeenth century reveals a changing perception of chance and order, contingency and form. In Projecting Spirits, Pasi Väliaho maps how the leading optical media of the period—the camera obscura and the magic lantern—developed in response to, and framed, the era's key intellectual dilemma of whether the world fell under God's providential care, or was subject to chance and open to speculating. As Väliaho shows, camera obscuras and magic lanterns were variously employed to give the world an intelligible and manageable design. Jesuit scholars embraced devices of projection as part of their pursuit of divine government, whilst the Royal Society fellows enlisted them in their quest for empirical knowledge as well as colonial expansion. Projections of light and shadow grew into critical metaphors in early responses to the turbulences of finance. In such instances, Väliaho argues, "projection" became an indispensable cognitive form to both assert providence, and to make sense of an economic reality that was gradually escaping from divine guidance. Drawing on a range of materials—philosophical, scientific and religious literature, visual arts, correspondence, poems, pamphlets, and illustrations—this provocative and inventive work expands our concept of the early media of projection, revealing how they spoke to early modern thinkers, and shaped a new, speculative concept of the world.

Before Borders

Author : Stephanie DeGooyer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421443911

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"Bringing together eighteenth-century legal discourse and prose fiction, the author gives a cross-disciplinary account of immigration history. She tells a revisionist history in which, for jurists, philosophers, and fiction writers, naturalization is a creative mechanism for national expansion"--

Deadly Intent

Author : Lynda La Plante
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416588320

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Drug lord Alexander Fitzpatrick has not been seen in ten years, but a recent murder leads DI Anna Travis to suspect he may still be active.

The Kings of Vain Intent

Author : Graham Shelby
Publisher : Canelo
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788632881

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England is divided in this “splendidly enthralling adventure” of Richard the Lionheart and the Crusaders from the author of The Knights of Dark Renown (The Times). The Crusaders are bitterly divided: Richard the Lionheart and his advisers who were responsible for the catastrophic defeat at the hands of Saladin are trying to pick up the broken remnants of their authority. But the unscrupulous adventurer, Conrad of Monteferrat holds the ace of trumps in the shape of the all-important castle of Tyre. Both factions are busily vying for the support of the great rulers of the West, Richard of England, Philip Augustus of France and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who have solemnly vowed to come to the rescue of the Christian Kingdom. It is a world where the marriages of monarchs are determined by the merciless calculations of military power, in which cold-blooded massacres are ordered by the legendary champions of Chivalry: a world of extremes. The Kings of Vain Intent, the second thrilling instalment of The Crusader Knights Cycle is perfect for fans of David Gilman and Conn Iggulden. Praise for The Crusader Knights Cycle “History with a dramatist’s eye for a fine setting and a novelist’s insight into human minds and motives.” —The Times Literary Supplement “The chivalry and the cruelty are finely balanced.” —Daily Mirror “Highly enjoyable. Here we have a wide canvas of characters, almost all based on historical figures . . . The story is exciting as well as psychologically convincing and thought-provoking.” —Financial Times

Living with Intent

Author : Mallika Chopra
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780804139878

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“I’m trying to meditate one day but urgent thoughts keep intruding. Don’t forget to take cupcakes to school! I have to prepare for my presentation for the wellness conference! Is that lunch with the other moms tomorrow or next week? My to-do list is stampeding through my mind, trampling any chance of tranquility. I feel overwhelmed, yes, but there’s more: I feel…guilty. Guilty that I’m taking on too much, guilty that I’m not doing anything well, guilty that I’m giving short shrift to my kids, my husband, my job. And what about you, Mallika? a quiet voice asks. How are you shortchanging yourself?” Living with Intent is a chronicle of Mallika Chopra’s search to find more meaning, joy, and balance in life. She hopes that by telling her story, she can inspire others with her own successes (and failures) as well as share some of the wisdom she has gathered from friends, experts, and family along the way—people like her dad, Deepak, as well as Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, Arianna Huffington, Andrew Weil, and Dan Siegel. She also provides a practical road map for how we can all move from thought to action to outcome. Each chapter is devoted to one step on her journey and another piece of her INTENT action plan: Incubate, Notice, Trust, Express, Nurture, and Take Action. Chopra’s insights and advice will help us all come closer to fully living the lives we truly intend.

Criminal Intent 9 MM Truth On A Stick

Author : S.P. Gallatin
Publisher : Paper Gold Publishing
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Nonstop action! Recipient of Author Shout’s Reader Ready silver award. Tom doesn’t have employees, it’s more akin to prisoners. Sam Garrison wants his freedom, but the price is stiff. He stumbled on something which could free him. If he fails, Tom’s retribution could be too horrid to even consider. Death isn’t the least of it. The little drive packs a big punch, but it is enough to buy Sam’s freedom? Set in the biggest city in Alaska, this dark urban fantasy takes Sam on a perilous trip through money laundering, election fixing and betting on the fix. What he doesn’t expect are the relics and a portal to another world. This tale of crime in the north is a non-stop action page turner.

Criminal Intent

Author : Bruce Marvin,Marvin J. Folkertsma,Bruce G. Siminoff
Publisher : Glenbridge Publishing Ltd.
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0944435343

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Living With Intent (Enhanced Edition)

Author : Mallika Chopra
Publisher : Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781101904855

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This special ebook edition also includes exclusive audio content. “I’m trying to meditate one day but urgent thoughts keep intruding. Don’t forget to take cupcakes to school! I have to prepare for my presentation for the wellness conference! Is that lunch with the other moms tomorrow or next week? My to-do list is stampeding through my mind, trampling any chance of tranquility. I feel overwhelmed, yes, but there’s more: I feel…guilty. Guilty that I’m taking on too much, guilty that I’m not doing anything well, guilty that I’m giving short shrift to my kids, my husband, my job. And what about you, Mallika? a quiet voice asks. How are you shortchanging yourself?” Living with Intent is a chronicle of Mallika Chopra’s search to find more meaning, joy, and balance in life. She hopes that by telling her story, she can inspire others with her own successes (and failures) as well as share some of the wisdom she has gathered from friends, experts, and family along the way— people like her dad, Deepak, as well as Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, Arianna Huffington, Andrew Weil, and Dan Siegel. She also provides a practical road map for how we can all move from thought to action to outcome. Each chapter is devoted to one step on her journey and another piece of her INTENT action plan: Incubate, Notice, Trust, Express, Nurture, and Take Action. Chopra’s insights and advice will help us all come closer to fully living the lives we truly intend.

Murderous Intent?

Author : Claudine Burnett
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438940441

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Claudine Burnett has now written another book sure to be savored by those interested in Southern California history. Concentrating on a span of years covering the 1880's to 1920, Ms. Burnett has uncovered fascinating true stories of death and murder. Read about: - The bandit Sylvestro Morales who robbed and murdered his way through the Southland in 1889 and his capture at the Rancho Los Alamitos. - Violence and death amoung the Basque and Mexican sheepherders and sugar beet workers of Southern California. - Long Beach City Trustees hung in effigy and how their attempt to get rid of a local saloon in 1896 brought about the death of the city. - How the murder of a Long Beach policeman in 1912 led to additional tragedy and sorrow but also brought about the adoption of modern criminal investigation. - The kidnapping and torture of a Long Beah youth in 1916 by notorious, insane murderer Harry Thaw, whose killing of famed archtiect Stanford White made headlines around the world. Learn the origin of: - The towns of Long Beach and Los Alamitos - The Pacific Electric "Red Car" and jitney transport systems. - The Long Beach Municipal Band and Long Beach Police Department. Meet: - Lew-is the Light who believed he had a special delivery service to God. - "Whistling" Davis who refused to bury his dead daughter. - Cantankerous "Old Man" Ranous, killed and buried in a pile of manure. - W.L. Jennings, killed by a cat. - The spirits of murder victims who refused to rest. - Pete Labourdette, a notorious Los Alamitos saloon keeper, and the murders he worked to cover up. These are but a few examples from a book you won't want to put down until the very end.

Harmful Intent

Author : Robin Cook
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425125467

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It should have been a routine childbirth. But somehow, the mother died in the delivery, the baby was born brain-damaged, and Jeffrey Rhodes, the anesthesiologist, is running for his life. Charged with malpractice, he is found guilty of harmful intent and reckless disregard for human life. To clear his name, Rhodes must follow a fugitive trail into the heart of medical nightmare. A trail that, for some, may end in suicide--and for others, in the most shocking conspiracy of our time...

Hidden Intent

Author : Teyla Branton
Publisher : White Star Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948982153

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A fiery revelation has Autumn rethinking everything When Autumn Rain’s friend begs for help in clearing her doctor boyfriend of negligent homicide, Autumn dives willingly into the case—right along with her homicide detective fiancé. Autumn’s ability to see scenes and read emotions imprinted on physical objects soon uncovers a list of suspects. She will go to any length to find the truth, even if that means calling a screeching halt to her own wedding plans. Meanwhile, a talented young music prodigy is accused of vandalism that will ruin his chance at a future if Autumn doesn’t find the real culprit. But the boy isn’t talking, and Autumn must figure out why. Who is he protecting? Someone wants to stop Autumn from her search, and she’ll need all her abilities—and maybe even a new one—to fight back. "For fans of Medium and Ghost Whisperer."