Author: Karl Simms File Type: pdf This is the first comparative study of the work of the philosopher Paul Ricoeur and the psychoanalayst Jacques Lacan. The book explores the conflict between the two thinkers that arose from their differing views of ethics Ricoeurs universalist stance drew on a phenomenological reading of Kant, whereas Lacans was a relativist position, derived from a psychoanalytic reading of Freud and de Sade. Ricoeur and Lacan gives a full critical overview of the work of both figures, tracing the origins and development of their principal ideas, and identifying key similarities and differences. Not only a valuable and original addition to the literature on two major thinkers, Ricoeur and Lacan is also an important study of contemporary Continental ethics. **
Author: Michael Fertik
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Reputation is power. Your reputation defines how people see you and what they will do for you. It determines whether your bank will lend you money to buy a house or car whether your landlord will accept you as a tenant which employers will hire you and how much they will pay you. It can even affect your marriage prospects. And in the coming Reputation Economy, its getting more powerful than ever. Because today, thanks to rapid advances in digital technology, anyone access huge troves of information about you your buying habits, your finances, your professional and personal networks, and even your physical whereabouts - at any time. In a world where technology allows companies and individuals alike to not only gather all this data but also aggregate it and analyze it with frightening speed, accuracy, and sophistication, our digital reputations are fast becoming our most valuable currency. Here, Michael Fertik, CEO of Reputation.com and one of Silicon Valleys leading futurists will draw on the insider tools, insights, research, and secrets that has make Reputation.com the leading reputation management firm, to show how to capitalize on the trends the Reputation Economy will trigger to improve your professional, financial, and even social prospects. You will learn What keywords to put in your resume, performance review, and LinkedIn profile to come up at the top of potential employers search results. How to curate your on and offline activity in way that will reduce the premiums calculated by insurers, lenders, and investors. Tricks that will get you express or VIP treatment at banks, hotels, and other exclusive special offers. Ways to improve your review or rating on sharing or peer review sites like Yelp or Angies List, or your standing as buyer or seller - on sharing economy sites like AirBnB or Uber How to create false tails and digital smokescreens to hide the negative information thats out there With a good digital footprint, the world is your oyster. This book will show you how to control, curate, and optimize your digital reputation to become rich in a world where your reputation is as valuable as the cash in your wallet.
Author: Cormac McCarthy
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A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made.In that small apartment, Black and White, as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing world views. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con and ex-addict, is the more hopeful of the menthough he is just as desperate to convince White of the power of faith as White is desperate to deny it. Their aim is no less than this to discover the meaning of life.Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted, consistently thought-provoking, and deceptively intimate work by one of the most insightful writers of our time.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author: Nicholas Tomaiuolo
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A guide to creating a comprehensive personal library using free web resources, this book demonstrates the steps to compiling a web library that includes a vast, rich collection of data, documents, e-books, reference materials, and images. Organized in accordance with the departments of a well-managed physical library, this guide shows librarians, potential librarians, and those who simply want to better organize their files how to access free material that can be used immediately. Free articles and indexes, digital reference services, electronic books, images, and software and hardware issues are covered. **
Author: Conrad Kain
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Conrad Kain is a titan amongst climbers in Canada and is well-known in mountaineering circles all over the world. His letters to Amelie Malek-a life-long friend-offer a candid view into the deepest thoughts of the Austrian mountain guide, and are a perfect complement to his autobiography, Where the Clouds Can Go. The 144 letters provide a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to Canada in the early part of the twentieth century. Kains letters are ordered chronologically with annotations, keeping the sections in English untouched, while those in German have been carefully translated. Historians and mountain culture enthusiasts worldwide will appreciate Kains genius for description, his passion for nature, his opinions, and his musings about his life. **
Author: David Austin
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In the 1970s and 80s, Linton Kwesi Johnson was fighting neo-fascism and promoting socialism, and putting pen to paper to refute W. H. Audens claim that poetry makes nothing happen. Dread Poetry and Freedom explores Johnsons work through the radical political and poetic traditions he engaged, reflecting poetrys potential to bring about social transformation.Through an examination of the violence, musicality, and revolution of his poetry, David Austin brings Johnsons cultural and philosophical influences alive. Encompassing reggae music, the Bible, Rastafari, and surrealism, socialism, and feminism, as well as the radical politics of Aime Cesaire, John La Rose, Frantz Fanon, C. L. R. James, and W. E. B. Du Bois, Johnsons poetry reveals itself as an important site of diaspora politics and struggle.Probing the juncture at which Johnsons poetry meets his politics, Dread Poetry and Freedom shows the significant role art can play in bringing about social change in times of dread. **
Author: Miguel Hernandez
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Miguel Hernandez (1910--1942) is, along with Antonio Machado, Juan Ramon Jimenez, and Federico Garcia Lorca, one of the greatest Spanish poets of the twentieth century. This volume spans the whole of Hernandezs brief writing life, and includes his most celebrated poems, from the early lyrics written in traditional forms, such as the moving elegy Hernandez wrote to his friend and mentor Ramon Sije (one of the most famous elegies ever written in the Spanish language), to the spiritual eroticism of his love poems, and the heart-wrenching, luminous lines written in the trenches of war. Also included in this edition are tributes to Hernandez by Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda (interviewed by Robert Bly), Rafael Alberti, and Vicente Aleixandre. Pastoral nature, love, and war are recurring themes in Hernandezs poetry, his words a dazzling reminder that force can never defeat spirit, that courage is its own reward.
Author: Gina Bloom
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Rich connections between gaming and theater stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when Englands first commercial theaters appeared right next door to gaming houses and blood-sport arenas. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theaters succeeded in Londons new entertainment marketplace largely because watching a play and playing a game were similar experiences. Audiences did not just see a play they were encouraged to play the play, and knowledge of gaming helped them become better theatergoers. Examining dramas written for these theaters alongside evidence of analog games popular then and today, Bloom argues for games as theatrical media and theater as an interactive gaming technology. Gaming the Stage also introduces a new archive for game studies scenes of onstage gaming, which appear at climactic moments in dramatic literature. Bloom reveals plays to be systems of information for theater spectators games of withholding, divulging, speculating, and wagering on knowledge. Her book breaks new ground through examinations of plays such as The Tempest, Arden of Faversham, A Woman Killed with Kindness, and A Game at Chess the histories of familiar games such as cards, backgammon, and chess less familiar ones, like Game of the Goose and even a mixed-reality theater videogame. **
Author: Chris van der Heijden
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MOMENTEN VAN HERINNERING is een geschiedenis van Nederland tussen de Tweede Wereldoorlog en nu. Die geschiedenis wordt verteld aan de hand van momenten om nooit te vergeten. Elk moment is geillustreerd met fotos, waarvan verreweg de meeste afkomstig zijn uit het Spaarnestad fotoarchief.
Author: Michael J. Gerhardt
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Their names linger in memory mainly as punch lines, synonyms for obscurity Millard Fillmore, Chester Arthur, Calvin Coolidge. They conjure up not the White House so much as a decaying middle school somewhere in New Jersey. But many forgotten presidents, writes Michael J. Gerhardt, were not weak or ineffective. They boldly fought battles over constitutional principles that resonate today. Gerhardt, one of our leading legal experts, tells the story of The Forgotten Presidents. He surveys thirteen administrations in chronological order, from Martin Van Buren to Franklin Pierce to Jimmy Carter, distinguishing political failures from their constitutional impact. Again and again, he writes, they defied popular opinion to take strong stands. Martin Van Buren reacted to an economic depression by withdrawing federal funds from state banks in an attempt to establish the controversial independent treasury system. His objective was to shrink the federal role in the economy, but also to consolidate his power to act independently as president. Prosperity did not return, and he left office under the shadow of failure. Grover Cleveland radically changed his approach in his second (non-consecutive) term. Previously he had held back from interference with lawmakers on his return to office, he aggressively used presidential power to bend Congress to his will. Now seen as an asterisk, Cleveland consolidated presidential authority over appointments, removals, vetoes, foreign affairs, legislation, and more. Jimmy Carter, too, proves surprisingly significant. In two debt-ceiling crises and battles over the Panama Canal treaty, affirmative action, and the First Amendment, he demonstrated how the presidencys inherent capacity for efficiency and energy gives it an advantage in battles with Congress, regardless of popularity. Gerhardt explains the many things these and ten other presidents have in common that explain why, in spite of any of their excesses, they have become forgotten chief executives. Incisive, myth-shattering, and compellingly written, this book shows how even obscure presidents championed the White Houses prerogatives and altered the way we interpret the Constitution. **