Author: Antonia Fraser File Type: mobi A bestselling historians account of the Gunpowder Plot.With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605, she unravels the tangled web of religion and politics that spawned the plot.

Author: Vanessa Lemm File Type: pdf Throughout his writing career Nietzsche advocated the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism. This volume takes stock of the complexities and wide-ranging perspectives that Nietzsche brings to bear on the problem of lifes becoming on Earth by engaging various interpretative paradigms reaching from existentialist to Darwinist readings of Nietzsche. In an age in which the biological sciences claim to have unlocked the deepest secrets and codes of life, the essays in this volume propose a more skeptical view. Life is both what is closest and what is furthest from us, because life experiments through us as much as we experiment with it, because life keeps our thinking and our habits always moving, in a state of recurring nomadism. Nietzsches philosophy is perhaps the clearest expression of the antinomy contained in the idea of studying life and in the Socratic ideal of an examined life and remains a deep source of wisdom about living.**

Author: Joseph Roth File Type: epub The first overview of all Joseph Roths journalism traveling across a Europe in crisis, he declares,I am a hotel citizen, a hotel patriot.The Hotel Years gathers sixty-four feuilletons on hotels pains and pleasures personalities and the deteriorating international situation of the 1930s. Never before translated into English, these pieces begin in Vienna just at the end of the First World War, and end in Paris near the outbreak of the Second World War. Roth, the great journalist of his day, needed journalism to survive in his six-volume collected works in German, there are three of fiction and three of journalism. Beginning in 1921, Roth wrote mostly for the liberal Frankfurter Zeitung who sent him on assignments throughout Germany - the inflation, the occupation, political assassinations - and abroad, to the USSR, Italy, Poland and Albania. And always I celebrate my return to lobby and chandelier, porter and chambermaid.**ReviewThis wonderful selection of journalism from the Weimar years, a period Roth spent in Paris, Germany and on the road, displays genius from every angle, as a rebel, a loyalist and a man of compassion. - Jan Morris, *Daily Telegraph* Roths journalism creates a vivid sense of a continent on the brink of change. - Independent on Sunday Nonstop brilliance, irresistible charm and continuing relevance. - Jeffrey Eugenides, *New York Times Book Review* Joseph Roth has emerged as one of the greatest, certainly the most prescient, of the German writers of the entre-deux guerres. - TLS Joseph Roth his view arises from the deepest human pity everywhere. I cannot imagine how he does this except instinctively. He is incomparable. - Anne Carson I love going back to Joseph Roth. Hes one of the best journalists who ever lived and certainly an amazing writer and novelist. His book called The Hotel Years are articles he wrote about staying in hotels, mostly in eastern Europe as it then was in the last days of the Austrian Habsburg Empire. I love his style of observation and his descriptions of characters and so on. I always feel enriched when I put down a book by Joseph Roth. - John le Carre Roth captures and encapsulates Europe in those uncertain hours before the upheaval of a continent and the annihilation of a civilization. - Cynthia Ozick A singular achievement of both journalism and literature. - Thane Rosenbaum, *The Washington Post Book World* His was a voice of uncowed conscience and irrepressible humanism, his body of work a damning jaccuse against the folly of the age. The dispatches in The Hotel Years constitute a compelling vindication of his claims for the feuilletons literary possibilities. - Houman Barekat, *Los Angeles Review of Books* So consistently incisive that we devour the lot, compulsively, from cover to cover. - Amanda Hopkinson, *The Independent*About the Author Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He published several books and articles before his untimely death at the age of 44. Roths writing has been admired by J. M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Elie Wiesel, and Nadine Gordimer, among many others.

Author: Lee T. Wyatt File Type: pdf The Industrial Revolution that began in Great Britain in the mid-seventeenth century transformed the British economyand later the economies of Western Europ and the U.S.from a rural, agricultral system into an industrial society, centered around the factory system of mass production and specialized labor. the right mix of social, political and legal conditions in Britain at the time led to the discovery of labor. The right mix of social, political and legal conditions in Britain at the time led to the discovery of fresh sources of power and energy, and to advances in agriculture, manufacturing, communication and transportation. Notable results included the steam engine, which made possible everything from textile factories to railroads, and, later in the U.S., the cotton gin, electric light, and automobiles.This comprehensive volume explores all these events and more, including the aftermath of the Revolutionits spread beyond Britain and the U.S. to Asia and throughout the world, allowing for a higher standard of living while challenging that standard with increased pollution and health problems, a widened economic and social class gap, and a weakening of traditional family structure. Biographical sketches of key figures, a chronology of events, primary document excerpts from the period, and a print and nonprint source bibliography supplement the work.ReviewGoloboys volume incorporates biographies in the chapters that cover the individuals lifetime, whereas Wyatt offers more detailed biographies in a separate section. Both books detail the lifestyle changes that characterized the era and offer numerous viewpoints on it. They are worthy general purchases depending on need. While Goloboy focuses on the Industrial Revolution in the United States, Wyatt also looks at the period prior to it and addresses global ramifications.Reviewed with Industrial Revolution People and Perspectives by Jennifer Goloboy.ullulSchool Library JournalBook DescriptionExplore the evolution and effects of of the Industrial Revolution and its transformation of Great Britain, the U.S., and the rest of the world.