Author: Samuel Zane Batten File Type: pdf The men of to-day stand upon a peak in Darien, Behind lies the world they have known, with its trials and failures. Beyond lies the uncharted sea, and the great unknown time. The world war represents the passing of the old order and the end of an epoch. A new day is begun, a page of new achievements is upturned. The old order passes from view the new world is rising upon our vision. The world can never again be as it has been. The house has collapsed, and its structure is discredited. In this period of reconstruction it is imperative that men should know what are the defective principles of the old order that must be kept out, and what are the true principles that should be builded in as the very foundations of the house that is to be.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and dont occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org

Author: Alice A. Kuzniar File Type: pdf Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann who ardently proposed that like cures like, counter to the conventional treatment of prescribing drugs that have the opposite effect to symptoms. Alice A. Kuzniar critically examines the alternative medical practice of homeopathy within the Romantic culture in which it arose. In The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism , Kuzniar argues that Hahnemann was a product of his time rather than an iconoclast and visionary. It is the first book in English to examine Hahnemanns unpublished writings, including case journals and self-testings, and links to his contemporaries such as Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt. Kuzniars engaging writing style seamlessly weaves together medical, philosophical, semiotic, and literary concerns and reveals homeopathy as a phenomenon of its time. The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism sheds light on issues that continue to dominate the controversy surrounding homeopathy to this very day.ReviewExcellent history This text provides interesting insight into the history of homeopathy and how this history affects the way homeopathy is viewed today. (J. Saxton Choice Magazine vol 55022017 ) The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism is an important study that increases our understanding of both Romantic Naturphilosophie and homeopathy in a very significant way. (Asko Nivala European Romantic Review 295 ) ReviewAlice Kuzniars The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism is a wonderfully rich work that brings important attention to an overlooked aspect of the medical sciences in the Romantic period. In Kuzniars beautifully written manuscript, homeopathy is revealed not only to draw upon the rich cultural discourses in which it is situated, but also to feed into them in interesting and important ways. (Joan Steigerwald, Associate Professor of Humanities, York University) The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism represents a sustained, serious and overwhelmingly successful excavation of the thought and practice of homeopathys originator, Samuel Hahnemann, in the cultural context of its day. (Peter McIsaac, Associate Professor of German, University of Michigan)

Author: Claire Annesley File Type: pdf Historically, men have been more likely to be appointed to governing cabinets, but gendered patterns of appointment vary cross-nationally, and womens inclusion in cabinets has grown significantly over time. This book breaks new theoretical ground by conceiving of cabinet formation as a gendered, iterative process governed by rules that empower and constrain presidents and prime ministers in the criteria they use to make appointments. Political actors use their agency to interpret and exploit ambiguity in rules to deviate from past practices of appointing mostly men. When they do so, they create different opportunities for men and women to be selected, explaining why some democracies have appointed more women to cabinet than others. Importantly, this dynamic produces new rules about womens inclusion and, as this book explains, the emergence of a concrete floor, defined as a minimum number of women who must be appointed to a cabinet to ensure its legitimacy. Drawing on in-depth analyses of seven countries (Australia, Canada, Chile, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and elite interviews, media data, and autobiographies of cabinet members, Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender offers a cross-time, cross-national study of the gendered process of cabinet formation.Review Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender provides ground-breaking insight into the factors that explain changing patterns of womens representation in executives. The cross-national and over time perspective allows the authors to isolate causal factors and to develop deep insights into how concrete floors gain their strength, as well as what factors threaten to undermine them. -- Rosie Campbell, Director of the Global Institute for Womens Leadership and Professor of Politics, Kings College London This book is a must-read for anyone interested in gender and the executive branch, and indeed for students of executive politics more generally. Focusing on seven democracies, the authors identify the rules and norms that govern ministerial selection in each country. They identify the experiential, affiliational, and representational criteria that shape access to power. Importantly, they convincingly demonstrate that the strongest predictor of womens presence in cabinets is the establishment of gendered representational criteria that demand womens inclusion. Their conceptual framework, paired with their rich qualitative data, has resulted in a book that is not only an important scholarly contribution, but also a pleasure to read. -- Diana OBrien, Rice University Women presidents and women legislators have been extensively studied, buttressed by sophisticated theoretical frameworks that explain their pathways to power. Nonetheless, up until now, how, when, and why women become cabinet ministers have been questions largely left unanswered. Annesley, Beckwith, and Franceschet provide a path-breaking and conceptually sophisticated analysis of women cabinet ministers. In what promises to become a seminal book, this cross-national, cross-time study employs a sophisticated qualitative methodology to account for the forces that bring women cabinet ministers to power. -- Peter M. Siavelis, Professor and Chair, Department of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University This meticulously researched book significantly extends our analyses of cabinet formation and how its associated processes are gendered. Through the comparative analysis of seven cases, spanning presidential and parliamentary systems in Europe, the Americas, and Australia, the authors develop a rigorous new analytical framework that furthers our understanding, particularly in the use of their new conceptual tool, the concrete floor. This book deserves to be widely read -- Georgina Waylen, Professor of Politics, University of Manchester About the Author Claire Annesley is Professor of Politics and Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor (Equalities and Diversity) at the University of Sussex. Karen Beckwith is the Flora Stone Mather Professor in the Department of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University. Susan Franceschet is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary.

Author: Sabry Hafez File Type: pdf