Author: James Joyce File Type: pdf DUBLINERS is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914.This is a beautifully-designed edition of James Joyces classic DUBLINERS. Complete and Unabridged.

Author: Mari Fitzduff File Type: pdf Across the United States and around the world, people are struggling to understand why so many turned to Donald Trump an individual described as rude and insensitive at best, and as racist, hateful, and ignorant at worst as their champion. Trumps political success and nomination as the Republican presidential candidate upended many long-held assumptions and beliefs about politics, such as the inevitable power of superfunding election syndicates and the need for presidential candidates to have governance experience and broad knowledge of domestic and foreign affairs.Why Irrational Politics Appeals Understanding the Allure of Trump takes a serious, scientific look at Trump and his politics against the backdrop of modern American society. It brings together experts from a variety of psychological and political science fields to answer the mystifying question of why people by the millions would follow a leader who to so many others seems unqualified, undiplomatic, and in opposition to logical, previously established standards for a national leader. Readers will gain an understanding of how little a role rationality often plays in political choices, particularly but not always among citizens of certain socioeconomic backgrounds and why Trumps often apparently divisive attitudes and prejudices, his lack of political correctness, and his hubris appeal to so many voters. The book also challenges readers to consider what changes may be necessary to ensure that American citizens are equipped to make important decisions that will affect the future of our nations economy, identity, safety, and morality are at stake.

Author: David Lazar File Type: pdf Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (153392). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaignea collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tributeaims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and writers to their stylistic forebear. Though its been over four hundred years since he began writing his essays, Montaignes writing is still fresh, and his use of the form as a means of self-exploration in the world around him reads as innovativeeven by modern standards. He is, simply put, the writer to whom all essayists are indebted. Each contributor has chosen one of Montaignes 107 essays and has written hisher own essay of the same title and on the same theme, using a quote from Montaignes essay as an epigraph. The overall effect is akin to a covers album, with each writer offering his or her own interpretation and stylistic verve to Montaignes themes in ways that both reinforce and challenge the French writers prose, ideas, and forms. Featuring a whos who of contemporary essayists, After Montaigne offers astartling engagement with Montaigne and the essay form while also pointing the way to the genres potential new directions. **Review Imagine the dinner party not just Montaigne but many Montaignes, resurrected in these brilliant essays by twenty-eight of todays most inventive writers. The table is crowded, enlivened by the paradoxical warmth of Montaignes detachment and by the parry and thrust of ideas, often tantamount to a kind of quiet eros. Its a dinner full of random appetites, the kind of party we leave knowing ourselves a little less, which might mean a little better. What a feast this collection is. It satisfies a hungerintellect meeting empathythat enlarges us. (Barbara Hurd author of Listening to the Savage River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies) A fascinating collection of essays that carries forward the omnidirectional momentum of the master. After Montaigne gives us grand examples of the essay as it lives today. (Ian Frazier author of Great Plains) Though Montaigne wrote more than 400 years ago, he feels ageless to these writers, who celebrate his drily mellifluous voice, discursive style, and relentless curiosity. With flair, wit, and imagination, these writers embrace and often challenge their mentor, with results that will inspire readers to also seek out the originals. (Publishers Weekly) The collection is accessible and invites readers to dip in anywhere, to read all or only a few. Reading these covers alongside Montaignes originals would make an engaging activity for aspiring essayists or composition students. (P.J. Kurtz Choice) Book Description A tribute to the master of the essay

Author: Enzo Traverso File Type: epub Europes second Thirty YearsWaran epoch of blood and ashes Fire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence the age of the European Civil War (19141945). Its overture was played out in the trenches of the Great War its coda on a ruined continent. It opened with conventional declarations of war and finished with unconditional surrender. Proclamations of national unity led to eventual devastation, with entire countries torn to pieces. During these three decades of deepening conflicts, a classical interstate conflict morphed into a global civil war, abandoning rules of engagement and fought by irreducible enemies rather than legitimate adversaries, each seeking the annihilation of its opponents. It was a time of both unchained passions and industrial, rationalized massacre. Utilizing multiple sources, Enzo Traverso depicts the dialectic of this era of wars, revolutions and genocides. Rejecting commonplace notions of totalitarian evil, he rediscovers the feelings and reinterprets the ideas of an age of intellectual and political commitment when Europe shaped world history with its own collapse. **Review Enzo Traversos investigation is based on a brilliantalthough controversialidea. It is an important book that deserves to prompt vast and interesting debates. Saul Friedlander, UCLA, author ofNazi Germany and the JewsandThe Years of Extermination Written with empathy and perspicacity,Fire and Bloodtakes the measure of the explosion of violencerevolutionary vs. counter-revolutionary, fascist vs. anti-fascist, military vs. civilianthat constituted the European civil war of the first half of the twentieth century. Enzo Traversos admirable erudition and judiciousness make this work an indispensable synthesis. Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University Despite thousands of books on the two world wars, we are still far from understanding the violence that tore Europe apart between 1914 and 1945. By conceiving of the conflict as a civil war, Enzo Traverso provides us with a new way to think about the disaster that continues to shape the twenty-first century. Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College Enzo Traversos provocative book poses a profoundly important question to modern history. How can we understand the age of extremes (1914 to 1945) from a presentour present day in the westthat is in general terms allergic to ideology and convinced that there is no alternative? What happens when an anodyne and self-satisfied liberalism projects its values back into an earlier era of intense political struggle? Adam Tooze, *Guardian* Nuanced and erudite Fire and Blood is more than a history of a catastrophe that began a hundred years ago. It is also a warning of a potential future. Ron Jacobs, *CounterPunch* Incisive, challenging, and compelling interpretation of the European wars of annihilation, whose consequences still reverberate. George de Stefano, Pop Matters* Remarkable. Jonathan Sturgeon,Flavorwire* This wonderful book is not a simple history of [the 191445 period]. Rather it examines the ideas which underlay the mass movements of the inter war years, and why the morality of pre-1914 Europe was undermined by a generation scarred by the horror of the First World War. Chris Bambery, *CounterFire* One must admire Traversos ambitious synthesis of theory and recent scholarship. Shelley Baranowski, University of Akron This is engaged history at its best Fire and Bloodis a passionate and bracing contribution to the issues that bedeviled Western political intellectuals in the age of extremism. Russell Jacoby, UCLA, author ofBloodlustand*The Last Intellectuals* A remarkable study on the politics of violence. Dan Diner, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, author ofAmerica in the Eyes of the Germans Fluently written and employing a synthetic approach that will appeal to the common reader. Nitzan Lebovic, *Haaretz* Enzo Traverso has pulled off the rare reconstruction of a past epoch that pulsates with electric immediacy. Fire and Blood fashions events happening seventy-five-to-one-hundred years ago to feel as lively and pertinent as political debates taking place at present. Alan Wald, *Against the Current* Cannot be neglected by anyone with the temerity to approach the subject in future. Al Richardson,*Revolutionary History* A magisterial interpretation of an epoch that threw Europe into chaos it is one of those great books on the twentieth century which will be discussed in the coming years. Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine,*Le Monde* [A] remarkable reinterpretation of the history of the Thirty Years War of the twentieth century recreates the ethos of this time. Michael Lowy, *Le Monde Diplomatique* The latest historiographical work of Enzo Traverso is the result of years, probably decades of investigation on the topics of wars, fascist dictatorships, intellectual exile, the Holocaust and the Nazi violence. Until now, he had approached them only separately, and today, at the height of his historiographical maturity, he gathers them in a global interpretation of the most intricate, as well as terrible period of the history of the twentieth century. Marcello Flores, *Dieci Libri dellanno* Sharply sketched impressive powerful Fire and Blood opens the window, lets in fresh air and clears the intellectual fog. Tim B. Muller, *Suddeutsche Zeitung* Even those who dont agree with many of Traversos theses and interpretations should undoubtedly recognize that his particular analyses are impressive. His phenomenological approach to the manifestations of violence and fear not only in social and political life but also in music, arts, literature and movies of this age, as he shows giving the examples of Igor Stravinsky, Max Beckmann, Louis Ferdinand Celine and Fritz Lang, are instructive and stimulating. *Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung* One of the most significant books of the last decadea great book that only a great historian could write. *Historia y Politica* The best general study on the European civil war Amagnificent historical, political and philosophical analysis. *Sociologia Historica* About the Author Enzo Traverso taught political science for almost twenty years in France. Since 2013, he has been Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University. His publications, all translated into various languages, include more than ten authored and edited books, including The Marxists and the Jewish Question, The Jews and Germany, Understanding the Nazi Genocide and The Origins of Nazi Violence.