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An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his
relevance to contemporary readers More than two centuries after his
birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in
American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of
self-reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure, who
spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice, philosophy, art, desire,
and suffering. James Marcus introduces readers to this Emerson, a
writer of self-interrogating genius whose visionary flights are
always grounded in Yankee shrewdness. This Emerson is a rebel. He
is also a lover, a friend, a husband, and a father. Having declared
his great topic to be “the infinitude of the private man,” he
is nonetheless an intensely social being, who develops
Transcendentalism in the company of Henry David Thoreau, Margaret
Fuller, Bronson Alcott, and Theodore Parker. And although he
resists political activism early on—hoping instead for a
revolution in consciousness—the burning issue of slavery
ultimately transforms him from cloistered metaphysician to fiery
abolitionist. Drawing on telling episodes from Emerson’s life
alongside landmark essays like “Self-Reliance,”
“Experience,” and “Circles,” Glad to the Brink of Fear
reveals how Emerson shares our preoccupations with fate and
freedom, race and inequality, love and grief. It shows, too, how
his desire to see the world afresh, rather than accepting the
consensus view, is a lesson that never grows old.
The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features
distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage.
Launched in 2004 by John Palattella, who was then editor of the
magazine's book section, the series also allows authors address
such ongoing concerns as the conflict between narrative flair and
accurate reporting, the legacy of New Journalism, the need for
reporters to question their political assumptions, the limitations
of participatory journalism, and the temptation to substitute
"truthiness" for hard, challenging fact. Representing a wide range
of views, Second Read embodies the diversity and dynamism of
contemporary nonfiction while offering fresh perspectives on works
by Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Rachel Carson, and Gabriel Garcia
Marquez, among others. It also highlights pivotal moments and
movements in journalism as well as the innovations of award-winning
writers. Essays include Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan's The Tribes
of America; Nicholson Baker on Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the
Plague Year; Dale Maharidge on James Agee's Let Us Now Praise
Famous Men; Marla Cone on Rachel Carson's Silent Spring; Ben Yagoda
on Walter Bernstein's Keep Your Head Down; Ted Conover on Stanley
Booth's The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones; Jack Shafer on
Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; Connie Schultz on
Michael Herr's Dispatches; Michael Shapiro on Cornelius Ryan's The
Longest Day; Douglas McCollam on John McPhee's Annals of the Former
World; Tom Piazza on Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night; Thomas
Mallon on William Manchester's The Death of a President; Miles
Corwin on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Story of a Shipwrecked
Sailor; David Ulin on Joan Didion's Slouching Toward Bethlehem; and
Claire Dederer on Betty MacDonald's Anybody Can Do Anything.
This unique and insightful book challenges our prevailing and often
fallacious attitudes about schooling. In today's volatile job
market, ideas are more important than training, innovation is more
important than credentials; traditional schooling may no longer be
necessary or even useful. The ability to educate oneself--to learn
how to learn--is crucial. In "Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar,
"James Bach demonstrates how to nurture one's natural curiosities
and passions through the whimsical learning process he calls
"buccaneering"--demonstrating that those who understand this
fundamental principle will come to dominate this new world.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
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The desire to quantify the presence of analytes within diverse
physiological, environmental and industrial systems has led to the
development of many novel detection methods. In this arena,
saccharide analysis has exploited the pair-wise interaction between
boronic acids and saccharides. Boronic Acids in Saccharide
Recognition provides a comprehensive review and critical analysis
of the current developments in this field. It also assesses the
potential of this innovative approach, outlining future lines of
research and possible applications. Topics include: the molecular
recognition of saccharides, the complexation of boronic acids with
saccharides, fluorescent sensors and the modular construct of
fluorescent sensors, further sensory systems for saccharide
recognition and an extensive bibliography. This high level book is
ideal for researchers both academic and industrial who require a
comprehensive overview of the subject.
The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features
distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage.
Launched in 2004 by John Palattella, who was then editor of the
magazine's book section, the series also allows authors address
such ongoing concerns as the conflict between narrative flair and
accurate reporting, the legacy of New Journalism, the need for
reporters to question their political assumptions, the limitations
of participatory journalism, and the temptation to substitute
"truthiness" for hard, challenging fact. Representing a wide range
of views, Second Read embodies the diversity and dynamism of
contemporary nonfiction while offering fresh perspectives on works
by Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Rachel Carson, and Gabriel Garcia
Marquez, among others. It also highlights pivotal moments and
movements in journalism as well as the innovations of award-winning
writers. Essays include Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan's The Tribes
of America; Nicholson Baker on Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the
Plague Year; Dale Maharidge on James Agee's Let Us Now Praise
Famous Men; Marla Cone on Rachel Carson's Silent Spring; Ben Yagoda
on Walter Bernstein's Keep Your Head Down; Ted Conover on Stanley
Booth's The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones; Jack Shafer on
Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; Connie Schultz on
Michael Herr's Dispatches; Michael Shapiro on Cornelius Ryan's The
Longest Day; Douglas McCollam on John McPhee's Annals of the Former
World; Tom Piazza on Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night; Thomas
Mallon on William Manchester's The Death of a President; Miles
Corwin on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Story of a Shipwrecked
Sailor; David Ulin on Joan Didion's Slouching Toward Bethlehem; and
Claire Dederer on Betty MacDonald's Anybody Can Do Anything.
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