|
Showing 1 - 25 of
29 matches in All Departments
For decades osteopathic physician Larry Nassar built a sterling
reputation as the go-to doctor for America's Olympians while
treating hundreds of others at his office on Michigan State
University's campus. Parents and coaches entrusted their children
to Nassar's care-only for him to use that trust to manipulate and
sexually abuse hundreds of girls and young women under the guise of
medical treatment. In Start by Believing, John Barr and Dan Murphy
confront Nassar's acts, as well as the epic institutional failures
and individuals who enabled him--failures whose consequences
continue to play out in the legal system. It is an account of a
corrupted culture with rules and rituals all its own: the
dysfunctional and high-pressured world of club level and elite
gymnastics, where young girls are trained in atmospheres of fear
and intimidation; a world where Larry Nassar was protected by
enablers more interested in an institution's image than the
well-being of young people. Above all, this book is the story of
the women, individuals of uncommon grit and perseverance-including
an unlikely pairing of a once-shy Christian mother and an outspoken
former Olympic medallist-who bravely spoke out and brought a
criminal and his enablers to justice.
All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr's poems the success
of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning
give proof of life. But for us that struggle includes the eternal
presence of war. Does the fall of Rome, the Battle of Shiloh, the
Normandy Landingsââand today's warsâgive proof of life or
only of the struggle?
There is a long history in the West of viewing Japan through the
twin lenses of orientalism and exoticism. Following the Meiji
Restoration of 1868 and the re-opening of Japan after a long period
of self-imposed isolation there has been a succession of
commentators who have sought to present Japan as somehow 'other'
and not susceptible to ready understanding. Too often the study of
Japanese architecture has followed this pattern or has been
presented as a series of visual images that are explained as if
they emerged from some unique alchemy of sensitivity and mysticism.
This book argues that Japanese modern architecture emerged from
identifiable events: political, social, economic, historical
events, and is as susceptible as any other architecture to analysis
and criticism in these terms. Episodic rather than encyclopaedic,
it does not describe every twist and turn in the development of
modern Japanese architecture, but rather, it examines twenty
buildings spanning the 20th century and places them in the context
of the political, social and economic, as well as the historical
and cultural factors that shaped both them and modern Japan. Each
building has been chosen because it reflects a major event in the
development of modern Japan and its architecture. In this way, the
author provides a more rounded understanding of the development of
modern architecture in Japan and the circumstances from which it
emerged and offers lessons that are still of relevance. As it
entered the modern era, Japan was faced with the necessity of
accepting an influx of Western technology in order to catch up.
With imported technology came new and different ideas and values.
Could the Japanese adopt the technology imported from the West
while retaining their own culture and values? How could they
identify those values and should they try to retain them or embrace
new and different values? In the early 21st century, where we have
seen the growth of the Internet and globalisation alongside an
increase in nationalism around the world, these should be familiar
questions. In a sense we are all Japanese now.
Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth,
Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible
perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great
leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. The book
explores how Lincoln's words and deeds have influenced the pursuit
of justice and freedom and the practice of democracy in the century
and a half since he governed. Lincoln, as an abolitionist, the
architect of Reconstruction, an avowed Unionist, a wordsmith and
rhetorician, his age's foremost prophet for democracy, and
America's greatest president remains an iconic image in American
memory.
All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr's poems the success
of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning
give proof of life. But for us that struggle includes the eternal
presence of war. Does the fall of Rome, the Battle of Shiloh, the
Normandy Landingsââand today's warsâgive proof of life or
only of the struggle?
In John Barr's poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern
world. Dante on a beach in China beholds the Inferno: âFlaring
well gas night and day, / towers rise as if to say, / Pollution can
be beautiful.â Bachâs final fugue informs all of nature. Villon
is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds âDemagogues
are the insects of politics. / Like water beetles they stay afloat
/ on surface tension, they taxi on iridescence.â And his
afterlife: âWhen three-headed Cerberus greeted him / Socrates
replied: I wonât need / an attack dog, thank you. I married
one.â
In John Barr's poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern
world. Dante on a beach in China beholds the Inferno: âFlaring
well gas night and day, / towers rise as if to say, / Pollution can
be beautiful.â Bachâs final fugue informs all of nature. Villon
is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds âDemagogues
are the insects of politics. / Like water beetles they stay afloat
/ on surface tension, they taxi on iridescence.â And his
afterlife: âWhen three-headed Cerberus greeted him / Socrates
replied: I wonât need / an attack dog, thank you. I married
one.â
Alliances are characterized by an inherent struggle for power
between the allies themselves to deal with a common external enemy.
Yet diplomatic history clearly shows that, at the best of times,
this cooperative dimension is only one of the many aspects in play:
alongside it, or even in its place, there are often strong elements
of competition between allies. Building upon this insight, Marco
Cesa argues that alliances are first of all a tool aimed at
rendering predictable behavior from an ally by securing its
cooperation. He also takes issue with the way alliances are often
discussed as if they were all alike. Accordingly, the book provides
a typology of alliances that distinguishes four possible types and
sheds light on interallied relations, indicating their causes and
effects. Historical case studies from 18th-century Europe,
beginning with the War of the Spanish Succession and proceeding
chronologically until the eve of the French Revolution, offer
readers an overview of almost the entire century.
2012 Programs of The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R383
R310
Discovery Miles 3 100
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R383
R310
Discovery Miles 3 100
Sing 2
Blu-ray disc
R210
Discovery Miles 2 100
|