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Follow Larry as he ping-pongs around New York City, hitting all
five boroughs in a day, and the places and things that make the
city what it is today—from Times Square, Wall Street, and
Radio City Music Hall to Coney Island, Madison Square Garden, and
Central Park. Along the way he loses Pete and his family in the
city's famous subway system. Finally after an exhausting day of
adventures, Larry is reunited with his family at the top of the
Empire State Building. This book takes young readers on a dog's-eye
view of the greatest city in the world. Sidebar entries enhance the
story, offering fascinating factoids about the places Larry visits.
Shakespearean productions continue to flourish today, with
considerable activity at Stratford-upon-Avon in England. This book
supplies basic information on Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean
plays produced at Stratford-upon-Avon from 1979 to 1993, and makes
accessible information on all productions during these years by the
Royal Shakespeare Company. The volume is based on the archives of
the Shakespeare Memorial/Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the preeminent
theatre for Shakespeare in the world. The volume lists each
production by play title. Each entry provides detailed cast and
production information, along with a list of reviews. Indexes at
the end of the volume allow the user to locate entries for all
plays by a particular playwright, director, actor, or reviewer.
Thus, it is easy to compare the different plays of a director, or
to trace the work of an actor, or to note the plays commented on by
a particular reviewer. Introductory material overviews the history
of theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, and a calendar of productions
lists the various plays chronologically.
In Larry the adorable pooch's latest adventure, he goes on vacation
with Pete and the family to Philadelphia, home of the Liberty Bell
and other great American historical landmarks. As usual, in hot
pursuit of a tempting treat, Larry gets separated and frantically
tries to find them again. Along the way he discovers some of the
city's most fun and interesting landmarks and cultural attractions,
including: City Hall (+Penn statue) Ben Franklin Bridge Phillies
Liberty Bell Independence Hall Pat's and Geeno's Betsy Ross House
Rittenhouse Square Oldenberg Clothespin Elevated Train Love Park
Art Museum + Rocky Statue Zoo
Join Larry the pup and his owner Pete as they explore Boston, MA.
From Fenway Park's Green Monster to the swan boats in Boston Public
Garden, locals and visitors learn about Boston's history and
cultural landmarks when Larry gets lost chasing after a tasty
treat. As Larry searches the city for Pete, he visits Quincy
Market, Freedom Trail, Boston Harbor, and more. With colorful
illustrations and facts about each location, the latest addition to
the Larry Gets Lost series is sure to delight and educate young
readers. Larry makes friends and finds adventures wherever he goes,
but where will he find Pete?
Jurgen Habermas has argued that democracy depends on all citizens
recognizing the legitimacy of the law. Therefore, political
argument must appeal only to public reason which is secular.
Religious citizens must translate their reasons into a secular
language accessible to the public. This dissertation argues that
religious arguments are justified in public discourse if they
refrain from dogmatism. Moreover, there is nothing inherent in
secular reasons that make them publicly accessible or likely to
generate consensus among members of a pluralistic society. If we
treat religious arguments as simply arguments with controversial
premises, it becomes less clear why religious arguments are singled
out as particularly problematic for liberal democracies, since many
secular political arguments share this feature. Granted, religious
reasons are unlikely to secure consensus, but this does not count
against them if consensus is not the goal of democratic discourse.
This dissertation makes the case that Habermas, and other liberal
theorists such as Rawls, have placed too much emphasis on consensus
as the goal of democracy. Moreover, what they refer to is not
practical consensus achieved pragmatically through compromise, but
an idealized consensus that is the achievement of secular reason.
This is problematic for two main reasons: there is no normative
reason to think we ought to attain such consensus and such
consensus is unlikely to be achieved in practice. Thus, there seems
to be no normative force to the claim that religious citizens ought
to translate their arguments into secular language.
Extensive archival and anecdotal sources support Michael Mullin's
description of slavery as it was practiced in tidewater Virginia,
on the rice coast of the Carolinas, and in Jamaica and Barbados.
Drawing upon case histories, Mullin offers new and definitive
information about how African's met and often overcame the
challenges and deprivations of their new lives through religion,
family life, and economic strategies. "Africa in America is more
than another account of slave resistance and accommodation. It is a
brilliant and provocative work of historical anthropology and a
synthetic account of slavery that firmly places the subject in a
comparative and long-term context. . . . Mullin's three-part
chronology of resistance and rebellion is attractive in its
simplicity and flexibility." -- James D. Rice, Southern Historian
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