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Paul Edwards is a beautiful writer. He can express the moods and
emotions of a day as well as anyone. And his love for the game -
and those involved in it - pours off every page of this book. But
because he has interests far beyond the boundary - in politics and
people, in music and history - he is as likely to quote Mott the
Hoople as Herman Melville; as likely to cite the repeal of the corn
laws as regulations regarding Kolpak registrations. His work is all
the richer and more satisfying for it. He knows that not everything
that counts can be counted. He knows you can't define love or
loyalty or a million things in between. So he tells us how a day's
play feels. He tells us about the people and places. He tells us
why it matters but knows it doesn't matter too much.
Oh no, not another self-help book! But wait, USC alumnus and
celebrity life coach Paul Edward dubs this work an "others-help"
book and insists that one of the keys to moving forward in life is
connecting with the right people. In the first volume of his new
Life-Changing Coaching Series, Edward shares the five strategies he
uses to help his influential clients solve problems, make better
decisions, achieve goals, and get connected. Drawing on his rich
experiences as a US Marine Corps officer, corporate executive, and
professional life coach, Edward's book leads the reader on a
journey that begins with self-discovery and culminates in the
development and implementation of a plan for real change and
sustained growth. The book does not just offer theory, but it
tackles some of life's thornier practical issues, like how to
successfully deal with challenging friends and family members, how
to increase job satisfaction, and how to make more time for the
people and activities you love. This is a guide for those who find
themselves stuck in one or more areas of their lives. Its pages
brim with help and hope for anyone willing to follow the roadmap
that Edward lays out for them.
This title was first published in 2000. Founded in 1914 by Wyndham
Lewis and christened by Ezra Pound, the Vorticism movement was a
sustained act of aggression against the moribund Victorianism seen
as stifling to artistic energies. Inspired by the example of
F.T.Marinetti and the Futurists, the Vorticists were nevertheless
harshly critical of the Futurists' naive enthusiasm for modernity.
They created their own style of geometric abstraction to celebrate
the new consciousness of humanity in a mechanized urban
environment. But their splintered and discordant style also
measured the cost of the psychic disruption that modernity caused.
This illustrated guide to the movement covers topics including
sculpture, painting, literary Vorticism, women in Vorticism and
Vorticist aesthetics.
This title was first published in 2000. Founded in 1914 by Wyndham
Lewis and christened by Ezra Pound, the Vorticism movement was a
sustained act of aggression against the moribund Victorianism seen
as stifling to artistic energies. Inspired by the example of
F.T.Marinetti and the Futurists, the Vorticists were nevertheless
harshly critical of the Futurists' naive enthusiasm for modernity.
They created their own style of geometric abstraction to celebrate
the new consciousness of humanity in a mechanized urban
environment. But their splintered and discordant style also
measured the cost of the psychic disruption that modernity caused.
This illustrated guide to the movement covers topics including
sculpture, painting, literary Vorticism, women in Vorticism and
Vorticist aesthetics.
This volume in Religion and Public Life, a series on religion and
public affairs, provides a wide-ranging forum for differing views
on religious and ethical considerations. The contributions address
the decline of social capital-those patterns of behavior which are
conducive to self-governance and the spirit of self-reliance-and
its relation to the demise of the civic-humanist tradition in
American education. The unifying theme, is that classical studies
do not merely result in individual mastery over a particular
technique or body of knowledge, but also link the individual to the
polity and even to the whole of the cosmic order. At the same time,
American republicanism, in its exaltation of the common man from
the Jeffersonian agrarian soldier to the apotheosis of Lincoln
tempers the classical ideal into something less exalted, if more
democratic. The effects on the contemporary state of the liberal
arts curriculum are demonstrated in articles critical of the
market-model university. Two essays explore the historical and
philosophical significance of the discipline of rhetoric, that has
suffered under the hegemony of rationalistic philosophy. A
concluding contribution, invokes Giambattista Vico as an eloquent
defender of the humanities. Humanities and Civic Life includes:
"Rome, Florence, and Philadelphia: Using the History of the
Humanities to Renew Our Civic Life" by Robert E. Proctor; "The Dark
Fields of the Republic: The Persistence of Republican Thought in
American History" by David Brown; "Unleashing the Humanities" by
Robert Weisbuch; "Liberal Arts: Listening to Faculty" by Dennis
O'Brien; "Historical Consciousness in Antiquity" by Paul Gottfried;
"Taking the Measure of Relativism and the Civic Virtue of Rhetoric"
by Gabriel R. Ricci; "The River: A Vichian Dialogue on Humanistic
Education" by Randall E. Auxier.
The implications of globalization for labour are more often
asserted than analyzed. This collection, and its companion volume
"Globalization and Patterns of Labour Resistance" edited by Jeremy
Waddington, seek to remedy this deficiency by presenting
contemporary research on the relationship between the globalization
of production and the regulation of labour. It considers the ways
in which national and supra-national regimes of labour regulation
are being actively reconstructed in the context of the
internationalization of production. The contributors analyze the
implications of changes in different national labour regimes for
relations between state, capital and labour, and for class and
gender segmentation, and discuss the scope and limits of recent
initiatives in the implementation of international labour
standards.
Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case
studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence
that leads to broader conclusions about  medieval history and
the way we do and understand history in general. Paul Dutton
provides an overview of microhistorical approaches and theorizes
about its use in pre-modern history. As opposed to studying history
“from above†or history “from below,†Dutton shows the
advantages for historians of doing history “from the inside
out,†starting from some single, overlooked, but potentially
knowable thing, delving deep inside, and then reattaching it to its
time and place. Such an approach has one abiding advantage: its
insistence on being grounded in the particularity of the evidence.
The book highlights what the microhistorical is, its conceptual and
practical challenges. Dutton argues that the attention to the micro
has always been with us and is a constitutive, cognitive part of
who we are as human beings.
This sequel to How to Rap breaks down and examines techniques that
have not previously been explained—such as triplets, flams, lazy
tails, and breaking rhyme patterns. Based on interviews with
hip-hop’s most innovative artists and groups, including Tech
N9ne, Crooked I, Pharcyde, Das EFX, Del the Funky Homosapien, and
Big Daddy Kane, this book takes you through the intricacies of
rhythm, rhyme, and vocal delivery, delving into the art form in
unprecedented detail. It is a must-read for MCs looking to take
their craft to the next level, as well as anyone fascinated by
rapping and its complexity.
Clipse, Cypress Hill, Nelly, Public Enemy, Remy Ma, Schoolly D, A
Tribe Called Quest, will.i.am--these are just some of the acclaimed
artists offering tips and advice in this compelling how-to.
Delivering countless candid and exclusive first-person insights
from interviews with more than one hundred of the most innovative
artists, author Paul Edwards examines the dynamics of rap from
every region and in every form--mainstream and underground, current
and classic--and covers everything from content and flow to rhythm
and delivery. A first-of-its-kind guide, "How to Rap "provides a
wealth of insight and rapping lore that will benefit beginners and
pros alike.
A debut collection of flash fiction from one of the most prominent
young Canadian writers of this genre.
"This monograph is written with admirable lucidity and delightful
wit. In using humor as a weapon in philosophical argument it is
beautifully in the Russellian tradition. The arguments appear to be
devastating. Defenders of Heidegger will have a hard time trying to
answer it." --J.C.C. Smart, Professor of Philosophy, The Australian
National University
Is there life after death or do we simply cease to exist? Renowned
scholar Paul Edwards has compiled Immortality, a superb group of
philosophical selections featuring the work of both classical and
contemporary authors who address the topics of immortality, soul
and body, transmigration, materialism, epiphenomenalism, physical
research and parapsychology, reincarnation, disembodied existence,
and much more.
In addition to a 70-page editorial introduction offering an
in-depth discussion of the forms which belief in immortality has
taken, this volume includes selections from Thomas Aquinas, A.J.
Ayer, Paul and Linda Badham, John Beloff, C.D. Broad, Joseph
Butler, Ren? Descartes, C.J. Ducasse, Paul Edwards, Hugh Elliot,
Antony Flew, John Foster, Peter Geach, John Hick, John Hospers,
David Hume, William James, Raynor Johnson, Immanuel Kant, John
Locke, Lucretius, Donald MacKay, John Stuart Mill, Derek Parfit,
Plato, H.H. Price, Joseph Priestley, Thomas Reid, Tertullian, Peter
van Inwagen, and Voltaire. Also included is a detailed annotated
bibliography.
Published in the shadow of the Spanish Civil War, The Revenge for
Love is a political thriller attacking the fraudulence and
feeble-mindedness of life in the Britain of the 1930s. A brilliant
satire on a world that has lost its sense of self and been seduced
by the appeal of Communism, it is one of a handful of books (it
could be compared to Orwell's Coming Up for Air or Koestler's
Darkness at Noon) which defined a particular mood and to today's
audience gives an unparalleled sense of how Europe turned toxic on
the eve of the Second World War. A major statement by a great
artist and writer The Revenge for Love now deserves a new
generation of readers and is the perfect introduction to Lewis's
work.
These medieval Viking romances, including Arrow-Odd and King Gautrek, inhabit some of the most enjoyable and exotic regions of the Icelandic imagination. They tell of famous kings, difficult gods and women of great beauty, goodness or cunning; but although they paint the traditional colourful picture of the Viking warrior making raids in his dragon-headed longboat, these stories are not concerned, like Hrafnkel’s Saga or Njal’s Saga, for example, to point a moral or to set down the glories of Icelandic history or geography. Instead the narrators, witty and well-read, plundered sources from Homer to French romance, and incorporated local myths, legends and heroic tales in a bid to entertain us, capture our imagination and make us laugh.
In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul
Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century
liberalism by the managerial state. Many people, of course, realize
that liberalism no longer connotes distributed powers and bourgeois
moral standards, the need to protect civil society from an
encroaching state, or the virtues of vigorous self-government. Many
also know that today's "liberals" have far different goals from
those of their predecessors, aiming as they do largely to combat
prejudice, to provide social services and welfare benefits, and to
defend expressive and "lifestyle" freedoms. Paul Gottfried does
more than analyze these historical facts, however. He builds on
them to show why it matters that the managerial state has replaced
traditional liberalism: the new regimes of social engineers, he
maintains, are elitists, and their rule is consensual only in the
sense that it is unopposed by any widespread organized
opposition.
Throughout the western world, increasingly uprooted populations
unthinkingly accept centralized controls in exchange for a variety
of entitlements. In their frightening passivity, Gottfried locates
the quandary for traditionalist and populist adversaries of the
welfare state. How can opponents of administrative elites show the
public that those who provide, however ineptly, for their material
needs are the enemies of democratic self-rule and of independent
decision making in family life? If we do not wake up, Gottfried
warns, the political debate may soon be over, despite sporadic and
ideologically confused populist rumblings in both Europe and the
United States.
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