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Wetzel (Hardcover)
Richard Fleming
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R989
Discovery Miles 9 890
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This work takes place during the bloodiest years of the Vietnam
War, when the author served as a Marine scout with 1st Force Recon,
one of the most secretive and elite combat units ever to operate in
Vietnam. Dropped deep into enemy held territory, Force Recon
Marines relied on stealth, surprise, and their training to complete
their missions. They were truly the ghosts of the jungle. The
"Tales" here are a gritty mix of deadly firefights, prisoner
"snatches", parachute jumps, punji pits, tiger attacks, and even a
murder! The book follows the transformation of the author as he
first arrives in Nam as an idealistic young man determined to serve
his country, into a cynical combat hardened bush Marine whose
perspective of the war changed as friends were lost and the
missions became ever more dangerous.
Joseph P. Fell proposes that the solution to the problem of
nihilism is found in the common experience of persons and the
everyday commitments that one makes to people, practices, and
institutions. In his landmark 1979 book Heidegger and Sartre, and
in his subsequent essays, Fell describes a quiet but radical reform
in the philosophical tradition that speaks to perennial dilemmas of
thought and pressing issues for action. Since Descartes, at least,
we have been puzzled as to what we can know, how we should act, and
what we should value. The skeptical influence of modern
dualism-distilled in the mind-body problem at arose with the
assertion "I think, therefore I am"-has shot through not just
philosophy and psychology, but also society, politics, and culture.
With dualism arose radical subjectivism and the concomitant
problems of nihilism and alienation. The broad aim of phenomenology
is to repair the rupture of self and world. Announced by Edmund
Husserl and developed by Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, and
John William Miller, who drew from the North American tradition,
this is the project to which Fell has devoted more than a half
century of reflection and technical elaboration. In this volume, an
array of scholars consider, criticize, and cultivate Fell's key
contributions to the phenomenological project. Ranging from
analyses of key texts in Fell's phenomenology to probing
examinations of his crucial philosophical presuppositions to the
prospects for Fell's call to find the solution to nihilism in
everyday experience-these essays gather the work of the authors
thinking with and through Fell's key works on Sartre, Heidegger,
and Miller. Also included are seminal statements from Fell on his
pedagogical practice and his conception of philosophy.
La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela have been pursuing their art for
more than three decades. Together, they have created large-scale
works for light and sound of many hours duration full of
slow-moving microtonal sounds bathed in magenta hues and shadows
that have influenced styles as diverse as the Velvet Underground
and Minimalism. Yet many people outside the experimental circles in
music and art are unfamiliar with their work. This issue of the
Bucknell Review is the first full-length book on their work. It
introduces Young and Zazeela to those unfamiliar with them, as well
as provides the more acquainted reader with new and useful insights
and analyses of the fundamental issues in their life and work. The
book explores the recurring themes that have influenced and
organized Young and Zazeela's ongoing engagement with sound and
light. These themes include the appreciation of nature and its
natural shapes and sounds; the importance of mathematics and
organized tuning systems based on natural harmonics; enhanced
attention spans and increased sensitivity to differences within
apparent sameness; extensions of time, and alterations of space.
Inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell, this book is a
profoundly original philosophical work put together as a network of
quotations, to show that our language is never our own and that
ethics can be understood as an effect of our attitude to language.
It is a meditation on justice and addresses the question of how to
lead a non-violent life and acknowledge the humanity of others
following 9/11 and extending right up to the current moment.Using
extensive interdisciplinary sources, "Evil and Silence"
investigates the nature of evil and the ways to make a life worth
living in the face of such a fact of existence. It argues that we
must reject the choice of violence as a justified way of life and
embrace the creative efforts of nonviolence. The text begins with
Socrates argument that it is never just to harm another and ends
with Cage s exploration of silence as all the sounds we don t
intend. Drawing on his past work in philosophy of language and
music, Fleming develops arguments for the logic of nonviolence and
the value of silence. He demonstrates that living consistently by
way of silence and meaningful sound, understanding the music and
language of our lives, is a justified response to the truth and
miseries of evil.Links to Musical Illustrations and Scores
Mentioned in the TextMozart's "Symphony 40," Beethoven's "Symphony
6," and Ives' "The Unanswered Question" http:
//www.leonardbernstein.com/norton_scores.htmMozart's "Symphony
40"Beethoven's "Symphony 6"First page of Wagner's "Tristan und
Isolde" http:
//www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/bfk2835/index.htmlFirst
page of Wagner's "Parsifal" http:
//www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/baj5813/index.htmlFirst
and second pages of Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"
http: //www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/bgn9673/index.htmlAn
original manuscript page from Schoenberg's Opus 23, "Five Piano
Pieces" http: //www.schoenberg.at/scans/Ms23/Ms23/10.jpgThe central
tone-row from Berg's "Violin Concerto" (section B) and the last
page of "Wozzeck" http: //solomonsmusic.net/wozzeck.htmLast page of
Mahler's "Symphony 9" http:
//imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/5/5d/IMSLP21194-PMLP48640-Symphony_No._9_-_IV.pdfFirst
page of Stravinsky's "Petrushka" http:
//www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/aad9501/index.htmlPage
from Bernstein's "Mass" http:
//www.leonardbernstein.com/mass_scores.htmPage from Tchaikovsky's
"Symphony 6" http:
//www.leonardbernstein.com/norton_scores.htmCage's "4'33''"
manuscript page and precursor materials: http:
//solomonsmusic.net/4min33se.htm "
Inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell, this book is a
profoundly original philosophical work put together as a network of
quotations, to show that our language is never our own and that
ethics can be understood as an effect of our attitude to language.
It is a meditation on justice and addresses the question of how to
lead a non-violent life and acknowledge the humanity of others
following 9/11 and extending right up to the current moment.Using
extensive interdisciplinary sources, "Evil and Silence"
investigates the nature of evil and the ways to make a life worth
living in the face of such a fact of existence. It argues that we
must reject the choice of violence as a justified way of life and
embrace the creative efforts of nonviolence. The text begins with
Socrates argument that it is never just to harm another and ends
with Cage s exploration of silence as all the sounds we don t
intend. Drawing on his past work in philosophy of language and
music, Fleming develops arguments for the logic of nonviolence and
the value of silence. He demonstrates that living consistently by
way of silence and meaningful sound, understanding the music and
language of our lives, is a justified response to the truth and
miseries of evil.Links to Musical Illustrations and Scores
Mentioned in the TextMozart's "Symphony 40," Beethoven's "Symphony
6," and Ives' "The Unanswered Question" http:
//www.leonardbernstein.com/norton_scores.htmMozart's "Symphony
40"Beethoven's "Symphony 6"First page of Wagner's "Tristan und
Isolde" http:
//www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/bfk2835/index.htmlFirst
page of Wagner's "Parsifal" http:
//www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/baj5813/index.htmlFirst
and second pages of Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"
http: //www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/bgn9673/index.htmlAn
original manuscript page from Schoenberg's Opus 23, "Five Piano
Pieces" http: //www.schoenberg.at/scans/Ms23/Ms23/10.jpgThe central
tone-row from Berg's "Violin Concerto" (section B) and the last
page of "Wozzeck" http: //solomonsmusic.net/wozzeck.htmLast page of
Mahler's "Symphony 9" http:
//imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/5/5d/IMSLP21194-PMLP48640-Symphony_No._9_-_IV.pdfFirst
page of Stravinsky's "Petrushka" http:
//www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/aad9501/index.htmlPage
from Bernstein's "Mass" http:
//www.leonardbernstein.com/mass_scores.htmPage from Tchaikovsky's
"Symphony 6" http:
//www.leonardbernstein.com/norton_scores.htmCage's "4'33''"
manuscript page and precursor materials: http:
//solomonsmusic.net/4min33se.htm "
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Wetzel (Paperback)
Richard Fleming
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R942
R815
Discovery Miles 8 150
Save R127 (13%)
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Title: The Dictionary of Dublin, being a comprehensive guide to the
city and its neighbourhood ... Illustrated by numerous photographs
taken by the authors.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
HISTORY OF BRITAIN & IRELAND collection includes books from the
British Library digitised by Microsoft. As well as historical
works, this collection includes geographies, travelogues, and
titles covering periods of competition and cooperation among the
people of Great Britain and Ireland. Works also explore the
countries' relations with France, Germany, the Low Countries,
Denmark, and Scandinavia. ++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Cosgrave,
Ephraim Macdowel; Fleming, Leonard Richard; 1895. vi. 288 p.; 8 .
10390.de.9.
The Serpent Told the Truth! But he is called the Devil. And though
LORD God admitted to the truth, he still cursed all mankind plus
GOD's creation. Though he is the evil one, he is worshipped as a
loving God! And his children act out of his evil nature
universally. Dr. Alonzo Fleming Jr. presents a compelling case
against LORD God. He is willing to say what everyone is thinking!
For centuries, man has resisted and quieted the voice inside his
own head that asks the obvious questions: "How could God curse his
own children and creation, then call it love? How could he tell
everyone else to love their enemies, yet he gladly kills his own?
How could he instruct us to bless and not curse, yet he curses? Why
would God set his children up to die, in the first place?" We
challenge the reader to consider what we say in the light of the
world's present condition. Who is controlling the present world? He
that blessed, or he that cursed? Be instructed.
This title applies the concepts of Lean Six Sigma to the service
industry. These concepts were developed in the manufacturing
industry and have not been widely applied in the service space. The
book uses a story telling approach about a cruise line in financial
trouble that achieves turn around with Lean Six Sigma.
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