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The Dog (Hardcover)
Scott Baker Sweeney
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R717
Discovery Miles 7 170
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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"Cheat River Three," is a true life adventure immersed in
circumstantial fiction The adventures in this novel were based on
true stories of my infamous father's wild life, intertwined with
tales of a fictional heroine that rivals him with her own special
free spirited exploits. Their quest for adventure would separate
them and take them independently far away, but tragedy and love
would eventually reunite them and return them home. Cheat River
Three will take the reader on an emotional roller coaster of humor
and excitement as well as pull at their heartstrings.
"if the reader is right with them hearing them speak, readers
will both laugh and cry with this"
"'Cheat River Three', just as with his other stories, Sweeney
knows how to hook a reader and keep them flipping pages and
gobbling up his words Eugene, James and Kat are wonderfully drawn
characters that seemed real and familiar. Their exploits and
stories will have you laughing and crying the whole time. Melissa
Caldwell, Must Read Faster
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This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking in
Renaissance Italy argues that a new concept of the future as
unknown and unknowable emerged in Italian society between the
mid-fifteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries. Exploring the rich
interchanges between mercantile and intellectual cultures
underpinning this development in four major cities - Florence,
Genoa, Venice, and Milan - Nicholas Scott Baker examines how
merchants and gamblers, the futurologists of the pre-modern world,
understood and experienced their own risk taking and that of
others. Drawing on extensive archival research, this study
demonstrates that while the Renaissance did not create the modern
sense of time, it constructed the foundations on which it could
develop. The new conceptions of the past and the future that
developed in the Renaissance provided the pattern for the later
construction a single narrative beginning in classical antiquity
stretching to the now. This book thus makes an important
contribution toward laying bare the historical contingency of a
sense of time that continues to structure our world in profound
ways.
Austin Brook is a typical Indiana farm boy who grew up in the mid
nineteen seventies, handsome, hardworking, and raised with a strong
religious foundation. But Austin was not content with spending the
rest of his life shoveling silage; he aspired to see what more the
world would offer. Never in his wildest dreams could he imagine
what his future had in store. His ticket off the farm came in the
form of an acceptance letter to Notre Dame. Notre Dame was where
Austin befriended and also betrayed the trust of his roommate Tommy
O'Shea. Tommy was also a farm lad, but on a different scale, the
O'Shea's were a wealthy aristocratic family from Ireland. All was
well until Tommy confided in Austin and revealed a secret only
known by a select few families or clans in Europe and parts of the
Christian community in the Middle East. The "secrete" is an
unwritten lore of great biblical significance, revealing a
priceless gift of unbelievable beauty, and mysterious powers.
However you will find out this beauty was not meant to be seen by
all eyes. Little did Tommy know that his trusted secret would end
up in print, get Austin in hot water with the University and end
the boys' friendship. The betrayed roommate would leave his
American counterpart and return to his homeland, little did Tommy
know that the secret lore he shared with Austin would come back to
haunt his Irish family. Austin would go to Ireland a few years
later to find Tommy, not as a friend, but as a United States Navy
Seal; he would be working in conjunction with the C.I.A. and
British intelligence. Apparently, Austin wasn't the only one who
found out about Tommy's Irish lore. According to secret
intelligence one wealthy treasure hunter is willing to fund terror
groups in return for finding and retrieving this priceless bounty.
Worse yet, some intelligence suggest that reward for this treasure
will be paid not in currency or bonds, but something much worse.
The "much worse" part is why the United States and England are
frantically searching as well. So it's a race to find the "Tears of
Mary." Would they be able to find them in time before the bad guys?
Austin has several mysterious encounters with both good and evil
forces, falls in love and in the end saves the day. Or does he?
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This monograph details Gutzkow's recurring use of
performance-within-the-play as a means of encouraging an active,
political response by the audience. He incorporates an internal
audience viewing a performance on stage in order to model an ideal
of dramatic reception for the audiences of his own play. Gutzkow
structures the narrative contextualization of these performances as
reflections of specific issues in the German states of the Vormarz.
Beginning with an overview of theoretical and literary texts from
the 1830s, this study traces Gutzkow's transferral of
self-reflexive structures from his novels of this decade into his
first staged play, Richard Savage (1839), and on through Das Urbild
des Tartuffe (1844) and Uriel Acosta (1845). It concludes by
portraying Der Konigsleutnant (1849) as a transitional work that
shows Gutzkow's decision to return to the novel as a consequence of
the failure of his plays to attain the reception he intended. By
using the coherency of the communicated message instead of fealty
to aesthetic norms as the evaluative criteria for discussing
Gutzkow's plays, the book exposes an innovative mode of
specifically literary social criticism in these works that
complements their traditional assessment as documentation of the
cultural history of Liberalism in this period.
This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking in
Renaissance Italy argues that a new concept of the future as
unknown and unknowable emerged in Italian society between the
mid-fifteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries. Exploring the rich
interchanges between mercantile and intellectual cultures
underpinning this development in four major cities - Florence,
Genoa, Venice, and Milan - Nicholas Scott Baker examines how
merchants and gamblers, the futurologists of the pre-modern world,
understood and experienced their own risk taking and that of
others. Drawing on extensive archival research, this study
demonstrates that while the Renaissance did not create the modern
sense of time, it constructed the foundations on which it could
develop. The new conceptions of the past and the future that
developed in the Renaissance provided the pattern for the later
construction a single narrative beginning in classical antiquity
stretching to the now. This book thus makes an important
contribution toward laying bare the historical contingency of a
sense of time that continues to structure our world in profound
ways.
Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this
important city by exploring the broader global context of the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, within which the experience of
Florence remains unique. By exploring the city's relationship to
its close and distant neighbours, this collection of
interdisciplinary essays reveals the transnational history of
Florence. The chapters orient the lenses of the most recent
historiographical turns perfected in studies on Venice, Rome,
Bologna, Naples, and elsewhere towards Florence. New techniques,
such as digital mapping, alongside new comparisons of architectural
theory and merchants in Eurasia, provide the latest perspectives
about Florence's cultural and political importance before, during,
and after the Renaissance. From Florentine merchants in Egypt and
India, through actual and idealized military ambitions in the
sixteenth-century Mediterranean, to Tuscan humanists in late
medieval England, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume
reveal the connections Florence held to early modern cities across
the globe. This book steers away from the historical narrative of
an insular Renaissance Europe and instead identifies the
significance of other global influences. By using Florence as a
case study to trace these connections, this volume of essays
provides essential reading for students and scholars of early
modern cities and the Renaissance.
Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this
important city by exploring the broader global context of the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, within which the experience of
Florence remains unique. By exploring the city's relationship to
its close and distant neighbours, this collection of
interdisciplinary essays reveals the transnational history of
Florence. The chapters orient the lenses of the most recent
historiographical turns perfected in studies on Venice, Rome,
Bologna, Naples, and elsewhere towards Florence. New techniques,
such as digital mapping, alongside new comparisons of architectural
theory and merchants in Eurasia, provide the latest perspectives
about Florence's cultural and political importance before, during,
and after the Renaissance. From Florentine merchants in Egypt and
India, through actual and idealized military ambitions in the
sixteenth-century Mediterranean, to Tuscan humanists in late
medieval England, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume
reveal the connections Florence held to early modern cities across
the globe. This book steers away from the historical narrative of
an insular Renaissance Europe and instead identifies the
significance of other global influences. By using Florence as a
case study to trace these connections, this volume of essays
provides essential reading for students and scholars of early
modern cities and the Renaissance.
Germans are often accused of failing to take responsibility for
Nazi crimes, but what precisely should ordinary people do
differently? Indeed, scholars have yet to outline viable
alternatives for how any of us should respond to terror and
genocide. And because of the way they compartmentalize everyday
life, our discipline-bound analyses often disguise more than they
illuminate. Written by a historian, literary critic, philosopher,
and theologian, The Happy Burden of History takes an integrative
approach to the problem of responsible selfhood. Exploring the
lives and letters of ordinary and intellectual Germans who faced
the ethical challenges of the Third Reich, it focuses on five
typical tools for cultivating the modern self: myths, lies,
non-conformity, irony, and modeling. The authors carefully dissect
the ways in which ordinary and intellectual Germans excused their
violent claims to mastery with a sense of 'sovereign impunity.'They
then recuperate the same strategies of selfhoodfor our contemporary
world, but in ways that are self-critical and humble. The book
shows how viewing this problem from within everyday life can
empower and encourage usto bear the burden of historical
responsibility - and be happy doing so.
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The Dog (Paperback)
Scott Baker Sweeney
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R415
Discovery Miles 4 150
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Christianity in America has lost its way. The cornerstone of the
faith, Jesus Christ, possesses the virtues of kindness, meekness,
humility, compassion and mercy. Today's national church leadership
seems to stand for pride, prejudice, deception and greed. This
writing stands as an indictment of those who have chosen to
misrepresent the gospel. You pass judgment on others while
practicing even worse things yourselves. You bow to the rich and
powerful and are harsh toward the poor. You preach individual
responsibility like we are all the same. Make no mistake about
this: Most poor people are born into their circumstances and remain
there because of limited opportunities available to them. Most
well-off are born into their opportunistic, privileged
circumstances. We are not all the same. The church has pushed its
political agenda to the point of absurdity. How can it be an
effective force for good when it offers condemnation instead of
hope? Hope rests in the person of Jesus Christ, not in flawed,
man-made, political ideology. America's ability to survive in the
twenty-first century ultimately rests on the church's willingness
to change its present course and pursue spiritual revival.
Hopefully, Christians and non-Christians alike will find nutrition
for the soul in this small book. In the future, demand loving deeds
from the church, not pious words for show.
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