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In 1989, Steven Moore published the first scholarly study of all
three of William Gaddis's novels and since then it has been
generally regarded as the best book on this difficult but major
writer's work. This revised and expanded edition includes new
chapters on the novels Gaddis published after 1989, the National
Book Award-winning A Frolic of His Own and the posthumous novella
Agape Agape, along with updated introductory and concluding
chapters. This introduction offers a clear discussion of all five
of Gaddis's novels, providing essential biographical information,
two chapters each on his most significant novels, The Recognitions
and J R, and a chapter each devoted to his later three novels. A
concluding chapter locates his place in American literature and
notes his influence on younger writers. Each chapter focuses on the
main themes of each novel and discusses the literary techniques
Gaddis deployed to dramatize those themes. Since Gaddis is an
erudite, allusive novelist, Moore clarifies his references and
explains how they enhance his themes.
This volume provides the reader with an integrated overview of
state-of-the-art research in philosophy and ethics of design in
engineering and architecture. It contains twenty-five essays that
focus on engineering designing in its traditional sense, on
designing in novel engineering domains, including ICT, genetics,
and nanotechnology, designing of socio-technical systems, and on
architectural and environmental designing. Written for Faculty, PhD
and Master's students in philosophy and ethics of technology,
philosophy and ethics of architecture, management of technology,
management of architecture.
The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for
years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern,
spiritualist, and irrational. Yet such a cut and dried picture is
not at all reflective of the principles that guided national policy
from 1931-1945. Challenging the status quo, "Constructing East
Asia" examines how Japanese intellectuals, bureaucrats, and
engineers used technology as a system of power and
mobilization--what historian Aaron Moore terms a "technological
imaginary"--to rally people in Japan and its expanding empire. By
analyzing how these different actors defined technology in public
discourse, national policies, and large-scale infrastructure
projects, Moore reveals wartime elites as far more calculated in
thought and action than previous scholarship allows. Moreover,
Moore positions the wartime origins of technology deployment as an
essential part of the country's national policy and identity,
upending another predominant narrative--namely, that technology did
not play a modernizing role in Japan until the "economic miracle"
of the postwar years.
Exam Board: AQA Level & Subject: A level Sociology First
teaching: September 2015 Next exams: June 2023 AQA approved This
fourth edition of Collins' respected AQA A-level Sociology series
is updated for the 2015 AQA Sociology specifications. Covering the
second year of the A level course, it will help students master the
knowledge and skills they need to excel in their study and engage
with contemporary society. This textbook has been revised by our
team of expert authors, who are practising sociologists, teachers
and HE experts. It includes full coverage of Crime and Deviance
with Theory and Methods; Beliefs in Society; Global Development;
The Media; and Stratification and Differentiation. Tried and tested
content works alongside new features to ensure that students:
Understand essential theories and perspectives with up-to-date
explanations and key concepts defined on the page Engage with the
latest research with in-depth explorations of new and classic
research studies and accompanying questions Develop proficiency in
critical analysis with up-to-date case studies and questions
focused on analysis and evaluation Acquire strong research skills
with practical tasks that actively involve students in the research
process Reflect and evaluate with prompt questions integrated into
the explanation Assess progress and apply learning with extensive
practice questions for every Topic, including both short answer and
extended writing
Former students often thank their music teachers for what they were
taught about music and about life. Play it from the Heart uses
stories and concepts from music education as models for success.
Making music together requires exceptional cooperation, and
ensembles are the ultimate cooperative organizations. J. Steven
Moore relates what he and his students have learned about
excellence, leadership, responsibility, cooperation, and passion
from being in the band. Calling on personal experience, student
feedback, and resources ranging from Tim Lautzenheiser to Mahatma
Gandhi, Moore shares the lessons of playing from the heart.
President Obama has declared that the standard by which all
policies and policy outcomes are judged is fairness. He declared in
2011 that we've sought to ensure that every citizen can count on
some basic measure of security. We do this because we recognize
that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us, at
any moment, might face hard times, might face bad luck, might face
a crippling illness or a layoff. And that, he says, is why we have
a social safety net. He says that returning to a standard of
fairness where anyone can get ahead through hard work is the issue
of our time. And perhaps it is.
This book explores what it means for our economic system and our
economic results to be fair. Does it mean that everyone has a fair
shot? Does it mean that everyone gets the same amount? Does it mean
the government can assert the authority to forcibly take from the
successful and give to the poor? Is government supposed to be Robin
Hood determining who gets what? Or should the market decide that?
The surprising answer: nations with free market systems that allow
people to get ahead based on their own merit and achievement are
the fairest of them all.
This reference traces in fascinating detail the exceptionally long
career of Helen Hayes, the "First Lady of the American Theatre." In
addition to a biography of the actress, which charts the
development of her unique talent and the successes and tragedies of
her personal life, the book supplies a chronology which provides
quick access to the major events which shaped both her character
and her career. In sections devoted individually to Stage, Film,
Television, and Radio, the actress' work in each of these media is
charted. Cast lists, plot synopses, reviews, and commentary bring
vivid immediacy to these records. Additional material in the
Appendices provides information on her aural/video recordings as
well as her stunning list of Awards and Honors. Included is the
program from a gala salute to her 50th Anniversary on the stage. A
detailed index concludes the work.
The relationship between Ireland and the diversity of its diasporas
has always been complex and multi-layered, but it is not until
recently that this reality has really been acknowledged in the
public sphere and indeed, amongst the scholarly community
generally. This reality is partly a consequence of both
"push-and-pull" factors and the relatively late arrival of
globalization trends to the island of Ireland itself, situated as
it is on the Atlantic seaboard between Europe and the US. Ireland
is changing however, some would say at an unprecedented speed as
compared with many of its neighbours, and the sense of Irish
identity and connection to the home country is changing too. What
is the relationship of Ireland and the Irish with its diaspora
communities and how is this articulated? The voices who speak in
New Perspectives on the Irish Abroad: The Silent People?, edited by
Micheal O hAodha and Mairtin O Cathain, "talk back" to Ireland and
Ireland talks to them, and it is in telling that we see a new
story, an emerging discourse-the narratives of the "hidden" Irish,
the migrant Irish, the diaspora whose voices and refrains were
hitherto neglected or subject to silence.
Exam Board: AQA Level & Subject: AS Sociology First teaching:
September 2015 Next exams: June 2023 AQA approved This fourth
edition of Collins’ respected AQA A-level Sociology series is
updated for the 2015 AQA Sociology specifications. Covering AS and
Year 1 of A-level, it will help students master the knowledge and
skills they need to excel in their study and engage with
contemporary society. This textbook has been revised by our team of
expert authors, who are practising sociologists, teachers and HE
experts. It includes full coverage of Education with Methods in
Context; Culture and Identity; Families and Households; Health; and
Work, Poverty and Welfare. Tried and tested content works alongside
new features to ensure that students: understand essential theories
and perspectives with up-to-date explanations and key concepts
defined on the page engage with the latest research with in-depth
explorations of new and classic research studies and accompanying
questions develop proficiency in critical analysis with up-to-date
case studies and questions focused on analysis and evaluation
acquire strong research skills with practical tasks that actively
involve students in the research process reflect and evaluate with
prompt questions integrated into the explanation assess progress
and apply learning with extensive practice questions for every
Topic, including both short answer and extended writing.
Former students often thank their music teachers for what they were
taught about music and about life. Play it from the Heart uses
stories and concepts from music education as models for success.
Making music together requires exceptional cooperation, and
ensembles are the ultimate cooperative organizations. J. Steven
Moore relates what he and his students have learned about
excellence, leadership, responsibility, cooperation, and passion
from being in the band. Calling on personal experience, student
feedback, and resources ranging from Tim Lautzenheiser to Mahatma
Gandhi, Moore shares the lessons of playing from the heart.
The composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian sub-culture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafés-concerts. These colourful milieux decisively shaped his aesthetic priorities and compositional strategies, from the esoteric Gymnopédies of the 1880s to the avant-garde ballets of the 1920s. This radical transvaluation of received artistic values makes far better sense once placed in this fascinating context.
Do immigrants 'help' or 'hurt' the U.S. economically? Will large
numbers of immigrants enhance our economic well-being or will they
take jobs from American workers and lower our standard of living?
Briggs warns that, unlike earlier times, immigrants arriving today
are having an adverse effect on our economy: Industrial and
occupational patterns have changed dramatically from what they were
earlier in this century. Moore argues that immigrants have always
been, and will continue to be, good for the U.S. economy.
Rogrig Wishard is a killer, a liar and a thief. Rogrig is the last
person the fey would turn to for help. But they know something he
doesn't. In a world without government or law, where a man's
loyalty is to his family and faerie tales are strictly for
children, Rogrig is not happy to discover that he's carrying faerie
blood. Especially when he starts to see them wherever he goes. To
get his life back, he's going to have to journey further from home
than he's ever been before and find out what the fey could possibly
want from him. But that's easier said than done when the punishment
for abandoning your family is death.
In this strikingly original work, Stephen Moore considers God's
male bodies--the body of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible, and the Father
of Jesus Christ, and Jesus himself in the New Testament--and our
obsessive earthly quest for a perfect human form. God's Gym is
about divinity, physical pain, and the visions of male
perfectability.
Weaving together his obsession with human anatomy and dissection,
an interest in the technologies of torture, the cult of physical
culture, and an expert knowledge of biblical criticism, Moore
explains the male narcissism at the heart of the biblical God.
God's Gym is an intensely personal book, brimming with our
culture's phobias and fascinations about male perfectability.
At 7.30am on 1st July 1916, some 60,000 men climbed out of their
trenches and walked across No-Man's-Land and into the history
books. The Battle of the Somme, which was to rage for another four
and a half months, would ultimately involve every Irish battalion
on the Western Front. For some, such as the 36th (Ulster) Division
which sustained some 5,000 casualties in just 24 hours, the
slaughter left them so weakened that they had to be withdrawn. For
others their participation went on for weeks until attrition wore
them down. Today the Somme is at peace, though the First World War
hasn't been forgotten. Dotted across its tranquil landscape are
memorials to the Irish dead, many of whom lie in the cemeteries
clustered around the old front lines. Re-issued to commemorate the
100th anniversary, Steven Moore's 'The Irish on the Somme' puts the
contribution of the men of Ireland, north and south, unionist and
nationalist, into context. It takes the reader through the
conflict, from the declaration of war in August 1914, to the Second
Battle of the Somme and the final push to victory, then on to the
monuments and cemeteries, the tangible proof of Ireland's part in
the war to end all wars. This is an invaluable guide for the
armchair enthusiast and those visiting the battlefields.
In 1989, Steven Moore published the first scholarly study of all
three of William Gaddis's novels and since then it has been
generally regarded as the best book on this difficult but major
writer's work. This revised and expanded edition includes new
chapters on the novels Gaddis published after 1989, the National
Book Award-winning A Frolic of His Own and the posthumous novella
Agape Agape, along with updated introductory and concluding
chapters. This introduction offers a clear discussion of all five
of Gaddis's novels, providing essential biographical information,
two chapters each on his most significant novels, The Recognitions
and J R, and a chapter each devoted to his later three novels. A
concluding chapter locates his place in American literature and
notes his influence on younger writers. Each chapter focuses on the
main themes of each novel and discusses the literary techniques
Gaddis deployed to dramatize those themes. Since Gaddis is an
erudite, allusive novelist, Moore clarifies his references and
explains how they enhance his themes.
Winner of the 2014 Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary
scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the
world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian
Steven Moore explores in this sequel the remarkable flowering of
the novel between the years 1600 and 1800-from Don Quixote to
America's first big novel, an homage to Cervantes entitled Modern
Chivalry. This is the period of such classic novels as Tom Jones,
Candide, and Dangerous Liaisons, but beyond the dozen or so
recognized classics there are hundreds of other interesting novels
that appeared then, known only to specialists: Spanish picaresques,
French heroic romances, massive Chinese novels, Japanese graphic
novels, eccentric English novels, and the earliest American novels.
These minor novels are not only worthy of attention in their own
right, but also provide the context needed to appreciate why the
major novels were major breakthroughs. The novel experienced an
explosive growth spurt during these centuries as novelists
experimented with different forms and genres: epistolary novels,
romances, Gothic thrillers, novels in verse, parodies, science
fiction, episodic road trips, and family sagas, along with quirky,
unclassifiable experiments in fiction that resemble contemporary,
avant-garde works. As in his previous volume, Moore privileges the
innovators and outriders, those who kept the novel novel. This
sequel, like its predecessor, is a "zestfully encyclopedic, avidly
opinionated, and dazzlingly fresh history of the most 'elastic' of
literary forms" (Booklist).
Now available in paperback with a new updated chapter, this timely
book by three distinguished economists delivers an urgent message:
Americans risk losing their high standard of living if the
pro-growth policies of the last twenty-five years are reversed by a
new president.
Since the early 1980s, the United States has experienced a wave of
prosperity almost unprecedented in history in terms of wealth
creation, new jobs, and improved living standards for all. Under
the leadership of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton,
Americans changed the incentive structure on taxes, inflation, and
regulation, and as a result the economy roared back to life after
the anti-growth, high-inflation 1970s. Now, America is moving away
from these growth policies and putting its prosperity at risk.
Laffer, Moore, and Tanous provide the factual information every
American needs in order to understand exactly how we achieved the
prosperity many people have come to take for granted, and explain
how the policies of Democrats Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and
Nancy Pelosi can cause America to lose its status as the world
growth and job creation machine. This book is essential reading for
all Americans who value our nation's free enterprise system and
want to know how to protect their own investments in the coming
storm.
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