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Why would an inkstone have a poem inscribed on it? Early modern
Chinese writers did not limit themselves to working with brushes
and ink, and their texts were not confined to woodblock-printed
books or the boundaries of the paper page. Poets carved lines of
verse onto cups, ladles, animal horns, seashells, walking sticks,
boxes, fans, daggers, teapots, and musical instruments.
Calligraphers left messages on the implements ordinarily used for
writing on paper. These inscriptions—terse compositions in verse
or epigrammatic prose—relate in complex ways to the objects on
which they are written. Thomas Kelly develops a new account of the
relationship between Chinese literature and material culture by
examining inscribed objects from the late Ming and early to
mid-Qing dynasties. He considers how the literary qualities of
inscriptions interact with the visual and physical properties of
the things that bear them. Kelly argues that inscribing an object
became a means for authors to grapple with the materiality and
technologies of writing. Facing profound social upheavals, from
volatility in the marketplace to the violence of dynastic
transition, writers turned to inscriptions to reflect on their
investments in and dependence on the permanence of the written
word. Shedding new light on cultures of writing in early modern
China, The Inscription of Things broadens understandings of the
links between the literary and the material.
Since the mid 1990s, theoretical and empirical research on how
social capital affects well-being has blossomed in the field of
economic development. Based on noted theoretical and empirical work
in other social sciences, this concept is now becoming a vital new
tool for economists. The chapters in this volume explore the
challenges and opportunities raised by this concept for
researchers, practitioners and teachers. Social Capital and
Economic Development is based upon a consistent, policy-based
vision of how social capital affects well-being in developing
countries. The book includes a comparison of experimental and
empirical evidence on social capital and a range of field-based
evidence, from environmental to cultural to nation-building and on
how investment in social capital can improve well-being. The
contributions are from leading development economists as well as
non-economic social scientists with expertise in this field.
Development academics, practitioners, and environmental economists
will find this coherent volume of great interest, as well as those
involved in public policy in the developing world.
Why would an inkstone have a poem inscribed on it? Early modern
Chinese writers did not limit themselves to working with brushes
and ink, and their texts were not confined to woodblock-printed
books or the boundaries of the paper page. Poets carved lines of
verse onto cups, ladles, animal horns, seashells, walking sticks,
boxes, fans, daggers, teapots, and musical instruments.
Calligraphers left messages on the implements ordinarily used for
writing on paper. These inscriptions—terse compositions in verse
or epigrammatic prose—relate in complex ways to the objects on
which they are written. Thomas Kelly develops a new account of the
relationship between Chinese literature and material culture by
examining inscribed objects from the late Ming and early to
mid-Qing dynasties. He considers how the literary qualities of
inscriptions interact with the visual and physical properties of
the things that bear them. Kelly argues that inscribing an object
became a means for authors to grapple with the materiality and
technologies of writing. Facing profound social upheavals, from
volatility in the marketplace to the violence of dynastic
transition, writers turned to inscriptions to reflect on their
investments in and dependence on the permanence of the written
word. Shedding new light on cultures of writing in early modern
China, The Inscription of Things broadens understandings of the
links between the literary and the material.
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Vatican Cookbook (Hardcover)
Vatican City; David Geisser; Contributions by Edwin Niederberger, Thomas Kelly
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Concentrating mainly on the process philosophy developed by Alfred
North Whitehead, this series of essays brings together some of the
newest developments in the application of process thinking to the
physical and social sciences. These essays, by established scholars
in the field, demonstrate how a wider and deeper understanding of
the world can be obtained using process philosophical concepts, how
the distortions and blockages inevitably inherent in substantivist
talk can be set aside, and how new and fertile lines of research in
the sciences can be opened as a result.
The first comprehensive monograph on Mickalene Thomas, a key figure
in 21st-century contemporary art Over the past two decades,
Mickalene Thomas's critically acclaimed and extensive body of work
has spanned painting, collage, photography, video, and the
immersive installations that have become her signature. With
influences ranging from nineteenth-century painting to popular
culture, Thomas's art articulates a complex and empowering vision
of aspiration and self-image through gender and race while
expanding on and subverting common definitions of beauty,
sexuality, and celebrity. This book, made in close collaboration
with Thomas, is the first to survey the breadth of her
extraordinary career. Publication coincides with the opening of
Mickalene Thomas's first global exhibition, Beyond the Pleasure
Principle, at Levy Gorvy galleries in New York, London, Paris, Hong
Kong, and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris.
Ulrich von Liechtenstein's extraordinary account of his adventures
as a knight-errant is one of the most vivid images of chivalric
life. Ulrich von Liechtenstein's extraordinary account of his
adventures as a knight-errant is one of the most vivid images of
chivalric life to have come down to us. His knightly autobiography
was written in the mid-thirteenth century,and gives an account of
the "journey of Venus" which he undertook in 1226 in honour of his
lady, in which he claimed to have broken 307 spears in jousts
against all comers in the space of a month. Some of it is obviously
quietlyexaggerated, written for his friends' entertainment many
years later, and he is not above a sly dig at the conventions of
courtly love, but he completely accepts its basic ideas. It is full
of lively episodes and good stories, aswell as verses in honour of
his lady; if the tale has been polished up for effect, it is
nonetheless a thoroughly entertaining account of how a knight saw
his ideal career in the jousting field. If the name is unexpectedly
familiar to modern readers, it is because it was borrowed by the
hero of the film A Knight's Tale; Ulrich would have certainly
approved of his exploits. Introduction by KELLY DEVRIES.
This volume presents the first English translation of one of the
most original literary products of the German medieval period. It
is introduced with a sketch of the poet's life, an evaluation of
his work as autobiography and as fiction, and a survey of the
extensive criticism that has been devoted to it. Service of Ladies
has been put into English not only as a significant document of its
time and place, but more especially because it is a piece of
literature which is perhaps as entertaining today as it was seven
centuries ago when Ulrich was reciting it to the laughter and
applause of the knights and ladies of his native Styria.
Since its first publication in 1941, A Testament of Devotion, by the renowned Quaker teacher Thomas Kelly, has been universally embraced as a truly enduring spiritual classic. Plainspoken and deeply inspirational, it gathers together five compelling essays that urge us to center our lives on God's presence, to find quiet and stillness within modern life, and to discover the deeply satisfying and lasting peace of the inner spiritual journey. As relevant today as it was a half-century ago, A Testament of Devotion is the ideal companion to that highest of all human arts-the lifelong conversation between God and his creatures. I have in mind something deeper than the simplification of our external programs, our absurdly crowded calendars of appointments through which so many pantingly and frantically gasp. These do become simplified in holy obedience, and the poise and peace we have been missing can really be found. But there is a deeper, an internal simplification of the whole of one's personality, stilled, tranquil, in childlike trust listening ever to Eternity's whisper, walking with a smile into the dark."
It is 1930, and ground has just been broken for the Empire State
Building. One of the thousands of men who will come to work high
above the city is Michael Briody, an Irish immigrant torn between
his desire to make a new life in America and his pledge to gather
money and arms for the Irish republican cause. When he meets Grace
Masterson, an alluring artist who is depicting the great
skyscraper's rise from her houseboat on the East River, Briody's
life suddenly turns exhilarating--and dangerous--for Grace is also
a paramour of Johnny Farrell, Mayor Jimmy Walker's liaison with
Tammany Hall and the underworld. Thomas Kelly is the author of two
previous novels: "Payback," called "the best story about New York's
labor unions, corrupt contractors and organized crime since "On the
Waterfront"" (S"an Francisco Chronicle"); and "The Rackets,"
described as "an elegy for the city's old Irish working class, and
even for its tangled, unavoidable dealings with the Mafia" ("The
New York Times Book Review"). Kelly, who worked for ten years in
construction, is a graduate of Fordham University and Harvard's
John F. Kennedy School of Government. He lives in New York City. A
"New York Times "Notable Book
A "Chicago"" Tribune "Best Book of the Year
It is 1930, and ground has just been broken for The Empire State
Building, dubbed "the Eighth Wonder of the World." One of the
thousands of men working high above the city is Michael Briody, an
Irish immigrant torn between his desire to make a new life in
America and his pledge to gather money and arms for the Irish
Republican cause. When he meets Grace Masterson, an alluring artist
who is depicting the great skyscraper's rise from her houseboat on
the East River, Briody's life turns exhilarating--and dangerous,
for Grace is also a paramour of Johnny Farrell, Mayor Jimmy
Walker's liaison with Tammany Hall, and the New York underworld.
Their heartbreaking love story--which takes place both in the rough
neighborhoods of the Bronx and amid the swanky nightlife of the
'21' Club--is also a chronicle of the city's passage from a
working-class enclave to a world-class metropolis, and a vivid
reimagining of the conflict that pitted the Tammany Hall political
machine against the boundlessly ambitious Franklin Delano
Roosevelt.
With "Payback" and "The Rackets," Thomas Kelly has shown himself to
be a master of the urban thriller. With "Empire Rising" he takes
his work to a new level. In his telling of the story of the people
who made America's most distinctivecity, New York is brought
exuberantly to life. ""Empire Rising" is an ode to urban grease;
I'll never look at that grand old building the same way again . . .
There is a compelling muscularity to [Kelly's] work--the plots
barrel along, the characters are wildly colorful--and there is a
dead-on authenticity to the dialogue and the atmospherics. There is
also a bracing, and rare, appreciation for the sheer satisfaction
of honest work . . . Kelly is a big-hearted and admirably ambitious
writer. He wants to show the city top to bottom, from Jimmy
Walker's boudoir to the Irish pubs in the South Bronx where the
construction workers drink their paychecks . . . Kelly's city is
palpably alive and passionate, and very recognizably New York,
especially in the vertiginous rush of upward mobility, the fissures
it causes within families, the loyalties strained, the traditions
lost."--Joe Klein, "The New York Times Book Review"
"Kelly mixes his fictional characters with historical ones, and the
dialogue and atmospherics are pitch-perfect."--Ihsan Taylor, "The
New York Times Book Review" "Kelly has obviously done his research.
New York in 1930 shines through the pages with high resolution.
Kelly gives us impressive cameos of Babe Ruth, the photographer
Lewis Hines, and Cab Calloway, as well as Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, whose presidential ambitions drive much of the political
deal-making in the novel . . . The swiftness with which Kelly moves
from the atmosphere of the job site to his cataloging of the
manifold processes conveys the feeling of exhilaration he achieves
throughout the book . . . Through his seemingly effortless use of
research as well as his unpretentious prose style, Kelly reveals
genuine talent."--Peter Campion, "San Francisco Chronicle"
"The plot is filled with murky intrigue and dirty secrets . . .
[Kelly] knows how to tell stories and write muscular
sentences."--"USA"" Today"
"The ferocious struggle for survival has rarely seemed so
entertaining."--Dan Cryer, "Newsday"
"This is an extraordinary novel, teeming with the sweat and risk of
skilled labor, the abstractions of belief, the aching need for
love."--Peter Hamill
""Empire Rising" is, at bottom, a love story, told by one of my
favorite authors: a writer of candor, grace, wit, and skill, who
writes about the New York where the unique spirit of the Irish
hovers over every sidewalk, building, street, and alleyway."--James
McBride, author of "The Color of Water"
""Empire Rising" is a vivid, evocative, enthralling tale of
gangsters, pols, an enduring New York mystery, and hard, joyful
work. This is historical fiction writing at its best."--Kevin
Baker, author of "Paradise Alley"
""Empire Rising" is vivid, vibrant, and raw, a story about beauty
and corruption, idealism and violence, as intricate as New York
City itself."--Lauren Belfer, author of "City of ""Light"" "
"At the heart of this audacious novel is a unique love story
between two 1930s immigrants, both so compellingly drawn that one
almost forgets the scaffolds that hold them together: corruption,
power, greed, art, and desire."--Colum McCann, author of "Dancer"
and "This Side of Brightness"
"Tom Kelly's labors recall those he chronicles in the creation of
New York's signature skyscraper, piling mind over matter and then
matter over mind until we reach striking heights."--Edward Conlon,
author of "Blue Blood"
"An audacious and compelling narrative by a master storyteller:
tough, tender, and beautifully imagined, this intensely American
tale is universal in its scope."--Joseph O'Connor, author of "Star
of the Sea"
"The construction of the Empire State Building in 1930--a display
of 'the great industrial frenzy of America' in a time of Depression
and Prohibition--forms the background for this savage urban
melodrama. Like Kelly's previous fiction, his third novel is a
knowledgeable, vigorously detailed portrayal of big-city political
and fiscal skullduggery and corruption, featuring a generous host
of brawling characters . . . Kelly keeps it all moving, juxtaposing
worksite scenes high above the city, meetings in miscellaneous
smoke-filled rooms, hotel rendezvous between Grace and her married
lover Farrell, and violence on the perilous streets where men
marked by the city's rival Irish, Italian, and Jewish mobs suffer
'justice.' The supporting cast includes such nicely drawn presences
as powerful racketeer Tough Tommy Touhey, crooked Judge Crater
(tucked securely into Touhey's pocket until he undertakes an
ill-advised double-cross), and Briody's firebrand Irish Republican
landlord, Danny Casey, as well as cameo appearances by Babe Ruth, a
sexually frisky FDR, and heavyweight pug Prim
Bias seems to be everywhere. Biased media outlets decisively
influence the political opinions and votes of millions of people.
Discriminatory policies favor some racial groups over others. We
tend to judge ourselves more favorably than our peers, and more
favorably than the evidence warrants. But what is it, exactly, for
a person or thing to be biased? In Bias: A Philosophical Study,
Thomas Kelly explores a number of foundational questions about the
nature of bias and our practices of attributing it. He develops a
general framework for thinking about bias, the norm theoretic
account, and shows how that framework illuminates much that we say
and think about bias in both everyday life and the sciences. He
argues provocatively that both morality and rationality sometimes
require us to be biased; that groups of people can be biased even
if none of their members are; that we are often rationally required
to believe that those who disagree with us are biased, even if we
know absolutely nothing about why they believe as they do or about
their psychologies; and that whether someone counts as biased is
often a relative matter. He defends the possibility of what he
calls 'biased knowing' and argues that the phenomenon has
significant implications for both philosophical methodology and
scepticism. A central aim of the book is to expand the range of
issues that have thus far been considered under the heading 'the
philosophy of bias' by putting new theoretical questions on the
table and proposing bold answers that can serve as starting points
for future inquiry.
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