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The March of Folly
Author | : Barbara W. Tuchman |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2011-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780307798565 |
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Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government. Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma’s senseless surrender of his empire in 1520 to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Barbara W. Tuchman defines folly as the pursuit by government of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives. In brilliant detail, Tuchman illuminates four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britain’s George III, and the United States’ own persistent mistakes in Vietnam. Throughout The March of Folly, Tuchman’s incomparable talent for animating the people, places, and events of history is on spectacular display. Praise for The March of Folly “A glittering narrative . . . a moral [book] on the crimes and follies of governments and the misfortunes the governed suffer in consequence.”—The New York Times Book Review “An admirable survey . . . I haven’t read a more relevant book in years.”—John Kenneth Galbraith, The Boston Sunday Globe “A superb chronicle . . . a masterly examination.”—Chicago Sun-Times
Eight Glees
Author | : Robert Cooke |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1805 |
Genre | : Glees, catches, rounds, etc |
ISBN | : BL:A0022696964 |
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The Origin of Sin
Author | : David Konstan |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2022-02-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781350278615 |
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Where did the idea of sin arise from? In this meticulously argued book, David Konstan takes a close look at classical Greek and Roman texts, as well as the Bible and early Judaic and Christian writings, and argues that the fundamental idea of "sin" arose in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, although this original meaning was obscured in later Jewish and Christian interpretations. Through close philological examination of the words for "sin," in particular the Hebrew hata' and the Greek hamartia, he traces their uses over the centuries in four chapters, and concludes that the common modern definition of sin as a violation of divine law indeed has antecedents in classical Greco-Roman conceptions, but acquired a wholly different sense in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament.
Her Blind Folly
Author | : Henry M. Ross |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OSU:32435018315903 |
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Forty Years on the Spiritual Rostrum
Author | : Warren Chase |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Spiritualism |
ISBN | : COLUMBIA:0065902246 |
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Shakespeare s Ideas
Author | : David Bevington |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2009-01-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781444302745 |
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An in-depth exploration, through his plays and poems, of thephilosophy of Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a"great mind". Written by a leading Shakespearean scholar Discusses an array of topics, including sex and gender,politics and political theory, writing and acting, religiouscontroversy and issues of faith, skepticism and misanthropy, andclosure Explores Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a"great mind"
The Contemporary Review
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 988 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Literature |
ISBN | : UOM:39015035897001 |
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Contemporary Review
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 962 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BSB:BSB11602126 |
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