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Cleopatra s Nose
Author | : Judith Thurman |
Publsiher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2008-10-28 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781429923002 |
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Cleopatra's Nose is an exuberant gathering of essays and profiles representing twenty years of Judith Thurman's celebrated writing, particularly her fascination with human vanity, femininity, and "women's work"—from haute couture to literature to commanding empires. The subjects are iconic (Jackie, the Brontës, Toni Morrison, Anne Frank) and multifarious (tofu and performance art, pornography and platform shoes, kimonos and bulimia); all inspire dazzling displays of craft, wit, penetration, and intelligence. Here we find explorations of voracity: hunger for sex, food, experience, and transcendence; see how writers from Flaubert to Nadine Gordimer have engaged with history; meet eminent Victorians and the greats of fashion. Whether reporting on hairstyles, strolling the halls of power, or deftly unpacking novels and their writers, Thurman never fails to provoke, inspire, captivate, and enlighten. Cleopatra's Nose is an embarrassment of riches from one of our great literary journalists.
Cleopatra s Nose
Author | : Daniel J. Boorstin |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780307756527 |
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Discoverers demonstrates the truth behind the aphorism that if Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the face of the world would have been changed. Boorstin goes on to uncover the elements of accident, improvisation and contradiction at the core of American institutions and beliefs.
Cleopatra
Author | : Joyce Tyldesley |
Publsiher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2011-05-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781847650443 |
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She was the last ruler of the Macedonian dynasty of Ptolemies who had ruled Egypt for three centuries. Highly educated (she was the only one of the Ptolemies to read and speak ancient Egyptian as well as the court Greek) and very clever (her famous liaisons with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony were as much to do with politics as the heart), she steered her kingdom through impossibly taxing internal problems and railed against greedy Roman imperialism. Stripping away preconceptions as old as her Roman enemies, Joyce Tyldesley uses all her skills as an Egyptologist to give us this magnificent biography.
Cleopatra s Nose
Author | : Daniel Joseph Boorstin |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : LCCN:96125590 |
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Cleopatra s Nose the Twinkie Defense 1500 Other Verbal Shortcuts in Popular Parlance
Author | : Jerome Agel,Walter D. Glanze |
Publsiher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105026091004 |
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Selected Essays of J B Bury
Author | : John Bagnell Bury |
Publsiher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Byzantine Empire |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics
Author | : Philip E. Tetlock,Aaron Belkin |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1996-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691027919 |
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Political scientists often ask themselves what might have been if history had unfolded differently: if Stalin had been ousted as General Party Secretary or if the United States had not dropped the bomb on Japan. Although scholars sometimes scoff at applying hypothetical reasoning to world politics, the contributors to this volume--including James Fearon, Richard Lebow, Margaret Levi, Bruce Russett, and Barry Weingast--find such counterfactual conjectures not only useful, but necessary for drawing causal inferences from historical data. Given the importance of counterfactuals, it is perhaps surprising that we lack standards for evaluating them. To fill this gap, Philip Tetlock and Aaron Belkin propose a set of criteria for distinguishing plausible from implausible counterfactual conjectures across a wide range of applications. The contributors to this volume make use of these and other criteria to evaluate counterfactuals that emerge in diverse methodological contexts including comparative case studies, game theory, and statistical analysis. Taken together, these essays go a long way toward establishing a more nuanced and rigorous framework for assessing counterfactual arguments about world politics in particular and about the social sciences more broadly.
Transforming Leadership
Author | : James MacGregor Burns |
Publsiher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0802141188 |
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The award-winning historian critically examines the role of leadership in the twenty-first century, outlining a program through which leaders can become agents of positive social change.