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Bruce H. “Doc” Norton

Voices From Vietnam

$22.95

Voices From Vietnam began as a stage play but, due to the overwhelming number of contributors, is now published in this companion book. Both the play and the book are a collaborative effort between Major Bruce H. “Doc” Norton, USMC (Ret), a decorated Vietnam War veteran, author, and former oral historian for the Marine Corps, and Dr. Harry Kantrovich, a retired Chief of Naval Operations Command Master Chief, playwright, and award-winning director. From the front lines of battle to the school rooms and living rooms of our hometowns, Voices From Vietnam is a collection of letters, vignettes, reflections, and memories from Vietnam Veterans, former prisoners of war, families of servicemen who were missing in action, and the home front based upon interviews conducted by the authors.

Mark Dennis

Voices of Freedom

$99.95

Voices of Freedom: Asia showcases essays from activists, journalists, novelists, and scholars whose areas of expertise include free speech, peace and reconciliation, alterity-otherness, and Asian religions and literatures. Co-edited by Texas Christian University colleagues Rima Abunasser and Mark Dennis, the volume is meant to serve as a vehicle for giving dignity and depth to the peoples of this region by celebrating courageous voices of freedom trying to respond to fundamental, often devastating, changes on the ground, including the increasingly brutal application of Chinese power against ethnic minorities in Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia, the persecution of the Rohingya Muslims by the government of Myanmar and radical Buddhist monks, and the rise of Hindu nationalism in India. Voices of Freedom is aimed at college classes that address the many ways in which freedom intersects with politics, religion, and other elements in the societies in this dynamic and highly diverse region. It will serve as a valuable primary source for college teachers interested in exploring with their students the struggle for freedom in non-Western and transnational cultural contexts. The volume is also meant to attract other audiences, including readers from the general public interested in learning about inspirational people from parts of the world about which Americans and other English-speaking peoples are generally unfamiliar.

Mark Dennis

Voices of Freedom

$99.95

Voices of Freedom: The Middle East and North Africa showcases essays from activists, journalists, novelists, and scholars whose areas of expertise include free speech, peace and reconciliation, alterity-otherness, and Middle Eastern and North African religions and literatures. Co-edited by TCU colleagues Rima Abunasser and Mark Dennis, the volume is meant to serve as a vehicle for giving dignity and depth to the peoples of these regions by celebrating courageous voices of freedom trying to respond to fundamental, often devastating, changes on the ground, including the Arab Spring, the Syrian refugee crisis, and the rise of the Islamic State. Writing in both the first- and third-person, essayists offer deeply moving portraits of voices that cry out for freedom in chaotic, and often violent, circumstances. Voices of Freedom is aimed at college classes that address the many ways in which freedom intersects with politics, religion, and other elements in the societies of these dynamic and diverse regions. It will serve as a valuable primary source for college teachers interested in exploring with their students the struggle for freedom in non-Western and transnational cultural contexts. The volume is also meant to attract other audiences, including readers from the general public interested in learning about inspirational people from parts of the world about which Americans and other English-speaking peoples are generally unfamiliar.

Walter Dean Burnham

Voting in American Elections

$44.95

Walter Dean Burnham is widely regarded as the greatest living student of American voting behavior. He pioneered the collection and publication of historical American election statistics and his many essays and books on them are read around the world. His compilation of voting statistics for the famous 1975 Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 was a landmark in the field. It presented the first reasonably complete data series on voting turnout in presidential elections, as well as the partisan split and other details of other, mostly federal, elections. But it was by no means complete, even for national elections. Returns from many areas, especially in the South and for much of the U.S. before 1824, were not included. Nor was there reliable turnout data for elections below the presidential level. Now, at last, his new work fills the gigantic holes at the heart of American history. Based on his own research into many local archives across the United States as well as state censuses from the 19th century, Burnham presents a complete series of presidential voting returns by state, together with state level data for governors and Congressional representatives. The series includes not only partisan splits, but turnouts, which makes this the first complete record of voting turnout in US federal elections ever published. Burnham also presents his estimates of the voting population for each state, which scholars have long awaited. He also includes a number of other series of great interest, including results for primaries in the South after the Civil War. These were the "real" election, but the data have been unavailable until now. “This is a reference essential work in American politics and history. I hope that public libraries as well as research libraries add this title to their collections. My hat is off to everyone involved with publication. The Kearns, Beschlosses ,Schlesingers and Meachams of this world all owe Burnham an immense debt of gratitude.” Professor Paul du Quenoy,AUB

Paul du Quenoy

Wagner and the French Muse

$79.95

This research monograph studies and reinterprets the works and ideas of Richard Wagner that have had such a profound influence on the artistic and intellectual life of France. His Romanticism influenced the French symbolists so greatly that they named their major journal La Revue Wagnerians. His musical themes, dramatic structures and philosophical tropes recurred in the works of almost every major French composer before World war One. Massenet was so devoted that he earned the sobriquet "Madamoiselle Wagner". Proust employed Wagnerian concepts and allusions in his modernist fiction and publicly defended Wagner's artistic achievements against the general assault on German kultur during the 1914-1918 war. Wagner remained important during the interwar years as well as the occupation 1940-1944 and after the Liberation. Du Quenoy interprets the phenomenon of France's infatuation with Wagner and discusses why Wagner's influence has been misunderstood and understudied. The author points to the effects of competition, war and political recrimination on the French psyche. In the face of such bitter struggle who would expect a German cultural icon to have played such an important and consistent role in French life? The author points to the strength and uniqueness of Wagner's creativity and his spiritual universalism as the answer. The author also discusses Wagnerism and Wagnerites in France’s literary, musical and political culture.

Paul Brian Heise

Wagner’s Mature Music-Dramas (Tristan and Isolde, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, and Parsifal) in Light of Their Allegorical Relationship to The Ring of the Nibelung

$99.95

Scholars devoted to analysis of Richard Wagner’s operas and music-dramas have long noted his numerous comparisons between their characters and plots in his letters, essays, and recorded remarks. Yet no one has previously attempted to assess their implications for our systematic understanding of his art. Following Heise’s allegorical interpretation of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, The Wound That Will Never Heal (Academica Press, 2021), this second installment of the author’s lifelong Wagner project will examine Wagner’s mature music-dramas Tristan and Isolde, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, and Parsifal in light of their relationship to the Ring as understood through Heise’s allegorical interpretation. It will demonstrate how Wagner’s Ring is a master-myth which can make sense of these other mature music-dramas as never before.

Wagner’s Mature Music-Dramas (Tristan and Isolde, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, and Parsifal) in Light of Their Allegorical Relationship to The Ring of the Nibelung

Stephanie Polsky

Walter Benjamin’s Transit

$79.95

Walter Benjamin’s Transit is a work in two halves. The first, part 1, entitled “Mapping Desire: Towards a Minor Fascism” applies the lens of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s philosophy to the critical writings of to the critical writings of Walter Benjamin, the latter devised amid an atmosphere of emergent fascism in Europe between two World Wars. This book represents something radically different from other critical approaches to Walter Benjamin’s body of work. It is an attempt to act with Benjamin to devise a new set of philosophical and political coordinates viable for a current rethinking of fascism. This work is critically situated at the margins of Benjamin’s philosophy in its attempt to extend the parameters of thinking that Benjamin left for us. Throughout this volume, the critical work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari will lend crucial insight into Benjamin’s analysis of fascism, based on their pivotal understanding of it, which considers not only historical fascism of Hitler and Mussolini, but also the fascism that is part of our everyday behaviour, causing us to gravitate towards the very same powers that dominate and exploit us. The reality of that fascism, even its historical guise, connotes an invisible, perpetual war that cannot be definitively lost nor won, but rather must be engaged as an ethical combat within oneself on a plane where politics equates itself with everyday life. This insight has particular resonance given that Benjamin, a German Jew, was himself under constant threat of historical erasure during the course of his lifetime. Benjamin’s circumstance makes his very person the embodiment of a certain constellation of fascist forces. It is from within that constellation of forces that the true problem of how to locate fascism becomes proximate to a life, on this occasion Walter Benjamin’s life and body in particular. A life, moreover, that sought not to be non-fascist per se, but rather to become fascism’s greatest ethical observer, so as to raise alarm bells within its most extravagant perpetrator, the average citizen. Benjamin was dedicated to a methodology that sought to demonstrate and not to judge the terms on which history rests. The task of this volume is to transport the reader over the difficult terrain of these terms to locations of particular behest to Benjamin’s view of fascism, so as to better evaluate contemporary critical debates about fascism.

Dr. Arthur Murchison

War Before Science

$79.95

A soldier before becoming one of the great scientists of the 19th century, Roderick Murchison's journals and letters of his wartime experiences have never been properly edited and published before as a single collection. They will add our knowledge of the British Army and Royal Navy attempts to keep Napoleon at bay in Spain and in Italy and to the final victory at Waterloo as ell as providing a fascinating social history of the times. "...this material is of great importance to scholars and students of the Napoleonic Era. Highly recommended for research libraries and personal collections." Professor Michael Collie, late University of Toronto Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (19th February, 1792 – 22nd, October, 1871), K. C. B., D. C. L., LL. D., F. R. S, F. G. L., etc., was one of the founders of modern geology. Using discernible fossil communities he established the Silurian, Permian, and, with Adam Sedgwick, the Devonian stratigraphic systems of geology. He extended his fieldwork to Europe and the Russian Empire and thus demonstrated the universality of the fossil-based stratigraphic systems that he had delineated in Britain. He gained fame by predicting gold in Australia, based on his findings in Russia where his coal discoveries ( made at the behest of the Czar) helped spur Russian railway development. Roderick Impey Murchison was twice president of the Geological Society of London (1832 – 1833 and 1841 – 1843), and was President of the Royal Geographical Society four times (1843 – 1845, 1851 – 1853, 1856 –1859 and 1862 – 1871). He also served one term as President of the British Association (1846) and became the Director General of the British Geological Survey (1855). He was awarded the Wollaston Medal of the London Geological Society (1864), the Copley Medal from the Royal Society (1849) and the Brisbane Medal from the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Sir Roderick established the Murchison Medal and fund, which is awarded each year by the Geological Society of London and the position of Chair of Geology and Mineralogy at the University of Edinburgh. Sir Roderick was also a member of the scientific academies of France, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and Belgium among others. His leadership in geography was honoured by having numerous geographical places on earth named ‘Murchison.' There is even a crater on the moon named Murchison to acknowledge his pioneering accomplishments in geology. However, before he was a famous geologist, geographer and 19th century British and European scientific leader, Roderick Murchison had a very different dream; he grew up wanting to be a career army officer, and desired to eventually attain the rank of General of the British Army. He spent the 10 years between ages 13 and 23 in uniformed pursuit of that goal. The Murchison Diaries covering the Napoleonic Wars have been edited by his descendant Dr. Arthur Murchison . The diaries begin with Ensign Murchison carrying his regiment’s (36th Regiment of Foot) Colours into the bloody gun smoked chaos of a Spanish battlefield, French cannon and musket balls striking soldiers near him. Lieutenant Murchison survived the horrible retreat to Corunna and a frightening stormy sea voyage back to Britain. He served as a general’s aide de camp in politically corrupt Bourbon Sicily during months of a booming artillery battle across the Messina Straits while he copied dispatches, studied opera music, watched a double hanging and made love. After a narrow escape from ‘Algerine’ pirates he returned to Britain and Northern Ireland were he was again his general‘s aide-de-camp. After Emperor Napoleon’s first abdication in 1814 Captain Murchison visited France and found himself fleeing from Napoleon and his gathering army. Wanting to get back on the promotion generating battlefield, he became a cavalry officer but was disappointed because he did not see the final battle at Waterloo.

Shubh Mathur

Wars Without a Name

$139.95

Indian counterinsurgency has expanded steadily over the years, adding a new region in each decade since the 1950s. Beginning with Nagaland, these wars without a name have followed a remarkably consistent pattern throughout the Northeast, in Punjab, Kashmir, and the central Indian Tribal Belt up to the present day. Such shared features as blanket repression, intensive military mobilization, large scale violence against civilians, and the de jure and de facto impunity given to military and police forces provide an important corrective to facile descriptions of India as the “world’s largest democracy.” Received wisdom in Indian politics has long held that a strong, centralized government is needed to manage and control the wealth of diversity and pluralism that characterizes the subcontinent. In practice, the imbalance created by a powerful center and the absence of regional autonomy has produced a pattern of cumulative and escalating ethnic and regional conflict. This pattern is characteristic of the post-independence state in India, and indeed in all of South Asia. It might be seen as the outcome of the superimposition of a strong centralized power structure and extractive economy on a terrain of ethnic and religious difference. Read as a whole, these conflicts provide a portrait of the relationship between Indian state and society on the one hand and ethnic and religious minorities on the other.

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Celia Wallhead

Washington Irving and Spain

$79.95

This research monograph breaks new ground in discussing (in English) the impact of Washington Irving’s presence in Spain and the effect of his writings on Spanish topics by Spain’s critics and general readership. Spanish critics, scholars and translators were and are active in assessing Irving’s literary style, scholarly grasp and cultural influence. This work seeks to examine Irving’s influence and his “discovery” of Islamic Al-Andalus (Irving was the first American to seriously study Mahomet (Muhammad),the Koran and write about his findings). Wallhead locates Irving’s literary and historical researches in the troubled, chaotic post-Napoleonic Spain of Ferdinand V11 and discusses the earliest Iberian reaction to Irving’s books. Professor Wallhead’s study includes four parts: 1.The legacy of Irving in today’s Spain: the bibliography, the cultural extension, the “Washington Irving” industry, tourist and travel literature. 2.Influences and sources: early-mid 19c Spain...Andalusia, Seville and the roots of the southern “romance”. 3.His Spanish writings. Fiction (Tales of the Alhambra), Documentary and biographical studies: The Conquest of Granada, Mahomet, and Christopher Columbus. 4.Conclusions.

Sid Lukkassen

What the World Can Learn from the Fall of the West

$79.95

What the World Can Learn from the Fall of the West is a dramatic title for a profound unease that has been festering for some time. In the Age of Brexit, Trump, and the surge of international populism, the West has been plagued by questions relating to identity, multiculturalism, social mobility, and the influence of Big Tech and social media on representative democracy. With a growing divide between “winners” of globalization and the “losers,” a question unfolds: Are the days of the West numbered? In this scholarly study, Dr. Sid Lukkassen, a notable Dutch scholar and politician, describes how the West masochistically mistreats itself by weakening national democracies and replacing its own culture and values with cultural Marxism. The rest of the world beholds this Western self-mutilation in shock and wonder – will China and Islam be the beneficiaries on the world stage?

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Harry Ward

When Fate Summons

$57.57

This monograph is the first new study of a pivotal character in colonial, revolutionary and federal relations with the Amerindian tribes of western Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and the old Northwest. Butler, an Irish born merchant ,trader and soldier on the uneasy borderlands of European settlement and tribal territory, made his way to influence via a keen linguistic ability, strong sympathies for native peoples (prior to the revolution) and an instinctual military ability that brought him a colonel-ship in the Revolution and a major generalship in the tiny new federal army that confronted renewed hostilities during the Confederation and Federal period. Professor Ward skilfully tells Butler's story and summons current research that investigates the beginning of ''surrender and re-grant'' politics towards tribal leaders and attempts to destroy patriot forces and chiefs(such as Tecumseh) by leaders of the early republic. Ward's research includes the major Indian treaties undertaken by the US Government up to 1792 and these are included in the volume. Ward also discusses land politics when it comes to American settlement and the efforts made to create a successful Indian commission under Washington's first administration. Finally, Ward discusses Butler's death in battle along with the defeat of St.Clair's expedition and the rise of ''Mad'' Anthony Wayne and a policy of extermination to all resisters.

Harry Ward

When Fate Summons

$34.82

This monograph is the first new study of a pivotal character in colonial, revolutionary and federal relations with the Amerindian tribes of western Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and the old Northwest. Butler, an Irish born merchant ,trader and soldier on the uneasy borderlands of European settlement and tribal territory, made his way to influence via a keen linguistic ability, strong sympathies for native peoples (prior to the revolution) and an instinctual military ability that brought him a colonel-ship in the Revolution and a major generalship in the tiny new federal army that confronted renewed hostilities during the Confederation and Federal period. Professor Ward skilfully tells Butler's story and summons current research that investigates the beginning of ''surrender and re-grant'' politics towards tribal leaders and attempts to destroy patriot forces and chiefs(such as Tecumseh) by leaders of the early republic. Ward's research includes the major Indian treaties undertaken by the US Government up to 1792 and these are included in the volume. Ward also discusses land politics when it comes to American settlement and the efforts made to create a successful Indian commission under Washington's first administration. Finally, Ward discusses Butler's death in battle along with the defeat of St.Clair's expedition and the rise of ''Mad'' Anthony Wayne and a policy of extermination to all resisters.

Elizabeth Sharkey

Why Britain Rocked

$35.00

Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World challenges the origins of ‘Beatlemania’ by travelling deep into Britain’s history to trace the events that led to Britain’s twentieth century musical explosion. With rigorous in-depth research, new discoveries and original insights Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World completely reframes the history of British pop music and argues that The Beatles’ arrival that so surprised the world really shouldn’t have been a surprise at all.

The story goes that by copying blues and rock and roll Britain suddenly started making spectacularly great music out of nowhere, like some clever, quick-learning cultural satellite of America. But Britain’s music revolution didn’t happen from a standing start. Far from it. For something so dazzling and multifaceted the reasons for its sudden appearance lie deeper than those legendary deliveries of blues records into Liverpool’s port and the legacy of music hall. From the Celts and the Quakers, to Ira Aldridge, Paul Robeson and the enduring power of British balladry, Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World breaks out of pop history’s twentieth century confines and uncovers events that encouraged it to be, in all its glorious, crazy, luminous, joyous, profound, melancholic, ferocious, anarchic, witty, smart and wonderful ways.

Elizabeth Sharkey

Why Britain Rocked

$25.00

Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World challenges the origins of ‘Beatlemania’ by travelling deep into Britain’s history to trace the events that led to Britain’s twentieth century musical explosion. With rigorous in-depth research, new discoveries and original insights Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World completely reframes the history of British pop music and argues that The Beatles’ arrival that so surprised the world really shouldn’t have been a surprise at all.

The story goes that by copying blues and rock and roll Britain suddenly started making spectacularly great music out of nowhere, like some clever, quick-learning cultural satellite of America. But Britain’s music revolution didn’t happen from a standing start. Far from it. For something so dazzling and multifaceted the reasons for its sudden appearance lie deeper than those legendary deliveries of blues records into Liverpool’s port and the legacy of music hall. From the Celts and the Quakers, to Ira Aldridge, Paul Robeson and the enduring power of British balladry, Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World breaks out of pop history’s twentieth century confines and uncovers events that encouraged it to be, in all its glorious, crazy, luminous, joyous, profound, melancholic, ferocious, anarchic, witty, smart and wonderful ways.

James B. Whisker

Why Japan Lost World War II

$139.95

When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and other Western positions in the Asia-Pacific World in December 1941, it was unprepared to go to war with the United States and the Western Democracies generally and even realized it could not win. Its navy and air force were impressive, and its army could battle impressively against China, but Japanese small arms were terrible. Japan’s tanks could not compete with their opposite numbers. The Empire’s logistical base was undeveloped for modern warfare. While the Allies could produce large numbers of trained pilots, Japan produced very few. When its elite airmen were lost at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, Japan could not replace them. At sea, Japan built battleships when it needed more aircraft carriers. The Japanese military never even attempted to win World War II by a simple and direct plan. Its planners consistently assumed that the enemy would do precisely what they assumed and countenanced no alternative analyses of facts.

S. Lee Funk

Why Rampage Killers Emerge

$99.95

Until now, the influential agents in rampage killings have been described with unsatisfactory generalizations or chalked up to unconscious impulses. Instead of simply attributing lethal decision-making to distorted thinking, Why Rampage Killers Emerge proffers a conceptual tableau to explain the genesis of the mentality that engages in sudden acts of mass violence. As an experienced educator, Dr. Funk applies a multi-disciplinary perspective with case study methods and statistical tools to define the external circumstances and excavate the internalized misconceptions necessary for the formation of a rampageous mindset. Given the breadth of the construct and the anecdotal patterns supporting its categorization, there should be little doubt that an autogenic assailant will conform to the descriptive model diligently surveyed in this text. While by no means excusing the perpetrators of unprovoked mass attacks, this study does offer an explanation for the origins of the foreboding thought processes at work and contains valuable diagnostic implications. As such, it will be useful to mental professionals, school administrators, law enforcement professionals, business managers, and the public at large in the prevention of repeated acts of deadly spectacle. Dr. Funk’s premises are studiously supported by rigorous scholarship and engagingly written to attract attentive readers.

Emerson Thomas McMullen

William Harvey’s De Motu Cordis

$74.95

This work is an historical discussion and new translation of one of the key works of medicine of the English renaissance. The only two available translations are between one and three and a half centuries old. Because so many errors have crept into translations of Harvey’s seminal work a new edition has been called for and a new translation as well. McMullen’s work on this topic has been called “Groundbreaking and excellent” by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Discussion of Italian philosophical, ethical and medical objections to the circulation theory (Padua). Contents include a discussion of English translations, the Latin texts, the controversies, analysis of Harvey’s research, a short biography of Harvey, the new translation, a critical Latin text based on the second edition(1643) in the format of the 1628 original, an appendix and critique of the Leake and Franklin translations, Endnotes for the English translation, Bibliography, and indexes of the English translation and of the critical armature.

Jere Van Dyk

Without Borders

$38.00

“Without Borders: The Haqqani Network and the Road to Kabul” is the untold story of the origins, political awakening, and rise of what the United States and its allies call the Haqqani Network, and what the Haqqani family calls the Haqqani Mujahideen. The author lived with the Haqqanis as a young reporter for the New York Times in the 1980s, in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, when they were America’s allies in the Afghan-Soviet war. After 9/11, the network became America’s enemy. This book tells the exciting story of how the author began to try to find the Haqqanis again, and, later, his quest to understand their influence in the greater Middle East. This is the story of the rise of an ideology and movement born in the Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258, which resurfaced in Arabia and India in the 18th Century, lived on in the anti-Christian, anti-British, anti-European, and anti-Russian colonial movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, and in modern times evolved, with American help, into the Haqqani Mujahideen, and that of their allies, and their Arab backers, and followers around the world.

Janice Gaffey

Witnessing the Pandemic

$79.95

This is the first research monograph investigating Irish print media coverage of the AIDS/HIV pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa and situated within the context of the Irish and global pandemic. It adds to the existing knowledge of the relationship between media and Africa, and more specifically media and HIV/AIDS. Ireland has always had a broad sympathy with Africa based on the colonial experience endured by both and a strong tradition of missionary, education, and aid /development involvement since the 19th century. Gaffey examines the Irish print media as having some of the same initial reactions as the British, American and other Anglophone presses but some unique features (Irish media was initially much more furtive and inexact as to the sexual nature of transmission and risk and some papers refused to discuss condoms fearing Church censure). The study then traces the growing interest in the issue, interviews by editors and journalists in Africa, and a gradual maturing and confidence in the coverage of this calamity.

David Kuhrt

Wittgenstein the Tartar

$43.42

Philosophy, like all learned disciplines, is deeply influenced by a human subjectivity in the context of evolutionary time. The attribute of consciousness is inseparable from the being of all else from which humanity has evolved in time. If, as the opening premise of Wittgenstein's Tractatus puts it: The world is everything that is the case , then the unconscious presence of that everything in the material ground we stand in with our bodies provides the context for all acts of cognition, irrespective of the method of verification called scientific . What is true is discovered consensually through time; a continuing evolutionary process, for only the human species is equipped to perceive and articulate both the specificity of particular circumstance and the context of the whole which it limits spatio-temporally to make the things we call real . Were it not for conceptual activity under those human conditions, the unitary reality would subsume all specific identities together in the unconsciousness to which all other species are subject. As far as subjectivity is concerned, were thoughts - as the drift of contemporary positivist philosophies maintains - the causal product of brain-chemistry and not the intuitive grasping, in an individualized consciousness, of unitary being in its differentiated forms, then neither consciousness nor knowledge at all would be possible. Here, the given and logical order of that dispensation is perceived in terms of both the Greek logos and a physics of the material ground it orders. So it is that the drift of Wittgenstein the Tartar is brought into sharp focus by the texts which most conspicuously oppose the notion of metaphysical being; in particular, The Immortalization Commission: the Strange Quest to Cheat Death by John Gray, whose natural attachment to his human condition nevertheless finds him telling us that our modern myths are further from reality than any that can be found among traditional peoples, while the absurdities of faith are less offensive to reason than the claims made on behalf of science. The resurrection of the dead at the end of time is not as incredible as the idea that humanity, equipped with growing knowledge, is marching towards a better world . The Tartar invades whenever a complacent sedentarism threatens the perspective of an enduring reality whose future is the evolutionary responsibility of humanity. To make that point clear, the epistemological works of Rudolf Steiner underwrite our interpretation of Wittgenstein s Tractatus. topics: Wittgenstein, modern philosophy, logical positivism, mind studies, ratiocination, the consciousness and its disfranchisement, knowledge theory,Rudolph Steiner, Bertrand Russell.

John Angell Grant

Women And Religion In The Modern Drawing Room

$64.95

With an introduction by William M. Chace, D/English, Stanford University President of Emory University(1994 – 2003) and Wesleyan University (1988 – 1994). Author of The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T.S.Eliot. Description: T.S. Eliot’s high-profile writing career lasted more than 60 years. In 1948, he won a Nobel Prize for poetry that many think the finest of the twentieth century. About half way through this prestigious literary career, however, the poet shifted his creative efforts to drama, and wrote a series of plays that today are rarely produced. Many know Eliot’s The Waste Land, a groundbreaking modernist literary event, and arguably the most important English-language poem of the 20th century. Fewer, however, know The Family Reunion, The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk or The Elder Statesman, the four last major works of Eliot’s life--plays that were produced in 1939, 1949, 1953 and 1958, respectively, for the West End Stage. All four works were based on classical Greek plays. But there are some striking recurring patterns in Eliot’s updates. In each modern work, he changed the Greek original by demoting the status of women (repeatedly turning heroic women into comic buffoon characters) and elevating the status of men (repeatedly making them long-suffering husbands of the irrational women). Then instead of navigating his characters through the social complexity of the Greek originals, Eliot consistently advocates a Christian monk-like retreat away from other human beings and away from social interaction as the solution to human conflict, specifically the conjugal conflicts between men and women. J.A.Grant argues that an understanding of these tropes, recurring throughout the four plays, can be found in a biographical assessment of the playwright that looks at Eliot’s own troubled personal relationships with women, and his own resulting retreat into austere religious practices. Motivating sources for these recurring changes to the original Greek stories can be found in Eliot’s failed first marriage, and in his family’s New England Puritan cultural heritage. Eliot’s plays examined in the book are The Family Reunion (1939), The Cocktail Party (1949), The Confidential Clerk (1953) and The Elder Statesman (1958). The plays are based, respectively, on Aeschylus’ The Eumenides, Euripides’ Alcestis, Euripides’ Ion, and Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus. "I find this monograph to be wholly creditable, well researched and an ably argued achievement. Recommended..." William M. Chase, Ph.D

Women And Religion In The Modern Drawing Room

Victor Ojakorotu

Women's Perspectives On Social And Political Development In Africa

$179.95

Edited by Victor Ojakorotu and Olawale Olaopa, two of the leading minds in African development issues, this volume showcases and shares knowledge of numerous areas where women have contributed to the socio-economic, cultural, religious and political development of their respective African societies. The articles featured in this engaging study will stimulate academic debates on perspectives and factors addressing women's empowerment and disempowerment. They also seek to demystify those impediments to women’s pathways to total liberation in the context of sustainable development everywhere in the African continent. Bringing together some of the best minds in development, this book, therefore, presents historical, theoretical, conceptual, and pragmatic contributions from the disciplines of political science, international relations, conflict studies, sociology, health sciences, development studies, public policy, management studies, economic history and public administration. It is therefore relevant for students and scholars in these disciplines and beyond. The volume examines different ways of analysing social and gender relations, and interrogates the relationship between academic and policy work in this field. It further investigates current thinking and concerns relating to the practice of social development and to the promotion of gender equality and women's empowerment, describing tools and frameworks to inform policy making and practice.

Women's Perspectives On Social And Political Development In Africa

Barnaby Conrad

Writers Like Us

$39.95

Writers Like Us is a poignant literary memoir by Barnaby Conrad, who had the good fortune to be mentored by Sinclair Lewis, the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the spring of 1947, the 25 year-old Conrad was living in Santa Barbara, California, when he met Lewis. Conrad was struggling with his first novel, while Lewis, then 62, was in the twilight of his career. While they both had studied at Yale and had the same literary agent, they could not have been more different. A charming San Francisco-native, Conrad had been a dashing diplomat in Spain during World War II, an amateur bullfighter, a cocktail pianist, and a gifted portrait artist. Lewis was an awkward but strident genius from the Midwest, a sharp-tongued literary giant whose face had been ravaged by skin cancer. He had been married and divorced twice and was deeply lonely. Conrad was in awe of Lewis’s global stature and charmed by his crusty humor and humanity. This Odd Couple instantly developed a camraderie. For four summer months, Conrad worked as Lewis’s personal secretary, chauffeur, and chess partner at Thorvale, a 700-acre estate near Williamstown, Massachusetts. In turn, Lewis mentored the young man’s first novel-in-progress. Although Sinclair Lewis has fallen out of fashion, many agree that no one wrote more clearly about America than he did. Barnaby Conrad’s Writers LIke Us, is a fascinating literary memoir about the intertwined lives of authors and the elusive nature of literary success.

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Sirshendu Majumdar

Yeats and Tagore

$79.95

“ This major monograph enables us for the first time to enter deeply into Bengali archives of Tagore to discuss the Yeats and Tagore relationship with the crucial link of James Henry Cousins, an Irish Theosophist who lived in India after acting at the Abbey Theatre fully illuminated and explained: Cousins was related by belief and controversy to Yeats and by marriage and religion to Tagore. This work should be in research libraries . It has scholarly importance not only for Yeats Studies but for Tagore and Theosophy in India as well as Ireland . It also contains an excellent account of Orientalism and Celticism in late 19th and early 20th century literature. - Dr Michael Collie This work is a comparative study of Rabindranath Tagore and William Butler Yeats. It explores their relationship and also seeks to clarify how and why these two poets shared certain ideas and ideals while there were also divergences. The author has also studied the role of James Henry Cousins, who in his early career was associated with the Irish Revival, but later on settled in India where he got involved with the cultural renaissance and nationalist movement. Cousins was related to both Tagore and Yeats;to Yeats by creative partnership[the Abbey Theatre and the Irish Literary Revival]and Tagore via close contact and mutual beliefs. Professor Majumdar's research is based on fresh interpretation of the primary works of these writers. He has used published works in standard critical editions but most importantly he has discovered unpublished and translated them. The author reads Bengali, and has utilized a large number of Rabindranath Tagore’s letters and works not available in English translation. He has also consulted Tagore’s private papers and collections available only in the Rabindra Bhavana Archives and Library at Santiniketan. In addition Majumdar has also researched and translated primary works of other writers both in Bengal, Europe and Ireland, many of these primary sources are rare and not easily accessible to scholarship. Dr. Majumdar is one of India's finest scholars in Irish poetry and literature and this work is an important contribution to the study of Yeats as well as Tagore.

Professor Samuel J. Rogal

“To Go and Serve the Desolate Sheep in America”

$79.95

This hitherto unpublished diary, edited and with notes by Dr. Rogal, provides a valuable research tool for understanding the place of religion in immediate post Revolutionary America specifically amongst the American Methodist Episcopal Church members Bishop Whatcoat had as his flock. Sent to America and appointed by John Wesley with the stern injunction “ … to go and serve the desolate sheep of America," Richard Whatcoat spent 11 years as a roving missioner bishop in the remote parts of the American frontier as well as in more established centers such as southeast New England and the Carolinas. The editor has created a coherent and readable work that stresses Whatcoat’s actions and reactions to the newly independent Americans; indeed as an Englishman, the bishop was in receipt of some hard words but also of great encouragement and praise (and some latent pro-Loyalist feeling). Another strength of the diary is the light it sheds on Whatcoat’s circuit-riding ministry to black slaves and other persons of color. The great evangelical appeal of Methodism was its liberating theology and great choral music tradition. This aspect of Afro-American development as well as the bishop’s relations with black clergymen and would-be clergymen is discussed at length. Whatcoat lived amongst his people rarely staying at an inn or ordinary in his travels: the diary gives a unique picture of rural and small town America, its food, festivals, habits and morality through the eyes of a friendly but firm eighteenth century divine.