Download or read book Point Counter Point written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Point Counter Point written by Aldous Huxley and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A satiric view of intellectual life in the '20s and is populated with characters based on such celebrities of the time as D.H. Lawrence, KatherineMansfield, Sir Oswald Mosley, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murray, aswell as Huxley himself.
Download or read book Debating Organization written by Robert Westwood and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces readers to the central debates oforganization studies through a series of 'point' and 'counterpoint'debates by major figures in the field. Introduces readers to the central tensions and debates oforganization studies. Celebrates the productive heterogeneity of the field by placingcompeting perspectives side by side. Includes contributions from major figures in the field. Structured in an innovative 'point' and 'counterpoint'format.
Download or read book Chances Are written by Richard Russo and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Russo’s] first novel in ten years hits the ball out of the park. . . . You’ll lap up this gripping, wise, and wonderful summer treat.” —The Boston Globe “A cascade of charm. . . . Russo is an undeniably endearing writer, and chances are this story will draw you back to the most consequential moments in your own life.”—The Washington Post One beautiful September day, three men in their late sixties convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college in the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today—Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey is a musician beyond his rockin' age. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since a Memorial Day weekend right here on the Vineyard in 1971. Now, forty-five years later, three lives and that of a significant other are put on displaywhile the distant past confounds the present ina relentless squall of surprise and discovery. Shot through with Russo's trademark comedy and humanity, Chances Are . . . introduces a new level of suspense and menace that will quicken the reader's heartbeat throughout this absorbing saga.
Download or read book Point Counterpoint written by Edward L. Gubman and published by Society for Human Resource Management. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in association with the Society for Human Resource Management, Alexandria, Virginia."
Download or read book Maurice Spandrell and the Problem of Evil in Point Counter Point 1928 by Aldous Huxley written by Tabea Halbmeyer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Literature - Modern Literature, grade: 1,0, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, language: English, abstract: This paper is an analysis of Huxley's representation of evilness by the example of Maurice Spandrell, a character in his novel "Point Counter Point". Huxley constructed Spandrell as the incarnation of evilness according to the understanding of evilness as an ‘unsubstantial’ category. Here, ‘good’ and ‘evil’ are intertwined as he is represented as a paradoxical figure, namely both as a perpetrator and as a victim. The dialectics in Spandrell’s characterisation are exemplary for the dialectics present in "Point Counter Point" and in modernism in general. Talking a closer look, "Point Counter Point" reveals Huxley’s belief in a deeper ‘truth’ that remains mysterious in its contingent existence of absence and presence. In connection with Huxley’s understanding of ‘God’, which he lays down mainly in his book The Perennial Philosophy (1945), Huxley’s representation of evilness alias Spandrell is going to be analysed in this paper.8 There are other characters in Point Counter Point concerned with the question of God, for example, Marjorie Carling.9 However, the focus will be on Spandrell as the contemplations about good and evil concentrate around his character. Spandrell constantly tries to explain God’s absence and make his presence felt but he is disappointed again and again. In this way, he embodies the focal point of the ‘problem of evil’ in Point Counter Point. The root of evil, in Spandrell’s case, can be found in his ‘individual’ psychology. With the help of Spandrell, Huxley reflects on the origin of evil, in particular, on how evilness can develop in a person’s life.
Download or read book Study of Counterpoint written by Johann Fux and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1965 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most celebrated book on counterpoint is Fux's great theoretical work GRADUS AD PARNASSUM. Since its appearance in 1725, it has been used by and has directly influenced the work of many of the great composers, including J.S. Bach, Haydn, and Beethoven. Originally written in Latin, this work has been translated in to the principal European languages. The present translation by Alfred Mann is the first faithful rendering in English, presenting the essence of Fux's teachings.
Download or read book Trial of Juveniles as Adults written by Kevin Hile and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the juvenile court system and recent trends toward sentencing juveniles as adults.
Download or read book Counterpoint written by Walter Piston and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1947 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the contrapuntal element in significant works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for the music student who fully understands the composition of harmony
Download or read book Counterpoint A Memoir of Bach and Mourning written by Philip Kennicott and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize–winning critic’s “lyrical and haunting” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker) reflection on the meaning and emotional impact of a Bach masterwork. As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn’t seem trivial or irrelevant, and it enabled him to both experience her death and remove himself from it. For him, Bach’s music held the elements of both joy and despair, life and its inevitable end. He spent the next five years trying to learn one of the composer’s greatest keyboard masterpieces, the Goldberg Variations. In Counterpoint, he recounts his efforts to rise to the challenge, and to fight through his grief by coming to terms with his memories of a difficult, complicated childhood. He describes the joys of mastering some of the piano pieces, the frustrations that plague his understanding of others, the technical challenges they pose, and the surpassing beauty of the melodies, harmonies, and counterpoint that distinguish them. While exploring Bach’s compositions he sketches a cultural history of playing the piano in the twentieth century. And he raises two questions that become increasingly interrelated, not unlike a contrapuntal passage in one of the variations itself: What does it mean to know a piece of music? What does it mean to know another human being?
Download or read book The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell written by Aldous Huxley and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A genuine spiritual quest. . . . Extraordinary." — New York Times Among the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychedelic drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books—The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell—in which Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, reveals the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. This edition also features an additional essay, "Drugs That Shape Men's Minds," now included for the first time.
Download or read book Morality and Social Justice written by James P. Sterba and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These original essays by seven leading contemporary political philosophers spanning the political spectrum explore the possibility of achieving agreement in political theory. Each philosopher defends in a principal essay his or her own view of social justice and also comments on two or more of the other essays. The result is a lively exchange that leaves the reader to judge to what degree the contributors achieve agreement or reconciliation.
Download or read book Counterpoint written by Markand Thakar and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counterpoint manuals have long been central to the music education of composers, historians, and theorists. In this book a conductor uses counterpoint exercises to aid musicians in becoming sensitive to the fundamental ingredients of good music making.
Download or read book Point Counterpoint written by Lynn Eubank and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Point Counterpoint offers a series of papers and replies originally presented at a special session of the Second Language Research Forum, UCLA, March 1989. The focus of the papers is primarily the role of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition, though the agenda also includes discussion of other fundamental questions, viz., the explanatory potential of linguistic theory in native-language development. It may come as no surprise that the contributors and their respondents often present very different perspectives on the issues, for most of the authors were known in advance to hold contrasting points of view. Contributors (c) and Respondents (r) are: Wolfgang Klein (c)/Nina Hyams (r); Sascha Felix (c)/Jacquelyn Schachter (r); Suzanne Flynn & Sharon Manuel (c)/David Birdsong (r); Lydia White (c)/Robert Bley-Vroman (r); Peter Jordens (c)/Lynn Eubank (r); Jurgen Meisel (c)/Bonnie Schwartz (r); Sharon Hilles (c)/William O'Grady (r); Daniel Finer (c)/Margaret Thomas (r); Usha Lakshmanan (c)/Nina Hymans & Ken Safir (r).
Download or read book Counterpoint written by Rachel Haimowitz and published by Riptide Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the twilight of mankind. Depleted by generations of war with a race of dark beasts, humanity stands on the brink of extinction. The outlands are soaked with the blood of the fallen. The midlands are rotting with decadence and despair. Elfkind, estranged by past crimes, watches and waits for nature to run its course. And then the two collide. Ayden's life has long been guided by two emotions: love for his sister, and hatred of all things human. When he's captured in battle, he is enslaved in the service of a human prince, Freyrik Farr. Freyrik's always known elves to be beautiful and dangerous, but never has one affected him as deeply as Ayden. Teetering on a dagger's edge between duty and high treason, Freyrik discovers that some choices can change a life, and some an entire world. Between prejudice, politics, pride, and survival, Ayden and Freyrik must carve a new path, no matter how daunting. For nothing less than the fate of both their peoples rests on the power of their perseverance — and their love.
Download or read book The Ministry of Truth written by Dorian Lynskey and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory.” --George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly timely history of 1984--its literary sources, its composition by Orwell, its deep and lasting effect on the Cold War, and its vast influence throughout world culture at every level, from high to pop. 1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes--Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5--that gain potency with every year. Particularly in 2016, when the election of Donald Trump made it a bestseller ("Ministry of Alternative Facts," anyone?). Its influence has morphed endlessly into novels (The Handmaid's Tale), films (Brazil), television shows (V for Vendetta), rock albums (Diamond Dogs), commercials (Apple), even reality TV (Big Brother). The Ministry of Truth is the first book that fully examines the epochal and cultural event that is 1984 in all its aspects: its roots in the utopian and dystopian literature that preceded it; the personal experiences in wartime Great Britain that Orwell drew on as he struggled to finish his masterpiece in his dying days; and the political and cultural phenomena that the novel ignited at once upon publication and that far from subsiding, have only grown over the decades. It explains how fiction history informs fiction and how fiction explains history.
Download or read book Gay Rights written by David L. Hudson and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the debate over what rights gay individuals should have, including marriage, protection from institutionalized discrimination, and military policy. Thought provoking questions on personal situations and public policy are set within text to encourage reader engagement.
