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Book Monthly Checklist of State Publications

Download or read book Monthly Checklist of State Publications written by Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.

Book The Navy and German Power Politics  1862 1914

Download or read book The Navy and German Power Politics 1862 1914 written by I.N. Lambi and published by Routledge Library Editions: German History. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When originally published in 1984, this book was the first fully documented discussion of German naval strategy and planning from 1862-1914 against France, Russia, Great Britain, the United States and Japan.

Book On Ambivalence

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth Weisbrode
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2012-02-24
  • ISBN : 0262301075
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book On Ambivalence written by Kenneth Weisbrode and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise guide to ambivalence, from Adam and Eve (to eat the apple or not?) to Hamlet (to be or not?) to globalization (e pluribus unum or not?). Why is it so hard to make up our minds? Adam and Eve set the template: Do we or don't we eat the apple? They chose, half-heartedly, and nothing was ever the same again. With this book, Kenneth Weisbrode offers a crisp, literate, and provocative introduction to the age-old struggle with ambivalence. Ambivalence results from a basic desire to have it both ways. This is only natural—although insisting upon it against all reason often results not in "both" but in the disappointing "neither." Ambivalence has insinuated itself into our culture as a kind of obligatory reflex, or default position, before practically every choice we make. It affects not only individuals; organizations, societies, and cultures can also be ambivalent. How often have we asked the scornful question, "Are we the Hamlet of nations"? How often have we demanded that our leaders appear decisive, judicious, and stalwart? And how eager have we been to censure them when they hesitate or waver? Weisbrode traces the concept of ambivalence, from the Garden of Eden to Freud and beyond. The Obama era, he says, may be America's own era of ambivalence: neither red nor blue but a multicolored kaleidoscope. Ambivalence, he argues, need not be destructive. We must learn to distinguish it from its symptoms—selfishness, ambiguity, and indecision—and accept that frustration, guilt, and paralysis felt by individuals need not lead automatically to a collective pathology. Drawing upon examples from philosophy, history, literature, and the social sciences, On Ambivalence is a pocket-sized portrait of a complex human condition. It should be read by anyone who has ever grappled with making the right choice.

Book East Wind  Rain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Caroline Paul
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2008-12-24
  • ISBN : 0061977659
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book East Wind Rain written by Caroline Paul and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl comes this provocative, compelling novel of irrevocable consequences for people thrust unwittingly into a devastating war of nations and American identity—based on a little-known true event. December 1941. The inhabitants of Niihau lead a simple life. Mostly Hawaiian natives, they work the ranch of Niihau's eccentric haole owner, who keeps his island totally isolated from the outside world, devoid of cars, phones, and electricity. But then a plane crash-lands there, and although the villagers rescue the pilot, they have no idea that he has just attacked Pearl Harbor. War has now come to Eden, slowly undoing its tranquillity, widening the cracks in the already troubled marriage of Irene and Yoshio Harada, the island's only Japanese-American couple. It will test everyone's loyalties and all they believe in . . . as Paradise, once within reach, slowly falls victim to its own isolated innocence.

Book Heat and Mass Transfer Data Book

Download or read book Heat and Mass Transfer Data Book written by KOTHANDARAMAN and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: