Download or read book Arguments and Fists written by Mika LaVaque-Manty and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.
Download or read book White Coat Clenched Fist written by Fitzhugh Mullan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A doctor tells his own behind-the-scenes story of the making of a medical man and the disintegration of an American myth
Download or read book Arguing with Zombies Economics Politics and the Fight for a Better Future written by Paul Krugman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller An accessible, compelling introduction to today’s major policy issues from the New York Times columnist, best-selling author, and Nobel prize–winning economist Paul Krugman, now with a new preface. There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy. Likewise, there is no stronger foe of zombie economics, the misunderstandings that just won’t die. In Arguing with Zombies, Krugman tackles many of these misunderstandings, taking stock of where the United States has come from and where it’s headed in a series of concise, digestible chapters. Drawn mainly from his popular New York Times column, they cover a wide range of issues, organized thematically and framed in the context of a wider debate. Explaining the complexities of health care, housing bubbles, tax reform, Social Security, and so much more with unrivaled clarity and precision, Arguing with Zombies is Krugman at the height of his powers. It is an indispensable guide to two decades’ worth of political and economic discourse in the United States and around the globe, and now includes a preface on "Zombies in the Age of COVID-19." With quick, vivid sketches, Krugman turns his readers into intelligent consumers of the daily news and hands them the keys to unlock the concepts behind the greatest economic policy issues of our time. In doing so, he delivers an instant classic that can serve as a reference point for this and future generations.
Download or read book Guns Crime and Freedom written by Wayne R. LaPierre and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the gun-control debate by the CEO of the National Rifle Association argues that taking away guns from those who acquire them legally is a dangerous idea and states that the criminal justice system, and not gun control, is behind our nation's problem.
Download or read book The War of the Fists written by Robert Charles Davis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The War of the Fists" is a study of 17th-century worker culture in the city of Venice, focusing on the mock battles, or "battagliole", which the town's two popular factions waged on public bridges. Their importance in the city's plebeian life makes bridge battles an extremely valuable point of entry for exploring structures of Venetian popular culture, a task which Robert Davis attempts at several levels.
Download or read book North Carolina Reports written by North Carolina. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina.
Download or read book Contesting the Iron Fist written by Claudio Fuentes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work analyzes the interactions and international connections of the "civil rights" and "pro-order" coalitions of state and societal actors in the two countries. The author demonstrates that in democratizing contexts, protecting citizens from police abuse and becomes part of a debate about how to deal with issues of public safety and social control and of perceived trade-offs between liberty and security.
Download or read book The Heart and the Fist written by Eric Greitens and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE HEART AND THE FIST shares one man’s story of extraordinary leadership and service as both a humanitarian and a warrior. In a life lived at the raw edges of the human experience, Greitens has seen what can be accomplished when compassion and courage come together in meaningful service. As a Rhodes Scholar and Navy SEAL, Greitens worked alongside volunteers who taught art to street children in Bolivia and led US Marines who hunted terrorists in Iraq. He’s learned from nuns who fed the destitute in one of Mother Teresa’s homes for the dying in India, from aid workers who healed orphaned children in Rwanda, and from Navy SEALs who fought in Afghanistan. He excelled at the hardest military training in the world, and today he works with severely wounded and disabled veterans who are rebuilding their lives as community leaders at home. Greitens offers each of us a new way of thinking about living a meaningful life. We learn that to win any war, even those we wage against ourselves; to create and obtain lasting peace; to save a life; and even, simply to live with purpose requires us—every one of us—to be both good and strong.
Download or read book Fields of Sense written by Markus Gabriel and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Markus Gabriel proposes a radical form of ontological pluralism that divorces ontology from metaphysics, understood as the most fundamental theory of absolutely everything (the world). He argues that the concept of existence is incompatible with the exist
Download or read book Fist Pump written by Guido DiErio and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tongue-in-cheek manifesto is a humorous look at the nation's hottest subculture, and the essential guide to achieve the guido lifestyle. Complete with sections on how to look and act like a guido, how to perform dance moves, interact with strangers, and behave at clubs like a guido, a complete guide to gui-dos and gui-don'ts, and much more -- fist-pump with the best of them and prepare yourself to reach maximum guidofication! Also includes full-color images, graphs, and charts throughout!
Download or read book Steel Fist written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2003-03-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If the tanks succeed, then victory follows." General Heinz Guderian, 1937 After seeing the success of the British tanks in the First World War, the Germans decided that the future of warfare lay in the Panzerkampfwagen, the armoured fighting vehicle, later simply known as the Panzer. In time, the Panzer Corps would become the German army's new vanguard, an essential component of the new style of war that came to be known as Blitzkrieg - 'lightning war'. Steel Fist looks at the development of the Panzer concept, and the building and deployment of the Corps through the eyes of those who fought it. It tells the story of how the Panzers formed the spearhead of the world's most efficient military machine, and how they were ultimately defeated.
Download or read book Fist of Rage written by Kisa Murrin and published by KM Dragonfly Publications. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete Fist of Rage collection Escaped from Rage Just when she thought she’d reached the key, he changed the lock. The murder of Olivia's in-laws was just the beginning of the downward spiral that changed her life. It precipitated the violence that landed her in the hospital on multiple occasions. She knew if she stayed, her husband Greg would kill her. If she ran, she might have a chance. Meeting Rachel gave her the opportunity to start a new life in anonymity, now, she’s running out of money. To take back her life she must face her past, filing for divorce is the only way to be free. Greg is a powerful man, he has the resources to find her once she puts herself back on the map, but she can’t hide forever. Revealing where she is brings hell to her door and is the catalyst that puts her in the golden tower of casino mogul Ian Alessandro. She’ll have to make choice, protect those who have helped her along the way, or allow them to suffer the wrath of the devil that she married. Returned to Rage New mysteries unfold, and new entanglements emerge, because secrets always surface. Olivia made her choice, self-sacrifice seemed to be the only option to spare those she cares about from the destruction that is her husband. His veiled threats make her question if she’ll ever see the golden tower that became so much more than her safehouse. It’s the place where her former life was sifted through, where she learned the secrets of her past. The place she learned to trust again and forged new friendships. The golden tower that gave Olivia refuge has become Ian’s prison. He waits for a lead that will help him find her, but each possibility turns to a dead end. With each passing day new truths are revealed, he finds his mother’s past is intertwined with Olivia’s in a web of deceit. The key to finding her may be in the hands of a man that wronged them both. Released from Rage With the threat of Greg still lingering, Olivia’s safety is absolute in the golden tower of the Lost Cities. Within the walls new unions are forged through understanding and forgiveness. The bonds of friendships are fortified in the hopes of the future. And the love between Ian and Olivia is strengthened as new life grows. When tragedy strikes, Olivia is forced to go beyond those walls leaving the security they provide. Greg takes advantage of the opportunity and makes his presence known. She must face the inferno of his rage, knowing the only way to be free is through the fire. She’ll have to burn before she can rise from the ashes. Redeemed through Rage Don’t let old ghosts steal your peace. By his own admission, Angus Kelley was not a good man, but he’s trying to be now. He spent his life as an outsider looking in, the only way to keep his family safe was to walk away, as if he’d never been there. He watched from afar as his son grew up, missing the moments and the milestones, sitting on the sidelines as a stranger to those he loved the most. An unseen, unheard sentry. When his past and present collided, Angus emerged from the shadows to defend the family he left behind. Through the turmoil, he proved his good intentions, and was given the opportunity to explain his absence. He found a place within his family, he found acceptance and forgiveness, but the ghosts of the past still haunt him. The villain he was still holding him back from living in the moment. The secrets he was forced with bind him from being truly present in the now. The only way to be free is to face who he was before and come to terms with the things he did in the past. Only the truth can absolve him. While sorting through the sins of his former life, an old foe resurfaces with a new threat. Angus must resurrect the man he was to keep the danger from destroying the new life he’s built. What would you sacrifice to keep your family safe?
Download or read book Essays on Law Reform Commercial Policy Banks Penitentiaries Etc written by Johann Ludwig Tellkampf and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tight Fists Or Open Hands written by D. L. Baker and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any Christian response to today s ever-growing problem of poverty around the globe must be firmly rooted in the teaching of the Bible. While books on various aspects of wealth and poverty in the Old and New Testaments have been published, so far there has been no thorough study of Old Testament law on the topic. David Baker argues here that an understanding of that law is not only fundamental for interpreting the entire Old Testament but is also assumed by the writers of the New Testament. Tight Fists or Open Hands? fills this gap in Old Testament scholarship and lays a foundation for considering the relevance of these laws to everyday life in the twenty-first century. / The heart of this book is a study of all the Old Testament concerned with wealth and poverty. Baker groups these laws together by topic, considering the similarities and differences between the Decalogue, Book of the Covenant, Holiness Code, and Deuteronomic Laws. He places these in the wider context of ancient Near Eastern law in order to make clear which attitudes are distinctively biblical. / Each section of Tight Fists or Open Hands? includes an extended conclusion that summarizes the main ideas, considers relationships with other biblical texts, and points to the significance of the laws for today s world. Baker s combination of thorough exegesis and modern application makes this book relevant to pastors, scholars, and students in a variety of courses.
Download or read book Fist of the Furor written by R.K. Ryals and published by R.K. Ryals. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “People die for freedom …” There is chaos in the kingdom of Medeisia. The rebels have gone into the mountains to hide, protected by the dragons. Their only hope lies in a band of insurgents who made an arduous trek across the Ardus to seek the aid of a king … Plagued by grief, seventeen year-old Drastona Consta-Mayria becomes a leader for her people, the voice of the common folk, the forest, and the dragons. Living now among the royalty of Sadeemia, Drastona and the rebels must navigate something much more complicated than war, politics. Prince Cadeyrn of Sadeemia is a powerful mage, a second son living under the constant threat of assassination. He’s a man existing in the shadow of tragedy. But there is hope in his magic, hope in the way he fights, and hope in what he can do for his country. War has been declared between Sadeemia and Medeisia, a war led by rebels and aided by a king. But can the rebels survive the court of Sadeemia? For in the magnificent marble halls lies betrayal. “People die so others may live.”
Download or read book With Fists Raised written by Tru Leverette and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on literary and visual art of the Black Arts Movement, this collection highlights artists whose work diverged from narrow definitions of the Black Aesthetic and black nationalism. As contemporary activists receive the legacies of earlier efforts, this collection remembers and re-envisions art that supported and shaped the BAM era.
Download or read book The world in my fist written by Nino Benvenuti and published by AIDIF Editore. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1967, Nino Benvenuti was the first Italian to keep the entire nation awake all night for an event taking place on the opposite side of the ocean, in New York, when the six hour time lapse collapsed under the enthusiasm for his victory over Emile Griffith in the old Madison Square Garden stadium. This book is unusual and interesting. The boxer leaves nothing unsaid when he tells of those tormented years of his life engraved with the rhythm of his successes in the ring, but also with the lacerating contradictions in his private life. A World Champion who was able to get a lot of courage to show up, providing the unpublished story of what he thinks, testing, suffer, moment by moment, a fighter in the ring, but also the unexpected reflection on the limits of man.
