Play House Of Power

Author : Lata Singh
Publisher : OUP India
ISBN 13 : 9780198060970
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Play-House of Power written by Lata Singh and published by OUP India. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together writings on different aspects of theatre in colonial India-history, popular culture, gender and sexuality, biographies, power struggles, IPTA, and regional theatre.

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604736540
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Plays: Politics, Football, and Other Blood Sports written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barry, award-winning author of "

Author : Benjamin R. Barber
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393070409
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House written by Benjamin R. Barber and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-08-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas and the presidency flirt with each other, but can they really get along? President Clinton had a romance with big ideas. He intently cultivated intellectuals, seducing them with his characteristic charm and with the promise of real influence on the political stage. Yet most often he disappointed the big thinkers whose advice he sought. Benjamin Barber was first invited to Camp David in 1994, along with other prominent members of the academic community, to participate in a "seminar" with President Clinton on the future of Democratic ideas and ideals. Afterwards, he became a steady informal adviser to the White House. For a politically committed professor like Barber, the opportunity was exhilarating—here was an opportunity to put ideas into action, to link ideas to power. The result was enlightening, if unexpected. The most unpredictable factor was the president himself: a man of astonishing intellectual gifts, a consummate listener and synthesizer of ideas, who nonetheless failed to present a stirring progressive vision or even to craft a memorable speech. With great perceptiveness, wit, and élan, Barber provides a startling meditation on truth and power—and the truth of power, which is the responsibility of the elected not to an idea but to the electorate. He identifies the fault lines that future progressive candidates must straddle if they are to win—and the gift they must have, if they are to be great, of calling forth the best in their fellow citizens. In the end, Barber give us a unique portrait of our compelling and maddening ex-president, and the hopes and disillusionments he represents.

Author : Tim Higgins
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1984898248
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Play written by Tim Higgins and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WALL STREET JOURNAL BUSINESS BESTSELLER • The riveting inside story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the world's greatest car—from award-winning Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins. “A deeply reported and business-savvy chronicle of Tesla's wild ride.” —Walter Isaacson, New York Times Book Review Tesla is the envy of the automotive world. Born at the start of the millennium, it was the first car company to be valued at $1 trillion. Its CEO, the mercurial, charismatic Elon Musk has become not just a celebrity but the richest man in the world. But Tesla’s success was far from guaranteed. Founded in the 2000s, the company was built on an audacious vision. Musk and a small band of Silicon Valley engineers set out to make a car that was quicker, sexier, smoother, and cleaner than any gas-guzzler on the road. Tesla would undergo a hellish fifteen years, beset by rivals—pressured by investors, hobbled by whistleblowers. Musk often found himself in the public’s crosshairs, threatening to bring down the company he had helped build. Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins had a front-row seat for the drama: the pileups, breakdowns, and the unlikeliest outcome of all, success. A story of impossible wagers and unlikely triumphs, Power Play is an exhilarating look at how a team of innovators beat the odds—and changed the future.

Author : Rasheed Kidwai
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 8195124887
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Scindias: A Saga of Power, Politics and Intrigue written by Rasheed Kidwai and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RASHEED KIDWAI is a journalist, author, columnist and political analyst. He is Visiting Fellow with the Observer Research Foundation, Delhi. Formerly Associate Editor at The Telegraph, Kidwai is a keen observer of government, politics, community affairs and Hindi cinema.

Author : Margaret Rich Greer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400887119
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Play of Power written by Margaret Rich Greer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681), one of the great dramatists of Spain's Golden Age, wrote a series of mythological spectacle plays for the Habsburg courts. Written when court spectacles were an instrument of monarchical absolutism, these later works by Calderon have often been dismissed by critics as servile flattery of the royalty or mere displays of dazzling showmanship. Margaret Rich Greer argues, however, that many of the playwright's court dramas not only explore human life and social organization, but also possess artistic unity and thematic complexity that make them landmarks in European dramatic history. Analyzing seven of these plays, she demonstrates Calderon's mastery in the integration of music, dance, elaborate scenery, and stage machinery to enhance rather than overpower his poetic text. Greer shows that by envisioning each drama in the physical setting of its performance and in the political context of its time, readers can appreciate a complex relationship of texts: intertwined with the flattering image of the splendor of royal power are a discourse relevant to common spectators and another one that is subtly critical of the policies of the king and the court. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Heather Kuhaneck
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 1284262901
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Play Just Right: Unleashing the Power of Play in Occupational Therapy written by Heather Kuhaneck and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of Making Play Just Right: Unleashing the Power of Play in Occupational Therapy is the belief that the most effective way to ensure pediatric occupational therapy is through incorporating play. The Second Edition is a unique resource on pediatric activity and therapy analysis for occupational therapists and students. This text provides the background, history, evidence, and general knowledge needed to use a playful approach to pediatric occupational therapy, as well as the specific examples and recommendations needed to help therapists adopt these strategies.

Author : Patrick Carman
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780316004886
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atherton #1 written by Patrick Carman and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the Land of Elyon comes a riveting adventure set in an extraordinary satellite world?created as a refuge from a dying Earth?that begins to collapse and forever change the lives of its inhabitants. Edgar, a gifted climber, is a lonely boy scaling the perilous cliffs that separate the three realms of Atherton: a humble fig grove; a mysterious highland world of untold beauty and sinister secrets; and a vast wasteland where he must confront an unspeakable danger that could destroy the people of Atherton. When Edgar discovers a book which contains the history of Atherton's origins and ultimate apocalypse, his world?quite literally?begins to turn inside out.

Author : Edward Charles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1629149942
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Medici: Inheritance of Power written by Edward Charles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever-loyal Maddalena, a diminutive, blue-eyed, black slave, has borne Cosimo de' Medici a son and seen him rise to the position of cardinal. Now, late in life, she finds herself committed to a convent, as part of a scheme to protect the Medici bank from ruin by Cosimo’s sons, by hiding a fortune in gold for Cosimo’s grandson, Lorenzo, to inherit. But as the months go by, and the gold does not appear, her faith in Cosimo begins to wane, and with it, her confidence in her own worth. Has she been duped? Approaching old age, she finds in the abbess a confessor, which enables her to share her true story and perhaps, at the same time, convince herself that her life has been worthwhile. But the abbess, too, has objectives of her own, and the two of them may not be on the same side. Edward Charles presents us here with the intrigue, glamour, wealth, and deception of fifteenth-century Florence. One woman's devotion forms the foundation upon which the famed Medici bank was built. The largest and most respected financial institution in Europe in it's prime, it came to represent the might of the influential Medici clan, a family of great power, borne of Italy's gold; a family who scaled the very heights of human grandeur but was to suffer through one of the most catastrophic financial crashes of early banking. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : Martin Wiggins
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191650404
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drama and the Transfer of Power in Renaissance England written by Martin Wiggins and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state is at its most volatile when supreme power changes hands. This book studies five such moments of transfer in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, from Henry VIII to the English Revolution, pazying particular attention to the political function and agency of drama in smoothing the transition. Masques and civic pageants served as an art form by which incoming authority could declare its power, and subjects could express their willing subordination to the new regime. The book contains vivid case studies of these dramatic works, some of which have never before been identified, and the circumstances for which they were written: the use of London street theatre in 1535 to promote Henry VIII's arrogation of Royal Supremacy; the aggressively Protestant court masque of 1559 which marked the accession of Elizabeth I, and the censorship which resulted when the same mode of dramatic discourse spread to more plebeian stages; the masques and entertainments of James I's initial year on the English throne, through which the new Stuart dynasty asserted its legitimacy and individual courtiers made their bids for influence; and the formal coronation entry to London, furnished with dramatic pageants, which London paid for but Charles I refused to undertake. The final chapter describes how, in 1642, a very different incoming regime planned to ignore drama altogether, until some surprisingly contingent circumstances forced its hand.