Unacknowledged Legislation

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859843833
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unacknowledged Legislation written by Christopher Hitchens and published by Verso. This book was released on 2002 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hitchens provides rich evidence that his own sallies as a political journalist are nourished by a close engagement with a broad sweep of novelists.

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unacknowledged Legislation written by Christopher Hitchens and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Holloway
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1786890232
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waiting for the Last Bus written by Richard Holloway and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do we go when we die? Or is there nowhere to go? Is death something we can do or is it just something that happens to us? Now in his ninth decade, former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway has spent a lifetime at the bedsides of the dying, guiding countless men and women towards peaceful deaths. In The Last Bus, he presents a positive, meditative and profound exploration of the many important lessons we can learn from death: facing up to the limitations of our bodies as they falter, reflecting on our failings, and forgiving ourselves and others. But in a modern world increasingly wary of acknowledging mortality, The Last Bus is also a stirring plea to reacquaint ourselves with death. Facing and welcoming death gives us the chance to think about not only the meaning of our own life, but of life itself; and can mean the difference between ordinary sorrow and unbearable regret at the end. Radical, joyful and moving, The Last Bus is an invitation to reconsider life's greatest mystery by one of the most important and beloved religious leaders of our time.

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859842843
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No One Left to Lie to written by Christopher Hitchens and published by Verso. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suggests that President Clinton's largest legacy may be the weakening of the presidency and of the Democratic Party.

Author : Roger Pearson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191069418
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unacknowledged Legislators written by Roger Pearson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the public value of poetry? How do poets envisage their own role and function within society? How do we? Do poets seek to shape public opinion and behaviour? Should they? Or do they offer alternatives—perhaps sacred alternatives—to political and religious ideologies? Are they what Shelley in 1821 called 'the unacknowledged legislators of the World'? And what might that mean? During the decades immediately preceding the Revolution of 1789 the status of contemporary poetry in France was at its lowest ebb. At the same time the perceived power of the writer to influence public events reached a high-water mark with Voltaire's triumphant return to Paris in 1778. In the course of the next century French poetry enjoyed an extraordinary renaissance and flowering, perhaps its greatest. But what of the poet's public influence? In 1881 the people of Paris processed for six hours past the home of Victor Hugo on the occasion of his 79th birthday, and in 1885 an estimated two million people witnessed his state funeral. But who or what were they acknowledging? Poetry or republicanism? Or perhaps their own power? For with each Revolution that passed—1789, 1830, 1848—French poets themselves felt increasingly marginalised. This study addresses the first part of this story and focuses on the role and function of the poet during the so-called Romantic Period. Beginning with an account of the literary climate in pre-revolutionary France it then maps the changes in that climate wrought by the events of the 1789 Revolution. It describes the new politico-literary agendas set by Chateaubriand and others on the monarchist Right, and by Staël and others on the liberal Left. Against this background it then analyses in detail the poetic output and public exploits of the three major French poets of the period: Lamartine, Hugo, and Vigny. The Romantic figure of the poet as prophet and magus is habitually dismissed as a cliché. But by focusing on the role of the poet as lawgiver this book reveals the rich and complex terms in which the public function of poetry was debated in post-revolutionary France - and how amidst the centenary celebrations of 1889, as Romanticism gave way to Symbolism, the poet as lawgiver continued to play a central part in that debate.

Author : Martin Gayford
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141932252
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michelangelo written by Martin Gayford and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At thirty one, Michelangelo was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be the greatest sculptor or painter who had ever lived (and, by his enemies, to be an arrogant, uncouth, swindling miser). For decade after decade, he worked near the dynamic centre of events: the vortex at which European history was changing from Renaissance to Counter Reformation. Few of his works - including the huge frescoes of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling, the marble giant David and the Last Judgment - were small or easy to accomplish. Like a hero of classical mythology - such as Hercules, whose statue he carved in his youth - he was subject to constant trials and labours. In Michelangelo Martin Gayford describes what it felt like to be Michelangelo Buonarroti, and how he transformed forever our notion of what an artist could be.

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859843987
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trial of Henry Kissinger written by Christopher Hitchens and published by Verso. This book was released on 2002 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this incendiary book, Hitchens takes the floor as prosecuting counsel and mounts a devastating indictment of Henry Kissinger, whose ambitions and ruthlessness have directly resulted in both individual murders and widespread, indiscriminate slaughter.

Author : Peter Brook
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 9781636701776
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tip of the Tongue written by Peter Brook and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful and deeply personal book by a master theatre-maker. In Tip of the Tongue, Peter Brook takes a charming, playful, and wise look at topics such as the subtle, telling differences between French and English, and the many levels on which we can appreciate the works of Shakespeare. Brook also revisits his seminal concept of the "empty space," considering how theatre--and the world--have changed over the span of his long and distinguished career. Threaded throughout with intimate and revealing stories from Brook's own life, Tip of the Tongue is a short but sparkling gift from one of the greatest artists of recent times. Tip of the Tongue is part of Peter Brook's "Reflections" trilogy, along with The Quality of Mercy and Playing by Ear.

Author : Catriona A. W. McMillan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108945163
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Human Embryo In Vitro written by Catriona A. W. McMillan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Human Embryo in vitro explores the ways in which UK law engages with embryonic processes under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (as amended), the intellectual basis of which has not been reconsidered for almost thirty years. McMillan argues that in regulating 'the embryo' – that is, a processual liminal entity in itself - the law is regulating for uncertainty. This book offers a fuller understanding of how complex biological processes of development and growth can be better aligned with a legal framework that purports to pay respect to the embryo while also allowing its destruction. To do so it employs an anthropological concept, liminality, which is itself concerned with revealing the dynamics of process. The implications of this for contemporary regulation of artificial reproduction are fully explored, and recommendations are offered for international regimes on how they can better align biological reality with social policy and law.

Author : Susan Bandes
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814713068
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Passions of Law written by Susan Bandes and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology treats the role that emotions play, don't play, and ought to play in the practice and conception of law and justice. The work consists largely of original essays, by scholars of law, theology, political science and philosophy.