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A hora mais negra
by Anthony McCartenDo aclamado romancista e guionista de A Teoria de Tudo, eis um olhar revelador sobre o período imediatamente após a ascensão de Winston Churchill a primeiro-ministro - brevemente também no cinema, num filme protagonizado por Gary Oldman. Gary Oldman venceu o Globo de Ouro na categoria de "Melhor Actor de Filme Dramático" pela sua interpretação de Winston Churchill em A Hora Mais Negra. Este é o relato da angústia que a Grã-Bretanha viveu em maio de 1940, a partir do dia 10, quando as tropas de Hitler começaram a invasão da Holanda, até o dia 29, quando os soldados britânicos e franceses, derrotados pelos alemães, embarcaram em Dunquerque para se refugiarem na Inglaterra. Esta história é frequentemente contada em tom épico, mas desta feita o relato centra-se na figura de Winston Churchill, no contexto frágil e único daqueles dias incertos, reconstruído com base em extensa documentação, incluindo as discussões do governo, dentro e fora do parlamento e com os testemunhos dos seus contemporâneos. Anthony McCarten mostra-nos a dúvida de Churchill - que admitiu negociar com Hitler, aceitando a vitória que colocou toda a Europa nas suas mãos - e descobre-nos a evolução que levou o primeiro-ministro britânico a manifestar, a 4 de junho, a decisão final de não se render, num discurso que mudaria o curso da história. Neste relato emocionante, dia a dia, hora a hora, de como Churchill, muitas vezes tomada pela incerteza, resgatou a Grã-Bretanha, Anthony McCarten - aclamado escritor e argumentista, galardoado com um prémio Bafta -, expõe o lado nunca antes visto deste grande homem. Revela como Churchill treinou e reescreveu seus discursos-chave, de "Sangue, trabalho, lágrimas e suor" para "Devemos lutar nas praias"; a sua perspectiva sobre um tratado de paz com a Alemanha nazi e o seu subestimado papel na evacuação de Dunquerque; e, acima de tudo, como 25 dias ajudaram a fazer deste homem um ícone.
La hora sin diosas
by Beatriz RivasEn este libro, Beatriz Rivas relata las memorias de Daniel Ponty, quien conoció a varios personajes históricos. De la autora de Dios se fue de viaje y Lo que no mata, enamora, Beatriz Rivas. Daniel Ponty dicta sus memorias. Memorias de Daniel Ponty. Una vida privilegiada, pues le tocó vivir en París y Viena entre 1890 y 1939, y amar a personajes históricos: Lou Andreas-Salomé, Hannah Arendt, Alma Mahler; y por extensión a Rilke, Nietzsche, Freud, Benjamin, Klimt, Rodin, entre otros.
Horace (Routledge Revivals)
by C.D.N. CostaTwo thousand years after his death Horace is still recognised as a unique poet, having exerted marked influence on later European literature. This collection, first published in 1973, explores the different aspects of Horace’s poetic achievement in his main works: the Odes, Epistles¸ Satires and Ars Poetica. The essays, written by internationally-known scholars, include a discussion of the three worlds of the Satires, and a study of Horace’s poetic craft in the Odes – his greatest technical accomplishment. The final chapter is devoted entirely to Horace’s reputation in England up to the seventeenth century as ‘The Best of Lyrick Poets’, and concentrates on the many English translations which he inspired. The expert criticism is illustrated throughout by English translations from the original Latin texts. Horace will appeal to students and scholars of Latin poetry alike, as well as to those interested in the reception of classical literature throughout European history.
Horace
by Emily GowersHorace's first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man's self-fashioning on the cusp between Republic and Empire and a pivotal text in the history of Roman satire. It wrestles with the problem of how to define and assimilate satire and justifies the poet's own position in a suspicious society. The commentary gives full weight to the dense texture of these poems while helping readers interpret their most cryptic aspects and appreciate their technical finesse. The introduction puts Horace in context as late-Republican newcomer and a vital figure in the development of satire and discusses the structure and meaning of Satires I, literary and philosophical influences, style, metre, transmission and Horace's rich afterlife. Each poem is followed by an essay offering overall interpretation. This work is designed for upper-level students and scholars of classics but contains much of interest to specialists in later European literature.
Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood
by James M. LundbergA lively portrait of Horace Greeley, one of the nineteenth century's most fascinating public figures.The founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, Horace Greeley was the most significant—and polarizing—American journalist of the nineteenth century. To the farmers and tradesmen of the rural North, the Tribune was akin to holy writ. To just about everyone else—Democrats, southerners, and a good many Whig and Republican political allies—Greeley was a shape-shifting menace: an abolitionist fanatic; a disappointing conservative; a terrible liar; a power-hungry megalomaniac.In Horace Greeley, James M. Lundberg revisits this long-misunderstood figure, known mostly for his wild inconsistencies and irrepressible political ambitions. Charting Greeley's rise and eventual fall, Lundberg mines an extensive newspaper archive to place Greeley and his Tribune at the center of the struggle to realize an elusive American national consensus in a tumultuous age. Emerging from the jangling culture and politics of Jacksonian America, Lundberg writes, Greeley sought to define a mode of journalism that could uplift the citizenry and unite the nation. But in the decades before the Civil War, he found slavery and the crisis of American expansion standing in the way of his vision. Speaking for the anti-slavery North and emerging Republican Party, Greeley rose to the height of his powers in the 1850s—but as a voice of sectional conflict, not national unity. By turns a war hawk and peace-seeker, champion of emancipation and sentimental reconciliationist, Greeley never quite had the measure of the world wrought by the Civil War. His 1872 run for president on a platform of reunion and amnesty toward the South made him a laughingstock—albeit one who ultimately laid the groundwork for national reconciliation and the betrayal of the Civil War's emancipatory promise.Lively and engaging, Lundberg reanimates this towering figure for modern readers. Tracing Greeley's twists and turns, this book tells a larger story about print, politics, and the failures of American nationalism in the nineteenth century.
Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom
by Robert WilliamsFrom his arrival in New York City in 1831 as a young printer from New Hampshire to his death in 1872 after losing the presidential election to General Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley (b. 1811) was a quintessential New Yorker. He thrived on the city’s ceaseless energy, with his New York Tribune at the forefront of a national revolution in reporting and transmitting news. Greeley devoured ideas, books, fads, and current events as quickly as he developed his own interests and causes, all of which revolved around the concept of freedom. While he adored his work as a New York editor, Greeley’s lifelong quest for universal freedom took him to the edge of the American frontier and beyond to Europe. A major figure in nineteenth-century American politics and reform movements, Greeley was also a key actor in a worldwide debate about the meaning of freedom that involved progressive thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Karl Marx.Greeley was first and foremost an ardent nationalist who devoted his life to ensuring that America live up to its promises of liberty and freedom for all of its members. Robert C. Williams places Greeley’s relentless political ambitions, bold reform agenda, and complex personal life into the broader context of freedom. Horace Greeley is as rigorous and vast as Greeley himself, and as America itself in the long nineteenth century.In the first comprehensive biography of Greeley to be published in nearly half a century, Williams captures Greeley from all sides: editor, reformer, political candidate, eccentric, and trans-Atlantic public intellectual; examining headlining news issues of the day, including slavery, westward expansion, European revolutions, the Civil War, the demise of the Whig and the birth of the Republican parties, transcendentalism, and other intellectual currents of the era.
Horace Greeley and the Tribune in the Civil War
by Dr Ralph Ray FahrneyHorace Greeley (1811-1872) was an American author and statesman who was the founder and editor of the New York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Born to a poor family in Amherst, New Hampshire, he was apprenticed to a printer in Vermont and went to New York City in 1831 to seek his fortune. In 1941 he founded the Tribune, which became the highest-circulating newspaper in the country through weekly editions sent by mail. Among many other issues, he urged the settlement of the American West, which he saw as a land of opportunity for the young and the unemployed, popularizing the slogan “Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.” He endlessly promoted utopian reforms such as socialism, vegetarianism, agrarianism, feminism, and temperance, while hiring the best talent he could find.In Horace Greeley and the Tribune, which was first published in 1936, Dr. Fahrney represents thorough research not only in the field of the New York Tribune, but in a great mass of printed material on the war. Well outlined and well written, it should prove both useful to the historian—offering the best guide through the mazes of the shuttlecock, loop-the-loop policy followed by the emotional editor of the Tribune—as well as to the student of journalism, who will find in it an explanation of how the most influential journal of the land in 1861 became one of the most distrusted four years later.
Horace Mann: A Biography
by Jonathan MesserliIn terms of biographers, Horace Mann has been fortunate, both in their number and good will. Grateful interpretations of his work began to emerge immediately after his death in 1859 and have abounded thereafter, reaching something of a climax in 1937, the centennial anniversary of his entrance into the common school reform movement. Six major biographies have been written, as have a score of lesser "short lives" and several book-length monographs on significant aspects of his career. In addition, a dozen doctoral students have mined his life for their special studies and more than a thousand admiring authors have published articles celebrating his contributions to the schooling of American children.
Horace, The Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets (Facing Pages #1)
by HoraceThey have inspired poets and challenged translators through the centuries. The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of technique have often proved elusive, especially when--as has usually been the case--a single translator ventures to maneuver through Horace's infinite variety. Now for the first time, leading poets from America, England, and Ireland have collaborated to bring all 103 odes into English in a series of new translations that dazzle as poems while also illuminating the imagination of one of literary history's towering figures. The thirty-five contemporary poets assembled in this outstanding volume include nine winners of the Pulitzer prize for poetry as well as four former Poet Laureates. Their translations, while faithful to the Latin, elegantly dramatize how the poets, each in his or her own way, have engaged Horace in a spirited encounter across time. Each of the odes now has a distinct voice, and Horace's poetic achievement has at last been revealed in all its mercurial majesty. In his introduction, J. D. McClatchy, the volume's editor and one of the translators, reflects on the meaning of Horace through the ages and relates how a poet who began as a cynical satirist went on to write the odes. For the connoisseur, the original texts appear on facing pages allowing Horace's ingenuity to be fully appreciated. For the general reader, these new translations--all of them commissioned for this book--will be an exhilarating tour of the best poets writing today and of the work of Horace, long obscured and now freshly minted. The contributors are Robert Bly, Eavan Boland, Robert Creeley, Dick Davis, Mark Doty, Alice Fulton, Debora Greger, Linda Gregerson, Rachel Hadas, Donald Hall, Robert Hass, Anthony Hecht, Daryl Hine, John Hollander, Richard Howard, John Kinsella, Carolyn Kizer, James Lasdun, J. D. McClatchy, Heather McHugh, W. S. Mervin, Paul Muldoon, Carl Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Marie Ponsot, Charles Simic, Mark Strand, Charles Tomlinson, Ellen Bryantr Voigt, David Wagoner, Rosanna Warren, Richard Wilbur, C. K. Williams, Charles Wright, and Stephen Yenser.
Horace Walpole (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts #9)
by Wilmarth Sheldon LewisAn illuminating biographical study of the eighteenth-century English man of letters and patron of the artsHorace Walpole (1717–1797) was a collector, printer, novelist, arbiter of taste, and renowned writer of letters. In this book, eminent scholar Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis provides an unprecedented look at the life and work of one of England’s greatest men of letters. Lewis sheds light on Walpole’s relationships with his family and friends, his politics, his writings and printmaking activities, and his correspondence. Featuring portraits of Walpole, his relatives, and friends; images of Walpole's sketches and manuscripts; pages from books printed at Walpole’s Strawberry Hill Press; and views and plans of Strawberry Hill, the house, its rooms and furnishings, and its grounds, and accompanied by Lewis’s extensive annotations, this book provides an invaluable history of an extraordinary man.
Horace's Ars Poetica: Family, Friendship, and the Art of Living
by Jennifer Ferriss-HillA major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manualFor two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served as a paradigmatic manual for writers. Rarely has it been considered as a poem in its own right, or else it has been disparaged as a great poet's baffling outlier. Here, Jennifer Ferriss-Hill for the first time fully reintegrates the Ars Poetica into Horace's oeuvre, reading the poem as a coherent, complete, and exceptional literary artifact intimately linked with the larger themes pervading his work.Arguing that the poem can be interpreted as a manual on how to live masquerading as a handbook on poetry, Ferriss-Hill traces its key themes to show that they extend beyond poetry to encompass friendship, laughter, intergenerational relationships, and human endeavor. If the poem is read for how it expresses itself, moreover, it emerges as an exemplum of art in which judicious repetitions of words and ideas join disparate parts into a seamless whole that nevertheless lends itself to being remade upon every reading.Establishing the Ars Poetica as a logical evolution of Horace's work, this book promises to inspire a long overdue reconsideration of a hugely influential yet misunderstood poem.
Horace's Carmen Saeculare: Ritual Magic and the Poet's Art
by Michael C. J. Putnam"This is the first book devoted to Horace's Carmen Saeculare, a poem commissioned by Roman emperor Augustus in 17 B. C. E. for choral performance at the Ludi Saeculares, the Secular Games. The poem is the first fully preserved Latin hymn whose circumstances of presentation are known, and it is the only lyric by Horace that we can be certain was first presented orally. Michael C. J. Putnam offers a close and sensitive reading of this hymn shedding new light on the richness and virtuosity of its poetry, on the many sources Horace drew on, and on the poem's power and significance as a public ritual.
Horacio Sextilio: El legionario
by Roberto Maria EusebioEl recorrido del noble y joven Terencio que de simple legionario llega al trono senatorial. En Roma, corre el año 95 de Domiciano, un joven de noble familia se enamora de una joven plebeya. Su padre, Senador del Imperio, se opone a la relacion y envía al joven a las filas del ejército. Así comienza su camino, luchas, guerras, madurez y los golpes del destino, le forman un carácter honrado y noble, que lo llevarán a ocupar el sillón de su padre en el Senado.
Las horas distantes
by Kate MortonTodo comenzó con una carta. Una carta que llevaba extraviada mucho tiempo, esperando durante más de medio siglo en una saca de correos olvidada en el oscuro desván de una anodina casa de Londres... De la autora de El jardín olvidado, cuyas ventas en el mundo superan los 4 millones de ejemplares vendidos, y La casa de Riverton, com más de 2 millones de ejemplares vendidos. Edie Burchill y su madre nunca han estado lo que se dice unidas. Pero un domingo por la tarde llega a su casa una carta, perdida hace tiempo, con el remite de Milderhurst Castle, en Kent (Inglaterra), y Edie empieza a pensar que la frialdad de su madre oculta un antiguo secreto. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la madre de Edie fue evacuada de Londres y acogida por la misteriosa Juniper Blythe en Milderhurst Castle, donde vivía con sus hermanas gemelas y su padre, Raymond, autor del clásico infantil La verdadera historia del Hombre de Barro. El espléndido y enorme castillo le muestra un nuevo mundo en el que descubre la fantasía y el placer de los libros, pero también sus peligros. Cincuenta años más tarde, cuando Edie busca las respuestas al enigma de su madre, se siente atraída por Milderhurst Castle, donde, ya ancianas, las excéntricas gemelas y Juniper viven todavía. En el ya ruinoso castillo, Edie investiga el pasado de su madre. Pero hay otros secretos escondidos entre sus muros, y Edie está a punto de averiguar más de lo que esperaba. Lo que realmente sucedió en las horas distantes ha estado aguardando mucho tiempo a que alguien lo desvelara. Con un estilo cautivador y una elegante manera de narrar que nos remite a Dickens, las hermanas Brönte y Jane Austen, Kate Morton da una vuelta de tuerca a la novela clásica victoriana para sumergirnos en una trama absorbente y componer un puzle tan hermoso como brillante. Reseñas:«Memorias, intriga y secretos de familia entretejidos en un absorbente laberinto de tramas complementarias que nos arrastran a una lectura llena de fuerza, ternura y emoción. Con un estilo ágil y envolvente, Kate Morton nos conmueve con una magnífica historia difícil de olvidar.»María Dueñas «Una apasionante novela de misterio y amor. [...] Las respuestas dejarán a los lectores atónitos.»Publishers Weekly «En la tradición de las novelas góticas clásicas, Las horas distantes es un cautivador viaje, un misterio cuyas revelaciones, muy bien dosificadas, proporcionan una lectura sorprendente y profundamente gratificante.»Booklist «Kate Morton, [...] en la tradición de literatura clásica anglosajona, es el último fenómeno literario. [...] Atrapa a los lectores con lazo por su manera de contar gustosa, minuciosa, victoriana.»El País Semanal «Entre sus páginas se oyen ecos del mejor Maupassant, el lejano Bradbury y sus tormentas internas y el psicológico Henry James y sus personajes inquietantes. Pero, sobre todo, Morton ha dado vida a un territorio mítico e incognoscible: la posesión más valiosa del ser humano: los recuerdos.»Ángeles López, Qué leer
Las horas oscuras
by Juan Francisco FerrándizAtrévete a descubrir la verdad que desató una terrible maldición de muerte y sombras en un tiempo de tinieblas. Conoces la leyenda, deja que te cuente ahora la verdadera historia... Cuentan los ancianos que hace mucho tiempo, en los albores del fin del milenio, un forastero llegó a las brumosas tierras de Irlanda con una misteriosa misión. Dicen que ese hombre, un monje atormentado y valeroso llamado Brian de Liébana, huía de unos caballeros de tez pálida y alma oscura, cuyo nombre nadie osa pronunciar sin santiguarse. Los más viejos afirman que Brian y sus compañeros se atrevieron a reconstruir el monasterio de San Columbano, antaño escenario de una cruel matanza. Y aunque algunos juran que profanar esas ruinas supuso el inicio de todas las desgracias, otros opinan que fue la presencia intramuros de una hermosa mujer celta lo que provocó la ira de Dios. Reseñas:«Las horas oscuras, una novela que homenajea sin complejos la emblemática El nombre de la rosa de Eco, a la que añade una dosis de fantasía estilo Tolkien.»El Mundo «La fuerza del elemento arquitectónico en construcción -el monasterio- traza vínculos con Ken Follett e Ildefonso Falcones.»La Vanguardia
Las horas rebeldes
by Eric MarchalUna vibrante novela, ambientada en la Inglaterra tradicional de principios del siglo XX, que rinde tributo a quienes se rebelaron por sus ideales y, en especial, a aquellas pioneras que lucharon por los derechos de las mujeres. Londres, 1908. A pesar de la tirantez que se respira bajo el reinado de Eduardo VI, en las calles londinenses late el germen de la revolución. Mientras el viejo mundo se aferra a sus costumbres, una joven y valiente sufragista, un atractivo médico mestizo y un excéntrico aristócrata se dejan la piel para defender sus ideales de igualdad entre hombres y mujeres, entre ricos y pobres. En su arriesgado camino hacia una sociedad más justa, se enfrentarán a dos enemigos en apariencia imbatibles: el poder establecido y un misterioso personaje apodado El Apóstol. Una novela de aventuras de un trío de rebeldes que luchan frente al poder establecido y que tienen como causa el feminismo y la justicia social. Reseñas:«Un descubrimiento absoluto.»Le Point «Éric Marchal es el Ken Follett francés.»Le Figaro
Horatio Bottomley and the Far Right Before Fascism (Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right)
by David RentonHoratio Bottomley and the Far Right Before Fascism examines Bottomley’s life and politics, and what made him one of the great figures of Edwardian life. During the first World War, his magazine John Bull sold two million copies a week. Bottomley addressed huge crowds urging them to wage a way of extermination against ordinary Germans. The first chairman of the Financial Times, the inspiration for Toad in The Wind in the Willows, Bottomley was also a major figure in post-1918 politics, urging Conservative voters to dump their leaders and try something new. This carefully researched biography, the first new life of Bottomley for 50 years, shows how he began on the centre-left of Edwardian politics and then moved to the margins, becoming a leading figure on the Edwardian far right, and pre-empting the non-fascist far right of our own days. This book will appeal to scholars and students with interests in political history, fascism and the far right.
Horatio Nelson
by Angus Konstam Peter DennisThe most famous admiral in history, Horatio Nelson's string of naval victories helped secure Britain's place as the world's dominant maritime power, a position she held for more than a century after Nelson's death. A young officer during the American Revolution, Nelson rose to prominence during Britain's war with Revolutionary France, becoming a hero at the battle of Cape St. Vincent. He went on to win massive victories at the Nile and Copenhagen, before leading the British to their historic victory at Trafalgar in 1805. But, in that moment of his greatest glory, Nelson was struck down by a French sharpshooter. Today Nelson is revered as an almost mythical figure - a naval genius and a national hero. He was also a deeply flawed individual whose vanity, ego and private life all threatened to overshadow his immense abilities. This book reveals the real Nelson.From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
by Marie FavereauAn epic history of the Mongols as we have never seen them—not just conquerors but also city builders, diplomats, and supple economic thinkers who constructed one of the most influential empires in history. The Mongols are widely known for one thing: conquest. In the first comprehensive history of the Horde, the western portion of the Mongol empire that arose after the death of Chinggis Khan, Marie Favereau shows that the accomplishments of the Mongols extended far beyond war. For three hundred years, the Horde was no less a force in global development than Rome had been. It left behind a profound legacy in Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, palpable to this day. Favereau takes us inside one of the most powerful sources of cross-border integration in world history. The Horde was the central node in the Eurasian commercial boom of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and was a conduit for exchanges across thousands of miles. Its unique political regime—a complex power-sharing arrangement among the khan and the nobility—rewarded skillful administrators and diplomats and fostered an economic order that was mobile, organized, and innovative. From its capital at Sarai on the lower Volga River, the Horde provided a governance model for Russia, influenced social practice and state structure across Islamic cultures, disseminated sophisticated theories about the natural world, and introduced novel ideas of religious tolerance. The Horde is the eloquent, ambitious, and definitive portrait of an empire little understood and too readily dismissed. Challenging conceptions of nomads as peripheral to history, Favereau makes clear that we live in a world inherited from the Mongol moment.
A Horde of Fools: The Dark Ages Saga Of Tristan De Saint-germain (The Dark Ages Saga of Tristan de Saint-Germain #Vol. 3)
by Robert E. HirschA mob of peasants ransacks its way to Byzantium while a young bishop struggles to stop them, in this sweeping historical novel of the Crusades. Wild-eyed evangelist Kuku Peter has inflamed the pauper hordes of Europe, raising a violent peasant army of thirty thousand men, women, children, and elderly intent on recapturing Jerusalem from Islam. Untrained, armed with farm implements, and lacking provisions, this ragtag mob scorches a path across Europe and into Byzantium, leaving behind a horrid trail of intolerance and destruction . . . Young Bishop Tristan de Saint-Germain is sent by the pope to stop Kuku Peter&’s march of madness, but trails it all the way to Constantinople. Arriving there, he unexpectedly discovers beautiful Mala the Romani awaiting him, still hoping to pull him from the grasp of Pope Urban and the Vatican. As their heartbreaking, obsessive past unearths itself while promising resurrection, the future of Christendom hangs in the balance as Kuku Peter&’s renegade army tramps into the Sultanate of Rüm. Clinging to each other in defiant desperation, driven by hope and an illicit love forbidden by the Church, Tristan and Mala struggle to survive the raging currents of war, race, and faith as humanity approaches the greatest cultural war of all time: the Holy Crusades.
Horicon and Horicon Marsh (Images of America)
by Susan Brunner Jennee HarmuthThe city of Horicon has grown beyond its mill town roots to become home to John Deere, Gardner Manufacturing, and many community events. Meanwhile, Horicon Marsh has loomed to the north with its own story to tell. Over the years, what was once the land of the Winnebagos has been flooded, drained, dredged, and farmed. However, thanks to a restoration movement that began in the 1920s, Horicon Marsh stands today as the largest freshwater cattail marsh in the United States.
The Horizon
by Didier MaleuvreWhat is a horizon? A line where land meets sky? The end of the world or the beginning of perception? In this brilliant, engaging, and stimulating history, Didier Maleuvre journeys to the outer reaches of human experience and explores philosophy, religion, and art to understand our struggle and fascination with limits--of life, knowledge, existence, and death. Maleuvre sweeps us through a vast cultural landscape, enabling us to experience each stopping place as the cusp of a limitless journey, whether he is discussing the works of Picasso, Gothic architecture, Beethoven, or General Relativity. If, as Aristotle said, philosophy begins in wonder, then this remarkable book shows us how wonder--the urge to know beyond the conceivable--is itself the engine of culture.
Horizons: North Carolina Edition
by Harcourt School Publishers StaffHarcourt Horizons North Carolina
Horizons: The History of the Air Cadets (Royal Airforce Air Cadets:The Next Generation)
by H. R. KiddAlthough the first air cadet unit was raised in Bournmouth in 1928, the first squadrons to be formed in a privately funded national organisation were part of the Air Defence Cadet Corps in 1938. Thousands of youngsters joined and were able to learn about aircraft, aerodynamics, navigation, mechanics and other subjects not taught in schools. The organization was to become known as The Air Training Corps (ATC) and as war loomed it was considered a useful RAF recruitment tool to attract potential airmen and ground crew. Throughout the war ATC cadets supported the home defences by fire watching, as messengers and as observers, working alongside the Home Guard, the fire services and other vital organisations. During the second half of the 1900s the corps continued to thrive. Girls were now included and retired RAF officers and other ranks continued to take an active part in each squadron. There are now over 900 squadrons within the UK, providing the same skills to modern youth and teaching them the importance of personal responsibility and teamwork via annual camps at RAF stations, adventure training and flight experience. This book looks at all aspects of the Air Cadet's history and tradition, including the RAF sections of the Combined Cadet Force attached to public and grammar schools. It concludes with an analysis of what subjects and courses are currently available with many past and present illustrations.As seen in The York Press and The Scarborough News.
Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science
by James PoskettThe history of science as it has never been told before: a tale of outsiders and unsung heroes from far beyond the Western canon that most of us are taught.When we think about the origins of modern science we usually begin in Europe. We remember the great minds of Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein. But the history of science is not, and has never been, a uniquely European endeavor. Copernicus relied on mathematical techniques that came from Arabic and Persian texts. Newton’s laws of motion used astronomical observations made in Asia and Africa. When Darwin was writing On the Origin of Species, he consulted a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia. And when Einstein studied quantum mechanics, he was inspired by the Bengali physicist, Satyendra Nath Bose.Horizons is the history of science as it has never been told before, uncovering its unsung heroes and revealing that the most important scientific breakthroughs have come from the exchange of ideas from different cultures around the world. In this ambitious, revelatory history, James Poskett recasts the history of science, uncovering the vital contributions that scientists in Africa, America, Asia, and the Pacific have made to this global story.