The Playing Fields of Eton
Author: Mika LaVaque-Manty
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2009-04-29
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0472116851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan equality and excellence coexist in a democratic society?
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After Dark in the Playing Fields
Author: M R James
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014-05-27
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 1312184884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKM. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognisable world to one that is indefinably strange, and then unforgettably terrifying. Sheets, pictures, carvings, a dolls house, a lonely beach, a branch tapping on a window, ordinary things take on more than a tinge of dread in the hands of the original master of suspense.
Playing Fields
Author: Eric Parker
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 352
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Author: Ernest Milbourne Swinnerton Pilkington
Publisher:
Published: 1896
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Political Future of England
Author: Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Published: 1856
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Patton Papers
Author: Martin Blumenson
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2009-07-21
Total Pages: 942
ISBN-13: 0786749741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of World War II's most brilliant and controversial generals, George S. Patton (1885-1945) fought in North Africa and Sicily, as commander of the Third Army, spearheaded the Allies' spectacular 1944-1945 sweep through France, Belgium, and Germany. Martin Blumenson is the only historian to enjoy unlimited access to the vast Patton papers. his many books include Masters of the Art of Command (available from Da Capo Press) and Patton: The Man Behind the Legend.
Rites of Fall
Author: Al Reinert
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 182
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe passion and essence of Texas high school football is captured in a photographic essay on the players, fans, pep rallies, speeches, and bands that conveys the spirit of all Friday night football games.
The Image of Man
Author: George L. Mosse
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998-10-08
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0195352106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does it mean to be a man? What does it mean to be manly? How has our notion of masculinity changed over the years? In this book, noted historian George L. Mosse provides the first historical account of the masculine stereotype in modern Western culture, tracing the evolution of the idea of manliness to reveal how it came to embody physical beauty, courage, moral restraint, and a strong will. This stereotype, he finds, originated in the tumultuous changes of the eighteenth century, as Europe's dominant aristocrats grudgingly yielded to the rise of the professional, bureaucratic, and commercial middle classes. Mosse reveals how the new bourgeoisie, faced with a bewildering, rapidly industrialized world, latched onto the knightly ideal of chivalry. He also shows how the rise of universal conscription created a "soldierly man" as an ideal type. In bringing his examination up to the present, Mosse studies the key historical roles of the so-called "fairer sex" (women) and "unmanly men" (Jews and homosexuals) in defining and maintaining the male stereotype, and considers the possible erosion of that stereotype in our own time.
What it Means to be Avant-garde
Author: David Antin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKwhat it means to be avant-garde is David Antin's third collection of "talk poems" published by New Directions. As in his earlier talking at the boundaries (1976), and tuning (winner of the 1984 PEN/Los Angeles Literary Award for Poetry), Antin's brilliant improvised disquisitions at once challenge readers' expectations even as they instruct and entertain. A poet, performance artist, art critic, and professor of visual arts, Antin, since his college days in New York in the '50s, has been at the cutting edge of the avant-garde. The avant-garde? Yes, if by this is meant not an image of fashion but the place where art and life intersect, imparting to both a greater urgency - if is meant the place where experience and knowledge find their deepest expression, where the idea of a universal language can find shape, where the price of art is itself, where the fringe is the very center of existence.
They Never Said It
Author: Paul F. Boller Jr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1990-06-14
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 0199879168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbraham Lincoln never said, "You cannot fool all the people all the time." Thomas Jefferson never said, "That government is best which governs least." And Horace Greeley never said, "Go west, young man." In They Never Said It, Paul F. Boller, Jr. and John George examine hundreds of misquotations, incorrect attributions, and blatant fabrications, outlining the origins of the quotes and revealing why we should consign them to the historical trashcan. Many of the misquotes are quite harmless. Some are inadvertent misquotes that have become popular (Shakespeare actually said, "The best part of valor is discretion"), others, the inventions of reporters embellishing a story (Franklin Roosevelt never opened a speech to a DAR group with the salutation, "My fellow immigrants"). But some of the quotes, such as Charles Darwin's supposed deathbed recantation of evolution, falsify the historical record with their blatant dishonesty. And other chillingly vicious ones, filled with virulent racial and religious prejudices, completely distort the views of the person supposedly quoted and spread distrust and hatred among the gullible. These include the forged remarks attributed to Benjamin Franklin that Jews should be excluded from America and the fabricated condemnation of Catholics attributed to Lincoln. An entertaining and thought-provoking book, They Never Said It covers a great deal of history and sets it right. Going beyond a mere catalog of popular misconceptions, Boller and George reveal how rightists and leftists, and atheists and evangelists all have at times twisted and even invented the words of eminent figures to promote their own ends. The ultimate debunking reference, it perfectly complements handbooks of quotations.
