The Federal Government, More Wizards of Oz is a book that tries to show how America became a great country and the greatest economic and military power the world has ever witnessed. The book also shows how a decline over the last fifty years has slowly taken place to the point of where America is today. The economic, military, political, financial, and cultural decay is obvious to anyone aware of current events. This book also points out the solutions necessary to return to a growth path towards greatness once again. Chapter I describes the situation of today, 2011. Chapter III sets out to show the causes of Americas fall from greatness. Later chapters try to show who and what is behind the curtain producing the causes that are setting in motion the fall from greatness of the United States of America. Finally, in Chapter XI, The Solutions to many problems are enumerated and pointed out.
For fans of Michael McKinley’s Hockey: A People’s History and Bob Cole’s Now I’m Catching On—a book about what’s changed in hockey, what never should, and a celebration of what we love about the game, from the broadcaster, analyst, and longtime executive producer of Hockey Night in Canada, John Shannon. For decades, Hockey Night in Canada has been the gold standard not just for hockey broadcasts, but for all sports across North America. It shows the stories of the game: on-ice heroics, the love and support of family, small-town values, and big-city lights. Meet the person who shaped that standard. John Shannon was the longtime executive producer of Hockey Night in Canada, starting at the bottom and working his way up through the 1980s and 1990s. He has a unique view of the game and how the way we enjoy it has developed. Technology plays a role, but it’s about the storytelling—modern-day gladiators and their trials—and hockey provides endless good stories. Shannon’s world behind the scenes is every bit as colourful and unexpected as what happens on the ice—and just as full of rich characters. From standing up to the Edmonton Oilers’ mighty Glen Sather to ordering then Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau to keep out of a dressing room, these stories illuminate the big moments and people that have made the game special. Shannon captures a nostalgia for the great broadcasts of the past—complete with baby blue Hockey Night in Canada blazers—and a pride in how far we’ve come in improving the game and expanding on the stories we tell. He also shares the keys to a long and successful career: integrity, loyalty, determination, and above all passion. Much has changed in the sport and how we enjoy it, but Shannon’s career shows that some things must always remain.
Lighten Up! is a collection of 50 jokes and quotations by Johnny Shannon, who lives in an assisted living facility in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Despite his many health challenges since birth, John maintains a positive outlook in life, and his unique sense of humor is a prime way he does this. He likes to crack jokes, say funny sayings and make other interesting comments and observations that keep those around him laughing – and sometimes scratching their heads. The book is dedicated to his late mother, Mary Ann Inez Shannon, who died on Johnny’s 51st birthday in 2014, on April 2nd. He credits her for keeping him alive through his bout with severe pneumonia at six months of age, when he developed a 108-degree fever and was in a coma for 21 days. During this time, the intubation procedure collapsed his left lung, which causes him trouble to this day. Proceeds from sales of this book will help supplement John’s minimal government-assistance income.
The book explores concepts throughout the history of philosophy that suggest the possibility of unconscious thought and lay the foundation for ideas of unconscious thought in modern philosophy and psychoanalysis. The focus is on the workings of unconscious thought and the role it plays in thinking, language, perception, and human identity.
The Symposium and the aesthetics of Plotinus -- The aesthetics of Schelling -- Plotinian hypostases in Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit -- The aesthetics of Hegel -- Architecture and the philosophy of spirit. Plotinus - Estetik Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854 - Estetik Hegel, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm, 1770-1831 - Estetik Estetik - Tarih.
Jack Liffey - the rough-edged, brave, compassionate private detective who garners more enthusiastic reviews with each new case - once again searches the volatile ethnic communities buried in the urban sprawl of Los Angeles for another of the city's mysteriously lost. This time, Liffey is looking for Amilcar Davis, the adopted son of a prominent black 1960s civil rights campaigner. Both Amilcar and his white girlfriend from Simi Valley have gone suspiciously missing from their small suburban college in the wake of an unsettling run-in with a motorcycle gang at a local jazz club. The whole city is unsettled, in fact, as a new wave of racial unrest is brewing over the choke-hold death of Abdullah-Ibrahim - a black Muslim and the Dodgers' new ace spitball pitcher - at the hands of the LA police. In the course of his investigation, Liffey runs afoul of skinheads, white supremacists, the Christian Right, and black separatists. He also confronts his own latent racism before the city's ethnic tensions erupt into full-fledged riot that a bloodied, unconscious Liffey - by the will of his teenage daughter and the ingenuity of a gifted elevn-year-old black girl with a wheelbarrow and a pair of roller skates - only barely escapes with his life.
Keynesian Economics, The Cancer in America". This book is the 4th book written by John Shannon. It is one in a series of books about economics, investing, politics, and political satire. Even though each book has all the above characteristics, each book also has it's dominant theme. "Keynesian Economics, The Cancer in America" tries to show the dominant economic school of thought for the last 75 years which is taught in all the school systems, is applied in the financial community, and exploited in governments, in america and around the world is a destructive economic philosophy and the cause of the growing economic and political unrest that we face today. Other books by the author: "The Gold Star Investment Strategy" "The Federal Reserve Board, The Wizards of Oz, The Men Behind the Curtain" "The Federal Government, More Wizards of Oz
Jack Liffey’s former mistress reappears to plead for the P.I.’s help finding her missing niece. The hunt leads Liffey to Monterey Park, where he dives into an undercurrent of racial tension that puts the peace of the small suburb in jeopardy. Meanwhile, a fire burns in the hills above Los Angeles, offering a sinister reminder that few events in life are coincidental. But Liffey’s sudden troubles with racist gangs, teenage revolutionaries, and South African nutjobs are dwarfed by the threat his old mistress poses to his relationships with his new girlfriend and his recently reconciled lesbian daughter. What’s a hard-boiled dick to do? Exploding with wry wit, Chinese Beverly Hills is tense and thought-provoking, with the quirkiness that Shannon’s fans have come to expect.
By tracing the local, provincial, and imperial settings of the Albany Congress, Shannon's book fleshes out the events that shook Britain's rule of North America. Far from serving as a dress rehearsal for the Constitutional Convention, the Albany Congress marked, for colonists and Iroquois alike, a passage from an independent, commercial pattern of intercultural relations to a hierarchical, bureaucratic imperialism controlled by a distant authority."--BOOK JACKET.
Forty million children scramble across the playing fields of America each year. They are coached by 4 million youth coaches. Coaches are in a unique position to teach kids lessons that will serve them throughout life. This book encourages coaches to see themselves as teachers and realize the impact they have on children. Also addressed is the increasing number of coaches exhibiting unhealthy levels of intensity in youth sports.
This book explains and celebrates the richness of Englishchurches and cathedrals, which have a major place inmedieval architecture. The English Gothic style developedsomewhat later than in France, but rapidly developed itsown architectural and ornamental codes. The author, John Shannon Hendrix, classifies English Gothic architecture in four principal stages: the early English Gothic, the decorated, the curvilinear, and the perpendicular Gothic. Several photographs of these architectural testimonies allow us to understand the whole originality of Britain during the Gothic era: in Canterbury, Wells, Lincoln, York, and Salisbury. The English Gothic architecture is a poetic one, speaking both to the senses and spirit. churches and cathedrals, which have a major place in medieval architecture. The English Gothic style developed somewhat later than in France, but rapidly developed its own architectural and ornamental codes. The author, John Shannon Hendrix, classifies English Gothic architecture in four principal stages: the early English Gothic, the decorated, the curvilinear, and the perpendicular Gothic. Several photographs of these architectural testimonies allow us to understand the whole originality of Britain during the Gothic era: in Canterbury, Wells, Lincoln, York, and Salisbury. The English Gothic architecture is a poetic one, speaking both to the senses and spirit.
A vivid portrait of the Iroquois nation during colonial America offers insight into their formidable influence over regional politics, their active participation in period trade, and their neutral stance throughout the Anglo-French imperial wars. 15,000 first printing.
The Gold Star Investment Strategy is a must read for every American who is interested in saving and investing for the future. Today, more than ever before saving and investing is such a necessity that cannot be ignored. The days of company pensions and social security providing financial security are just about gone. Too many Americans are living dangerously pay check to pay check and others are saving but receiving investment advice from incompetent sources. The Gold Star Investment Strategy is a great strategy for saving and building wealth. Chapter I describes the strategy and shows how easy the strategy is to use. It also describes how truly diversified the strategy is and the necessity behind this diversification. I wrote this book because of my many, many, many years of studying economics and during that time have witnessed so many financial experts at the Federal Reserve, the Treasury, the colleges and universities, the investment community, the business community (including financial planners and investment advisors on TV and news media) giving such incompetent financial advice to the American public. My love of economic has produced a great strategy that is fool proof and easy to understand and use. The Gold Star Investment Strategy is unique in its diversification and ability to stand alone without the need for investment advice from other sources.
Jack Liffey is a decent guy, as compassionate as he is brave, and in this taut new novel in an acclaimed mystery series, he again finds himself on a case that turns familiar city streets into dangerous war zones.
Continuing the themes that have been addressed in The Humanities in Architectural Design and The Cultural Role of Architecture, this book illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture. The contradiction between form and function is seen as a device for poetic expression, for the expression of ideas, in architecture. The book contributes to the project of re-establishing architecture as a humanistic discipline, to re-establish an emphasis on the expression of ideas, and on the ethical role of architecture to engage the intellect of the observer and to represent human identity.
How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays in this volume address these and similar questions to establish important theoretical and philosophical bases for artistic production in the Renaissance and beyond. The essays also attend to the views of historically significant writers from the ancient classical period to the eighteenth century, including Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, St Augustine, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), Ibn Sahl, Marsilio Ficino, Nicholas of Cusa, Leon Battista Alberti, Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Gregorio Comanini, John Davies, Rene Descartes, Samuel van Hoogstraten, and George Berkeley. Contributors carefully scrutinize and illustrate the effect of changing and evolving ideas of intellectual and physical vision on artistic practice in Florence, Rome, Venice, England, Austria, and the Netherlands. The artists whose work and practices are discussed include Fra Angelico, Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Filippino Lippi, Giovanni Bellini, Raphael, Parmigianino, Titian, Bronzino, Johannes Gumpp and Rembrandt van Rijn. Taken together, the essays provide the reader with a fresh perspective on the intellectual confluence between art, science, philosophy, and literature across Renaissance Europe.
John Scott Campbell, "Pisspots and Pumpkins: Three Notes to the Apocolocyntosis"; Mark Morford, "The Dual Citizenship of the Roman Stoics"; Jo-Ann Shelton, "Elephants, Pompey, and the Reports of Popular Displeasure in 55 BC"; Daniel R. White, "Seneca and the Empire of Signs
There are a number of recent texts that draw on psychoanalytic theory as an interpretative approach for understanding architecture, or that use the formal and social logics of architecture for understanding the psyche. But there remains work to be done in bringing what largely amounts to a series of independent voices, into a discourse that is greater than the sum of its parts, in the way that, say, the architect Peter Eisenman was able to do with the architecture of deconstruction or that the historian Manfredo Tafuri was able to do with the Marxist critique of architecture. The discourse of the present volume focuses specifically for the first time on the subject of the unconscious in relation to the design, perception, and understanding of architecture. It brings together an international group of contributors, who provide informed and varied points of view on the role of the unconscious in architectural design and theory and, in doing so, expand architectural theory to unexplored areas, enriching architecture in relation to the humanities. The book explores how architecture engages dreams, desires, imagination, memory, and emotions, how architecture can appeal to a broader scope of human experience and identity. Beginning by examining the historical development of the engagement of the unconscious in architectural discourse, and the current and historical, theoretical and practical, intersections of architecture and psychoanalysis, the volume also analyses the city and the urban condition.
Architecture as Cosmology examines the precedents, interpretations, and influences of the architecture of one of the great buildings in the history of architecture, Lincoln Cathedral. It analyzes the origin and development of its architectural forms, which were to a great extent unprecedented and were very influential in the development of English Gothic architecture and in conceptions of architecture to the present day. Architecture as Cosmology emphasizes the relation of the architectural forms to medieval philosophy, focusing on the writings of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln (1235-53). The architecture is seen as a text of the philosophy, cosmology, and theology of medieval English culture. This book should be useful to anyone interested in architecture, architectural history, architectural theory, Gothic architecture, and medieval philosophy.
A look at the ups and downs of socialism in America through the eyes of Clay Trumbull, a third-generation socialist. Son of a labor organizer, grandson of a muckraking journalist, Trumbull was educated at socialist rallies, rather than in the classroom. He follows in his family's footsteps by becoming a crusading journalist.
The pipe organ, an instrument whose origins date to ancient Greece, is prominent in the development of secular and church music, and its builders were as artistic as the composers like Bach, Pachelbel and Handel who played them. This book describes the mechanics, fabrication, and acoustics of all types of pipe organs. Although it is technical in nature, its design, descriptions, and language are directed to organ students, their teachers, and all persons who love the organ. The book covers the construction of several types of pipe organ, with chapters on actions, chests, pipe work, wind supply, electrical circuitry, mechanics, registration, organ placement, acoustics, and repairs.
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