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United States Facts and Dates

By: Lionel De Leon

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And easy to follow, color-coded, reference book on the history and evolution of the United States covering the topics of religion, sex, drugs, taxes, oppression, children and individual accomplishments.

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1105748480

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Tomorrow I'll Surface

By: Lionel Reinford

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Tomorrow I'll Surface

By: Lionel Reinford

The text is composed of attributes circumventing the author’s transition and adaptation to the world’s most exciting society, after growing up in a country, which in many ways, had facilities that were at least two hundred years behind that of the modern world in 1965. The journey through academic education, family, friends, and the glorious development of Art, tells the story of perseverance, tolerance, and the quest for excellence. It also includes historical events that allow its reader to reflect back to what was happening in his personal life during those years, while at the same time, providing later generations with some knowledge of the past.

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146282563X

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9781462825639

Lead With C.A.R.E.

Strategies to Build Culturally Competent and Affirming Schools

By: Lionel E Allen,Lionel E. Allen Jr.

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Lead With C.A.R.E.

Strategies to Build Culturally Competent and Affirming Schools

By: Lionel E Allen,Lionel E. Allen Jr.

A framework for the courageous school leadership our students deserve. From the foreword by Gholdy Muhammad... "In Leading With C.A.R.E., Dr. Allen provides a way to disrupt the harms that systems, teachers, and leaders may inflict on children. He uses the richness of his personal and professional experiences to speak to the true purpose and power of schools, which is to disrupt disparities and affirm students’ cultural identities and brilliance. In doing so, Dr. Allen reminds educators that we must examine the structures of education historically and in the present so that we can dismantle harmful practices. The framework of C.A.R.E. presented here guides educators to lead with Culturally Responsiveness in teaching and learning, while Affirming children’s identities, and building positive Relationships with youth. Dr. Allen posits that this leads to spaces of Empowerment. This book provides the what, the why and importantly, the how. The C.A.R.E. framework helps leaders center the genius and joy of youth and teachers, while recognizing the social times we live in and elevating the education of children, especially those who have been historically excluded in schooling and in society. The framework provides a way forward for leaders to lead differently—with care, belonging, and excellence; providing every child with what they deeply deserve." With learning goals, summaries, and reflection questions included in each chapter, this guide offers actionable strategies educators can use to establish a culture that prioritizes students’ experiences and affirms their identities.

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Corwin Press

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1071950762

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9781071950760

The Afterlife of Race

An Informed Philosophical Search

By: Lionel K. McPherson

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The Afterlife of Race

An Informed Philosophical Search

By: Lionel K. McPherson

In The Afterlife of Race, Lionel McPherson demystifies the Western concept of "race" and reframes race ideology in America as a caste device that sponsors absurd pretexts for inherited slavery, enforced segregation, and the wilful nonrepair of historical injustice. This reframing paves the way for an anti-caste vision of social equality that emphasizes the moral importance of Black American national specificity--not general antiracism, identity politics, or diversity "of color." The result is a non-racial, non-exclusionary account of Black political solidarity that would welcome everyone who supports reparative justice for Black American "blacks" as descendants of American slavery.

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Oxford University Press

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019762684X

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9780197626849

Mysteries and Secrets of Time

By: Lionel Fanthorpe,Patricia Fanthorpe

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Mysteries and Secrets of Time

By: Lionel Fanthorpe,Patricia Fanthorpe

Is time infinite, or does it have a beginning and an end? This fascinating explores the mysteries of time and proposes a theory that suggests an awesome answer.

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1550026771

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Bread and Hyacinths

The Rise and Fall of Utopian Los Angeles

By: Lionel Rolfe,Nigey Lennon

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Bread and Hyacinths

The Rise and Fall of Utopian Los Angeles

By: Lionel Rolfe,Nigey Lennon

This fascinating account of Los Angeles’ buried past tells the story of Job Harriman, a former minister turned union organizer and attorney, who in 1911 was narrowly defeated as mayor of Los Angeles running on the Socialist ticket. Behind his defeat lay an unthinkably brutal, stop-at-nothing campaign headed by Los Angeles’ de facto political boss, General Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the Los Angeles Times. Harriman’s progressive mayoral campaign represented an epic battle for the future of Los Angeles against the bitterly reactionary forces of Otis and his backers. The authors amply demonstrate that Otis was the victor in this contest, and how that victory explains much about why Los Angeles is the way it is today. "Bread and Hyacinths" follows Harriman through his childhood as an Indiana farm boy, through his formative years as a union organizer to his emergence as a key figure in the pivotal era of American socialism. It eloquently describes his lifelong optimism and determination in the face of poor health, financial woes, and personal and political troubles. Viewed in perspective against the backdrop of a city - and a nation - torn by labor strife and political corruption, Harriman emerges as a crucial, if ultimately marginalized, figure in American political history. Viewed in the light of today's uncertain economy and political unrest, this period of California history can be seen as a disturbing omen of things to come. "Bread and Hyacinths" has been optioned as a motion picture by director Paul Haggis ("Crash", "Billion Dollar Baby", "Flags of Our Fathers"). This brief, useful book illuminates an obscure chapter in the history of Los Angeles and America’s socialist movement...The book also serves as a corrective to the Times’s distorted history of the Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony, a socialist community founded by Harriman in Southern Calfornia’s Antelope Valley. – Los Angeles Times This slender but potent book draws us into an early and unfamiliar era of Southern California, when Los Angeles seemed more like Charcoal Alley than Lotusland...[A] fine example of what regional publishing can and ought to be: vigorous, knowing, committed and unafraid, even if a bit eccentric. – Los Angeles Daily News

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SCB Distributors

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098348841X

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9780983488415

The God-Image

From Antiquity to Jung

By: Lionel Corbett

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The God-Image

From Antiquity to Jung

By: Lionel Corbett

This book describes the development of images of God, beginning in antiquity and culminating in Jung’s notion of the Self, an image of God in the psyche that Jung calls the God within. Over the course of history, the Self has been projected onto many local gods and goddesses and given different names and attributes. These deities are typically imagined as existing in a heavenly realm, but Jung’s approach recalls them to their origins in the objective psyche. This book shows how Jung’s approach avoids many of the philosophical problems produced by traditional anthropomorphic images of God and describes the myriad symbolic ways in which the Self may appear, independently of doctrinal images of God. By focusing on the empirical, psychological manifestations of the Self, Jung’s approach avoids arguments for and against the existence of a metaphysical God.

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Chiron Publications

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1630519863

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A Bibliography of Latin American and Caribbean Bibliographies, 1985-1989

Social Sciences and Humanities

By: Lionel V. Loroña

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A Bibliography of Latin American and Caribbean Bibliographies, 1985-1989

Social Sciences and Humanities

By: Lionel V. Loroña

The fifth supplement to Arthur E. Gropp's A Bibliography of Latin American Bibliographies (1968), covering bibliographies published 1985-89, and those published earlier but not noted in previous supplements. For the first time, includes Caribbean bibliographies. The 1,867 citations are unannotated. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Scarecrow Press

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0810827026

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Early Modern Prophecies in Transnational, National and Regional Contexts (3 vols.)

By: Lionel Laborie,Ariel Hessayon

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Early Modern Prophecies in Transnational, National and Regional Contexts (3 vols.)

By: Lionel Laborie,Ariel Hessayon

Laborie and Hessayon bring rare prophetic and millenarian texts to an international audience by presenting sources from all over Europe (broadly defined), and across the early modern period in English for the first time.

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9004443630

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9789004443631

Mysteries and Secrets: The 16-Book Complete Codex

Mysteries and Secrets of Numerology / Mysteries and Secrets of the Masons / and 14 more

By: Patricia Fanthorpe,Lionel Fanthorpe

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Mysteries and Secrets: The 16-Book Complete Codex

Mysteries and Secrets of Numerology / Mysteries and Secrets of the Masons / and 14 more

By: Patricia Fanthorpe,Lionel Fanthorpe

This special 16-book bundle collects fearless investigations into the paranormal from the pens of Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe, who for several decades been researching and writing about ancient and eternal mysteries. Their entertaining and thought-provoking works span numerous topics, from numerology, freemasonry, voodoo, satanism and witchcraft to the very nature of death and time. Additionally, they have produced numerous volumes examining the great unexplained mysteries and places of history, including The Bible, European castles, strange murders, arcane objects of power, the mysterious depths of the sea and remarkable people. Take a strange and beautiful trip to the mystical side of life in this special set! Includes Death Mysteries and Secrets of Numerology Mysteries and Secrets of the Masons Mysteries and Secrets of the Templars Mysteries and Secrets of Time Mysteries and Secrets of Voodoo, Santeria, and Obeah Satanism and Demonology Secrets of the World’s Undiscovered Treasures The Big Book of Mysteries The Oak Island Mystery The World’s Greatest Unsolved Mysteries The World’s Most Mysterious Castles The World’s Most Mysterious Murders The World’s Most Mysterious Objects The World’s Most Mysterious People Unsolved Mysteries of the Sea

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1459730925

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9781459730922

History of Trinidad from 1781-1839 and 1891-1896

By: Lionel Mordant Fraser

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History of Trinidad from 1781-1839 and 1891-1896

By: Lionel Mordant Fraser

This work covers the period of rapid expansion after the British conquest in 1797 until the colony was faced with dislocations coinciding with the emancipation of the slaves.

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Routledge

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1136258779

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A Bibliography of Latin American Bibliographies, 1980-1984

Social Sciences and Humanities

By: Lionel V. Loroña

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A Bibliography of Latin American Bibliographies, 1980-1984

Social Sciences and Humanities

By: Lionel V. Loroña

This book packs the five issues of the Bibliography of Latin American Bibliographies from 1980 t o 1984 in one volume. Organized by subject area, this work covers topics in Latin America and theCarribbean, listing articles in journals and other periodicals alnog with other sources.

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0810819414

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Privilege and Property

Essays on the History of Copyright

By: Ronan Deazley,Martin Kretschmer,Lionel Bently

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Privilege and Property

Essays on the History of Copyright

By: Ronan Deazley,Martin Kretschmer,Lionel Bently

What can and can't be copied is a matter of law, but also of aesthetics, culture, and economics. The act of copying, and the creation and transaction of rights relating to it, evokes fundamental notions of communication and censorship, of authorship and ownership - of privilege and property. This volume conceives a new history of copyright law that has its roots in a wide range of norms and practices. The essays reach back to the very material world of craftsmanship and mechanical inventions of Renaissance Italy where, in 1469, the German master printer Johannes of Speyer obtained a five-year exclusive privilege to print in Venice and its dominions. Along the intellectual journey that follows, we encounter John Milton who, in his 1644 Areopagitica speech 'For the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing', accuses the English parliament of having been deceived by the 'fraud of some old patentees and monopolizers in the trade of bookselling' (i.e. the London Stationers' Company). Later revisionary essays investigate the regulation of the printing press in the North American colonies as a provincial and somewhat crude version of European precedents, and how, in the revolutionary France of 1789, the subtle balance that the royal decrees had established between the interests of the author, the bookseller, and the public, was shattered by the abolition of the privilege system. Contributions also address the specific evolution of rights associated with the visual and performing arts. These essays provide essential reading for anybody interested in copyright, intellectual history and current public policy choices in intellectual property. The volume is a companion to the digital archive Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC): www.copyrighthistory.org.

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Open Book Publishers

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190692418X

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9781906924188

A History of Economic Thought

The LSE Lectures

By: Lionel Robbins

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A History of Economic Thought

The LSE Lectures

By: Lionel Robbins

Lionel Robbins's now famous lectures on the history of economic thought comprise one of the greatest accounts since World War II of the evolution of economic ideas. This volume represents the first time those lectures have been published. Lord Robbins (1898-1984) was a remarkably accomplished thinker, writer, and public figure. He made important contributions to economic theory, methodology, and policy analysis, directed the economic section of Winston Churchill's War Cabinet, and served as chairman of the Financial Times. As a historian of economic ideas, he ranks with Joseph Schumpeter and Jacob Viner as one of the foremost scholars of the century. These lectures, delivered at the London School of Economics between 1979 and 1981 and tape-recorded by Robbins's grandson, display his mastery of the intellectual history of economics, his infectious enthusiasm for the subject, and his eloquence and incisive wit. They cover a broad chronological range, beginning with Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas, focusing extensively on Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus and the classicals, and finishing with a discussion of moderns and marginalists from Marx to Alfred Marshall. Robbins takes a varied and inclusive approach to intellectual history. As he says in his first lecture: "I shall go my own sweet way--sometimes talk about doctrine, sometimes talk about persons, sometimes talk about periods." The lectures are united by Robbins's conviction that it is impossible to understand adequately contemporary institutions and social sciences without understanding the ideas behind their development. Authoritative yet accessible, combining the immediacy of the spoken word with Robbins's exceptional talent for clear, well-organized exposition, this volume will be welcomed by anyone interested in the intellectual origins of the modern world.

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Princeton University Press

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1400822793

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9781400822799

Manufacturing Confucianism

Chinese Traditions & Universal Civilization

By: Lionel M. Jensen

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Manufacturing Confucianism

Chinese Traditions & Universal Civilization

By: Lionel M. Jensen

Is it possible that the familiar and beloved figure of Confucius was invented by Jesuit priests? Based on specific documentary evidence, historian Lionel Jensen reveals how 16th- and 17th-century Western missionaries used translations of the ancient RU tradition to invent the presumably historical figure who has been globally celebrated as philosopher, prophet, statesman, wise man, and saint. 13 illustrations.

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Duke University Press

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0822320479

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9780822320470

The French Nonprofit Sector

A Literature Review

By: Laura Nirello,Lionel Prouteau

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The French Nonprofit Sector

A Literature Review

By: Laura Nirello,Lionel Prouteau

This article deals with the literature on the French nonprofit sector (NPS). A preliminary part is devoted to presenting and discussing the characteristics that shape the approaches to this sector in France. We stress the strong influence of legal categories on the sector’s definition and, in this context, the importance of the status inherited from the 1901 Act on contracts of association. This raises a problem for a more analytical approach to the sector, because the diversity of the nonprofit organizations (NPOs) regulated under this Act risks being overshadowed. In this first part, we also underline the primacy accorded in France to the concept of the social economy, which has today become the social and solidarity economy (SSE), over that of the nonprofit sector. In the second part, the article outlines some landmarks in the history of the French NPS. French NPOs were for many years objects of suspicion, arbitrariness and repression on the part of the public authorities and this persisted until the 1901 legislation on contracts of association was enacted. However, this hostile context did not prevent the sector from having a richer existence than is sometimes admitted. This literature review also focuses on empirical studies of the sector, placing a particular emphasis on the more recent ones. These French studies basically adopt two types of approach. The first is concerned essentially with the NPOs and focuses its attention on their economic importance, whether measured in terms of financial resources, employment, or, less frequently, added value. The second approach investigates the kinds of individual participation the sector engenders by examining the various forms it takes, such as membership of NPOs or voluntary work. This review ends with the analysis of the challenges that NPS faces in a context characterized by the increasing constraints on public funding, changes in the nature of such funding with a substitution of contracts for subsidies, an increased competition among NPOs as well as between NPOs and for-profit enterprises. The article concludes that, despite the advances in research on the French NPS, some aspects—like formal volunteering and the role of voluntary associations—are still understudied, while others—like informal groups and informal volunteering—are almost totally ignored.

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9004383077

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Virtual Radar - Using the SBS-1er and Basestation Software

By: Lionel K Anderson MSc

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Virtual Radar - Using the SBS-1er and Basestation Software

By: Lionel K Anderson MSc

The SBS-1er is a revolutionary product that combines hardware with software and allows not only aviation professionals but aircraft enthusiasts worldwide with the ability to monitor the skies in an unprecedented fashion and have a Real Time Radar display on their PC screen of Mode-S/ADS-B equipped aircraft in the airspace immediately around them. The BaseStation software program that ships with the SBS-1er is a powerful application that provides great functionality including the identification of aircraft by call sign, altitude, speed and other parameters where such information is transmitted. The application uses a received aircraft's unique Mode-S hex code to retrieve manufacturer, ownership, configuration and other background information from user sharable and editable SQLite database. This book covers the installation of the SBS-1er receiver and many aspects of the BaseStation software including how it may be customised to suit each individual.

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1446799808

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9781446799802

The World's Most Mysterious Castles

By: R. Lionel Fanthorpe,Patricia Fanthorpe

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The World's Most Mysterious Castles

By: R. Lionel Fanthorpe,Patricia Fanthorpe

The Fanthorpes examine grimly silent stones to expose their often tragic and bloody pasts.

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Dundurn

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1550025775

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9781550025774

PlanePlotter User Guide

With Beamfinder

By: Lionel K. Anderson Msc

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PlanePlotter User Guide

With Beamfinder

By: Lionel K. Anderson Msc

This is a comprehensive user guide for the PlanePlotter virtual radar software program that receives and decodes live digital position reports from aircraft and plots their positions and movements on air traffic control type charts. PlanePlotter provides a radar-like display of not only local aircraft but aircraft around the world that are transmitting the digital messages in the ACARS, ADS-B and HFDL formats. PlanePlotter plots aircraft positions, altitudes and times decoded from the message traffic that it receives including embedded position reports, AMDAR reports and ADS reports contained in ACARS messages and ADS-B position reports received by a variety of virtual radar boxes including the Kinetic-Avionic's SBS1(tm), AirNav System's RadarBox(tm), the PlaneGadget Radar and the Mode-S Beast virtual radar receivers. The book has some 300 pages and includes 200 illustrations and diagrams. The latest edition covers the functions of Multilateration, Beamfinder and Conditional Expressions.

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147091414X

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9781470914141

How to Find Out

By: Lionel McColvin

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How to Find Out

By: Lionel McColvin

First published in 1947, this book provides 'a brief guide to outstanding and typical sources of information with simple hints on how to discover and exploit them'.

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1316612023

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Beyond The Graven Image

A Jewish View

By: Lionel Kochan

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Beyond The Graven Image

A Jewish View

By: Lionel Kochan

From the archetypical story of Abraham smashing his father's household idols to God's commandment at Mount Sinai that "You shall have no other gods before Me," the prohibition in Judaism against the worship of idols has been unyielding. Idolatry is conceived as the antithesis to the worship of the invisible, unnamed, and articulate God. The proscription against using images in worship sets Judaism, together with Islam, apart from all other religious systems. In Beyond the Graven Image, Lionel Kochan sets out to explain the reasons for this prohibition and to demonstrate how influential this image-ban has been in determining key aspects of Jewish thinking. The Jewish conceptions of holiness and symbolism, our relationship with God, and the role of memory in religion, he argues, as well as the preference for non- material arts such as music over visual modes of artistic expression within Judaism, have all been profoundly shaped by the prohibition against physical representations of God.

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NYU Press

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0814747035

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The Course of Human History

Economic Growth, Social Process, and Civilization

By: Johan Goudsblom,Eric Lionel Jones,Stephen Mennell

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The Course of Human History

Economic Growth, Social Process, and Civilization

By: Johan Goudsblom,Eric Lionel Jones,Stephen Mennell

This text explores four major features of human society in their ecological and historical context: the origins of priests and organised religion; the rise of military men in an agrarian society; economic expansion and growth; and civilising and decivilising trends over time.

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M.E. Sharpe

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1563247933

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The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent

Selected Essays of Lionel Trilling

By: Lionel Trilling

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The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent

Selected Essays of Lionel Trilling

By: Lionel Trilling

A landmark reissue of a great teacher's finest work Lionel Trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to be one of the finest essayists in the English language, the heir of Hazlitt and the peer of Orwell. Since his death in 1974, his work has been discussed and hotly debated, yet today, when writers and critics claim to be "for" or "against" his interpretations, they can hardly be well acquainted with them, for his work has been largely out of print for years. With this re-publication of Trilling's finest essays, Leon Wieseltier offers readers of many new generations a rich overview of Trilling's achievement. The essays collected here include justly celebrated masterpieces--on Mansfield Park and on "Why We Read Jane Austen"; on Twain, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Isaac Babel; on Keats, Wordsworth, Eliot, Frost; on "Art and Neurosis"; and the famous Preface to Trilling's book The Liberal Imagination. This exhilarating work has much to teach readers who may have been encouraged to adopt simpler systems of meaning, or were taught to exchange the ideals of reason and individuality for those of enthusiasm and the false romance of group identity. Trilling's remarkable essays show a critic who was philosophically motivated and textually responsible, alive to history but not in thrall to it, exercised by art but not worshipful of it, consecrated to ideas but suspicious of theory.

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1466832142

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9781466832145

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