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The Tragic Vision of Politics

Ethics, Interests and Orders

By: Richard Ned Lebow

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The Tragic Vision of Politics

Ethics, Interests and Orders

By: Richard Ned Lebow

Is it possible to preserve national security through ethical policies? Richard Ned Lebow seeks to show that ethics are actually essential to the national interest. Recapturing the wisdom of classical realism through a close reading of the texts of Thucydides, Clausewitz and Hans Morgenthau, Lebow argues that, unlike many modern realists, classic realists saw close links between domestic and international politics, and between interests and ethics. Lebow uses this analysis to offer a powerful critique of post-Cold War American foreign policy. He also develops an ontological foundation for ethics and makes the case for an alternate ontology for social science based on Greek tragedy s understanding of life and politics. This is a topical and accessible book, written by a leading scholar in the field.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521534852

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9780521534857

BOILIN' THE BILLY

By: Ned Fenton

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BOILIN' THE BILLY

By: Ned Fenton

GREETINGS THERE ARE MANY WAYS WE GREET OUR FRIENDS, IN THE GOOD OLD AUSSIE WAY, LIKE, GOOD AYE, ’OW YA GOIN’ MATE, THAT ONE, IS HERE TO STAY. SOME SAY, “HI”, AND “HELLO THERE”, “WHAT’S NEW” OR “YOU LOOK WELL”, THE OLD “HELLO”, AND “HOW’VE YA BIN”, AND “MATE”, TO GREET A PAL. AND THERE’S THAT POSH OLD FASHIONED ONE ONLY SPOKEN BY A FEW, YOU HEAR IT WHEN THE FLASH ONES MEET THEY SAY, “HOW DO YOU DO” SO. HERE’S A REPLY FOR US OLD FOLKS WITH ACHES AND PAINS AND WOES, WHEN THEY GREET WITH, “HOW YA GOIN’”, SAY, “BURNT OR BURRIED I SUPPOSE.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1483606457

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9781483606453

Madness Is Better Than Defeat

A novel

By: Ned Beauman

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Madness Is Better Than Defeat

A novel

By: Ned Beauman

In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a huge Hollywood production on location there, the other to disassemble the temple and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues. Twenty years later, a rogue CIA agent sets out to exploit the temple for his own ends, unaware that it is a locus of conspiracies far grander than anyone could ever have guessed. Shot through with intrigue, ingenuity, and adventure, and showcasing Beauman’s riotous humor, spectacular imagination, and riveting prose, Madness Is Better Than Defeat is a novel without parallel: inventive, anarchic, and delightfully insane.

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425

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Vintage

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0385353006

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9780385353007

Knowing When to Stop

A Memoir

By: Ned Rorem

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Knowing When to Stop

A Memoir

By: Ned Rorem

DIVDIVA thrilling, poignant, and bold memoir of the early years and accomplishments—both musical and sexual—of renowned contemporary composer Ned Rorem/divDIV Ned Rorem, arguably the greatest composer of art songs that America has produced in more than a hundred years, is also revered as a diarist and essayist whose unexpurgated writings are at once enthralling, enlightening, and provocative. In Knowing When to Stop, one of the most creative American artists of our time offers readers a colorful narrative of his first twenty-seven years, expertly unraveling the intriguing conundrum of who he truly is and how he came to be that way./divDIV /divDIVAs the author himself writes, “A memoir is not a diary. Diaries are written in the heat of battle, memoirs in the repose of retrospect.” But careful thought and consideration have not dulled the sharp point of Rorem’s pen as he writes openly of his life and loves, his missteps and triumphs, and offers frank and fascinating portraits of the luminaries in his circle: Aaron Copland, Truman Capote, Jean Cocteau, Martha Graham, Igor Stravinsky, Billie Holliday, Paul Bowles, and Alfred C. Kinsey, to name a few. The result is an early life story that is riveting, moving, and intimate—a magnificent self-portrait of one of the great minds of this age. /div/div

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Open Road Media

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1480427756

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9781480427754

The World That Made New Orleans

From Spanish Silver to Congo Square

By: Ned Sublette

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The World That Made New Orleans

From Spanish Silver to Congo Square

By: Ned Sublette

STRONGNamed one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. STRONGWinner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.STRONG STRONGAwarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for 2008. New Orleans is the most elusive of American cities. The product of the centuries-long struggle among three mighty empires--France, Spain, and England--and among their respective American colonies and enslaved African peoples, it has always seemed like a foreign port to most Americans, baffled as they are by its complex cultural inheritance. The World That Made New Orleans offers a new perspective on this insufficiently understood city by telling the remarkable story of New Orleans's first century--a tale of imperial war, religious conflict, the search for treasure, the spread of slavery, the Cuban connection, the cruel aristocracy of sugar, and the very different revolutions that created the United States and Haiti. It demonstrates that New Orleans already had its own distinct personality at the time of Louisiana's statehood in 1812. By then, important roots of American music were firmly planted in its urban swamp--especially in the dances at Congo Square, where enslaved Africans and African Americans appeared en masse on Sundays to, as an 1819 visitor to the city put it, &“rock the city.&” This book is a logical continuation of Ned Sublette's previous volume, Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo, which was highly praised for its synthesis of musical, cultural, and political history. Just as that book has become a standard resource on Cuba, so too will The World That Made New Orleans long remain essential for understanding the beautiful and tragic story of this most American of cities.

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Chicago Review Press

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1569765138

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9781569765135

The Politics and Ethics of Identity

In Search of Ourselves

By: Richard Ned Lebow

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The Politics and Ethics of Identity

In Search of Ourselves

By: Richard Ned Lebow

Challenges the notion of consistent unitary identities, arguing that we are multiple, changing selves, shaped by social contexts and processes.

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445

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Cambridge University Press

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1107027659

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9781107027657

Reason and Cause

Social Science and the Social World

By: Richard Ned Lebow

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Reason and Cause

Social Science and the Social World

By: Richard Ned Lebow

A cultural history of the concepts of reason and cause, showing that they are culturally and historically local.

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Cambridge University Press

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110847943X

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9781108479431

Settling the Score

Essays on Music

By: Ned Rorem

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Settling the Score

Essays on Music

By: Ned Rorem

DIVDIVNed Rorem explores the state of contemporary classical music in a magnificent collection of personally selected essays and critiques of masterworks, lesser works, and their legendary creators/divDIV Pulitzer Prize–winner Ned Rorem’s musical compositions are considered some of the finest produced in the past century. His literary works have been hailed as “scintillating” (Time magazine) and “extraordinary” (The Washington Post). Rorem’s remarkable twin talents are brilliantly intertwined in Settling the Score, a masterful collection of essays on music, composers, and the state of the art./divDIV /divDIVSelected by Rorem himself, these enthralling and provocative pieces examine the works of the great and (in the author’s lively, unabashed opinion) the not-so-great masters of twentieth-century classical music—Debussy, Ravel, Copland, Gershwin, Barber, Cage, Bernstein, Britten, Stravinsky, and others. With keen precision, he dissects the so-called serious music of our time while predicting where the form is bound in the future. Never lacking in intelligence or wit, each essay in Settling the Score sings in a voice that is clear and true./div/div

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Open Road Media

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1480427772

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9781480427778

The Year Before the Flood

A Story of New Orleans

By: Ned Sublette

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The Year Before the Flood

A Story of New Orleans

By: Ned Sublette

With a style the Los Angeles Times calls as "vivid and fast-moving as the music he loves," Ned Sublette's powerful new book drives the reader through the potholed, sinking streets of the United States's least-typical city. In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The World That Made New Orleans, Sublette's award-winning history of the Crescent City's colonial years, he traces an arc of his own experience, from the white supremacy of segregated 1950s Louisiana through the funky year of 2004–2005--the last year New Orleans was whole. By turns irreverent, joyous, darkly comic, passionate, and polemical, The Year Before the Flood juxtaposes the city's crowded calendar of parties, festivals, and parades with the murderousness of its poverty and its legacy of racism. Along the way, Sublette opens up windows of American history that illuminate the present: the trajectory of Mardi Gras from pre–Civil War days, the falsification of Southern history in movies, the city's importance to early rock and roll, the complicated story of its housing projects, the uniqueness of its hip-hop scene, and the celebratory magnificence of the participatory parades known as second lines. With a grand, unforgettable cast of musicians and barkeeps, scholars and thugs, vibrating with the sheer excitement of New Orleans, The Year Before the Flood is an affirmation of the power of the city's culture and a heartbreaking tale of loss that definitively establishes Ned Sublette as a great American writer for the 21st century.

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1569763232

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9781569763230

Alice Dreaming: A Play for Secondary Students

By: Ned Manning

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Alice Dreaming: A Play for Secondary Students

By: Ned Manning

Alice Dreaming is a play for secondary students that tells a uniquely Australian story. Trapped by the expectations of others, a girl escapes into her imagination. Following an albatross, Alice takes a journey across Australia that eventually brings her closer to home and an understanding of who she is. Inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz, it is a play written about teenagers, for teenagers. Embracing a non-naturalistic theatrical language, Alice Dreaming can incorporate a number of performance elements, including puppetry, mask, music and dance. Roles are suitable for performance by both boys and girls. The cast includes 29 speaking roles plus chorus. The play runs for 60-80 minutes. Designed to provoke discussion and debate, Alice Dreaming can be used as a classroom resource to develop student thinking around both personal issues and social issues, including the environment, politics and Australian history.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521166268

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9780521166263

Navigating the Internet with Prodigy

By: Ned Johnson

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Navigating the Internet with Prodigy

By: Ned Johnson

Introducing the reader to the Internet and its concepts, this book then steps the reader through all the Internet tools that are available through Prodigy. The coverage of each tool includes numerous real-life examples of things to do on the Internet with that particular tool. A listing of the best Internet resources available in each category in included.

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0672307405

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The Tragic Vision of Politics

The Tragic Vision of Politics

BOILIN' THE BILLY

BOILIN' THE BILLY

Madness Is Better Than Defeat

Madness Is Better Than Defeat

Knowing When to Stop

Knowing When to Stop

The World That Made New Orleans

The World That Made New Orleans

The Politics and Ethics of Identity

The Politics and Ethics of Identity

Reason and Cause

Reason and Cause

Settling the Score

Settling the Score

The Year Before the Flood

The Year Before the Flood

Alice Dreaming: A Play for Secondary Students

Alice Dreaming: A Play for Secondary Students

Navigating the Internet with Prodigy

Navigating the Internet with Prodigy

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