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From Grimes to Brideshead

The Early Novels of Evelyn Waugh

By: Robert Reginald Garnett

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From Grimes to Brideshead

The Early Novels of Evelyn Waugh

By: Robert Reginald Garnett

This book is a study of the first half of Evelyn Waugh's career, from Decline and Fall to Brideshead Revisited. Unlike recent criticism, which regards Waugh as essentially a moralist, this book argues that Waugh's characters are primarily motivated by personal demons and imaginative impulses.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838751709

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9780838751701

Taking Things Hard

The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald

By: Robert Garnett

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Taking Things Hard

The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald

By: Robert Garnett

F. Scott Fitzgerald published America’s favorite novel, The Great Gatsby, at the young age of twenty-eight. Despite this extraordinary early achievement, Fitzgerald finished just one novel in the next (and last) fifteen years of his life, ending as a mostly unemployed Hollywood screenwriter. Taking Things Hard reveals the story behind the now-iconic Gatsby, along with Fitzgerald’s struggle to write anything that matched its brilliance. Robert R. Garnett’s new biographical study of Fitzgerald’s life and work begins by constructing a portrait of the young man who would wholly and uniquely pour himself into writing Gatsby. In the years following its publication, Fitzgerald continued penning stories, some of them among his finest, yet it took him nine years to complete another novel. The downward trajectory of his career had interweaving causes, among them arrogance, irresponsibility, his troubled marriage to Zelda Sayre, financial improvidence, and a destructive alcoholism. At the root of it all, though, lingered the simple fact that Fitzgerald’s most intense and profound experiences had come early, during his truncated undergraduate years at Princeton and the months following his February 1919 discharge from the army. Taking Things Hard provides a fresh look at the imaginative sources of Fitzgerald’s fiction and considers the elements, drawn from the keen impressions and salient emotions of its author’s youth, that make Gatsby a book that still speaks powerfully to readers.

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347

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LSU Press

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080718022X

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9780807180228

National Identity and Social Cohesion in a Time of Geopolitical and Economic Tension: Australia – European Union – Slovenia

By: Robert Walters

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National Identity and Social Cohesion in a Time of Geopolitical and Economic Tension: Australia – European Union – Slovenia

By: Robert Walters

This book aims to enrich the thinking and discussion in relation to the importance that citizenship, immigration, rights and private laws play in the modern world. This is in a time when social cohesion and national identity is being challenged. It will explore the impact these laws have had on Australia, European Union (EU) and Slovenia. Identity and social cohesion are contested concepts and can invoke different responses. The challenges states and the EU are likely to face in retaining and even strengthening their respective identities and social cohesion from continued geopolitical shocks, security, economic volatility and environmental degradation is likely to be formidable. These alone pose some of the most complex political and policy issues facing the world. The EU can be held up as a polity that, has developed an identity and level of cohesion, while allowing member states to retain their national identities. It has, to date, also been successful in managing the rise of nationalism. However, that has come under threat in recent times. Thus, the very foundations of liberal democracy could be diluted from the impact of these challenges. Moreover, the basic foundations of rights have, in part, already been diluted from the rise of terrorism (which is acceptable), however, the geopolitical differences pose a significant challenge, in, and of themselves.

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377

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Springer Nature

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9811521646

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9789811521645

Critical Representations of Work and Organization in Popular Culture

By: Carl Rhodes,Robert Westwood

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Critical Representations of Work and Organization in Popular Culture

By: Carl Rhodes,Robert Westwood

This book challenges traditional organizational theory, looking to representations of work and organizations within popular culture and the ways in which these institutions have also been conceptualized and critiqued there. Through a series of essays, Rhodes and Westwood examine popular culture as a compelling and critical arena in which the complex and contradictory relations that people have with the organizations in which they work are played out. By articulating the knowledge in popular culture with that in theory, they provide new avenues for understanding work organizations as the dominant institutions in contemporary society. Rhodes and Westwood provide a critical review of how organizations are represented in various examples of contemporary popular culture. The book demonstrates how popular culture can be read as an embodiment of knowledge about organizations – often more compelling than those common to theory – and explores the critical potential of such knowledge and the way in which popular culture can reflect on the spirit of resistance, carnivalisation and rebellion.

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245

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Routledge

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1134239378

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9781134239375

Citizens Divided

Campaign Finance Reform and the Constitution

By: Robert C. Post

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Citizens Divided

Campaign Finance Reform and the Constitution

By: Robert C. Post

The Supreme Court’s 5–4 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which struck down a federal prohibition on independent corporate campaign expenditures, is one of the most controversial opinions in recent memory. Defenders of the First Amendment greeted the ruling with enthusiasm, while advocates of electoral reform recoiled in disbelief. Robert C. Post offers a new constitutional theory that seeks to reconcile these sharply divided camps. Post interprets constitutional conflict over campaign finance reform as an argument between those who believe self-government requires democratic participation in the formation of public opinion and those who believe that self-government requires a functioning system of representation. The former emphasize the value of free speech, while the latter emphasize the integrity of the electoral process. Each position has deep roots in American constitutional history. Post argues that both positions aim to nurture self-government, which in contemporary life can flourish only if elections are structured to create public confidence that elected officials are attentive to public opinion. Post spells out the many implications of this simple but profound insight. Critiquing the First Amendment reasoning of the Court in Citizens United, he also shows that the Court did not clearly grasp the constitutional dimensions of corporate speech. Blending history, constitutional law, and political theory, Citizens Divided explains how a Supreme Court case of far-reaching consequence might have been decided differently, in a manner that would have preserved both First Amendment rights and electoral integrity.

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265

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Harvard University Press

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0674369610

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9780674369610

Livingston

By: Elizabeth A. Watry,Robert V. Goss

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Livingston

By: Elizabeth A. Watry,Robert V. Goss

In January 1883, barely a month after the Northern Pacific Railroad (NPRR ) finished laying tracks to the "last crossing of the Yellowstone River," Minnesota's Winona Daily Republican proclaimed Livingston as the "future great city of the Yellowstone." With the arrival of the NPRR in 1882, the town boomed as it became the division headquarters for the railroad. Its future secured by the largest machine shops and roundhouse west of Minnesota, Livingston rapidly grew from frontier town to progressive city. By late 1883, its downtown area of substantial brick buildings housed more than 100 businesses, and supported a residential area of 2,000 stalwart citizens. Situated at the junction of the Northern Pacific branch to Yellowstone National Park, Livingston hosted the majority of the early tourist trade to "America's Wonderland of the West.

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132

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738570443

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9780738570440

Pleading and Practice of the Hight Court of Chancery

Vol. 1

By: Edmund Robert Daniell

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Pleading and Practice of the Hight Court of Chancery

Vol. 1

By: Edmund Robert Daniell

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3382123177

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9783382123178

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From Grimes to Brideshead

From Grimes to Brideshead

Taking Things Hard

Taking Things Hard

National Identity and Social Cohesion in a Time of Geopolitical and Economic Tension: Australia – European Union – Slovenia

National Identity and Social Cohesion in a Time of Geopolitical and Economic Tension: Australia – European Union – Slovenia

Critical Representations of Work and Organization in Popular Culture

Critical Representations of Work and Organization in Popular Culture

Citizens Divided

Citizens Divided

Livingston

Livingston

Pleading and Practice of the Hight Court of Chancery

Pleading and Practice of the Hight Court of Chancery

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