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Blue's Bastards is an inspiring story of duty and obligation, and of honorable men defending their ideals both on the battlefield and in the courtroom, and, for once, winning.
Author : Randy Herrod
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1621571270
Blue's Bastards is an inspiring story of duty and obligation, and of honorable men defending their ideals both on the battlefield and in the courtroom, and, for once, winning.
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File Size : 45,96 MB
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ISBN : 9780812498592
Author : John Ralston Saul
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 15,10 MB
Release : 2012-12-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1476718938
With a new Introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. With a new introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) astutely dissects the political, economic and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. The Western world is full of paradoxes. We talk endlessly of individual freedom, yet we’ve never been under more pressure to conform. Our business leaders describe themselves as capitalists, yet most are corporate employees and financial speculators. We call our governments democracies, yet few of us participate in politics. We complain about invasive government, yet our legal, educational, financial, social, cultural and legislative systems are deteriorating. All these problems, John Ralston Saul argues, are largely the result of our blind faith in the value of reason. Over the past 400 years, our “rational elites” have turned the modern West into a vast, incomprehensible, directionless machine, run by process-minded experts—“Voltaire’s bastards”—whose cult of scientific management is empty of both sense and morality. Whether in politics, art, business, the military, entertainment, science, finance, academia or journalism, these experts share the same outlook and methods. The result, Saul maintains, is a civilization of immense technological power whose ordinary citizens are increasingly excluded from the decision-making process. In this wide-ranging anatomy of modern society and its origins—whose “pages explode with insight, style and intellectual rigor” (Camille Paglia, The Washington Post)—Saul presents a shattering critique of the political, economic and cultural establishments of the West.
Author : Thor Ronningen
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN :
Personal accounts of the men of the 3rd Battalion--395th Infantry in World War II under the leadership of Lt. Col. McClernand Butler.
Author : Brian F. Wright
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Music
ISBN : 0472056816
Centering the electric bass in popular music history
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Page : 230 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 1885
Category : English poetry
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Author : Richard Worth
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786491248
Professional baseball is full of arcane team names. The Los Angeles Dodgers, for instance, owe their nickname to the trolley tracks that honeycombed Brooklyn in the early 1880s. (Residents were "trolley dodgers.") From the Negro Leagues, there were the Pittsburgh Crawfords (sponsored early by the Crawford Bath House and Recreation Center); from the minors, the Tucson Waddies (slang for cowboy) and, later, the Montgomery Biscuits (for the would-be concessions staple); from overseas, the Adelaide, Australia, Bite (a shark reference but also a pun for bight) and the Bussum, Netherlands, Mr. Cocker HCAW (the sponsoring restaurant chain, followed by the acronym for the official team name, Honkbalclub Allan Weerbaar). This comprehensive reference book explains the nicknames of thousands of major and minor league franchises, Negro League and early independent black clubs, and international teams--from 1869 through 2011.
Author : Herman Spector
Publisher : Synergistic Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 15,12 MB
Release : 1977
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : 9780912184036
Author : Harold J. Osborne White
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Geology
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Author : Geological Survey of Great Britain
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Geology
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