Author: Robert V. S. Redick
Publisher: Del Rey
Keywords: sea, ruling
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2010-02-16
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0345508858
ISBN-13: 9780345508850
In his acclaimed first novel, The Red Wolf Conspiracy, Robert V. S. Redick launched the gargantuan ship Chathrand and its motley crew of misfits, murderers, and monsters toward a landfall that may exist only in legend. Now Redick masterfully ratchets up the suspense with deep intrigue, ancient powers, and shocking new revelations.Though the immediate plans of the dark sorcerer Arunis have been thwarted, the battle for control of the Chathrand, on which the fate of empires hinges, is far from over. On board, a small band of allies bound together less by trust than by desperate need scrambles fo
Author: Lloyd Gruber
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: world, ruling
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-03-20
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0691010412
ISBN-13: 9780691010410
The last few decades have witnessed an extraordinary transfer of policy-making prerogatives from individual nation-states to supranational institutions. If you think this is cause for celebration, you are not alone. Within the academic community (and not only among students of international cooperation), the notion that political institutions are mutually beneficial--that they would never come into existence, much less grow in size and assertiveness, were they not "Pareto-improving"--is today’s conventional wisdom. But is it true? In this richly detailed and strikingly original study, Ll
Author: Simon Blackbur
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: reasoning, practical, theory, passions, ruling
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1999-01-14
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0198247850
ISBN-13: 9780198247852
Why do we behave as we do? Can we improve? Is our ethics at war with our passions, or is it an upshot of those passions? Distinguished philosopher Simon Blackburn seeks the answers to such questions in this brilliant exploration of the nature of moral emotions and the structures of human motivation. Ruling Passions reveals how ethics can maintain its authority even though it is rooted in the very emotions and motivations that it exists to control.
Author: Harvey J. Kaye
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: questions, history, classes, ruling
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1997-07-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0312172273
ISBN-13: 9780312172275
The truth shall set them free! Through essays that range in tone and content from the rhetorical power of a public address to the intimacy of a personal memoir, award-winning historian Harvey Kaye looks at the value of knowledge and the ability of history to liberate. An indispensable analysis of our age and an invaluable guidebook to our future.
Author: Christopher Kelly
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: revealing, antiquity, empire, roman, later, ruling
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-11-29
List price: $43.50
ISBN-10: 0674015649
ISBN-13: 9780674015647
"In this highly original work, Christopher Kelly paints a remarkable picture of running a superstate. He portrays a complex system of government openly regulated by networks of personal influence and the payment of money. Focusing on the Roman Empire after Constantine’s conversion to Christianity, Kelly illuminates a period of increasingly centralized rule through an ever more extensive and intrusive bureaucracy.The book opens with a view of its times through the eyes of a high-ranking official in sixth-century Constantinople, John Lydus. His On the Magistracies of the Roman State, the o
Author: Sakyong Mipham
Publisher: Doubleday Religion
Keywords: modern, life, strategies, ancient, world, ruling
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-10-10
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0767920805
ISBN-13: 9780767920803
You’re stuck in the airport security line, late for a flight. The line isn’t moving. You’re angry at the security personnel for taking so long, you’re irritated at the other passengers for having so much stuff, you’re mad at your boss for sending you on this trip in the first place. By the time you get to your gate you’re angry, deflated, and exhausted. Then someone cuts in front of you in the line to board and you snap. “There’s a line, you know!” Is that really you, standing in an airport, yelling at a stranger, emotions raging? It happens to most of us more than we’d lik
Authors:Steve Fraser, Gary Gerstle,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: power, democracy, wealth, history, america, ruling
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2005-04-15
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0674017471
ISBN-13: 9780674017474
Ruling America offers a panoramic history of our country’s ruling elites from the time of the American Revolution to the present. At its heart is the greatest of American paradoxes: How have tiny minorities of the rich and privileged consistently exercised so much power in a nation built on the notion of rule by the people? In a series of thought-provoking essays, leading scholars of American history examine every epoch in which ruling economic elites have shaped our national experience. They explore how elites came into existence, how they established their dominance over public a
