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Author | : Joan Johnson-Freese |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2012-05-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0812202368 |
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In the popular imagination, space is the final frontier. Will that frontier be a wild west, or will it instead be treated as the oceans are: as a global commons, where commerce is allowed to flourish and no one country dominates? At this moment, nations are free to send missions to Mars or launch space stations. Space satellites are vital to many of the activities that have become part of our daily lives—from weather forecasting to GPS and satellite radio. The militaries of the United States and a host of other nations have also made space a critical arena—spy and communication satellites are essential to their operations. Beginning with the Reagan administration and its attempt to create a missile defense system to protect against attack by the Soviet Union, the U.S. military has decided that the United States should be the dominant power in space in order to protect civilian and defense assets. In Heavenly Ambitions, Joan Johnson-Freese draws from a myriad of sources to argue that the United States is on the wrong path: first, by politicizing the question of space threats and, second, by continuing to believe that military domination in space is the only way to protect U.S. interests in space. Johnson-Freese, who has written and lectured extensively on space policy, lays out her vision of the future of space as a frontier where nations cooperate and military activity is circumscribed by arms control treaties that would allow no one nation to dominate—just as no one nation's military dominates the world's oceans. This is in the world's interest and, most important, in the U.S. national interest.
Author | : Rebecca Richardson |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2021-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421441969 |
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"The book traces the early history of the self-help genre and the literary depiction of ambition in Victorian British fiction. Stories of hardworking characters who bring themselves out of rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. In chapters featuring the works of novelists, the author demonstrates that Victorian fiction dramatized ambition and problematized it as well"--
Author | : Lytton Strachey |
Publisher | : London : Chatto & Windus |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1918 |
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Author | : Lytton Strachey |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey, consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Its fame rests on the irreverence and wit Strachey brought to bear on three men and a woman who had until then been regarded as heroes: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon (although Nightingale is actually praised and her reputation was enhanced). The book shows its other subjects in a less than flattering light; for instance, the intrigues of Cardinal Manning against Cardinal Newman.
Author | : Charles Taze Russell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 834 |
Release | : 1917 |
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Author | : Lytton Strachey |
Publisher | : BEYOND BOOKS HUB |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Eminent Victorians is one of the best known books written by Lytton Strachey, English author and founding member of the Bloomsbury Group. Originally published in 1918, it consists of four biographies of leading figures in Victorian England. In his remarks in the Preface, Strachey notes that up until that point, Victorian biographies had been 'as familiar as the cortège of the undertaker, and wear the same air of slow, funereal barbarism.' Also by this point, he had come to the belief that those lauded in Victorian society had at best, been hypocrites who sought to claim moral superiority without true cause. The figures in the book are Cardinal Manning (the second Archbishop of Westminster), Florence Nightingale (English social reformer, and the founder of modern nursing), Thomas Arnold (English educator and historian) and General Gordon (a British Army officer and administrator who saw action in the Crimean War as an officer in the British Army). Apart from Nightingale, the others are presented in less than flattering lights. Strachey originally had the idea to do the book on twelve people, but after doing his research on Cardinal Manning, realised he would find it difficult to do that many.
Author | : Elizabeth Shanks Alexander |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2017-09-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1351973762 |
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Religious Studies and Rabbinics have overlapping yet distinct interests, subject matter, and methods. Religious Studies is committed to the study of religion writ large. It develops theories and methods intended to apply across religious traditions. Rabbinics, by contrast, is dedicated to a defined set of texts produced by the rabbinic movement of late antiquity. Religious Studies and Rabbinics represents the first sustained effort to create a conversation between these two academic fields. In one trajectory of argument, the book shows what is gained when each field sees how the other engages the same questions: When did the concept of "religion" arise? How should a scholar’s normative commitments interact with their scholarship? The book argues that if scholars from Religious Studies and Rabbinics do not realize they are addressing the same problems, they will not benefit from each other’s solutions. A second line of argument brings research methods, theoretical claims, and data associated with one field into contact with those of the other. When Religious Studies categories such as "ritual" or "the sacred" are applied to data from Rabbinics and, conversely, when text-reading strategies distinctive to Rabbinics are employed for texts from other traditions, both Religious Studies and Rabbinics enlarge their scope. The chapters range across such themes as ritual failure; rabbinic conceptions of scripture, ethics, food, time, and everyday life; problems of definition and normativity in the study of religion; J.Z. Smith’s writings; and the preaching of the African-American Christian evangelical social justice activist John Perkins. With chapters written by world-class theorists of Religious Studies and prominent text scholars of Rabbinics, the book provides a unique opportunity to expand the conceptual reach and scholarly audience of both Religious Studies and Jewish Studies.
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Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : Hygiene |
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Author | : Edmund Sheridan Purcell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Cardinals |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edmund Sheridan Purcell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 1895 |
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