Dark Speech

Dark Speech
Author: Robin Chapman Stacey
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2016-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812294041

What does it mean to talk about law as theater, to speak about the "performance" of transactions as mundane as the sale of a pig or as agonizing as receiving compensation for a dead kinsman? In Dark Speech, Robin Chapman Stacey explores such questions by examining the interaction between performance and law in Ireland between the seventh and ninth centuries. Exposing the inner workings of the Irish legal system, Stacey examines the manner in which publicly enacted words and silences were used to construct legal and political relationships in a society where traditional hierarchies were very much in flux. Law in early Ireland was a verbal art, grounded as much in aesthetics as in the enforcement of communal norms. In contrast with modern law, no sharp distinction existed between art and politics. Visualizing legal events through the lens of procedure, Stacey helps readers recognize the creative, fluid, and inherently risky nature of these same events. While many historians have long realized the mnemonic value of legal drama to the small, principally nonliterate societies of the early Middle Ages, Stacey argues that the appeal to social memory is but one aspect of the role played by performance in early law. In fact, legal performance (like other more easily recognized forms of verbal art) created and transformed as much as it recorded.

The Fellowship of the Ring

The Fellowship of the Ring
Author: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 571
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007203586

'The Fellowship of the Ring' is the first part of JRR Tolkien's epic masterpiece 'The Lord of the Rings'. This 50th anniversary edition features special packaging and includes the definitive edition of the text.|PB

Talking Back, Talking Black

Talking Back, Talking Black
Author: John H. McWhorter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2017
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781942658207

An authoritative, impassioned celebration of Black English, how it works, and why it matters

Burzum

Burzum
Author: Antony Cummins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2009-07-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781604815818

The Black Speech is an authorised set of short horror stories based on the lyrics of Varg Vikernes and the band of Burzum. Join Varg's pudendum The Count Grishnackh and his courageous retainers, the Crimson-Steeds on fantastical adventures in abstract lands. With a set of loosely linking stories this narrative explores each of Varg's conceptions and brings his creations in to a new light. Supported by the Cathulhu Mythos and the creatures of H.P Lovecraft's expansive world you will enter into a horror of ages past. Within these dark pages you will also find the controversial and stylistic account of Varg's crimes, from the church burnings to the infamous murder on that night so long ago. Forward by Hecarte Enthroned

The Dark Forest

The Dark Forest
Author: Cixin Liu
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2015-08-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466853433

The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North America PRAISE FOR THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM SERIES: “A mind-bending epic.”—The New York Times • “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Fascinating.”—TIME • “Extraordinary.”—The New Yorker • “Wildly imaginative.”—Barack Obama • “Provocative.”—Slate • “A breakthrough book.”—George R. R. Martin • “Impossible to put down.”—GQ • “Absolutely mind-unfolding.”—NPR • “You should be reading Liu Cixin.”—The Washington Post The Dark Forest is the second novel in the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series from China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion-in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead. The Three-Body Problem Series The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End Other Books by Cixin Liu Ball Lightning Supernova Era To Hold Up the Sky The Wandering Earth A View from the Stars At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Knock at Midnight

A Knock at Midnight
Author: Clayborne Carson
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2001-01-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0759520194

Warner Books, in conjunction with Intellectual Properties Management, Inc., presents an extraordinary collection of sermons by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.-many never before published-along with introductions an documentary of the world's leading ministers & theologians.

Speech and Silence in American Law

Speech and Silence in American Law
Author: Austin Sarat
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-03-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1139487736

Rather than abstract philosophical discussion or yet another analysis of legal doctrine, Speech and Silence in American Law seeks to situate speech and silence, locating them in particular circumstances and contexts and asking how context matters in facilitating speech or demanding silence. To understand speech and silence we have to inquire into their social life and examine the occasions and practices that call them forth and that give them meaning. Among the questions addressed in this book are: who is authorized to speak? And what are the conditions that should be attached to the speaking subject? Are there occasions that call for speech and others that demand silence? What is the relationship between the speech act and the speaker? Taking these questions into account helps readers understand what compels speakers and what problems accompany speech without a known speaker, allowing us to assess how silence speaks and how speech renders the silent more knowable.

Very Good Lives

Very Good Lives
Author: J. K. Rowling
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2015-04-14
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0316369144

J.K. Rowling, one of the world's most inspiring writers, shares her wisdom and advice. In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life. How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our imagination to better both ourselves and others? Drawing from stories of her own post-graduate years, the world famous author addresses some of life's most important questions with acuity and emotional force.

The Elijah Task

The Elijah Task
Author: John Loren Sandford
Publisher: Charisma Media
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2015-05-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1599797143

DIVIt illumines the Bible like a searchlight, pointing out the mysteries of God. 0203/div

Free Speech and Koch Money

Free Speech and Koch Money
Author: Ralph Wilson
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-11-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9780745343020

The demand for free speech on campus is a distraction, we need to follow the money