The Conscience of the City
Author | : Martin Meyerson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Martin Meyerson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
Author | : American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul Krugman |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2009-01-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0393067114 |
"The most consistent and courageous—and unapologetic—liberal partisan in American journalism." —Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books In this "clear, provocative" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestseller, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, examines the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age and the 1920s to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Seeking to understand both what happened to middle-class America and what it will take to achieve a "new New Deal," Krugman has created his finest book to date, a "stimulating manifesto" offering "a compelling historical defense of liberalism and a clarion call for Americans to retake control of their economic destiny" (Publishers Weekly). "As Democrats seek a rationale not merely for returning to power, but for fundamentally changing—or changing back—the relationship between America's government and its citizens, Mr. Krugman's arguments will prove vital in the months and years ahead." —Peter Beinart, New York Times
Author | : Eric Homberger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1996-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300068825 |
Homberger focuses on four main characters who played important roles in various reform efforts of the period: Ann Lohman, known as "Madame Restell, the world-renowned medical expert," whose services as an abortionist were partly responsible for the creation of a harshly repressive public policy toward abortion that persisted for more than a century; "Slippery Dick" Connolly, comptroller of New York City, who escaped to Europe with millions of the city's dollars and betrayed his confederates in the Tweed Ring; Dr. Stephen Smith, a young surgeon at Bellevue Hospital, who was able to show that dozens of cases of typhus had originated in a single tenement on East 22nd Street; and Frederick Law Olmsted, the architect-in-chief of Central Park, who brought into reality a concept promoted by the aristocracy for the benefit of rich and poor alike.
Author | : Richard Sennett |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 1992-08-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0393308782 |
Sennett's brilliant study of the physical fabric of the city as a mirror of Western society and culture was originally published (cloth) in 1990 by Alfred A. Knopf. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Richard Sennett |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1992-08-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393308785 |
Sennett's brilliant study of the physical fabric of the city as a mirror of Western society and culture was originally published (cloth) in 1990 by Alfred A. Knopf. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Nels Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Fay Gow's way of life typifies the people who inhabit the forest of masts. Story shows him running his water taxi and follows him on an outing to Tiger Balm Garden.
Author | : Fulton J. Sheen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2021-10-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781685950064 |
Communism and the Conscience of the West revolves around the single, disconcerting idea that Communism, in both its ideological and practical forms, is on the conscience of the Western world. Because the West has broadly lost that spiritual sensibility which made it great, thus reducing both man and cosmos to wholly material and base realities, Fulton J. Sheen argues, there is nothing to prevent the dissolution of the old order into a new and terrifying totality. And thus appears Communism: the recalcitrant, neurotic child of a permissive, neglectful parent. Since it first appeared in 1948, during the initial frigid days of the Cold War, Communism and the Conscience of the West has proven to be a prophetic witness to the grave dangers of decadent, individualistic liberalism and atheistic, collectivist totalitarianism alike. While the Cold War has ended and Soviet Union passed away, these dangers have endured and even metastasized. For the basic struggle remains: the moral and spiritual struggle for the very soul of mankind.
Author | : Clarice Lispector |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2019-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 014198953X |
'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' Colm Tóibín 'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the loveliest way to see herself' Lucrécia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. She may have no inner life at all. As she morphs from small-town girl to worldly wife of a rich man, and her small home town surrenders to the forces of progress, Lucrécia seeks perfection: to be an object, serene, smooth, beyond the burden of words or even thought itself. A book that obsessed its author, The Besieged City is unlike any other work in Lispector's canon: a story of transformation, of what it means to see and to be seen.
Author | : John Coleman |
Publisher | : Council of Europe |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789287140302 |
"If we don't find the soul of Europe by the end of the century, the game will be up" said Jacques Delors in 1989. How has the Council of Europe helped in this quest over the fifty years of its existence? The contributors to this collection of essays & articles - some from outside Europe & from widely differing cultures & faiths - look to the origins & meaning of the Council of Europe to examine the systems, values & dreams which Europe requires for the next millennium From the historical reminiscences of the early days of post-war European institutions by Cosmo Russel, Peter Smithers & Barney Milligan to the dreams of a new Europe expressed by Vaclav Havel & George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, this collection also includes Ziauddin Sardar's analysis of an unfeeling West & a plea for a new respect for the environment by Diana Schumacher.