The Anatomy of Disgust

The Anatomy of Disgust
Author: William Ian MILLER
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0674041062

William Miller details our anxious relation to basic life processes; eating, excreting, fornicating, decaying, and dying. But disgust pushes beyond the flesh to vivify the larger social order with the idiom it commandeers from the sights, smells, tastes, feels, and sounds of fleshly physicality. Disgust and contempt, Miller argues, play crucial political roles in creating and maintaining social hierarchy. Democracy depends less on respect for persons than on an equal distribution of contempt. Disgust, however, signals dangerous division.

The Meaning of Communism

The Meaning of Communism
Author: William Johnson Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1968
Genre: Communism
ISBN:

Defines Communism by tracing it from the economic and social conditions that inspired Marx's Communist Manifesto to the development and specific application of the theory as a national system by the Russian people.

The Mystery of Courage

The Mystery of Courage
Author: William Ian Miller
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2009-07-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0674041054

Few of us spend much time thinking about courage, but we know it when we see it--or do we? Is it best displayed by marching into danger, making the charge, or by resisting, enduring without complaint? Is it physical or moral, or both? Is it fearless, or does it involve subduing fear? Abner Small, a Civil War soldier, was puzzled by what he called the "mystery of bravery"; to him, courage and cowardice seemed strangely divorced from character and will. It is this mystery, just as puzzling in our day, that William Ian Miller unravels in this engrossing meditation. Miller culls sources as varied as soldiers' memoirs, heroic and romantic literature, and philosophical discussions to get to the heart of courage--and to expose its role in generating the central anxieties of masculinity and manhood. He probes the link between courage and fear, and explores the connection between bravery and seemingly related states: rashness, stubbornness, madness, cruelty, fury; pride and fear of disgrace; and the authority and experience that minimize fear. By turns witty and moving, inquisitive and critical, his inquiry takes us from ancient Greece to medieval Europe, to the American Civil War, to the Great War and Vietnam, with sidetrips to the schoolyard, the bedroom, and the restaurant. Whether consulting Aristotle or private soldiers, Miller elicits consistently compelling insights into a condition as endlessly interesting as it is elusive.

Bloodtaking and Peacemaking

Bloodtaking and Peacemaking
Author: William Ian Miller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2009-05-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0226526828

Dubbed by the New York Times as "one of the most sought-after legal academics in the county," William Ian Miller presents the arcane worlds of the Old Norse studies in a way sure to attract the interest of a wide range of readers. Bloodtaking and Peacemaking delves beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering impulses. Miller's unique and engaging readings of ancient Iceland's sagas and extensive legal code reconstruct and illuminate the society that produced them. People in the saga world negotiated a maze of violent possibility, with strategies that frequently put life and limb in the balance. But there was a paradox in striking the balance—one could not get even without going one better. Miller shows how blood vengeance, law, and peacemaking were inextricably bound together in the feuding process. This book offers fascinating insights into the politics of a stateless society, its methods of social control, and the role that a uniquely sophisticated and self-conscious law played in the construction of Icelandic society. "Illuminating."—Rory McTurk, Times Literary Supplement "An impressive achievement in ethnohistory; it is an amalgam of historical research with legal and anthropological interpretation. What is more, and rarer, is that it is a pleasure to read due to the inclusion of narrative case material from the sagas themselves."—Dan Bauer, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Only a Theory

Only a Theory
Author: Kenneth Raymond Miller
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2008
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780670018833

Evaluates the debate between advocates for evolution and intelligent design which occured during the 2005 Dover evolution trial, dissecting the claims of the intelligent design movement and explaining why the conflict is compromising America's position a

Evidence from Scripture and History of the Second Coming of Christ about the Year 1843, Exhibited in a Course of Lectures

Evidence from Scripture and History of the Second Coming of Christ about the Year 1843, Exhibited in a Course of Lectures
Author: William Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1842
Genre: Bible
ISBN:

Over the centuries, God has revealed to His prophets clues to the upcoming events of the end times. Such prophetic language often differs from other parts of Scripture, employing highly figurative details. God in His wisdom has imparted these clued to various prophets spanning centuries of time, civilizations and social levels, thus providing the modern-day reader a highly complex, yet complete prophetic puzzle pointing us forward to final days in earth's history. Therefore, a complete study is necessary to understanding Bible prophecy as the act of overlooking one prophet or vision will render an incomplete understanding. William miller was a simple New York farmer when God called him to become one of the cornerstones of the great revival movement that eventually formed the foundation of the Seventh-day Adventist church. A self-proclaimed agnostic, Miller had little to do with God or the bible for much of his adult life. However, as the Holy Spirit worked on his heart, Miller began an extensive study of the Scriptures where he found Christ as his personal friend and Saviour. Evidence From Scripture and History explores into the heart of many Bible prophecies both known and ambiguous. Backing up all claims wich Scripture and references, Miller takes the reader on an exhaustive study of Bible prophecy in this modern-day repring of an early advent study. - INTRODUCTION. LECTURE I. THE SECOND APPEARING OF CHRIST. LECTURE II. THE FIRST RESURRECTION. LECTURE III. THE TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED DAYS. LECTURE IV. . LECTURE V. PAGAN ROME NUMBERED. LECTURE VI. DANIEL'S VISION OF THE LATTER DAYS; OF, AN EXPOSITION OF THE ELEVENTH . CHAPTER OF DANIEL. LECTURE VII. DANIEL'S 1260, 1290, AND 1335 DAYS EXPLAINED. LECTURE VIII. THE THREE WOE TRUMPHETS. LECTURE IX. AND X. THE EPISTLES TO THE SEVEN CHURCHAS OF ASIA, CONSIDERED AS APPLYING. TO SEVEN PERIODS OF THE GOSPEL CHURCH. LECTURE XI. THE NEW SONG. LECTURE XII. THE SEVEN SEALS, AS REPRESENTING EVENTS TO THE END OF TIME. . LECTURE XIII. THE TWO WITNESSES, AS HAVING BEEN SLAIN IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. LECTURE XIV. THE WOMAN IN THE WILDERNESS. LECTURE XV. THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES, OR SEVEN VIALS. LECTURE XVI. THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS. LECTURE XVII. ON THE PUNISHMENT OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD SEVEN TIMES FOR THEIR SINS. LECTURE XVIII. . LECTURE XIX. SIGNS OF THE PRESENT TIMES.