Author: Arrigo Petacco
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802039219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Based on previously unavailable archival documents and oral accounts from people who were there, Petacco reveals the events and exposes the Italian government's mishandling - and then official silence on - the situation.
A Tragedy Revealed
Author: Arrigo Petacco
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802039219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Based on previously unavailable archival documents and oral accounts from people who were there, Petacco reveals the events and exposes the Italian government's mishandling - and then official silence on - the situation.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802039219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Based on previously unavailable archival documents and oral accounts from people who were there, Petacco reveals the events and exposes the Italian government's mishandling - and then official silence on - the situation.
LIFE
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
The World of Anne Frank
Author: Betty Merti
Publisher: Walch Publishing
ISBN: 9780825137365
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Make The Diary of Anne Frank personally compelling and instructive for your students! This book brings the work to life by putting it in its historical context and providing relevant activities. Each reading is supported by vocabulary, comprehension, discussion, and writing activities.
Publisher: Walch Publishing
ISBN: 9780825137365
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Make The Diary of Anne Frank personally compelling and instructive for your students! This book brings the work to life by putting it in its historical context and providing relevant activities. Each reading is supported by vocabulary, comprehension, discussion, and writing activities.
What was Tragedy?
Author: Blair Hoxby
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198749163
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
What was Tragedy reconstructs the early modern poetics of tragedy with which practicing dramatists worked. In doing so, it not only illuminates recognized masterpieces but also encourages readers to explore a rich repertoire of tragic drama previously relegated to obscurity only because we lacked the language to interpret it.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198749163
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
What was Tragedy reconstructs the early modern poetics of tragedy with which practicing dramatists worked. In doing so, it not only illuminates recognized masterpieces but also encourages readers to explore a rich repertoire of tragic drama previously relegated to obscurity only because we lacked the language to interpret it.
Serious Comedy
Author: Patrick Downey
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739101162
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The question of how seriously to take literature has vexed philosophers throughout the centuries. Are the stories we write merely noble lies told to hold society together? A means of comic detachment from a tragic world? Mimicry of transcendent truths? Potent acts of self-realization? From the Socratics to the Romantics, all of these opinions and more have been offered. In a pop-culture age in which we live out of the stories we tell, our culture needs a clear answer. In this masterful overview of the Western literary tradition, Patrick Downey traces how seriously philosophers and writers across the centuries, from Plato to Kierkegaard, have taken humanity’s attempts at self-authorship in tragedy and comedy. These attempts, Downey argues, only find resolution in history’s most significant work of literature: the Bible. Setting all other literature in its right place, the Bible and the gospel it proclaims take us beyond literature to the true story of reality, providing what the philosophers and poets have sought for all along: a serious comedy.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739101162
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The question of how seriously to take literature has vexed philosophers throughout the centuries. Are the stories we write merely noble lies told to hold society together? A means of comic detachment from a tragic world? Mimicry of transcendent truths? Potent acts of self-realization? From the Socratics to the Romantics, all of these opinions and more have been offered. In a pop-culture age in which we live out of the stories we tell, our culture needs a clear answer. In this masterful overview of the Western literary tradition, Patrick Downey traces how seriously philosophers and writers across the centuries, from Plato to Kierkegaard, have taken humanity’s attempts at self-authorship in tragedy and comedy. These attempts, Downey argues, only find resolution in history’s most significant work of literature: the Bible. Setting all other literature in its right place, the Bible and the gospel it proclaims take us beyond literature to the true story of reality, providing what the philosophers and poets have sought for all along: a serious comedy.
Tragedies of Tyrants
Author: Rebecca Weld Bushnell
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501745573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Tragedies of Tyrants".
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501745573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Tragedies of Tyrants".
Challenger Revealed
Author: Richard C. Cook
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Reagan Administration pushed hard for NASA to launch shuttle mission 51L, before it was ready. 73 seconds into the launch, the shuttle exploded, killing seven and leaving a nation traumatized. Richard Cook, lead resource analyst at NASA for the Solid Rocket Boosters, was the first to warn of possible catastrophic failure. His memo, detailing astronaut concerns and warnings from the shuttle builders at Morton Thiokol, was ignored by top NASA officials and members of the Reagan administration. In the aftermath, NASA launched an investigation to "discover" the cause of the disaster. Though within NASA there was absolute certainty about the O-ring failure, they began a cover-up by publicly proclaiming that the cause was unknown. A Reagan administration Commission perpetrated the same lie. When Cook realized that the Commission was not interested in the truth, he leaked the original documents to the New York Times, setting off a cascade of disclosures, including revelations by Morton Thiokol engineers that they had tried to stop the launch.--From publisher description.
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Reagan Administration pushed hard for NASA to launch shuttle mission 51L, before it was ready. 73 seconds into the launch, the shuttle exploded, killing seven and leaving a nation traumatized. Richard Cook, lead resource analyst at NASA for the Solid Rocket Boosters, was the first to warn of possible catastrophic failure. His memo, detailing astronaut concerns and warnings from the shuttle builders at Morton Thiokol, was ignored by top NASA officials and members of the Reagan administration. In the aftermath, NASA launched an investigation to "discover" the cause of the disaster. Though within NASA there was absolute certainty about the O-ring failure, they began a cover-up by publicly proclaiming that the cause was unknown. A Reagan administration Commission perpetrated the same lie. When Cook realized that the Commission was not interested in the truth, he leaked the original documents to the New York Times, setting off a cascade of disclosures, including revelations by Morton Thiokol engineers that they had tried to stop the launch.--From publisher description.
Anne Frank: Holocaust Diarist
Author: Alexis Burling
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1680774786
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
This biography examines the life of Anne Frank using easy-to-read, compelling text. Through striking historical photographs and informative sidebars, readers will learn about Frank's family background, education, and harrowing experiences during the Holocaust. Informative sidebars enhance and support the text. Features include a table of contents, timeline, facts page, glossary, bibliography, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1680774786
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
This biography examines the life of Anne Frank using easy-to-read, compelling text. Through striking historical photographs and informative sidebars, readers will learn about Frank's family background, education, and harrowing experiences during the Holocaust. Informative sidebars enhance and support the text. Features include a table of contents, timeline, facts page, glossary, bibliography, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Art and Morality
Author: José Luis Bermúdez
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134738757
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Art and Morality is a collection of groundbreaking new papers on the theme of aesthetics and ethics, and the link between the two subjects. A group of distinguished contributors tackle the important questions that arise when one thinks about the moral dimensions of art and the aesthetic dimension of moral life. The volume is a significant contribution to philosophical literature, opening up unexplored questions and shedding new light on more traditional debates in aesthetics. The topics explored include: the relation of aesthetic to ethical judgement; the relation of artistic experience to moral consciousness; the moral status of fiction; the concepts of sentimentality and decadence; the moral dimension of critical practice, pictorial art and music; the moral significance of tragedy; and the connections between artistic and moral issues elaborated in the writings of central figures in modern philosophy, such as Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. The contributors share the view that progress in aesthetics requires detailed study of the practice of criticism. This volume will appeal both to the philosophical community and to researchers in areas such as literary theory, musicology and the theory of art.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134738757
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Art and Morality is a collection of groundbreaking new papers on the theme of aesthetics and ethics, and the link between the two subjects. A group of distinguished contributors tackle the important questions that arise when one thinks about the moral dimensions of art and the aesthetic dimension of moral life. The volume is a significant contribution to philosophical literature, opening up unexplored questions and shedding new light on more traditional debates in aesthetics. The topics explored include: the relation of aesthetic to ethical judgement; the relation of artistic experience to moral consciousness; the moral status of fiction; the concepts of sentimentality and decadence; the moral dimension of critical practice, pictorial art and music; the moral significance of tragedy; and the connections between artistic and moral issues elaborated in the writings of central figures in modern philosophy, such as Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. The contributors share the view that progress in aesthetics requires detailed study of the practice of criticism. This volume will appeal both to the philosophical community and to researchers in areas such as literary theory, musicology and the theory of art.
Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster (Updated Edition)
Author: Steven Biel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Explores how the Titanic disaster became an icon for a variety of groups, including suffragists and their opponents, radicals, reformers, capitalists, critics of technology, racists, and xenophobes.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Explores how the Titanic disaster became an icon for a variety of groups, including suffragists and their opponents, radicals, reformers, capitalists, critics of technology, racists, and xenophobes.