Author: Lionel Arthur TollemachePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Talks with Mr. Gladstone
Author: Lionel Arthur TollemachePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Trouble with Reality
Author: Brooke GladstonePublisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 1523502622
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Every week on the public radio show On the Media, the award-winning journalist Brooke Gladstone analyzes the media and how it shapes our perceptions of the world. Now, from her front-row perch on the day’s events, Gladstone brings her genius for making insightful, unexpected connections to help us understand what she calls—and what so many of us can acknowledge having—“trouble with reality.” Reality, as she shows us, was never what we thought it was—there is always a bubble, people are always subjective and prey to stereotypes. And that makes reality actually more vulnerable than we ever thought. Enter Donald J. Trump and his team of advisors. For them, as she writes, lying is the point. The more blatant the lie, the easier it is to hijack reality and assert power over the truth. Drawing on writers as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Walter Lippmann, Philip K. Dick, and Jonathan Swift, she dissects this strategy, straight out of the authoritarian playbook, and shows how the Trump team mastered it, down to the five types of tweets that Trump uses to distort our notions of what’s real and what’s not. And she offers hope. There is meaningful action, a time-tested treatment for moral panic. And there is also the inevitable reckoning. History tells us we can count on it. Brief and bracing, The Trouble with Reality shows exactly why so many of us didn’t see it coming, and how we can recover both our belief in reality—and our sanity.
On Books and the Housing of Them
Author: W. E. GladstonePublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Gladstone, the four times Liberal Prime Minister of Britain loved books almost as much as anything else (possibly more), and in this treatise he describes how one could arrange one's own personal library. Due to his wealth and position in history, his ideas while fascinating, are not really practical for the 21st century, but the book makes for interesting reading.
Gladstone
Author: E J FeuchtwangerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349197831
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
First published in 1975, this remains the only biography based on recent scholarship dealing with the whole of Gladstone's long life. `...thoroughly competent and well-proportioned.' Enoch Powell, Books and Bookmen `...balanced and judicious, this biography qualifies as a model of synthesis that manages adeptly at every stage to distinguish between Gladstone as he conceived of himself and as he appeared to the multitudes who worshipped him.' Stephen Koss, Observer
Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Gladstone
Author: Roy JenkinsPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0812966414
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill, a towering historical biography, available for the first time in paperback. William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine years in the House of Commons and was prime minister four times, a unique accomplishment. From his critical role in the formation of the Liberal Party to his preoccupation with the cause of Irish Home Rule, he was a commanding politician and statesman nonpareil. But Gladstone the man was much more: a classical scholar, a wide-ranging author, a vociferous participant in all the great theological debates of the day, a voracious reader, and an avid walker who chopped down trees for recreation. He was also a man obsessed with the idea of his own sinfulness, prone to self-flagellation and persistent in the practice of accosting prostitutes on the street and attempting to persuade them of the errors of their ways. This full and deep portrait of a complicated man offers a sweeping picture of a tumultuous century in British history, and is also a brilliant example of the biographer’s art.
The Real Gladstone
Author: J. Ewing RitchiePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732676579
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Real Gladstone by J. Ewing Ritchie
The Academy
Author: Talks with Mr. Gladstone
Author: Lionel Arthur TollemachePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Mr. Gladstone and Genesis
Author: Thomas Henry HuxleyPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
"Mr. Gladstone and Genesis: Essay #5 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"" by Thomas Henry Huxley is a commentary work of non-fiction by the 19th century scientist. His analytical mind comes in handy when it comes to reviewing how science and Hebrew culture co-exist. Though there have been many scientific developments in the years since its publication, this book is still an insightful read for those interested in the line between theology and science.