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Choose a page number: 1 Books RSS FeedsA Diary Kept by Mrs. R. C. Germon, at Lucknow, Between the Months of May and December, 1857 (Germon) - A Diary Kept by Mrs. R. C. Germon, at Lucknow, Between the Months of May and December, 1857 (London: Waterlow and Sons, 1870), by Maria Vincent Germon (page images at Google; US access only)...Feed Source: books.google.com Rifle and Spear with the Rajpoots (Gardner) - Rifle and Spear with the Rajpoots: Being the Narrative of a Winter's Travel and Sport in Northern India (London: Chatto and Windus, 1895), by Nora Beatrice Blyth Gardner (page images at Google; US access only)... Day by Day at Lucknow (Case) - Day by Day at Lucknow: A Journal of the Siege of Lucknow (London: Richard Bentley, 1858), by Mrs. Case (page images at Google)... Cambodian (Noss) - Cambodian: Basic Course (2 volumes; with audio files for volume 1 and additional materials), by Richard B. Noss and Im Proum (PDF and MP3 files at fsi-langauge-courses.com)... Wattles and Wattlebarks of New South Wales (Maiden) - Wattles and Wattlebarks of New South Wales: Being Hints on the Conservation and Cultivation of Wattles, Together With Particulars of Their Value, by J. H. Maiden (illustrated HTML at SETIS)... New Australia - New Australia: The Journal of the New Australia Co-Operative Settlement Association (1892-1894) (partial serial archives)... Follow the Leader in the Horn (Ratliff) - Follow the Leader in the Horn: The Soviet-Cuban Presence in East Africa (Washington, DC: Cuban American National Foundation, 1986), by William E. Ratliff (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... Leon Trotsky on the Kirov Assassination (Trotsky) - Leon Trotsky on the Kirov Assassination (originally published 1935; New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1956), by Leon Trotsky, trans. by John G. Wright (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... So This is Tristan Da Cunha (Humphries) - So This is Tristan Da Cunha: a Photoguide to the World's Loneliest Island in the South Atlantic Ocean (1982), by Nigel Humphries (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... The Kennedy-Khrushchev Pact and the Sandinistas (Kirkpatrick) - The Kennedy-Khrushchev Pact and the Sandinistas (in English and Spanish; Washington, DC: Cuban American National Foundation, 1986), by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... Understanding Libya's Role in World Politics (People's Committee for Students of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) - Understanding Libya's Role in World Politics (1984), by People's Committee for Students of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... "Freedom is the Exception" (Sullivan) - "Freedom is the Exception": Three Lectures on the Values of the Open Society (1965), by William C. Sullivan (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... A Lady's Diary of the Siege of Lucknow, Written for the Perusal of Friends at Home (Harris) - A Lady's Diary of the Siege of Lucknow, Written for the Perusal of Friends at Home (second edition; London: J. Murray, 1858), by Mrs. James P. Harris (multiple formats at archive.org)... Letter Containing Extracts From a Journal Kept by Mrs. Inglis During the Siege of Lucknow (Inglis) - Letter Containing Extracts From a Journal Kept by Mrs. Inglis During the Siege of Lucknow (pages 12-13 duplicated at start of scan; London: Printed for private circulation only, 1858), by Julia Selina Inglis (multiple formats at archive.org)... Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the Years 1826, 1827, 1828, and 1829, With Remarks on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, and Anecdotes of Distinguished Public Characters, in a Series of Letters (Pückler-Muskau) - Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the Years 1826, 1827, 1828, and 1829, With Remarks on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, and Anecdotes of Distinguished Public Characters, in a Series of Letters (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1833), by Hermann Pückler-Muskau (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Wars of Alexander (Leo) - The Wars of Alexander: An Alliterative Romance Translated Chiefly from the Historia Alexandri Magni de Preliis (Early English text society edition, originally published 1886), ed. by Walter W. Skeat, contrib. by Archipresbyter Leo (multiple formats at archive.org)... Kung-Fu (Dudgeon) - Kung-Fu: or, Tauist Medical Gymnastics (1895), by John Dudgeon (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)... Official Proceedings of the Twelfth Republican National Convention, Held in the City of Philadelphia, June, 19, 20 and 21, 1900 (Republican National Convention) - Official Proceedings of the Twelfth Republican National Convention, Held in the City of Philadelphia, June, 19, 20 and 21, 1900, by Republican National Convention, contrib. by Milton W. Blumenberg (multiple formats at archive.org)... Addresses at the Republican National Convention, 1904, Nominating for President, Hon. Theodore Roosevelt of New York, for Vice-President Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks of Indiana (Republican National Convention) - Addresses at the Republican National Convention, 1904, Nominating for President, Hon. Theodore Roosevelt of New York, for Vice-President Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks of Indiana, by Republican National Convention, ed. by Henry Kanegsberg (multiple formats at archive.org)... Official Proceedings of the Thirteenth Republican National Convention, Held in the City of Chicago, June 21, 22, 23, 1904 (Republican National Convention) - Official Proceedings of the Thirteenth Republican National Convention, Held in the City of Chicago, June 21, 22, 23, 1904, by Republican National Convention, contrib. by Milton W. Blumenberg (multiple formats at archive.org)... Official Report of the Proceedings of the Fifteenth Republican National Convention, Held in Chicago, Illinois, June 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22, 1912 (Republican National Convention) - Official Report of the Proceedings of the Fifteenth Republican National Convention, Held in Chicago, Illinois, June 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22, 1912, by Republican National Convention, contrib. by Milton W. Blumenberg (multiple formats at archive.org)... Official Report of the Proceedings of the Seventeenth Republican National Convention, Held in Chicago, Illinois, June 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, 1920, Resulting in the Nomination of Warren Gamaliel Harding, of Ohio, for President, and the Nomination of Calvin Coolidge, of Massachusetts, for Vice-President (Republican National Convention) - Official Report of the Proceedings of the Seventeenth Republican National Convention, Held in Chicago, Illinois, June 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, 1920, Resulting in the Nomination of Warren Gamaliel Harding, of Ohio, for President, and the Nomination of Calvin Coolidge, of Massachusetts, for Vice-President, by Republican National Convention, contrib. by George L. Hart (multiple formats at archive.org)... Official Report of the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Republican National Convention, Held in Chicago, Illinois, June 7, 8, 9 and 10, 1916 (Republican National Convention) - Official Report of the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Republican National Convention, Held in Chicago, Illinois, June 7, 8, 9 and 10, 1916, by Republican National Convention, contrib. by George L. Hart (multiple formats at archive.org)... Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions of 1856, 1860 and 1864, Including Proceedings of the Antecedent National Convention Held at Pittsburg, in February, 1856, As Reported by Horace Greeley (Republican National Convention) - Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions of 1856, 1860 and 1864, Including Proceedings of the Antecedent National Convention Held at Pittsburg, in February, 1856, As Reported by Horace Greeley (Minneapolis; Charles W. Johnson, c1893), by Republican National Convention, contrib. by Horace Greeley (multiple formats at archive.org)... Proceedings of the National Republican Convention, Held at Chicago, May 16th, 17th and 18th, 1860 (Republican National Convention) - Proceedings of the National Republican Convention, Held at Chicago, May 16th, 17th and 18th, 1860: For President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois; For Vice-President, Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine (Chicago: Press and Tribune Office, 1860), by Republican National Convention (multiple formats at archive.org)... Proceedings of the Republican National Convention Held at Chicago, May 16, 17 and 18, 1860 (Republican National Convention) - Proceedings of the Republican National Convention Held at Chicago, May 16, 17 and 18, 1860 (Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1860), by Republican National Convention (multiple formats at archive.org)... Republican National Convention, St. Louis, June 16th to 18th, 1896; With a History of the Republican Party and a Survey of National Politics Since the Party's Foundation (Republican National Convention) - Republican National Convention, St. Louis, June 16th to 18th, 1896; With a History of the Republican Party and a Survey of National Politics Since the Party's Foundation, by Republican National Convention, ed. by Charles M. Harvey (multiple formats at archive.org)... Letters to Our Working Party (Whitaker) - Letters to Our Working Party (New York: E. and J.B. Young and Co., n.d.), by Evelyn Whitaker (PDF and text with commentary at evelynwhitakerlibrary.org)... Lassie (Whitaker) - Lassie (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1903), by Evelyn Whitaker (text with commentary at evelynwhitakerlibrary.org)... Legacy (Brody) - Legacy: The Life of Nikola Tesla, by Norma Brody (HTML with commentary at publicbookshelf.com)... Blues Then and Now (Leanza) - Blues Then and Now: The History of the Blues, by Frank Leanza (HTML with commentary at publicbookshelf.com)... Catfish Charlie (Butler) - Catfish Charlie, by Butler (HTML with commentary at publicbookshelf.com)... It's a Shame to Be a Negro (Lindor) - It's a Shame to Be a Negro, by Hans Lindor (HTML with commentary at publicbookshelf.com)... The Great Chain on Urantia (Snoek) - The Great Chain on Urantia, by Nicholas P. Snoek (HTML with commentary at publicbookshelf.com)... The Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Ciorciari) - The Khmer Rouge Tribunal (2006), ed. by John D. Ciorciari (PDF at dccam.org)... Night of the Khmer Rouge (Veneciano) - Night of the Khmer Rouge: Genocide and Justice in Cambodia (c2007), ed. by Jorge Daniel Veneciano and Alexander Laban Hinton (PDF at dccam.org)... The Cham Rebellion (Ysa) - The Cham Rebellion: Survivors' Stories from the Villages (2006), by Osman Ysa (PDF at dccam.org)... Vanished (Pang) - Vanished: Stories from Cambodia's New People under Democratic Kampuchea (c2006), by Pivoine Pang and Wynne Cougill (PDF at dccam.org)... Passing (Larsen) - Passing (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1929), by Nella Larsen (page images at Michigan)... The Phantom (Boucicault) - The Phantom: A Drama, in Two Acts (London and New York: Samuel French, c1856), by Dion Boucicault (page images at Michigan)... The Buccaneers (Wharton) - The Buccaneers (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1938), by Edith Wharton (page images at Michigan)... Andrew Golding (Keeling) - Andrew Golding: A Tale of the Great Plague, by Anne E. Keeling (Gutenberg text)... Britain at Bay (Wilkinson) - Britain at Bay (1909), by Spenser Wilkinson (Gutenberg text)... Great Britain and Her Queen (Keeling) - Great Britain and Her Queen (second edition, 1897), by Anne E. Keeling (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... Lessons of the War (Wilkinson) - Lessons of the War: Being Comments from Week to Week to the Relief of Ladysmith (1900), by Spenser Wilkinson (Gutenberg text)... Address of the Macedon Convention, by William Goodell; and Letters of Gerrit Smith (Goodell) - Address of the Macedon Convention, by William Goodell; and Letters of Gerrit Smith (Albany: S. W. Green, 1847), by William Goodell and Gerrit Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Address of the Southern and Western Liberty Convention, to the People of the United States (Southern and Western Liberty Convention ) - The Address of the Southern and Western Liberty Convention, to the People of the United States (Cincinnati: Printed at the Gazette office, 1845), by Ohio) Southern and Western Liberty Convention (1845 : Cincinnati (multiple formats at archive.org)... Cassius M. Clay, and Gerrit Smith (Clay) - Cassius M. Clay, and Gerrit Smith: A Letter of Cassius M. Clay, of Lexington, Ky., to the Mayor of Dayton, O., With a Review of it by Gerrit Smith, of Peterboro, N.Y. (1844), by Cassius Marcellus Clay and Gerrit Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)... A Lady's Tour in Corsica (Forde) - A Lady's Tour in Corsica (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley and son, 1880), by Gertrude Forde (stable link)... Lecture, Showing the Necessity for a Liberty Party, and Setting Forth its Principles, Measures, and Object (Buffum) - Lecture, Showing the Necessity for a Liberty Party, and Setting Forth its Principles, Measures, and Object (Cincinnati: Caleb Clark, 1844), by Arnold Buffum (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Northwest (Smith) - The Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Northwest: Toppan Prize Essay of 1896, by Theodore Clarke Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)... Notes of a Tour in India and Ceylon During the Winter of 1888-89 (Ford) - Notes of a Tour in India and Ceylon During the Winter of 1888-89 (London: Women's printing society, 1889), by Helen C. Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)... Oliver Dyer's Phonographic Report of the Proceedings of the National Free Soil Convention at Buffalo, N. Y., August 9th and 10th, 1848 (Free Soil Party ) - Oliver Dyer's Phonographic Report of the Proceedings of the National Free Soil Convention at Buffalo, N. Y., August 9th and 10th, 1848, by Free Soil Party National Convention, contrib. by Oliver Dyer (stable link)... Principles and Measures of True Democracy (Southern and Western Liberty Convention ) - Principles and Measures of True Democracy: The Address of the Southern and Western Liberty Convention, held at Cincinnati, June 11, 1845, to the People of the United States; Also, the Letter of Elihu Burritt to the Convention (Cincinnati: Printed at the Gazette office, 1845), by Ohio) Southern and Western Liberty Convention (1845 : Cincinnati (multiple formats at archive.org)... Recollections of Central America and the West Coast of Africa (Foote) - Recollections of Central America and the West Coast of Africa (London: T. C. Newby, 1869), by Mrs. Henry Grant (multiple formats at archive.org)... Reunion of the Free Soilers of 1848-1852, at the Parker House, Boston, Massachusetts, June 28, 1888 (Free Soil Party ) - Reunion of the Free Soilers of 1848-1852, at the Parker House, Boston, Massachusetts, June 28, 1888, by Free Soil Party (Mass.) (multiple formats at archive.org)... Speech of Hon. Horace Mann, on the Right of Congress to Legislate for the Territories of the United States, and its Duty to Exclude Slavery Therefrom (Mann) - Speech of Hon. Horace Mann, on the Right of Congress to Legislate for the Territories of the United States, and its Duty to Exclude Slavery Therefrom (1848), by Horace Mann, contrib. by Martin Van Buren and Joshua Leavitt (multiple formats at archive.org)... A Woman's First Impressions of Europe (Forbes) - A Woman's First Impressions of Europe: Being Wayside Sketches Made During a Short Tour in the Year 1863 (New York: Derby and Miller, 1865), by Mrs. E. A. Forbes (multiple formats at archive.org)... Shattered Dreams (Bayliffe) - Shattered Dreams, by Mandy Bayliffe (zipped PDF in the UK)... The Adventures of Christopher Hawkins (Hawkins) - The Adventures of Christopher Hawkins: Containing Details of His Captivity, a First and Second Time on the High Seas, in the Revolutionary War, by the British, and His Consequent Sufferings, and Escape from the Jersey Prison Ship, The Lying in the Harbour of New York, by Swimming (New York: Privately printed, 1864), by Christopher Hawkins, ed. by Charles I. Bushnell (page images at Google)... The Adventures of Jones (Carruth) - The Adventures of Jones (New York: Harper and Bros., 1895), by Hayden Carruth (page images at Google; US access only)... The Revolutionary Adventures of Ebenezer Fox, of Roxbury, Massachusetts (Fox) - The Revolutionary Adventures of Ebenezer Fox, of Roxbury, Massachusetts (Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1838), by Ebenezer Fox (page images at Google)... The Adventures of Ebenezer Fox in the Revolutionary War, Illustrated by Elegeant Engravings From Original Designs (Fox) - The Adventures of Ebenezer Fox in the Revolutionary War, Illustrated by Elegeant Engravings From Original Designs (Boston: Charles Fox, 1847), by Ebenezer Fox (page images at Google)... Stilled Lives (Cougill) - Stilled Lives: Photographs of the Cambodian Genocide (2004), by Wynne Cougill, Pivoine Pang, Chhayran Ra, and Sopheak Sim (PDF at dccam.org)... The Chain of Terror (Meng-Try Ea) - The Chain of Terror: The Khmer Rouge Southwest Zone Security System (c2005), by Meng-Try Ea, ed. by Wynne Cougill, trans. by Rich Arant (PDF at dccam.org)... Tum Teav (Chigas) - Tum Teav: A Translation and Analysis of a Cambodian Literary Classic (2005), ed. by George Chigas (PDF at dccam.org)... Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon (Worgan) - Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon (1788; published 1978), by George B. Worgan (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)... The Book of Small (Carr) - The Book of Small (1942), by Emily Carr (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)... Open Source Democracy (Rushkoff) - Open Source Democracy: How Online Communication is Changing Offline Politics (London: Demos, 2003), by Douglas Rushkoff (stable link)... Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, With Letters and Other Family Memorials (Fletcher) - Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, With Letters and Other Family Memorials (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1875), by Mrs. Fletcher, ed. by Mary Fletcher Richardson (multiple formats at archive.org)... Conversations on Botany (Fitton) - Conversations on Botany (ninth edition; London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1840), by Elizabeth Fitton, Sarah Mary Fitton, and Mrs. Marcet (multiple formats at archive.org)... Mr. Milo Bush and Other Worthies (Carruth) - Mr. Milo Bush and Other Worthies: Their Recollections (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1899), by Hayden Carruth, illust. by A. B. Frost (multiple formats at archive.org)... Track's End (Carruth) - Track's End (New York: Harper and Bros., 1911), by Hayden Carruth, illust. by Clifford Carleton (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Voyage of the Rattletrap (Carruth) - The Voyage of the Rattletrap (New York: Harper and Bros., 1897), by Hayden Carruth, illust. by H. M. Wilder (stable link)... Record of the Meeting of the Legislative Council (Falkland Islands Legislative Council) - Record of the Meeting of the Legislative Council, by Falkland Islands Legislative Council (partial serial archives)... Working in the Music Industry (Britten) - Working in the Music Industry, by Anna Britten (HTML with commentary at Webooks)... "Jesus Says So" - "Jesus Says So": or, A Memorial of Little Sarah G--- (Boston: Mass. Sabbath School Society, 1851) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... An Englishman's Travels in America (Benwell) - An Englishman's Travels in America: His Observations Of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States (1857), by John Benwell (Gutenberg text)... Birthright (Stribling) - Birthright (1922), by T. S. Stribling, illust. by F. Luis Mora (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... Plays by Susan Glaspell (Glaspell) - Plays by Susan Glaspell: Trifles; The Outside; The Verge; Inheritors, by Susan Glaspell (Gutenberg text)... The Visioning (Glaspell) - The Visioning, by Susan Glaspell (Gutenberg text)... Hong Kong Hansard (Hong Kong. Legislative Council) - Hong Kong Hansard: Reports of the Meetings of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, by Hong Kong Legislative Council and Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (partial serial archives)... Reports of the Meetings of the Provisional Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Hansard) (Hong Kong ) - Reports of the Meetings of the Provisional Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Hansard), by Hong Kong (China) Provisional Legislative Council (partial serial archives)... Concentration (Larson) - Concentration (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., c1920), by Christian D. Larson (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Finding of Lot's Wife (Clark) - The Finding of Lot's Wife, by Alfred Clark (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Haunted Pajamas (Elliott) - The Haunted Pajamas (New York: Grossett and Dunlap, c1911), by Francis Perry Elliott, illust. by Edmund Frederick (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Toltec Savior (Graham) - The Toltec Savior: A Historical Romance of Ancient Mexico (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., c1901), by Sarah Melissa Cary Downing Graham (multiple formats at archive.org)... The White Island (Wood) - The White Island (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1919), by Michael Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Witching Hour (Thomas) - The Witching Hour (novel, illustrated from scenes in the play; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1908), by Augustus Thomas (multiple formats at archive.org)... A Woman Alone in the Heart of Japan (Fisher) - A Woman Alone in the Heart of Japan (London: Sisley's, n.d.), by Gertrude Adams Fisher (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Democratic Party Platform (Min zhu dang ) - The Democratic Party Platform, by Min zhu dang (Hong Kong, China) (HTML at dphk.org)... House Rules (Hong Kong ) - House Rules (2008), by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)... Handbook for Chairmen of Bills Committees (Hong Kong ) - Handbook for Chairmen of Bills Committees, by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)... Rules of Procedure of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong ) - Rules of Procedure of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (2008), by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)... Handbook for Chairmen of Panels (Hong Kong ) - Handbook for Chairmen of Panels (2006), by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)... Handbook for Chairmen of Subcommittees on Subsidiary Legislation/Other Instruments (Hong Kong ) - Handbook for Chairmen of Subcommittees on Subsidiary Legislation/Other Instruments, by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML at legco.gov.hk)... Legislative Council Annual Report (Hong Kong ) - Legislative Council Annual Report, by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (partial serial archives)... Report on the Activities of The Provisional Legislative Council Commission (Hong Kong ) - Report on the Activities of The Provisional Legislative Council Commission (published annually), by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (partial serial archives)... Provisional Legislative Council Annual Report (Hong Kong ) - Provisional Legislative Council Annual Report (only report issued; 1998), by Hong Kong (China) Provisional Legislative Council (PDF in Hong Kong)... Report on the Activities of The Provisional Legislative Council Commission 1997-1998 (Hong Kong ) - Report on the Activities of The Provisional Legislative Council Commission 1997-1998, by Hong Kong (China) Provisional Legislative Council (PDF in Hong Kong)... An Investigation into the Removal of Nine U.S. Attorneys in 2006 (United States. Dept. of Justice) - An Investigation into the Removal of Nine U.S. Attorneys in 2006 (2008), by United States Department of Justice (PDF at uddoj.gov)... Don't Just Do Something, Talk · Slavoj Zizek on the financial crisis - One of the most striking things about the reaction to the current financial meltdown is that, as one of the participants put it: 'No one really knows what to do.' The reason is that expectations are part of the game: how the market reacts to a particular intervention depends not only on how much bankers and traders trust the interventions, but even more on how much they think others will trust them.... Don't Ask Henry · Alan Hollinghurst: Sissiness - The story of Belchamber's publication is probably better known than the book itself, which, like its author, has suffered the ambiguous fate of becoming an accessory to the life of a more important writer. It is his friend Henry James who keeps Sturgis's novel distantly in view, at the same time as casting a long shadow over it. James read it in proof, and wrote a characteristic sequence of letters to Sturgis about it, beginning with neat praise and mild demurrals, but quickly building up to such fundamental criticisms of the book that the demoralised author said he would withdraw it altogether; at which James protested and pleaded, successfully though not with any retraction of the criticisms he had made.... Cut, Kill, Dig, Drill · Jonathan Raban: Sarah Palin's Cunning - Sarah Palin has put a new face and voice to the long-standing, powerful, but inchoate movement in US political life that one might see as a mutant strain of Poujadism, inflected with a modern American accent. There are echoes of the Poujadist agenda of 1950s France in its contempt for metropolitan elites, fuelling the resentment of the provinces towards the capital and the countryside towards the city, in its xenophobic strain of nationalism, sturdy, paysan resistance to taxation, hostility to big business, and conviction that politicians are out to exploit the common man.... Why Not Eat an Eclair? · David Runciman: Why Vote? - Why would anyone vote for Barack Obama? Not why would anyone want to see Obama elected president rather than John McCain (or Hillary Clinton for that matter), but why would anyone who desired that outcome think that his or her individual vote could make the slightest difference in helping to bring it about? General elections are never decided by a single vote, so no one's vote is ever going to be missed. If you want Obama to win, and plan to vote for him, but you forget, or find yourself otherwise detained, don't worry - the final result will be unaffected by your failure to show up, even if you happen to live in a swing state like Ohio or Florida. If Obama is winning the state, he will do perfectly well without you; if he is losing, there is nothing you can do to help him get over the line, because the winning line will always be further away than your paltry individual vote. Either way, you are not needed, so why bother to vote at all?... The Khugistic Sandal · Jenny Diski: Jews & Shoes - Great shoemakers of our day: Manolo Blahnik, Jimmy Choo, Christian Louboutin. None of them, I think, very Jewish. And if there had been any great pre or postwar Jewish shoe mavins they would certainly have been pointed out to me by my parents, who identified any Jewish achiever in any sphere as one of the family: Alma Cogan, Einstein, Marx, boxing promoter Jack Solomons (the Sultan of Sock), it didn't matter what they were known for, everyone counted. Even, like the Kray Twins, a little bit Jewish and murderers would make them ours and make us proud - but there was never a mention of shoe designers.... Why It Matters · Ellen Meiksins Wood: Quentin Skinner's Detachment - Is it possible, Quentin Skinner asks, that an entire tradition of political thought, including the most influential conception of freedom in anglophone political theory in the past half-century, 'has been insensitive to the range of conditions that can limit our freedom of action'? A reasonable question, one might think, not only about Isaiah Berlin's influential defence of 'negative' against 'positive' liberty but about the whole tradition of liberalism. Yet Skinner's own understanding of liberty is not immune to the same awkward question.... What's in a Number? · Donald MacKenzie: The $300 Trillion Question - Judged by the amount of money directly dependent on it, the British Bankers' Association's London Interbank Offered Rate matters more than any other set of numbers in the world. Libor anchors contracts amounting to some $300 trillion, the equivalent of $45,000 for every human being on the planet. It's a critical part of the infrastructure of financial markets but, like plumbing, doesn't usually get noticed. Only a handful of economists, and no other academics, have ever looked in any detail at Libor, and even the financial press didn't show much interest in how Libor is calculated until this spring, when there was sharp controversy over whether these crucial numbers could be trusted.... After Kemal · Perry Anderson - In a famous essay, one of the most acute self-critical reflections to emerge out of any of the youthful revolts of the 1960s, Murat Belge - a writer unrivalled in his intelligence of the political sensibility of his generation - told his contemporaries on the Turkish left, as yet another military intervention came thudding down over more than a decade of ardent hopes, that they had misunderstood their own country in a quite fundamental way.1 They had thought it a Third World society among others, ready for liberation by guerrilla uprisings, in the towns or in the mountains. The paradox they had failed to grasp was that although the Turkey of the time was indeed 'a relatively backward country economically . . . and socially' - with a per capita GNP similar to that of Algeria and Mexico, and adult literacy at a mere 60 per cent - it was 'relatively advanced politically', having known 'a two-party system in which opposing leaders have changed office a number of times after a popular manda... Making Do and Mending · Rosemary Hill reads Penelope Fitzgerald's Letters - In 1997, three years before her death, Penelope Fitzgerald asked her American publisher, Chris Carduff, who had offered to send her any books she wanted, for a copy of Wild America by Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher. An account of a 30,000-mile journey around the continent by two naturalists, it was originally published in 1955 and was being reissued in memory of Peterson, who had recently died. Fitzgerald wanted it, however, for the sake of his co-author, who had been her cousin. 'I've so often driven about with him,' she told Carduff, 'with the zoo's first Chinese panda in the back of his car, together with a supply of bamboo shoots.' (Fisher, she explained, was working at London Zoo.) After five hundred pages of her letters the reader is, if not exactly used to this sort of thing, then perfectly prepared for it. The eruption of the startling, the comic and the inexplicable, into a life that Fitzgerald was often at pains to portray as humdrum, gives her correspondence its charac... Letters - The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 19... Table of contents - Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 19... Copyright © 2008, The Veggie Lady - Free Organic Gardening Advice. All Rights Reserved. |
