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Philip Elliot Slater (May 15, 1927 – June 20, 2013 [2]) was an American sociologist and writer.He was the author of the bestselling 1970 book on American culture, The Pursuit of Loneliness (1970) and of numerous other books and articles.
The collection includes essays on the subjects of sociology, ethics and philosophy.In the eponymous essay, Russell displays a series of arguments and reasoning with the aim of stating how the 'belief in the virtue of labour causes great evils in the modern world, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies instead in a diminution of labour' and how work 'is by no means one of the ...
The Maragtas is a work by Pedro Alcantara Monteclaro titled (in English translation) History of Panay from the first inhabitants and the Bornean immigrants, from which they descended, to the arrival of the Spaniards. The work is in mixed Hiligaynon and Kinaray-a languages in Iloilo written in 1901 and published in 1907. It is an original work ...
The book received numerous positive reviews. For example, Kirkus Reviews wrote, "The best pieces in the book, such as a wonderful essay on Navajo place names, combine this ethic with a profound attention to local knowledge and old ways of knowing; echoing Borges, Momaday proclaims that for him paradise is a library, but also 'a prairie and a plain . . .
Holmes's major works of Romantic biography include: Shelley: The Pursuit which won him the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974; Coleridge: Early Visions, which won him the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize (now the Costa Book Awards); Coleridge: Darker Reflections, the second and final volume of his Coleridge biography which won the Duff Cooper Prize and the Heinemann Award; and Dr. Johnson and ...
"An Essay on Man" at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA) Full text at Project Gutenberg; An Essay on Man public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Essay on Man/Essay on Woman - UK Parliament Living Heritage; An introduction to the poem from a Hartwicke College professor; Pope—Essay on Man—complete text
New York: Back Bay Books, 2014. [8] Borneman, Walter R. Rival Rails: The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad. New York: Random House, 2010. [9] Review, Los Angeles Times - Oct 3, 2010; Review BusinessWeek - Oct 20, 2010; Borneman, Walter R. Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America.
The book also provides background material on the history of the problems it describes, although this is not its main focus. [6] Even before beginning its main content, the preface of the book begins with an example of pure evasion from known pursuit, the path used by the Enola Gay to escape the blast of the nuclear bomb it dropped on Hiroshima ...