The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency By Justin S. Vaughn, Jennifer Mercieca
2014 | 266 Pages | ISBN: 1623490421 | PDF | 21 MB
Campaign rhetoric helps candidates to get elected, but its effects last well beyond the counting of the ballots; this was perhaps never truer than in Barack Obama's 2008 campaign. Did Obama create such high expectations that they actually hindered his ability to enact his agenda? Should we judge his performance by the scale of the expectations his rhetoric generated, or against some other standard? The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency grapples with these and other important questions.Barack Obama's election seemed to many to fulfill Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of the "long arc of the moral universe . . . bending toward justice." And after the terrorism, war, and economic downturn of the previous decade, candidate Obama's rhetoric cast broad visions of a change in the direction of American life. In these and other ways, the election of 2008 presented an especially strong example of creating expectations that would shape the public's views of the incoming administration. The public's high expectations, in turn, become a part of any president's burden upon assuming office.The interdisciplinary scholars who have contributed to this volume focus their analysis upon three kinds of presidential burdens: institutional burdens (specific to the office of the presidency); contextual burdens (specific to the historical moment within which the president assumes office); and personal burdens (specific to the individual who becomes president).
The Queen: Her Life by Andrew Morton
English | November 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1538700433 | 448 pages | True EPUB | 59.03 MB
#1 New York Times bestselling biographer Andrew Morton provides the definitive,most comprehensive account of Queen Elizabeth II's legendary reign.
The Printing Press: The History and Legacy of the Medieval Invention that Revolutionized Europe by Charles River Editors
English | October 2, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BH746KYP | 84 pages | EPUB | 1.77 Mb
"What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind." - Wendell Phillips
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy
English | November 7, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0773RQ55P | 125 pages | EPUB | 0.24 Mb
"The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" will open a world of success, happiness, prosperity, and peace for you. It is one of the most brilliant and beloved spiritual self-help works of all time which can help you heal yourself, banish your fears, sleep better, enjoy better relationships and just feel happier. The techniques are simple and results come quickly. You can improve your relationships, your finances, your physical well-being.
The Potentials of Graphene Oxide: Graphene for beginners by Ella Fenton
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BFWDBFXP | 94 pages | EPUB | 0.17 Mb
Graphene has had a lot of press coverage in recent times and is often dubbed a "SUPER MATERIAL".
The Patient's Survival Guide: Seven Key Questions for Navigating the Medical Maze by Edward H Morgan, Jr.
English | October 10th, 2022 | ISBN: 0825309883 | 192 pages | True EPUB | 1.15 MB
In the US medical environment where medical mistakes, over-diagnosis, and over-treatment have become the third leading cause of death, leadership consultant and long-time charity CEO Edward Morgan argues that protecting yourself with medical wisdom can add 10-15 years to your life.
Christopher C. Doyle, "The Pataala Prophecy: The Mists of Brahma"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 9387894673 | EPUB | pages: 472 | 3.0 mb
A horrific carnage stuns the Sangha. But nothing the Sangha can do will protect the world against another onslaught from Pataala-lok.
Geoffrey Wood, Keith Baker, "The Palgrave Handbook of Managing Fossil Fuels and Energy Transitions"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030280756, 3030280780 | PDF | pages: 671 | 9.3 mb
This Handbook is the first volume to comprehensively analyse and problem-solve how to manage the decline of fossil fuels as the world tackles climate change and shifts towards a low-carbon energy transition. The overall findings are straight-forward and unsurprising: although fossil fuels have powered the industrialisation of many nations and improved the lives of hundreds of millions of people, another century dominated by fossil fuels would be disastrous. Fossil fuels and associated greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced to a level that avoids rising temperatures and rising risks in support of a just and sustainable energy transition.
The Pace of Modernity: Reading with Blumenberg By O. Bradley Bassler
2012 | 226 Pages | ISBN: 0987268228 | PDF | 3 MB
Wittgenstein said that philosophers should greet each other, not by saying "hello," but rather "take your time." But what is time? Time is money, but this points to an even better answer to this basic question for our modern epoch: time is acceleration. In a cultural system which stresses economic efficiency, the quicker route is always the more prized, if not always the better one. Wittgenstein's dictum thus constitutes an act of rebellion against the dominant vector of our culture, but as such it threatens to become (quickly) anti-modern. We need an approach to "reading" our information-rich culture which is not reactionary but rather meets its accelerated condition. In this book, O. Bradley Bassler develops a toolkit for acute reading of our modern pace, not through withdrawal but rather through active engagement with a broad range of disciplines. The main characters in this drama comprise a cast of master readers: Hannah Arendt, Jean Starobinski, Harold Bloom, Angus Fletcher, Hans Blumenberg and John Ashbery, with secondary figures drawn from the readers and critics whom this central group suggests. We must develop a vocabulary of pacing, reflecting our modern distance from classical sources and the concomitant acceleration of our contemporary condition. Only in this way can we begin to situate the phenomenon of modernity within the larger scales of human culture and history.
The Open-book Experience: Lessons From Over 100 Companies Who Successfully Transformed Themselves By John Case
1998 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0738200409 | PDF | 9 MB
This is a practical guide to the open-book philosophy model of business management - a model that bridges the gap between concern for people and rigorous performance measurement and improvement.