United States V. Nixon: The Question of Executive Privilege by Larry A Van Meter
By Larry A Van Meter
An account of the way Nixon's unwillingness to conform with the prosecutors' subpoenas for the audio-tapes ultimately resulted in the involvement of the excellent court docket, who determined that the president doesn't have absolute energy. This ebook discusses the stressful surroundings surrounding this historical selection, which finally ended in Nixon's resignation.
Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens by Nancy Worman
By Nancy Worman
This learn of the language of insult charts abuse in classical Athenian literature that centres at the mouth and its appetites, in particular conversing, consuming, ingesting, and sexual actions. Attic comedy, Platonic discussion, and fourth-century oratory usually set up insulting depictions of the mouth and its excesses so as to deride expert audio system as sophists, demagogues, and ladies. even though the styles of images explored are very favorite in historic invective and later western literary traditions, this is often the 1st e-book to debate this phenomenon in classical literature. It responds to a turning out to be curiosity in either abusive speech genres and the illustration of the physique, illuminating an iambic discourse that isolates the intemperate mouth as a visual brand of behaviours ridiculed within the democratic arenas of classical Athens.
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (VALIS, Book 3) by Philip K. Dick
By Philip K. Dick
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, the ultimate novel within the trilogy that still contains Valis and The Divine Invasion, is an anguished, realized, and extremely relocating research of the paradoxes of trust. it's the tale of Timothy Archer, an urbane Episcopal bishop haunted by means of the suicides of his son and mistress--and pushed by means of them right into a extraordinary quest for the id of Christ.
The ultimate publication in Philip okay. Dicks VALIS trilogy, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer brings the authors look for the identification and nature of God to an in depth. the radical follows Bishop Timothy Archer as he travels to Israel, ostensibly to envision old scrolls bearing the phrases of Christ. yet, extra importantly, this leads him to ascertain the choices he made in the course of his existence and the way they might have contributed to the suicide of his mistress and son.
This quiet, introspective e-book is one in every of Dick's so much philosophical and literary, delving into the mysteries of faith and the mysteries of religion itself. As considered one of Dick's ultimate works, it additionally offers specified perception into the brain of a genius, whose paintings used to be nonetheless within the means of maturing on the time of his death.
First released 1982
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Lost Souls (Star Trek: Destiny, Book 3) by David Mack
By David Mack
The warriors of Armageddon are at the march, laying waste to worlds of their passage. An audacious plan might cease them without end, however it incorporates hazards that one starship captain is unwilling to take. For Captain Jean-Luc Picard, protecting the long run hasn't ever been so vital, or so own -- and the inaccurate selection will expense him every thing for which he has struggled and suffered.
For Captain William Riker, that selection has already been made. Haunted via the stories of these he used to be pressured to go away in the back of, he needs to jeopardize all that he has left in a determined bid to save lots of the Federation.
For Captain Ezri Dax, whose impetuous formative years is balanced by way of the knowledge of many lifetimes, the alternative is an easy one: there's no going again -- purely ahead to no matter what destiny awaits them.
yet if you, millennia in the past, had no choice...this is the hour in their ultimate, inescapable future.
A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle (Arthurian Studies) by Carol Dover
By Carol Dover
The early thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle (or Vulgate Cycle) brings jointly the tales of Arthur with these of the Grail, a conjunction of fabrics that maintains to fascinate the Western mind's eye this present day. Representing what's most likely the earliest large-scale use of prose for fiction within the West, it additionally exemplifies the flavor for large cyclic compositions that formed a lot of eu narrative fiction for 3 centuries.A significant other to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is the 1st finished quantity committed completely to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle and its medieval legacy. The twenty essays during this quantity, all by means of across the world identified students, find the paintings in its social, historic, literary, and manuscript contexts. as well as addressing serious matters within the 5 texts that make up the Cycle, the participants show to trendy readers the attraction that the textual content should have had for its medieval audiences, and the richness of composition that made it compelling. This quantity becomes typical examining for students, scholars, and extra normal readers drawn to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, medieval romance, Malory reports, and the Arthurian legends.Contributors: RICHARD BARBER, EMMANUELE BAUMGARTNER, FANNI BOGDANOW, FRANK BRANDSMA, MATILDA T. BRUCKNER, CAROL J. CHASE, ANNIE COMBES, HELEN COOPER, CAROL R. DOVER, MICHAEL HARNEY, DONALD L. HOFFMAN, DOUGLAS KELLY, ELSPETH KENNEDY, NORRIS J. LACY, ROGER MIDDLETON, HAQUIRA OSAKABE, HANS-HUGO STEINHOFF, ALISON STONES, RICHARD TRACHSLER. CAROL DOVER is affiliate professor of French and director of undergraduate stories, Georgetown collage, Washington DC.
Air Mobility: The Key to the United States National Security by Richard J. Hazdra - Major, USAF
By Richard J. Hazdra - Major, USAF
America's Road to Socialism. Six Lectures Given at the Los by James P. Cannon
By James P. Cannon
Sin Hellcat by Lawrence Block, Donald E. Westlake
By Lawrence Block, Donald E. Westlake
Uninterested in his excellent suburban existence, a sour '60s advert guy reconnects along with his university sweetheart, a prostitute who enlists him in a brilliant act of overseas smuggling [Summary] Harvey Christopher is a winning guy. After twelve years on Madison street, he owns a suburban palace whole with electrical oven, electrical icebox, and an electrical wife—all of them hugely useful yet thoroughly unresponsive to his wishes. a broom with a college-flame-turned-successful-streetwalker sends him down reminiscence lane—a highway that leads instantly to her bed room. She offers him a tumble at the condominium, after which deals a proposition: a little bit felony mischief that might take him faraway from suburbia, and much from his wife—because each ad-man merits a holiday. This publication good points an illustrated biography of Lawrence Block, together with infrequent photographs and never-before-seen files from his own assortment, and a brand new afterword written by means of the author.
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American Story: The Real Story of the Real America from Its by Garet Garrett
By Garet Garrett