In Defense Of The Fox
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Author |
: Richard H. Cantillon |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 1972 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B3270666 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis In Defense of the Fox by : Richard H. Cantillon
Author |
: Dan Fox |
Publisher |
: Coffee House Press |
Total Pages |
: 170 |
Release |
: 2016-04-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781566894289 |
ISBN-13 |
: 156689428X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pretentiousness by : Dan Fox
Pretentiousness is the engine oil of culture; the essential lubricant in the development of all arts, high, low, or middle.
Author |
: Margalit Fox |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2018-06-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780399589461 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0399589465 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Conan Doyle for the Defense by : Margalit Fox
“A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it’s about so much more than crime.”—Tana French, author of In the Woods A sensational Edwardian murder. A scandalous wrongful conviction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the rescue—a true story. After a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home in 1908, the police found a convenient suspect in Oscar Slater, an immigrant Jewish cardsharp. Though he was known to be innocent, Slater was tried, convicted, and consigned to life at hard labor. Outraged by this injustice, Arthur Conan Doyle, already world renowned as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, used the methods of his most famous character to reinvestigate the case, ultimately winning Slater’s freedom. With “an eye for the telling detail, a forensic sense of evidence and a relish for research” (The Wall Street Journal), Margalit Fox immerses readers in the science of Edwardian crime detection and illuminates a watershed moment in its history, when reflexive prejudice began to be replaced by reason and the scientific method. Praise for Conan Doyle for the Defense “Artful and compelling . . . [Fox’s] narrative momentum never flags. . . . Conan Doyle for the Defense will captivate almost any reader while being pure catnip for the devotee of true-crime writing.”—The Washington Post “Developed with brio . . . [Fox] is excellent in linking the 19th-century creation of policing and detection with the development of both detective fiction and the science of forensics—ballistics, fingerprints, toxicology and serology—as well as the quasi science of ‘criminal anthropology.’”—The New York Times Book Review “[Fox] has an eye for the telling detail, a forensic sense of evidence and a relish for research.”—The Wall Street Journal “Gripping . . . The book works on two levels, much like a good Holmes case. First, it is a fluid story of a crime. . . . Second, and more pertinently, it is a deeper story of how prejudice against a class of people, the covering up of sloppy police work and a poisonous political atmosphere can doom an innocent. We should all heed Holmes’s salutary lesson: rationally follow the facts to find the truth.”—Time
Author |
: Krzysztof Martens |
Publisher |
: Krzysztof Martens |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789955766049 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9955766042 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Owl, Fox & Spider by : Krzysztof Martens
Author |
: Aimée Fox-Godden |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 291 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107190795 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107190797 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Learning to Fight by : Aimée Fox-Godden
The first institutional examination of the British army's learning and innovation process during the First World War.
Author |
: René J. Défourneaux |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 389 |
Release |
: 1998-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0966620801 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780966620801 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Winking Fox by : René J. Défourneaux
Author |
: Catherine Raven |
Publisher |
: Spiegel & Grau |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2022-06-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1954118112 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781954118119 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fox and I by : Catherine Raven
After receiving her PhD in biology, Raven lived in an isolated cottage in Montana, teaching remotely and leading field classes in Yellowstone National Park. Her only regular visitor was a fox, with whom she developed a friendship and from whom she learned about growth, loss, and belonging.
Author |
: Roger P. Fox |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2005-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 141022256X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781410222565 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (6X Downloads) |
Synopsis Air Base Defense in the Republic of Vietnam, 1961-1973 by : Roger P. Fox
This book explores the unique problem of defending air bases during the Vietnam War. It centers on the primary efforts of the United States Air Force and allied air units to defend 10 key air bases within the Republic of Vietnam. Bien Hoa, on 1 November 1964, was the first base to be attacked and until the cease-fire in January 1973, these bases suffered a total of 475 attacks. Although there were initial deficiencies in staff support for base defense in such key areas as intelligence, motor vehicles, weapons procurement and maintenance, communications, and civil engineering, significant improvements had been made by the end of the Air Force's part in the war. The author, Lt. Col. Roger P. Fox, USAF (Ret.), wrote this volume while assigned to the Office of Air Force History. He brings judgments to his research based on his personal experience as a base security officer during the conflict. Thus, early on the morning of 4 December 1966, he rallied Air Force and South Vietnamese security forces to repel an enemy attempt to penetrate Tan Son Nhut Air Base, the center of Air Force operations in South Vietnam. For his gallantry in action on this occasion, he was awarded the Silver Star. This personal experience formed a foundation upon which he developed a keen insight into exploring the entire spectrum of air base defense, and upon which he has built a strong case for testing future plans and operations. Colonel Fox's volume is one of a continuing series of books dealing with the war in Southeast Asia which are being written in the Office of Air Force History. John W. Huston Maj Gen, USAF Chief, Office of Air Force History
Author |
: Joel Stein |
Publisher |
: Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2019-10-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781455591466 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1455591467 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis In Defense of Elitism by : Joel Stein
From Thurber finalist and former star Time columnist Joel Stein comes a "brilliant exploration" (Walter Isaacson) of America's political culture war and a hilarious call to arms for the elite. "I can think of no one more suited to defend elitism than Stein, a funny man with hands as delicate as a baby full of soft-boiled eggs." —Jimmy Kimmel, host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! The night Donald Trump won the presidency, our author Joel Stein, Thurber Prize finalist and former staff writer for Time Magazine, instantly knew why. The main reason wasn't economic anxiety or racism. It was that he was anti-elitist. Hillary Clinton represented Wall Street, academics, policy papers, Davos, international treaties and the people who think they're better than you. People like Joel Stein. Trump represented something far more appealing, which was beating up people like Joel Stein. In a full-throated defense of academia, the mainstream press, medium-rare steak, and civility, Joel Stein fights against populism. He fears a new tribal elite is coming to replace him, one that will fend off expertise of all kinds and send the country hurtling backward to a time of wars, economic stagnation and the well-done steaks doused with ketchup that Trump eats. To find out how this shift happened and what can be done, Stein spends a week in Roberts County, Texas, which had the highest percentage of Trump voters in the country. He goes to the home of Trump-loving Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams; meets people who create fake news; and finds the new elitist organizations merging both right and left to fight the populists. All the while using the biggest words he knows.
Author |
: Isaiah Berlin |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 143 |
Release |
: 2013-06-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400846634 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400846633 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Hedgehog and the Fox by : Isaiah Berlin
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to mark a fundamental distinction between human beings who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those who relate everything to a central, all-embracing system. Applied to Tolstoy, the saying illuminates a paradox that helps explain his philosophy of history: Tolstoy was a fox, but believed in being a hedgehog. One of Berlin's most celebrated works, this extraordinary essay offers profound insights about Tolstoy, historical understanding, and human psychology. This new edition features a revised text that supplants all previous versions, English translations of the many passages in foreign languages, a new foreword in which Berlin biographer Michael Ignatieff explains the enduring appeal of Berlin's essay, and a new appendix that provides rich context, including excerpts from reviews and Berlin's letters, as well as a startling new interpretation of Archilochus's epigram.