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Author |
: Kevin Powers |
Publisher |
: Little, Brown |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2018-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780316556484 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0316556483 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Shout in the Ruins by : Kevin Powers
Set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond, this novel by the award-winning author of The Yellow Birds explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society. Spanning over one hundred years, from the antebellum era to the 1980's, A Shout in the Ruins examines the fates of the inhabitants of Beauvais Plantation outside of Richmond, Virginia. When war arrives, the master of Beauvais, Anthony Levallios, foresees that dominion in a new America will be measured not in acres of tobacco under cultivation by his slaves, but in industry and capital. A grievously wounded Confederate veteran loses his grip on a world he no longer understands, and his daughter finds herself married to Levallois, an arrangement that feels little better than imprisonment. And two people enslaved at Beauvais plantation, Nurse and Rawls, overcome impossible odds to be together, only to find that the promise of coming freedom may not be something they will live to see. Seamlessly interwoven is the story of George Seldom, a man orphaned by the storm of the Civil War, looking back from the 1950s on the void where his childhood ought to have been. Watching the government destroy his neighborhood to build a stretch of interstate highway through Richmond, he travels south in an attempt to recover his true origins. With the help of a young woman named Lottie, he goes in search of the place he once called home, all the while reckoning with the more than 90 years he lived as witness to so much that changed during the 20th century, and so much that didn't. As we then watch Lottie grapple with life's disappointments and joys in the 1980's, now in her own middle-age, the questions remain: How do we live in a world built on the suffering of others? And can love exist in a place where for 400 years violence has been the strongest form of intimacy? Written with the same emotional intensity, harrowing realism, and poetic precision that made The Yellow Birds one of the most celebrated novels of the past decade, A Shout in the Ruins cements Powers' place in the forefront of American letters and demands that we reckon with the moral weight of our troubling history.
Author |
: Robert E. Vardeman |
Publisher |
: Roc |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0451459288 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780451459282 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ruins of Power by : Robert E. Vardeman
In the third novel based on the BattleTech/MechWarrior role-playing game, the planet Mirach now experiences civil unrest. Governor Ortega is at adds with several powers--including his two sons, both aspiring MechWarriors who believe only a hard-won battle can save the planet. Original.
Author |
: Alicia Puglionesi |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2022-04-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781982116750 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1982116757 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis In Whose Ruins by : Alicia Puglionesi
In this examination of landscape and memory, four sites of American history are revealed as places where historical truth was written over by oppressive fiction--with profound repercussions for politics past and present. Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal. They present a national identity based on harvesting the treasures that lay in wait for European colonization. In Whose Ruins tells another story: winding through the US landscape, from Native American earthworks in West Virginia to the Manhattan Project in New Mexico, this history is a tour of sites that were mined for an empire's power. Showing the hidden costs of ruthless economic growth, particularly to Indigenous people and ways of understanding, this book illuminates the myth-making intimately tied to place. From the ground up, the project of settlement, expansion, and extraction became entwined with the spiritual values of those who hoped to gain from it. Every nation tells some stories and suppresses others, and In Whose Ruins illustrates the way American myths have been inscribed on the earth itself, overwriting Indigenous histories and binding us into an unsustainable future. In these pages, historian Alicia Puglionesiilluminates the story of the Grave Creek Stone, "discovered" in an ancient Indigenous burial mound, and used to promote the theory that a lost white race predated Native people in North America--part of a wider effort to justify European conquest with alternative histories. When oil was discovered in the corner of western Pennsylvania soon known as Petrolia, prospectors framed that treasure, too, as a birthright passed to them, through Native guides, from a lost race. Puglionesi traces the fate of ancient petroglyphs that once adorned rock faces on the Susquehanna River, dynamited into pieces to make way for a hydroelectric dam. This act foreshadowed the flooding of Native lands around the country; over the course of the 20th century, almost every major river was dammed for economic purposes. And she explores the effects of the US nuclear program in the Southwest, which contaminated vast regions in the name of eternal wealth and security through atomic power. This promise rang hollow for the surrounding Native, Hispanic, and white communities that were harmed, and even for some scientists. It also inspired nationwide resistance, uniting diverse groups behind a different vision of the future--one not driven by greed and haunted by ruin. This deeply researched work of narrative history traces the roots of American fantasies and fears in a national tradition of selective forgetting. Connecting the power of myths with the extraction of power from the land itself reveals the truths that have been left out and is an invaluable torch in the search for a way forward.
Author |
: Constantin-François Volney |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 1853 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433082433446 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Volney's Ruins by : Constantin-François Volney
Author |
: Amber Jordan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 2019-04-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1790657970 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781790657971 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Power and Ruins by : Amber Jordan
When Emily Darcy's boss humiliates her in front of hundreds of high-society customers, she thinks her new life in San Francisco is over. But it's only just begun. Billionaire inventor Dr. Nicholas Rand uses his power to lure her into his bed as his life spirals out of control, until everything they've both worked for is gone. Only Emily's determination to win and Nicholas's instinct to survive keep them together until disaster pulls them apart.
Author |
: Douglas Hatten |
Publisher |
: Lulu.com |
Total Pages |
: 487 |
Release |
: 2016-02-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781329923898 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1329923898 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Among the Ruins of the Kingdom by : Douglas Hatten
The Kingdom of Mélekh is now a forgotten dream, little more than ancient ruins and a note in history. The world of men is once more divided, while a sinister threat grows in the desolate lands to the north. Zidek, the immortal prophet who set the Crown of Ancients upon King Mélekh's brow a thousand years ago, has taken interest in a young farm boy named Chayim. Acting on a prophecy regarding a coming hero destined to destroy the liche-sorcerer, Tsar-Echthros, and prepare the way for Mélekh's return, Zidek takes the boy under his wing. Together, they set out on a quest to locate Mélekh's ancient sword and armor, which the king long ago divided among his knights for safe keeping. If Chayim is to survive the coming battle and save the world from despairing darkness, he will not only have to accept his calling, but learn how to tap into the very power that brought about the creation of the world.
Author |
: Robert Greene |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 481 |
Release |
: 2023-10-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780670881468 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0670881465 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The 48 Laws of Power by : Robert Greene
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.
Author |
: Minchul Kim |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2019-03-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781527531352 |
ISBN-13 |
: 152753135X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ruins by : Minchul Kim
This is the first modern edition of The Ruins in English, making the work available to students, scholars and the wider reading public interested in eighteenth-century literature, travel writings, religious ideas and political thought. This edition is preceded by the editor’s introduction that covers the entire career of Volney and analyses the work from a historical perspective. The Ruins, first published in 1791, was translated into English, German, and Dutch within ten years. Volney’s writing provides an invaluable window into the historical anxieties of intellectuals at the beginning of the French Revolution. The Ruins is an exemplary Enlightenment work on history, religion and revolutions, a work of stunning erudition born within the context of anxieties built into the eighteenth-century view of the history of European ‘civilization’. It testifies to the eighteenth-century European intellectuals’ historical concerns about their society’s future during emerging modernity. This book will serve to be a handy and important primary source reading for upper-year courses on the French Revolution, history of orientalism and the Enlightenment.
Author |
: Pankaj Mishra |
Publisher |
: Doubleday Canada |
Total Pages |
: 393 |
Release |
: 2012-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780385676113 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0385676115 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis From the Ruins of Empire by : Pankaj Mishra
The Victorian period, viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, was experienced by Asians as a catastrophe. As the British gunned down the last heirs to the Mughal Empire, burned down the Summer Palace in Beijing, or humiliated the bankrupt rulers of the Ottoman Empire, it was clear that for Asia to recover a vast intellectual effort would be required. Pankaj Mishra's fascinating, highly entertaining new book tells the story of a remarkable group of men from across the continent who met the challenge of the West. Incessantly travelling, questioning and agonising, they both hated the West and recognised that an Asian renaissance needed to be fuelled in part by engagement with the enemy. Through many setbacks and wrong turns, a powerful, contradictory and ultimately unstoppable series of ideas were created that now lie behind everything from the Chinese Communist Party to Al Qaeda, from Indian nationalism to the Muslim Brotherhood. Mishra allows the reader to see the events of two centuries anew, through the eyes of the journalists, poets, radicals and charismatics who criss-crossed Europe and Asia and created the ideas which lie behind the powerful Asian nations of the twenty-first century.
Author |
: Orville Schell |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 497 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780679643470 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0679643478 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wealth and Power by : Orville Schell
Two leading experts on China evaluate its rise throughout the past one hundred fifty years, sharing portraits of key intellectual and political leaders to explain how China transformed from a country under foreign assault to a world giant.