The Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916-1935 (9780814727010): Antonio Gramsci, David Forgacs, Eric J. Hobsbawm. The Age of Turbulence. The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World is a 2007 memoir written by former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan. Published on September 17, 2007, the book debuted at the top of the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover nonfiction.[1] Overview[edit] The first half of The Age of Turbulence is an autobiographical chronology of Greenspan's life. This portion of the text permits readers a view of the people and circumstances that helped shape and guide Greenspan. The second half of the book retells several major economic events (primarily within the U.S.) that have occurred over the past half century. On free market capitalism[edit] In Greenspan's view, free market capitalism is the economic approach that "trumps" other forms attempted thus far in human history.
On presidential economic influence[edit] Greenspan's criticisms of President George W. Reviews[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Iliad. The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war, the Iliad mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends about the siege; the earlier events, such as the gathering of warriors for the siege, the cause of the war, and related concerns tend to appear near the beginning.
Then the epic narrative takes up events prophesied for the future, such as Achilles' looming death and the sack of Troy, prefigured and alluded to more and more vividly, so that when it reaches an end, the poem has told a more or less complete tale of the Trojan War. Synopsis[edit] The first verses of the Iliad Achaeans[edit] The Fountainhead. The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand, and her first major literary success. More than 6.5 million copies of the book have been sold worldwide. The Fountainhead's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an individualistic young architect who chooses to struggle in obscurity rather than compromise his artistic and personal vision. The book follows his battle to practice what the public sees as modern architecture, which he believes to be superior, despite an establishment centered on tradition-worship. How others in the novel relate to Roark demonstrates Rand's various archetypes of human character, all of which are variants between Roark, the author's ideal man of independent-mindedness and integrity, and what she described as the "second-handers".
Plot summary[edit] In the spring of 1922, Howard Roark is expelled from his architecture school for refusing to adhere to the school's conventionalism. After Cameron retires, Keating hires Roark, who is soon fired for insubordination by Francon. Odyssey. Greek text of the Odyssey's opening passage The Odyssey (Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of Western literature, the Iliad being the oldest.
It is believed to have been composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia.[1] The poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths) and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War.[2] In his absence, it is assumed he has died, and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus must deal with a group of unruly suitors, the Mnesteres (Greek: Μνηστῆρες) or Proci, who compete for Penelope's hand in marriage. The Odyssey has a lost sequel, the Telegony, which was not written by Homer. The Book Seer | What should I read next. 5 Must Read Finance Books - Investopedia.com. In 2010, the bestselling finance books represented a sampling of old standards mixed with modern classics.
I have selected some of my favorites that I think you'll enjoy as well-written and valuable books to improve your financial life. (We give you a list of informative and entertaining reads that you'll want to share with others this season. Check out 10 Books For The Holidays.) IN PICTURES: World's Greatest Investors 1. In particular, Ramsay is known his "snowball" strategy for getting out of debt. 2. For example, the book points out that working hard and even earning a high income are not enough to ensure financial success. "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" is a must read for those looking to change their attitude about money and wealth. 3. The central tenet of the book is that a scientific approach should be used when directing your investments.
IN PICTURES: Baby Buffett Portfolio: His 6 Best Long-Term Picks 4. This is not the book for those who want set-it-and-forget-it investments. 5. Must-Read Economics : Planet Money. Iphokhia/Flickr Listeners often write in asking for book tips. I polled the PM staff and a few econ and finance bloggers. Here are some suggestions, including a mix of classics and new releases. What are your favorite econ books? Post your recs in the comments. Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera’s All the Devils Are Here. Niall Ferguson’s The Ascent of Money. Michael Lewis’ The Big Short. Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom. Greg Ip’s The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World.
Liaquat Ahamed’s Lords of Finance. Todd G. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx. John McMillan's Reinventing the Bazaar. Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big To Fail. Gary Stern and Ron Feldman’s Too Big To Fail. Pietra Rivoli’s The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy. Tim Harford’s The Undercover Economist. For the Book Lover: Best Books for the Holidays 2011. On the Basics of Money - Daniel James Sanchez. Is money not absurd? Daily we give up perfectly useful goods and services for the sake of little green pieces of paper. But it is not just the fiat paper money we are familiar with that can seem strange in this regard.
Even commodity money can seem weird when you think about it. Why would people give up goods and services for little disks of silver and gold that they never actually use? Such disks are passed around via innumerable exchanges, perhaps never ultimately providing any ornamental or industrial services. What a bizarre custom! One does not need to be an economist to see the social benefit of such an arrangement. But how did it start? To a certain stripe of thinker, compelling such sacrifices is the raison d'être of the state. The etatists were wrong. Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics, started to unravel the mystery of money in the late 19th century. The following discussion of the basics of money will largely be based on chapter 1 of that epochal work.
For the Book Lover: Best Books for the Holidays 2011. For the Book Lover: Best Books for the Holidays 2011. Fairy Tales Collection.com. 30 Books To Read Before You’re 30… « Perfectly Prompted! The Bruce Lee Story (9780897501217): Linda Lee. Setting book lists. How to Create an Awesome Summer Reading List. Here's my one bit of advice on the subject — summer is for reading stuff you *want* to read, not stuff you *have* to, or stuff you feel like you *need* to. I review books for my web site, and I can't say that I ever enjoy them enough to carry them to the beach, you know what I mean?
That's a job. And then at times I'll get into an "I'm too unproductive" mood and suddenly feel like my free time has to be spent learning important things, so I'll go read business books and self help books and other things that I feel like I'm reading because of some specific benefit I need to achieve. But when I hit the beach it's going to be stuff like Girl With The Dragon Tattoo on my Kindle.
I will gain nothing from the experience other than whether I liked it or did not. And that's perfect. Oh, and on a related note? Inspirational Books: The 40 Most Inspiring Books Ever Written - Books, Entertainment. The leading British novelist Sebastian Faulks was recently asked by Waterstones to make a list of the 40 books that had most inspired him in his life. His selection, from Amis to Zola, included books by famous writers such as Dickens, Nabokov, Roth, Salinger and Tolstoy, and is now being used in a special promotion called The Writers Table in the bookstore chain, featuring all 40 books. As well as the better-known names, the 40 books chosen by Faulks also includes some surprises. There are classics and modern novels, children's books and poetry, obscure books and bestsellers.
And there is a James Bond . (Faulks is a long-time admirer of Ian Fleming and, at the invitation of the Fleming family, wrote the new Bond novel which will be published at the end of this month.) His list also includes Brian Keenan's book about his time as a hostage, An Evil Cradling, a truly inspiring story. So what are the 40 books which have inspired Irish writers? Catechism of the Catholic Church Cheri by Colette. Print - The 75 Books Every Man Should Read. 5 Hardest Books To Read (That Are Totally Worth It) 12 Great Books That Everybody Should Read At Least Once. BBC Meme: How Many of These 100 Books Have YOU Read? | What Are You Reading Now? 1richardderus Apr 5, 2009, 12:44pm aquascum of the German language LT loosed this list on the English threads, and I can't resist passing it on.
Please copy and paste your bolded books read, italicized books not completed, and then sum up with a head count, so to speak. What does the list say about your reading habits? Who's first? The BBC apparently believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here: 2momom248 Apr 5, 2009, 12:53pm Oh wow I feel inferior as I've only read 14 of the above. Ok Richard I can't figure out how to bold my selections on this list. 3SqueakyChu Edited: Apr 5, 2009, 1:08pm 26 finished 1 not finished (The Lovely Bones) Didn't want to copy the whole list! What does the list say about your reading habits? I've read more books that others have also read than I would have thought! 4DeltaQueen50 Apr 5, 2009, 1:04pm Sorry I am also a computer dunce! 6mckait Apr 5, 2009, 1:20pm 38... cooking and can't post list right now...... :) 7AHS-Wolfy Edited: Sep 18, 2009, 5:42am. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt. Top 10 Existential Novels - Top 10 - Fight Club - Journey to the End of the Night - Man's Fate - Steppenwolf - Woman in the Dunes - Nausea - The Trial - Invisible Man - Notes from Underground - The Stranger - Albert Camus - Jean Paul Sartre.
Top 10 Existential Novels #10 - FIGHT CLUB [1996] Chuck Palahniuk "It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. " #09 - JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT [1932] Louis-Ferdinand Celine "The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess.
. #08 - MAN'S FATE [1932] Andre Malraux "The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness. " #07 - STEPPENWOLF [1928] Hermann Hesse "I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the motive power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.
" 30 Books To Read Before You’re 30… « Perfectly Prompted! Inspirational Novels and Motivational Books. Inspirational Books: The 40 Most Inspiring Books Ever Written - Books, Entertainment. Books that change lives: Paulo Coelho's Warrior of the Light - Accepting paradoxes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (9780809058402): John Allen Paulos. How to Lie with Statistics (9780393310726): Darrell Huff, Irving Geis. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (9780061339202): Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living (9781594488894): Dalai Lama. Wherever You Go, There You Are (ROUGH CUT) (9781401307783): Jon Kabat-Zinn.
The 48 Laws of Power (9780140280197): Robert Greene. The Alchemist. Le Petit Prince. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Le langage, simple et dépouillé, parce qu'il est destiné à être compris par des enfants, est en réalité pour le narrateur le véhicule privilégié d'une conception symbolique de la vie. Chaque chapitre relate une rencontre du petit prince qui laisse celui-ci perplexe quant au comportement absurde des « grandes personnes ». Chacune de ces rencontres peut être lue comme une allégorie. Les aquarelles font partie du texte[1] et participent à cette pureté du langage : dépouillement et profondeur sont les qualités maîtresses de l'œuvre. On peut y lire une invitation de l'auteur à retrouver l'enfant en soi, car « toutes les grandes personnes ont d'abord été des enfants.
(Mais peu d'entre elles s'en souviennent.) ». L'ouvrage est dédié à Léon Werth, mais « quand il était petit garçon ». Résumé[modifier | modifier le code] Le narrateur[modifier | modifier le code] Le petit prince sur Terre[modifier | modifier le code] « On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. 30 Books Everyone Should Read Before They’re Thirty. Collected by Marc and Angel Hack Life The Web is grand.
With its fame for hosting informative, easy-to-skim textual snippets, and collaborative written works, people are spending more and more time reading online. Nevertheless, the Web cannot replace the authoritative transmissions from certain classic books that have delivered (or will deliver) profound ideas around the globe for generations. The thirty books listed here are of unparalleled prose, packed with wisdom capable of igniting a new understanding of the world. 1. A powerful story about the importance of life experiences as they relate to approaching an understanding of reality and attaining enlightenment 2. 1984 by George Orwell 1984 still holds chief significance nearly sixty years after it was written in 1949. 3.
The story surveys the controversial issues of race and economic class in the 1930s Deep South via a court case of a black man charged with the rape and abuse of a young white girl. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 100 Must Read Books: The Man’s Essential Library. Men’s Reading List: 34 Books About Being a Man. Since starting the Art of Manliness, I’ve read a boatload of books about masculinity, manliness, and simply being a man. There are books out there on every aspect of the male experience from practical skills like carving a turkey and dressing well to sociological studies on what it means to be a man in history and modern society to more poetic examinations of the male experience. If you’re a fan of the Art of Manliness, then you’re probably interested in all of these different elements of being a man, so today I’d like to share a list of books that I’ve found useful and thought-provoking in my own life and journey in trying to understand what it means to be a man.
Many of them can be a mixed bag both in terms of quality and content that jives with my own beliefs. But you’ll never grow as a man only reading things that flatter your pre-existing notions! The Inner Man and Improving Relationships Cultural and Sociological Studies of Manliness and Masculinity Man Skills. 50 Best Non-fiction Adventure Books. Following up on our recent look into the world of fictional adventure literature, we now turn to the true life tales of exploration, adventure, and survival against all odds that have inspired countless readers for generations.
Unlike their fictional counterparts, these riveting tales of conquests and ill fated journeys are completely true, and stand as a testament to man’s unquenchable desire to seek out the unknown, often against all odds and in the face of unbelievable hardship. This is not considered a complete list of all the great tales of true life adventure, so please take advantage of the comments section to share what other true life tales of adventure you recommend to your fellow men.
And now, to continue on in the world of high adventure… Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt South: The Endurance Expedition by Ernest Shackleton Legendary Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton details his own efforts to cross the Antarctic by sled. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.