What S Past Is Prologue
DOWNLOAD
Download What S Past Is Prologue PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get What S Past Is Prologue book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Past As Prologue
DOWNLOAD
Author : Williamson Murray
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-05-08
The Past As Prologue written by Williamson Murray and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-08 with History categories.
In today's military of rapid technological and strategic change, obtaining a complete understanding of the present, let alone the past, is a formidable challenge. Yet the very high rate of change today makes study of the past more important than ever before. The Past as Prologue, first published in 2006, explores the usefulness of the study of history for contemporary military strategists. It illustrates the great importance of military history while simultaneously revealing the challenges of applying the past to the present. Essays from authors of diverse backgrounds - British and American, civilian and military - come together to present an overwhelming argument for the necessity of the study of the past by today's military leaders in spite of these challenges. The essays of Part I examine the relationship between history and the military profession. Those in Part II explore specific historical cases that show the repetitiveness of certain military problems.
What S Past Is Prologue
DOWNLOAD
Author : Mary Barnett Gilson
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2016-04-27
What S Past Is Prologue written by Mary Barnett Gilson and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-27 with categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
What S Past Is Prologue
DOWNLOAD
Author : Eric G. Neilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
What S Past Is Prologue written by Eric G. Neilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
One doctor's career began more than half a century ago, during World War II; another's began only recently, near the start of the new millennium. One scientist was a Kentucky farm girl who had never dreamed of going to college; another survived the cultural re-education prescribed for intellectuals under China's late Chairman Mao. Despite various backgrounds, these women in science at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine have much in common with each other, and, they hope, with women who will come after. Twenty-seven female scientists share their personal stories of life in academic research. They reveal their family backgrounds and how they became interested in science, research, and medicine. Each relates her educational growth, professional successes and struggles, and life experiences. Time after time, these doctors stress the joy of discovery and the keys to success: caring mentors, strong time management skills, and supportive friends and family.
Past And Prologue
DOWNLOAD
Author : Michael D. Hattem
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-11-24
Past And Prologue written by Michael D. Hattem and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-24 with History categories.
How American colonists reinterpreted their British and colonial histories to help establish political and cultural independence from Britain In Past and Prologue, Michael Hattem shows how colonists’ changing understandings of their British and colonial histories shaped the politics of the American Revolution and the origins of American national identity. Between the 1760s and 1800s, Americans stopped thinking of the British past as their own history and created a new historical tradition that would form the foundation for what subsequent generations would think of as “American history.” This change was a crucial part of the cultural transformation at the heart of the Revolution by which colonists went from thinking of themselves as British subjects to thinking of themselves as American citizens. Rather than liberating Americans from the past—as many historians have argued—the Revolution actually made the past matter more than ever. Past and Prologue shows how the process of reinterpreting the past played a critical role in the founding of the nation.
The Illusion Of Will Self And Time
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jonathan Bricklin
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2015-06-01
The Illusion Of Will Self And Time written by Jonathan Bricklin and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-01 with Psychology categories.
Discusses how William James’s work suggests a world without will, self, or time and how research supports this perspective. A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of 2016 William James is often considered a scientist compromised by his advocacy of mysticism and parapsychology. Jonathan Bricklin argues James can also be viewed as a mystic compromised by his commitment to common sense. James wanted to believe in will, self, and time, but his deepest insights suggested otherwise. “Is consciousness already there waiting to be uncovered and is it a veridical revelation of reality?” James asked shortly before his death in 1910. A century after his death, research from neuroscience, physics, psychology, and parapsychology is making the case, both theoretically and experimentally, that answers James’s question in the affirmative. By separating what James passionately wanted to believe, based on common sense, from what his insights and researches led him to believe, Bricklin shows how James himself laid the groundwork for this more challenging view of existence. The non-reality of will, self, and time is consistent with James’s psychology of volition, his epistemology of self, and his belief that Newtonian, objective, even-flowing time does not exist. Jonathan Bricklin is a Program Director at the New York Open Center and the editor of Sciousness.
Past Is Prologue
DOWNLOAD
Author : Marjorie H. Parker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Past Is Prologue written by Marjorie H. Parker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with categories.
Kindred
DOWNLOAD
Author : Octavia Butler
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2024-05-21
Kindred written by Octavia Butler and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-21 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
“As you turn the pages of this novel and get lost in Dana’s story, allow yourself to relive the horrors of slavery....Allow yourself to know the pain of our nation’s past.”—Tomi Adeyemi, New York Times bestseller and Hugo and Nebula award-winning author, from the new foreword This brand new package for young adults includes a redesigned interior for better readability, specially commissioned cover art by Carlos Fama, metallic stock cover, and spot gloss on cover elements “I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.” Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present. Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fiction’s oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. “Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and precise” (New York Times). “Reading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think it’s absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream.” —N. K. Jemisin
A Fistful Of Sky
DOWNLOAD
Author : Nina Kiriki Hoffman
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2004-05-25
A Fistful Of Sky written by Nina Kiriki Hoffman and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-25 with Fiction categories.
Gypsum LaZelle had nearly given up. She’d already watched her two older siblings experience the transition—the sudden, debilitating process that turned them from ordinary children into mages, gifted spellcasters like their beautiful mother. Perhaps she was a late bloomer, she thought until her younger siblings came into their powers as well. Now, at twenty, Gypsum fears that she must accept her fate: a mundane life without magic. She can live with being ordinary, an outsider. After all, someone in the family had to take after her father…But one day, alone at home wither family away, Gypsum falls terribly ill. And when the symptoms pass, something has changed. Something she’s dreamed of for such a long time—and suddenly, isn’t ready for at all. “One of the most original and important writers of fantasy working in America today.”—The New York Review of Science Fiction
Past Is Prologue
DOWNLOAD
Author : Natalie Ealey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-11-08
Past Is Prologue written by Natalie Ealey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-08 with Fiction categories.
During a massive snow storm in an isolated house, the past and present with come face to face for a husband and wife; betrayals and lies will be exposed leading to a devastating, climatic ending leaving none involved unscathed. Bailey and Gavin were always the perfect couple; attractive, intelligent, in love from the moment they met and destined for a long happy life together. Even as teenagers they had a plan for their future, they would get married, Gavin would work for his father's business and they would start a family. But everything changed before they even graduated, Bailey changed. Twelve years later, Gavin and Bailey are forced to confront their secret past that refuses to stay hidden any longer. While staying at a remote house during a terrible storm, the past comes back to haunt Bailey in the form of three strangers stranded in the snow knocking on their door for help and none of them would ever be the same again.
Making Shapely Fiction
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jerome Stern
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2011-04-11
Making Shapely Fiction written by Jerome Stern and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A deft analysis and appreciation of fiction—what makes it work and what can make it fail. Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page—whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. You will see how a work takes form and shape once you grasp the principles of momentum, tension, and immediacy. "Tension," Stern says, "is the mother of fiction. When tension and immediacy combine, the story begins." Dialogue and action, beginnings and endings, the true meaning of "write what you know," and a memorable listing of don'ts for fiction writers are all covered. A special section features an Alphabet for Writers: entries range from Accuracy to Zigzag, with enlightening comments about such matters as Cliffhangers, Point of View, Irony, and Transitions.