![]() ![]() Another outstanding student of Schumpeter's was the economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. Robert Heilbroner was one of Schumpeter's most renowned pupils, who wrote extensively about him in "The Worldly Philosophers". ![]() For some time after his death, Schumpeter's views were most influential among heterodox economists, especially European, who were interested in industrial organization, evolutionary theory, and economic development, and who tended to be on the other end of the political spectrum of Schumpeter and were often also influenced by Keynes, Karl Marx, and Thorstein Veblen. He is one of the most influential economists who lived in the first half of 20th century. ![]() Joseph Alois Schumpeter (FebruJanuary 8, 1950) was an Moravian-born economist and political scientist, who was Austrian and later became an American citizen. Cover slightly age-toned, crease down center of spine, no underlining, no previous owner's names, not exlibrary. ![]()
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![]() Gabriel draws upon ancient texts, including those from Livy, Polybius, Diodorus, Silius Italicus, and others, as primary sources and examines all additional material available to the modern scholar in French, German, English, and Italian. The Roman imperium was being born, and it was Scipio who had sired it. And yet, paradoxically, Scipio's victories in Spain and Africa enabled Rome to consolidate its hold over Italy and become the dominant power in the western Mediterranean, virtually ensuring a later confrontation with the Greco-Macedonian kingdoms to the east as well as the empire's expansion into North Africa and the Levant. ![]() Gabriel establishes Scipio's rightful place in military history as the greater of the two generals.īefore Scipio, few Romans would have dreamed of empire, and Scipio himself would have regarded such an ambition as a danger to his beloved republic. In this scholarly and heretofore unmatched military biography of the distinguished Roman soldier, Richard A. Today scholars celebrate the importance of Hannibal, even though Scipio defeated the legendary general in the Second Punic War and was the central military figure of his time. Scipio Africanus, surely the greatest general that Rome produced, suffered both these fates. ![]() The World often misunderstands its greatest men while neglecting others entirely. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pre purchase reviews of 'For Sale' property to quickly determine design possibilitiesĪlterations and additions from tiny to extensive | Residential to commercial Tim has now established Astronaut and is bringing all that architectural experience to smaller individual projects, giving personalised attention in a cost effective way.Ĭoncept designs and design reviews of your current situation ![]() ![]() Tim Burns is a registered Architect and was a principal in a large architectural practice for 20 years, undertaking residential, commercial, scientific and institutional architecture. Astronaut is all about design and architecture. ![]() ![]() ![]() With Schulze’s exciting interactive story and Hardy’s fantastically bright illustrations, children will be more than happy to help cheer the dragon up (and perhaps, cheer themselves up along the way!). The super-talented team of author Bianca Schulze and illustrator Samara Hardy are back with this loving tail about our favorite feisty dragon friend. And what dragon wouldn’t want a lovely, long pet along her scales? By the time Dragon’s friends arrive with a surprise party just for her, Dragon is in the best mood and feels SO loved. ![]() Children show sweet, zesty dragon some appreciation with positive, loving affirmations and silly dragon jokes. Everyone can use a good count-to-ten occasionally! Once Dragon has calmed down a bit, it’s time to make her feel the love. It’s time to help the teeny mice calm the dragon down with some cooling-off techniques where little readers will get in on the fun. It’s no wonder she’s feeling a bit… fiery. Instead of watching jesters juggle and brave knights joust, and instead of wandering through markets and listening to musicians, Dragon is all alone! They’re so fun and always make her feel special, and they sure know how to wiggle and party! But what’s this? It’s the day of the annual Friendship Festival, but all of her friends are too busy to go with her. It’s time to cheer up Dragon – are you ready to share the love?ĭragon absolutely adores her friends. ![]() What to expect: Dragons, humor, interactive story ![]() ![]() ![]() Interspersed with this quest are more mundane scenes from Joe’s everyday life - boyishly lusting after his uncle’s buxom girlfriend, reading his father’s books, skinny-dipping with his friends, going to his grandfather Mooshum’s birthday party. He quizzes his father, eavesdrops on conversations and bikes around the reservation with his three closest friends, investigating. She is so traumatized that she initially will not speak of the incident or name her attacker, and Joe decides to find the culprit. In the novel, Joe, a sheltered 13-year-old, must come to terms with crime, justice and adult sexuality after his mother is brutally raped. Erdrich has been building this narrative world since “Love Medicine” in 1984 yet for those who don’t yet know it, this book provides a decent entree. With its cover now adorned by the National Book Awards’ gold medallion, “The Round House” will, presumably, find a wider audience than it would have before. 14 illustrates just how idiosyncratic literary competitions can be. ![]() ![]() That this book - good, but not extraordinarily so - won the National Book Award on Nov. Louise Erdrich’s “The Round House” is a solid coming-of-age novel set on a fictional North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, the subject of much of her work. ![]() ![]() Written in an era of thriving feminist theory, as well as queer theory, race and postcolonial studies, 'Thirty Years After' is a striking reflection on the emergence of a whole new canon. In this stand-alone anniversary edition, Nochlin's essay is published alongside its reappraisal, 'Thirty Years After'. Freedom, as she sees it, requires women to risk entirely demolishing the art world's institutions, and rebuilding them anew - in other words, to leap into the unknown. ![]() With unparalleled insight and startling wit, Nochlin laid bare the acceptance of a white male viewpoint in art historical thought as not merely a moral failure, but an intellectual one. Instead, she dismantled the very concept of 'greatness', unravelling the basic assumptions that had centred a male-coded 'genius' in the study of art. Nochlin refused to handle the question of why there had been no 'great women artists' on its own, corrupted, terms. Linda Nochlin's seminal essay on women artists is widely acknowledged as the first real attempt at a feminist history of art. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was in frantic flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. But by the end, I was damp around the eyes I was sad to let this little cast of characters go.I read it in a greedy gulp.' - Ian McEwan In this evocative work of what the author in his Afterword calls 'autofiction' or 'a kind of novelised memoir', Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland. My laughter (at poor Parini's long night in bed with his subject) kept my wife awake. He uses all a novelist's art, all his smoke and mirrors, to let the great man step shambolically from these pages to trap and beguile us, like a modern Ancient Mariner, with his brilliant, freely associative and heady metaphysics and literary table talk. ![]() Jay Parini's portrait of both Borges and Scotland is exquisite, deeply affectionate, sometimes comically irritable. Very funny, clever, moving, luminous with love of literature and landscape. ![]() ![]() I’ve read the books aloud to at least three of my kids, and every time I’ve loved it myself! Major Themes in the Little House on the Prairie Series For my second son, though, even from a very young age, he sat captivated and begged for more every time I ended a chapter! I admit, because I didn’t read many picture books to my oldest son, when we first read it, he squirmed through the length of the chapters that we had to shelf it for a bit. This is one of our absolute favorite book series in learning about American frontier life, experiencing it together with Laura Ingalls and family as they constantly move west and build a life through homesteading. Living books are written in excellent language and told in an engaging story or narrative form, and the Little House on the Prairie series fits the bill perfectly! ![]() In the Charlotte Mason method, we use living books for all our school lessons, but they are especially needed for language arts or literature lessons. ![]() Published by cabagyen on AugAugust 29, 2021 Living Book Summary: Little House on the Prairie ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve always imagined it would be hard if one was more successful than the other, and am struck by the grace with which the lesser known author handles their spouse’s fame. ![]() And I love writing couples––reading about how they share their work, and their lives, on and off the page. JTE: Mine, too! Writers are so deliciously screwed up in so many ways. Why did you choose to write a thriller about writers? It’s fun to see how far it came from that initial lightning bolt.ĬBTB: If you could describe LIE TO ME in three adjectives, which would you choose?ĬBTB: There’s a special place in my heart for crime books that involve the literary world. But as you know, that’s not what the story is about. There are several passages in the book that were written in the cafés of Paris, or sitting by the Seine, or in the Jardin du Luxembourg. Almost immediately, an idea hit me, about a broken-down writer who’s moved to Paris to save herself by writing a novel and gets embroiled in a murder. Ellison: I hate to embody the cliché, a writer in Paris, but on a trip for my birthday, I sat down with my notebook, started people watching, and mentioned to my husband how fabulous it would be to live there for a while. ![]() Crime by the Book: Let’s start at the beginning: what inspired you to write LIE TO ME? ![]() ![]() ![]() The technical aspects of Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night can. Thomas wrote the poem about his dying father in an attempt to get him to fight against death. ![]() It was originally published in the book of poetry In Country Sleep, and Other Poems. ![]() For a taste of how the author wanted it to sound, check out Dylan Thomas reading "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" aloud. The poem Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night was written by Dylan Thomas in 1951. The poem also has as few linking words and conjunctions as possible connections happen through commas instead, as in "Rage, rage" and "Curse, bless." This means there are more stressed words in the poem, which adds to the feeling of a strong, intense rhythm. He also omits soft endings on words wherever he can – notice that his choice of "gentle" in the first line, instead of the more grammatically correct "gently," makes the word end on the strangling consonant "l" instead of the sweeter long "e" sound. But Thomas also uses harsh consonant sounds, often alliterated, to give the poem an explosive feel. The repeated lines, called refrains, and the use of only two rhyming words give the poem a singsong quality. It's halfway between listening to monks chanting in Latin and listening to officers shouting orders at their troops. "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" is harsh but lyrical, jarring but hypnotic. And so, Mom, if youre listening, remember the words of Dylan Thomas: Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage. ![]() |