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The Evolution of Robert Carr

Author	: Paul K. Lovett
Publisher	: Lulu.com
Release Date	: 2015-04-22
ISBN 10	: 9781483427959
Pages	: 212 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (279 users)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Robert Carr written by Paul K. Lovett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul K. Lovett's science fiction satire The Evolution of Robert Carr is an audacious, operatic romp through a dystopian near future where genetic enhancements have pushed the divide between rich and poor ever closer to its social breaking point. The subversive tale opens on Robert Carr's eighteenth birthday when he is about to join the top 2% of the population by becoming a recipient of an exorbitantly expensive neural enhancement procedure. Yet Robert is rather uniquely reticent to the prospect. He fears becoming distant, cold, inhuman, like his enhanced best friend. And that his girlfriend, one of the revolutionary Dragoons, will spurn him. "Lovett has crafted a sci-fi novel with sharp social commentary that cleverly examines such issues as the staggering income gap, the emerging role of technology, and the place of religion in a tech-driven world." -Kirkus Reviews

The Evolution of Robert Carr

Author	: Paul K. Lovett
Publisher	: Lulu.com
Release Date	: 2015-04-10
ISBN 10	: 9781483427935
Pages	: 212 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (279 users)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Robert Carr written by Paul K. Lovett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul K. Lovett's science fiction satire The Evolution of Robert Carr is an audacious, operatic romp through a dystopian near future where genetic enhancements have pushed the divide between rich and poor ever closer to its social breaking point. The subversive tale opens on Robert Carr's eighteenth birthday when he is about to join the top 2% of the population by becoming a recipient of an exorbitantly expensive neural enhancement procedure. Yet Robert is rather uniquely reticent to the prospect. He fears becoming distant, cold, inhuman, like his enhanced best friend. And that his girlfriend, one of the revolutionary Dragoons, will spurn him. "Lovett has crafted a sci-fi novel with sharp social commentary that cleverly examines such issues as the staggering income gap, the emerging role of technology, and the place of religion in a tech-driven world." -Kirkus Reviews

The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England

Author	: Alastair Bellany
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2007-01-29
ISBN 10	: 0521035430
Pages	: 336 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (3 users)

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Download or read book The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England written by Alastair Bellany and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed 2002 study of the political significance of the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, 1613.

The Sale of the Late King's Goods

Author	: Jerry Brotton
Publisher	: Pan Macmillan
Release Date	: 2018-02-08
ISBN 10	: 9781509898350
Pages	: 464 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (983 users)

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Download or read book The Sale of the Late King's Goods written by Jerry Brotton and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book, The Sale of the Late King's Goods, explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Following a remarkable and unprecedented Parliamentary Act for ‘The sale of the late king’s goods’, Cromwell’s republican regime sold off nearly 2,000 paintings, tapestries, statues and drawings in an attempt to settle the dead king’s enormous debts and raise money for the Commonwealth’s military forces. Brotton recreates the extraordinary circumstances of this sale, in which for the first time ordinary working people were able to handle and own works by the great masters. He also examines the abiding relationship between art and power, revealing how the current Royal Collection emerged from this turbulent period, and paints its own vivid and dramatic picture of one of the greatest lost collections in English history.

Visions of the Courtly Body

Author	: Christiane Hille
Publisher	: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date	: 2013-01-09
ISBN 10	: 9783050062556
Pages	: 311 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (625 users)

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Download or read book Visions of the Courtly Body written by Christiane Hille and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1603, the beginning of the Stuart reign, painting was of minor importance at the English court, where the elaborately designed masques of Inigo Jones served as the prime medium of royal representation. Only two decades later, their most celebrated performer, George Villiers, the First Duke of Buckingham had assembled one of the largest and most significant collections of painting in early seventeenth-century Europe. His career as the personal and political favourite of two succeeding monarchs – James I and Charles I – coincides with the commission of a number of highly ambitious portraits from the hands of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck that displayed his body in spectacular manner. As the first comprehensive study of Buckingham’s patronage of the visual arts, this book is concerned with the question of how the painted image of the courtier transferred strategies of social distinction that had originated in the masque to the language of painting. Establishing a new grammar in the competing rhetorics of bodily self-fashioning, this recast notion of portraiture contributed to an epistemological change in perceptions of visual representation at the early modern English court, in the course of which painting advanced to the central art form in the aesthetics of kingship.

The Evolution of the Rhode Island Budget Process

Author	: Roy George Poulsen
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1961
ISBN 10	: IND:39000004162181
Pages	: 506 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 ( users)

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Download or read book The Evolution of the Rhode Island Budget Process written by Roy George Poulsen and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court

Author	: Dr Kevin Curran
Publisher	: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date	: 2013-04-28
ISBN 10	: 9781409475453
Pages	: 198 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (754 users)

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Download or read book Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court written by Dr Kevin Curran and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court constitutes the first full-length study of Jacobean nuptial performance, a hitherto unexplored branch of early modern theater consisting of masques and entertainments performed for high-profile weddings. Scripted by such writers as Ben Jonson, Thomas Campion, George Chapman, and Francis Beaumont, these entertainments were mounted for some of the most significant political events of James's English reign. Here Kevin Curran analyzes all six of the elite weddings celebrated at the Jacobean court, reading the masques and entertainments that headlined these events alongside contemporaneously produced panegyrics, festival books, sermons, parliamentary speeches, and other sources. The study shows how, collectively, wedding entertainments turned the idea of union into a politically versatile category of national representation and offered new ways of imagining a specifically Jacobean form of national identity by doing so.

The Evolution of British Manpower Policy

Author	: Peter John Charles Perry
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1976
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015006592375
Pages	: 329 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (5 users)

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Download or read book The Evolution of British Manpower Policy written by Peter John Charles Perry and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Historical Roots of Political Violence

Author	: Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2019-05-31
ISBN 10	: 9781108482769
Pages	: 225 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (827 users)

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Download or read book The Historical Roots of Political Violence written by Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the first comprehensive analysis of the wave of revolutionary terrorism in affluent countries.

The Archaeology of Class in Urban America

Author	: Stephen A. Mrozowski
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2006-03-23
ISBN 10	: 052185394X
Pages	: 190 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Class in Urban America written by Stephen A. Mrozowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging study which looks at archaeological, documentary and environmental evidence to explore the factors determining class identity.

American Blacklist

Author	: Robert Justin Goldstein
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015074064174
Pages	: 361 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (57 users)

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Download or read book American Blacklist written by Robert Justin Goldstein and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to fully chronicle the origins, evolution, and demise of the McCarthy-era program known as the Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations--originally conceived to ferret out disloyal federal employees but wielded as a controversial weapon that threatened the constitutional rights of ordinary citizens.

Religious Politics in Post-reformation England

Author	: Kenneth Fincham
Publisher	: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date	: 2006
ISBN 10	: 9781843832539
Pages	: 252 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (325 users)

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Download or read book Religious Politics in Post-reformation England written by Kenneth Fincham and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New scrutinies of the most important political and religious debates of the post-Reformation period.

Bureaucratic Democracy

Author	: Douglas Yates
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Release Date	: 1982
ISBN 10	: 0674086112
Pages	: 224 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (12 users)

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Download or read book Bureaucratic Democracy written by Douglas Yates and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although everyone agrees on the need to make government work better, few understand public bureaucracy sufficiently well to offer useful suggestions, either theoretical or practical. In fact, some consider bureaucratic efficiency incompatible with democratic government. Douglas Yates places the often competing aims of efficiency and democracy in historical perspective and then presents a unique and systematic theory of the politics of bureaucracy, which he illustrates with examples from recent history and from empirical research. He argues that the United States operates under a system of "bureaucratic democracy," in which governmental decisions increasingly are made in bureaucratic settings, out of the public eye. He describes the rational, selfinterested bureaucrat as a "minimaxer," who inches forward inconspicuously, gradually accumulating larger budgets and greater power, in an atmosphere of segmented pluralism, of conflict and competition, of silent politics. To make the policy process more competitive, democratic, and open, Yates calls for strategic debate among policymakers and bureaucrats and insists that bureaucrats should give a public accounting of their significant decisions rather than bury them in incremental changes. He offers concrete proposals, applicable to federal, state, and local governments, for simplifying the now-chaotic bureaucratic policymaking system and at the same time bolstering representation and openness. This is a book for all political scientists, policymakers, government officials, and concerned citizens. It may well become a classic statement on the workings of public bureaucracy.

Catalogue of Books in the Jamaica Plain Branch Library of the Boston Public Library

Author	: Boston Public Library. Jamaica Plain Branch
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1887
ISBN 10	: COLUMBIA:CU58202862
Pages	: 276 pages
Rating	: 4.B/5 ( users)

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Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Jamaica Plain Branch Library of the Boston Public Library written by Boston Public Library. Jamaica Plain Branch and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare in Twentieth-Century Britain

Author	: Helen M. Sweet
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2007-12-12
ISBN 10	: 9781135911980
Pages	: 282 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (119 users)

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Download or read book Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare in Twentieth-Century Britain written by Helen M. Sweet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a fresh look at community nursing history in Great Britain, examining the essentially generalist and low profile, domiciliary end of the professional nursing spectrum throughout the twentieth century. It charts the most significant changes affecting the nurse’s work on the district including compulsory registration for general nursing, changes in organization, training, conditions of service, and workload. A strong oral history component provides a unique insight into the professional images of district nursing and the complexities of inter- and intra-professional relationships as well as into the changing day-to-day working experiences of the district nurse at ‘grass-roots’ level. Use of oral history and records of individual nurses attempts to rectify the tendency of nursing history to view nurses as if they were a homogenous group of professionals, thereby recognizing the different experiences of nurses in different regions and environments. The book also considers the degree of influence of medically related technologies and of developments in drugs, materials, communications, and transport on the professional development of district nursing. The work addresses issues of gender relationships central to a nursing profession largely composed of women (throughout much of the period) working alongside a largely male-dominated medical profession.

Consuming Splendor

Author	: Linda Levy Peck
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2005-09-19
ISBN 10	: 0521842328
Pages	: 431 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (28 users)

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Download or read book Consuming Splendor written by Linda Levy Peck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-19 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of the ways in which consumption transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. It reveals for the first time the emergence of consumer society in seventeenth-century England.

Toward the Geopolitical Novel

Author	: Caren Irr
Publisher	: Columbia University Press
Release Date	: 2013-12-17
ISBN 10	: 9780231164412
Pages	: 304 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (644 users)

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Download or read book Toward the Geopolitical Novel written by Caren Irr and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caren Irr's survey of more than 125 novels outlines the dramatic resurgence of the American political novel in the twenty-first century. She explores the writings of Chris Abani, Susan Choi, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, Dave Eggers, Jeffrey Eugenides, Aleksandar Hemon, Hari Kunzru, Dinaw Mengestu, Norman Rush, Gary Shteyngart, and others as they rethink stories of migration, the Peace Corps, nationalism and neoliberalism, revolution, and the expatriate experience. Taken together, these innovations define a new literary form: the geopolitical novel. More cosmopolitan and socially critical than domestic realism, the geopolitical novel provides new ways of understanding crucial political concepts to meet the needs of a new century.