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Books RSS FeedsThe Digital Difference (Fyffe) - The Digital Difference: Responsible Conduct of Research in a Networked World (2005), by Richard Fyffe and Scott Walter (PDF with comentary at ku.edu)...Feed Source: hdl.handle.net Shelton of Tibet (Shelton) - Shelton of Tibet (New York: George H. Doran, c1923), by Flora Beal Shelton (multiple formats at archive.org)... Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Frances Sheridan, With Remarks Upon a Late Life of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan (Lefanu) - Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Frances Sheridan, With Remarks Upon a Late Life of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan (London: G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1824), by Alicia Lefanu (multiple formats at archive.org)... Pioneering in Tibet (Shelton) - Pioneering in Tibet: A Personal Record of Life and Experience in Mission Fields (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1921), by A. L. Shelton (multiple formats at archive.org)... Sultan to Sultan (Sheldon) - Sultan to Sultan: Adventures Among the Masai and Other Tribes of East Africa (Boston: Arena Pub. Co.; London: Saxon and co., 1892), by Mary French Sheldon (multiple formats at archive.org)... Sunshine and Shadow on the Tibetan Border (Shelton) - Sunshine and Shadow on the Tibetan Border (Cincinnati: Foreign Christian Missionary Society, c1912), by Flora Beal Shelton (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Public Domain (Boyle) - The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), by James Boyle (PDF and HTML with commentary at thepublicdomain.org)... Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity (Baumol) - Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity (electronic edition, c2007), by William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, and Carl J. Schramm (PDF files with commentary at Yale University Press)... Innovation and the State (Breznitz) - Innovation and the State: Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland (electronic edition, c2007), by Dan Breznitz (PDF files with commentary at Yale University Press)... The Unsustainable Costs of Partial Deregulation (MacAvoy) - The Unsustainable Costs of Partial Deregulation (electronic edition, c2007), by Paul W. MacAvoy (PDF files with commentary at Yale University Press)... Vaiti of the Islands (Grimshaw) - Vaiti of the Islands (New York: A. Wessels Co., 1908), by Beatrice Grimshaw, illust. by H. C. Williamson (page images at Google; US access only)... The Early History of Michigan, From the First Settlement to 1815 (Sheldon) - The Early History of Michigan, From the First Settlement to 1815 (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Detroit: Kerr, Morley and Co., 1856), by E. M. Sheldon (page images at Google)... Broken Away (Grimshaw) - Broken Away (London and New York: John Lane, 1897), by Beatrice Grimshaw (page images at Google; US access only)... Yankee Girls in Zulu Land (Sheldon) - Yankee Girls in Zulu Land (New York: Worthington, 1888), by Louise Vescelius Sheldon (stable link)... Parliamentary Debates (New Zealand. Parliament) - Parliamentary Debates, by New Zealand Parliament (partial serial archives)... Three Years in The Libyan Desert (Falls) - Three Years in The Libyan Desert (1913), by J. C. Ewald Falls, trans. by Elizabeth Lee (multiple formats at TIMEA)... Hassan in Egypt (McDonald) - Hassan in Egypt (school edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1915), by Etta McDonald and Julia Dalrymple (multiple formats at TIMEA)... A Winter Pilgrimage (Haggard) - A Winter Pilgrimage: Being an Account of Travels Through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus, Accomplished in the Year 1900 (1901), by H. Rider Haggard (multiple formats at TIMEA)... Veiled Mysteries of Egypt and the Religion of Islam (Leeder) - Veiled Mysteries of Egypt and the Religion of Islam (1913), by S. H. Leeder (multiple formats at TIMEA)... Modern Sons of the Pharaohs (Leeder) - Modern Sons of the Pharaohs (1918), by S. H. Leeder (multiple formats at TIMEA)... An Egyptian in Ireland (Rashad) - An Egyptian in Ireland (1920), by Ibrahim Rashad (multiple formats at TIMEA)... The Nile (Budge) - The Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt (1902), by E. A. Wallis Budge (multiple formats at TIMEA)... Fiji and its Possibilities (Grimshaw) - Fiji and its Possibilities (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1907), by Beatrice Grimshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)... Guinea Gold (Grimshaw) - Guinea Gold (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1912), by Beatrice Grimshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)... An I. D. B. in South Africa (Sheldon) - An I. D. B. in South Africa (New York: J. W. Lovell Co., c1888), by Louise Vescelius Sheldon (multiple formats at archive.org)... The New New Guinea (Grimshaw) - The New New Guinea (1911), by Beatrice Grimshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)... Red Bob of the Bismarcks (Grimshaw) - Red Bob of the Bismarcks (second edition; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1915), by Beatrice Grimshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Terrible Island (Grimshaw) - The Terrible Island (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1920), by Beatrice Grimshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)... Our Home in Cyprus (Scott-Stevenson) - Our Home in Cyprus (second edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1880), by Mrs. Scott-Stevenson (stable link)... Our Ride Through Asia Minor (Scott-Stevenson) - Our Ride Through Asia Minor (London: Chapman and Hall, 1881), by Mrs. Scott-Stevenson (stable link)... The New-York Historical Society (Guthrie) - The New-York Historical Society: Lessons From One Nonprofit's Long Struggle for Survival, by Kevin M. Guthrie (HTML with commentary at cnx.org)... Houston Reflections (Reynolds) - Houston Reflections: Art in the City, 1950s, 60s, and 70s (2007), by Sarah C. Reynolds (HTML with commentary at cnx.org)... Alaska (Scidmore) - Alaska: Its Southern Coast and the Sitkan Archipelago (Boston: D. Lothrop and Co., c1885), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (multiple formats at archive.org)... As the Hague Ordains (Scidmore) - As the Hague Ordains: Journal of a Russian Prisoner's Wife in Japan (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1907), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Bears of Blue River (Major) - The Bears of Blue River (New York and London: Macmillan, 1908), by Charles Major, illust. by A. B. Frost (multiple formats at archive.org)... China, the Long-Lived Empire (Scidmore) - China, the Long-Lived Empire (New York: The Century Co., 1900), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (multiple formats at archive.org)... Java, the Garden of the East (Scidmore) - Java, the Garden of the East (New York: The Century Co., 1922), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (multiple formats at archive.org)... Java, the Garden of the East (Scidmore) - Java, the Garden of the East (first edition; New York: The Century Co., 1897), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (multiple formats at archive.org)... Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue (Packard) - Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue (Toronto: Copp, Clark Co., c1922), by Frank L. Packard (multiple formats at archive.org)... Jinrikisha Days in Japan (Scidmore) - Jinrikisha Days in Japan (revised edition; New York: Harper and Bros., 1902), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (multiple formats at archive.org)... Recollections and Impressions (Sellar) - Recollections and Impressions (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and sons, 1907), by Eleanor Mary Sellar (multiple formats at archive.org)... Uncle Tom Andy Bill (Major) - Uncle Tom Andy Bill: A Story of Bears and Indian Treasure (New York: Macmillan, 1918), by Charles Major, illust. by P. Van E. Ivory (multiple formats at archive.org)... Winter India (Scidmore) - Winter India (New York: The Century Co., 1903), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Religion of the Koran (Wollaston) - The Religion of the Koran (third impression; London: J. Murray, ca. 1911), by Arthur N. Wollaston, contrib. by Edward Henry Palmer (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)... Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (Freud) - Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (second edition; New York and Washington: Nervous and Mental Disease Pub. Co., 1920), by Sigmund Freud, trans. by A. A. Brill (Gutenberg text)... Dream Psychology (Freud) - Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners (New York: James A. McCann Co., 1920), by Sigmund Freud, trans. by M. D. Eder, contrib. by André Tridon (Gutenberg text)... The Tales of Hoffmann (Hoffmann) - The Tales of Hoffmann (New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945), by E. T. A. Hoffmann, contrib. by Arthur Ransome, illust. by Hugo Steiner-Prag (page images at CMU)... All Men are Brothers (Shui Hu Chan) (Shi) - All Men are Brothers (Shui Hu Chan) (2 volumes; New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948), by Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong, trans. by Pearl S. Buck, contrib. by Lin Yutang, illust. by Miguel Covarrubias (stable link)... Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (Russell) - Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (second edition, 1920), by Bertrand Russell (multiple formats at archive.org)... Societies, Religion, and History (Gonzales) - Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE (c2008), by Rhonda M. Gonzales (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)... Between Winds and Clouds (Yang) - Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan, Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE (c2008), by Bin Yang (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)... Early Irish History and Antiquities, and the History of West Cork (O'Halloran) - Early Irish History and Antiquities, and the History of West Cork (first edition, 1916), by W. O'Halloran (HTML at libraryireland.com)... Dreams (Leadbeater) - Dreams: What They Are and How They Are Caused (fourth edition, 1918), by C. W. Leadbeater (HTML at anandgholap.net)... Storm Over Mono (Hart) - Storm Over Mono: The Mono Lake Battle and the California Water Future (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), by John Hart (frame-dependent HTML at UC Press)... Global Climate Change and California (Knox) - Global Climate Change and California: Potential Impacts and Responses (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), ed. by Joseph B. Knox and Ann Foley Scheuring (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at UC Press)... In the Tail of the Peacock (Savory) - In the Tail of the Peacock (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1903), by Isabel Savory (stable link)... Two Years Before the Mast (Dana) - Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, contrib. by Richard Henry Dana (stable link)... Two Years Before the Mast (Dana) - Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, contrib. by Homer Eaton Keyes (Gutenberg text)... Parliamentary Debates (Australia. Parliament) - Parliamentary Debates, by Australia Parliament (partial serial archives)... An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (Dryden) - An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (third edition; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1918), by John Dryden, ed. by Thomas Arnold and William T. Arnold (multiple formats at archive.org)... Facts in Jingles (Stoner) - Facts in Jingles (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c1915), by Winifred Sackville Stoner, ed. by M. V. O'Shea (multiple formats at archive.org)... A Holiday Trip to Canada (Sansom) - A Holiday Trip to Canada (London: The St Catherine Press, ca. 1914), by Mary J. Sansom (multiple formats at archive.org)... Manual of Natural Education (Stoner) - Manual of Natural Education (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c1916), by Winifred d'Estcourte Sackville Stoner (multiple formats at archive.org)... Natural Education (Stoner) - Natural Education (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c1914), by Winifred d'Estcourte Sackville Stoner, contrib. by M. V. O'Shea (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Romantic Roussillon (Savory) - The Romantic Roussillon: In the French Pyrenees (London: T. F. Unwin, c1919), by Isabel Savory (multiple formats at archive.org)... Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800 (Jeffares) - Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800 (online edition, 2008), by Neil Jeffares (PDF files with commentary at pastellists.com)... Life of A. P. Dostie (Reed) - Life of A. P. Dostie: or, The Conflict of New Orleans (New York: W. P. Tomlinson, 1868), by Emily Hazen Reed (stable link)... A Winter in Algeria, 1863-4 (Rogers) - A Winter in Algeria, 1863-4 (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1865), by Ellen M. Rogers (page images at Google)... Domestic Life in Palestine (Rogers) - Domestic Life in Palestine (Cincinnati: Poe and Hitchcock, 1865), by Mary Eliza Rogers (multiple formats at archive.org)... The First American King (Hastings) - The First American King (London and New York: Smart Set, 1905), by George Gordon Hastings (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Kiss of Glory (Boylan) - The Kiss of Glory (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1902), by Grace Duffie Boylan, illust. by J. C. Leyendecker (multiple formats at archive.org)... Address of Dr. A. P. Dostie, Delivered Before the Republican Association of New Orleans, May 9, 1866 (Dostie) - Address of Dr. A. P. Dostie, Delivered Before the Republican Association of New Orleans, May 9, 1866 (New York: W. P. Tomlinson, 1868), by A. P. Dostie (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Log of the Ark (Gordon) - The Log of the Ark (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1915), by Irwin Leslie Gordon and Alfred Joseph Frueh (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Lost Mine of the Mono (Klette) - The Lost Mine of the Mono: A Tale of the Sierra Nevada (New York: Cochrane Pub. Co., 1909), by Charles Herman Bruno Klette (multiple formats at archive.org)... Michel Gulpe (Terhune) - Michel Gulpe (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., c1902), by Everit Bogert Terhune, illust. by Sidney Marsh Chase (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Natural Man (Lloyd) - The Natural Man: A Romance of the Golden Age (Newark, NJ: B. Prieth, c1902), by J. Wm. Lloyd (multiple formats at archive.org)... Out of the Air (Gillmore) - Out of the Air (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1921), by Inez Haynes Gillmore (multiple formats at archive.org)... Perkins, the Fakeer (Van Zile) - Perkins, the Fakeer: A Travesty on Reincarnation (New York and London: Smart Set, 1903), by Edward S. Van Zile, illust. by Henry Mayer (multiple formats at archive.org)... Social Christianity in the Orient (Clough) - Social Christianity in the Orient: The Story of a Man, a Mission and a Movement (New York: Macmillan, 1914), by J. E. Clough, ed. by Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough (multiple formats at archive.org)... A Summer in Spain (Ramsay) - A Summer in Spain (London: Tinsley Bros., 1874), by Mrs. Ramsay (multiple formats at archive.org)... While Sewing Sandals (Rauschenbusch-Clough) - While Sewing Sandals: or, Tales of a Telugu Pariah Tribe (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1899), by Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough (multiple formats at archive.org)... Yeoman Service (Rolleston) - Yeoman Service: Being the Diary of the Wife of an Imperial Yeomanry Office During the Boer War (London: Smith, Elder, 1901), by Maud Brooke Rolleston (multiple formats at archive.org)... National Response Framework (United States. Dept. of Homeland Security) - National Response Framework (2008; with supplementary materials), by United States Department of Homeland Security (PDF files with commentary at fema.gov)... The Iliad, Abridged (Homer) - The Iliad, Abridged (c2008), by Homer, trans. by Ian C. Johnston (PDF at richerresourcespublications.com)... The Odyssey, Abridged (Homer) - The Odyssey, Abridged (c2008), by Homer, trans. by Ian C. Johnston (PDF with commentary at richerresourcespublications.com)... Birds (Aristophanes) - Birds, by Aristophanes, trans. by Ian C. Johnston (HTML at richerresourcespublications.com)... Lysistrata (Aristophanes) - Lysistrata, by Aristophanes, trans. by Ian C. Johnston (PDF with commentary at richerresourcespublications.com)... Medea (Euripides) - Medea, by Euripides, trans. by Ian C. Johnston (HTML at richerresourcespublications.com)... Abominable Snowmen (Sanderson) - Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life (Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Co., c1961), by Ivan Terence Sanderson (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)... The Happy Home (Lushington) - The Happy Home: or, The Children at the Red House (London: Griffith and Farran, 1864), by Henrietta Prescott Lushington, illust. by George John Pinwell (page images at Google)... Will-Power and Work (Payot) - Will-Power and Work (third edition; New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Co;, 1922), by Jules Payot, trans. by Richard Duffy (stable link)... Hacco, the Dwarf (Lushington) - Hacco, the Dwarf: or, the Tower on the Mountain; and Other Tales (London: Griffith and Farran, 1865), by Henrietta Prescott Lushington, illust. by George John Pinwell (page images at Google)... The Worlds and I (Wilcox) - The Worlds and I (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (stable link)... A Journey in East Africa (Pringle) - A Journey in East Africa: Towards the Mountains of the Moon (new edition; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1886), by M. A. Pringle (stable link)... The Amateur Philosopher (Grabo) - The Amateur Philosopher (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917), by Carl Henry Grabo (stable link)... Man (Crowell) - Man: God's Masterpiece (New York: R. F. Fenno and Co., c1916), by Frank Crowell (stable link)... Manual of Legislative Practice and Order of Business, in the Legislature of the State of New Jersey (Sitgreaves) - Manual of Legislative Practice and Order of Business, in the Legislature of the State of New Jersey (Trenton: B. Davenport, 1836), by Charles Sitgreaves (page images at Google)... The Goose Girl (MacGrath) - The Goose Girl (Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Co., 1909), by Harold MacGrath, illust. by J. André Castaigne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... The Ragged Edge (MacGrath) - The Ragged Edge (c1910), by Harold MacGrath (Gutenberg text)... A Splendid Hazard (MacGrath) - A Splendid Hazard (c1910), by Harold MacGrath (Gutenberg text)... The Grey Cloak (MacGrath) - The Grey Cloak (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1903), by Harold MacGrath, illust. by Thomas Mitchell Peirce (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... The Voice in the Fog (MacGrath) - The Voice in the Fog (c1915), by Harold MacGrath, illust. by A. B. Wenzell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... Arms and the Woman (MacGrath) - Arms and the Woman: A Romance, by Harold MacGrath (Gutenberg text)... Hearts and Masks (MacGrath) - Hearts and Masks (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1905), by Harold MacGrath, illust. by Harrison Fisher (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... The Princess Elopes (MacGrath) - The Princess Elopes (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1905), by Harold MacGrath, illust. by Harrison Fisher (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... The Adventures of Kathlyn (MacGrath) - The Adventures of Kathlyn (Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Co., c1914), by Harold MacGrath (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... Parrot and Co. (MacGrath) - Parrot and Co. (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1913), by Harold MacGrath, illust. by J. André Castaigne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)... The Lure of the Mask (MacGrath) - The Lure of the Mask (Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Co., c1908), by Harold MacGrath, illust. by Harrison Fisher and Karl Anderson (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)... The Place of Honeymoons (MacGrath) - The Place of Honeymoons (Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Co., c1912), by Harold MacGrath, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)... The Care and Repair of Books (Lydenberg) - The Care and Repair of Books (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1946), by Harry Miller Lydenberg and John Archer (page images at CMU)... Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections (Hobson) - Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections (London: Halton and Truscott Smith, 1931), by R. L. Hobson, Bernard Rackham, and William King (page images at CMU)... The Sea-Spirit, and Other Poems (Lushington) - The Sea-Spirit, and Other Poems (London: John W. Parker, 1850), by Henrietta Prescott Lushington (multiple formats at archive.org)... Fatima Priest (Alban) - Fatima Priest (electronic edition, ca. 2000), by Francis Alban, contrib. by Christopher A. Ferrara and Malachi Martin (HTML with commentary at fatimapriest.com)... The Vegetation of Texas (Tharp) - The Vegetation of Texas (1939), by Benjamin Carroll Tharp (illustrated HTML and page images at Texas)... The Balcones Escarpment (Abbott) - The Balcones Escarpment: Geology, Hydrology, Ecology, and Social Development in Central Texas (originally published 1986; electronic edition 1999), ed. by Patrick L. Abbott and C. M. Woodruff (illustrated HTML at Texas)... A Chance to Join the World · Neal Ascherson: A Future for Abkhazia - On the way to the frontier, we stopped the car for a last look at Abkhazia. A new monument stood by the road, the effigy of a scowling, whiskered Abkhaz chieftain with sword and shield. The statue commemorates the war of 1992-93 which routed the Georgian army, cost ten thousand dead on both sides, and established an 'independent' Abkhazian state.... Lessons of Zimbabwe · Mahmood Mamdani: Mugabe in Context - There is no denying Mugabe's authoritarianism, or his willingness to tolerate and even encourage the violent behaviour of his supporters. His policies have helped lay waste the country's economy, though sanctions have played no small part, while his refusal to share power with the country's growing opposition movement, much of it based in the trade unions, has led to a bitter impasse. This view of Zimbabwe's crisis can be found everywhere, from the Economist and the Financial Times to the Guardian and the New Statesman, but it gives us little sense of how Mugabe has managed to survive. For he has ruled not only by coercion but by consent, and his land reform measures, however harsh, have won him considerable popularity, not just in Zimbabwe but throughout southern Africa.... An Address in Mayfair · Donald MacKenzie: How to Start a Hedge Fund - You could walk around Mayfair all day and not notice them. Hedge funds don't - can't - advertise. The most you'll see is a discreet nameplate or two. An address in Mayfair counts in the world of hedge funds. It shows you're serious, and have the money and confidence to pay the world's most expensive commercial rents. A nondescript office no larger than a small flat can cost £150,000 a year. Something bigger and in the style that hedge funds like (glass walls, contemporary furniture) can set you back a lot more. It's fortunate therefore that hedge funds don't need a lot of space. Two rooms may be enough: one for meetings, for example with potential investors; one for trading and doing the associated bookkeeping. Some funds consist of only four or five people. Even a fairly large fund can operate with twenty or fewer.... Sons and Heirs · Robert Vitalis: The bin Ladens and Their Money - Steve Coll's book tells two stories: a big one about how the bin Laden family cashed in on the oil bonanza in Saudi Arabia, and a smaller one about Osama's role in the family business before he turned to holy warfare. Although well written, lucid and packed with useful detail, The Bin Ladens doesn't establish much of a connection between the family firm in Saudi Arabia and Osama bin Laden's jihad in Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan and America, except that oil wealth funded both. The bin Laden group isn't among the world's largest engineering businesses, although readers might finish this book believing that it is: Coll calls it Saudi Arabia's Halliburton, even though the latter is an oil services firm, not a construction company. He is at his best excavating details from the mountain of documents generated by various bin Laden brothers in the lawsuits and divorce settlements that have followed on several decades of deals gone sour.... Self-Made Aristocrats · Adam Phillips: The Wittgensteins and Their Money - 'Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent': it's a notion children pick up quite quickly. It is also, of course, a remark about the limits of what we can use language to do, but Wittgenstein is unusual as a philosopher because he so often writes about the difficulties a child has growing up in a family. His wish to clarify the world as he finds it, his stress on 'perspicuous representations' and 'just that understanding which consists in "seeing connections"', turns the figure of the philosopher into the kind of child who wants to understand what is going on in his family, as opposed to the child who takes refuge from his family in a fantasy life. For Wittgenstein, this is the difference between working out what people are using words to do in a more or less shared family life and being a metaphysician living in a world (or a system) of your own making.... Talking Corpses · Tim Parks on 'Gomorrah' - 'When Lot lived in Sodom and Gomorrah,' Peter wrote in his Second Epistle, 'he was oppressed and tormented day after day by their lawless deeds.' Having grown up in Naples, Roberto Saviano is similarly tormented and oppressed. Gomorrah is his account of the lawless deeds of the Camorra, the Neapolitan Mafia. Conveniently assonant as the two names may be, the crimes of Naples are not those we associate with the Cities of the Plain, and Saviano is not the righteous man who withdraws when God steps in to incinerate the sinful townsfolk. On the contrary, he seems to be drawn to what he abhors, and does everything in his power to see the Camorra and its lawlessness close up.... On Complaining · Elif Batuman: How to Stay Sane - Flaubert the satirist buried Bouvard and Pécuchet alive beneath an avalanche of names and things and methodologies; Roudinesco the philosopher is offering us a conceptual shovel. What one immediately notices about this shovel is its close resemblance to the avalanche: Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida looks very much like a vast ledger full of entries for 'people who have become things'. (Would Bouvard and Pécuchet feel or think any better if they found such a thing in the garden shed?) For most of its length the book has the same 'talking-head' effect that initially seemed to be an object of parody. As in Flaubert's dictionary, ideas and names rain onto the page in a chronologically chaotic barrage: Roudinesco is the kind of writer who breezily refers to 'the tradition of philosophical conceptuality to which belonged names like . . . Gaston Bachelard, Spinoza, Hegel, Montesquieu and Freud'. As Flaubert's dictionary is alphabetical... Double Thought · Michael Wood: Kafka in the Office - It's certainly an excellent arrangement,' the official says, 'always unimaginably excellent, even if in other respects hopeless.' We can easily picture, or even recall, arrangements that are excellent for some and hopeless for others, and that is what the phrase 'in other respects' invites us to do. But the larger rhythm and grammar of the sentence ask us to go beyond this option, to think both contrary thoughts at once, taking excellence and hopelessness as partners in an intricate dance, each calling for and implying the other; as if the arrangement is excellent because it's hopeless, hopeless because it's excellent. Can we manage this logical feat? And where are we?... It's not the bus: it's us · Thomas Sugrue: Stars, Stripes and Civil Rights - In the United States the flag has the status of a religious icon, a totem. It cannot be carried horizontally or flat, but must always be 'aloft and free'. There is a protocol for folding it, it can't touch the ground, it can't be burned except when it is worn out or irreparably damaged and then only as part of a special ritual. Military men and women salute it, civilians hold their right hands over their left breasts when singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner', and schoolchildren pledge allegiance to it. It is also a ubiquitous presence in the American landscape. The Red, White and Blue waves from people's porches, flies over car dealerships and gas stations and adorns flower-pots; cars are festooned with it in the form of bumper stickers, window decals and antenna pennants. The flag decorates the altars of churches of every denomination except those of a few dissenting sects. And it has become a necessary accessory for political candidates. Early in his campaign, Barack Obama was criticis... Diary · Keith Gessen: Watching the Rouble Go Down - The financial crisis - or, as we like to call it here, 'the effects of the American and European financial crisis on Russia' - has taken a little while to get going, but it's going now. Yesterday my grandmother sat me down for a serious conversation: she wanted to know if she should take her rouble-denominated life savings out of the Sberbank and put them into dollars. Everyone's a financial adviser now. Or rather, I'm a financial adviser now. This is not good.... Letters - The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 23... Table of contents - Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 23... Copyright © 2008, Sat Live On Pc. All Rights Reserved. |