Автор: Offord, Professor Derek (university Of Bristol, Uk) Название: Ayn rand and the russian intelligentsia ISBN: 1350283959 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350283954 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 6683.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines the writings of the American novelist Ayn Rand, especially The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), which Rand considered her definitive statement about the need for an unregulated free market in which superior humans could fully realize themselves by living for no-one but themselves. It explores Rand’s conception of American identity, which exalted individualism and capitalism, and her solution for saving the modern American nation, which she believed was losing the spirit of its 18th- and 19th-century founders and frontiersmen, having been degraded morally and economically by the rampant socialism of the mid-20th-century world.
Derek Offord crucially goes on to analyse how Rand’s writings functioned as a vehicle in which she, a Russian-Jewish writer born in St Petersburg in 1905, engaged with ideas that had long animated the Russian intelligentsia. Her conception of human nature and of a utopian community capable of satisfying its needs; her reversal of conventional valuations of self-sacrifice and selfishness; her division of humans into an extraordinary minority and the ordinary mass; her comparison of competing civilizations – in all these areas, Offord argues that Rand drew on Russian debates and transposed them to a different context. Even the type of novel she writes, the novel of ideas, is informed by the polemical methods and habits of the Russian intelligentsia. The book concludes that her search for a brave new world continues to have topicality in the 21st century, with its populist critiques of liberal democracies and acrimonious debates about countries’ moral, social, and economic priorities and their identities, inequalities, and social tensions.
Автор: Imperial War Museums Offord, Simon Название: Animals in wartime ISBN: 1912423448 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912423446 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Animals in Wartime highlights 50 images from IWM`s vast collection and illustrates the many and varied ways that animals have played their part in wartime over the past century.
Автор: Offord, John Название: Bees make honey and butterflies make jam ISBN: 1398416312 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398416314 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2890.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Inspire learners to build, strengthen and extend their skills. Written by experienced authors and primary practitioners, Cambridge Primary English offers full coverage of the new Cambridge Primary English curriculum framework (0058).
Автор: Offord, John Название: Bees make honey and butterflies make jam ISBN: 1398416304 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398416307 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 821.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Inspire learners to build, strengthen and extend their skills. Written by experienced authors and primary practitioners, Cambridge Primary English offers full coverage of the new Cambridge Primary English curriculum framework (0058).
Автор: Offord, Professor Derek (university Of Bristol, Uk) Название: Ayn rand and the russian intelligentsia ISBN: 1350283940 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350283947 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 1929.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines the writings of the American novelist Ayn Rand, especially The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), which Rand considered her definitive statement about the need for an unregulated free market in which superior humans could fully realize themselves by living for no-one but themselves. It explores Rand’s conception of American identity, which exalted individualism and capitalism, and her solution for saving the modern American nation, which she believed was losing the spirit of its 18th- and 19th-century founders and frontiersmen, having been degraded morally and economically by the rampant socialism of the mid-20th-century world.
Derek Offord crucially goes on to analyse how Rand’s writings functioned as a vehicle in which she, a Russian-Jewish writer born in St Petersburg in 1905, engaged with ideas that had long animated the Russian intelligentsia. Her conception of human nature and of a utopian community capable of satisfying its needs; her reversal of conventional valuations of self-sacrifice and selfishness; her division of humans into an extraordinary minority and the ordinary mass; her comparison of competing civilizations – in all these areas, Offord argues that Rand drew on Russian debates and transposed them to a different context. Even the type of novel she writes, the novel of ideas, is informed by the polemical methods and habits of the Russian intelligentsia. The book concludes that her search for a brave new world continues to have topicality in the 21st century, with its populist critiques of liberal democracies and acrimonious debates about countries’ moral, social, and economic priorities and their identities, inequalities, and social tensions.
Автор: Offord Kerryn, Boatright Rick Название: 1637: Dr. Gribbleflotz and the Soul of Stoner, 33 ISBN: 1982125608 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781982125608 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2297.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A 17th-century alchemist confronts modern science with unintended and amusing results. Another sparkling addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire alternate history series created by Eric Flint. SCIENCE AND MEDICINE VS. FLIM-FLAMMERY Thomas "the Great Stoner" Stone once performed miraculous surgery upon Phillip Theophrastus Gribbleflotz, the World's Greatest Alchemist, using his bare hands, no anesthesia, producing no pain, and leaving no scar. It would have been wonderful if it was real. But Dr. Tom Stone, the face of modern medicine, has been engaging in fake treatments--bringing all modern medicine into question. Phillip, who has learned a thing or two about actual science from those uptime elopers from Grantville, West Virginia, decides to go to Padua and turn his problems into Tom Stone's problems. Meanwhile, the wily Bernardo Ponzi has assembled a team to support his evangelical touring roadshow featuring a light show, faith healing and yet more psychic surgery. Now Gribbleflotz and Stone are on a collision course with the Magnificent Ponzi, who has moved beyond showman-like fakery to causing actual harm to many people. It's time for Gribbleflotz and Stone to resolve their differences, debunk one of history's greatest bunko artists, and save the reputation of modern science and medicine from ruin! About Eric Flint's Ring of Fire series: "This alternate history series is ... a landmark..." --Booklist "[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians." --Booklist ". . . reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis . . ." --Publishers Weekly
Автор: Offord Martyn Название: Father Jacko`s Gozo Stories ISBN: 999574886X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789995748869 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1516.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Scruffy, easily distracted and accident-prone, Father Jacko doesn't really belong inside a church. His superiors and family view him with utter distaste and embarrassment; despite nagging and bullying him they find themselves constantly embroiled in the chaos he seems to generate. He doesn't intend to undermine the self-importance of foreign sopranos, estate agents and film directors, but he does. However, amid the rocks and clover of Gozo, the island he adores, his simple wisdom and passion for the lives of the humble people he serves manifests the love of God. His stories are imbued with comic blunders, human frailties, forgiveness and peace. Stumbling in and out of all these is Barry the Englishman who is so insignificant, even to himself, that you spot him everywhere.
Автор: Offord, Assoc Prof. Baden Garbutt, Dr. Rob Wessell, Adele Kerruish, Erika Pavlovic, Kirsten Название: Inside australian culture ISBN: 1783082313 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783082315 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 15863.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Given Australia's status as an (unfinished) colonial project of the British Empire, the basic institutions that were installed in its so-called 'empty' landscape derive from a value-laden framework borne out of industrialization, colonialism, the consolidation of the national statist system and democracy - all entities imbued with British Enlightenment principles and thinking. Modernity in Australia has thus been constituted by the importation, assumption and triumph of the Western mind - materially, psychologically, culturally, socio-legally and cartographically. 'Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values' offers a critical intervention into the continuing effects of colonization in Australia and the structures it brought, which still inform and dominate its public culture. Through a careful analysis of three disparate but significant moments in Australian history, the authors investigate the way the British Enlightenment continues to dominate contemporary Australian thinking and values. Employing the lens of Indian cultural theorist Ashis Nandy, the authors argue for an Australian public culture that is profoundly conscious of its assumptions, history and limitations.
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