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Excerpt from The Charm of the Middle Kingdom The lady was wearing a scarlet skirt with a very long coat of the same material when the boy first saw her. She was standing on the brink of the Grand Canon, watching the sun splash the stone battleship with every conceivable color, but mostly red, a hue only less brilliant than her skirt. The boy was on the brink of the Canon, too. He was prone on his stomach, dipping his head into nearly immeasur...

Excerpt from Washington's Prophecy All Americans are aware that, in most cases, the public measures proposed by the leading men of one party, are sure to be violently and bitterly opposed by the politicians of the opposite party. Thus, the war of 1812 was bitterly opposed by the Federalists of that period, because Mr. Madison and his party favored it. Many other incidents might be cited to show the perverse disposition generally exhibited by ...

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Excerpt from The Remains of the Rev. James Marsh, D. D. Late President, and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, in the University of Vermont: With a Memoir of His LifeAs to my own share in the work here presented to the public, I should be disposed to say nothing, were it not proper for me to give some account of the manner in which I have endeavored to dis charge a delicate office of friendship.The late Dr. Marsh, near the close o...

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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 w...

This book is an interpretation and critique of Habermas's philosophy as contained in his book, Between Facts and Norms. The main argument is that while Habermas does succeed in laying out foundations, conceptual and methodological, for the philosophy of law, the book is flawed by a fundamental contradiction between a democracy ruled by law and capitalism.

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This volume brings together a cross-section of marine experts who provide a comprehensive exploration of the major facets of Asia's marine sector. It considers both the marine mineral and fish stocks in Asian waters. This extensive volume examines "official" statistics with an objective eye and provides an overview of fish stock with much focus on the access and management of tuna. It considers global economic issues concerning fishing rights,...

John Halden and Charles Buckley, part of "the stolen white generation" who spent their formative years at a farming settlement for English orphans in Western Australia, began searching for their natural parents in the late 1990s, unleashing a string of disastrous incidents which impact themselves and their families.

The introduction by Merold Westphal sets the scene: Two books, two visions of philosophy, two friends and sometimes colleagues.... Modernity and Its Discontents is a debate between Caputo and Marsh in which each upheld their opposing philosphical positions by critical modernism and post-modernism. The book opens with a critique of each debater of the other's previous work. With its passionate point-counterpoint form, the book recalls the philo...