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Virgil Fox (The Dish)
by Richard Torrence Marshall Yaeger(This version (5th printing) has been updated as of January, 2014) A spicy biography of the late Virgil Fox (1912-1980), who was one of the most successful and famous organists in history. Written by the organist's managers for 17 years, the book is based on a 375-page memoir of Fox's artistic heir and protege, Ted Alan Worth. Includes contributions by 17 other associates and students who knew Fox intimately, including Carlo Curley, Fred Swann, Albert Fuller, and Richard Morris.
Virgil Thomson: A Library of America E-Book Classic
by Virgil ThomsonVirgil Thomson was a gifted composer and one of the nation's foremost cultural critics. The best-selling autobiography Virgil Thomson (1966) is his gossipy telling of his own extraordinary progress from unteachable smart aleck to revered elder statesman. It recounts his artistically precocious Kansas City boyhood, demanding Harvard education, apprenticeship in Paris between the wars, and hard-won musical and literary maturity in New York. As narrator and protagonist, Thomson fascinates not only with his own story but also with those of his associates, collaborators, friends, and rivals, among them Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Nadia Boulanger, George Antheil, Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Max Jacob, Pare Lorentz, John Houseman, and Orson Welles. Virgil Thomson is an authentic work of Americana and a first-rate, first-person history of the rise of modernism.Complete with 32 pages of photographs.
Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle
by Anthony TommasiniIn the first full-scale biography of a dominating figure in twentieth-century American music, Anthony Tommasini tells the richly textured story of Virgil Thomson's experiences as a composer, influential critic, and gay man. Writing with exclusive, full access to Thomson's papers and from extensive interviews and research, he recounts: Thomson's early years in turn-of-the-century Kansas City's strange mixture of antebellum racial divides. . . his first steps in the arts, guided by a troubled older man, himself a closeted homosexual in a time when disclosure could destroy a life. . . the crystallizing of his musical ambitions as an often-contentious student of Nadia Boulanger's in Paris. . . his pioneering collaboration with Gertrude Stein on Four Saints in Three Acts. . . his rivalry with fellow composers such as Aaron Copland. . . how he settled personal scores and advanced his own agenda during his reign on the New York Herald Tribune as America's most important, and best, music critic. . . his lasting impact on, and sometimes troubled interactions with, younger composers such as Leonard Bernstein, John Cage, Paul Bowles, Ned Rorem, and Philip Glass. . . and through it all the unending struggle to write, and win an audience for, music that spoke directly and simply to the life of his time. --BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Virgil Thomson: Library of America #277
by Tim Page Virgil ThomsonAn unprecedented collection of polemical and autobiographical writings by America's greatest composer-critic. Following on the critically acclaimed 2014 edition of Virgil Thomson's collected newspaper music criticism, The Library of America and Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page now present Thomson's other literary and critical works, a body of writing that constitutes America's musical declaration of independence from the European past. This volume opens with The State of Music (1939), the book that made Thomson's name as a critic and won him his 14-year stint at the New York Herald Tribune. This no-holds-barred polemic, here presented in its revised edition of 1962, discusses the commissions, jobs, and other opportunities available to the American composer, a worker in a world of performance and broadcast institutions that, today as much as in Thomson's time, are dominated by tin-eared, non-musical patrons of the arts who are shocked by the new and suspicious of native talent. Thomson's autobiography, Virgil Thomson (1966), is more than just the story of the struggle of one such American composer, it is an intellectual, aesthetic, and personal chronicle of the twentieth century, from World War I-era Kansas City to Harvard in the age of straw boaters, from Paris in the Twenties and Thirties to Manhattan in the Forties and after. A classic American memoir, it is marked by a buoyant wit, a true gift for verbal portrait-making, and a cast of characters including Aaron Copland, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Paul Bowles, John Houseman, and Orson Welles. American Music Since 1910 (1971) is a series of incisive essays on the lives and works of Ives, Ruggles, Varèse, Copland, Cage, and others who helped define a national musical idiom. Music with Words (1989), Thomson's final book, is a distillation of a subject he knew better than perhaps any other American composer: how to set English--especially American English--to music, in opera and art song. The volume is rounded out by a judicious selection of Thomson's magazine journalism from 1957 to 1984--thirty-seven pieces, most of them previously uncollected, including many long-form review-essays written for The New York Review of Books.From the Hardcover edition.
Virgin Galactic
by Erik SeedhouseThirty years ago when Sir Richard Branson called up Boeing and asked if they had a spare 747, few would have predicted the brash entrepreneur would so radically transform the placid business of air travel. But today, Branson flies airlines on six continents, employs hundreds of jets and, in 2014, was predicting that his spaceship company - Virgin Galactic - would soon open the space frontier to commercial astronauts, payload specialists, scientists and space tourists. With more than 600 seats sold at $250,000 each, what started off as a dream to send people just for the excitement to look back and marvel at Earth, was on the cusp of finally being turned into a business. Then, on October 21, 2014, tragedy struck. SpaceShipTwo was on its most ambitious test flight to date. Seconds after firing its engine, Virgin Galactic's spaceship was breaking through the sound barrier. In just the three seconds that it took for the vehicle to climb from Mach 0. 94 to Mach 1. 02, co-pilot Mike Alsbury made what many close to the event believe was a fatal mistake that led to his death and the disintegration of SpaceShipTwo. Miraculously, the pilot, Peter Siebold, survived the 16-km fall back to Earth. Soon after the event Branson vowed to continue his space tourism venture in spite of this. Already a second SpaceShipTwo is being built, and ticket-holders eagerly await the day when Virgin Galactic offers quick, routine and affordable access to the edge of space. This book explains the hurdles Virgin Galactic had and still has to overcome en route to developing suborbital space travel as a profitable economic entity, and describes the missions that will be flown on board SpaceShipTwo Mk II, including high-altitude science studies, astronomy, life sciences, and microgravity physics.
Virgin Rebel: Richard Branson In His Own Words
by Danielle MclimoreRichard Branson, who has been called "England's most outrageous billionaire," is also one of the world's most successful business leaders. Since the age of 16, when he founded Student magazine, Branson has been creating companies and finding innovative ways to grow them into the prodigious conglomerate known as the Virgin Group. At the age of 20, Branson founded a mail-order record retailer. Two years later he built a recording studio where the first artist signed to his Virgin label, Mike Oldfield, recorded the haunting soundtrack to The Exorcist. Decades later, industries as varied as entertainment (Virgin Music), retail (Virgin Megastores), transportation (Virgin Airlines), and telecommunications (Virgin Mobile) all bear Branson's business moniker. For the first time, the most thought-provoking, revealing, and inspiring quotes from Branson are compiled in a single book.Virgin Rebel: Richard Branson in His Own Words is a comprehensive guidebook to the inner workings of the Virgin Group chairman and founder. Hundreds of Branson's best quotes, comprising thoughts on business, music, entrepreneurship, politics, exploration, and life lessons, provide an intimate and direct look into the mind of this modern business icon.
Virginia Politics & Government in a New Century: The Price of Power
by Jeff ThomasThe modern political landscape of Virginia bears little resemblance to the past. The commonwealth is a nationally influential swing state alongside stalwarts like Florida or Ohio. But with increased power comes greater scrutiny--and corruption. Governor Bob McDonnell received a jail sentence on federal corruption charges, later vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court. Corporate influence on the state legislature and other leaders resulted in numerous ethics violations. Scandal erupted at the prestigious University of Virginia when the school ousted its president amid political drama and intrigue. Author Jeff Thomas reveals the intersection of money, power and politics and the corrosive effect on government in a new era.
Virginia Woolf
by Alexandra HarrisAn ideal introduction to the life and work of Virginia Woolf by an award-winning author: the story of a life lived with intensity from moment to moment and shaped into the lasting patterns of art. In 1907, when she was twenty-five and not yet a published novelist, Virginia Stephen had everything still to prove. She felt herself to be at a crossroads: "I shall be miserable, or happy; a wordy sentimental creature, or a writer of such English as shall one day burn the pages." Today her prose is still blazing; perhaps it burns brighter than ever. This is the story of how a determined young woman with a notebook became one of the greatest writers of all time. It is a story that sparkles with wit and friendship, language and love, wicked jokes and passionate appreciation of ordinary things. In this illuminating new account, Alexandra Harris uses vivid flashes of detail to evoke Woolf's changing backgrounds and preoccupations. We move from the close-packed rhythms of a Victorian childhood to the experiments of Bloomsbury and Woolf's trial-and-error answers to the pressing question of how to live. We see her tackling challenging forms of writing, trying out different voices, following flights of fancy, and returning to earth. Above all, we see her making conscious decisions about what to do next. The book considers each of the novels in context, gives due prominence to a range of Woolf's dazzlingly inventive essays, traces the contentious course of her "afterlife," and shows why, seventy years after her death, Virginia Woolf continues to haunt and inspire us.
Virginia Woolf
by Nigel NicolsonVirginia Woolf's life as part of the avant-garde Bloomsbury Group has captured the imagination of millions. Now Nigel Nicolson, the distinguished son of British writers Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West (Vita was one of Woolf's closest and most intimate friends) threads his personal reminiscences through the narrative of her life. In so doing, he paints an astonishing portrait of one of the most remarkable women in history. Nicolson recalls childhood times with Woolf: from her walk around his ancestral home as she planned ORLANDO to her writing of the modern classics MRS. DALLOWAY and A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN. Virginia Woolf probes keenly her stance on women's issues and the nature of war, drawing new connections between the woman and the literary genius.
Virginia Woolf (LIVES #16)
by Nigel Nicolson MBE'You cannot find peace by avoiding life' Virginia WoolfAn intimate portrait of Virginia, the best-known and most influential Bloomsbury author of them all - 'All you need to know about the modernist, feminist icon' TIME OUT'A gem' SUNDAY TIMES'As a short introduction to Virginia Woolf this deceptively brief book could hardly be bettered and achieves high status instantly as a significant work of reference in its own right' THE TIMESVirginia Woolf was undoubtedly one of the literary giants of the twentieth century. She was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, and her writings were works of astonishing originality. Nigel Nicolson is the son of Vita Sackville-West, who was Virginia Woolf's most intimate friend, and for a short time her lover. He spent many days in her company and he has threaded his recollections of her throughout this unique narrative of her life.
Virginia Woolf (SparkNotes Biography Guide)
by SparkNotesVirginia Woolf (SparkNotes Biography Guide) Making the reading experience fun! SparkNotes Biography Guides examine the lives of historical luminaries, from Alexander the Great to Virginia Woolf. Each biography guide includes:An examination of the historical context in which the person lived A summary of the person&’s life and achievements A glossary of important terms, people, and events An in-depth look at the key epochs in the person&’s career Study questions and essay topics A review test Suggestions for further reading Whether you&’re a student of history or just a student cramming for a history exam, SparkNotes Biography guides are a reliable, thorough, and readable resource.
Virginia Woolf And Vanessa Bell: A Very Close Conspiracy
by Jane DunnThis is the story of a deep and close relationship between two sisters - Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. The influence they exerted over each others lives, their competitiveness, the fierce love they had for each other and also their intense rivalry is explored here with subtlety and compassion. The thoughts, motives and actions of these two remarkably artistic women who jointly created the Bloomsbury Group is revealed with all its intricacies in this moving biography.
Virginia Woolf And Vanessa Bell: A Very Close Conspiracy
by Jane DunnA moving and important book on the relationship between two remarkable sisters who jointly created the Bloomsbury Group'An outstanding work... one of the best books on Virginia Woolf to date' Literary Review'Dunn's unlayering of this complex relationship is subtle and far-reaching' Sunday Times'An investigation into the dynamics of friendship and sibling rivalry, maternal solicitude and mutual need' New York Times'A revealing pleasure' IndependentThis is the story of a deep and close relationship between two sisters - Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. The influence they exerted over each others lives, their competitiveness, the fierce love they had for each other and also their intense rivalry is explored here with subtlety and compassion. The thoughts, motives and actions of these two remarkably artistic women who jointly created the Bloomsbury Group is revealed with all its intricacies in this moving biography.
Virginia Woolf And Vanessa Bell: A Very Close Conspiracy
by Jane DunnA moving and important book on the relationship between two remarkable sisters who jointly created the Bloomsbury Group'An outstanding work... one of the best books on Virginia Woolf to date' Literary Review'Dunn's unlayering of this complex relationship is subtle and far-reaching' Sunday Times'An investigation into the dynamics of friendship and sibling rivalry, maternal solicitude and mutual need' New York Times'A revealing pleasure' IndependentThis is the story of a deep and close relationship between two sisters - the writer Virginia Woolf and artist Vanessa Bell. Their influence over each other's lives, their competitiveness, the fierce love they had for each other and total commitment to their work is laid out with subtlety and compassion. The thoughts, motives and actions of these two remarkable women at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group is revealed in all its intricacies in this exploration of their intertwined lives.
Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path: Her Middle Diaries and the Diaries She Read
by Barbara LounsberryChoice Outstanding Academic Title In this second volume of her acclaimed study of Virginia Woolf 's diaries, Barbara Lounsberry traces the English writer's life through the thirteen diaries she kept from 1918 to 1929--what is often considered Woolf’s modernist "golden age." During these interwar years, Woolf penned many of her most famous works, including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and A Room of One's Own. Lounsberry shows how Woolf's writing at this time was influenced by other diarists--Anton Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield, Jonathan Swift, and Stendhal among them--and how she continued to use her diaries as a way to experiment with form and as a practice ground for her evolving modernist style.Through close readings of Woolf 's journaling style and an examination of the diaries she read, Lounsberry tracks Woolf 's development as a writer and unearths new connections between her professional writing, personal writing, and the diaries she was reading at the time. Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path offers a new approach to Woolf 's biography: her life as she marked it in her diary from ages 36 to 46.
Virginia Woolf: A Portrait (Critiques, Analyses, Biographies Et Histoire Litteraire #Vol. 6134985)
by Viviane ForresterWinner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Virginia Woolf: A Portrait blends recently unearthed documents, key primary sources, and personal interviews with Woolf's relatives and other acquaintances to render in unmatched detail the author's complicated relationship with her husband, Leonard; her father, Leslie Stephen; and her half-sister, Vanessa Bell. Forrester connects these figures to Woolf's mental breakdown while introducing the concept of "Virginia seule," or Virginia alone: an uncommon paragon of female strength and conviction. Forrester's biography inhabits her characters and vivifies their perspective, weaving a colorful, intense drama that forces readers to rethink their understanding of Woolf, her writing, and her world.
Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life
by Lyndall GordonThis prize-winning biography, newly revised, sees Virginia Woolf as she saw herself. The first to set out the private life behind the well-known facts of her public career, A Writer's Life rocks back and forth between memories and art to reveal an explorer of 'the infinite oddity of the human position'. Instead of the doom-and-death often imposed on women of genius, here is the robust walker and seeker for what was fertile in her intimacies, in women's nature, and in resistance to power. This edition brings out her ideas for biography itself: to fall on a life 'like a roll of heavy waters... laying bare the pebbles on the shore of the soul'.
Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life
by Lyndall GordonThis prize-winning biography, newly revised, sees Virginia Woolf as she saw herself. The first to set out the private life behind the well-known facts of her public career, A Writer's Life rocks back and forth between memories and art to reveal an explorer of 'the infinite oddity of the human position'. Instead of the doom-and-death often imposed on women of genius, here is the robust walker and seeker for what was fertile in her intimacies, in women's nature, and in resistance to power. This edition brings out her ideas for biography itself: to fall on a life 'like a roll of heavy waters... laying bare the pebbles on the shore of the soul'.
Virginia Woolf: And the Women Who Shaped Her World
by Gillian GillAn insightful, witty look at the life of Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her.How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf? Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose legacies—of strength, style, and creativity—shaped Woolf’s path to the radical writing that inspires so many today.Gill casts back to Woolf’s French-Anglo-Indian maternal great-grandmother Thérèse de L’Etang, an outsider to English culture whose beauty passed powerfully down the female line; and to Woolf’s aunt Anne Thackeray Ritchie, who gave Woolf her first vision of a successful female writer. Yet it was the women in her own family circle who had the most complex and lasting effect on Woolf. Her mother, Julia, and sisters Stella, Laura, and Vanessa were all, like Woolf herself, but in markedly different ways, warped by the male-dominated household they lived in. Finally, Gill shifts the lens onto the famous Bloomsbury group. This, Gill convinces, is where Woolf called upon the legacy of the women who shaped her to transform a group of men—united in their love for one another and their disregard for women—into a society in which Woolf ultimately found her freedom and her voice. Praise for Virginia Woolf“Woolf’s life has been endlessly pored over, but Gill finds a fresh way in by structuring her chatty, occasionally speculative biography around the female influences on Woolf’s thinking and well-being, including her bohemian sister, Vanessa.” —New York Times Book Review“Captivating and incisive.” —BookPage“Gill presents a deft and empathetic portrayal of Woolf, the most famous author in the Bloomsbury group, by providing fascinating personal histories of generations of Pattle and Stephen women who influenced and inspired her.” —Booklist“This volume will be welcomed by readers and students curious about the cultural aspects of Woolf’s development as a writer.” —Library Journal
Virginia Woolf: La vida por escrito
by Irene Chikiar BauerLa mayor investigación sobre Virginia Woolf publicada en español. Virginia Woolf fue una escritora genial y una personalidad enigmática, que sigue cautivando a lectores y escritores y convocando a especialistas. Figura fundamental de la literatura del siglo XX y centro de un grupo familiar, amistoso y cultural fascinante, es también considerada una precursora por el feminismo y los estudios culturales y un sujeto de interés por los curiosos de las vidas que se salen de la norma. Este ambicioso trabajo, tan erudito como ameno, coloca al lector ante el desarrollo de la vida de Virginia y los suyos, permitiéndole asistir, como un espectador en el teatro, al devenir de la escritora tanto en su plano íntimo y privado como público y literario, ambos entrelazados con los grandes acontecimientos políticos y sociales, como las dos guerras mundiales, que tanto determinaron las fluctuaciones y derroteros de la autora de Un cuarto propio. La génesis de sus obras literarias, su labor de editora, su pertenencia al grupo de Bloomsbury, sus lazos familiares, amorosos y amistosos, su vida cotidiana, y el atisbo de su mente a menudo perturbada, todo aparece revivido ante los ojos del lector de este libro, que se completa con reveladoras fotografías. Hoy, cuando la imagen de Virginia Woolf ya es parte del merchandising, su casa un atractivo turístico y su vida objeto de múltiples versiones teatrales, cinematográficas y televisivas, esta primera biografía escrita en castellano, en la convicción de que hay historias que deben volver a contarse, ofrece una visión nueva y totalizadora de la más célebre de las escritoras del siglo XX. La crítica ha dicho... «Uno de los aspectos más sobresalientes de este volumen es la inteligencia con que Chikiar Bauer va enlazando la biografía de Virginia con su concepción del lenguaje y la literatura, con sus novelas y ensayos. Se observa el proceso de evolución de una escritora y una mujer vital.» Marta Sanz, El País «La biografía que ha elaborado la escritora, periodista y socióloga argentina Irene Chikiar Bauer en torno a la figura de Virginia Woolf es monumental en, por lo menos, dos sentidos: el volumen físico y objetivo del libro (poco más de novecientas páginas que incluyen un prolijo y necesario índice onomástico, un minucioso cuerpo de notas y un exquisito álbum de fotografías), y el notabilísimo trabajo de investigación que termina ofreciéndole al lector una Virginia Woolf de cuerpo entero: con sus cumbres, sus caídas y sus vacilaciones, su sempiterna fragilidad anímica, su genuina búsqueda de trascendencia y la inimitable filigrana de su escritura.» Osvaldo Gallone, Revista Ñ
Virginia Woolf: The Will to Create as a Woman
by Ruth GruberGruber's groundbreaking study of the work and legacy of Virginia Woolf--an enduring feminist analysis pairing two of the twentieth century's most extraordinary writersIn 1932, Ruth Gruber earned her PhD--the youngest person ever to do so--with a stunning doctoral dissertation on Virginia Woolf. Published in 1935, the paper was the first-ever feminist critique of Woolf's work and inspired a series of correspondences between the two writers. It also led to Gruber's eventual meeting with Woolf, which she recounted six decades later in Virginia Woolf: The Will to Create as a Woman. Described by Gruber as "the odyssey of how I met Virginia Woolf, and how her life and work became intertwined with my life," Virginia Woolf is a clear and insightful portrait of one of modern literature's most innovative authors, written by one of America's most remarkable journalists.
Virginia Woolf: una biografía
by Quentin BellVirginia Woolf es una biografía que conserva intacta la voz de una de las escritoras más emblemáticas de nuestro tiempo. «Quien de verdad quiera saber algo fiable y profundo sobre el grupo de Bloomsbury y todos sus componentes, debe acudir a este libro. Aprenderá, comprenderá y se llevará la sorpresa de una lectura apasionante.»Alicia Giménez Bartlett «Virginia Woolf era la hermana de mi madre. En 1964, unos veinte años después de la muerte de Virginia, mi tío Leonard me escribió comentándome que había gente dispuesta a escribir su biografía. Él se veía en la obligación de invitarlos a almorzar para convencerles de que no lo hicieran, lo cual no dejaba de ser un fastidio... Acto seguido, me sugirió que fuera yo quien se ocupara del tema.» Con estas sencillas palabras Quentin Bell inaugura uno de los mejores trabajos biográficos del siglo XX, y con la misma soltura cuenta con todo detalle la vida de una mujer que hoy es un mito de la literatura contemporánea. Gracias a su especial vinculación con la autora y a la ayuda de valiosos documentos, inéditos hasta ahora, Quentin Bell pudo dibujar un retrato único en el que la ironía e incluso el humor se codean a gusto con el rigor histórico. Esta biografía es ya un clásico, sus páginas aún conservan intacta la voz de una mujer que vivió y escribió con el talento que distingue a los genios. La crítica ha dicho:«Simplemente la mejor biografía de Virginia Woolf.»New York Times Book Review «Un libro lleno de vida.»José Manuel Benítez Ariza, El Cultural «Es un placer leer la obra de Bell. La recomiendo a todo el mundo.»Judy Mimken, Library Journal «Cautivará a todo admirador de la obra de Woolf.»Alice Joyce, Booklist «Un relato alegre, simpático y tolerante.»Janet Malcolm «Bell no solo tiene nuevos datos que añadir, sino que, además, disipa la parte más tendenciosa y pedante con toques divertidísimos.»Francis Spaulding, Times Literary Supplement
Virginia Wouldn't Slow Down!: The Unstoppable Dr. Apgar And Her Life-saving Invention
by Carrie A. PearsonA delightful and distinctive picture book about Dr. Virginia Apgar, who invented the eponymous test for evaluating newborn health that’s used worldwide every day. The Apgar Score is known the world over: a test given to babies to determine their health moments after they are born. Less well-known is the story of the brilliant, pioneering woman who invented it. Born at the turn of the twentieth century, Virginia “Ginny” Apgar soared above what girls were expected to do—or not do. She wasn’t quiet, she wore all sorts of outfits, she played the sports she wanted to—and she pursued the career she chose, graduating near the top of her class at Columbia University and becoming only the second board-certified female anesthesiologist in the United States. The simple five-step test she created—scribbled on the back of a piece of paper in answer to a trainee’s question—became the standard and continues to impact countless newborn babies’ lives today. Ginny adored science, hated cooking, drove fast, made her own violins, earned a pilot’s license, and traveled the world. Here, Carrie Pearson’s jaunty storytelling and Nancy Carpenter’s playful illustrations capture the energy and independence of a woman who didn’t slow down for anything—and changed newborn care forever.
Virgo: The Art of Living Well and Finding Happiness According to Your Star Sign
by Sally KirkmanYou are a Virgo. You are the perfectionist and writer of the zodiac.The signs of the zodiac can give us great insight into our day-to-day living as well as the many talents and qualities we possess. But in an increasingly unpredictable world, how can we make sense of them? And what do they mean? This insightful and introductory guide delves deep into your star sign, revealing unique traits and meanings which you didn't know. Along the way, you will discover how your sign defies your compatibility, how to improve your health and what your gifts are. ***The Pocket Astrology series will teach you how to live well and enhance every aspect of your life. From friendship to compatibility, careers to finance, you will discover new elements to your sign and learn about the ancient art of astrology. Other audiobooks in the series include: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius,Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces(P)2018 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Virtue and Terror
by Maximilien Robespierre John HoweRobespierre's defense of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written, and has extraordinary resonance in a world obsessed with terrorism and appalled by the language of its proponents. Yet today, the French Revolution is celebrated as the event which gave birth to a nation built on the principles of enlightenment... So how should a contemporary audience approach Robespierre's vindication of revolutionary terror? Zizek takes a helter-skelter route through these contradictions, marshalling all the breadth of analogy for which he is famous. "If the spring of popular government in time of peace is virtue, the springs of popular government in revolution are at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless."