![]() Instead of thinking, the individual dissociates, which effects other parts of his life (180). Schedules, rules and patterns are imposed on the worker for efficiency. In our jobs, we don’t think for ourselves. The “great feat of propaganda is to cause the progression from thought to action artificially” (208). Effective propaganda short-circuits “all thought and decision” (27). Myth has the power to drive people to action, as opposed to passive ideology (116). ![]() ![]() The goal of propaganda in modern times is to “provoke action”, to “arouse an active and mythical belief” (25). Main Goal: Provoke Action without Thought Iv) Public and human relations: to “adapt” a person to a type of society, or to a “living standard” or to an “activity”… (pg. Iii) Reeducation and brainwashing methods for prisoners (see Appendix 2 on Mao). Ii) Psychological warfare: to destroy the opponent’s morale, to cause him to “doubt the validity of his beliefs …”. I) Psychological action: to modify opinions. This book was originally published in French as Propagandes in 1962. Value for value: Please support my efforts. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Throw in some healthy banter with Luc (and a duel! with swords!), truly lovely chemistry, and a seemingly impossible-to-overcome conflict, and I just dare you to put this book down before you’re done.That last 15% or so? It's brutal. Wolff’s love of the cliffhanger ending?Zera’s snarkiness and sass (much like Isis’s in her Lovely Vicious series) really makes this book So. GAH! How could I have forgotten, even for a minute, Ms. ![]() ![]() Written over the past three decades, these are keenly observed, deeply felt, and judiciously detailed encounters of genuine communion mixing interviews, biography, and analysis, all lyrically and radiantly composed… There’s a bittersweet quality to Remnick’s perceptions of these legendary figures.” “ gathering of exceptionally vivid and melodic profiles of musicians late in life. ![]() ![]() Rendered in astounding detail from her childhood journals, her story reads like a novel and deserves wide attention in an age of fringe groups going mainstream.”ĭavid Remnick, Holding the Note: Profiles in Popular Music “Guinevere Turner’s mesmerizing, devastating account of growing up in the Lyman Family cult is a coming-of-age story like no other. ![]() Guinevere Turner, When the World Didn’t End : A Memoir ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I learned that Benedict Arnold, before his capture, was probably the most brilliant military leader in the colonists’ cause. I discovered what a near run thing it was that Quebec almost became a fourteenth colony, save for Carleton’s determined defense and the critical shortages of manpower to win the decisive battle. ![]() We sense how insufferably certain of himself and earnest to flex his power George III is, and how subtle and skilled Franklin is in cultivating the support of a reluctant French court. ![]() Yet one has a sense of “being there” at Lexington, Quebec, Boston, Charleston, New York City, and Trenton and Princeton. Atkinson skillfully manages to interweave accounts of the various British and American figures, and battles from Quebec to Charleston, South Carolina without confusing this reader or losing him in minutiae. Based on my reading of this volume, I look forward to reading the next two. This is the first volume of Rick Atkinson’s proposed Revolution Trilogy. Summary: A history of the first two years (1775-1777) of the American Revolution, discussing the causes, personalities, and key battles. The British Are Coming(The Revolution Trilogy ), Rick Atkinson. ![]() ![]() Second Peter also connects it to the time of Noah. But what did they do?īoth 2 Peter and Jude compare the sin of these angels with the Sodom and Gomorrah incident, where the sin involved sexual immorality (2 Pet 2:7 Jude 7). It tells us they left their designated realm of existence and did something in another realm. These sinning angels “left their proper dwelling.” Second Peter doesn’t say they were in cahoots with Satan, or that they did anything in Eden. Jude 6 defines what 2 Peter 2:4 means by the angelic sin. Second Peter 2:4 and Jude 6 are nearly identical in their description of angels doing time, but there are differences that help us figure out “what in the spiritual world is going on.” (2 Peter 2:4)Īnd the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day. God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment. ![]() But what if I told you that the only place in the New Testament that describes angels sinning does not call them demons, has no connection to Lucifer, and has them in jail? Welcome to the world of 2 Peter and Jude.įor. ![]() Most Bible study resources describe fallen angels as demons who joined Lucifer in his rebellion against God. ![]() Facebook Twitter Reddit Pinterest Email LinkedIn ![]() ![]() ![]() "Evola writes serious books about serious subjects, yet manages to present the material in a manner that is both meaningful and practical. John Gilbert, The Tarot Institute, February 2004 ![]() "This book is a good place to use as a center for your alchemical studies." "An extremely cogent elucidation of the alchemical Great Work." Anyone seeking a literary initiation into the world of deep thought and practices can do no better than to start with Evola." He deals with difficult subjects and presents them in an intelligent and experienced manner. Evola is not for the feint of heart or brain however. Evola discloses in clear and meaningful terms the ideas present and their use in practice. Author of numerous works on esoteric practices and philosophy, Evola is a name that all serious students of esotericism should be familiar with. "Evola is a major force in the area of modern European esotericism, but is little known in the English speaking world. " The Hermetic Tradition is not a book to be read once for the value of its information about European alchemy-which admittedly is great-but to be revisited as one's own alchemical work, in whatever form, proceeds. Each reading will bring new levels of insight." "This book has been hailed as one of the clearest works on alchemy ever written." ![]() ![]() ![]() Paul Kaye for Our Friend from the Crags translated from Josef Štyrsa’s Czech text Kamarád ze skal. Jane Roffe for Saint Margaret-Mary and Me translated from Clémentine Beauvais’s French text Sainte Marguerite-Marie et moi. Yui Kajita and Clara Marino for Selected Modern Poems by Yosano Akiko translated from Yosano Akiko’s Japanese text Selections from 『与謝野晶子全集』 (The Complete Works of Yosano Akiko, 1929). Lukasz Bury for Selected Early 20th Century Poems translated from Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska /Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński /Jan Brzechwa /Zuzanna Ginczanka’s Polish text Smutny Ktoś I biedny Nikt / Dlaczego ogórek nie śpiewa // Entliczek Pentliczek / Maj 1939.Ĭharlotte Collins for Darkenbloom transl ated from Eva Menasse’s German text Dunkelblum. Sai Whira Linn Khant for Mr San Maung’s Ghostly Shadow translated from Kyu Hnit’s Burmese text စံေမာင်၏ တေစ. ![]() Katherine Walker for Levanter Winds translated from Carolina África’s Spanish text Vientos de Levante. Rosie Arscott for Autobiography tran slated from Lisa Hazan’s French text Autobiographie. Franch for Ode to Horac translated from Miquel Costa i Llobera’s Catalan text The ode “A Horaci”. David McCallam for Al fresco flirtations translated from Paul Verlaine French text Fêtes Galantes.īob Knowles for One Oppressor, Two Oppressed translated from Eça de Queiroz’s Portuguese text Cartas de Inglaterra. ![]() ![]() ![]() Morgan won many of the major awards for historians, including the Bancroft Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize and, in 2006, a special Pulitzer Prize for his body of work. He wrote incisively about the conditions that led to the American Revolution, including the ethos of New England’s Puritans, the slave-owning culture of Virginia and the leadership of George Washington and other Founding Fathers.ĭr. Morgan, a longtime professor at Yale University, published more than 15 books on early American history during a career that spanned more than 60 years. He had pneumonia, his wife, Marie Morgan, told the Associated Press.ĭr. ![]() ![]() Morgan, a renowned historian whose books on Puritanism and Colonial life offered new perspectives on the nation’s founding, and who published a best-selling biography of Benjamin Franklin at age 86, died July 8 at a hospital in New Haven, Conn. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ravelston is acutely self-conscious about his upper-class status and defensive about his unearned income. The character of Ravelston, the wealthy publisher in Keep the Aspidistra Flying, has a lot in common with Rees. Orwell's early writings appeared in The Adelphi, a left-wing literary journal edited by Sir Richard Rees, a wealthy and idealistic baronet who made Orwell one of his protégés. Stone would prefer to prostitute his wife rather than prostitute his artistic integrity by writing advertising copy. At this time he wrote a fragment of a play in which the protagonist Stone needs money for a life-saving operation for his child. At the beginning of 1928 he lived in lodgings in Portobello Road from where he started his tramping expeditions, sleeping rough and roaming the poorer parts of London. Orwell wrote the book in 19, when he was living at various locations near Hampstead in London, and drew on his experiences in these and the preceding few years. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results. Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now in trade paperback After a desperate escape from the enemy ship, Waverly has finally made it back to the Empyrean. or worse? Will Waverly follow her heart, even if it puts lives at risk? Now more than ever, every step could bring them closer to a new beginning - or a sudden end. In the fast-paced second installment of the Sky Chasers series, Waverly, Kieran and Seth are in a race against timeand there's no room for mistakes. Can they find the true culprit before Kieran locks them away. Waverly knows that the situation will only get worse until they can rescue their parents - but how? Before they have time to make a plan, an explosion rocks the Empyrean, and Seth and Waverly are targeted as the prime suspects. And the one person she wants to believe in is darkly brilliant Seth, the ship's supposed enemy. ![]() ![]() What happened to the Kieran she thought she knew? Now Waverly's not sure whom she can trust. ![]() Forced to leave their captive parents behind on the New Horizon, she's returned only to find that Kieran has become a strict leader and turned the crew against Seth. The memory of home has been keeping her alive for the past months. After a desperate escape from the enemy ship, Waverly has finally made it back to the Empyrean. Waverly, Kieran and Seth are in a race against time - and with the future of humanity hanging in the balance, there's no room for mistakes. ![]() |