Author: Newcastle upon Tyne (England). Town Council
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Category : City councils
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Newcastle Council Reports
Author: Newcastle upon Tyne (England). Town Council
Publisher:
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Category : Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Category : Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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This Sporting Life
Author: Robert Colls
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198208332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This Sporting Life offers an important view of England's cultural history through its sporting pursuits, carrying the reader to a match or a hunt or a fight, viscerally drawing a portrait of the sounds and smells, and showing that sport has been as important in defining British culture as gender, politics, education, class, and religion.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198208332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This Sporting Life offers an important view of England's cultural history through its sporting pursuits, carrying the reader to a match or a hunt or a fight, viscerally drawing a portrait of the sounds and smells, and showing that sport has been as important in defining British culture as gender, politics, education, class, and religion.
Catalogue of the Library of the Literary and Philosophical Society, of Newcastle-upon Tyne
Author: Literary and Philosophical Society (NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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The Municipal Journal
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
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Power, Pleasure, and Profit
Author: David Wootton
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN: 0674976673
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents. We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning—cost-benefit analysis—to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and inescapable. As David Wootton shows, it is anything but. In Power, Pleasure, and Profit, he traces an intellectual and cultural revolution that replaced the older systems of Aristotelian ethics and Christian morality with the iron cage of instrumental reasoning that now gives shape and purpose to our lives. Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought—from Machiavelli to Madison—to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and economics stepped into a gap opened up by religious conflict and the Scientific Revolution. As ideas about godliness and Aristotelian virtue faded, theories about the rational pursuit of power, pleasure, and profit moved to the fore in the work of writers both obscure and as famous as Hobbes, Locke, and Adam Smith. The new instrumental reasoning cut through old codes of status and rank, enabling the emergence of movements for liberty and equality. But it also helped to create a world in which virtue, honor, shame, and guilt count for almost nothing, and what matters is success. Is our world better for the rise of instrumental reasoning? To answer that question, Wootton writes, we must first recognize that we live in its grip.
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN: 0674976673
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents. We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning—cost-benefit analysis—to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and inescapable. As David Wootton shows, it is anything but. In Power, Pleasure, and Profit, he traces an intellectual and cultural revolution that replaced the older systems of Aristotelian ethics and Christian morality with the iron cage of instrumental reasoning that now gives shape and purpose to our lives. Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought—from Machiavelli to Madison—to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and economics stepped into a gap opened up by religious conflict and the Scientific Revolution. As ideas about godliness and Aristotelian virtue faded, theories about the rational pursuit of power, pleasure, and profit moved to the fore in the work of writers both obscure and as famous as Hobbes, Locke, and Adam Smith. The new instrumental reasoning cut through old codes of status and rank, enabling the emergence of movements for liberty and equality. But it also helped to create a world in which virtue, honor, shame, and guilt count for almost nothing, and what matters is success. Is our world better for the rise of instrumental reasoning? To answer that question, Wootton writes, we must first recognize that we live in its grip.
Judicial Statistics, England and Wales
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Category : Criminal statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Category : Criminal statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Local Collections; Or, Records of Remarkable Events, Connected with the Borough of Gateshead
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Encyclopedia of Local Government Law
Author:
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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A Bibliography of Nineteenth Century Legal Literature
Author: John Adams
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping Committee
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Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Publisher:
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Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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