Author: Ahmed Khalifa
Publisher: Libertarian Fiction Authors Association
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
From the streets of Cairo in the midst of the Arab Spring, to rebellions on distant planets, and from a daring rescue on a seastead-studded ocean to the gallows and grimy streets of 17th century London, here are ten short stories of liberty and revolution. Imagine...a world where independent seasteads and private airship companies keep the peace on the high seas. Imagine...a dying planet ruled by a rigid caste system, but with one last chance to be free. Imagine...a journalist investigating the fate of a government program to match individuals with their perfect mate. These stories are the winners of the Libertarian Fiction Authors Association's first short story contest, following the prompt, "Write a short story that illustrates the positive role of freedom in human life." With 169 total submissions these ten (three winners and seven runners-up), stood out as the top entries from a very broad, and talented field. These original works are as exhilarating as they are thoughtful and imaginative. For more free stories and the latest news about libertarian fiction, sign up for the LFA newsletter: http://libertarianfictionauthors.com/ (copy and paste into your browser)
Imagining Liberty: Volume 1
Author: Ahmed Khalifa
Publisher: Libertarian Fiction Authors Association
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
From the streets of Cairo in the midst of the Arab Spring, to rebellions on distant planets, and from a daring rescue on a seastead-studded ocean to the gallows and grimy streets of 17th century London, here are ten short stories of liberty and revolution. Imagine...a world where independent seasteads and private airship companies keep the peace on the high seas. Imagine...a dying planet ruled by a rigid caste system, but with one last chance to be free. Imagine...a journalist investigating the fate of a government program to match individuals with their perfect mate. These stories are the winners of the Libertarian Fiction Authors Association's first short story contest, following the prompt, "Write a short story that illustrates the positive role of freedom in human life." With 169 total submissions these ten (three winners and seven runners-up), stood out as the top entries from a very broad, and talented field. These original works are as exhilarating as they are thoughtful and imaginative. For more free stories and the latest news about libertarian fiction, sign up for the LFA newsletter: http://libertarianfictionauthors.com/ (copy and paste into your browser)
Publisher: Libertarian Fiction Authors Association
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
From the streets of Cairo in the midst of the Arab Spring, to rebellions on distant planets, and from a daring rescue on a seastead-studded ocean to the gallows and grimy streets of 17th century London, here are ten short stories of liberty and revolution. Imagine...a world where independent seasteads and private airship companies keep the peace on the high seas. Imagine...a dying planet ruled by a rigid caste system, but with one last chance to be free. Imagine...a journalist investigating the fate of a government program to match individuals with their perfect mate. These stories are the winners of the Libertarian Fiction Authors Association's first short story contest, following the prompt, "Write a short story that illustrates the positive role of freedom in human life." With 169 total submissions these ten (three winners and seven runners-up), stood out as the top entries from a very broad, and talented field. These original works are as exhilarating as they are thoughtful and imaginative. For more free stories and the latest news about libertarian fiction, sign up for the LFA newsletter: http://libertarianfictionauthors.com/ (copy and paste into your browser)
At the Threshold of Liberty
Author: Tamika Y. Nunley
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146966223X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., was both an entrepot of urban slavery and the target of abolitionist ferment. The growing slave trade and the enactment of Black codes placed the city's Black women within the rigid confines of a social hierarchy ordered by race and gender. At the Threshold of Liberty reveals how these women--enslaved, fugitive, and free--imagined new identities and lives beyond the oppressive restrictions intended to prevent them from ever experiencing liberty, self-respect, and power. Consulting newspapers, government documents, letters, abolitionist records, legislation, and memoirs, Tamika Y. Nunley traces how Black women navigated social and legal proscriptions to develop their own ideas about liberty as they escaped from slavery, initiated freedom suits, created entrepreneurial economies, pursued education, and participated in political work. In telling these stories, Nunley places Black women at the vanguard of the history of Washington, D.C., and the momentous transformations of nineteenth-century America.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146966223X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., was both an entrepot of urban slavery and the target of abolitionist ferment. The growing slave trade and the enactment of Black codes placed the city's Black women within the rigid confines of a social hierarchy ordered by race and gender. At the Threshold of Liberty reveals how these women--enslaved, fugitive, and free--imagined new identities and lives beyond the oppressive restrictions intended to prevent them from ever experiencing liberty, self-respect, and power. Consulting newspapers, government documents, letters, abolitionist records, legislation, and memoirs, Tamika Y. Nunley traces how Black women navigated social and legal proscriptions to develop their own ideas about liberty as they escaped from slavery, initiated freedom suits, created entrepreneurial economies, pursued education, and participated in political work. In telling these stories, Nunley places Black women at the vanguard of the history of Washington, D.C., and the momentous transformations of nineteenth-century America.
Liberty and Freedom
Author: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195162530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
The bestselling author of "Washington's Crossing" and "Albion's Seed" offers a strikingly original history of America's founding principles. Fischer examines liberty and freedom not as philosophical or political abstractions, but as folkways and popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture. 400+ illustrations, 250 in full color.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195162530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
The bestselling author of "Washington's Crossing" and "Albion's Seed" offers a strikingly original history of America's founding principles. Fischer examines liberty and freedom not as philosophical or political abstractions, but as folkways and popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture. 400+ illustrations, 250 in full color.
The Forum and the Tower
Author: Mary Ann Glendon
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199782458
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The relationship between politics and the academy has been fraught with tension and regret - and the occasional brilliant success - since Plato himself. This book examines thinkers who have collaborated with leaders, from ancient Syracuse to the modern White House, in a series of brisk portraits that explore the meeting of theory and reality.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199782458
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The relationship between politics and the academy has been fraught with tension and regret - and the occasional brilliant success - since Plato himself. This book examines thinkers who have collaborated with leaders, from ancient Syracuse to the modern White House, in a series of brisk portraits that explore the meeting of theory and reality.
The Liberal Imagination
Author: Lionel Trilling
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590175514
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naïve liberal belief in rationality, progress, and the panaceas of economics and other social sciences, and asserting in their stead the irreducible complexity of human motivation and the tragic inevitability of tragedy. Only the imagination, Trilling argues, can give us access and insight into these realms and only the imagination can ground a reflective and considered, rather than programmatic and dogmatic, liberalism. Writing with acute intelligence about classics like Huckleberry Finn and the novels of Henry James and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also on such varied matters as the Kinsey Report and money in the American imagination, Trilling presents a model of the critic as both part of and apart from his society, a defender of the reflective life that, in our ever more rationalized world, seems ever more necessary—and ever more remote.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590175514
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naïve liberal belief in rationality, progress, and the panaceas of economics and other social sciences, and asserting in their stead the irreducible complexity of human motivation and the tragic inevitability of tragedy. Only the imagination, Trilling argues, can give us access and insight into these realms and only the imagination can ground a reflective and considered, rather than programmatic and dogmatic, liberalism. Writing with acute intelligence about classics like Huckleberry Finn and the novels of Henry James and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also on such varied matters as the Kinsey Report and money in the American imagination, Trilling presents a model of the critic as both part of and apart from his society, a defender of the reflective life that, in our ever more rationalized world, seems ever more necessary—and ever more remote.
The Modernist Imagination
Author: Martin Jay
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845454289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities is occurring at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. This volume includes work from some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845454289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities is occurring at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. This volume includes work from some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities.
I Am Liberty
Author: Libby Maxey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781418499556
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
.a personal journey of enormous merit.one of the world's great mystics blended with sound intelligence and clear self discovery. Excellent balance between inner and outer experiences, grounding the reader in the mundane as well as the spiritual heights. I almost never offer superlatives; my standards are too high. This work is real, and REALLY good. Louise Mallory-Elliott, PhD., former clinical psychologist; now Melchizedek minister and teacher of spiritual consciousness "I Am Liberty" is a story of one woman's quest to be "in the world but not of it." With a Mighty Assistant and a storehouse of revelatory glimpses of True Reality, Libby begins to imagine how her life would be lived as an ascended being. When the imagining starts to become her daily reality, the true work of Spirit begins and she is inexorably drawn into the evolution of mind promised by God. Often breathtaking, frequently profound, "I Am Liberty" is a courageous and captivating story of realizing and returning to God.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781418499556
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
.a personal journey of enormous merit.one of the world's great mystics blended with sound intelligence and clear self discovery. Excellent balance between inner and outer experiences, grounding the reader in the mundane as well as the spiritual heights. I almost never offer superlatives; my standards are too high. This work is real, and REALLY good. Louise Mallory-Elliott, PhD., former clinical psychologist; now Melchizedek minister and teacher of spiritual consciousness "I Am Liberty" is a story of one woman's quest to be "in the world but not of it." With a Mighty Assistant and a storehouse of revelatory glimpses of True Reality, Libby begins to imagine how her life would be lived as an ascended being. When the imagining starts to become her daily reality, the true work of Spirit begins and she is inexorably drawn into the evolution of mind promised by God. Often breathtaking, frequently profound, "I Am Liberty" is a courageous and captivating story of realizing and returning to God.
Last Call for Liberty
Author: Os Guinness
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830873376
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The American republic is suffering its gravest crisis since the Civil War. Will conflicts, hostility, and incivility tear the country apart? Os Guinness provides a careful observation of the American experiment, offering a stirring vision for faithful citizenship and renewed responsibility for not only the nation but also the watching world.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830873376
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The American republic is suffering its gravest crisis since the Civil War. Will conflicts, hostility, and incivility tear the country apart? Os Guinness provides a careful observation of the American experiment, offering a stirring vision for faithful citizenship and renewed responsibility for not only the nation but also the watching world.
Empire of Liberty
Author: Anthony Bogues
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1584659300
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
An original and stimulating critique of American empire
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1584659300
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
An original and stimulating critique of American empire
Reclaiming Liberty
Author: Kennedy, James Ronald
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455610952
Category : Federal government
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455610952
Category : Federal government
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description