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Brigid Elson

Before there was a MeToo movement, there were MeToo moments. Back in the day you dealt with that the best way you could. In this novel it's the summer of 1956. Three young people, Emily, Alexia and Tyler, spend time together as they try to figure out their places in life. Will talents or money or character ultimately determine their choices? Will one reckless act spoil their friendship? How far should you go to protect a friend from a sexual predator? The backdrop of the Hamptons adds its ...

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Brigid Elson

A simple guide to some unusual recipes based on the author's own unique approach to cooking. Guided by inspiration and luck, as well as the variety of items to be found in the back of your kitchen shelves, you too can probe the depths of your creativity and be surprised and sometimes delighted by the originality of what you have cooked. If not, you can try something else.

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Brigid Elson

Diabetes is coming soon to a body near you, perhaps your own or that of someone you know. Such is the prognosis of the medical experts, given an aging population and the unwise life styles of people in the developed world, combined with the rapidly changing diets of the rest of the world, a change which is often for the worse.But if diabetes becomes the new normal, will patients be any less concerned when they first receive the diagnosis? For those who fear the thought of being chr...

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Brigid Elson

Everyone thinks they know what Acton said: "Power corrupts." Actually, he said "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." The man behind the aphorism led a life full of incident which this screenplay attempts to show for the exciting and surprising process that it was. He lived in a revolutionary time where a fixed order was changing into the dynamic reality of the modern age, and Acton was a principal player in the realms of both ideas and politics. At the same time...

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Brigid Elson

Do media and violence have an intrinsic relationship? McLuhan, Milton, Marx and Ellul had a lot to say about this hot topic. Other writers' views are also examined in this study based on a Media course the author gave at York University in Toronto. The general reader as well as students in media, communications, literature and philosophy courses should find this work helpful as they attempt to give context to a current burning issue.

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Brigid Elson

These two plays, Henry Had to Go and Evangel, are comical plays involving religion. The first is an edgy satire concerning church real estate and what might be called poorly managed human resources. In addition all the characters have a sometimes mystifying interest in music.Evangel is an imagined disputatious encounter between the writers of the Gospels and the Biblical critics of today. To put it simply, the former would have been flabbergasted by the claims of the latter.

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Erich Fromm

A New York Times bestseller about overcoming the profound ills of modern society by a legendary social psychologist, the author of Escape from Freedom ."A distinguished contribution to a growing body of social-psychological reflections on modern times." — The Washington PostOne of Fromm's main interests was to analyze social sy...

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Susan Neiman

If you’re woke, you’re left. If you’re left, you’re woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you’re one you must be the other. That, Susan Neiman argues, is a dangerous mistake.The confusion arises because woke is fuelled by traditionally leftwing emotions: the wish to stand with the oppressed and marginalized, to address historic crimes. But those emotions are undermined by widespread philosophical assumptions with reactionary sources. As a result, wokeism conflicts with ideas th...

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Sir Roger Scruton

The thinkers who have been most influential on the attitudes of the New Left are examined in this study by one of the leading critics of leftist orientations in modern Western civilization. Scruton begins with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concludes with a critique of the key strands in its thinking. He conducts a reappraisal of such major left-wing thinkers as: E. P. Thompson, Ronald Dworkin, R. D. Laing, Jurgen Habermas, Gyorgy Lukacs, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Slavoj Z...

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Slavoj Zizek

The celebrated philosopher explores the end of global capitalism at the hands of its key drivers—the ‘4 riders of the apocalypse’—in this analysis “of fierce brilliance” (Guardian).There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Žižek has identified the 4 horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within the economic system; the bio...

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Erich Fromm

"Human history began with an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience."—from On DisobedienceOne of the great psychological and social philosophers of the twentieth century, Erich Fromm expounded on the importance of disobedience and the authentic voice of the individual in modern culture. As relevant now as when it was first published, On Disobedience is a collection of provocative essays, inclu...

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Zygmunt Bauman

Sociology is concerned with modern society, but has never come to terms with one of the most distinctive and horrific aspects of modernity - the Holocaust.The book examines what sociology can teach us about the Holocaust, but more particularly concentrates upon the lessons which the Holocaust has for sociology. Bauman's work demonstrates that the Holocaust has to be understood as deeply involved with the nature of modernity. There is nothing comparable to this work available in the...