From humble beginnings in the working class neighborhood of Price Hill, on Cincinnati's working class west side, Bob Tully moved to Los Angeles to seek success as a performer. Price Hill Boy tells some of the stories Bob has lived as a result. Some are funny, some inspiring, but all have contributed to life lived on the "road less traveled". From Early days as a "broke actor", living in the back room of an office in Burbank, to living and working as a singer/actor on cruise ships, to trave...

The essays in this volume on the subject of equality are the work of scholars at Bard College and West Point. Their research falls within the areas of history, religion, legal theory, social science, ethics and philosophy. The regions covered include the Middle and Far East, Europe, and America; the time periods studied are both contemporary and historical. Each essay is a well-detailed exploration which assumes the reader has no prior acquaintance with the topic.Together, the stud...

Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications.A distinguished list of scholars take up a broad range of questions regarding the relations between the human subject a...

Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications.A distinguished list of scholars take up a broad range of questions regarding the relations between the human subject a...

Creative research methods for data generation have expanded over recent decades and researchers are eager to take a creative approach to data analysis.It is challenging to bring creativity into data analysis while retaining a systematic, rigorous, and ethical approach. Written by experts in the field, this handbook addresses these challenges. The chapters adapt analytical techniques in creative ways for novice and expert researchers. Existing and novel methods from analysis of quan...

Toooften, cultural leaders and policy makers want to chase the perfect metric foractivities whose real worth lies in our own personal experience. The majorproblem facing Australian culture today is demonstrating its value togovernments, the business sector, and the public in general.When didculture become a number? When did the books, paintings, poems, plays, songs,films, games, art installations, clothes, and the objects that fill our dailylives become a matter of statistical meas...

Robert Taylor Ufo is the story about a man going about his everyday working life only to come across something supernatural waiting for him. He gets attacked by a spaceship and only just manages to escape from its grip. Once he gets back home again he tells his wife about what happened to him and she immediately seeks to tell the police about the incident, but can even they get to the bottom of this mystery...

Its twenty below zero outside and a random group of vagabonds find themselves seeking shelter from the weather in a small town jail. Glad to be inside on such a cold night the group settles down to go to sleep when it is discovered that one of them is not whom they at first seem to be. This is the plot of this 1926 play by Jim Tully and Robert Nichols. Also included in this eBook is Jim Tullys short story Thieves and Vagabonds on which the play was based.This Ring eBooks edition of ...

Aristotle accurately characterized humans as political animals. Whether through birth or from choice, people naturally cluster into groups for protection, advancement, and the pursuit of well-being. But Aristotle’s description does not hint at the powerful binary tension within this human tendency. Leaders enhance a social group’s sense of identity by appealing to the members’ commitments and shared traditions, to their hopes, strengths, sacrifices, and fears. Often, however, they cultivat...

As heard on Sirius XM Radio and NPR stations!These are not old-time radio shows but incredible simulations! Created by veteran audio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua, these humorous half-hours take off on such classic old time radio shows as The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, War of the Worlds, Suspense, and The Jack Benny Program. The fine cast includes Joe Bevilacqua, Rick Ramos, Alison Nead, Cathi Tully, William Me...

Freedom and Democracy in an Imperial Context: Dialogues with James Tully gathers leading thinkers from across the humanities and social sciences in a celebration of, and critical engagement with, the recent work of Canadian political philosopher James Tully. Over the past thirty years, James Tully has made key contributions to some of the most pressing questions of our time, including: interventions in the history of moral and political thought, contemporary political philosophy, ...

Never truly a "new world" entirely detached from the home countries of its immigrants, colonial America, over the generations, became a model of transatlantic culture. Colonial society was shaped by the conflict between colonists' need to adapt to the American environment and their desire to perpetuate old world traditions or to imitate the charismatic model of the British establishment. In the course of colonial history, these contrasting impulses produced a host of distinctive cultures a...