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  The Life of Alexander

  Plutarch, Bernadotte Perrin

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  The Life of Alexander is one of many notable Greek figure biographies written by Plutarch in his series “Parallel Lives”. Alexander is arguably one of the most notable Greek figures, immortalized in stories and legends that are commonly used in mythology classes today. With the lingering feeling of discontent after the Persian invasion and the political unrest that surrounded him, his life made for an interesting topic in Plutarch’s works. Parallel lives is often lauded as one of the most reliable references to Alexander’s life that is currently available.  

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  Author Paul Levinson Discusses...

  Paul Levinson

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  In the following keynote address given at Saint Francis College, author Paul Levinson discusses Canadian philosopher and academic Marshall McLuhan's concept of "The Medium Is The Message" from his seminal book, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. "The Medium Is The Message" proposed that the media--not the content that they carry--affects the society in which it plays a role and, thus, should be the primary focus of study. Levinson, a colleague of McLuhan’s, discusses how McLuhan’s ideas still hold true in today's environment of social media, digital publication, and proliferation of mass communication methods.

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  Lutzen - Great Battles

  Peter H. Wilson

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  The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) was Europe's most destructive conflict prior to the two world wars. Two of European history's greatest generals faced each other at Lutzen in November 1632, mid-way through this terrible war. Neither achieved his objective. Albrecht von Wallenstein withdrew his battered imperial army at nightfall, unaware that his opponent, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, had died a few hours earlier.The indecisive military outcome found an immediate echo in image and print, and became the object of political and historical disputes. Swedish propaganda swiftly fostered the lasting image of the king's sacrifice for the Protestant cause against the specter of Catholic Habsburg "universal monarchy." The standard assumption that the king had "met his death in the hour of victory" became integral to how Gustavus Adolphus's contribution to modern warfare has been remembered, even celebrated, while the study of Lutzen's wider legacy shows how such events are constantly rewritten as elements of propaganda, religious and national identity, and professional military culture.This book is the first to combine analysis of the battle itself with an assessment of its cultural, political, and military legacy, and the first to incorporate recent archaeological research within a reappraisal of the events and their significance.

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  How a young Syrian girl's pleas...

  PBS NewsHour

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  Last year, Bana Alabed sparked a worldwide following for tweeting from Aleppo in Syria while it was under attack amid a years-long civil war. Now, the 8-year-old is authoring a book about surviving and escaping the conflict. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Marcia Biggs talked to Alabed and her mother in Ankara, Turkey, where they are living today.

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  There Is insight when thought is...

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

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  Public Talks1. Can I see wholly? - 16 July 1972Duration: 71 minutes• Do we act casually, expecting division to end as a result of outer environment?• Does change demand immediate attention and action?• Freeing of the mind from conditioning and in that freedom bringing about acooperative action.• Can one who is conditioned by the past change totally?• Will change come through analysis or is there a totally different approach?• Is time needed to have relationship in which there is love and not division?• Does one of the many fragments of the 'me' assume authority or is the mindfree to look?• Observation not investigation.• Is there analysis if there are no parts? Is analysis a waste of time?Questions from the audience followed the talk.2. What is it to be creative? - 18 July 1972Duration: 76 minutes• Not being deeply creative we escape from the fact of deep frustration.• Is there insight only when the mind is free of belief?• Insight without conclusion is creative action.• Why does thought draw conclusions from insight and cling to the structure ofcontrol?• I am isolated when I resist. Is aloneness insight into isolation?• Moving in insight, relationship changes.• Freedom from images is responsibility and love.• The brain needs security to function. There is security in insight, which bringsintelligence.• When you don't compare, what are you?Questions from the audience followed the talk3. Thought and its limitations - 20 July 1972Duration: 85 minutes• Can thought investigate something which is not of time, experience andknowledge?• What is the mind that can enter into the dimension which has no word?• Can there be a harmony in which division does not exist between the knownand freedom from the known?• Is the mind such a slave to words that it cannot see the movement of thoughtwithout the word?• Will knowledge bring about a better world when used with the 'me'?• When the body dies what happens to thought?• If I am aware that I am neurotic, in that awareness am I neurotic?Questions from the audience followed the talk4. Can the mind be totally unconditioned? - 23 July 1972Duration: 84 minutes• Society, culture and economic divisions have created images in us.• Can the deep hurts of the mind be wiped away so that no mark is left? Will thisbe done through analysis? Who is analysing?• Is hurt a problem if you do not move away from it?• Does conflict destroy the brain?• Is comparison an escape from 'what is'?• Am I the word, the description, the thought? If I don't compare, what am I?• Wanting to cross to the other side of the river becomes a problem.Questions from the audience followed the talk5. Will the discovery of the cause of suffering end it? - 25 July 1972Duration: 83 minutes• Is sorrow ignorance of oneself?• How does one go beyond loneliness?• Can thought as measurement put an end to itself?• When belief is threatened there is fear.• Can the brain have security in which every form of fear has come to an end?• Can the mind realize there is no security in the things that thought projects?• The perception of truth is security.• Can the mind invite joy?• Can one help another in crisis?Questions from the audience followed the talk6. Pleasure, joy and death - 27 July 1972Duration: 92 minutes• Does the mind have any existence apart from the thing to which it is attached?• Why does the mind act from a series of conclusions of thought?• How can I love you if I am attached to you?• What is the actual activity of the structure of memory which is the past?• Can the mind have an insight into conditioning and therefore tremendousenergy to change it?• How do I communicate love without the word?• Is there anything permanent beyond death?Questions from the audience followed the talk7.

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  The Shipwrecked Mind - On...

  Mark Lilla

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  We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla in this timely book, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us.The reactionary is anything but a conservative. He is as radical and modern a figure as the revolutionary, someone shipwrecked in the rapidly changing present, and suffering from nostalgia for an idealized past and an apocalyptic fear that history is rushing toward catastrophe. And like the revolutionary his political engagements are motivated by highly developed ideas.Lilla begins with three twentieth-century philosophers-Franz Rosenzweig, Eric Voegelin, and Leo Strauss-who attributed the problems of modern society to a break in the history of ideas and promoted a return to earlier modes of thought. He then examines the enduring power of grand historical narratives of betrayal to shape political outlooks since the French Revolution, and shows how these narratives are employed in the writings of Europe's right-wing cultural pessimists and Maoist neocommunists, American theoconservatives fantasizing about the harmony of medieval Catholic society and radical Islamists seeking to restore a vanished Muslim caliphate.The revolutionary spirit that inspired political movements across the world for two centuries may have died out. But the spirit of reaction that rose to meet it has survived and is proving just as formidable a historical force. We live in an age when the tragicomic nostalgia of Don Quixote for a lost golden age has been transformed into a potent and sometimes deadly weapon. Mark Lilla helps us to understand why.

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