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  Roadmap of the Professoriate -...

  PhD Habib Noorbhai

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  In Roadmap of the Professoriate, Habib Noorbhai, Ph.D. shares a comprehensive, practical and engaging guide for academics at any stage of their journey. Whether you’re a graduate student, postdoc, early-career academic or aspiring professor; this book provides structured insights, takeaways and interactive exercises to help you navigate the academic labyrinth, research mastery, leadership and career transitions. 
  > 12 parts: From defining your path to building a legacy 
  > 25 strategic rules and 40 tangible takeaways: Actionable insights for sustained academic success 
  > Practical activities: Tools for career development and academic growth 
  > Industry and Entrepreneurship: Guidance for those considering paths beyond academia

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  No One to Meet - Imitation and...

  Raphael Falco

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  The literary establishment tends to regard Bob Dylan as an intriguing, if baffling, outsider. That changed overnight when Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, challenging us to think of him as an integral part of our national and international literary heritage. No One to Meet places Dylan the artist within a long tradition of literary production and offers an innovative way of understanding his unique, and often controversial, methods of composition. 
   
   
   
  In lucid prose, Raphael Falco demonstrates the similarity between what Renaissance writers called imitatio and the way Dylan borrows, digests, and transforms traditional songs. Although Dylan's lyrical postures might suggest a post-Romantic, "avant-garde" consciousness, No One to Meet shows that Dylan's creative process borrows from and expands the methods used by classical and Renaissance authors. 
   
   
   
  Drawing on numerous examples, including Dylan's previously unseen manuscript excerpts and archival materials, Falco illuminates how the ancient process of poetic imitation, handed down from Greco-Roman antiquity, allows us to make sense of Dylan's musical and lyrical technique. By placing Dylan firmly in the context of an age-old poetic practice, No One to Meet deepens our appreciation of Dylan's songs and allows us to celebrate him as what he truly is: a great writer.

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  Articles of Confederation The:...

  Charles River Editors

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  Around the very same time that Congress was drafting the Declaration of Independence, it also had a committee drafting a constitution for the United States. The committee was led by John Dickinson, who presented the committee's conclusion on July 12, 1776. Drafting the document was no easy task: as with the writing of the Declaration of Independence, the individual states were often reluctant to hand sovereignty over to a greater confederate power. 
  	After the Revolution, the new United States attempted to operate under the Articles of Confederation, which had been drafted in a time of war by men who were wary of Parliamentary abuses of power. Given that context, it should not be surprising that the national government the Continental Congress crafted during the Revolutionary War was particularly weak. During the war itself, the reason Congress could not pay the soldiers in the Continental Army was because it did not have the power to tax. General George Washington pestered the Continental Congress for provisions constantly, but they could only ask for money from the states. 
  	The drafters of the Articles of Confederation had deliberately avoided giving the national legislature the power to tax because Parliament had so abused that authority against the colonies, but it didn’t take long for this to be a severe limitation on the national government. Besides hampering the Continental Army, the inability of the national government to raise revenue made foreign policy difficult. After the end of the Revolutionary War, the United States had no navy and was no longer protected by the British navy. As a result, American commerce was pillaged by the Barbary pirates, yet the Congress could do nothing to stop the pirate attacks because it could raise no money to fund a navy to defend American shipping. 
  Ultimately, the Constitution was a decisive move away from the Articles of Confederation, which the proponents of the Constitution claimed gave the states too much autonomy. 

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  Consciousness - How Our Brains...

  John Parrington

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  What is the material basis of the thoughts that occur inside our heads? 
   
  Where do imaginative, creative, or spiritual thoughts come from - can these really be the product of nerve impulses in the brain? And is the human mind radically different from that of other species, or is our uniqueness more superficial than real? 
   
  In this audiobook, Oxford biologist John Parrington proposes a radical new theory of human consciousness, arguing that a qualitative leap in consciousness occurred during human evolution as language and tool use transformed our brains. Rejecting outdated views of the brain as a hard-wired circuit diagram, he draws on the latest insights from neuroscience to show that meaning is created within our heads through a dynamic interaction of oscillating brain waves. 
   
  This new model of consciousness not only provides a material basis of our innermost thoughts but also explains why the mind can sometimes go wrong, causing deep mental distress.

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  Moonrise Opera - A manuscript...

  Chris Howse

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  A job as a deckhand on a shark fishing boat in Bass Strait for law student Chris Howse, begets a quest to keep a journal of his dreams as a way of exploring who he is and what he should do and as an antidote to a seemingly lazy zeitgeist.  
  Via the shark boats, the occupation of a barrister at the Victorian Bar and work as a tram conductor in Melbourne (in that order), his dreams lead him to the heart of Aboriginal Australia at the Katherine Regional Aboriginal Legal Aid Service and subsequently to Darwin and the bush courts of the Northern Territory, acting on behalf of the Aboriginal people. 
  As he fights in the courts for the rights of his Aboriginal clients, his dream journal undergoes a renaissance.

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  Identity and Violence - The...

  Amartya Sen

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  "One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion." —Nadine Gordimer 
   
   
   
  In this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen presents an inspiring vision of a world that can be made to move toward peace as firmly as it has spiraled in recent years toward brutality and war.

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