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Misadventures in Cooking in the Pandemic Era

by 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. ... Read more

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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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ACTON

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by 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 ... Read more

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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
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Maidenstone

by 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 ... Read more

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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
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Media and Violence

Seminal Perspectives

by 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 ... Read more

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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
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Two Plays

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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 ... Read more

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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
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Diabetes An Entertainment

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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 ... Read more

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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
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Sane Society Ils 252

by Erich Fromm ...

Series series International Library of Sociology
Following the publication of the seminal Fear of Freedom, Erich Fromm applied his unique vision to a critique of contemporary capitalism in The Sane Society. Where the former dealt with man's historic inability to come to terms with his sense of isolation, and the dangers to which this can lead, The Sane Society took his theories one step further. In doing so it established Fromm as one of the ... Read more

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Following the publication of the seminal Fear of Freedom, Erich Fromm applied his unique vision to a critique of contemporary capitalism in The Sane Society. Where the former dealt with man's historic inability to come to terms with his sense of isolation, and the dangers to which this can lead, The Sane Society took his theories one step further. In doing so it established Fromm as one of the
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The Fourth Political Theory

by Alexander Dugin ...

All the political systems of the modern age have been the products of three distinct ideologies: the first, and oldest, is liberal democracy; the second is Marxism; and the third is fascism. The latter two have long since failed and passed out of the pages of history, and the first no longer operates as an ideology, but rather as something taken for granted.The world today finds itself on the ... Read more

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All the political systems of the modern age have been the products of three distinct ideologies: the first, and oldest, is liberal democracy; the second is Marxism; and the third is fascism. The latter two have long since failed and passed out of the pages of history, and the first no longer operates as an ideology, but rather as something taken for granted.The world today finds itself on the
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Left Is Not Woke

by 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 ... Read more

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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
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Fools, Frauds and Firebrands

Thinkers of the New Left

by 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 ... Read more

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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
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Living in the End Times

by 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 ... Read more

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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
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On Disobedience

by 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 ... Read more

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"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
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