But he believed that it was vital to mix liberal idealism with a pessimism rooted in a conservative reading of history.
Her work offers a visual re-reading of the history of a famous 17th-century cape, made of red ibis feathers, which was said to transform its shamanic wearer into a birdman.
He became a principal lecturer and head of history at a college in Berkshire, which is now part of Reading University.
It also takes a deft reading of history to show that the sweep of the past 2, 000 years has led precisely to the values of New Labour's third term.
The sleepless CEOs should perhaps consider as bedtime reading a history of the finance sector, and they would find that banks have been about much more than we realize today.
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Some of the weeks incorporate both history and fiction, for example the reading of "A Man for All Seasons, " Robert Bolt's 1954 play -- later reworked into a famous 1966 film - about the life of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor to England's mercurial King Henry VIII in the 16th century.
Clearly, the "great man" theory of history will always be ripe for debate, but as shown by a choice reading of CEOs the presence of a strong, charismatic leader can hold more sway in business than elsewhere.
The third reading is a sort of American History from the perspective of dogs.
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Immediately upon finishing Great House, I felt I had to read History of Love and counted the days until my vacation, when I would finally have a few blissful evenings of reading for pleasure.
Bookfuturism turns out to be not just about books as such, but a kind of aesthetic and culture of reading, literacy, history, in connection with (only rarely in opposition to) other kinds of media culture.
After you've wandered around Middle Temple checking out old suits of armour, reading the plaques and taking in all the history, you can grab a Stella or Hoegaarden and watch the games on a movie theatre-size screen in the grand hall.
Reams of research point to the same finding: physicians looking at the same thing will disagree with each other, or even with themselves, from 10 percent to 50 percent of the time during virtually every aspect of the medical-care process from taking a medical history to doing a physical examination, reading a laboratory test, performing a pathological diagnosis and recommending a treatment.
The Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation is always looking for eligible women, so if anyone reading this knows of a servicewoman, living or deceased, help her take her rightful place in history.
His writing contained enough politics, history, and economics to make you feel like you were reading something informative and worthwhile, but also a sprinkling of Simpsons and Star Wars references sufficient to make you feel like you were being cool.
Just viewing the game from multiple viewpoints could make for a fairly dry reading experience, but Kettmann manages to pull this off in fine fashion by imparting a bit of history to the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry, and by giving the reader a chance to know some of the subjects as real people.
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