“Number One” was a phrase my father—and, for that matter, my mother—repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents’ friends and by their friends’ children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as Number One. There was the Number One leader of a manufacturing plant, the Number One worker, the Number One scientist, the Number One car mechanic. In the culture of my childhood, being best was everything. It was the goal that drove us, the motivation that gave life meaning. And if, by chance or fate or the blessings of the generous universe, you were a child in whom talent was evident, Number One became your mantra. It became mine. I never begged my parents to take off the pressure. I accepted it; I even enjoyed it. It was a game, this contest among aspiring pianists, and although I may have been shy, I was bold, even at age five, when faced with a field of rivals. Born in China to paren

The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans suchdiverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, BramStoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville,and others. Yet it has until now received less critical attentionthan Irish poetry and drama. This volume covers three hundred yearsof Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes,and authors. It provides critiques of individual works, accounts ofimportant novelists, and histories of sub-genres and alliednarrative forms, establishing significant social and politicalcontexts for dozens of novels. The varied perspectives and emphasesby more than a dozen critics and literary historians ensure thatthe Irish novel receives due tribute for its colour, variety andlinguistic verve. Each chapter features recommended furtherreading. This is the perfect overview for students of the Irishnovel from the romances of the seventeenth century to the presentday.

Each Cambridge Companion to a philosophical figure is made upof specially commissioned essays by an international team ofscholars, providing students and non-specialists with anintroduction to a major philosopher. The series aims to dispel theintimidation that readers may feel when faced with the work of achallenging thinker. David Hume is now considered one of the mostimportant philosophers of the Western world. Although best knownfor his contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, andphilosophy of religion, Hume also influenced developments in thephilosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economictheory, political and social history, and aesthetic theory. Thefifteen essays in this volume address all aspects of Hume"sthought. The picture of him that emerges is that of a thinker who,though often critical to the point of skepticism, was nonethelessable to build on that skepticism a constructive, viable, andprofoundly important view of the world. Also included in thisvolume are Hume

This Companion makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship,addressing a philosopher whose impact was as great on ContinentalEuropean theories of state and legal systems as it was at home.This volume is a systematic attempt to incorporate work from boththe Anglophone and Continental traditions, bringing together newlycommissioned work by scholars from ten different countries in atopic-by-topic sequence of essays that follows the structure ofLeviathan, re-examining the relationship among Hobbes's physics,metaphysics, politics, psychology, and religion. Collectively theyshowcase important revisionist scholarship that re-examines boththe context for Leviathan and its reception, demonstrating thedegree to which Hobbes was indebted to the long tradition ofEuropean humanist thought. This Cambridge Companion shows thatHobbes's legacy was never lost and that he belongs to a traditionof reflection on political theory and governance that is stillalive, both in Europe and in the diaspora.

Anthony Trollope was among the most prolific, popular, andrichly diverse writers of the mid-Victorian period, withforty-seven novels and a variety of other writings to his name.Both a serial and series writer whose novels traversed Ireland,England, Australia and New Zealand, and genres from realism toscience fiction, Trollope also published criticism, short fiction,travel writing and biography. The Cambridge Companion to AnthonyTrollope provides a state-of-the-field review of criticalperspectives on his work, with the volume's sixteen essaysaddressing Trollope's biography, autobiography, canonical fiction,short stories and travel writing, as well as surveying diversetopics including gender, sexuality, vulgarity, and the law.

From tours of historic parks,buildings,and gardens to tips on after-hours clubs,neighborhood eateries,and charming hotels,and charming hotels,here's an up-close look at over 100 must-see attractions that make the city by the bay unique. 101 Great Choices:San Francisco presents the city at ists best-but leaves the choices up to you.From the Golden Bridge,Coit Tower,and Alcatraz to the shopper's meccas of Union Square and Fisherman's Wharf to the sweetest dungeness crab at Swan's Oyster Depot,San Francisco and all its magnificent diversions are offered up for your pleasure in this one-of-a-kind guide.

In December 1978, at the 1 l th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party,the Central Committee under Dang Xiaoping embarked on a policy of reformthat opened the doors to the rest of the world, helping to make China the economic superpower it is today and transforming the lives of its people. For the few foreign business people who have been engaged with China since this time, the changes have been equally dramatic My Thirty Years in China is a compilation of true-life stories by foreign nationals, allindividually successful in their chosen field of business, who have been pioneers in living and working in this challenging country. Their memories and insights - sometimes comic, sometimes sad- recall the joys and frustrations of their adopted home and paint a fascinating picture of what has changed in China over the past three decades - and what has not.

Societies function on the basis of rules. These rules, ratherlike the rules of the road, coordinate the activities ofindividuals who have a variety of goals and purposes. Whether therules work well or ill, and how they can be made to work better, isa matter of major concern. Appropriately interpreted, the workingof social rules is also the central subject matter of modernpolitical economy. This book is about rules - what they are, howthey work, and how they can be properly analysed. The authors'objective is to understand the workings of alternative politicalinstitutions so that choices among such institutions (rules) can bemore fully informed. Thus, broadly defined, the methodology ofconstitutional political economy is the subject matter of TheReason of Rules. The authors have examined how rules for politicalorder work, how such rules might be chosen, and how normativecriteria for such choices might be established.

Designed as a celebration of the film, this lavishly illustrated paperback edition is an exclusive behind-the-scenes guide featuring full-color photos of the cast, locations, and sets, as well as storyboards, interviews, details of the special effects, and much more.

In this wide-ranging inside view of the history and practiceof conducting, analysis and advice comes directly from workingconductors, including Sir Charles Mackerras on opera, BramwellTovey on being an Artistic Director, Martyn Brabbins on modernmusic, Leon Botstein on programming and Vance George on choralconducting, and from those who work closely with conductors: aleading violinist describes working as a soloist with Stokowski,Ormandy and Barbirolli, while Solti and Abbado's studio producerexplains orchestral recording, and one of the world's most powerfulmanagers tells all. The book includes advice on how to conductdifferent types of groups (choral, opera, symphony, early music)and provides a substantial history of conducting as a study ofnational traditions. It is an unusually honest book about asecretive industry and managers, artistic directors, soloists,players and conductors openly discuss their different perspectivesfor the first time.

Beautifully illustrated with 75 photographs in full color, The Robert Pattinson Album by Paul Stenning is a breathtaking visual biography of one of the world’s most talked-about young actors. The hugely successful vampire romance Twilight was a box-office phenomenon, and Robert is that smash-hit film’s breakout star. In the space of a few short years, the twenty-two-year-old Londoner has gone from amateur stage performer to full-blown Hollywood idol, and his staggering ascent is already the stuff of legend. The public first took notice when Robert appeared in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire but the role that would change his life forever was that of charismatic teenage vampire Edward Cullen in Twilight, the film adapted from author Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling book series.

This title features an extraordinary collection ofthematically linked essays, including "The Uncanny", "ScreenMemories" and "Family Romances". Leonardo da Vinci fascinated Freudprimarily because he was keen to know why his personality was soincomprehensible to his contemporaries. In this probingbiographical essay he deconstructs both da Vinci's character andthe nature of his genius. As ever, many of his exploratory avenueslead to the subject's sexuality - why did da Vinci depict the nakedhuman body the way he did? What of his tendency to surround himselfwith handsome young boys that he took on as his pupils? Intriguing,thought-provoking and often contentious, this volume contains someof Freud's best writing.

Which plays are included under the heading 'Shakespeare's lastplays', and when does Shakespeare's 'last' period begin? What ismeant by a 'late play', and what are the benefits in defining playsin this way? Reflecting the recent growth of interest in latestudies, and recognising the gaps in accessible scholarship on thisarea, leading international Shakespeare scholars address these andmany other questions. The essays locate Shakespeare's last plays –single and co-authored – in the period of their composition,consider the significant characteristics of their Jacobean context,and explore the rich afterlives, on stage, in print and other mediaof The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Pericles, The TwoNoble Kinsmen and Henry VIII. The volume opens with a historicaltimeline that places the plays in the contexts of contemporarypolitical events, theatrical events, other cultural milestones,Shakespeare's life and that of his playing company, the King'sMen.

In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considersthe incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, andthe tensions between the claims of society and the individual. Weall know that living in civilised groups means sacrificing a degreeof personal interest, but couldn't you argue that it in factcreates the conditions for our happiness? Freud explores thearguments and counter-arguments surrounding this proposition,focusing on what he perceives to be one of society's greatestdangers; 'civilised' sexual morality. After all, doesn't repressionof sexuality deeply affect people and compromise their chances ofhappiness?

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Creativity is fundamental to human experience. In On Creativity David Bohm, the world-renowned scientist, investigates the phenomenon from all sides. This is a remarkable and life-affirming book by one of the most far-sighted thinkers of modern.

Also Available as a Time Warner AudioBook, eBook, and in Large Print Edition This book is vintage Jack Welch: down to earth, powerful, and filled with common sense. As CEO of General Electric for the past twenty years, he has built its market cap by more than $450 billion and established himself as the most admired business leader in the world. His championing of initiatives like Six Sigma quality, globalization, and e-business have helped define the modern corporation. At the same time, he's a gutsy boss who has forged a unique philosophy and an operating system that relies on a "boundaryless" sharing of ideas, an intense focus on people, and an informal, give-and-take style that makes bureaucracy the enemy. JACK In anecdotal detail and with self-effacing humor, Jack Welch gives us the people (most notably his Irish mother) who shaped his life and the big hits and the big misses that characterized his career. Starting at GE in 1960 as an engineer earning $10,500, Jack learned the need for "getting out o

The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather offers thirteen originalessays by leading scholars of a major American modernist novelist.Willa Cather's luminous prose is 'easy' to read yet surprisinglydifficult to understand. The essays collected here aretheoretically informed but accessibly written and cover the fullrange of Cather's career, including most of her twelve novels andseveral of her short stories. The essays situate Cather's work in abroad range of critical, cultural, and literary contexts, and theintroduction explores current trends in Cather scholarship as wellas the author's place in contemporary culture. With a detailedchronology and a guide to further reading, the volume offersstudents and teachers a fresh and thorough sense of the author ofMy ?ntonia, The Professor's House, and Death Comes for theArchbishop.

Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as thestandard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-centuryintellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of hiscontemporaries. In "Mass Psychology and Analysis of the 'I'" heexplores the notion of 'mass-psychology' - his findings would proveall too prophetic in the years that followed. Writings such as "AReligious Experience" and "The Future of an Illusion" continueearlier work on the essential savagery of the civilized mind, and"Moses the Man" and "Monotheistic Religion" excavates the roots ofreligion and racism, which he concludes are inextricablyintertwined. This remarkable collection reveals Freud not only athis most radically pessimistic, but also at his most personallycourageous - engaging with his own adherences, his own antecedents,his own identity.

Can you cut an octagon into five pieces and rearrange them intoa square? How about turning a star into a pentagon? These are justtwo of the infinite challenges of geometric dissections, themathematical art of cutting figures into pieces that can berearranged to form other figures, using as few pieces as possible.Through the ages, geometric dissections have fascinated puzzle fansand great mathematicians alike. Here are dissections known to Platoand exciting new discoveries alike. Greg Frederickson explainssolution methods carefully, assuming only a basic knowledge of highschool geometry. This beautifully illustrated book provides hoursof enjoyment for every mathematical puzzle enthusiast.

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The Moon is accessible to everyone, and easy to observe even inbig cities. It is a prime target for aspiring astronomers and forthose who are merely curious about the night sky. This easy-to-useguide to discovering lunar sites takes the reader through fourteenobserving sessions from New Moon to Full Moon. For each evening,the book shows which craters, mountains and other features can beseen, and how to find them. Each photograph shows what the observeractually sees through a telescope, solving the usual difficultiesof orientation confronting beginners. Images are shown as theyappear through both refracting and reflecting telescopes. Mapsprinted on the front and back flaps of the book show the whole Moonwith sites as seen through a refractor, through a Newtonianreflector, or, when turned upside-down, through binoculars.