On science, necessity, and the love of God;: Essays

WEIL, Simone

Rees, Richard

Oxford U.P.

An historical thriller which poses the question: who killed Nelson? The proposed answer involves the machinations of "The Illuminati", a secret committee of French revolutionaries who plan to use Napoleon's invasion of Britain to initiate revolutions on both sides of the Channel.

The Illuminati Conspiracy

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Hodder&Stoughton

An historical thriller novel set in post-revolutionary France and Pitt's England and featuring a young naval officer, this combines a love story with suspense. It is the author's first book.

Genre Fiction

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

The Illuminati Conspiracy (U) (Ulverscroft Large Print Series)

Ulverscroft

Shades of Difference: A History of Ethnicity in America (Perspectives on a Multiracial America)

From its prehistory in the biological theories of racial difference formulated in the 1800s to its current position in academic debate, Richard Rees investigates the diverse fields of scholarship from which the multifaceted understanding of the term ethnicity is derived. At the same time, Rees traces the broader historical forces that shaped the needs to which the concept of ethnicity responded and the social purposes to which it was applied. Centrally, he focuses upon the emergence of ethnicity in the early 1940s as a means of resolving contradictions and ambiguities in the racial status of European immigrants and its subsequent legacy and implications on race and caste. Shades of Difference introduces new perspectives on the definition of "whiteness" in America, and makes an original contribution to the larger discussion of race through a detailed account of ethnicity's original meaning and its revaluation when later appropriated by the discourse of Black Nationalism in the 1960s and 70s. Rees has produced a powerful new analysis of the cultural and political history of ethnicity in America.

History

Americas

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

From its prehistory in the biological theories of racial difference formulated in the 1800s to its current position in academic debate, Richard Rees investigates the diverse fields of scholarship from which the multifaceted understanding of the term ethnicity is derived. At the same time, Rees traces the broader historical forces that shaped the needs to which the concept of ethnicity responded and the social purposes to which it was applied. Centrally, he focuses upon the emergence of ethnicity in the early 1940s as a means of resolving contradictions and ambiguities in the racial status of European immigrants and its subsequent legacy and implications on race and caste. Shades of Difference introduces new perspectives on the definition of 'whiteness' in America, and makes an original contribution to the larger discussion of race through a detailed account of ethnicity's original meaning and its revaluation when later appropriated by the discourse of Black Nationalism in the 1960s and 70s. Rees has produced a powerful new analysis of the cultural and political history of ethnicity in America.

Simone Weil was a remarkable woman: a teacher, a factory worker, a field hand, a traveler, and a frontline volunteer in the Spanish Civil War; yet she found time to write and to philosophize about life and religion. Her short life (1909–43) spanned two world wars, although she did not live to see the end of the second one. The reactions of this French Jewish woman to some of the facets of these conflicts may seem surprising; her sympathies and affirmations were perhaps too extreme, but she did think for herself in an unorthodox and challenging way and had a passionate sense of justice. Mr. Rees believes that this book may contain more illumination for the present world’s spiritual needs than any other twentieth-century commentary. Some of Simone Weil’s proposals concerning patriotism, obligations, freedom of expression, and the needs of the soul may seem Utopian, but they would not be unreasonable in a society adopting her moral code. Simone Weil was an intellectual with an essentially tragic view of life, but she was not removed from the everyday life. Her thought was unique and cannot be classified. She was neither a reactionary nor a progressive but a great soul and a brilliant mind, as T. S. Eliot expressed it, “with a kind of genius akin to that of the saints.” Since she explored problems which confront modern man, the reader will find thoughtful stimulation in her work. In a previous book, Brave Men, the author likened her to D. H. Lawrence—both lonely visionaries suffering from a devouring spiritual hunger. This book gives a condensed but penetrating account of Miss Weil’s interests. Since her writings cover more than philosophy and religion, the reader will feel compelled to become more familiar with her work.

Simone Weil: A Sketch for a Portrait (A Chicago Classic)

History & Criticism

Southern Illinois University Press

Simone Weil: A Sketch for a Portrait

Eighteen Seventy Census Index to Hamilton County, Ohio Including Cincinnati

Miller, Pamela

Reference

Egon Enterprises

<p>On December 4, in the year 1872, the American brigantine Mary Celeste, bound from New York to Genoa, was found abandoned but completely seaworthy, some 600 miles off the Spanish coast, with no sign of captain or crew. What happened has remained unsolved for over 145 years, but after a year of exhaustive research, the answer to the world's most famous sea mystery is now told in "factional" form through the eyes of New York detective Michael Callaghan, and his estranged wife Colleen.Investigating two brutal murders committed in New York's teeming Lower East Side, and also pursuing their own vendettas across the Atlantic against one of America's greatest fraudsters - "Brains" Sweeny, mastermind of the notorious "Tweed Ring", who has fled New York with $200,000,000 of its money, converted into diamonds - Callaghan and Colleen uncover a web of intrigue and deceit, involving not only a Sicilian organization called the "Mafia", previously unknown to the world outside the island, but also a counter revolutionary plot codenamed "Opus Dei', conceived by Pierre Beckx, Father-General of the Jesuits, to restore the Church of Rome, disestablished in Germany by Count von Bismarck, and in Italy by King Victor Emmanuel, with the Pope a "house-prisoner" in the Vatican.</p>

The Reikel Conspiracy

Independently published

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