Michael Curtis

The philosophy of politics As an introduction to political theory and science, this collection of writings by the great philosophers will be of close interest to general readers. It also forms a basic textbook for students of government and political theory. Such fundamental concepts as Democracy, the Rule of Law, Justice, Natural Rights, Sovereignty, Citizenship, Power, the State, Revolution, Liberty, Reason, Materialism, Toleration, and the Place of Religion in Society are traced from their origins, through their development and changing patterns, to show how they guide political thinking and institutions today. And new in this edition, examinations of selected works by Sophocles, Francois Hotman, and Francisco Suarez. Also new are a detailed table of contents and an up-dated, comprehensive bibliography--each clear and concise for easy reference. The second volume of Professor Curtis' work, also available in a Discus edition, includes the writings of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century thinkers--from Burke, Rousseau, and Kant to modern times.

The Great Political Theories

M Curtis

This carefully selected compilation of the significant writings of the great political philosophers, scientists, and thinkers has long been an invaluable guide to the general reader as well as to the serious student of history, political science, and government. Such essential forces as Revolution, Idealism, and Nationalism are examined in detail and expounded by their leading exponents. Professor Curtis has written running commentary that places the extracts and their authors in the sequence of modern history.

A Comprehensive Selection of the Crucial Ideas in Political Philosophy from the French Revolution to Modern Times

Great Political Theories V.2

In a race against time, trapped with no way out and not sure who to trust or where to turn, Craig Leland must fight for his team's survival and the fate of all mankind.

Keres' Eyes

A book of fable, of myth and history, of lyric, conversational verse from the imagination of a Pinhead, a Sphinx, and a weaver of purple, Greek flowers.

Pinhead

Susan Aurelia Gitelson

Israel has had an unusual experience as both a recipient of foreign aid and as a donor country. Although it is small in area and population, it has developed the political, economic, and military capacities of a middle-range power. It has thus been able to offer expertise to others while it has continued to develop at a rapid pace. In terms of location and ethnic background of the majority of the population, Israel belongs to Asia and therefore is an integral part of the Third World of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Israel's economic, cultural, and political interactions with the Third World are the focal points of this volume. The articles reflect the evolution of Israel's position in the Third World, the range of its programs and activities, and the problems and constraints of its international relations. Many of the contributors are Israelis who have been personally connected with diplomatic, economic, or technical assistance activities. In addition to this practical treatment, Israeli and American scholars have tried to offer a more detached and objective view of the situation. The contributors indicate the contrasting conditions that have affected interchanges with Asian, African, and Latin American states. These views outline the possibilities and limitations of a small or middle-range power engaged in a persistent regional conflict to interact normally with other developing countries and share the benefits of its own development experiences. Contributors: Moshe Alpan, Shimeon Amir, Ehud Avriel, Joel Barromi, Michael Brecher, Michael Curtis, Samuel Decalo, Ephraim Dubek, Akiva Eger, Jacques Fomerand. Eli Ginzberg, Susan Aurelia Gitelson, Irving Louis Horowitz, Eliyahu Kanovsky, Edy Kaufman, Ran Kochan, Mordechai E. Kreinin, Netanel Lorch, Meron Medzini, Benjamin Rivlin, Dan Segre, Yoram Shapira, Yaacov Shimoni.

Israel in the Third World

Michael Walker

Clive P. Page

Morley C. Sutter

Designed for faculty use, this CD-ROM features the complete set of images and diagrams from Integrated Pharmacology. It can be used to create slides and acetates and contains approximately 800 high-quality, full-color images. Comes with student diskettes that allow students to take quizzes and get immediate feedback. Images can be customized with labels, notes, questions, and more. Constructs slide shows for lectures, presentations, and quizzes.

Integrated Pharmacology Courseware

Discover the poet in yourself, your ability to compose poems of birth, of love, of memorial and eulogy, of all the occasions of life. With easy instruction, learn step-by-step, by diagrams and numerous examples, the techniques of poetry both classical and contemporary. Each of the 22 chapters offers a "how to" of poetry technique, a "show-and-tell" of birthday poems, wedding poems, anniversary poems, et cetera. Author Michael Curtis sympathetically guides the writer into the art and the craft of writing poems for any occasion.

How to Write Poems for Any Occasion

Occasional Poetry

For architecture aficinados and historians, this comprehensive view of the statues, monuments and architectural plans of Washington DC provides an exciting insight into our federal city. Author Michael Curtis guides this tour of the heart of the District of Columbia's buildings, statues, and monuments. Classical design formed our nation's capital. The soaring Washington Monument, the columns of the Lincoln Memorial and the spectacular dome of the Capitol Building speak to the founders' expansive vision of our federal city. Learn about the L'Enfant and McMillan plans for Washington, D.C., and how those designs are reflected in two hundred years of monuments, museums and representative government. View the statues of our Founding Fathers with the eye of a sculptor and gain insight into the criticism and controversies of modern additions to Washington's monumental structure.

Classical Architecture and Monuments of Washington, D.C.: A History & Guide

The lives of the knuckleheaded artists, their splattered pictures, crooked statues, bumbled books, collapsing buildings, and other dumb things celebrated by curators, critics, carnival bakers, and clownish professors. Come! Enjoy this romp in rhyme, this tour of artsy Modern Art, that century-old old fashioned "new"; the anti-establishment, Establishment. Come! Laugh at those who look down their over-long noses at you, my good friends. A romp in rhyme, a tour of Modern Art, that century old fashion of the New, the anti-establishment Establishment, observed. The verses of Modern Art are intended to be employed like a rusty-nailed-fencepost in the hands of a bully by which you may beat pretentious modernists about the head, repeatedly. The author leaves out no cheap trick of meter or of rhyme to drive home his point. He employs adolescent singsong, doggerel, slanting rhyme; in short, every mischief making device that he can borrow or invent is used in a manner that would shame lesser poets; yes, he stoops to conquer. In fact, conquest is his aim; his tactic, wit; his weapons, mudslinging, ridicule, name calling, and other dirty tricks of antique pedigree.

A Critque in Rhyme

Modern Art

The Middle East provides a thematic analysis of major forces and trends in contemporary Middle East and a thorough examination of individual countries in the region. This comprehensive anthology, the first in more than two decades, explores the political environment, religious and ethnic factors, economic factors, the Arab world, the Palestinians and the territories, Israel, the role of the superpowers, and the Middle East's relationship with the rest of the world. Every informed reader will want to consult The Middle East to understand this important and complex area of the world. Contents (partial): William L. Cleveland, "Sources of Arab Nationalism"; Carl Leiden, "Arab Nationalism Today"; Opoku Agyeman, "Pan-Africanism versus Pan-Arabism"; Elbani Hermassi, "The Maghrib and the Middle East Conflict"; Lenore G. Martin, "Boundary Disputes in the Persian Gulf"; Bernard Lewis, "The Return of Islam"; Daniel Pipes, "Understanding Islam in Politics"; Emanuel Gutmann, "Religion and Its Role in National Integration in Israel"; George Moutafakis, "Minorities in the Modern Middle East Societies"; Stuart E. Colie, "The Shiites and the Lebanese Tragedy"; Kenneth J. Arrow, "Energy"; Fred M. Gottheil, "Saudi Arabian Economic Power"; Eliyahu Kanovsky, "Arab Oil Power"; Victor T. Le Vine, "The Arab World in the 1980s"; Bernard Lewis, "Islamic Political Movements"; Raymond N. Habiby and Fariborz Ghavidel, "Khumayni's Islamic Republic"; James P. Jankowski, "Nationalism in Twentieth Century Egypt"; Sheikh R. Ali, "The Iran-Iraq War"; Raymond N. Habiby, "Quadhafi's New Islamic Scientific Socialist Society"; Moshe Aumann, "Land Ownership in Palestine"; Fred M. Gottheil, "Arab Immigration into Pre-State Israel"; Yehoshua Porat, "The Palestinian-Arab Nationalist Movement"; Yonah Alexander, "The Nature of the PLO"; Sammy Smooha and John E. Hofrnan, "Arab-Jewish Coexistence in Israel"; Michael Curtis, "The Evolution of Israeli Politics"; Aaron S. Klieman, "Zionist Diplomacy and Israeli Foreign Policy"; Jay Adams, "Assessing Israel as a 'Strategist Asset'"; Saul B. Cohen, "Jerusalem's Unity and West Bank Autonomy"; Meron Benvenisti, "Postive Thinking in Jerusalem"; Steven L. Spiegel, "Recent American Policy in the Middle East"; Alan Dowty, "U.S. Decision-Making in Middle East Crises"; Michael Curtis, "American Interest and the Middle East"; Aaron Wildavsky, "American's National Interest in Israel"; Adam M. Garfinkle, "U.S. Policy in the Near Term"; James R. Kurth, "U.S. Policy and the West Bank"; Alvin Z. Rubinstein, "The Soviet Union's Imperial Policy in the Middle East"; Michael Curtis, "Africa, Israel, and the Middle East"; Victor T. Le Vine, "The Arabs and Africa"; W. Howard Wriggins, "South Asia and the Gulf"; Roy Licklide, "Arab Oil and Japanese Foreign Policy"; Linda B. Miller, "Western Europe and the Middle East"; Dan V. Segre, "Israel and the Third World."

The Middle East Reader

The events and persons of Europe from the Renaissance through the Enlightenment; kings and commons, sinners and saints, the sacred and secular, the Arts, the Sciences, the events of plan and of accident are spoken of and by great persons and persons of no account in virtue or in vice. Come, listen-in to chatter, the talk, the secrets, the opinions of Europe in the great sweep of history, classical rebirth the classic Christian fulfillment; hear scientists, artists, poets and their critics speak of those questions we all ask, the questions of being, knowing, behaving, some in humor, some, deadly serious.

Dispute

Lives of the Saints, the Sacraments, the Way of Christ; God the Father, His Creation, the Universe, Man, that Creature part Beast, part Angel, in Soul, Divine, in Action, a Sinner, Redeemed by Love. Here, for your Consideration, Our Confession.

Confession

The screen-novella, Appleseed's Progress (Volume III of "Eden to Ohio") is a telling of some seven excellent Johnny Appleseed adventures not commonly known, yet true in the nature of such things. You understand, true of stories, of myths and of legends, true in the words that live in our bones, in our souled minds transcendent and everlasting. Here live apple-seed rich ideas, Johnny tellings by which we Americans realize ourselves in our self.

Appleseed's Progress

"Colloquies, a Review of Civilization in Little Songs" in seven, pithy volumes, delightfully tells by portrait, anecdote, vignette, the history of Western Civilization, Greece, Rome, Europe, America, et alibi. Volume II, Commentary, introduces the reader to the colorful festivals, great events, and grand persons of Rome, the Republic, the Empire, the early, Christian Era. Composed in dramatic, verse dialogue, fashioned for the contemporary reader, Commentary teaches without lecture who once we were, who now we are, who tomorrow, we might become.

Commentary

Argument of the Book: Some have guessed that I was gathered from around Priapos' feet,of verses scrawled, of lines graffitied, and from inscriptions neat; others suppose I was composedby Maeceans' clever fellows when toasting P. in meter'd verse for bookish wit to show; many perceive the evidence of a fancy pedigree from Martial, Ovid, Juv, Catullus, and Virgil in composing me. Most recently my pages swell, tailing on Sir Richard Burton, as here by Curtis I'm augmented, and shortened, I'm certain. Yet, to the point, it matters not what ere the learned source is, so long as you do practice well the lesson of my courses.In review: This contemporary appreciation of the God of the Male Member, Priapus, remembers Roman precedent, borrows old prosody lightly to enliven lusty-life in sixty sonnets, each sonnet growing, swelling to invent sympathy for this ancient, honorable and gracious god now pitifully diminished in stature, in academic censure. Come! Join Priapus as we dance and sing, as we plant seed to give life, to give joy into one another.

The Priapeia

The Fire in Me Now tackles human imperfections head on and with great energy. In a forthright, at times angry and always eloquent series of poems, Michael Curtis takes us from managed rage through moving reflections on mortality and wry observations on the complications of love to a hard-won, uncompromising state of acceptance. In a world of continuing conflict, rampant technology and challenged values The Fire in Me Now is a powerful, telling collection, which responds with articulate urgency to our current condition. Michael Curtis grew up in Liverpool, attended Oxford and Sheffield universities, has worked in library and cultural services, literature development and events management and lives in Kent. He is widely published in magazines and anthologies and has given readings and workshops in England, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Belgium, France, Finland, Germany, Latvia, and the UN Buffer Zone, Cyprus. He was Writer in Residence for the Arts Council, England Great Expectations conference, the Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone, the Maison de Poesie, Nord/Pas de Calais in France, and the Writers and Translators House, Ventspils, Latvia. His work has been studied and translated at the Universities of Liege, Bucharest and Munich and broadcast on radio in England, Ireland, Romania and Latvia. Horizon, his eleventh collection of poems, was set on the Isle of Man and launched at the first Manx Litfest in 2012.

The Fire in Me Now

The verses of Modern Art: An Exhibition in Criticism, a book of poems by Michael Curtis, are intended to be employed like a rusty-nailed fencepost by which you may beat pretentious Modernists about the head, repeatedly. The author leaves out no cheap trick of meter or of rhyme to achieve his ends. He employs adolescent sing-song, doggerel, slanting rhyme--in short, every mischief-making device he can borrow or invent is used in a manner that would shame lesser poets. Yes, he stoops to conquer. Indeed, conquest is his aim; his tactic, wit; his weapons, mudslinging, ridicule, name-calling, and other dirty tricks of antique pedigree.

An Exhibition in Criticism

In his unique and indomitable style, Dr. Michael Curtis brings yet another clear and concise pre�sentation of the reality facing Israel and the world. Utilizing the metaphor of the miner's canary, used to give warning to the presence of poisonous gas, Curtis deftly lays out for the reader how the attitudes, lies and false dealings of the international community are used against Israel, and suggests they are not isolated in their impact only on Israel. Rather, they are but a canary's warning to the rest of the Western, demo�cratic world of their own impending danger. To those who are unaware of the multifarious and insidious ways in which antisemitism rears it ugly head (and that includes all who receive their news through the major news networks), the information laid out by Dr. Curtis will have the initial impression of being surreal. For the sake of Israel and the rest of the free world, it is hoped that the initial impression is short-lived.

A Sovereign Nation Under Attack by the International Community

Should Israel Exist?

Through an historical analysis of the theme of Oriental despotism, Michael Curtis reveals the complex positive and negative interaction between Europe and the Orient. The book also criticizes the misconception that the Orient was the constant victim of Western imperialism and the view that Westerners cannot comment objectively on Eastern and Muslim societies. The book views the European concept of Oriental despotism as based not on arbitrary prejudicial observation, but rather on perceptions of real processes and behavior in Eastern systems of government. Curtis considers how the concept developed and was expressed in the context of Western political thought and intellectual history, and of the changing realities in the Middle East and India. The book includes discussion of the observations of Western travelers in Muslim countries and analysis of the reflections of seven major thinkers: Montesquieu, Edmund Burke, Tocqueville, James and John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, and Max Weber.

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