Alexander the Great Failure
Title | Alexander the Great Failure PDF eBook |
Author | John D Grainger |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 2009-08-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 082644394X |
In this authoritative book John Grainger explores the foundations of Alexander's empire and why it did not survive after his untimely death in 323 BC.
Alexander the Great Failure
Title | Alexander the Great Failure PDF eBook |
Author | John D Grainger |
Publisher | Continuum |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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A provocative title, obviously, but this book isn't just polemic, and makes some very valid points about the traditional view of Alexander and his supposed genius.
Failure
Title | Failure PDF eBook |
Author | Arjun Appadurai |
Publisher | Polity |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-11-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781509504718 |
Wall Street and Silicon Valley – the two worlds this book examines – promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in the age of seamless “flow.” Instead, Appadurai and Alexander propose a theory of habitual and strategic failure by exploring debt, crisis, digital divides, and (dis)connectivity. Moving between the planned obsolescence and deliberate precariousness of digital technologies and the “too big to fail” logic of the Great Recession, they argue that the sense of failure is real in that it produces disappointment and pain. Yet, failure is not a self-evident quality of projects, institutions, technologies, or lives. It requires a new and urgent understanding of the conditions under which repeated breakdowns and collapses are quickly forgotten. By looking at such moments of forgetfulness, this highly original book offers a multilayered account of failure and a general theory of denial, memory, and nascent systems of control.
We are Few
Title | We are Few PDF eBook |
Author | Annette B. Fromm |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780739120613 |
The Jewish community of Ioannina, in Northwestern Greece, traces its roots to Byzantine times if not earlier. In the early 20th century, at least half of the community's population emigrated to settle in Athens, Israel, and the United States because of economic and religious reasons. The cataclysm of the Holocaust dramatically decimated the community. This steady outward movement created an abrupt rupture of their patterns of traditional culture. We are Few brings this unique community to life in a series of ethnographic sketches of history and traditional culture in order to understand its intense allegiance to ethnic identity. Dr. Annette Fromm explores the decreasing inventory of cultural traditions from the patterns of daily life to the rituals and customs associated with life cycle events and holiday celebrations. Through the periodic return of individuals associated with the Jews of Ioannina, pilgrims, a new avenue of the expression of ethnic identity has been created. These visits reassure residents that the Jewish community of Ioannina still exists no matter how dispersed. This study is useful for graduate level students and researchers of Anthropology and Jewish Studies.
By the Spear
Title | By the Spear PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Worthington |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 411 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0199929866 |
A unique military and cultural history that chronicles the reigns of Philip and Alexander the Great in one sweeping narrative.
Alexander the Great
Title | Alexander the Great PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Everitt |
Publisher | Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Pages | 505 |
Release | 2021-06-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0425286533 |
What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world’s greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait. “[An] infectious sense of narrative momentum . . . Its energy is unflagging, including the verve with which it tackles that teased final mystery about the specific cause of Alexander’s death.”—The Christian Science Monitor More than two millennia have passed since Alexander the Great built an empire that stretched to every corner of the ancient world, from the backwater kingdom of Macedonia to the Hellenic world, Persia, and ultimately to India—all before his untimely death at age thirty-three. Alexander believed that his empire would stop only when he reached the Pacific Ocean. But stories of both real and legendary events from his life have kept him evergreen in our imaginations with a legacy that has meant something different to every era: in the Middle Ages he became an exemplar of knightly chivalry, he was a star of Renaissance paintings, and by the early twentieth century he’d even come to resemble an English gentleman. But who was he in his own time? In Alexander the Great, Anthony Everitt judges Alexander’s life against the criteria of his own age and considers all his contradictions. We meet the Macedonian prince who was naturally inquisitive and fascinated by science and exploration, as well as the man who enjoyed the arts and used Homer’s great epic the Iliad as a bible. As his empire grew, Alexander exhibited respect for the traditions of his new subjects and careful judgment in administering rule over his vast territory. But his career also had a dark side. An inveterate conqueror who in his short life built the largest empire up to that point in history, Alexander glorified war and was known to commit acts of remarkable cruelty. As debate continues about the meaning of his life, Alexander's death remains a mystery. Did he die of natural causes—felled by a fever—or did his marshals, angered by his tyrannical behavior, kill him? An explanation of his death can lie only in what we know of his life, and Everitt ventures to solve that puzzle, offering an ending to Alexander’s story that has eluded so many for so long.
Soldier, Priest, and God
Title | Soldier, Priest, and God PDF eBook |
Author | F. S. Naiden |
Publisher | |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0190875348 |
"This is the first life of Alexander the Great to explore his religious experience, to put his experience in Egypt and Asia on a par with his Macedonian upbringing and Greek education, and to explain how the European conqueror became a Moslem saint"--