He won the Director's Gold Medal for the best Officer Trainee at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration amongst the officers of his batch. Before joining the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1981 he served the Indian Police Service for a year. Born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, he earned his Master's Degree in Political Science from Allahabad University in 1978 where he was also awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal for being the Best All Round Student. As a strategic thinker and an innovative leader, he won several awards and nomĭuring his career spanning 38 years, Anil Swarup attempted to 'make it happen'. As a civil servant, he held various assignments within both the State (Uttar Pradesh) and Central Government. During his career spanning 38 years, Anil Swarup attempted to 'make it happen'.
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It provides a great counter/corrective both to the stale universe of Anglo-American liberal democratic theory (which often seems so clinical and removed from real peoples’ political lives and problems), as well as to many conservative attacks on liberalism (which tend to assume that liberalism is supposed to be value-neutral). The Lost History of Liberalism reveals historical liberalism’s moral complexity, and also tracks the history of bad-faith reactionary attacks on liberal philosophy. Within a few chapters, Rosenblatt does away the notion that there is any simple way of understanding liberalism, by demonstrating how meanings shift around historically. I was skeptical about this at first, fearing that it would be too narrow or boring, but not for long. Rosenblatt approaches her subject from a linguistic perspective: she traces the meaning of the word liberalism back through history, and then interprets out from there. This is an academic book, but it’s still pretty accessible and has impressive breadth. The Lost History of Liberalism, by Helena Rosenblatt. Here are five books that helped me through it: This has been a humbling year full of turmoil and strife. How does Johnny feel about Sam? Johnny respects Sam.ġ1. He feels sorry for Bill having endured torment from Johnny.ġ0. How does Sam feel about Bill’s relationship with Johnny? He feels sympathy for Bill. How does Johnny feel about being kidnapped? Johnny is having a good time and enjoying his adventure.ĩ. What are Bill Driscoll’s feelings toward Johnny, the kidnapped boy? He fears Johnny.Ĩ. Where do they hide the boy after they kidnap him? They all hide in a cave in a nearby mountain.ħ. Why don’t the kidnappers worry that the boy might run away? They don’t worry because Red Chief has made it clear that he is having a good time.Ħ. He has red hair, freckles, and is ten years old.ĥ. 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Now Mason will have to lead the cadets in a daring assault to take back the ship, rescue the survivors, and recover the weapon. And soon they find out exactly why the Tremist chose this ship to attack: the Egypt is carrying a weapon that could change the war forever. With the captain and crew dead, injured, or taken prisoner, Mason and the cadets are all that's left to warn the ESC. The trip was supposed to be a short routine voyage to log their required spacetime for summer quarter.īut routine goes out the airlock when they're attacked by the Tremist, an alien race who have been at war with humanity for the last sixty years. Two weeks ago, thirteen-year-old Mason Stark and seventeen of his fellow cadets from the Academy for Earth Space Command boarded the SS Egypt. The Planet Thieves is the first thrilling installment of a new middle-grade series by Dan Krokos. First serial to Granta, Harper's and the Sciences. Despite its use of the famous name Einstein in the title, Einsteins Dreams is less about the man himself than the possibilities within each of us for imagining. The great scientist broods in the hazy distance, indifferent as the Alps above this chronometric carnival. Its one disappointment is a scanty view of Einstein, whom we glimpse only in the waking interludes which periodically break the progression of dream-worlds. Lightman's speculative prose poem warrants comparison to Calvino's masterful Invisible Cities. Each variation spawns its own weird psychology, yet magically, touchingly, each also echoes patterns of events that take place in supposedly ordinary time. The Prologue introduces him as a young man who works in a patent office he is asleep at his desk before dawn, having stayed up most of the night working. In a third, time reverses unexpectedly in a fourth, it stutters and skips. Einstein's Dreams features the fictional dreams of the real-life scientist Albert Einstein during the year he developed his theory of time. Each dream embodies ``one of the many possible natures of time.'' In one world time proceeds in circles in another its rate varies with location. Science writer Lightman ( A Modern Day Yankee in a Connecticut Court ) seems to have mastered this principle: his slender but substantial fictional debut is a daring re-creation of Einstein's dreams during May and June 1905, when the Swiss patent clerk was putting the final touches on his special theory of relativity. Few endeavors are more beguiling than a grossly improbable conceit realized with subtlety and wit. No matter what Tiny does, people love him.īut this doesn't mean that Tiny is all about himself. If they do, they get shut down right away. No one makes fun of him for being gay or even for being unapologetically into musical theater. Sure, Tiny isn't conventionally attractive (he's actually "big-boned" (16.100)), but he has friends and boyfriends coming out the wazoo. Will is even jealous of all the attention he gets. He rushes into a room and all eyes are on him-and he clearly loves it. To be fair to Will, though, anyone would feel small standing next to Tiny Cooper. Tiny is huge, confident, loud, clever, and talented, all things that Will isn't. So while Tiny and Will have been friends since fifth grade, it isn't as great as you might imagine. Yes, Tiny is physically large, but he also has a huge personality-he's large in every way. Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large. Will pretty much sums up his best friend with this quote: Tiny Cooper is the man between our Will Graysons-best friend to Will and first boyfriend to will, Tiny's kind of at the center of everything. Unfortunately, sometimes doing all the right things doesn’t really matter and you still end up struggling to make ends meet, not succeeding in your career, and struggling to make meaningful connections. Madeleine did everything a good girl is supposed to do: get good grades, be a leader in school clubs, go to a good college, get a job, work to be the best you can be. I don’t know that I have ever related to a character in a book as much as I do Madeleine. “I didn’t plan to be this dysfunctional at 27, but dysfunctionality has a way of creeping up on you.” When I found out that The Foxe and the Hound was going to be Madeleine’s story, I began counting the days until its release. I think in my GoodReads review for Anything I begged for Grey to write Madeleine’s story. I loved Anything You Can Do. I thought it was fantastic, and one of my favorite parts was the character, Madeleine. It is a stand-alone book but is in the same family as R.S. There are not words to explain how freaking excited I was to read this book. Disclaimer: I was kindly provided an Advanced Reader Copy of this book by the author in exchange for an honest review. Garry Leach at this stage also owns Alan Davis’s share, so has 60% in total, with Dez Skinn still owning his 10%, meaning that Eclipse end up buying a 70% stake in the character. At this time, the copyright for Miracleman (recently changed from Marvelman, which it was originally), is believed to be owned by Alan Moore, Garry Leach, Alan Davis, and Dez Skinn in a ratio of 30% - 30% - 30% - 10%.įebruary 1986: Dez Skinn and Garry Leach sell their rights to Miracleman to Eclipse Comics, at least partly due to their unhappiness at Eclipse Comics’ Editor-in-Chief cat yronwode’s choice of Chuck Beckum as the next Miracleman artist, from issue #6. So, in an attempt to put it all into some sort of context, I’m listing what I see as the main points of their dispute, in chronological order, as exactly as I can, along with some earlier events, to put it all into context.Īugust 1985: Miracleman #1, reprinting stories originally published in Warrior, is published by Eclipse Comics in California. Although Gaiman and McFarlane’s first meeting in court was on the 1st of October, 2002, nearly ten years ago now, the cause of their dispute goes back nearly ten years before that, with roots set in place some years before that, again. And when I say ‘long-running,’ this is very nearly an enormous understatement. On the 27th of January, 2012, Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane finally settled their long-running legal dispute over Gaiman's share of various Spawn properties. |