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"The Anarchist Inquisition is a narrative history of the transnational human rights campaigns that emerged in opposition to the Spanish state's brutal repression of the workers movement in the wake of anarchist propaganda by the deed at the turn of the twentieth century"--

Anarchism --- History --- Spain --- Spain. --- France --- El proceso de Montjuich, Ravachol, Francisco Ferrer, Propaganda by the deed, 1909 Tragic Week rebellion, Charles Malato,.

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After the Mongol period, Persian was the official written language in Iran, Central Asia and India. A vast amount of documents relating to administration and social life were produced and yet, unlike Ottoman and Arabic documents, Persian historical resources have received very little critical attention. This book is the first to use Persian Documents as the sources of social history in Early Modern Iran and Central Asia. The contributors examine four distinct elements of the documents:* the formal aspects of the sources are initially inspected* the second part focuses on newly discover

Iran --- Asia, Central --- History --- Central Asia --- Soviet Central Asia --- Tūrān --- Turkestan --- West Turkestan --- Asia --- República Islâmica do Irã --- Irã --- Persia --- Northern Tier --- Islamic Republic of Iran --- Jumhūrī-i Islāmī-i Īrān --- I-lang --- Paras-Iran --- Paras --- Persia-Iran --- I.R.A. --- Islamische Republik Iran --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Iran --- I.R.I. --- IRI --- ايران --- جمهورى اسلامى ايران --- Êran --- Komarî Îslamî Êran --- Regional studies --- Politics & government --- waqf --- deed --- iranian --- plateau --- water --- right --- safavid --- period --- urban --- rural

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Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart.At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only people learned the principles of verbal correctness, the essential rules, wouldn't good prose simply fall into place? Thomas and Turner say no. Attending to rules of grammar, sense, and sentence structure will no more lead to effective prose than knowing the mechanics of a golf swing will lead to a hole-in-one. Furthermore, ten-step programs to better writing exacerbate the problem by failing to recognize, as Thomas and Turner point out, that there are many styles with different standards.In the first half of Clear and Simple, the authors introduce a range of styles--reflexive, practical, plain, contemplative, romantic, prophetic, and others--contrasting them to classic style. Its principles are simple: The writer adopts the pose that the motive is truth, the purpose is presentation, the reader is an intellectual equal, and the occasion is informal. Classic style is at home in everything from business memos to personal letters, from magazine articles to university writing.The second half of the book is a tour of examples--the exquisite and the execrable--showing what has worked and what hasn't. Classic prose is found everywhere: from Thomas Jefferson to Junichirō Tanizaki, from Mark Twain to the observations of an undergraduate. Here are many fine performances in classic style, each clear and simple as the truth.Originally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Report writing. --- English language --- English language --- Style. --- Rhetoric. --- Abstraction. --- Accessibility. --- Active voice. --- Allegory. --- Antithesis. --- Approximation. --- Areopagitica. --- Classical language. --- Colloquialism. --- Concept. --- Conflation. --- Creative nonfiction. --- Deed. --- Distraction. --- Divine providence. --- Elizabeth Eisenstein. --- Empiricism. --- Erudition. --- Essay. --- Etiquette. --- Family resemblance. --- Figure of speech. --- Fine art. --- Formality. --- Greatness. --- Handbook. --- Heuristic. --- Hilary Putnam. --- Humility. --- Ideogram. --- Image schema. --- Inception. --- Informality. --- Ingenuity. --- Introspection. --- Invention. --- Irony. --- James Thurber. --- Julian Barnes. --- Kenneth Burke. --- Lady Catherine de Bourgh. --- Lettres provinciales. --- Level of detail. --- Linguistic competence. --- Mark Twain. --- Metonymy. --- Mr. --- Narrative. --- New Thought. --- Obfuscation. --- On Truth. --- Optimism. --- Oracle. --- Parody. --- Peor. --- Persuasive writing. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Phrase. --- Piety. --- Plain English. --- Platitude. --- Prima facie. --- Printing. --- Prose. --- Provenance. --- Reasonable person. --- Religion. --- Result. --- Rhetoric. --- Righteousness. --- Romanticism. --- Science. --- Self-interest. --- Selfishness. --- Sentimentality. --- Silliness. --- Simile. --- Sincerity. --- Sir Thomas Elyot. --- Skepticism. --- Sophistication. --- Special pleading. --- Spoken language. --- Standard English. --- Subtitle (captioning). --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- The Elements of Style. --- The Other Hand. --- Theorem. --- Thought. --- Thucydides. --- Treatise. --- Understanding. --- Understatement. --- Verbosity. --- White's. --- Writing style. --- Writing.

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"In this book the philosophers Steve Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro will explain why bad thinking happens to good people. Why is it, they ask, that so large a segment of public can go so wrong in both how they come to form the opinions they do and how they fail to appreciate the moral consequences of acting on them. Their diagnosis of the current state of affairs in America, at least, is this: a significant proportion of the population is stupid. They intend this not as mere name-calling, but a diagnosis of a problem that we neglect at our peril. By "stupid" they do not mean lacking intelligence, knowledge, education, skill or savvy. Stupidity, as they understand it, is a character flaw deserving of blame. Unlike ignorance or lack of intelligence-and bearing in mind that even very smart people can be stupid-it is generally avoidable. Stupid people do not have to be stupid. But they typically refuse to take the steps that would cure them of their condition. This book is our effort to illuminate the various dimensions of stupidity so that it might be more easily recognized and treated. The philosophical subjects of epistemology, which addresses what knowledge is and how to distinguish knowing something from merely believing it, and ethics, the study of the moral principles that ought to govern our behavior, can help us understand the difficult and perilous situation in which we now find ourselves. As philosophers, Nadler and Shapiro will aim to offer a way forward through the tools of philosophy-its questions, its methods and even its millennia-old history of recommendations for how to lead a good and rational life. As they will show, the most potent antidote to stupidity is the wisdom and insights, as well as the practical skills provided by philosophy and its history"-- "Why the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today's epidemic of irrationalityThere is an epidemic of bad thinking in the world today. An alarming number of people are embracing crazy, even dangerous, ideas. They believe that vaccinations cause autism. They reject the scientific consensus on climate change as a "hoax." And they blame the spread of COVID-19 on the 5G network or a Chinese cabal. Worse, bad thinking drives bad acting-it even inspired a mob to storm the U.S. Capitol. In this book, Steven Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro argue that the best antidote for bad thinking and acting is the wisdom, insights, and practical skills of philosophy. When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People provides an engaging tour through the basic principles of logic, argument, evidence, and probability that can make all of us more reasonable and responsible citizens.When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People shows how we can more readily spot and avoid flawed arguments and unreliable information; determine whether evidence supports or contradicts an idea; distinguish between merely believing something and knowing it; and much more. In doing so, the book reveals how epistemology, which addresses the nature of belief and knowledge, and ethics, the study of moral principles that should govern our behavior, can reduce bad thinking and bad action. Moreover, the book shows why philosophy's millennia-old advice about how to lead a good, rational, and examined life is essential for escaping our current predicament.In a world in which irrationality has exploded to deadly effect, When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People is a timely and essential guide for a return to reason"--

Thought and thinking. --- Fallacies (Logic) --- Abductive reasoning. --- Admonition. --- Akrasia. --- Aphorism. --- Apology (Plato). --- Baruch Spinoza. --- Base rate fallacy. --- Base rate. --- Causality. --- Certainty. --- Climate change. --- Confirmation bias. --- Consideration. --- Conspiracy theory. --- Copyright. --- Cover-up. --- Decision-making. --- Deductive reasoning. --- Deed. --- Deliberation. --- Discretion. --- Disgust. --- Disjunctive syllogism. --- Embarrassment. --- Epistemology. --- Ethics. --- Eudaimonia. --- Euthyphro (prophet). --- Euthyphro. --- Evidentialism. --- Existence of God. --- Explanation. --- Fallacy. --- Feeling. --- Good and evil. --- Gun control. --- Hoax. --- Hypothesis. --- Idiot. --- Inductive reasoning. --- Inference. --- Instance (computer science). --- Irrationality. --- Laziness. --- Literature. --- Logic. --- Mathematician. --- Meditations on First Philosophy. --- Morality. --- Nicomachean Ethics. --- Objectivity (philosophy). --- Observation. --- Of Education. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy of science. --- Philosophy. --- Phronesis. --- Piety. --- Plato. --- Police officer. --- Politician. --- Practical reason. --- Pre-Socratic philosophy. --- Prejudice. --- Premise. --- Premises. --- Principle. --- Probability. --- Psychologist. --- Quantity. --- Racism. --- Rationality. --- Reason. --- Reasonable person. --- Requirement. --- Result. --- Science. --- Scientific method. --- Scientist. --- Security guard. --- Self-control. --- Shame. --- Skepticism. --- Slippery slope. --- Soundness. --- State of affairs (sociology). --- Stupidity. --- Suffering. --- Suggestion. --- The Philosopher. --- The unexamined life is not worth living. --- Theft. --- Theory of justification. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Truism. --- Uncertainty. --- Vaccination. --- Validity.

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The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909-1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the longstanding but mistaken consensus that before 1500 the dynasties of the Islamic Middle East produced few documents, and preserved even fewer.Beginning with government documents before the Fatimids and paper's westward spread across Asia, Rustow reveals a millennial tradition of state record keeping whose very continuities suggest the strength of Middle Eastern institutions, not their weakness. Tracing the complex routes by which Arabic documents made their way from Fatimid palace officials to Jewish scribes, the book provides a rare window onto a robust culture of documentation and archiving not only comparable to that of medieval Europe, but, in many cases, surpassing it. Above all, Rustow argues that the problem of archives in the medieval Middle East lies not with the region's administrative culture, but with our failure to understand preindustrial documentary ecology.Illustrated with stunning examples from the Cairo Geniza, this compelling book advances our understanding of documents as physical artifacts, showing how the records of the Fatimid caliphate, once recovered, deciphered, and studied, can help change our thinking about the medieval Islamicate world and about premodern polities more broadly.

Fatimites --- History --- Abbasid Caliphate. --- Al-Dawla. --- Ancien Régime. --- Anecdote. --- Arabic script. --- Arabic. --- Arabs. --- Archive. --- Archivist. --- Authentication. --- Ayyubid dynasty. --- Book hand. --- Bookbinding. --- Bureaucrat. --- Buyid dynasty. --- Cairo Geniza. --- Caliphate. --- Calligraphy. --- Calque. --- Cambridge University Library. --- Cartulary. --- Central Asia. --- Chancery hand. --- Civilization. --- Consideration. --- Copts. --- Copying. --- Copyist. --- Decree. --- Deed. --- Despotism. --- Documents (magazine). --- Dowry. --- Ductus (linguistics). --- Dunhuang. --- Encyclopaedia of Islam. --- Epigraphy. --- Fatimid Caliphate. --- Fustat. --- Genizah. --- Geoffrey Khan. --- Governance. --- Government Office. --- Grammar. --- Historiography. --- Ibn Muqla. --- Illustration. --- Infrastructure. --- Injunction. --- Institution. --- Investiture. --- Islam. --- Jews. --- Laissez-faire. --- Late Antiquity. --- Leopold von Ranke. --- Literacy. --- Literature. --- Manuscript. --- Middle East. --- Mosque. --- Muslim world. --- Narrative. --- Near East. --- Orientalism. --- Ottoman Empire. --- Papyrology. --- Papyrus. --- Parchment. --- Payment. --- Petitioner. --- Philology. --- Poetry. --- Precedent. --- Proportion (architecture). --- Publication. --- Quantity. --- Rabbinic literature. --- Raw material. --- Receipt. --- Records management. --- Recto and verso. --- Religious text. --- Rescript. --- Reuse. --- Romance languages. --- Rotulus. --- Ruler. --- Sanskrit. --- Sasanian Empire. --- Sharia. --- Sitt al-Mulk. --- Sogdia. --- Tax collector. --- Tax. --- Treatise. --- Umayyad Caliphate. --- Vassal. --- Vizier. --- Writing.