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Adela Quested visits India with Mrs Moore to decide whether to marry the latter’s son, Ronny. Obsessed with understanding the ‘real India’, the two women make friends with Dr Aziz who invites them to the mysterious Marabar caves
PENETRATING AND PRACTICAL, "Logic Made Easy is filled with anecdotal histories detailing the often muddy relationship between language and logic. Complete with puzzles you can try yourself and questions you can use to raise your test scores, "Logic Made Easy invites readers to identify and ultimately remedy logical slips in everyday life.
In this brilliant and timely book Porritt has thrown down the gauntlet and provided the necessary data and analysis on our collective dilemma. Persuasive philosophical evocations and tactical guidelines, invites and repays detailed study.
It's 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise. Things just aren't as simple as they used to be - at least, not for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife has left him with his teenage son, his job is under threat and his mother is dying. Suddenly, into his confused life - and home - comes Jill, an eighteen-year-old runaway who becomes his lover. But when she invites her friend to stay, a young black radical named Skeeter, the pair's fragile harmony soon begins to fail ...
No nation in modern history has had a more powerful sense of its
own distinctiveness than the United States. Yet few Americans understand
the immensely varied sources of that sense and the fascinating debates
that have always swirled around our attempts to define "American"
with greater precision. All too many have come to regard the study
of their national history as tedious, just as they fail to embrace
the past as something in which they must be consciously grounded.
In this introduction to the study of U.S. history, Wilfred M. McClay
invites us to experience the perennial freshness and vitality of
this great subject as he explores some of the enduring commitments
and persistent tensions that have made America what it is.
