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Adam and Hochschild
In King Leopold's Ghost ( 1998 ), Adam Hochschild argues that literary scholars have made too much of the psychological aspects of Heart of Darkness while scanting the horror of Conrad's accurate recounting of the methods and effects of colonialism.
* Hochschild, Adam: King Leopold ’ s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Mariner Books, 1998.
* Hochschild, Adam.
* 1998: The river's history is discussed in the 1998 book King Leopold's Ghost ( by Adam Hochschild ).
According to Adam Hochschild, author of a book on the Congo rubber terror, Lumumba's body was disposed of in an unmarked grave by a CIA agent.
It can also be translated in far less flattering terms, and it was suggested by Adam Hochschild that while Stanley understood it as an heroic epithet, his Congolese companions understood it in a mocking and pejorative tone.
* Hochschild, Adam: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa.
After the King transferred his private colony to Belgium, there was, as Adam Hochschild puts it in King Leopold's Ghost, a " Great Forgetting ".
* Hochschild, Adam: King Leopold ’ s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Mariner Books, 1998.
* King Leopold's Ghost, popular history book by Adam Hochschild
Despite this, Forbath claimed the loss was at least 5 million ; Adam Hochschild, and Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem, 10 million ; the Encyclopædia Britannica and Fredric Wertham's 1966 book " A Sign For Cain: An Exploration of Human Violence " estimate that the population of the Congo dropped from 30 million to 8 and 8. 5 million, respectively, in that period.
Adam Hochschild does not characterize the deaths as the result of a deliberate policy of genocide, but rather as the result of a brutal system of forced labor.
* Hochschild, Adam, King Leopold's Ghost, Pan ( 1999 ).
In his history book King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild suggests that Leon Rom was one of the inspirations for the Mr. Kurtz character, citing references as the heads on the stakes outside of the station and other similarities between the two.
In the English-speaking world, his genre is sometimes characterised as " magic journalism " ( in counterpoint to magic realism ), a term coined for him by Adam Hochschild in 1994.
* Adam Hochschild, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels ( Syracuse University Press, 1997 ), " World on a Hilltop ," pp. 123 – 139.
* Hochschild, Adam.
* Adam Hochschild, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels ( Syracuse University Press, 1997 ), " Summer of Violence ," pp. 140 – 150.
Past lecturers include Howard Zinn, Winona LaDuke, Lani Guinier, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Cornel West, Christopher Hitchens, Adam Hochschild, Amy Goodman, Molly Ivins, Jeff Chang, Tom Hayden, Angela Davis, Seymour Hersh, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Naomi Klein, Elizabeth Warren, and Robert Reich.
* Hochschild, Adam.
* Hochschild, Adam, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire ’ s Slaves ( Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2006 ), 467 pp., paperback: ISBN 978-0-618-61907-8
* CoBelCo. org French language site on Belgian Congo made with the consultation of Adam Hochschild and Jules Marchal.
* Interview with Adam Hochschild on AlterNet about King Leopold's Ghost

Adam and chapter
The Quran recounts the story of when the descendants of Adam were brought forth before God to testify that God alone is the Lord of creation and therefore only He is worthy of worship ( Quran chapter 7, verse 172 ), so that on the Day of Judgement, people could not make the excuse that they only worshipped others because they were following the ways of their ancestors.
Adam Smith used the phrase in his 1776 book The Wealth of Nations, and David Ricardo titled one chapter of his 1817 work Principles of Political Economy and Taxation " On the Influence of Demand and Supply on Price ".
Their definition of sympathy follows that used by Adam Smith, the title of his first chapter in the " Theory of Moral Sentiments.
When HCE is first introduced in chapter I. 2, the narrator relates how " in the beginning " he was a " grand old gardener ", thus equating him with Adam in the Garden of Eden.
Within the rabbinic tradition, the Kabbalah, chapter 20 of the Book of Enoch, and the Life of Adam and Eve, the usual number of archangels given is at least seven, who are the focal angels.
* Apocalypse Culture II, edited by Adam Parfrey, chapter by Sotos ( Feral House, 2000, ISBN 0-922915-57-1 )
Adam Smith uses the metaphor in Book IV, chapter II, paragraph IX of The Wealth of Nations.
In the Life of Adam and Eve, Uriel is regarded as the spirit ( i. e., one of the cherubs ) of the third chapter of Genesis.
However, Boen was initially absent from Telltale Games ' Tales of Monkey Island ; LeChuck was instead voiced by Adam Harrington in the first chapter, with Kevin Blackton voicing the human version of the character in the subsequent chapters.
The four main characters are Miriam, a beautiful painter who is compared to Eve, Beatrice Cenci, Lady Macbeth, Judith, and Cleopatra, and is pursued by a mysterious, threatening man who is her " evil genius " through life ; Hilda, an innocent copyist who is compared to the Virgin Mary and the white dove, and whose simple, unbendable moral principles can make her severe in spite of her tender heart ; Kenyon, a sculptor, who represents rationalist humanism ; and Donatello, the Count of Monte Beni, who is compared to Adam, and amazingly resembles the Faun of Praxiteles ; the novel plays with the characters ' belief that the count may be a descendant of the antique Faun, with Hawthorne withholding a definite statement even in the novel's concluding chapter.
The chapter ends with the declaration that " all things were confirmed unto Adam, by an holy ordinance, and the Gospel preached, and a decree sent forth, that it should be in the world, until the end thereof.
Marx and Engels probably derived the concept from Adam Smith's reference to the " productive powers of labour " ( see e. g. chapter 8 of The Wealth of Nations ), although the German political economist Friedrich List also mentions the concept of " productive powers " in The National System of Political Economy ( 1841 ).
She herself invites the comparison in chapter 17 of Adam Bede, and Mario Praz applies it to all her works in his study of The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction. Witermeyer, H. 1979.
Adam Smith used some of Fleetwood's data in the Wealth of Nations ( 1776 ) at the end of Book I, chapter XI but he did not develop — or even adopt — the idea of comparing purchasing power at different dates.
In Vol I, chapter 11, " Les différences ethniques sont permanentes " (" The ethnic differences are permanent "), Gobineau writes that " Adam is the originator of our white species " (" Adam soit l ’ auteur de notre espèce blanche "), and creatures not part of the white race are not part of that species.

Adam and book
The division of labour was initially discussed by Adam Smith, regarding the manufacture of pins, in his book The Wealth of Nations ( published in 1776 ).
Adam Smith discusses the division of labour in the manufacture of pins at length in his book The Wealth of Nations ( published in 1776 ).
In the Pearl of Great Price's section containing part of Joseph Smith's translation of the Bible's book of Moses, it refers to " a Book of Remembrance ", written in the language of Adam.
Such broad scope of the book may be the reason the Chronicler commences his genealogy with Adam.
In Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), Adam of Bremen mentions Birka many times, and the book is the main source of information on the city.
In his book the Blitzkrieg Legend, German historian Karl-Heinz Frieser also shares Adam Tooze ' ( in his work The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy ), Overy's and Naveh's concerns over the myth of the blitzkrieg economic and strategy.
Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.
In the 18th century Adam Smith popularized the forms " feudal government " and " feudal system " in his book Wealth of Nations ( 1776 ).
The queen herself was an avid reader of all of George Eliot's novels, being so impressed with Adam Bede that she commissioned the artist Edward Henry Corbould to paint scenes from the book.
Within a year of completing Adam Bede, she finished The Mill on the Floss, inscribing the manuscript: " To my beloved husband, George Henry Lewes, I give this MS. of my third book, written in the sixth year of our life together, at Holly Lodge, South Field, Wandsworth, and finished 21 March 1860.
This argument was explicitly given by Adam Smith in his Theory of Moral Sentiments, and has more recently been developed by Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman in his book The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.
In 1957, Rabbi Louis Jacobs, then lecturer at the Jews ' College and best friend of Laurence Kogan, London ; published his book " We Have Reason to Believe " ( Edited by Laurence Kogan and Adam Albert ), in which he said:
The Omphalos hypothesis was named after the title of an 1857 book, Omphalos by Philip Henry Gosse, in which Gosse argued that in order for the world to be " functional ", God must have created the Earth with mountains and canyons, trees with growth rings, Adam and Eve with hair, fingernails, and navels ( omphalos is Greek for " navel "), and that therefore no evidence that we can see of the presumed age of the earth and universe can be taken as reliable.
Following his death, the publishers of the Old Earth creationism book " Who Was Adam " issued a news release that said: " Evolution has just been dealt its death blow.
The new book, ‘ Who Was Adam ?’, is the silver bullet that puts the evolutionary model to death .” At the Tuskegee University's 79th Annual Scholarship Convocation / Parents ' Recognition Program he made the following statement regarding the subject of evolution while urging his audience to take seriously their role as the higher species on this planet.
The promise of a future resurrection appears in the Torah as well as in certain Jewish works, such as the Life of Adam and Eve, c 100 BC, and the Pharisaic book 2 Maccabees, c 124 BC.
Adam Brand, a merchant from Lübeck, published in 1698 his account of a Russian ambassy to China and a translation of his book, published the same year, introduced the word to English speakers.
An introduction to the field appropriate for general audiences is Adam Greenfield's book Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing ( ISBN 0-321-38401-6 ).
He ends the first book showing how all the ancient prophets have testified of Christ, and how it is only through Christ that one can be redeemed from the fall of Adam and their sins.
A 2009 book Pioneers of Industrial Organization traces the development of the field from Adam Smith to recent times and includes dozens of short biographies of major figures in Europe and North America who contributed to the growth and development of the discipline.
His most recent book, Evil Machines, was launched by the online publishing house Unbound at the Adam Street Club in London on 4 November 2011.
Beatus followed the views of Saint Augustine whose work, The City of God, influenced the Commentaries which followed the premise that the History of the World was structured in six ages: the first five ones extended between the creation of Adam, and the Passion of Jesus, while the sixth, subsequent to Christ and contemporary to us, had to end with the unleashing of the happenings prophesied by the book of Revelation.

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