Bücher von James Hughes

Process of Elimination is about a young man who has suffered a terrible loss, one that has crippled him emotionally for months. In the book, he grieves and searches for a reason to resume his life, until he is seized by an idea that gives him a reason to face each day and the motivation to start living his life again: he is going to even the score. About the AuthorAuthor James Hughes has always enjoyed reading and writing. Growing up he especially enjoyed the writings of O. Henry (real name William Sydney Porter). He liked the unique twists and surprise endings to his stories. While working as a career engineer, Hughes was required to write about the many military systems he worked on, but these were mostly factual accounts and reports about those systems. It was writing, but not the kind he had in mind. Process of Elimination was written over several years, starting first in Hughes' mind before he tried to put it all down in words. He would write for periods of time, let it lay for months, and then would again attempt to flesh out the story as new ideas and thoughts came to him to add to the narrative. In July of 2018, he decided that had said all he wanted to say in Process of Elimination, his attempt at an O. Henry-inspired story.

Here is a light, pithy book on the familiar theme: "The humanities are in deep trouble." Walter Kaufmann, Professor of Philosophy at Princeton and advocate of humanism in his writings on philosophy, literature, religion, as well as through his own poetry and translations, is vexed that so many of his fellow academicians are indifferent to the nature, purpose, and fate of the humanities. He calls these professors "scholastics" because they pursue arcane knowledge and treat learning as "a kind of 'sport,' if not a game, or a racket." He accuses them, along with the "journalists," who purvey superficial and erroneous information, of undermining the stature of the humanities, but he believes that stature can be restored by making the goals and methods of the humanities explicit and demanding. The principal goal is "to teach vision," which is a sense of values and the meaning of experience, and this can be achieved only by scrutinizing language and ideas, developing critical thought, and constructing intellectual syntheses. Kaufmann does not offer these convictions as mere generalizations but embodies them in concrete pedagogical and scholarly proposals (with examples from his own teaching). He has also "leaned over backwards not to be gentle" to his enemies, so he is more specific, direct, and argumentative than educational writers usually are. Readers will not sleep through Kaufmann's pages, and even if they reject his ideas, they will lay the book aside wondering, as Kaufmann wants them to do: "What kind of future would we like to build?" (Kirkus Reviews)

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This volume explores the common trends and differences in the responses of the new post-Soviet states to the problems of state-building in ethnically and regionally divided societies.

This 1991 book makes an important contribution to the evaluation of the origins of Stalinism. Dr Hughes presents an in depth examination of the crisis of the New Economic Policy from the regional perspective of Siberia and analyses the events and pressures 'from below', at the grassroots level of Soviet society.