Bøger af Peter Green

The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir's celebrated autobiography recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figureFirst published in 1960, The Prime of Life offers an intimate, captivating picture of Simone de Beauvoir in her twenties, thirties and forties. Beginning as a recent graduate from the Sorbonne teaching high-school girls, we see de Beauvoir revel in the freedom her new financial independence brings. We see her and Jean-Paul Sartre recognise the powerful romantic and intellectual partnership they have found in one another, as they fall in love and define their own unconventional parameters. The Second World War comes, bringing austerity, violence and questions of the reality of freedom and individual responsibility into de Beauvoir's life. As relevant and penetrating as when first published, The Prime of Life offers rare insight into a truly fascinating mind.

A thoughtful and rigorous philosophical inquiry into the perennial question of why a benevolent and omnipotent God would allow suffering and evil to exist, seeking novel answers that challenge traditional theological dogmas.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

A jogger out for an early morning run discovers Nigel Butler, a hairdresser, dead, with a comb and scissors stuck up his ass, upside down in a trashcan in front of the Columbia Library. Jimmy Dugan, the only detective in the small Westchester town of Columbia, goes to the salon where Nigel worked and discovers that one of his former clients - a man he had a disagreement with - is Joey Davies, a "retired" mafioso and Columbia's most prominent citizen. Jimmy's investigation into the murder takes a twisting path with some unusual consequences: his family is threatened; there's a shoot-out in Columbia; the mob in a neighboring town is torn apart. Still whoever killed Nigel Butler remains on the loose.

"In Time All Truths Are Revealed" begins on the day Roberta Feinstein, a small-time drug dealer who works out of her apartment on the Upper West Side in New York City, has decided to give up her business. She'll see her last customers and then move on to a new life. From there the story moves ahead 15 years to Columbia, a small town in Westchester County, NY where a much-loved, local young woman has been raped and murdered. Jimmy Dugan, the only detective in the Columbia Police Department, connects that murder to five similar unsolved cases in the surrounding area. Could there be a serial rapist/murder living among them? Witnesses to the five unsolved cases all describe the same culprit: a big man - over 300 pounds and around 6 and 1/2 feet tall. Besides the description of the murderer, there is another connection between the crimes. All of the clothes of the victims are in place at the scene of the murder - except for their underpants. The panties belonging to all the women are missing. Jimmy and his sidekick Eddie come up with a fine-tuned plan to find their man. This sixth book in the Jimmy Dugan series is full of sharply drawn characters providing a support system that enables the reader to reach the most satisfying of endings. And what a surprise ending it is!

On their way home from a failed drug buy, Dupree Johnson and his cousin Lamont hitch a ride from a guy they know. There's another passenger in the car, Sean Finnegan, who has to make a stop at a house in the sleepy town of Columbia. They have no idea Sean is planning a break-in. In no time, all four are in jail being questioned by Columbia Det. Jimmy Dugan. Dupree and Lamont proclaim their innocence. All they were looking for, they tell Jimmy, was "a simple ride home." But Sean has information to trade. Much to Jimmy's surprise, he says the person at the house, Sal Pelagrino, is a local drug dealer and runs a crew. Meanwhile, Roberto Angelini, the owner of a hot, high-fashion beauty salon in New York is gunned down in the garage of his building. When the detective in charge, Morgan Flynn, discovers Angelini has a home in Columbia he calls Jimmy and asks him to do some digging. Jimmy and Morgan worked together before and since Jimmy isn't exactly swamped with criminal investigations - his usual day involves tracking down high school shoplifters and crime waves of stolen bicycles - he's happy to help out. In fact Jimmy is in something a funk over the way things are going for him: not only is his work uninspiring, but Felix, his aged cat and best friend, looks like he doesn't have long to go. The bright spots in Jimmy's life - his girlfriend Mary and her daughter Lucy - try to bolster him up as best they can. But what about Sal Pelagrino? Who is he? And who killed Roberto Angelini? Unraveling those stories takes Jimmy and the reader on an intriguing journey.

Crawford Taylor is not your ordinary shylock, no sir. None of your hook-nosed Fagins or Semitic stereotypes here, if you please. Crawford Taylor is your modern day shylock. He's suave and handsome and cool and elegant in his charcoal gray Armani suit and black Prada slip-ons. He's Harvard-educated with a grace and style you see all the time on the pages of GQ. Think George Clooney here only younger and without the gray hair. Crawford Taylor is perfectly tanned and dark-haired from people, they say, that go all the way back to the Mayflower. He carries himself like a leading man. Center stage. Head high. And the spotlight always shining on him, even if it's not. Crawford is upset. Payment is due. Not just due, very due, and a lot of money is at stake. A guy he was doing well with has been giving him the run-around. And payment is due. And nothing is forthcoming. One of the two people Crawford sends to collect the debt is shot and killed by the man that owes him the money in the parking lot of the diner in Columbia, a fictional small town in northern Westchester, N.Y. Columbia's only detective, Jimmy Dugan, handles the investigation. The trail leads Jimmy to drug dealers at the local school, a serial killer who preys on old people, and a New York garment center hot shot who owes Crawford a great deal of money. Such is the complexity of the intertwining plot lines that the only way to describe the outcome is something Jimmy's father used to say to him when he was a kid, "If you can only hang on long enough, things have a habit of working out."

A fast moving action novel, which is based on historical characters from the first half of the eighteenth century. Jenny Diver, whose character was included as a role in the Beggar's Opera and was also a character in the song 'Mac the Knife', was born in 1700 as Mary Jones in a Brothel in Ireland. She was adopted at the age of ten and her name was changed to Mary Young. Mary was given another name, Jenny Diver, by her gang as a term of endearment and is depicted as a Robin Hood type of character who, after running away at fifteen, makes her way in the world in London as a thief, an expert con artist and entrepreneur of the 'sting'. Twice Jenny is convicted under assumed names of theft and transported to Virginia before returning to London to continue her "business". The third time she is arrested is far more serious and she shares her story with twenty other convicts in Newgate prison, who have all been sentenced to death.

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This book addresses issues concerning the engineering of system prod- ucts that make use of computing technology. These systems may be prod- ucts in their own right, for example a computer, or they may be the computerised control systems inside larger products, such as factory automation systems, transportation systems and vehicles, and personal appliances such as portable telephones. In using the term engineering the authors have in mind a development process that operates in an integrated sequence of steps, employing defined techniques that have some scientific basis. Furthermore we expect the operation of the stages to be subject to controls and standards that result in a product fit for its intended purpose, both in the hands of its users and as a business venture. Thus the process must take account of a wide range of requirements relating to function, cost, size, reliabili- ty and so on. It is more difficult to define the meaning of computing technology. These days this involves much more than computers and software. For example, many tasks that might be performed by software running in a general purpose computer can also be performed directly by the basic technology used to construct a computer, namely digital hardware. However, hardware need not always be digital; we live in an analogue world, hence analogue signals appear on the boundaries of our systems and it can sometimes be advantageous to allow them to penetrate further.

Stunning photographs capturing diesels at work across six continents, from the mid-1970s to present day.

For the British 1st Airborne Division Operation Market Garden in September 1944 was a disaster. The Division was eliminated as a fighting force with around a half of its men were captured.

'Exams tend to corrupt; final exams corrupt finally.' This novel is about exams, literature, sex, cancer and time. It asks: 'What use is the study of literature?' Spanning the period 1961 to 2013, Final Exam follows the careers of three undergraduates. The settings are Cambridge University, Sussex University, and hospitals in and around London. Finally, the novel examines the reader. Ian McEwan says: 'I was fascinated and pleased by Final Exam - a stimulating blend of high energy intellectual and sexual tease.' Other readers' comments: 'Disgusting - but most beautifully written and erudite...' ('Maud', on the Kindle website.) 'Whose final exam, and examined by whom and about what? These questions make the novel a fascinating and thought- provoking read.' (Kate, High School Head of English.) 'I thought, "What has my friend and colleague done? Destroyed our occupation? Just had fun?"' (Laurence Lerner, poet and Professor of English.)

Sixteen short satires attacking the decadence of Rome - hilarious monologues performed by Simon Callow.

Believe! Let the fairies take you on an iconic adventure through New York City's heart and soul. Discover the secret beauty of the Statue of Liberty. Reach the mesmerizing heights of the Empire State Building. Play with the fairies of Central Park. Shop at fashionable 5th Avenue and celebrate the arrival of the New Year at Times Square. Immerse yourself in hustle and bustle of USA's most fascinating city in a whole new perspective. Experience the wonder and joy of A Secret New York.

Using the need for myth as the starting point for exploring a number of topics in Greek mythology and history, Green advances new ideas about why the human urge to make myths persists across the millennia and why the borderland between mythology and histo

A survey of the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, the Russian film-maker who lived from 1932-1986. It is a critical examination of his films in the light of his own writings and life, his aesthetics of film, his theory of time in cinematography and an attempt to comprehend his vision.

A lively combination of scholarship and unorthodoxy makes these studies in ancient history and literature unusually rewarding. Few of the objects of conventional admiration gain much support from Peter Green (Pericles and the "e;democracy"e; of fifth-century Athens are treated to a very cool scrutiny) but he has a warm regard for the real virtues of antiquity and for those who spoke with "e;an individual voice."e;The studies cover both history and literature, Greece and Rome. They range from the real nature of Athenian society to poets as diverse as Sappho and Juvenal, and all of them, without laboring any parallels, make the ancient world immediately relevant to our own. (There is, for example, a very perceptive essay on how classical history often becomes a vehicle for the historian's own political beliefs and fantasies of power.) The student of classical history will find plenty in this book to enrich his own studies. The general reader will enjoy the vision of a classical world which differs radically from what he probably expects.

These 16 literary and historical essays cover a wide range of subjects, from Greek attitudes toward death to the mysteries of the Delphic Oracle. The text reveals the author's concern that we are losing the legacy of antiquity through corrosive methodologies of modern academic criticism.

Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise of power. Green, a Cambridge-trained classicist who is also a novelist, portrays Alexander as both a complex personality and a single-minded general, a man capable of such diverse expediencies as patricide or the massacre of civilians. Green describes his Alexander as "e;not only the most brilliant (and ambitious) field commander in history, but also supremely indifferent to all those administrative excellences and idealistic yearnings foisted upon him by later generations, especially those who found the conqueror, tout court, a little hard upon their liberal sensibilities."e;This biography begins not with one of the universally known incidents of Alexander's life, but with an account of his father, Philip of Macedonia, whose many-territoried empire was the first on the continent of Europe to have an effectively centralized government and military. What Philip and Macedonia had to offer, Alexander made his own, but Philip and Macedonia also made Alexander form an important context for understanding Alexander himself. Yet his origins and training do not fully explain the man. After he was named hegemon of the Hellenic League, many philosophers came to congratulate Alexander, but one was conspicuous by his absence: Diogenes the Cynic, an ascetic who lived in a clay tub. Piqued and curious, Alexander himself visited the philosopher, who, when asked if there was anything Alexander could do for him, made the famous reply, "e;Don't stand between me and the sun."e; Alexander's courtiers jeered, but Alexander silenced them: "e;If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."e; This remark was as unexpected in Alexander as it would be in a modern leader.For the general reader, the book, redolent with gritty details and fully aware of Alexander's darker side, offers a gripping tale of Alexander's career. Full backnotes, fourteen maps, and chronological and genealogical tables serve readers with more specialized interests.

The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet few scholars have attempted the daunting task of seeing the period whole, of refracting its achievements and reception through the lens of a single critical mind. Alexander to Actium was conceived and written to fill that gap.In this monumental work, Peter Green-noted scholar, writer, and critic-breaks with the traditional practice of dividing the Hellenistic world into discrete, repetitious studies of Seleucids, Ptolemies, Antigonids, and Attalids. He instead treats these successor kingdoms as a single, evolving, interrelated continuum. The result clarifies the political picture as never before. With the help of over 200 illustrations, Green surveys every significant aspect of Hellenistic cultural development, from mathematics to medicine, from philosophy to religion, from literature to the visual arts.Green offers a particularly trenchant analysis of what has been seen as the conscious dissemination in the East of Hellenistic culture, and finds it largely a myth fueled by Victorian scholars seeking justification for a no longer morally respectable imperialism. His work leaves us with a final impression of the Hellenistic Age as a world with haunting and disturbing resemblances to our own. This lively, personal survey of a period as colorful as it is complex will fascinate the general reader no less than students and scholars.

During the final days of the Second World War, for 900 Allied officers, held by the Germans in Oflag IX A/H and Oflag IX A/Z, freedom was still a world away. Marched east by their captors, away from the liberating American forces, March and April 1945 was a time of great trials, at the mercy of vengeful Nazis and Allied air raids.