Good Devil - Bookshelf
224 pages
Creator: Stephen Batchelor | Religion - 2004-06-07
A personal meditation by the best-selling Buddhist philosopher considers the existence of evil in the world, drawing on western and Buddhist literature to profile the devil as a deceptive or distracting obstacle to true goodness and ...
Publisher: Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
About this book
Living with the Devil is Stephen Batchelor's work on humankind's greatest struggle - to become good. Batchelor traces the trajectory - from the words of the Buddha and Christ, through the writings at Shantideva, Milton, and Pascal, to the poetry of Baudelaire and the fiction of Kafka - of impediments that keep us from doing what's in our own and others' best interests. He shows us the myriad forms those obstacles take: a wandering farmer, a caring friend, a devout religious believer, a powerful king, even a frustrated old man who doodles in the sand when he cannot snare the Buddha. The devil need not appear with horns and a forked tail: he stands for everything that paralyzes our innate wisdom, freedom, and empathy, thus blocking our paths in life. In a world of black and white, Batchelor paints in shades of gray, illustrating what it means to live in an ambiguous and precarious environment that continually tempts us from what we hold to be good.Drawing on classic religious texts from East and West, as well as the findings of modern physics and evolutionary biology, Batchelor asks us to examine who we really are, and to rest in the uncertainty that we may never know.Living with the Devil tells a tale that weaves its way among philosophy, religion, and science, and psychology, history, and myth. This is a book that will challenge your attitudes, your beliefs, the very way you live your life.
392 pages
Creator: Susan Millar Williams | Literary Criticism - 2008-10-15
A white plantation mistress who vowed to write what is, even if it is unpleasant, Julia Peterkin produced five books that revolutionized American literature, including the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel Scarlet Sister Mary.
Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
About this book
Julia Peterkin revolutionized American literature by writing seriously about the lives of plain black farming people. In five bold, lyrical books she pushed the bounds of realism to earn the startled praise of such intellectuals and literary artists as W. E. B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes. A plantation mistress who vowed to "write what is, even if it is unpleasant," she took up writing at age forty, produced two best-selling novels, and won a Pulitzer Prize before mysteriously abandoning writing twelve years later.Peterkin's fiction chronicles the collapse of plantation agriculture on the Gullah coast of South Carolina. At the same time her writings are a thinly veiled autobiography of a southern white woman struggling to create something new out of the beauty and sorrow around her. Writing to her mentor H. L. Mencken in 1922, Peterkin declared, "These black friends of mine live more in one Saturday night than I do in five years. I envy them, and I guess as I cannot be them, I seek satisfaction in trying to record them."The first full account of Peterkin's life, A Devil and a Good Woman, Too is an exemplary biography of a brilliant, enigmatic woman who defied convention, lived as she pleased, and wrote what she knew.
272 pages
Creator: Vicky Ward | 2010-03-26
Who would guess that the story of life at Lehman would turn out to be even more dramatic than the firm's headline-grabbing, economy-shaking demise." —ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, cofounder and Editor in Chief of The Huffington Post "The Devil's ...
Publisher: Wiley
About this book
They were the Rat Pack of Wall Street. Four close friends: one a decorated war hero, one an emotional hippie, and two regular guys with big hearts, big dreams, and noble aims. They were going to get rich and prove that men like them--with zero financial training--could more than equal the Ivy League-educated, white-shoe bankers who were the competition. They were going to create an institution for others like them--hungry outsiders--and they were going to win, but not at the cost of their souls.In short, they were going to be the good guys of finance.These four men were determined to rebuild the broken brand of Lehman Brothers, America's oldest partnership, which had imploded in 1984 and was consumed by American Express and Shearson. For a decade or so, they drove into the office from the same middle-class town in Long Island at 4 a.m. They became known as the Huntington Mafia and the Ponderosa Boys.At first, their unity and their grit were undefeatable. The men atop American Express and Shearson--supposedly their bosses--found they were no match for the defiant team spirit that confronted them in Lehman Commercial Paper Inc., which, in 1990, became known simply as Lehman.Under their watch, Lehman Brothers started to grow and became independent again in 1994. But, along the way, something went wrong. The men slowly, perhaps inevitably, changed. As Lehman Brothers grew, so too did the cracks in and among the men who had rebuilt it. Until it all came undone on September 15, 2008.Investigative writer and "Vanity Fair" contributing editor Vicky Ward takes you inside Lehman's highly charged offices. You'll meet beloved leaders who were erased from the corporate history books, but who could have taken the firm in a very different direction had they not fallen victim to infighting and their own weaknesses. You will encounter an unlikely and almost unknown Marcus Brutus, who may have had more to do with Lehman's failings than anyone--including Dick Fuld, considered by many to be the poster child for the mistakes and greed of all bankers.What Ward uncovers is that Lehman may have lost at the risky games of collateralized debt obligations, swaps, and leverage, but that was simply the tail end of a much bigger story. "Little Lehman" was the shop known to be forever fighting for its life and somehow succeeding. On Wall Street, it was cheekily known as "the cat with nine lives." But this cat pushed its luck too far and died--the victim of men and women blinded by arrogance.Come inside "The Devil's Casino" and see how good men lose their way, and see how a firm that rose with the glory and bravado of Icarus fell burning in flames--not so much from the sun, but from a match lit from within.
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