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Over the past four decades, Charles Taylor's work as an intellectual historian, epistemologist, and normative political theorist has made him a leading figure in contemporary social philosophy. In Charles Taylor: Thinking and Living Deep Diversity, ... Read more

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Fresh, enjoyable biographical portraits of distinguished and interesting Canadians: Scott Symons, James Houston, Emily Carr, Herbert Norman, Bishop William White, and Brigadier James Sutherland Brown. ... Read more

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Charles Taylor is one of the most distinctive figures in the landscape of contemporary philosophy. His ability to contribute to philosophical conversations across a wide spectrum of ideas is especially impressive in a time of increasing specialization. These areas include moral theory, theories of subjectivity, political theory, epistemology, hermeneutics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and aesthetics. Most recently, Taylor has branched into the study of religion. Written by a team of international authorities, this collection will be read primarily by students and academic professionals in philosophy, political science, and religious studies, and will also appeal to a broad swathe of professionals across the humanities and social sciences. Ruth Abbey is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at University of Kent at Canterbury. She has published numerous articles and is author of Nietzsche's Middle Period (Oxford University Press, 2000) and Philosophy Now: Charles Taylor (Princeton University Press, 2000). ... Read more

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This second volume of air combat paintings provides insight into the background of Robert Taylor's technique and reveals the way he brings a painting from its initial concept to completion on the canvas.The book contains behind-the-scenes stories of his meetings with some of the finest aviators in history as well as the personal recollections of some of these great pilots.24 color paintings, 106 b&w sketches. ... Read more

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fantasy
If you don't have the money to buy an original painting of Robert Taylor, but you want to see his works, this book is absolutly fantastic.
You can look to the prints for hours, using your fantasy how it was/is to be a combat pilot.
But, do not not expect it to be a book with a lot of prints.
This is just a selection of one of the most beautiful prints.
This is really a book you can look in from time to time and turn yourself into another fasinating world.

Robert Taylor Air Combat Paintings-Vol.1-4
This is to clarify the actual status of Taylor's Vol. 1-4 volumes of terrific aviation art.

All volumes are still available through several aviation art dealers. ( NW Aviation Art/Leisure Galleries) I do not know why Amazon lists many of these as out of print.They are NOT!

The new Volume 4 is out as of Sept. 2000.

Wish Amazon stocked them all.

The Master's Work
Those of you who know Robert Taylor's art work will know what to expectfrom this book. Those of you don't, then you will be treated to some superbsketches and paintings which mainly focus on World War 2 aviation scences.Taylor has an excellent eye for detail and realism and researchs hissubject(s) to ensure that his paintings are more than just realistic, theyare factual. In this book he talks about how some of his paintings weredone, along with comments from some of his subjects such as Adolf Galland,Townsend, Johnnie Johnson etc. The book includes 24 of his paintings,including some of my favourites "Dambusters","JG-52","Victory over Dunkirk" all of which are on good quality paper.This is a quality book which displays the master's work and the master atwork and highly recommended, although some may find the price a littleprohibitive.

Ultra-realistic, Historically Correct, Aviation Art
This is the third installment of the series of aviation art done by Robert Taylor.Painters like Taylor, Truidgen and others continue to set the standard in historically correct military aviation art.

His attentionto detail is superb and the paintings are centered around a certain pilotor group of pilots during W.W.II.Many of his paintings are signed by thepilot or pilots portraided in the paintings. Most are paintings of aircraftthat are close to the ground, like returning flights of planes gettingready to land or takeoff in a historical setting.

The book gives blownup details of parts of the paintings and examines historical details notreadily noticeable in the overall paintings. Taylor spends time telling thestory, how he painted the scenes, and the research required for eachpainting.

The price is a little steep, but well worth the purchase if youare a aviation collector, especially if you don't have the money to collectthe real thing.

Fantastic paintings and neat text too!
I have always been interested in military aircraft since I can remember. I build a great deal of scale models and this book has proved to be a valuable source for both colours and detail. ... Read more

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'JUNETEENTH: A Celebration of Freedom' effectively conveys the jubilation that occurred on June 19, 1865 when African American people in Texas were the last to be freed from the horrors of U.S. slavery, a full two months after the end of the Civil War and more than two years after Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.Dr. Taylor's 32-page book, full of colorful illustrations, archival photographs, and historical documents, makes the information about Juneteenth accessible for readers aged ten and up.

Juneteenth is the oldest African American celebration in the United States and is quickly becoming one of the most popular holidays observed by Black Americans.Seven states (TX, OK, FL, DE, AK, ID, and IA) have already made Juneteenth a holiday--with more to come. ... Read more

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U.S. History Re-Explained
There are many books on Juneteenth, but none so informative and accessiblefor both kids and adults as this one.Learn why the Emancipation Proclamation did not free any slaves and other things not often taught in school.Great book for anyone interested in United States history.Very colorful. ... Read more

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"A Good Build-Up to a Pulse-Pounding Climax"
A first-rate, plausible job on this story.A Soviet sleeper agent rises through the ranks to command an LA-class attack sub.Then he uses it to sink US ballistic missile subs and neutralize American strategic power inthe Pacific.Charles D. Taylor did a great job bringing the characters tolife.Little by little he builds the tension, showing how the rest of themen under sleeper Wayne Newell's command react when they think they are atwar.The stress, the pressure all start to wear at their psyche.Doubtcreeps in, eventually the crew begins to question its captain.The strainof the mission pulls you in.Add to it the Naval commanders trying tofigure out what's happening in the Pacific.The final, 3-way sub battle isa rush!You can't put the book down until you reach the end.

Intriguing Scenario, believable enough to make you nervous
Charles D. Taylor has a fine grasp on naval power, the covert arms such as the SSN's and SEALs, and this scenario is chilling as ever: what if one of our SSN captains is really a sleeper agent, and he's turned one of our bestsubs to hunt the targets it was supposed to protect: our Ohio-classboomers? I originally thought the scenario was a bit far-fetched, but afterreading the book, I think he carried it off quite well. ... Read more

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"A Total Disappointment"
This is nowhere near the usual standard of excellence I've come to expect from Charles D. Taylor."The Sunset Patriots" just dragged and the characters were merely names on papaer, not flesh and blood people you come to care about.In most of the scenes, Taylor just told you what was happening, instead of letting the characters describe it to you.What dialogue Taylor did have was very uninspiring.I'm just glad he improved since "The Sunset Patriots" to write some very good books like "Boomer" and "Shadow War."

Zero stars!
This sorry excuse for a book reads more like a bedraggled draft that has been rejected by every respectable publisher you can think of. For a technothriller it features the most inept descriptions of military hardware and worst-ever plot I have ever had the misfortune to read. The story meanders and blunders incoherently towards a spectacularly stupid final battle, in which two opposing naval fleets charge right at each other cavalry-style firing missiles all over the place.

I understand there are people who enjoy watching bad movies for the sheer hell of it. I wonder if a similar type of reader exists. Unless you are connoiseur of bad novels, I'd advise you not to waste your time with this turkey. ... Read more

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A hundred years after William James delivered the celebrated lectures that became The Varieties of Religious Experience, one of the foremost thinkers in the English-speaking world returns to the questions posed in James's masterpiece to clarify the circumstances and conditions of religion in our day. An elegant mix of the philosophy and sociology of religion, Charles Taylor's powerful book maintains a clear perspective on James's work in its historical and cultural contexts, while casting a new and revealing light upon the present.

Lucid, readable, and dense with ideas that promise to transform current debates about religion and secularism, Varieties of Religion Today is much more than a revisiting of James's classic. Rather, it places James's analysis of religious experience and the dilemmas of doubt and belief in an unfamiliar but illuminating context, namely the social horizon in which questions of religion come to be presented to individuals in the first place.

Taylor begins with questions about the way in which James conceives his subject, and shows how these questions arise out of different ways of understanding religion that confronted one another in James's time and continue to do so today. Evaluating James's treatment of the ethics of belief, he goes on to develop an innovative and provocative reading of the public and cultural conditions in which questions of belief or unbelief are perceived to be individual questions. What emerges is a remarkable and penetrating view of the relation between religion and social order and, ultimately, of what "religion" means.

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Varieties of Reading Experience
This book is a fascinating, thought-provoking meditation on religious issues related to William James' classic work. Taylor's take on religious developments in Western Europe/North America is fascinating and enlightening in several senses of the word. And while truly respectful of William James and his insights, Taylor is no cheerleader and convincingly discusses a number of James' key blind spots along with their probable sources. The book's brevity and readability belies the punch it packs.
The one glaring imperfection is the pedantic and pretentious refusal to translate French quotations, some of which seem like they're probably quite important. Too bad, I'll never know for sure.

What the heck?
Seeking enlightenment?Seek somewhere else?This "update" to the classic is a classic waste of time.Unlike the original, you will give it to your library to write it off on your taxes.

A reflection on religious belief and the state
This book is a collection of a series of lectures Charles Taylor gave reflecting on the legacy of William James.In thinking about James' work, Taylor reflects on the tensions between private religous experience and public religious expression; the problem of belief and unbelief; and the implications our religious beliefs have for our political organization.It is almost impossible to do justice to the richness of Taylor's thought in a short review.

Taylor's first task is to situate James within his own religious context.James inherited the strand of religious belief that was quintessentially Protestant -- with an emphasis on private feeling as against public expression.For James, the ultimate religious experience is private and fundamentally individual.This precludes James from fully grasping the types of religious expression that are more communally-based.

Taylor's second task is to reflect on James personal struggle with the question of belief and unbelief.In James' day a strong argument was being made that religious belief is intellectually dishonest.Taylor offers a good summary of James' defense of belief as a viable choice.

Finally, Taylor integrates James' thought with the question of how our religious belief interacts with our political structures.Taylor offers an invaluable historical narrative of the variety of relationships between religion and state that we have seen in the past.In doing so, he makes our current dilemmas much clearer.We are moving from a country that has a broad consensus in some sort of belief, but which allows individuals to join whatever church best gives expression to that experience, to a country in which there is no such broad consensus.If there is no shared understanding of the sacred, we are forced to ground our political structures in the purely human.It is not yet clear whether the new project will succeed, but in his reflections on the tensions between belief and unbelief and their relationship to our political organization, Taylor can only enhance our discussions as we move forward into this virgin territory.

Taylor's book does presume that the reader has a fairly sophisticated historical sense.And he often makes reference to the situation in France, which can be a bit opaque to those who lack a basic familiarity with French culture.Indeed, he often quotes from French writers without offering a translation.Still, the book offers valuable insights, even to those without the background to fully grasp everything he writes. ... Read more

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Canadians have devoted considerable thought to Hegel - a proposition born out by the work of John Watson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor, three major Canadian political philosophers of the last century. In Northern Spirits, Robert Sibley examines how Watson, Grant, and Taylor found in Hegel the theoretical tools needed to respond to Canada's uncertain existence. The recovery of Watson's thought is particularly valuable. Sibley shows that Watson, an internationally respected philosopher in the early twentieth century, discussed idealism and support for imperialism in ways that are particularly relevant in our new age of empire. A consideration of Grant's relationship to Hegel illuminates what led Grant to declare that Canada was "impossible" in the age of technology. Sibley's comparison of Grant and Trudeau is both unexpected and intriguing. So, too, is his analysis of the "illiberal strands" in Taylor's "politics of recognition."Ending with a surprising reprise of these three Hegelians, Sibley concludes that, as Canada confronts globalization, continentalism, and terrorism in the twenty-first century, Hegel still has much to say to Canadians. ... Read more

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The reader will discover the beginning of modern manufacturing operations and learn how Taylor continues to influence today's manufacturing systems. Frederick W. Taylor shows the reader how to apply his theories and achieve manufacturing excellence. ... Read more

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Cheaper by the dozens - a story of piece work
In "Frederick W. Taylor: The Father of Scientific Management - Myth and Reality" [1991] Taylor comes across as a son of the upper class, traipsing from one consultant engagement to another, stop watch in hand [or later on, stop watch somehow disguised so as not to upset the floor workers], a little humorous in his actions as he mucked about as something of an anthropologist going into the lost world of factories and loading docks.

I will always have a warm feeling for Taylor, who was played as a daft old clock-watcher with a ticker of gold by Clifton Webb in "Cheaper by the Dozen" -- that Saturday Night at the Movies perennial. The focus on the Frederick W. Taylor of Hollywood was different. It was on his home life, with a raft of children, and his attempts to bring Scientific Management to the home nest. The straightest path to job completion was his goal; the breakup of the job into streamlined tasks was his means. One recalls Webb deciding that the optimal way to button a man's vest was starting at the bottom and moving up.Brilliant!

Some of his critics pointed to Babbage and Coulomb as progenitors of time-study, but Taylor can place a fair claim on having invented it in 1881 as he studied the Mivale Steel Company lading process.

Was it really science? The evidence as I read it in this book by Charles D. Wrege and Ronald G Greenwood is that there was lot of pseudo science in Taylor's work, and a bit of fudging here and there. But he was on to something, and his followers, some of whom used that new invention, moving pictures, to break down and improve processes. Place Frank Gilbreth, author of "Cheaper by the Dozen," in this camp.

The book covers a lot of ground, but doesn't dig in much and analyze. For example, the Watertown Arsenal Strike of 1911, which was set off by workers less than enamored of piece work as promulgated by a Taylor protégé, is a pretty significant event, but it gets short shrift here. The book is really like a document, laying out the facts of Taylor's public life, and would thus be valuable to researchers, but the dust jacket promotion of the book as of value to the managers who would have interest in Drucker is not quite germane, in my opinion. The facts sometime seem to dispel some myth - but the work is that of an investigator who leaves it to the client to infer and conclude.
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Ummm . . . maybe
I read this book in the early 90's.I recall the author's arguments to have been quite convincing.I did not detect any biblical conflicts, although my bible knowledge level has increased since then and perhaps a re-read of this book might be in order.

Now, 15 years later, Juan Carlos is still a player.Recalling what I had read in the book, I remember my intense interest when, later in the 90's, I saw network news footage of President Bill Clinton cruising aboard a motor yacht with his arm draped around King Juan Carlos, grinning and waving at reporters (I'll not digress onto the premise of, "The Antichrist King - Bill Clinton").

The book is a quick and pleasant read.It's been around for a while, but the information is still remarkably timely.Probably worth the read for a bible prophecy student.

Dr. Taylor hits the nail on the head
Provides a lot of background information on the antichrist King Juan Carlos. Though this book does not have any "satanic pictures" of Juan Carlos you can get that in the Nov.97 issue of Vanity Fair where Carlos is dressed in a black Prince of Darkness robe and red cape with a german sheppard. Look out! King Juan Carlos' day of revealing draws nearer, only now will he continue to work from behind the scenes until that day of infamy arrives. Repent now or face the Great Tribulation under the "iron fist" of King Juan Carlos as his song of the day will be "No More Mr. Nice Guy" as the price for food and to stay alive will be your soul. ... Read more

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Title: Liberation for Liberia? Liberia has suffered through 14 years of civil war. Now that troublemaker ex-President Charles Taylor is finally gone, could the nation at long last begin to heal its wounds?(International)
Author: Patricia Smith
Publication: New York Times Upfront (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2003
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Volume: 136Issue: 2Page: 16(8)

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This digital document is an article from Church & State, published by Americans United for Separation of Church and State on November 1, 2001. The length of the article is 451 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: TV preacher Robertson joins Liberian dictator in gold-mining venture. (People & Events).(Pat Robertson )(Charles Taylor)(Brief Article)
Publication: Church & State (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2001
Publisher: Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Volume: 54Issue: 10Page: 19(1)

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This digital document is an article from The Review of Metaphysics, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2005. The length of the article is 821 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Taylor, Charles. Modern Social Imaginaries.(Book Review)
Author: Jeffery L. Nicholas
Publication: The Review of Metaphysics (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2005
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Volume: 59Issue: 2Page: 454(3)

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