"Corridors of Power (novel) Corridors of Power is the ninth book in C. P. Snow's ""Strangers and Brothers"" series. Its title had become a household phrase referring to the centres of government and power after Snow coined it in his earlier novel, ""Homecomings"". (A slightly rueful Foreword to ""Corridors of Power"" expresses the hope that he is at least entitled to use his own cliché.) ""Corridors of Power"" is concerned with the attempts of an English MP to influence the country's policy on nuclear weapons in the 1950s. The central character is Roger Quaife, an ambitious politician and Cabinet Minister."
"The Corridors of Time The Corridors of Time is a science fiction novel by American writer Poul Anderson, first published in 1966 as a serial in ""Amazing Stories"", May–June 1965 and as a book by Doubleday. ""The Corridors of Time"" alternates between the European Stone Age and a repressive future. In this vision of tomorrow, almost everyone is either an agricultural serf or an industrial slave, but the rulers genuinely believe they are creating a better world. Set largely in Denmark, it treats the Neolithic society with knowledge and respect while not hiding its own faults. It is there that"
"the protagonist, having access to literally all periods of the past and future, finally decides to settle down and finds a happy and satisfying life. The Corridors of Time The Corridors of Time is a science fiction novel by American writer Poul Anderson, first published in 1966 as a serial in ""Amazing Stories"", May–June 1965 and as a book by Doubleday. ""The Corridors of Time"" alternates between the European Stone Age and a repressive future. In this vision of tomorrow, almost everyone is either an agricultural serf or an industrial slave, but the rulers genuinely believe they are creating a"
"The Black Corridor The Black Corridor is a science fiction novel by Michael Moorcock. It was published in 1969, first by Ace Books in the US, as part of their Ace Science Fiction Specials series, and later by Mayflower Books in the UK. It is essentially a novel about the decay of society and the deep personal and social isolation this has caused, and tells of a man fleeing through interstellar space from Earth, where civilisation is collapsing into anarchy and wars. The author uses techniques ranging from straight narrative to entries in the spaceship's log, dream sequences and sixties-style"
"the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, the 2002 National Book Award for Nonfiction, the 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, and the 2002 D.B. Hardeman Prize. In the fourth volume, ""The Passage of Power"", Caro covers Johnson's life from 1958 to 1964, the challenges Johnson faced upon his assumption of the presidency, and the significant accomplishments in the months after Kennedy’s assassination. The 736-page book was released on May 1, 2012. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award (2012; Biography), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2012; Biography), the Mark Lynton History Prize (2013), the"
"of his pretensions and our expectations."" ""The Black Corridor"" was cited by Karl Edward Wagner as one of the thirteen best science-fiction horror novels. The author China Miéville has described the book as ""an underrated and chilling piece of political pulp modernism."" The Black Corridor The Black Corridor is a science fiction novel by Michael Moorcock. It was published in 1969, first by Ace Books in the US, as part of their Ace Science Fiction Specials series, and later by Mayflower Books in the UK. It is essentially a novel about the decay of society and the deep personal and"
"Shakti, and the Secret Way"" (1949), ""Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex"" (1958), and ""Meditations on the Peaks: Mountain Climbing as Metaphor for the Spiritual Quest"" (1974). He also wrote his two explicitly political books ""Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist"" (1953), ""Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul"" (1961), and his autobiography, ""The Path of Cinnabar"" (1963). He also expanded upon critiques of American civilization and materialism, as well as increasing American influence in Europe, collected in the posthumous anthology ""Civiltà Americana"". Evola's occult ontology exerted"
"Robert Caro Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote ""The Power Broker"" (1974), a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, which was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. He has since written four of a planned five volumes of ""The Years of Lyndon Johnson"" (1982, 1990, 2002, 2012), a biography of the former president. For his"
"The 48 Laws of Power The 48 Laws of Power (1998) is the first book by American author Robert Greene. The book is a bestseller, selling over 1.2 million copies in the United States, and is popular with prison inmates and celebrities. Greene initially formulated some of the ideas in ""The 48 Laws of Power"" while working as a writer in Hollywood and concluding that today's power elite shared similar traits with powerful figures throughout history. In 1995, Greene worked as a writer at Fabrica, an art and media school, and met a book packager named Joost Elffers. Greene pitched"
"The Power and the Glory The Power and the Glory (1940) is a novel by British author Graham Greene. The title is an allusion to the doxology often recited at the end of the Lord's Prayer: ""For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, amen."" It was initially published in the United States under the title The Labyrinthine Ways. Greene's novel tells the story of a renegade Roman Catholic 'whisky priest' (a term coined by Greene) living in the Mexican state of Tabasco in the 1930s, a time when the Mexican government was attempting to"
"The Fourth Way (book) The Fourth Way (1957) is a book about the Fourth Way system of self-development as introduced by Greek-Armenian philosopher G.I. Gurdjieff and is a compilation of the lectures of P. D. Ouspensky at London and New York City, 1921–1946, published posthumously by his students in 1957. The term ""The Fourth Way"" has also come to be used as a general descriptive term for the body of ideas and teachings which Gurdjieff brought to the west from his study of eastern schools. Ouspensky was given the task of bringing these ideas to a wider audience in an"
"Olivia Coolidge Margaret Olivia Ensor Coolidge (October 16, 1908 − December 10, 2006) was a British-born American writer and educator. She published 27 books, many for young adults, including ""The Greek Myths"" (1949), her debut; ""The Trojan War"" (1952); ""Legends of the North"" (1951); ""Makers of the Red Revolution"" (1963); ""Men of Athens"", one runner-up for the 1963 Newbery Medal; ""Lives of Famous Romans"" (1965); and biographies of Eugene O'Neill, Winston Churchill, Edith Wharton, Gandhi, and Tom Paine. Olivia Coolidge was born in London to Sir Robert Ensor, a journalist and historian. She earned a degree in Classics and Philosophy"
"Paths of Glory (Archer novel) Paths of Glory is a novel by English author Jeffrey Archer based on the story of George Mallory who died attempting to climb Everest in the 1920s. It was published by St. Martin's Press on 3 March 2009. It fictionally supports the claims that George Mallory, an Englishman, was the first to conquer Mount Everest — before Sir Edmund Hillary. The novel caused a controversy in New Zealand, with major newspaper ""The Dominion Post"" calling it an insult to Sir Edmund Hillary. The novel contains several significant factual errors, one of the most obvious being"
"maintained could only result in partial, unbalanced development of man's potential. The Fourth Way (book) The Fourth Way (1957) is a book about the Fourth Way system of self-development as introduced by Greek-Armenian philosopher G.I. Gurdjieff and is a compilation of the lectures of P. D. Ouspensky at London and New York City, 1921–1946, published posthumously by his students in 1957. The term ""The Fourth Way"" has also come to be used as a general descriptive term for the body of ideas and teachings which Gurdjieff brought to the west from his study of eastern schools. Ouspensky was given the"
"The Years of Lyndon Johnson The Years of Lyndon Johnson is a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson by the American writer Robert Caro. Four volumes have been published, running to more than 3,000 pages in total, detailing Johnson's early life, education, and political career. A fifth volume will deal with the bulk of Johnson's presidency. The series is published by Alfred A. Knopf. In the first volume, ""The Path to Power"", Caro retraced Johnson's early life growing up in the Texas Hill Country and Washington, D.C.. (Caro moved to these areas for months to interview numerous people who knew Johnson"
"book ""The Power Elite"" in 1956, claiming a new sociological perspective on systems of power in the United States. He identified a triumvirate of power groups—political, economic and military—which form a distinguishable, although not unified, power-wielding body in the United States. Mills proposed that this group had been generated through a process of rationalization at work in all advanced industrial societies whereby the mechanisms of power became concentrated, funneling overall control into the hands of a limited, somewhat corrupt group. This reflected a decline in politics as an arena for debate and relegation to a merely formal level of discourse."
"The Currents of Space The Currents of Space is a science fiction novel by the American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1952. It is the second (by internal series chronology) of three books labeled the ""Galactic Empire"" series, but it was the last of the three to be written. Each occurs after humans have settled many worlds in the galaxy, after the second wave of colonization that went beyond the Spacer worlds, and before the era of decline that was the setting for the original ""Foundation"" series. Asimov stated in 1988 in the ""Author's Note"" to ""Prelude to Foundation"" that"
"Julia Cameron Julia B. Cameron (born March 4, 1948) is an American teacher, author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist. She is best known for her book ""The Artist's Way"" (1992). She also has written many other non-fiction works, short stories, and essays, as well as novels, plays, musicals, and screenplays. Julia Cameron was born and raised in a Chicago suburb, and grew up Catholic. She started college at Georgetown University before transferring to Fordham University. She wrote for ""The Washington Post"" and then ""Rolling Stone"". She met Martin Scorsese when interviewing him for ""Rolling Stone"". They married"
"The Criterion Collection with a high-definition digital transfer on October 26, 2010. Paths of Glory Paths of Glory is a 1957 American anti-war film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb. Set during World War I, the film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax, the commanding officer of French soldiers who refuse to continue a suicidal attack, after which Dax attempts to defend them against a charge of cowardice in a court-martial. The film begins with a voiceover describing the trench warfare situation of World War I up to 1916. In a château,"
"Black Power: The Politics of Liberation Black Power: The Politics of Liberation is a 1967 book co-authored by Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Ture) and political scientist Charles V. Hamilton. The work defines Black Power, presents insights into the roots of racism in the United States and means of reforming the traditional political process for the future. Published originally as ""Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America"", the book has become a staple work produced during the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power movement. One of the main focuses of the book is describing the struggles that black"
"of Leadership will become part of Churchill College and the Moller Institute at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. James MacGregor Burns James MacGregor Burns (August 3, 1918 in Melrose, MA – July 15, 2014 in Williamstown, MA) was an American historian and political scientist, presidential biographer, and authority on leadership studies. He was the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government Emeritus at Williams College and Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 1971 Burns received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book"
"The Power Broker The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Moses by Robert Caro. The book focuses on the creation and use of power in local and state politics, as witnessed through Moses' use of unelected positions to design and implement dozens of highways and bridges, sometimes at great cost to the communities he nominally served. It has been repeatedly named one of the best biographies of the 20th century, and has been highly influential on city planners and politicians throughout the United States. ""The Power Broker"" traces Moses'"
"The Anatomy of Power The Anatomy of Power is a 1983 book by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith. It sought to classify three types of power: ""compensatory power"" in which submission is bought, ""condign power"" in which submission is won by making the alternative sufficiently painful, and ""conditioned power"" in which submission is gained by persuasion. In short; money, force and ideology. It further divided power by source: power either stems from ""personality"" or leadership, ""property"" or wealth, or ""organisation"". The book goes on to detail a brief history of the use of power, noting the broad arc of history"
"with Tom Burns. That voyage produced two books, the factual ""The Lawless Roads"" (published as ""Another Mexico"" in the U.S.) and the novel ""The Power and the Glory"". In 1953 the Holy Office informed Greene that ""The Power and the Glory"" was damaging to the reputation of the priesthood; but later, in a private audience with Greene, Pope Paul VI told him that, although parts of his novels would offend some Catholics, he should ignore the criticism. Greene first travelled to Haiti in 1954, where ""The Comedians"" (1966) is set, which was then under the rule of dictator François Duvalier,"
"The Path of Daggers The Path of Daggers is a fantasy novel by American author Robert Jordan, the eighth book of his series ""The Wheel of Time"". It was published by Tor Books and released on October 20, 1998. Upon its release, it immediately rose to the #1 position on the ""New York Times"" hardcover fiction bestseller list, making it the first ""Wheel of Time"" book to reach the #1 position on that list. It remained on the list for the next two months. This book is the shortest book in the main Wheel of Time series, consisting of a"
"Martin Wight Robert James Martin Wight (26 November 1913 – 15 July 1972), also known as Martin Wight, was one of the foremost British scholars of International Relations in the twentieth century. He was the author of ""Power Politics"" (1946; revised and expanded edition 1978), as well as the seminal essay ""Why is there no International Theory?"" (first published in the journal ""International Relations"" in 1960 and republished in the edited collection ""Diplomatic Investigations"" in 1966). He was a teacher of some renown at both the London School of Economics and the University of Sussex, where he served as the"
"The Power (Alderman novel) The Power is a 2016 science fiction novel by the British writer Naomi Alderman. Its central premise is women developing the ability to release electrical jolts from their fingers, thus leading them to become the dominant gender. In June 2017, ""The Power"" won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. The book was also named by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2017. In December 2017, former U.S. President Barack Obama named ""The Power"" as one of his favorite books of 2017. ""The Power"" is a book within a book: a"
"Warren Miller (author) Warren Miller (August 31, 1921 – April 1, 1966) was an American writer. Although he gained some fame for his books dealing with issues of race, as in ""The Cool World"" (1959) and ""The Siege of Harlem"" (1964), and for his more political books such as ""Looking for The General"" (1964) and ""Flush Times"" (1962), because of his early death due to lung cancer and his outspoken political views he has remained relatively unknown. Miller received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Iowa, and was an instructor of literature there during the 1950s. He"
"Dennis Cooper Dennis Cooper (born 1953) is an American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist. He is perhaps best known for the ""George Miles Cycle"", a series of five semi-autobiographical novels published between 1989 and 2000 and described by Tony O'Neill ""as intense a dissection of human relationships and obsession that modern literature has ever attempted."" Cooper grew up the son of a wealthy businessman in Arcadia, California. His first forays into literature came early, focusing on imitations of Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Marquis de Sade, and Charles Baudelaire. As he began his teenage years, he wrote poetry and"
"""The Night Face"", and tragically in ""Goat Song"". His 1965 novel ""The Corridors of Time"" alternates between the European Stone Age and a repressive future. In this vision of tomorrow, almost everyone is either an agricultural serf or an industrial slave, but the rulers genuinely believe they are creating a better world. Set largely in Denmark, it treats the Neolithic society with knowledge and respect while not hiding its own faults. It is there that the protagonist, having access to literally all periods of the past and future, finally decides to settle down and finds a happy and satisfying life."
"Paris. According to the embassy's account, Wright said that Nkrumah was relying heavily on Padmore as he made plans for independence. When Wright published ""Black Power"" in 1954, Padmore was finishing a book that he hoped would be both a history and blueprint for African independence: ""Pan-Africanism or Communism?"" It was his attempt to counter Cold War suspicions in Western nations that the African independence movements were fundamentally communist-inspired. As independence neared for the Gold Coast, the London community had splintered. In 1956 James had returned from the United States, but Padmore and Pizer referred to him with condescension in"
"death."" <br> — VPRO Television; article in Dutch. Fiction Poetry Collaborations & Nonfiction Curator: Writer/Books: Miscellaneous: Dennis Cooper Dennis Cooper (born 1953) is an American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist. He is perhaps best known for the ""George Miles Cycle"", a series of five semi-autobiographical novels published between 1989 and 2000 and described by Tony O'Neill ""as intense a dissection of human relationships and obsession that modern literature has ever attempted."" Cooper grew up the son of a wealthy businessman in Arcadia, California. His first forays into literature came early, focusing on imitations of Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine,"
"Robert Greene (American author) Robert Greene (born May 14, 1959) is an American author known for his books on strategy, power and seduction. He has written five international bestsellers: ""The 48 Laws of Power"", ""The Art of Seduction"", ""The 33 Strategies of War"", ""The 50th Law"" (with rapper 50 Cent) and ""Mastery"". The younger son of Jewish parents, Greene grew up in Los Angeles and attended University of California, Berkeley before finishing his degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a B.A. in classical studies. Before becoming an author, Greene estimates that he worked 80 jobs, including as a construction"