Product Description: Michael Edwards s'applique à dégager les caractères spécifiques de la poésie anglaise, depuis le commencement, les textes anglo-saxons du VIIe siècle, jusqu'à l'époque contemporaine. Il met en lumière le jeu entre le sublime et le trivial, la permanence de l'épopée et de son rapport au quotidien, la co-présence d'un élan religieux et d'une curiosité empirique ininterrompue, le passage toujours recommencé entre l'innocence et l'expérience, les traductions comme chefs-d'oeuvre poétiques, ainsi que les arts poétiques orientés, non vers l'imitation, mais vers la recréation du réel...read more

Civil Society has become a standard work of reference for those whoseek to understand the role of voluntary citizen action. Recentglobal unrest has shown the importance of social movements andstreet protests in world politics. However, as this lucid bookshows, the power that people have to shape their societies isusually channeled through day-to-day participation in voluntaryassociations and communities: expressions of “normal”civic life beyond the headlines. This is the underlying story ofcivil society. This new edition explores issues that have developedrapidly in recent years, including the overlaps between civilsociety and the market in the form of social enterprises and“venture philanthropy,” and the increasing role ofsocial media and information and communication technologies incivic interaction. Different varieties of civil society in theMiddle East, Africa and elsewhere are investigated in more detail,and case studies, data, and references have been updatedthroughout. Colleges, foundations and NGOs, policy-makers,journalists and commissions of inquiry Ð all have usedEdwards’s book to understand and strengthen the vital rolethat civil society can play in deepening democracy, re-buildingcommunity, and addressing inequality and injustice. This newedition will be required reading for anyone who is interested increating a better world through voluntary citizen action.

[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Read by Michael Edwards] Introduction by John Chamberlain, with a new introduction by William F. Buckley This is the book that launched Buckley's career. As a young recent graduate, Buckley took on Yale's professional and administrative staffs, citing their hypocritical withdrawal from the tenets upon which the institution was built. Yale was founded on the belief that God exists, and thus virtue and individualism represent immutable cornerstones of education. But when Buckley wrote this scathing expose, the institution had made an about-face: Yale was expounding collectivism and agnosticism. This classic work shows Buckley as he ever was: dauntless, venturesome, bold, and valiant.

Product Description: [Runs 36 hours on 29 CDs][Read by Michael Edwards] First published in 1776, this work is the classic statement of economic liberalism or the policy of laissez-faire. Several fundamental principles or ''axioms'' were introduced in this work, including the division of labor, supply-and-demand, and free market capitalism as some of the most obvious...read more

[MP3CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.] [Read by Michael Edwards]An intimate look at the life of one of American history's most notable figures. Among other things, Franklin was a printer, philosopher, inventor, statesman, and not least, a writer. Franklin's autobiography captures the essence of his spirit. In it we can see him as a product of the eighteenth century enlightenment, a type of Yankee statesman who could use the language of Addison, Steele, Swift and Defoe. In his autobiography, Franklin asks himself, ''Who am I, how did I come to be, and why am I a human being as I am?'' and he answers with the honesty, wit, and charm that have made this possibly the most famous of all autobiographies.Narrated/Read by Michael Edwards.

[MP3CD audiobook format in Vinyl case][Read by Michael Edwards] In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the ''constrained'' vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the ''unconstrained'' vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible. He describes how these two radically opposed views have manifested themselves in the political controversies of the past two centuries, including such contemporary issues as welfare reform, social justice, and crime. Updated to include sweeping political changes since its first publication in 1987, this revised edition of A Conflict of Visions offers a convincing case that ethical and policy disputes circle around the disparity between both outlooks. Sowell calls this book a ''culmination of thirty years of work in the history of ideas,'' and he attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives as a disagreement over the moral potential inherent in nature. Those who see that potential as limited prefer to constrain governmental authority, he argues. They feel that reform is difficult and often dangerous, and put their faith in family, custom, law, and traditional institutions. Conversely, those who have faith in human nature prefer to remove institutional and traditional constraints. Controversies over such diverse issues as criminal justice, income distribution, or war and peace repeatedly show an ideological divide along the lines of these two conflicting visions.