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1. Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India (Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion, 1996-1997 : School of Oriental and African Studies University of London)
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Splitting the Difference Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and IndiaDescription
Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled, who double themselves, who are seduced by gods doubling as mortals, whose bodies are split or divided. In Splitting the Difference, the renowned scholar of mythology Wendy Doniger recounts and compares a vast range of these tales from ancient Greece and India, with occasional recourse to more recent "double features" from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to Face/Off.
Myth, Doniger argues, responds to the complexities of the human condition by multiplying or splitting its characters into unequal parts, and these sloughed and cloven selves animate mythology's prodigious plots of sexuality and mortality. Doniger's comparisons show that ultimately differences in gender are more significant than differences in culture; Greek and Indian stories of doubled women resemble each other more than they do tales of doubled men in the same culture. In casting Hindu and Greek mythologies as shadows of each other, Doniger shows that culture is sometimes but the shadow of gender.
Myth, Doniger argues, responds to the complexities of the human condition by multiplying or splitting its characters into unequal parts, and these sloughed and cloven selves animate mythology's prodigious plots of sexuality and mortality. Doniger's comparisons show that ultimately differences in gender are more significant than differences in culture; Greek and Indian stories of doubled women resemble each other more than they do tales of doubled men in the same culture. In casting Hindu and Greek mythologies as shadows of each other, Doniger shows that culture is sometimes but the shadow of gender.
2. Splitting The Difference
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George Ovitts poems smell like Earth to merich, desolate, crowded, pungent, delicate, bitter, sweet, solid. They work the space between a man standing on a platform waiting for a train and another sleeping in a cardboard bed under the tracks. A musician gives a kid a guitar lesson, a driller says a hundred feet to drill for water is the same in town as on a mountain topwe live in the same world, the man under the tracks suggests with a wave. We walk into a hardware store where things fit and leave the world where nothing is measured or level. But these poems never really leave the unmeasured world. Instead they split the difference, leaving the reader with a sense of what is truly beautiful. ~ Brady Peterson, Glued to the Earth and Between Stations My appreciation for poetry has been significantly enhanced after reading George Ovitts richly compelling collection, Splitting the Difference. From the pleasure we men derive from browsing a hardware store, to the cheerful homeless man who seems somehow to recognize that we are all living in the same world, this wonderful work spoke to me as few have. That Ovitt is not already a declared national treasure is confounding. His new collection surely will move him in that coveted direction. ~ Michael C. Keith, And Through the Trembling Air Line by line, Splitting the Difference will unhinge you from any delusions about the stability of life. These are poems about the complexity of timethe slow-burning violence of a summer day in the desert, the silent hours of an insomniacs suffering, the moment of demolition of a house holding eight generations of memories to be leveled to rubbleand through those disarticulations of linearity and positivism, the poems materialize an almost supernatural, spectral music. It haunts the present with a dark cacophony of deceptively gentle rhythms that will inundate your body with competing temporalities and expose the empty place in usthat vast unknown inner space / (that) needs filling. So if youre brave enough, buy this book and dare to trace whats left when / theres nothing left. ~Seith Michelson, Eyes Like Broken Windows3. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
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Never Split the Difference Negotiating as If Your Life Depended on ItDescription
A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiationswhether in the boardroom or at home.
After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator brought him face-to-face with a range of criminals, including bank robbers and terrorists. Reaching the pinnacle of his profession, he became the FBIs lead international kidnapping negotiator. Never Splitthe Difference takes you inside the world of high-stakes negotiations and into Vosss head, revealing the skills that helped him and his colleagues succeed where it mattered most: saving lives. In this practical guide, he shares the nine effective principlescounterintuitive tactics and strategiesyou too can use to become more persuasive in both your professional and personal life.
Life is a series of negotiations you should be prepared for: buying a car, negotiating a salary, buying a home, renegotiating rent, deliberating with your partner. Taking emotional intelligence and intuition to the next level, Never Split the Difference gives you the competitive edge in any discussion.
4. Splitting the Difference: A Heart-Shaped Memoir
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Splitting the Difference A Heart Shaped MemoirDescription
"No other book entangles romance and grief in such an urgent and beautiful way. Tr Miller Rodrguez writes as she lives: with breathless poise, unmatched style, and fierce bravery." --Claire Bidwell Smith, author of The Rules of Inheritance"Splitting the Difference is a story of love and loss told with flair, ballsy bravado and unflinching honesty." -- Susan Shapiro, author of 5 Men Who Broke My Heart
At 18, Tr gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. At 19, her only sibling was killed in a car crash. At 34, her husband died of a sudden heart attack. But at 36, her teenage daughter found her on Facebook and began to reshape the course of Tr's life. The sum of these milestones is anonfiction book that is equal parts inspiring, irreverent, and heart-rending.
In sharply immediate prose, Tr unpacks her experience as a young widow in New York City: the "dumb sh*% people say"; the "brave face" she wears to work and social events; and the lack of solace in one-night stands. Her perspective only begins shifting when she spontaneously brings Alberto's ashes on a trip, which sets into motion a ritual of spreading him in bodies of water. By traveling to Bucket List destinations like Brazil and Cuba, Tr discovers a grief strategy for her roughest days.
Alberto's death ultimately becomes a portal through which Tr views her past and embraces her future: she quits her corporate job, explores Alberto's homeland of Cuba, and joyfully reunites with her biological daughter in North Carolina. A deeply moving narrative, Splitting the Difference is written with the "raw-thenticity" of a woman transformed by heartbreak and inspired by love's legacy.
5. Splitting the Difference: Compromise and Integrity in Ethics and Politics
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Politics is often characterized as the "art of compromise"the implication being that compromise is desirable and that insight, imagination, discipline, and skill are all necessary for a satisfactory and successful compromise. Compromise in ethics, however, is quite another matter: there, it is usually regarded as a sign of weakness or lack of integrity. From Socrates and Sir Thomas More to Gandhi, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Martin Luther King, Jr., we revere these men and women not only for the nature of their convictions but also for their unwavering refusal to compromise.Does this point to an important difference between politics and ethics? Martin Benjamin here explores, in the first book-length treatment, the surprisingly rich and complex notion of compromise and integrity in ethics and politics. With wide-ranging examples drawn from Tolstoy to Ralph Nader and from a variety of medical and bioethical cases Benjamin presents in a clear, straightforward fashion an examination of the interplay between compromise and integrity.
In the process, Benjamin tackles tough questionsthe relationship between practical and theoretical ethics, what compromise means for ethical theory, how moral judgments affect compromise, and whether it is possible to compromise without being compromised. In the final chapter Benjamin explores the possibility of political compromise in a matter of great ethical significanceabortion.
6. Splitting the Difference: Compromise and Integrity in Ethics and Politics 1st edition by Benjamin, Martin (1990) Paperback
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Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include companion materials, may have some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include CDs or access codes. 100% money back guarantee.7. Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India (Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion) Paperback April 15, 1999