It's rather dated - the first edition is from 1983, and perhaps is an attempt to explain the Silmarillion; the second edition, from 2003, draws rather less on the History of Middle-Earth, which had all been published by then, than I would have expected. Also absent is any mention of how the light/dark good/evil dichotomies might be read in terms of Tolkien's attitudes to race, which feels like a big omission. Still, I'm convinced enough to order A Question of Time.
Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World, by Verlyn Flieger
It's rather dated - the first edition is from 1983, and perhaps is an attempt to explain the Silmarillion; the second edition, from 2003, draws rather less on the History of Middle-Earth, which had all been published by then, than I would have expected. Also absent is any mention of how the light/dark good/evil dichotomies might be read in terms of Tolkien's attitudes to race, which feels like a big omission. Still, I'm convinced enough to order A Question of Time.
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EU Lobbying Handbook, by Andreas Geiger
Second paragraph of third chapter: The art of lobbying is to achieve congruence of the diverging interests of politics, business and society.I picked…
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The European Parliament (8th edition), by Richard Corbett, Francis Jacobs and Michael Shackleton
Second paragraph of third chapter: Under the treaties, the decision on its seat belongs not to the Parliament, but to the national governments. They…
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Strategic Europe, ed. Jan Techau
Second paragraph of third essay (John Kornblum, "Six Vignettes about Europe"): 2. In today's Europe, as Marshall McLuhan put it:…
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