The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture
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    The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture
    Annemarie Schimmel
    Manufacturer: Reaktion Books
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    Binding: Paperback

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    ASIN: 1861892519

    Book Description

    Long viewed as an exotic wonderland of unimaginable treasures, the Mughal Empire (1526–1857) was, in reality, the mightiest Islamic empire in the history of India. In The Empire of the Great Mughals, historian Annemarie Schimmel describes the political, military, and economic rise of the Mughals, the incredible unfolding of the empire’s power and splendor, and the empire’s gradual collapse at the hands of the British.

    Beginning with a concise historical overview, Schimmel paints a detailed picture of daily life in the empire: the role of rank in this strictly hierarchical society, the life of women, and the various religions, languages, and styles of literature of the era. She pays particular attention to the remarkable accomplishments and techniques of artists at the Mughal court—including the Taj Mahal, the most impressive demonstration of the Mughal rulers’ refined sense of beauty.

    The capstone to the career of Annemarie Schimmel, whom the New York Times called “one of the 20th century’s most influential scholars of Islam,” The Empire of the Great Mughals is a fascinating portrait of an exquisitely rich and refined civilization.

    Costumes and Ornaments of Chamba
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      Costumes and Ornaments of Chamba
      Kamal Prashad Sharma , and S.M. Sethi
      Manufacturer: Indus Publishing Company,India
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      Binding: Hardcover

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      H-E-R-O: Powers and Abilities
      Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
      • Best superhero book around today!
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      • A suprisingly good book
      H-E-R-O: Powers and Abilities
      Will Pfeifer
      Manufacturer: DC Comics
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      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Best superhero book around today!.......2004-07-12

      If you didn't get the original comic book editions of the first few issues of "H-E-R-O" then this collected edition is a great place to start. It's all about one of the most exciting and fun ideas (in my opinion) to ever come out of superhero comic books so here's a bit of history to help understand what the book's all about:
      "H-E-R-O" is the continuing story of the mystic "H-Dial" which can transform people into superheroes by dialling the letters H-E-R-O. This object has been around in the DC Comics universe since the 1960's and, through the decades, has turned up in various forms by various users - the most well known being Robby Reed (who turns up in later issues of the regular "H-E-R-O" comic book series). The stories were known as "Dial H For Hero" - they were always part of multi-strip comic book series like "House of Mystery" and "Adventure Comics" (although they often took up entire issues of those books) which ended its' run as the regular back-up story in the 80's series "New Adventures of Superboy". "Dial H For Hero" never got its' own title until now and it's just simply known as "H-E-R-O" (which I think is rather cool!).
      The original 60's "Dial-H" stories were pretty silly but a lot of fun. The same goes for the 80's version which was a bit more serious and a bit more down to earth. The coolest thing about "Dial H" was that the heroes and villains were all created by the readers!

      Anyway, the idea of readers sending in their character designs/ideas has been scrapped with "H-E-R-O" (and it is probably all the better for it!). And this series is a lot darker in tone and a bit more reality based - which is also why it has a rather strong dark sense of humour. Different people get to use the dial - most use it for good but others use it for evil purposes (which is the reason Robby Reed turns up again later on in the series - a brilliant story well worth reading).
      Most of the people who use the dial aren't clean cut like the previous H-diallers from the 60s-80s but are regular people who are normal and have their own (realistic) problems such as homelessness, alcoholism, suicidal, depression, relationship troubles, unemployed, etc. This adds an extra, much needed realistic dimension tot he whole H-Dial mythos as we see what it would really be like to have to deal with gaining fantastic super powers and how to control and use them.

      Anyway, I don't really want to give too much away about "H-E-R-O" as it is a total thrill to read. Very enjoyable, full of surprise revelations and entirely unpredictable (which is why I ain't saying much about it!). It is such a great book all the way: The writing is smart, the art is excellent, crisp use of colour & lettering - the book just has a style which I'd have to say is a breath of fresh air.
      It is, in my opinion, the best comic book around and I hope it lasts a long time to come...

      (One final note: As you probably gathered from reading my review, this book is more aimed at a mature reading audience than previous "Dial-H" comic books!)

      4 out of 5 stars Jump on the Bandwagon now!.......2004-02-12

      If you are not reading this book I highly recommend it! The H-E-R-O device is such an interesting concept, that shows a new side to the over-used genre of superhero's. Start reading this book now before it becomes too popular, and you can't get your hands on it.

      5 out of 5 stars A suprisingly good book.......2004-01-28

      I have read many good graphic novels over the last 2 years. I think any book written by Brian K Vaughn, Mark Millar, Brian Michael Bendis and Geoff Johns are of excellent quality. I picked up this book after remembering Geoff Johns guaranteed the first issue saying he would personally buy back any issue #1 that someone did not like. I have to agree this book is amazing there is no superman (okay one panel), batman or Spiderman in it. It asks a simple question what would happen if a regular person got super powers. How many times have you fantasized what it would be like to fly, or be super strong? This takes a realistic approach if a regular person got superpowers. With superpowers does not come the answer to all your problems actually getting superpowers would be another problem in your life. The first person that receives the super powers realizes there is a lot more to being a super hero than super powers and at the end gives them up voluntarily and believably. The second person who receives the HERO device learns it is not so easy to be a superhero, have a family, job and friends. Trust me this is my first review and this book is worthy of your limited money. Please don't let the strange cover scare you off. My favorite scene is the book is where the new super hero is flying to stop a car with a drunk driver behind the wheel, as he is flying he is saying to himself how awesome it is to have flight, super strength and invulnerability. So like a superhero he lands in front of the car and puts out his hand for the car to stop, and of course the car doesn't and rams into him, next we see him sprawled out on the ground looking totally like you or I would look if we got hit by a speeding car all broken bones and all and he says to himself, I was kinda wrong on the last one though (invulnerability). If you like superheros or even if you don't give this book a try.

      Rick O'Shay, Hipshot, and Me: A Memoir by Stan Lynde
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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      Rick O'Shay, Hipshot, and Me: A Memoir by Stan Lynde
      Stan Lynde
      Manufacturer: Cottonwood Publishing
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      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Da Kine of .......2006-12-26

      "Cartoon" is in some ways not good enough to describe Stan Lynde's work, just as "Cartoon" can seem to denigrate such American literary greats as "Pogo", "Doonesbury" and "Krazy Kat".

      In this collection, we see several years of the week-day editions...but none of the Sunday, which is a shame, as the Sunday edition is where Mr. Lynde cut absolutely loose as an artist. His colors and details were/are as brilliant and memorable as any cartoonist I've ever seen, including such as the great Barry Windsor Smith and the various artists along the way for the "Prince Valiant" strip.

      Mr. Lynde hit a chord at the right time in American History to tell us about the "good ol' days", and how they weren't necessarily so much better than today, but that we all get back what we put into life.

      He continualy did this with humor and light-heartedness, while not shrinking from showing us real-life relationships and how life goes on. Note his gradual telling of Sheriff Rick O'Shay's courting with school marm Gaye Abandon, and their "adopted" (or more like rescued) boy-child, Quoit.

      For me, the gunfighter (with the proverbial heart of gold) was Hipshot Percussion. He was shown as being a loner...but one who needed people. He also lived with another "rescue animal", one Belle Star, a tabby cat. Sometimes pregnant, sometimes not, always loyal to Hip and his ways. They were indeed kindred creatures.

      One highlight of every year was when Hipshot and Rick, and later with Quoit, would go into the Mountains to hunt elk.

      The other highlight was on Christmas Day, when Hip would ride up into the Mountains, by himself, to "have a word with The Boss". The God, of course.

      Mr. Lynde would use his finest inks and drawing styles for this big-format strip, painting nature in all of its glory. Even for someone like myself who usually finds public showings of "religion" to be tacky, his love and feeling for the Great Outdoors and God, and the way that he'd show it in such a low-key way, is absolutely majestic.

      It's been over 30 years since the last Rick O'Shay hit the stands, due to contractual problems between Lynde and his publisher, but I can still see the sunrises and sunsets the way he painted them. Which is just the way that you can see them yourself, on particularly clear mornings and evenings.
      (Please note: the above does NOT tell anyone how I feel about any religion...just that I think it best kept to ones self...)

      Mr. Lynde has carried his arts over to later strips and novels, such as Latigo and others, and the little bit I've seen of them is every bit as worthwhile as the "Rick O'Shay" series. Well worth checking out. Do yourself a favor and do that.
      His webpage is,
      [...]

      5 out of 5 stars It's a great beginning ..........2000-04-12

      Now, if Stan Lynde would just collect and publish the rest of the Rick O'Shay archive, those of us nostalgic for the town of Conniption and its residents could complete our collections. Meanwhile, this will have to do. It's a collection of 10 complete stories from the daily comic strip (1959-1977) plus an autobiography of Stan Lynde and an introduction by Charlton Heston.

      The stories center around the anachronistic town of Conniption, located somewhere in the Old West. Conniption seems, like Brigadoon, to be adrift in time -- often interacting with the modern world to humorous effect, while retaining its basic rural western character. Its residents are a quirky lot who change and grow over time as Lynde's skills as artist and story teller mature over the years.

      If you're old enough to remember the strip in your daily paper, this compilation is the closest you can come to getting it back. If you're a fan of the Old West, or even just like "Tumbleweeds," but haven't yet encountered Stan Lynde's work, you're in for a treat.

      Adaptations: From Text to Screen, Screen to Text
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        Adaptations: From Text to Screen, Screen to Text
        D. Cartmell
        Manufacturer: Routledge
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        ASIN: 0415167388

        Book Description

        What happens when Jane Austen's Emma becomes the big screen's Clueless? How does Batman the comic book translate into a cartoon, television show, and film? With contributions from some of the finest film scholars in the world, Adaptations looks at what happens to popular texts when they are transformed into an entirely different medium, including novel and comic book to screen and an innovative look at screen to novel. Wide-ranging and innovative in its approach, Adaptations is a trenchant look at how a story changes--successfully or not--in all its mediums: novel, film, comic book, cartoon, and television.

        Contributors: Julian North, Esther Sonnet, Roger Bromley, Pat Kirkham, Sally Warren, Nicholas Zurbrugg, Mark Rawlinson, Derek Paget, Sharon Ouditt, Ken Gelder, Ina Rae Hark, Will Brooker, Paul Wells.

        DJ's by Lopez: Portrait Photography of International DJ's
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          DJ's by Lopez: Portrait Photography of International DJ's
          Chris Lopez
          Manufacturer: Artist's and Photographers' Press Ltd
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          ASIN: 1904332048

          Book Description

          Club DJ's--the people who spin the trendsetting, cutting-edge music at popular dance clubs--are the pop stars of the 21st century. Chris Lopez, the in-house photographer for Sony Music, has had the pleasure of capturing some of the biggest international names in this glittering universe, and his collection of remarkable images is sure to become the definitive body of work on this fascinating subject. Here are 100 of the beautiful people of the modern music industry, away from the dance floor and up-close and personal. Some of the photos were taken at the DJ's home, some on location, and some in the studio. Their true spirit and vibrant personalities shine through in these beautiful pictures and in their own words.

          Among the DJ's included are:
          Goldie * Todd Terry * Giles Patterson * Carl Cox * Nicky Hiloway * Danny Rampling * Moonface * Danny Hows * CJ Mak * Smoking Jo * DJ Heaven * Dave Angel and 36 more!

          Enthusia(tm) Professional Racing Official Strategy Guide (Osg - Official Strategy Guide)
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            Enthusia(tm) Professional Racing Official Strategy Guide (Osg - Official Strategy Guide)
            Doug Walsh
            Manufacturer: BRADY GAMES
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            The Little Book of Business Wisdom: Rules of Success from More than 50 Business Legends
            Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
            • A good read and very thought provoking
            • Another "Classic" Resource from Krass
            The Little Book of Business Wisdom: Rules of Success from More than 50 Business Legends

            Manufacturer: Wiley
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            Pearls from The LITTLE BOOK OF BUSINESS WISDOM

            "The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition."-JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

            "Think about the customer, not the competition: Competitors represent your industry's past, as, over the years, collective habits become ingrained. Customers are your future, representing new opportunities, ideas, and avenues for growth."-MICHAEL S. DELL

            "You've got to be out in front of crowds, repeating yourself over and over again, never changing your message no matter how much it bores you." -JACK WELCH

            "Always break orders to save owners. There never was a great character who did not sometimes smash the routine regulations and make new ones for himself." -ANDREW CARNEGIE

            "Don't speak up at a meeting until you have something meaningful to contribute. Talking to attract attention may call attention to your blank spots." -JO FOXWORTH

            "Make 'em feel guilty when they do nothing. One thing I can't stand is people who don't act on a situation. I'd rather that people make mistakes than sit around and not do something."-DAVE THOMAS

            Customer Reviews:

            4 out of 5 stars A good read and very thought provoking.......2001-09-29

            I gave this book 4 stars because, while it was refreshing to read and I definitely learned quite a bit, it wasn't a paradigm-shifting book, which is what I am increasingly moving towards for my 5 star books.

            I personally love the art of business. Yeah, you read that right........business is an art...

            The Little Book of Business Wisdom has tons of useful information (over 50 different short stories/essays) that you could apply to your business or to understand what differentiates average companies from great companies. I underlined more than average when reading this book. I read this book hoping to learn some insightful comments and business practices to apply to my business once I get it up and running. I am trying to plan for the future and all of these business leaders have experienced phenomenal success and growth or trained those business leaders. This book is definitely worth picking up and is a KEEPER! If you are interested in a comparable book worth picking up you may want to look at Every Mistake in the Book by F.J. Lennon as I found this book to be a very straight book from a guy that ran his own company.

            5 out of 5 stars Another "Classic" Resource from Krass.......2000-11-17

            I really admire the talents of Peter Krass who has brilliantly edited a number of "Wisdom" books, this being the most recent. Once again, he has assembled a collection of more than 50 essays written by what are correctly referred to as "business legends." Here is how the material is organized:

            Part I: Management Principles (eg Lee Iacocca and John Erik Jonsson)

            Part II: Leadership Secrets (eg John F. Welch, Jr. and Robert Townsend)

            Part III: Qualities for Personal Management (eg David Ogilvy and Andrew S. Grove)

            Part IV: Wall Street Wizards (eg Sir John M. Templeton and Peter Lynch)

            Part V: Gunslingers and the Entrepreneurial Drive (eg P.T. Barnum and Lillian Vernon)

            Part VI: The Gurus (eg Warren Bennis and Peter F. Drucker)

            Part VII: Builders of Culture (eg Howard M. Schultz and Mary Kay Ash)

            Part VIII: Maxims for Life (eg Carley Fiorina and Benjamin Franklin)

            You get the idea. I should add that some of the specific titles are probably not readily available anywhere else. For example, J.C. Penney's "Six Principles for Winning", Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield's "Our Aspirations", and Al Neuharth's "An S.O.B.'s Ten Secrets to Success." This would make a terrific holiday gift for your business associates, customers, etc. but also (especially) for recent or imminent graduates who are committed to a career in business.

            Please do not ignore Krass's Introduction. As always, he offers excellent insights of his own as well as remarks which help to create an appropriate context for the essays which follow.

            The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
            Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
            • Don't miss this one
            • One of my favorite reads!
            • Excellent book!
            • The Peabody Sisters Rock
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            The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
            Megan Marshall
            Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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            Twenty years in the making and greeted by stunning reviews, The Peabody Sisters is a landmark biography of three women who made American intellectual history. The story of the Peabody sisters and their central role in shaping the thought of their day is a piece of history that has never before been fully told. Megan Marshall's masterly and vivid work brings the sistersour American Brontsto life, along with the men they loved and influenced, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Mann, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Marshall casts new light on a legendary American era in an epic tale with the scope and fascination of the great nineteenth-century novels.

            Customer Reviews:

            5 out of 5 stars Don't miss this one.......2007-10-03

            Somehow I overlooked this book when it was released, but thank goodness I discovered it later. The author takes readers back in time to share the amazing lives of these sisters. In the process, acquaintances of the Peabody family, that readers already know as historical figures, are brought to life as real, flawed but remarkable people. Readers will identify with these women as they strive to achieve and practice their own talents in a society that shares possibilities and limitations not so different from our own.

            5 out of 5 stars One of my favorite reads!.......2007-07-25

            I only get to read on the train to and from work. This book makes my daily trip a real treat. I'm only half through, but hooked from page one. Not only does Marshall make a fascinating biographical and historical account of the Peabody sisters, but she provides answers as to why strong, ambitious, smart women have been so frustrated for so long. Society supressed gifted women in the 1800's so much so that women either became outcasts because they had to find expression, which in itself was restricted to motherhood, housewife or teacher, or they retreated into themselves in the form of illness or depression. Indeed, the contributions to romanticism by the Peabody sisters came at a very high cost to them. And now I can read about them and think "How strange that society was so close-minded back then!"

            5 out of 5 stars Excellent book!.......2007-03-17

            Megan Marshall has done superb work in this carefully researched account of the amazing Peabody sisters.

            5 out of 5 stars The Peabody Sisters Rock.......2007-01-07

            This book is one of my picks for the best reads of all time. I usually don't care for biography, but this had me spellbound like a novel. I could visualize the ladies in their respective settings and the personalities were fascinating. What complicated and difficult lives in so many ways, living in one another's shadows. Elizabeth's accomplishments were staggering. Translating from Latin and German? I don't even speak English correctly half the time! How interesting to live in a time when America was smaller. Obviously, I can recommend this book wholeheartedly.
            Janice Lawson - Montana

            5 out of 5 stars Could Megan Marshall do any more research?.......2006-12-13

            Peabody Sisters is excellent. There are so many people connected to these three woman that the reader is vicariously hearing inside information about historical figures, as well as the Peabody sisters---women most of us probably did not know. While you learn the historical significance/involvement of these women, you also learn of their daily lives and personal frustrations and joys. Megan Marshall has some 150 pages of notes and I think she must've examined every diary, note, letter, and biography of every individual involved in the sisters' lives. But, this is NOT a boring biography...Marshall speaks in a readable voice.
            Sisters at the forefront of an era.(THE PEABODY SISTERS: THREE WOMEN WHO IGNITED AMERICAN ROMANTICISM )(Book review): An article from: National Catholic Reporter
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              GREAT BATTLES OF THE ROYAL NAVY - As Commemorated In The Gunroom, Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
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                Great Battles of the Royal Navy: As Commemorated in the Gunroom, Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
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                  J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
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                  • The great defender of individual liberty
                  J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
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                  John Stuart Mill is one of the few indisputably classic authors in the history of political thought. On Liberty, first published in 1851, has become celebrated as the most powerful defense of the freedom of the individual and it is now widely regarded as the most important theoretical foundation for Liberalism as a political creed. Similarly, his The Subjection of Women, a powerful indictment of the political, social, and economic position of women, has become one of the cardinal documents of modern feminism. This edition brings together these two classic texts, plus Mill's posthumous Chapters on Socialism, his somewhat neglected examination of the strengths and weaknesses of various forms of Socialism. The Editor's substantial Introduction places these three works in the context both of Mill's life and of nineteenth-century intellectual and political history, and assesses their continuing relevance.

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                  5 out of 5 stars The great defender of individual liberty.......2006-12-24

                  John Stuart Mill, 1806-73, worked for the East India Co. helped run Colonial India from England. Minister of Parliament 1865-68 he served one term. Maiden speech was a disaster his second was great success. He was first MP to propose that women should be given the vote on equal footing with the men who could vote. He got 1/3 support, England gives franchise to women after U.S. He was a great Feminist, his essay "Subjection of Women" is written with great passion and prose. It was a brave position for him to take he was ridiculed for it. He favored democracy, and letting more men from lower classes the right to vote, but believed that people that are more educated should have more votes then less educated because they would make better decisions about what government should do. He would have wanted to extend education to the masses, so that all may have gotten 2-3 votes and so on. He didn't think it should be extended to where a small elite could carry the day on votes. The idea was that if the working class, and middle class, where divided on an issue, the people with more intelligence would have the power to tip the balance. Mill thought that people with more education would probably not only be better able to make political decisions, especially in terms of intellectually being able to see what would be best for the government to do, but that they would also be more concerned about the common good publicly then people in general. He was intensely educated by his father James. John could read Greek, and Latin at 6 yrs.; his Dad tutored him at home. Dad thought environment was everything. He was treated like an adult, never played games with kids; he had a very cerebral upbringing. He had a period of depression in his twenties, it changed his philosophy, and he recognized the importance of developing feelings along with the intellect, this is something that he stressed in his work. He read poetry to get out of depression; he became devoted to poetry and became a romantic. He fell in love with a married woman Harriet Taylor, was a platonic relationship, after her husband's death they married 3 years later and probably never consummated the marriage maybe due to his having syphilis. His dedication to "On Liberty" is to her, very devoted to each other. Both buried together in Avignon France where they used to vacation.

                  Mill as a moral theorist subscribed to a theory we call Utilitarianism. It means---In some way morality is about the maximization of happiness. Whether actions are right or wrong depends on how happiness can be most effectively maximized. I say in some way, because there are allot of different kinds of Utilitarians. Allot of different ways of saying exactly how it is the maximization of happiness comes into morality. Therefore, happiness is clearly an important idea for Utilitarians. Mill has a hedonistic view of happiness, he thinks that happiness can be defined in terms of "pleasure in the absence of pain." What is distinctive about Mill in this area is that he believes that some kinds of pleasure are better than others are, and add more to a person's happiness than other kinds of pleasures. He believes in what he calls, "higher quality pleasures." These are pleasures, he says, that we get from the exercise of faculties that only human beings happen to have. So the intellect, imagination, the moral feelings, these are the sources of higher quality pleasures people use. His view seems to be that a certain quantity of intellectual pleasure just adds more to your happiness, and a given quantity of some lower pleasure like a kind we would share with the animals such as sensation, taste, sexual pleasure, etc. His "higher quality pleasures" in a way echo Aristotle's ethics. The idea of those things that make us distinctly human that are the real key to our happiness, that is in Mill also. It is not as limited to reason and intellect as Aristotle thinks. Mill recognizes the importance of the appreciation of beauty, aesthetic pleasure, and moral pleasure. He frankly owes a debt to Aristotle that he never properly acknowledges, never gives him proper credit.

                  "On Liberty" is Mill's is his most widely read and enduring work. It is an indispensable essay on political thought, which strenuously argues for individual liberty. He is defending what he calls the "liberty principle." It is a principle that guarantees individuals quite a bit of personal freedom. "That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant." These quoted sentences in John Stuart Mill's book, "On Liberty," embody the crux of his argument; that the power of the state must intrude as little as possible on the liberty of its citizenry. In essence, Mill was against using the power of the state through its lawmaking apparatus to compel citizens to conduct themselves in ways that society deems moral or appropriate. Mill thought that people had not only a right, but also a duty to develop their intellectual faculties, which is indispensable to maximize their happiness. He believed that society improved for all its citizens when they where left unfettered to the maximum extent possible, allowing them to use their imagination and intellect to improve themselves. Mill postulates a theory that societies usually institute laws based primarily on "personal preference" of its citizenry instead of established principles. This lack of clarity of opinion often leads to the government frequently interfering in the lives of its citizens unnecessarily. For Mill, there are very few times when the state can infringe on the personal liberty of others. Firstly, the state has the right to promulgate laws that prevent a person's actions from harming others. Secondly, the state must protect those citizens who are not mature enough to protect themselves, such as children. Thirdly, he exempts, "... backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage." In Mill's view, immature societies need a benevolent leader to rule them until they have developed to a point where they, "... have attained the capacity of being guided to their own improvement by conviction or persuasion ..." Mill said this third exemption did not apply to any of the countries in Europe. Mill believed that forced morality by the state on its citizen's liberties was destructive to their inward development, and could even lead to a violent reaction by them against the government.


                  There are different parts of his defense of this, different arguments that he gives. He has a long chapter on freedom of speech and press. He has some very specific reasons why he thinks those freedoms are important. Always in the background for Mill is the idea of development, and making it possible for more people to enjoy these higher quality pleasures. How do we help people develop their distinctly human faculties, in ways that will help them enjoy their higher quality pleasures? Because for him that is the way, we maximize the total amount of happiness that is enjoyed in the world, and that is the object of morality as far as he is concerned. Utilitarianists believe that maximizing happiness is ultimately, what morality is all about. That does not mean maximizing your own happiness that means maximizing the total amount of happiness that is enjoyed, not only by yourself but also by everybody else as well.

                  Roger Kimball, in his book "Experiments Against Reality" wrote, "On Liberty" was published in 1859, coincidentally the same year as "On the Origin of Species." Darwin's book has been credited--and blamed--for all manner of moral and religious mischief. But in the long run "On Liberty" may have effected an even greater revolution in sentiment.

                  I read this book for a graduate class in Philosophy. Recommended reading for anyone interested in philosophy, political science, and history.

                  Songbirds in Singapore: The Growth of a Pastime (Images of Asia)
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                    Lesley Layton
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