Shanghai-born and later Hong Kongresident shipowner TUNG CHAO-YUNG (19121982) is remembered worldwide as a champion for Chinese shipping, founding the companies Chinese Maritime Transport and Island Navigation, and pioneering container shipping for Asia in Orient Overseas Container Line/OOCL. Despite coming from a humble background, by the time of his death he controlled a huge fleet of passenger liners, bulk carriers, tankers, and container ships, while also being diversified into port te...

The conflict between politics and antipolitics has replayed throughout Western history and philosophical thought. From the beginning, Plato's quest for absolute certainty led him to denounce democracy, an anti-political position challenged by Aristotle. In his wide-ranging narrative, Dick Howard puts this dilemma into fresh perspective, proving our contemporary political problems are not as unique as we think.Howard begins with democracy in ancient Greece and the rise and fall of r...

This book traces a dialectic relationship between “politics” and “antipolitics,” the first, as used here, being akin to philosophy as an activity of open inquiry, plural democracy, and truth-finding, and the latter in the realm of ideology, technocracy, and presupposed certainties. It returns back to the emergence of a New Left movement in the 1960s in order to follow the history of this relationship since then. It addresses contemporary debates by looking to the fall of the Berlin Wall an...

Published more than twenty years ago, Stephen Eric Bronner's bold defense of socialism remains a seminal text for our time. Treating socialism as an ethic, reinterpreting its core categories, and critically confronting its early foundations, Bronner's work offers a reinvigorated "class ideal" and a new perspective for progressive politics in the twentieth century.Socialism Unbound is an extraordinary work of political history that revisits the pivotal figures of the labor ...

Ernest Renan was one of the leading lights of the Parisian intellectual scene in the second half of the nineteenth century. A philologist, historian, and biblical scholar, he was a prominent voice of French liberalism and secularism. Today most familiar in the English-speaking world for his 1882 lecture “What Is a Nation?” and its definition of a nation as an “everyday plebiscite,” Renan was a major figure in the debates surrounding the Franco-Prussian War, the Paris Commune, and the birth...

Jockey Kelly Hughes and trainer Dexter Cranfield had been barred from racing – a devastating event for them both. The charge at the secret enquiry? Throwing a race for personal profit. It was a vicious frame-up and, worse, they had nowhere to turn to clear their names. Still Hughes refused to take the phony verdict lying down – even though his quest to clear his name might have him lying down permanently.

CAN A HOT NIGHT OF SWINGING GET A BI-CURIOUS HUSBAND TO TAKE THE PLUNGE? DEEP?He's straight.His man-cherry unpopped.But is tonight the night he loses it?This steamy read is hot from the start to the very end.Raw and detailed scenes, not for the weak at heart. Perfect for those who don't like their stories sugar-coated, if you like it hot, naughty and raw then this is definitely your fil...

An Epic Listen . . . Wet Your Crave with This Filthy Hot AudiobookIn a culinary competition that Rhia needs to win, how did things take such a wild turn?How did a gang of chefs all want to go in Rhia's hot little pot?Rhia's boyfriend, Brandon, watches it all, her first time being shared.How hot will Rhia get? How many chefs need to be satisfied?Can h...

I've always been a curious man.I was just off a very naughty and funweekend trip with Henri, Matt and Joan.My best friend's wife, Jennifer was at her garage when I was pulling in,She invited me for dinner with her and her husband who kept a totally smooth and hairless skin.What I had not known was that they both had found my dirty DVD and saw what naughty lifestyle

SECRET ROYALTY GAY ROMANCEAustin is down on his luck, working odd jobs trying to cover his tuition.He had no idea it would lead him to love. With a prince. A secret prince.But not only is the prince’s true identity a secret, there are more secrets to him.Will love be enough?This is a fast-paced, steamy, insta-love standalone with no cheating and a HEA ending intended for adults.

Global society has been analyzed in any number of ways: books dealing with its economic and cultural implications flood the market. But Planetary Politics highlights something unique. It explores globalization with an eye on the transformation of politics into a planetary enterprise. Unifying this collection is a political purpose: the attempt to engage in progressive fashion the dominant trends, the terrible excesses, and the positive prospects in a decidedly new era marked by th...

Tracing the material and intellectual development of one of the nation’s leading law schoolsOver two centuries, UVA Law evolved from a regional, segregated law school into a nationally recognized leader in legal education. As this collection highlights, its changing curriculum—always in conversation with broader historical, cultural, and social forces—proved crucial to this profound transformation. Initially shaped by white Southern perspectives on race, gender, an...