Best Selling Books by Thomas Hill

In his time, Thomas Hill, a British-born painter who worked extensively in the American West during the second half of the nineteenth century, earned favorable comparison with Albert Bierstadt in the East Coast press, and received highest honors for landscape painting at the Philadelphia Centennial. By the late 1860s, his monumental canvases of Yosemite commanded five thousand dollars apiece and attracted national critical acclaim. Hill is generally associated with those paintings of Yosemite and other grand landscapes and his The Driving of the Last Spike. These large-scale compositions, however, incompletely represent Thomas Hill''s talents and enthusiams. Some of the artist''s finest achievements are realized in smaller paintings, classified as oil sketches, of subjects as diverse as Newport, Rhode Island, Lake Tahoe in California, and the Pacific Northwest. These modest works attest to Hill''s powers of observation, his abilities to render immediate descriptions of his subjects, and his enchantment with his motifs. Oil sketches - usually made on board or paper and under sixteen-by-twenty inches - comprise a significant portion of Thomas Hill''s work. Spontaneously executed, they capture the artist''s direct responses to nature. As a body they offer immediacy and visual delight, as well as insights into the artist''s broad interests and the cultural context in which he worked. And because they represent, in many cases, the only surveying evidence of larger-scale paintings made from them, the oil sketches are key to documenting Hill''s career. - excerpted from the essay by Janice T. Driesbach. -- from front cover flap.

The present work is Thomas Hill Green’s account of his conception of ‘the common good’ and its importance in determining a set of criteria that will give us the means to evaluate the conduct of political establishments. The principles of political obligation are all founded on this attractive idea of a common good, and Green is able to apply his principles to a wide range of matters from land law to personal freedom. How well the book succeeds in convincing the reader that a common good ought to act as a basis for evaluating the role of political establishments may be unclear. But there can be little doubt that the work is one of the most important contributions to political philosophy made by any English philosopher, and almost certainly the single most important contribution made by any British idealist. The book has attracted philosophers, sociologists, politologists and others since the day of its appearance, and continues to fuel lively debate today.

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Discusses the parents'' rights to choose their children''s school.

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Synopsis for Jubilation Deferred The story begins with the two brothers decision to purchase land in the distant Mississippi Delta. Here they would seek their fortunes in farming the highly profitable cotton fields and thereby join in the wealthy agrarian base of the British Industrial Revolution. The principal advisories were believed to originate not from the unforgiving misqueto or the heat or the annual per-pound price of their produce but in the existing battle of dominance of the slave ambition. While this story centers on the savagery bestowed on the slave, it also attempts to demonstrate the shallow lives of the plantation owners as uninhibited, strong-willed malevolence. I believe you will find this story a great read. As for conclusions, this author cannot recognize conclusions to an ongoing struggle. Advancements, yes, but not to the degree of acceptance of this African American generation as compared to other races that have recently ascended our shores, thus establishing the major point of view: jubilation deferred. The story contains the slaves long-held belief that through the years of harsh treatment, their god was watching over them. This truth is verified in what you will find as a surprise ending to this fantasia. Thomas Hill