Bøger af Richard Mitchell

Richard Mitchell was the Underground Grammarian. Here, back in print after many years, is The Gift of Fire, his last book, with a preface by his daughter, Daphne Mitchell Keller. In this collection of interconnected essays, he explores the teachings of Jesus and Socrates, parables of St. Peter and the Brothers Grimm, and the writings of Orwell and Aquinas, and considers what they have to teach us about living a good life. Best known for his long-running newsletter, The Underground Grammarian, and his previous writings about education, Mitchell guides his readers through the thorny perils of everyday morality, helping them respond with deep self-awareness to everything from traffic jams to war, partisan politics, and inequality. From the preface: "Nowhere in The Gift of Fire does Richard Mitchell, who was my father, claim that we can't think. Quite the opposite, in fact. There is no person, he says, who does not have the capacity to be educated, no one who lacks the ability to become able to tell the good from the bad, or who is somehow prevented forever from taking the grasp of his own mind. There are those who have not learned to do these things, or who are unwilling to do them, or who don't even know that they could be done. It's no surprise that many people don't do them. But he would (and in fact does) argue that every one of us could."

This all started on October 8, 2010. I'm on my way to work when this fifty-one-year-old with a learner's permit lost control of his car and decided to slam on his brakes; oops! He hits the gas instead, and he puts me into a spin. I end up crashing into the wall, next hospital, then therapy, finding out the tumor in my brain, removing the tumor, then a stroke. I wake up in hospital; wow, what a dream, but it seems so real.Then I started realizing it was real, and I was still getting messages from the other side. And at any time, I get this feeling in my chest, and I make sure I'm seated and secure because I'm about to go on a journey. I will see, hear, and feel everything that is happening on this journey. I have felt the death of countless spirits that I've met, but not all. Some just give me a message for loved ones that they left behind. They will see in this book and only know if the message is for them. This is my first book, but I continue seeing what I see; who knows what's next?

Examines how businesses manage their labour systems, and particularly how they manage the complex interaction of factors which give rise to instances of 'partnership' style relations between businesses and their employees.