Those wishing to know the nature of madness, wrote Voltaire, should observe their dreams. This is an important new analysis of the problematic relationship between dreams and madness that preoccupied nineteenth-century French writers, thinkers, and doctors. Tony James shows how doctors (such as Esquirol, Lélut, and Janet), thinkers (including Maine de Biran and Taine), and writers (Balzac, Nerval, Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, and Rimbaud) grappled in very different ways with the problems raised by the so-called "phenomena of sleep" and particularly the question: might dreams be a source of creativity?

Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France

Literature & Fiction

James, Tony

History & Criticism

Clarendon Press

Everyone deserves to be able to retire with dignity, but this core feature of the social contract is in jeopardy. Companies have swerved away from pensions, and most of the workforce has woefully inadequate retirement savings. If we don’t act to fix this broken system, rates of impoverishment for senior citizens threaten to skyrocket, and tens of millions of Americans reaching retirement age in the coming decades will be forced to delay retirement and will experience a dramatic drop in their standard of living. In Rescuing Retirement, Teresa Ghilarducci and Tony James offer a comprehensive yet simple plan to help workers save for retirement, increase retirement savings by earning higher returns, and guarantee lifelong income for everyone. Built on people’s own money in individual Guaranteed Retirement Accounts, the plan requires no new taxes, no more bureaucracy, and no increase in the deficit. Speaking to Americans’ growing anxiety about their ability to retire, Rescuing Retirement provides answers to anyone wanting to understand the growing movement to protect a period of life once considered a deserved time of rest and creativity and offers a practical guide to the future of secure retirement.

Rescuing Retirement: A Plan to Guarantee Retirement Security for All Americans (Columbia Business School Publishing)

Business & Money

Ghilarducci, Teresa

Economics

Columbia University Press

Everyone deserves to be able to retire with dignity, but this core feature of the social contract is in jeopardy. Companies have swerved away from pensions, and most of the workforce has woefully inadequate retirement savings. If we don’t act to fix this broken system, rates of impoverishment for senior citizens threaten to skyrocket, and tens of millions of Americans reaching retirement age in the coming decades will be forced to delay retirement and will experience a dramatic drop in their standard of living.\nIn Rescuing Retirement, Teresa Ghilarducci and Tony James offer a comprehensive yet simple plan to help workers save for retirement, increase retirement savings by earning higher returns, and guarantee lifelong income for everyone. Built on people’s own money in individual Guaranteed Retirement Accounts, the plan requires no new taxes, no more bureaucracy, and no increase in the deficit. Speaking to Americans’ growing anxiety about their ability to retire, Rescuing Retirement provides answers to anyone wanting to understand the growing movement to protect a period of life once considered a deserved time of rest and creativity and offers a practical guide to the future of secure retirement.

Rescuing Retirement: A Plan to Guarantee Retirement Security for All Americans

The Royal Fleet Auxiliary 1905 - 85

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Maritime Books

'Up The Creek' charts Tony James' unintentional voyage from his father's broad-bean bed in land-locked Derbyshire to a marina in Somerset via the Caribbean, the Persian Gulf and the bottom of a swimming pool in Ottery St Mary, and features his impressions of the colourful characters he met along the way.

Up the Creek

Sports & Outdoors

Water Sports

Seafarer Books

Yankee Jack Sails Again: A Sentimental Journey to the Forgotten Ports of the Southwest

Sir Alexander St. Clair becomes a Knight of the Temple shortly before the dissolution of the Order but will go to great lengths to continue the work.  He and a few others are assigned to join Scottish royalty and continue to serve the Order by supporting the new Scottish king, Robert the Bruce.

The Knight Templar: Book 1 of the Sinclair Family Chronicles

Genre Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

First Tales of a Thai Village

Travel

Scribbler, Idle

Asia

Up the Creek charts Tony JamesÂ’ unintentional voyage from his home in landlocked Derbyshire, to a marina in Somerset via the Caribbean, the Persian gulf and the bottom of a swimming pool in Ottery St. Mary. 
On the way, Tony gathers a motley crew of unforgettable eccentrics and maritime misfits, brought to hilarious life by his acute observations of the ridiculous and by his wry acceptance that whatever happens at sea, things can only get worse. The funniest and most original sailing book for years.

Up the Creek: A Lifetime Spent Trying to Be a Sailor

Sheridan House

Rescuing Retirement offers a solution to one of America’s biggest challenges—and a path to financial security for millions of retirees. Over the next two decades, almost 10,000 Americans will reach retirement age every single day. They deserve to live their older years in dignity. Instead, they will experience a dramatic drop in their standard of living. Our country is on a path that will lead to rates of impoverishment for senior citizens not seen since the Great Depression. The reality is America’s retirement system is broken. Rescuing Retirement charts a visionary, bipartisan, and surprisingly simple way to solve this problem: <ul>
<li>Every full-time worker can save enough for retirement. </li> <li>Retirement savings grow by earning higher rates of return. </li> <li>Everyone retires with guaranteed lifelong income for themselves and their spouse. </li> <li>The plan doesn’t add a dime to the deficit, increase taxes, or create any new government infrastructure. </li> </ul>
 A better, smarter retirement future is possible. This book shows American workers, employers, and political leaders how to get there.

Disruption Books

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