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Kleptocracy (from Greek κλέπτης kléptēs, "thief", or κλέπτω kléptō, "I steal", and -κρατία-kratía from κράτος krátos, "power, rule"), also referred to as thievocracy, [1] [2] is a government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to expropriate the wealth of the people and land they govern ...
Conceiving that such a compilation might help to supply my own deficiencies, I had, in the year 1805, completed a classed catalogue of words on a small scale, but on the same principle, and nearly in the same form, as the Thesaurus now published. [4] Roget's Thesaurus is composed of six primary classes. [5]
Robert Henry Thouless (15 July 1894 – 25 September 1984) was an English psychologist and parapsychologist. [1] He is best known as the author of Straight and Crooked Thinking (1930, 1953), which describes flaws in reasoning and argument.
Straight and Crooked Thinking, first published in 1930 and revised in 1953, [1] is a book by Robert H. Thouless which describes, assesses and critically analyses flaws in reasoning and argument. Thouless describes it as a practical manual, rather than a theoretical one.
Crooked Plow (Portuguese: Torto Arado) is a novel by Brazilian author Itamar Vieira Junior. It tells the story of two Afro-Brazilian sisters, Bibiana and Belonísia, who experience a life-altering tragedy in childhood. The sisters live as tenant farmers with their family in Chapada Diamantina in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The novel won ...
The Crooked Timber of New India: Essays on a Republic in Crisis is a book by Parakala Prabhakar which was published on May 5, 2023 by Speaking Tiger Books. [ 1 ] Critical reception
The editors of this book have grouped Hurston's very short stories into "The Eatonville Anthology." These vignettes present episodes from the lives of the townspeople as they interact with each other. The Pleading Woman: Mrs. Roberts begs for food from people in the community, including Joe Clarke. He grows irritated because he knows that her ...
It was followed by his second book [7] the following year, and three more [8] [9] [10] in the next few years. His first book, Round About the Crooked Steeple, was the most successful, and the only one to be reprinted, [6] [11] [12] the first reprint being dated 9 April 1931