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100 Years, 100 Stories

Author : George Burns
Publisher : Putnam Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book 100 Years, 100 Stories written by George Burns and published by Putnam Adult. This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The incredible George Burns celebrates his one hundredth birthday with a priceless gift to his fans - a collection of the stories that have made him one of America's national treasures." "George Burns's career has spanned the history of modern show business: he has starred in big-time vaudeville; in radio, television, the movies, and the recording industry; and on the nightclub stage. His books have topped bestseller lists for years." "Now this beloved show business centenarian serves up a treat for his fans in a book of his favorite and funniest stories, each and every one from his own private stock. From recollections of events in his past to tales about friends and performers who have crossed his path - including Al Jolson, Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Ann-Margret, and Goldie Hawn - George Burns brings his unique, dry humor to each unforgettable story."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

Author : Lorrie Moore
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547485859
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories written by Lorrie Moore and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time --

100 Years, 100 Artworks

Author : Agnes Berecz
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 3791384848
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book 100 Years, 100 Artworks written by Agnes Berecz and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dazzling book showcases the history of modern and contemporary art using one hundred of the most significant art works--one per year--of the past 100 years. Starting with Marcel Duchamp's 1919 whimsical, brilliant L.H.O.O.Q., this compendium offers a year-by-year tour of iconic paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations, and performance pieces from all over the world. The works are carefully selected to showcase a diverse range of artists. Read from cover to cover, this volume offers an evocative summary of stylistic trends, historic events, and technological innovations that changed art over the past 100 years. Opening the book to any random page will illuminate a singular perspective and aesthetic delight. Each work is impeccably reproduced and presented in double-page spreads alongside informative and engaging texts. From Georgia O'Keeffe and Man Ray to Kara Walker and Ai Weiwei, this unique survey will both satisfy and surprise art lovers everywhere.

The Greatest War Stories Never Told

Author : Rick Beyer
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062310372
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Greatest War Stories Never Told written by Rick Beyer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick Beyer, the author of the acclaimed History Channel® series The Greatest Stories Never Told, returns with new historic tales, this time focusing on amazing war stories Search the annals of military history and you will discover no end of quirky characters and surprising true stories: The topless dancer who saved the Byzantine Empire; the World War I battle that was halted so a soccer game could be played; the scientist who invented a pigeon-guided missile in 1943; and don't forget the elderly pig whose death triggered an international crisis between the United States and Great Britain. This is the kind of history you'll find in The Greatest War Stories Never Told. One hundred fascinating stories drawn from two thousand years of military history, accompanied by a wealth of photographs, maps, drawings, and documents that help bring each story to life. Little-known tales told with a one-two punch of history and humor that will make you shake your head in disbelief -- but they're all true! Did You Know That: One military unit served on both sides during the Civil War The War of Jenkins's Ear was actually fought over a sea captain's ear Daniel Boone was once tried for treason A siege on Poland in 1519 gave birth to the marriage of bread and butter Discover how war can be a catalyst for change; an engine for innovation; and an arena for valor, deceit, intrigue, ambition, revenge, audacity, folly, and even silliness. Want to know how the mafia helped the United States win World War II, when the word bazooka was coined, or how Silly Putty was invented? Read on!

The Battle 100

Author : Michael Lee Lanning
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 140223189X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Battle 100 written by Michael Lee Lanning and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single day in the heat of armed conflict can shape the future of the world. Throughout history, individual battles have inspired the birth of nations, the devastation of cultures and the triumph of revolutions. Yet while some battles rise up as the cornerstones of history, others fade in our cultural memory, forgotten as minor skirmishes. Why is this so? What makes a battle "important"? Celebrated veteran and military expert Michael Lee Lanning offers a provocative response with The Battle 100: The Stories Behind History's Most Influential Battles. Lanning ranks history's 100 greatest battles according to their influence, both immediate and long-term. Thought-provoking and controversial, Lanning's rankings take us to the heart of the battles and reveal their true greatness.

Iraq + 100

Author : Hassan Blasim
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250161312
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Iraq + 100 written by Hassan Blasim and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of NPR's Best Books of 2017! A groundbreaking anthology of science fiction from Iraq that will challenge your perception of what it means to be “The Other” “History is a hostage, but it will bite through the gag you tie around its mouth, bite through and still be heard.”—Operation Daniel In a calm and serene world, one has the luxury of imagining what the future might look like. Now try to imagine that future when your way of life has been devastated by forces beyond your control. Iraq + 100 poses a question to Iraqi writers (those who still live in that nation, and those who have joined the worldwide diaspora): What might your home country look like in the year 2103, a century after a disastrous foreign invasion? Using science fiction, allegory, and magical realism to challenge the perception of what it means to be “The Other”, this groundbreaking anthology edited by Hassan Blasim contains stories that are heartbreakingly surreal, and yet utterly recognizable to the human experience. Though born out of exhaustion, fear, and despair, these stories are also fueled by themes of love, family, and endurance, and woven through with a delicate thread of hope for the future. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

World War One

Author : Bruce Scates
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1760141887
Total Pages : 993 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book World War One written by Bruce Scates and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been no shortage of heroic stories over the course of the Anzac Centenary: stories of courage and sacrifice, fortitude and endurance, mateship and resolve. But a hundred years on, there is a need for other stories as well – the stories too often marginalised in favour of nation-building narratives. World War One: a history in 100 stories remembers not just the men and women who lost their lives during the battles of WWI, but those who returned home as well: the gassed, the crippled, the insane – all those irreparably damaged by war. Drawn from a unique collection of sources, including repatriation files, these heartbreaking and deeply personal stories reveal a broken and suffering generation – gentle men driven to violence, mothers sent insane with grief, the hopelessness of rehabilitation and the quiet, pervasive sadness of loss. They also retrieve a fragile kind of courage from the pain and devastation of a conflict that changed the world. This is an unflinching and remarkable social history. It is an act of remembering in the face of forgetting. Telling the truth about war requires its own kind of courage.

Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba

Author : Mazen Maarouf
Publisher : Comma Press
ISBN 13 : 1912697203
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba written by Mazen Maarouf and published by Comma Press. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 – a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How might this event – which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes – reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolation, to shape the country and its people? Will a lasting peace finally have been reached, or will future technology only amplify the suffering and mistreatment of Palestinians? Covering a range of approaches – from SF noir, to nightmarish dystopia, to high-tech farce – these stories use the blank canvas of the future to reimagine the Palestinian experience today. Along the way, we encounter drone swarms, digital uprisings, time-bending VR, peace treaties that span parallel universes, and even a Palestinian superhero, in probably the first anthology of science fiction from Palestine ever. Translated from the Arabic by Raph Cormack, Mohamed Ghalaieny, Andrew Leber, Thoraya El-Rayyes, Yasmine Seale and Jonathan Wright. WINNER of a PEN Translates Award 2018. One of NPR's Favourite Books of 2019. 'It's necessary, of course. But above all it's bold, brilliant and inspiring: a sign of boundless imagination and fierce creation even in circumstances of oppression, denial, silencing and constriction. The voices of these writers demand to be heard - and their stories are defiantly entertaining.' - Bidisha 'This worthy collection excavates and probes, and reacquaints the west with the horrors of Palestinian existence right now.' - Middle East Eye 'Just as we do when Handmaids Tale or Black Mirror plots unfold on the screen, you are most likely to read Palestine +100 and say, this is now.' - Lithub

The 100-Year Life

Author : Lynda Gratton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152662284X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book The 100-Year Life written by Lynda Gratton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will your 100-year life look like? A new edition of the international bestseller, featuring a new preface 'Brilliant, timely, original, well written and utterly terrifying' Niall Ferguson Does the thought of working for 60 or 70 years fill you with dread? Or can you see the potential for a more stimulating future as a result of having so much extra time? Many of us have been raised on the traditional notion of a three-stage approach to our working lives: education, followed by work and then retirement. But this well-established pathway is already beginning to collapse – life expectancy is rising, final-salary pensions are vanishing, and increasing numbers of people are juggling multiple careers. Whether you are 18, 45 or 60, you will need to do things very differently from previous generations and learn to structure your life in completely new ways. The 100-Year Life is here to help. Drawing on the unique pairing of their experience in psychology and economics, Lynda Gratton and Andrew J. Scott offer a broad-ranging analysis as well as a raft of solutions, showing how to rethink your finances, your education, your career and your relationships and create a fulfilling 100-year life. · How can you fashion a career and life path that defines you and your values and creates a shifting balance between work and leisure? · What are the most effective ways of boosting your physical and mental health over a longer and more dynamic lifespan? · How can you make the most of your intangible assets – such as family and friends – as you build a productive, longer life? · In a multiple-stage life how can you learn to make the transitions that will be so crucial and experiment with new ways of living, working and learning? Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and featuring a new preface, The 100-Year Life is a wake-up call that describes what to expect and considers the choices and options that you will face. It is also fundamentally a call to action for individuals, politicians, firms and governments and offers the clearest demonstration that a 100-year life can be a wonderful and inspiring one.

If You Lived 100 Years Ago

Author : Ann McGovern
Publisher : If You.
ISBN 13 : 9780590960014
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book If You Lived 100 Years Ago written by Ann McGovern and published by If You.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows what it would have been like to live in New York City during the 1890's.

The Greatest Science Stories Never Told

Author : Rick Beyer
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061626961
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Science Stories Never Told written by Rick Beyer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 tales of invention and discovery to astonish, bewilder, & stupefy Meet the angry undertaker who gave us the push-button phone. Discover how modesty led to the invention of the stethoscope. Find out why Albert Einstein patented a refrigerator. Learn how a train full of trumpeters made science history. Did you know about: The frustrated fashion designer who created the space suit? The gun-toting newspaperman who invented the parking meter? The midnight dreams that led to a Nobel Prize? They're so good, you can't read just one!

100 Years: Wisdom From Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life

Author : Joshua Prager
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393285715
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book 100 Years: Wisdom From Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life written by Joshua Prager and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary literary journey, 100 Years celebrates every age from birth to 100 with quotations from the world’s greatest writers. This literary tapestry of the human experience will delight readers of all backgrounds. Moving year by year through the words of our most beloved authors, the great sequence of life reveals itself—the wonders and confinements of childhood, the emancipations and frustrations of adolescence, the empowerments and millstones of adulthood, the recognitions and resignations of old age. This trove of wisdom—featuring immortal passages from Arthur Rimbaud, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, David Foster Wallace, William Shakespeare, Herman Melville, Jane Austen, and Maya Angelou, among many others—reminds us that the patterns of life transcend continents, cultures, and generations. As Thomas Mann wrote of our most shared human experience: "It will happen to me as to them." Designed by the legendary Milton Glaser, who created the I ♥ NY logo, 100 Years brings together color, type, and text to illuminate the ebb and flow of an entire life.

Stories for the Heart: The Second Collection

Author :
Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 157673823X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Stories for the Heart: The Second Collection written by and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2001-04-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories for the Heart: The Second Collection offers up over one hundred stories that hug readers' hearts and encourage their souls. This treasury of timeless tales written by some of today's best-known communicators offers a wealth of compassion and love certain to reach multiple generations. Readers will find themselves sharing these uplifting stories in conversation and relating the nuggets of wisdom they've discovered. The impact of these true-to-life tales will flavor the reader's views and inspire their hearts. Whether read during peaceful moments cuddled up by the fire, basking in the sunshine of the beach, or as a part of family times, this second collection in the Stories for the Heart series is guaranteed to stir the soul.

Of Gods and Men

Author : Daisy Dunn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788546733
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Of Gods and Men written by Daisy Dunn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rigorously and imaginatively researched anthology of classical literature, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary canon of ancient Greece and Rome. Striking a balance between the 'classic classic' (such as Dryden's translation of the Aeneid) and the less familiar or expected, Of Gods and Men ranges from the epic poetry of Homer to the histories of Arrian and Diodorus Siculus and the sprawling Theogony of Hesiod; from the tragedies of Aeschylus and Euripides to the biographies of Suetonius and Plutarch and the pen portraits of Theophrastus; and from the comedies of Plautus to the fictions of Petronius and Apuleius. Of Gods and Men is embellished by translations from writers as diverse as Queen Elizabeth I (Boethius), Percy Bysshe Shelley (Plato), Walter Pater (Apuleius's Golden Ass), Lawrence of Arabia (Homer's Odyssey), Louis MacNeice (Aeschylus's Agamemnon) and Ted Hughes (Ovid's Pygmalion), as well as a number of accomplished translations by Daisy Dunn herself.

Narrative Architecture

Author : Nigel Coates
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470057440
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Architecture written by Nigel Coates and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to look architectural narrative in the eye Since the early eighties, many architects have used the term "narrative" to describe their work. To architects the enduring attraction of narrative is that it offers a way of engaging with the way a city feels and works. Rather than reducing architecture to mere style or an overt emphasis on technology, it foregrounds the experiential dimension of architecture. Narrative Architecture explores the potential for narrative as a way of interpreting buildings from ancient history through to the present, deals with architectural background, analysis and practice as well as its future development. Authored by Nigel Coates, a foremost figure in the field of narrative architecture, the book is one of the first to address this subject directly Features architects as diverse as William Kent, Antoni Gaudí, Eero Saarinen, Ettore Sottsass, Superstudio, Rem Koolhaas, and FAT to provide an overview of the work of NATO and Coates, as well as chapters on other contemporary designers Includes over 120 colour photographs Signposting narrative's significance as a design approach that can aid architecture to remain relevant in this complex, multi-disciplinary and multi-everything age, Narrative Architecture is a must-read for anyone with an interest in architectural history and theory.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book One Hundred Years of Solitude written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.

Life: 100 Events That Shook Our World

Author : Editors of Life
Publisher : Life
ISBN 13 : 9781932994100
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (941 download)

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Download or read book Life: 100 Events That Shook Our World written by Editors of Life and published by Life. This book was released on 2005-09-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of photographs that capture the most important events of the past century in a study of the key milestones and personalities of the modern world, ranging from two World Wars to the horrific events of September 11th.