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Five Days In Philadelphia

Author : Charles Peters
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 9781586481124
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Five Days In Philadelphia written by Charles Peters and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were four strong contenders when the Republican party met in June of 1940 in Philadelphia to nominate its candidate for president: the crusading young attorney and rising Republican star Tom Dewey, solid members of the Republican establishment Robert Taft and Arthur Vandenberg, and dark horse Wendell Willkie, utilities executive, favorite of the literati and only very recently even a Republican. The leading Republican candidates campaigned as isolationists. The charismatic Willkie, newcomer and upstager, was a liberal interventionist, just as anti-Hitler as FDR. After five days of floor rallies, telegrams from across the country, multiple ballots, rousing speeches, backroom deals, terrifying international news, and, most of all, the relentless chanting of "We Want Willkie" from the gallery, Willkie walked away with the nomination. The story of how this happened — and of how essential his nomination would prove in allowing FDR to save Britain and prepare this country for entry into World War II — is all told in Charles Peters' Five Days in Philadelphia. As Peters shows, these five action-packed days and their improbable outcome were as important as the Battle of Britain in defeating the Nazis.

Cooking for Geeks

Author : Jeff Potter
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449396038
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Cooking for Geeks written by Jeff Potter and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents recipes ranging in difficulty with the science and technology-minded cook in mind, providing the science behind cooking, the physiology of taste, and the techniques of molecular gastronomy.

American Fiction Since 1940

Author : Tony Hilfer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317871243
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book American Fiction Since 1940 written by Tony Hilfer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable book, Tony Hilfer provides a major survey of the wealth of post-war American fiction. He analyses the major modes and genres of writing, from realist to postmodernist metafiction and black humour, the fiction of social protest, women's writing, and the traditions of African-American, Southern and Jewish-American fiction. Key writers discussed include William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Vladimir Nabokov and Joyce Carol Oates. The book concludes by exploring contemporary trends through detailed case-studies of Donald Barthelme and Toni Morrison.

Before & After

Author : Alison Wilson
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1472132343
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Before & After written by Alison Wilson and published by Constable. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aged nineteen, Alison McKelvie was a self-confessed romantic, immersed in books and poetry, and dreaming of beauty, truth and love. In 1940, whilst working as a secretary at MI6, Alison met Alexander Wilson. Thirty years her senior, Alexander was worldly and charismatic. An intense affair quickly led to marriage and two children. But the Wilsons' lives then spiralled into the depths of poverty. Alexander was sacked, imprisoned twice, and then declared bankrupt. His lack of reliability was a hefty emotional burden for Alison to bear. Nevertheless, she loved her husband unreservedly and stuck by him through thick and thin. In 1963, Alexander died suddenly of a heart attack. Alison's world imploded when she discovered that their life together had been built upon layer after layer of deception. Who was Alexander Wilson? How well had Alison really known him? Slowly the lies were unravelled: Alexander had been a novelist, spy and, devastatingly, a bigamist. Alison was the third of four wives, her children two of seven. The inspiration for critically-acclaimed drama Mrs Wilson, Before & After is the powerful and poignant memoir of Alison Wilson. 'Before' peels back the complex layers of a marriage steeped in lies, and the shattering heartbreak which followed. 'After' tells of an intensely-felt redemption through religion. Before & After is, first and foremost, a love story, but it is also an account of one extraordinarily strong woman's deep, unwavering faith.

Hearings

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1012 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia

Author : David Darling
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
ISBN 13 : 1506901441
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia written by David Darling and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia is an A-to-Z of the search for life in the Universe. Entries cover astrobiology, the origins and evolution of life, the hunt for exoplanets, SETI, and extraterrestrial life in science fiction, philosophy, and popular speculation (including UFOs). The book is written in an engaging style for the layperson and contains numerous B&W illustrations. Keywords: Encylopedia, ET, SETI, Science, Extraterrestrial, Origins, Evolution, Planets, Universe, David, Darling, Dirk, Schulze Makuch, Stars, Life

Women Workers in Some Expanding Wartime Industries, New Jersey, 1942 ...

Author : Dorothy Krall Newman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Women Workers in Some Expanding Wartime Industries, New Jersey, 1942 ... written by Dorothy Krall Newman and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Amazing Disgrace

Author : James Hamilton-Paterson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571267653
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Amazing Disgrace written by James Hamilton-Paterson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald Samper is a ghost writer to the stars: rock singers, racing drivers and ski champions. And to Millie Cleat, the monstrous one-armed sailor, whose round the world voyage has made her the toast of Britain, and who has become the poster-girl for the Deep Blues, a mystical and nutty environmental group. Gerald pines for greater things, however, and would prefer to write the memoirs of Max Christ, the celebrated conductor. While he schemes to land this unattainable catch, he muses hilariously and viciously on the world of which he is such an unwilling part, looking out from his Tuscan hilltop and pining for his neighbour Marta, offspring of a crime family from Voynovia, who disappeared one day into thin air. Has she been the subject of a 'rendition'? Meanwhile, some oceanographers are planning revenge on Millie Cleat for her destruction of their greatest coup. Gerald convinces her that she has seen the face of Neptune in the depths ...

Memoirs of a Reluctant Gunner

Author : Vincent Gilbert
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1928171222
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Reluctant Gunner written by Vincent Gilbert and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MEMOIRS OF A RELUCTANT GUNNER tells the story of Vincent Gilbert from his conscription into the British Army in 1943 through his time in in India as a gunner in the 22nd Anti-tank Regiment. Vincent shares his experiences with clarity and wit, his frank descriptions of the sorrows and difficulties of war softened by a ready and disarming humour. Vinnie was born in Stafford, England in 1925 and was educated at St. Patrick's Elementary School and the College of Technology in that same town. He was enlisted into the Royal Regiment of Artillery at the age of 18 and served in India. He immigrated to Canada in 1965 and now lives in Guelph, Ontario.

The Great Demographic Illusion

Author : Richard Alba
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069120621X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Great Demographic Illusion written by Richard Alba and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book that examines the growing population of mixed minority-white backgrounds and society"--

Michael Chabon's The Escapist: Amazing Adventures

Author : Michael Chabon
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506704050
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Michael Chabon's The Escapist: Amazing Adventures written by Michael Chabon and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fictional world of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, the Escapist--the epitome of Golden Age superhero--was conceived. This anthology is a collection of the hero's history and his exploits, created by an all-star cast of comic book luminaries. The Escapist and his associates are heroes to all who languish in oppression's chains. They roam the globe, performing amazing feats to foil diabolical evildoers. From preventing a prison break and attack on Empire City, to facing a demonic horde in Japan, to crushing a galactic takeover in the year 2966, and to surfacing a sunken submarine from 300 fathoms, the Escapist brings hope and liberation. As the history of his creators, Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, was chronicled in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, now a multitude of the Escapist's adventures are collected here, along with the patchwork publishing history of the character. This volume also contains the adventures of the Escapist's associate, Luna Moth. The stories and art within are by amazing talent like Brian K. Vaughan (Saga, Y--The Last Man), Kyle Baker (The Fifth Beatle), Eduardo Barreto (Batman), Howard Chaykin (American Flagg, Star Wars), Gene Colan (Daredevil, Howard the Duck), Matt Kindt (Pistolwhip), Kevin McCarthy (Circuit-Breaker), Bill Sienkiewicz (Elektra: Assassin), Jim Starlin (Captain Marvel) and, of course, Michael Chabon. Containing a total of twenty-six tales, along with two never-before-collected stories, this volume also contains six never-before-published stories, as well as a robust gallery of pinups celebrating the world of the Escapist from artists including Brian Bolland (Judge Dredd), Jöelle Jones (Lady Killer), Mike Mignola (Hellboy), Eric Wight (My Dead Girlfriend), Jae Lee (Before Watchmen), and more!

Congressional Record

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1276 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Bulletin

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bulletin

Author : United States. Bureau of Mines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1038 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Bureau of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Great Sand Dunes National Park

Author : Mike Butler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738596949
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Great Sand Dunes National Park written by Mike Butler and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Colorado's unique Great Sand Dunes rise to a height of 750 feet above the San Luis Valley floor and are the nation's highest dunes not adjacent to an ocean or lake. The sweeping dunes were protected as a national monument in 1932 and as a national park in 2000. From prehistoric hunter-gatherers to the historic Ute Indian tribe, inhabitants have long used the resources of the land around the dunes. Zebulon Pike was the first American explorer to witness the dunes in 1807, followed by a long procession of other explorers, ranchers, and miners. Today, visitors from around the world come to climb up and slide down the dunes in Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.

Managing in a Time of Great Change

Author : Peter Drucker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136007857
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Managing in a Time of Great Change written by Peter Drucker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is not so very difficult to predict the future. It is only pointless...what is always far more important are fundamental changes that happened though no one predicted them or could possible have predicted them.' (quote taken from this book) It is these unpredictable and irreversible changes from the past, and their effect on the role of the executive which Peter Drucker examines in his latest book. The management of change is a subject which has been, undoubtedly, the principal preoccupation of management thinkers in the 1990s. Peter Drucker, the guru's guru, brings together a group of his own original essays and interviews on this vitally important topic. As ever, he provides invaluable food for thought for all executives and students of business and management.

The Oxford History of the Novel in English

Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192659073
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of the Novel in English written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a twelve-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction, written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, and tendencies. This book offers an account of US fiction during a period demarcated by two traumatic moments: the eve of the entry of the United States into the Second World War and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The aftermath of the Second World War was arguably the high point of US nationalism, but in the years that followed, US writers would increasingly explore the possibility that US democracy was a failure, both at home and abroad. For so many of the writers whose work this volume explores, the idea of "nation" became suspect as did the idea of "national literature" as the foundation for US writing. Looking at post-1940s writing, the literary historian might well chart a movement within literary cultures away from nationalism and toward what we would call "cosmopolitanism," a perspective that fosters conversations between the occupants of different cultural spaces and that regards difference as an opportunity to be embraced rather than a problem to be solved. During this period, the novel has had significant competition for the US public's attention from other forms of narrative and media: film, television, comic books, videogames, and the internet and the various forms of social media that it spawned. If, however, the novel becomes a "residual" form during this period, it is by no means archaic. The novel has been reinvigorated over the past eighty years by its encounters with both emergent forms (such as film, television, comic books, and digital media) and the emergent voices typically associated with multiculturalism in the United States.