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An Emperor Among Us

Author : David St. John
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781475961027
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book An Emperor Among Us written by David St. John and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As cigar smoke hangs heavy in Mark Twains sitting room, the members of the Monday Evening Club eagerly await his presentation, which they think will be the reading of his paper The Decay of the Art of Lying. Instead, Twain changes his mind and enthralls his audience with the true tale of one mans unconventional and fascinating journey through life. It is 1849 when a thirty-one-year-old Jewish South African immigrant sails into San Francisco Bay with forty thousand dollars in his pocket, coming to join the Gold Rush but eventually finding his fortune in real estate and commerce. Just a few short years after Joshua Norton finally realizes success, however, he fails beyond his darkest nightmares. Now delusional and nearly penniless, he proclaims himself the Emperor of the United States as he aimlessly wanders the streets of San Francisco. As Emperor Norton unintentionally becomes a vital part of the young city, the people afford him the respect of a true monarch as he issues proclamations that, under his fictional rule, bring a much-needed renaissance of civility to society. An Emperor Among Us tells the intriguing tale of a remarkable eccentric who wove a unique, gentle, and civilized thread into the rough and tumble fabric of early San Francisco.

American Emperor

Author : David O. Stewart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439157200
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book American Emperor written by David O. Stewart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No adventure in American history has been like Aaron Burr's. A canny and charismatic politician who rose to become third vice president of the new United States, Burr seemed to throw it all away in 1805 and 1806 in an extraordinary attempt to lead a secession of the American West.

All the Emperor's Men

Author : Hiroshi Tasogawa
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 155783850X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book All the Emperor's Men written by Hiroshi Tasogawa and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). When 20th Century Fox planned its blockbuster portrayal of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, it looked to Akira Kurosawa a man whose mastery of the cinema led to his nickname "the Emperor" to direct the Japanese sequences. Yet a matter of three weeks after he began shooting the film in December 1968, Kurosawa was summarily dismissed and expelled from the studio. The tabloids trumpeted scandal: Kurosawa had himself gone mad; his associates had betrayed him; Hollywood was engaged in a conspiracy. Now, for the first time, the truth behind the downfall and humiliation of one of cinema's greatest perfectionists is revealed in All the Emperor's Men. Journalist Hiroshi Tasogawa probes the most sensitive questions about Kurosawa's thwarted ambition and the demons that drove him. His is a tale of a great clash of personalities, of differences in the ways of making movies, and ultimately of a clash between Japanese and American cultures.

Paolo, Emperor of Rome

Author : Mac Barnett
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683358503
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Paolo, Emperor of Rome written by Mac Barnett and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daring dog takes a whirlwind tour of Rome in search of freedom in new picture book from beloved storyteller Mac Barnett and masterful illustrator Claire Keane Paolo the dachshund is trapped. Though he lives in Rome, a city filled with history and adventure, he is confined to a hair salon. Paolo dreams of the sweet life—la dolce vita—in the Eternal City. And then, one day, he escapes! Paolo throws himself into the city, finding adventure at every turn. Join our hero as he discovers the wonders of Rome: the ruins, the food, the art, the opera, and—of course—the cats. Readers will cheer the daring of this bighearted dog, whose story shows that even the smallest among us can achieve great things.

When the Emperor Was Divine

Author : Julie Otsuka
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307430219
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book When the Emperor Was Divine written by Julie Otsuka and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times. On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty incarceration camp in the Utah desert. In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism. When the Emperor Was Divine is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as today's headlines.

The Present State of Europe

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Present State of Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 1705 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memoirs of the Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon

Author : Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of the Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon written by Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memoirs of the Life, Exile and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon

Author : Las Cases
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of the Life, Exile and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon written by Las Cases and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena. [Translated from the French.] [With Plates, Including a Portrait and a Map.]

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Author : Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena. [Translated from the French.] [With Plates, Including a Portrait and a Map.] written by Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon

Author : Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
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Download or read book The Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon written by Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena

Author : Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena written by Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity

Author : Robert McKim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019802942X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity written by Robert McKim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The religious ambiguity of the world has many aspects, one of which is the hiddenness of God. Theists have proposed a number of explanations of God's hiddenness. Some putative explanations contend that the advantages of God's hiddenness ("goods of mystery") outweigh whatever benefits would result if God's existence and nature were clear to us ("goods of clarity"). Goods of mystery that have received a lot of discussion include human moral autonomy and the ability on our part to exercise control over whether we believe in the existence of God. The extent of the ambiguity that surrounds God's existence, and indeed all important religious matters, combined with our lack of an obviously correct and adequate explanation of this lack, suggest that, even if God exists, it is not important that people believe in God. Another central theme in the book is the significance of religious diversity for religious belief. The character of this diversity is such that it provides people who take a position on religious matters with reason to adopt the "Critical Stance" -- which requires people in all the religious traditions to subject their religious beliefs to critical scrutiny and hold those beliefs in a tentative way.Some contend that religious faith requires complete confidence in what is believed but tentative belief actually is sufficient to sustain many forms of religious commitment.

The Big Con

Author : Nate Hendley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610695860
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Big Con written by Nate Hendley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a broad range of infamous scams, cons, swindles, and hoaxes throughout American history—and considers why human gullibility continues in an age of easy access to information. Covering American cons and hoaxes past and present, including the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, the controversy over "subliminal messaging" (do bands, filmmakers, and advertisers really put secret messages in their works?), the panic about "satanic" daycare operators in the 1980s, and recent Internet scams, this book provides a fascinating, fact-based look at infamous frauds across the centuries. Offering an engaging mix of history, sociology, and psychology, author Nate Hendley gives readers an appreciation of how prominent scams, cons, "confidence men," and hoaxes have impacted American society, past and present. Each entry details the scheme or hoax and the pertinent con artist/schemer involved, examining the sociological, cultural, political, and/or economic effect of the scams. Each topic is accompanied by a short bibliography of further reading selections. As the old saying goes, "There is a sucker born every minute"—and there has always been a keen-eyed swindler to take advantage of the situation. The Big Con: Great Hoaxes, Frauds, Grifts, and Swindles in American History explores this sordid underbelly of American civilization and invites readers to revel in the felonious experience.

King of Kings

Author : Wilbur Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1499862024
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book King of Kings written by Wilbur Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited sequel to Wilbur Smith's worldwide bestseller, The Triumph of the Sun. An epic story of love, betrayal, courage and war that brings together two of Wilbur Smith's greatest families in this long-awaited sequel to his worldwide bestseller, The Triumph of the Sun. Cairo, 1888. A beautiful September day. Penrod Ballantyne and his fiancee, Amber Benbrook, stroll hand in hand. The future is theirs for the taking. But when Penrod's jealous former lover, Lady Agatha, plants doubt about his character, Amber leaves him and travels to the wilds of Abyssinia with her twin sister, Saffron, and her adventurer husband, Ryder Courtney. On a mission to establish a silver mine, they make the dangerous journey to the new capital of Addis Ababa, where they are welcomed by Menelik, the King of Kings. But Italy has designs on Abyssinia, and there are rumours of a plan to invade... Back in Cairo, a devastated Penrod seeks oblivion in the city's opium dens. When he is rescued by his old friend, Lorenzo De Fonseca, now in the Italian army, and offered the chance to assess the situation around the Abyssinian border, Penrod leaps at the chance of action. With storm clouds gathering, and on opposing sides of the invasion, can Penrod and Amber find their way back to one another - against all the odds?

At home and abroad, a ser. of essays, with a journal in Europe

Author : John Pendleton Kennedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book At home and abroad, a ser. of essays, with a journal in Europe written by John Pendleton Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Greco-Roman Culture and the New Testament

Author : David Edward Aune
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004226311
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Greco-Roman Culture and the New Testament written by David Edward Aune and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a strength of the faculty of the Pontifical Biblical Institute, this volume is a collection of nine essays by an international group of scholars who have used texts from the Greco-Roman world to illuminate various aspects of the New Testament.