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Confessions of a Left-Handed Man

Author : Peter Selgin
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609380568
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Left-Handed Man written by Peter Selgin and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Selgin was cursed/blessed with an unusual childhood. The son of Italian immigrants—his father an electronics inventor and a mother so good looking UPS drivers swerved off their routes to see her—Selgin spent his formative years scrambling among the hat factory ruins of a small Connecticut town, visiting doting—and dotty—relatives in the “old world,” watching mental giants clash at Mensa gatherings, enduring Pavlovian training sessions with a grandmother bent on “curing” his left-handedness, and competing savagely with his right-handed twin. It’s no surprise, then, that Selgin went on from these peculiar beginnings to do . . . well, nearly everything. Confessions of a Left-Handed Man is a bold, unblushing journey down roads less traveled. Whether recounting his work driving a furniture delivery truck, his years as a caricaturist, his obsession with the Titanic that compelled him to complete seventy-five paintings of the ship(in sinking and nonsinking poses), or his daily life as a writer, from start to finish readers are treated to a vividly detailed, sometimes hilarious, often moving, but always memorable life. In this modern-day picaresque, Selgin narrates an artist’s journey from unconventional roots through gritty experience to artistic achievement. With an elegant narrative voice that is, by turns, frank, witty, and acid-tongued, Selgin confronts his past while coming to terms with approaching middle age, reaching self-understanding tempered by reflection, regret, and a sharply self-deprecating sense of humor.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1576755126
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man written by John Perkins and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1626566755
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man written by John Perkins and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this new edition of the New York Times bestseller brings the story of Economic Hit Men up-to-date and, chillingly, home to the U.S.―but it also gives us hope and the tools to fight back. Former economic hit man John Perkins shares new details about the ways he and others cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Then he reveals how the deadly EHM cancer he helped create has spread far more widely and deeply than ever in the US and everywhere else—to become the dominant system of business, government, and society today. Finally, he gives an insider view of what we each can do to change it. Economic hit men are the shock troops of what Perkins calls the corporatocracy, a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments, and the rich and powerful people tied to them. If the EHMs can't maintain the corrupt status quo through nonviolent coercion, the jackal assassins swoop in. The heart of this book is a completely new section, over 100 pages long, that exposes the fact that all the EHM and jackal tools—false economics, false promises, threats, bribes, extortion, debt, deception, coups, assassinations, unbridled military power—are used around the world today exponentially more than during the era Perkins exposed over a decade ago. As dark as the story gets, this reformed EHM also provides hope. Perkins offers specific actions each of us can take to transform what he calls a failing Death Economy into a Life Economy that provides sustainable abundance for all.

Confessions

Author : Cynthia Eden
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373698127
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Confessions written by Cynthia Eden and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desperate to prove she's being framed for murder, Scarlett Stone entrusts her reputation and her life to the man who once broke her heart. Grant McGuire, a sexy former army ranger turned detective, has never been the same since military action. But behind his cold demeanor, he still burns for Scarlett.

The Best American Travel Writing 2014

Author : Jason Wilson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544330153
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Travel Writing 2014 written by Jason Wilson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the best travel writing pieces published in American periodicals during 2013.

Left-handed Calligraphy

Author : Vance Studley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486267024
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Left-handed Calligraphy written by Vance Studley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1991-05-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning calligrapher's generously illustrated text offers full coverage of calligraphy for left-handed writers. Tools and materials, correct positioning, page layout, much more. 4 model alphabets.

Anthropologies

Author : Beth Alvarado
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 160938038X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Anthropologies written by Beth Alvarado and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-09-03 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid archive of memories, Beth Alvarado’s Anthropologies layers scenes, portraits, dreams, and narratives in a dynamic cross-cultural mosaic. Bringing her lyrical tenor to bear on stories as diverse as harboring teen runaways, gunfights with federales, and improbable love, Alvarado unveils the ways in which seemingly separate moments coalesce to forge a communal truth. Woven from the threads of distinct family histories and ethnic identities, Anthropologies creates a heightened understanding of how individual experiences are part of a larger shared fabric of lives. Like the opening of a series of doors, each turn of the page reveals some new reality and the memories that emerge from it. Open one door and you are transported to a modest Colorado town in 1966, appraising animal tracks edged into a crust of snow while listening to stories of Saipan. Open another and you are lounging in a lush Michoacán hacienda, or in another, the year is 1927 and you are standing on a porch in Tucson, watching La Llorona turn a corner. With vivid imagery and a poetic sensibility, Anthropologies reenacts the process of remembering and so evokes a compelling narrative. Each snapshot provides a glimpse into the past, illuminating the ways in which memory and history are intertwined. Whether the experience is of her own drug use or that of a great-great-grandmother’s trek across the Great Plains with Brigham Young, Alvarado’s insight into the binding nature of memory illuminates a new way of understanding our place within families, generations, and cultures.

In Front of God and Everybody

Author : KD McCrite
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1400317940
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book In Front of God and Everybody written by KD McCrite and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If God wanted April Grace to be kind to her neighbors, He should have made them nicer! Growing up in the country is never easy, but it sure is funny—especially if you happen to have a sister obsessed with being glamorous, a grandma just discovering make-up, hippie friends who never shower, and brand new neighbors from the city who test everyone’s patience. From disastrous dye jobs to forced apologies and elderly date tagalongs, you’ll laugh ‘til you cry as you read the Confessions of April Grace! Here are just a couple of April's thoughts: On her sister, Myra Sue: "How anyone can be that dumb and still be able to eat with a fork is beyond me." On senior citizen lovebirds: "What if they started smooching right at the table in front of God and everybody?" In spite of all the loony characters in her life, April Grace is able to learn from her parents as they share the love of God—to even the craziest of characters!

Confessions of John H. Noyes

Author : John Humphrey Noyes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of John H. Noyes written by John Humphrey Noyes and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Confessions of J. H. Noyes. Part 1. Confession of religious experience including a history of modern Perfectionism

Author : John Humphrey NOYES
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Confessions of J. H. Noyes. Part 1. Confession of religious experience including a history of modern Perfectionism by : John Humphrey NOYES

Download or read book Confessions of J. H. Noyes. Part 1. Confession of religious experience including a history of modern Perfectionism written by John Humphrey NOYES and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Running to the Fire

Author : Tim Bascom
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 160938329X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Running to the Fire written by Tim Bascom and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the streets of Addis Ababa in 1977, shop-front posters illustrate Uncle Sam being strangled by an Ethiopian revolutionary, parliamentary leaders are executed, student protesters are gunned down, and Christian mission converts are targeted as imperialistic sympathizers. Into this world arrives sixteen-year-old Tim Bascom, whose missionary parents have brought their family from a small town in Kansas straight into Colonel Mengistu’s Marxist “Red Terror.” Here they plan to work alongside a tiny remnant of western missionaries who trust that God will somehow keep them safe. Running to the Fire focuses on the turbulent year the Bascom family experienced upon traveling into revolutionary Ethiopia. The teenage Bascom finds a paradoxical exhilaration in living so close to constant danger. At boarding school in Addis Ababa, where dorm parents demand morning devotions and forbid dancing, Bascom bonds with other youth due to a shared sense of threat. He falls in love for the first time, but the young couple is soon separated by the politics that affect all their lives. Across the country, missionaries are being held under house arrest while communist cadres seize their hospitals and schools. A friend’s father is imprisoned as a suspected CIA agent; another is killed by raiding Somalis. Throughout, the teenaged Bascom struggles with his faith and his role within the conflict as a white American Christian missionary’s child. Reflecting back as an adult, he explores the historical, cultural, and religious contexts that led to this conflict, even though in doing so he is forced to ask himself questions that are easier left alone. Why, he wonders, did he find such strange fulfillment in being young and idealistic in the middle of what was essentially a kind of holy war?

Thank You, Teacher

Author : Holly Holbert
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1608684199
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Thank You, Teacher written by Holly Holbert and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do rock stars, Nobel laureates, bestselling novelists, astronauts, and attorneys have in common? A teacher changed their lives. Like them, most of us can name a teacher who gave us not only good instruction but also confidence and drive. But, in the face of teachers being blamed for a variety of social and economic woes, teachers themselves can easily wonder whether they are making a difference in students’ lives. When veteran teacher Bruce Holbert asked himself this question, his wife, Holly, responded by sending letters to hundreds of people she had never met and had no reason to believe would respond, asking about teachers who mattered to them. She was overwhelmed by answers. Thank You, Teacher presents more than eighty of these up-close-and-personal stories. By a delightfully diverse range of contributors, these essays are wise and witty testaments to the teachers who do what they do every day without expecting recognition, but who so richly deserve it.

Detailing Trauma

Author : Arianne Zwartjes
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609381289
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Detailing Trauma written by Arianne Zwartjes and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of linked essays, Detailing Trauma explores the many types of wounds from which the human body and spirit may suffer ... and heal. Zwartjes's poetic prose humanizes the technical descriptions of medical conditions and illuminates the scientific understanding of emotional states.

Happenstance

Author : Robert Root
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609381912
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Happenstance written by Robert Root and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting on how a student’s parents met because of a fly ball to center field in a summer softball game, author Robert Root wondered how the lives of that student’s parents and of the student himself would have changed had the batter bunted or struck out. Haunted by this pure example of happenstance, he began to ponder his own existence, dependent in part on geology (the Niagara Escarpment) and history (the Erie Canal). He wondered how happenstance had influenced the course of his parents’ lives, in particular their marriages (they married and divorced each other twice), and consequently the shaping of his identity. Happenstance investigates the effects of that phenomenon and choice on one man’s life. Root explores this theme in interwoven strands of narrative, interpretation, and reflection. One strand, “The Hundred Days,” follows his attempt to write one hundred journal entries, each about a different day in his life, to recover memories of specific moments or collections of moments. In the strand headed “Album,” he examines and interprets old family photographs in light of the way he reads them in the present, as someone now privy to a family secret that directed his and his siblings’ lives without their knowledge. Interspersed among these brief interpretations and narratives are reflections on happenstance and choice, a sequence contemplating their effect on his life and perhaps on all our lives. Through juxtaposition and accumulation, the book’s incremental unraveling of meaning imitates the process of unexpected epiphanies and gradual self-discovery in anyone’s life. By revisiting individual days, giving voice to photographs that mutely preserve family moments, and reflecting on the way happenstance and choice determine the directions lives take, Robert Root generates a meditation on identity anchored in an album in words and images of a mid-twentieth-century life.

Remarks on Ecclesiastical History

Author : John Jortin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Remarks on Ecclesiastical History written by John Jortin and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man

Author : Martin Corona
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101984627
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man written by Martin Corona and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true confession of an assassin, a sicario, who rose through the ranks of the Southern California gang world to become a respected leader in an elite, cruelly efficient crew of hit men for Mexico's "most vicious drug cartel," and eventually found a way out and an (almost) normal life. Martin Corona, a US citizen, fell into the outlaw life at twelve and worked for a crew run by the Arellano brothers, founders of the the Tijuana drug cartel that dominated the Southern California drug trade and much bloody gang warfare for decades. Corona's crew would cross into the United States from their luxurious hideout in Mexico, kill whoever needed to be killed north of the border, and return home in the afternoon. That work continued until the arrest of Javier Arellano-Félix in 2006 in a huge coordinated DEA operation. Martin Corona played a key role in the downfall of the cartel when he turned state's evidence. He confessed to multiple murders. Special Agent of the California Department of Justice Steve Duncan, who wrote the foreword, says Martin Corona is the only former cartel hit man he knows who is truly remorseful. Martin's father was a US Marine. The family had many solid middle-class advantages, including the good fortune to be posted in Hawaii for a time during which a teenage Martin thought he might be able to turn away from the outlaw life of theft, drug dealing, gun play, and prostitution. He briefly quit drugs and held down a job, but a die had been cast. He soon returned to a gangbanging life he now deeply regrets. How does someone become evil, a murderer who can kill without hesitation? This story is an insight into how it happened to one human being and how he now lives with himself. He is no longer a killer; he has asked for forgiveness; he has made a kind of peace for himself. He wrote letters to family members of his victims. Some of them not only wrote back but came to support him at his parole hearings. It is a cautionary tale, but also one that shows that evil doesn't have to be forever.

Have Him at Hello

Author : Rachel Greenwald
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0307720632
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Have Him at Hello written by Rachel Greenwald and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a reason the media has dubbed matchmaker Rachel Greenwald as “The Wife Maker.” Yes, she’s responsible for over 750 marriages, but more importantly, she has solved perhaps the biggest dating mystery of all time: when you finally meet Mr. Right (or even Mr. Potential), what really compels him to call back (or not) after a date? Armed with her Harvard MBA, Rachel embarked on a fascinating ten-year research project to decipher this puzzle. In Have Him at Hello, she applies her business savvy to the dating world by conducting in-depth “exit interviews” with 1,000 single men, asking why they called back one woman, but not another. By refusing to accept the post-date brush-off like “There wasn’t any chemistry…” or the excited, but equally vague evening recap, “We hit it off!” Rachel extracted unabashedly honest and raw details. It turns out there are clear, tangible, consistent reasons why marriage-minded men either fall for you or disappear. The surprising “Top 5 Date Makers” and “Top 10 Date Breakers” revealed in this book can actually change your fate when Mr. Right finally comes along. Rachel’s goal isn’t for you to pretend to be someone you’re not, but rather to keep the ball in your court. By using her innovative research and tips as a guide, more men will ask to see you again ; then you can do the selecting, rather than wondering if they’ll call. Because information is power, this book will make your first hello a lasting one.