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Feasting on the Spoils

Author : Seth Hettena
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429917113
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Feasting on the Spoils written by Seth Hettena and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randy "Duke" Cunningham was an ace fighter pilot and Top Gun instructor. He came back from battle as Vietnam's most famous pilot—a Navy hero in an unpopular war. In his political life, Cunningham was an eight-term United States representative who never lost an election. So how did this powerful politician, one of the Vietnam War's most highly decorated pilots, become the most corrupt congressman in U.S. history? In 2005, Cunningham shocked the nation by pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, fraud, and tax evasion. A federal judge sentenced him to more than eight years in prison, the longest sentence handed down to a member of Congress in 40 years. And even as Cunningham was led, weeping, to prison, investigators continued to uncover a deep-rooted scandal, reaching the cozy nexus between Congress and lobbyists, military contractors, the Defense Department and the upper ranks of the Central Intelligence Agency. Cunningham's bribes were seemingly endless. They included a yacht, a Rolls-Royce, and hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of antiques. Defense contractors flew him aboard private chartered jets to luxury destinations, picked up the tab at expensive restaurants, and paid for his daughter's graduation party. In total, he collected at least $2.4 million in five years, a series of acts unequaled in the long, sordid history of congressional corruption. An ongoing investigation is even exploring allegations that prostitutes were hired by Cunningham's associates to entertain the congressman. His corruption and that of his cohorts was a decisive factor in the 2006 elections, as Democrats retook control of the House for the first time in more than a decade. What led a man who showed such strength and resolve in battle to show such moral weakness later in life? Had he become a prisoner of greed or was he manipulated by others far more cunning than he? What happened to Randy Cunningham? In Feasting on the Spoils, Hettena offers a probing look at deception and avarice. He paints an unforgettable portrait of a life publicly unraveled, and of a man for whom the mysteries—and the history of fraud—only seem to deepen.

Feasting on the Word: Year A, Volume 4

Author : David L. Bartlett
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 161164108X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Feasting on the Word: Year A, Volume 4 written by David L. Bartlett and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this twelve-volume series, Westminster John Knox Press offers one of the most extensive and well-respected resources for preaching on the market today. The twelve volumes cover all of the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with moveable occasions. The page layout is truly unique. For each lectionary text, preachers will find brief essays--one each on the exegetical, theological, pastoral, and homiletical challenges of the text. Each volume also contains an index of biblical passages so that nonlectionary preachers may make use of it.

The Poetical Works

Author : Robert Southey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Poetical Works written by Robert Southey and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Republican [ed. by W.T. Sherwin].

Author : W T Sherwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Republican [ed. by W.T. Sherwin]. written by W T Sherwin and published by . This book was released on with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poetical Works

Author : Robert Southey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
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Download or read book Poetical Works written by Robert Southey and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Never-ending Feast

Author : Kaori O'Connor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472520939
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Never-ending Feast written by Kaori O'Connor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feast! Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. The great museums of the world are full of the remains of countless ghostly feasts – dishes that once bore rich meats, pitchers used to pour choice wines, tall jars that held beer sipped through long straws of gold and lapis, immense cauldrons from which hundreds of people could be served. Why were feasts so important, and is there more to feasting than abundance and enjoyment? The Never-Ending Feast is a pioneering work that draws on anthropology, archaeology and history to look at the dynamics of feasting among the great societies of antiquity renowned for their magnificence and might. Reflecting new directions in academic study, the focus shifts beyond the medieval and early modern periods in Western Europe, eastwards to Mesopotamia, Assyria and Achaemenid Persia, early Greece, the Mongol Empire, Shang China and Heian Japan. The past speaks through texts and artefacts. We see how feasts were the primary arena for displays of hierarchy, status and power; a stage upon which loyalties and alliances were negotiated; the occasion for the mobilization and distribution of resources, a means of pleasing the gods, and the place where identities were created, consolidated – and destroyed. The Never-Ending Feast transforms our understanding of feasting past and present, revitalising the fields of anthropology, archaeology, history, museum studies, material culture and food studies, for all of which it is essential reading.

Lilla's Feast

Author : Frances Osborne
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307431398
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Lilla's Feast written by Frances Osborne and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of her life, Frances Osborne’s one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother Lilla was as elegant as ever–all fitted black lace and sparkling-white diamonds. To her great-grandchildren, Lilla was both an ally and a mysterious wonder. Her bedroom was filled with treasures from every exotic corner of the world. But she rarely mentioned the Japanese prison camps in which she spent much of World War II, or the elaborate cookbook she wrote to help her survive behind the barbed wire. Beneath its polished surface, Lilla’s life had been anything but effortless. Born in 1882 to English parents in the beautiful North China port city of Chefoo, Lilla was an identical twin. Growing up, she knew both great privilege and deprivation, love and its absence. But the one constant was a deep appreciation for the power of food and place. From the noodles of Shanghai to the chutney of British India and the roasts of England, good food and sensuous surroundings, Lilla was raised to believe, could carry one a long way toward happiness. Her story is brimming with the stuff of good fiction: distant locales, an improvident marriage, an evil mother-in-law, a dramatic suicide, and two world wars. Lilla’s remarkable cookbook, which she composed while on the brink of starvation, makes no mention of wartime rations, of rotten vegetables and donkey meat. In the world this magical food journal, now housed in the Imperial War Museum in London, everyone is warm and safe in their homes, and the pages are filled with cream puffs, butterscotch, and comforting soup. In its writing, Lilla was able to transform the darkest moments into scrumptious escape. Lilla’s Feast is a rich evocation of a bygone world, the inspiring story of an ordinary woman who tackled the challenges life threw in her path with an extraordinary determination.

Southey's Poetical Works

Author : Robert Southey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 894 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southey's Poetical Works written by Robert Southey and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Poetical Works of Robert Southey

Author : Robert Southey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
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Download or read book The Poetical Works of Robert Southey written by Robert Southey and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Poetical Works of Robert Southey. Complete in one volume. New edition

Author : Robert Southey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Poetical Works of Robert Southey. Complete in one volume. New edition written by Robert Southey and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A dictionary of the Welsh language [E-Y

Author : William Owen Pughe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book A dictionary of the Welsh language [E-Y written by William Owen Pughe and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dictionary of the Welsh Language

Author : William Owen Pughe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of the Welsh Language written by William Owen Pughe and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Delphi Septuagint - Complete Greek and English Edition (Illustrated)

Author : Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton
Publisher : Delphi Classics
ISBN 13 : 1786563746
Total Pages : 9147 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book Delphi Septuagint - Complete Greek and English Edition (Illustrated) written by Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 9147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘Septuagint’ is the primary Greek translation of the Old Testament, which according to tradition was commissioned by Ptolemy II for inclusion in the Library of Alexandria. Legend tells there were seventy-two translators, six from each of the twelve tribes of Israel, who worked independently to translate the original Hebrew text. The ‘Septuagint’ is a cornerstone of Western theology and remains an immensely popular choice of study for Christian scholars across the world. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete Septuagint, with special Dual Text feature, an informative introduction and illustrations. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to the Septuagint * Features the complete Septuagint, in both English translation (Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton, 1851) and the original Greek (Rahlfs’ edition) * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the chapters or books you want to read with detailed contents tables * Provides a special dual English and Greek text, allowing you to compare the texts verse by verse – ideal for Bible studies * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: some Kindle software programs cannot display Greek characters correctly; however the characters do display correctly on Kindle devices. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to explore our range of Ancient Classics titles or buy the entire series as a Super Set CONTENTS: The Translation SEPTUAGINT DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS The Greek Text CONTENTS OF GREEK TEXT DETAILED CONTENTS OF GREEK TEXT The Dual Text DUAL GREEK AND ENGLISH TEXT DETAILED CONTENTS OF DUAL TEXT Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

An Exposition of the Old and New Testament. Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents; the Sacred Text Inserted at Large, in Distinct Paragraphs; Each Paragraph Reduced to Its Proper Heads; the Sense Given, and Largely Illustrated; with Practical Remarks and Observations, by Matthew Henry ... A New Edition, Edited by the Rev. George Burder, and the Rev. Joseph Hughes ... With the Life of the Author, by the Rev. Samuel Palmer

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Download or read book An Exposition of the Old and New Testament. Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents; the Sacred Text Inserted at Large, in Distinct Paragraphs; Each Paragraph Reduced to Its Proper Heads; the Sense Given, and Largely Illustrated; with Practical Remarks and Observations, by Matthew Henry ... A New Edition, Edited by the Rev. George Burder, and the Rev. Joseph Hughes ... With the Life of the Author, by the Rev. Samuel Palmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plunder

Author : Cynthia Saltzman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374710392
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Plunder written by Cynthia Saltzman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Christian Science Monitor's Ten Best Books of May "A highly original work of history . . . [Saltzman] has written a distinctive study that transcends both art and history and forces us to explore the connections between the two.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Wall Street Journal A captivatingstudy of Napoleon’s plundering of Europe’s art for the Louvre, told through the story of a Renaissance masterpiece seized from Venice Cynthia Saltzman’s Plunder recounts the fate of Paolo Veronese’s Wedding Feast at Cana, a vast, sublime canvas that the French, under the command of the young Napoleon Bonaparte, tore from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, on an island in Venice, in 1797. Painted in 1563 during the Renaissance, the picture was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Veronese had filled the scene with some 130 figures, lavishing color on the canvas to build the illusion that the viewers’ space opened onto a biblical banquet taking place on a terrace in sixteenth-century Venice. Once pulled from the wall, the Venetian canvas crossed the Mediterranean rolled on a cylinder; soon after, artworks commandeered from Venice and Rome were triumphantly brought into Paris. In 1801, the Veronese went on exhibition at the Louvre, the new public art museum founded during the Revolution in the former palace of the French kings. As Saltzman tells the larger story of Napoleon’s looting of Italian art and its role in the creation of the Louvre, she reveals the contradictions of his character: his thirst for greatness—to carry forward the finest aspects of civilization—and his ruthlessness in getting whatever he sought. After Napoleon’s 1815 defeat at Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington and the Allies forced the French to return many of the Louvre’s plundered paintings and sculptures. Nevertheless, The Wedding Feast at Cana remains in Paris to this day, hanging directly across from the Mona Lisa. Expertly researched and deftly told, Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in history, one that sheds light on a seminal historical figure and the complex origins of one of the great museums of the world.

The Lord's supper, a feast after sacrifice

Author : James Booth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Lord's supper, a feast after sacrifice written by James Booth and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lord's Supper, a Feast After Sacrifice. With Inquiries Into the Doctrine of Transubstantiation, Etc

Author : James BOOTH (F.R.S., Vicar of Stone, Bucks.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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