Ferguson: The Legacy

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Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857907387
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Book Synopsis Ferguson: The Legacy by : Michael Grant

Download or read book Ferguson: The Legacy written by Michael Grant and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 49 trophies won - 38 of them at Manchester United - during a glittering 39-year managerial career, Sir Alex Ferguson will be remembered as the most successful coach in world football. At the age of 71 he finally brought the curtain down on his time in football management at the conclusion to the 2012/13 season; in Ferguson: The Legacy, Michael Grant and Rob Robertson extract three key profiles from their best-selling book The Management: Scotland's Great Football Bosses to examine the three-tiered legacy of Ferguson's time at Old Trafford - the influences of Sir Matt Busby, his own career, and the career of the man that he hand-picked to be his successor, David Moyes. This is a must-read for all football fans, whether Manchester United supporters or not, as the authors explore one of the most fascinating stories in the beautiful game.

J Dilla's Donuts

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623563607
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Book Synopsis J Dilla's Donuts by : Jordan Ferguson

Download or read book J Dilla's Donuts written by Jordan Ferguson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James “J Dilla” Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music as “hip hop music” is typically defined; they careen and crash into each other, in one moment noisy and abrasive, gorgeous and heartbreaking the next. The samples and melodies tell the story of a man coming to terms with his declining health, a final love letter to the family and friends he was leaving behind. As a prolific producer with a voracious appetite for the history and mechanics of the music he loved, J Dilla knew the records that went into constructing Donuts inside and out. He could have taken them all and made a much different, more accessible album. If the widely accepted view is that his final work is a record about dying, the question becomes why did he make this record about dying? Drawing from philosophy, critical theory and musicology, as well as Dilla's own musical catalogue, Jordan Ferguson shows that the contradictory, irascible and confrontational music found on Donuts is as much a result of an artist's declining health as it is an example of what scholars call “late style,” placing the album in a musical tradition that stretches back centuries.

Rebecca

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453240764
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Book Synopsis Rebecca by : Jo Ann Ferguson

Download or read book Rebecca written by Jo Ann Ferguson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British soldier whose life was saved by a young woman during the American Revolution returns to claim her as his bride in the second seductive novel in Jo Ann Ferguson’s captivating Foxbridge Legacy series About to exchange vows with her fiancé, Rebecca North is stunned when a towering, raven-haired stranger interrupts the ceremony. Five years earlier, at the height of the American Revolution, fourteen-year-old Rebecca rushed to the aid of a wounded English soldier she discovered hiding out in her barn. Although he was an enemy of the Patriots, she saved his life. When he begged her to fulfill his final wish before he rode off to battle, she made a secret vow. Now he has returned to claim his bride. After swearing never to give her heart to Nicholas Wythe, Rebecca reluctantly leaves Connecticut for England. But at legendary Foxbridge Cloister, his sprawling estate on the wild north coast, the new Lady Foxbridge realizes there are those who resent the Yankee in their midst. While a vengeful enemy plots to destroy her, Rebecca makes startling discoveries about her husband. As a relationship forged in the fires of war flames into something deeper, she will risk everything—even her life—for what she never expected to find with Nicholas: a passionate, lasting love. Rebecca is the 2nd book in the Foxbridge Legacy, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human Nature

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317315375
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human Nature by : Eugene Heath

Download or read book Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human Nature written by Eugene Heath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains essays that range across all of Ferguson's works to investigate his engagement with contemporary events and his contributions to our understanding of history and human action.

Pythagoras

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Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 9781848312319
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)

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Book Synopsis Pythagoras by : Kitty Ferguson

Download or read book Pythagoras written by Kitty Ferguson and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enthralling story of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, whose insight transformed the ancient world and still inspire the realms of science, mathematics, philosophy and the arts. Einstein said that the most incredible thing about our universe was that it was comprehensible at all. As Kitty Ferguson explains in this eye-opening new book, Pythagoras had much the same idea - but 2,500 years earlier. Though many know him only for the so-called Pythagorean theorem, in fact the pillars of our scientific tradition - the belief that the universe is rational, that there is unity to all things, and that numbers and mathematics are a powerful guide to truth about nature and the cosmos - hark back to the convictions of this legendary scholar and his ancient followers. Alongside the poignant human saga, Kitty Ferguson brilliantly evokes Pythagoras' ancient world, showing how his ideas spread in antiquity and in the Middle Ages, and chronicles the incredible influence he and his followers have had on extraordinary people - from Plato to Bertrand Russell - throughout the history of Western thought and science.

Doom

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593297385
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Book Synopsis Doom by : Niall Ferguson

Download or read book Doom written by Niall Ferguson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All disasters are in some sense man-made." Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters. Disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises. and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted, or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet in 2020 the responses of many developed countries, including the United States, to a new virus from China were badly bungled. Why? Why did only a few Asian countries learn the right lessons from SARS and MERS? While populist leaders certainly performed poorly in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Niall Ferguson argues that more profound pathologies were at work--pathologies already visible in our responses to earlier disasters. In books going back nearly twenty years, including Colossus, The Great Degeneration, and The Square and the Tower, Ferguson has studied the foibles of modern America, from imperial hubris to bureaucratic sclerosis and online fragmentation. Drawing from multiple disciplines, including economics, cliodynamics, and network science, Doom offers not just a history but a general theory of disasters, showing why our ever more bureaucratic and complex systems are getting worse at handling them. Doom is the lesson of history that this country--indeed the West as a whole--urgently needs to learn, if we want to handle the next crisis better, and to avoid the ultimate doom of irreversible decline.

Empire

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241958512
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis Empire by : Niall Ferguson

Download or read book Empire written by Niall Ferguson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empire 'A remarkably readable précis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all' Jan Morris Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity. 'The most brilliant British historian of his generation ... Ferguson examines the roles of "pirates, planters, missionaries, mandarins, bankers and bankrupts" in the creation of history's largest empire ... he writes with splendid panache ... and a seemingly effortless, debonair wit' Andrew Roberts 'Dazzling ... wonderfully readable' New York Review of Books 'Empire is a pleasure to read and brims with insights and intelligence' Sunday Times

The Queens' Legacy

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Publisher : Fig Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780977903436
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis The Queens' Legacy by : Katrina Ferguson

Download or read book The Queens' Legacy written by Katrina Ferguson and published by Fig Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Queens' Legacy, an inspirational compilation of stories designed to inspire its readers to grow through what they go through so their greatness can show through. These 48 authors have been inspired by women who have been queens in their lives. Some of the queens are their mothers, some other family members, some Civil Rights leaders, some themselves. The common thread being they have made deposits in our lives that are worthy of celebration and conversation. Read their stories. Join their journeys. Celebrate their triumphs. Change your life forever.

Football - Bloody Hell!

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407084712
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Football - Bloody Hell! by : Patrick Barclay

Download or read book Football - Bloody Hell! written by Patrick Barclay and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS Sir Alex Ferguson is the most controversial and compelling figure in football. For many he ranks as the greatest manager of all time. He is certainly the most successful. It's been more than ten years since Ferguson's Manchester United triumphed over Bayern Munich in the dying seconds of the Champions League final. Since then he has presided over the rise and fall and rise again of José Mourinho; the arrival and departure of the world's best player, Ronaldo; the removal of one English talisman - Beckham - and the irresistible instalment of another - Rooney. Ferguson has been instrumental in making the Premier League the most successful competition in football, and he has endured while the mountains of cash have turned to valleys of debt. Throughout, award-winning journalist Patrick Barclay has been pitch-side and spoken to all those who know Ferguson best - fellow managers, former players, colleagues and commentators. The result is Football - Bloody Hell!: the definitive work on the game's greatest living legend.

Every Insult and Indignity

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Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781466255623
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (556 download)

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Book Synopsis Every Insult and Indignity by : Ricky Roberts

Download or read book Every Insult and Indignity written by Ricky Roberts and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black and White version of the book no color plates "Every Insult and Indignity" The Life, Genius and Legacy of Major Patrick Ferguson An exploration of the care and feeding of Patrick Ferguson's Breech Loading Ordnance Rifle. Looking at the evolution and development of the firelock. And we share tips to make reproduction Ferguson Ordinance Rifles shoot like the 18th century assault rifle it was! We explore Patrick Ferguson the man and his life. Including never before seen evidence of the Ferguson Ordinance Rifle at the Battle of Kings Mountain SC.

Chávez’s Legacy

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Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761862668
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Book Synopsis Chávez’s Legacy by : Ari Chaplin

Download or read book Chávez’s Legacy written by Ari Chaplin and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chavez’s Legacy: The Transformation from Democracy to a Mafia State refutes the claim that Chavez’s regime corrected the errors of Soviet Communism. This book traces Venezuela’s communist transformation and its effects on the neighboring nations of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua. This book also examines Chavez’s behavior in the international arena, strongly emphasizing his close association with Iran and narcotics terrorism.

Kissinger

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143109758
Total Pages : 1042 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Book Synopsis Kissinger by : Niall Ferguson

Download or read book Kissinger written by Niall Ferguson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower, the definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on unprecedented access to his private papers. Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award No American statesman has been as revered or as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as “Super K”—the “indispensable man” whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama—he has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists, scouring his every “telcon” for evidence of Machiavellian malfeasance. Yet as Niall Ferguson shows in this magisterial two-volume biography, drawing not only on Kissinger’s hitherto closed private papers but also on documents from more than a hundred archives around the world, the idea of Kissinger as the ruthless arch-realist is based on a profound misunderstanding. The first half of Kissinger’s life is usually skimmed over as a quintessential tale of American ascent: the Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Germany who made it to the White House. But in this first of two volumes, Ferguson shows that what Kissinger achieved before his appointment as Richard Nixon’s national security adviser was astonishing in its own right. Toiling as a teenager in a New York factory, he studied indefatigably at night. He was drafted into the U.S. infantry and saw action at the Battle of the Bulge—as well as the liberation of a concentration camp—but ended his army career interrogating Nazis. It was at Harvard that Kissinger found his vocation. Having immersed himself in the philosophy of Kant and the diplomacy of Metternich, he shot to celebrity by arguing for “limited nuclear war.” Nelson Rockefeller hired him. Kennedy called him to Camelot. Yet Kissinger’s rise was anything but irresistible. Dogged by press gaffes and disappointed by “Rocky,” Kissinger seemed stuck—until a trip to Vietnam changed everything. The Idealist is the story of one of the most important strategic thinkers America has ever produced. It is also a political Bildungsroman, explaining how “Dr. Strangelove” ended up as consigliere to a politician he had always abhorred. Like Ferguson’s classic two-volume history of the House of Rothschild, Kissinger sheds dazzling new light on an entire era. The essential account of an extraordinary life, it recasts the Cold War world.

Montesquieu and His Legacy

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791477436
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis Montesquieu and His Legacy by : Rebecca E. Kingston

Download or read book Montesquieu and His Legacy written by Rebecca E. Kingston and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montesquieu (1689–1755) is regarded as one of the most important thinkers of the Enlightenment. His Lettres persanes and L'Esprit des lois have been read by students and scholars throughout the last two centuries. While many have associated Montesquieu with the doctrine of the "separation of powers" in the history of ideas, Rebecca E. Kingston brings together leading international scholars who for the first time present a systematic treatment and discussion of the significance of his ideas more generally for the development of Western political theory and institutions. In particular, Montesquieu and His Legacy supplements the conventional focus on the institutional teachings of Montesquieu with attention to the theme of morals and manners. The contributors provide commentary on the broad legacy of Montesquieu's thought in past times as well as for the contemporary era.

The Legacy of David Foster Wallace

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Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609380827
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis The Legacy of David Foster Wallace by : Samuel Cohen

Download or read book The Legacy of David Foster Wallace written by Samuel Cohen and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this elegant volume, literary critics scrutinize the existing Wallace scholarship and at the same time pioneer new ways of understanding Wallace's fiction and journalism. In critical essays exploring a variety of topics--including Wallace's relationship to American literary history, his place in literary journalism, his complicated relationship to his postmodernist predecessors, the formal difficulties of his 1996 magnum opus Infinite Jest, his environmental imagination, and the "social life" of his fiction and nonfiction--contributors plumb sources as diverse as Amazon.com reader recommendations, professional book reviews, the 2009 Infinite Summer project, and the David Foster Wallace archive at the University of Texas's Harry Ransom Center.

The Ferguson Tractor Story

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Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1913618064
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (136 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ferguson Tractor Story by : Stuart Gibbard

Download or read book The Ferguson Tractor Story written by Stuart Gibbard and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little grey Fergie is Britain's best-loved tractor, the light user-friendly machine that finally replaced the horse on farms. This highly illustrated account covers the full history of Harry Ferguson's tractor products from his pioneering work before the 1930s to the merger with Massey in 1957. The author has had access to fresh archive material and has interviewed many of the surviving men who were associated with Ferguson. The appeal of the Fergie lay in its lightness and utility, and also in the system of mechanized farming of which it was a part. Throughout the book, reference is made to the implements which lay at the heart of the system. Stuart Gibbard has won "Tractor and Machinery" magazine's award for the best British tractor book five years running.

Adam Smith's Lost Legacy

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230511198
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Adam Smith's Lost Legacy by : G. Kennedy

Download or read book Adam Smith's Lost Legacy written by G. Kennedy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-02-21 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this accessible book, Gavin Kennedy takes a fresh look at Adam Smith's moral philosophy and its links to his political economy and his lectures on Jurisprudence. The book provides a new analysis of Wealth of Nations , and argues that Adam Smith's intellectual legacy was completely transformed in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries by economists pursuing different agendas, to create ideas and policies that Smith did not advocate. It also provides a new explanation for the main mysteries about Smith's later life.

Blood Legacy

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Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 178689887X
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Book Synopsis Blood Legacy by : Alex Renton

Download or read book Blood Legacy written by Alex Renton and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'An incredible work of scholarship' Sathnam Sanghera Through the story of his own family’s history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The descendants of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today. Blood Legacy explores what inheritance – political, economic, moral and spiritual – has been passed to the descendants of the slave owners and the descendants of the enslaved. He also asks, crucially, how the former – himself among them – can begin to make reparations for the past.