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Fortune and Misfortune in the Ancient Near East

Author : Olga Drewnowska
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575064669
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Fortune and Misfortune in the Ancient Near East written by Olga Drewnowska and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the week between July 21 and 25, 2014, the University of Warsaw hosted more than three hundred Assyriologists from all over the world. In the course of five days, nearly 150 papers were read in three (and sometimes four) parallel sessions. Many of them were delivered within the framework of nine thematic workshops. The publication of most of these panels is underway, in separate volumes. As is usually the case, the academic sessions were accompanied by many opportunities for social interaction among the participants, and there was time to enjoy the historical and cultural benefits of Warsaw. Special honor was accorded to two American Assyriologists whose origins can be traced to Warsaw, Piotr Michalowski and Piotr Steinkeller, and a special session to recognize their contributions to the study of ancient Mesopotamia was organized. In this book are presented papers on the main theme of the meeting, “Fortune and Misfortune in the Ancient Near East.” The 31 essays are organized into 5 sections: (1) plenary presenations on “What Is Fortune? What Is Misfortune?” ; (2) humanity and fortune/misfortune and luck, with discussion of specific examples; (3) additional papers on definitions of fortune and misfortune; (4) the effects on city and state; and (5) God and temple.

The Political Economy of Fortune and Misfortune

Author : Scott Timcke
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529221773
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Fortune and Misfortune written by Scott Timcke and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luck greatly influences a person’s quality of life. Yet little of our politics looks at how institutions can amplify good or bad luck that widens social inequality. But societies can change their fortune. Too often debates about inequality focus on the accuracy of data or modelling while missing the greater point about ethics and exploitation. In the wake of growing disparity between the 1% and other classes, this book combines philosophical insights with social theory to offer a much-needed political economy of life chances. Timcke advances new thought on the role luck plays in redistributive justice in 21st century capitalism.

Fortune and Misfortune at Saint Gall

Author : Ekkehard Ekkehard IV
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674251465
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Fortune and Misfortune at Saint Gall written by Ekkehard Ekkehard IV and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleventh-century monk Ekkehard IV's Fortune and Misfortune at Saint Gall chronicles the 880s to 972, near the end of the famous Swiss monastery's two-century-long golden age, bearing witness to the struggles of the tenth-century church reform movement. This volume publishes the Latin text alongside its first complete English translation.

On Fortune and Misfortune in History

Author : Jacob Burckhardt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book On Fortune and Misfortune in History written by Jacob Burckhardt and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fortune Or Misfortune

Author : Sherrill Peterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Fortune Or Misfortune written by Sherrill Peterson and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

THE 84 LAWS OF FORTUNE AND MISFORTUNE, Volume1

Author : MIC BRAVE
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300292024
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book THE 84 LAWS OF FORTUNE AND MISFORTUNE, Volume1 written by MIC BRAVE and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to find out why some things are not supposed to happen? Do you want to know why the world cannot find peace despite the deployment of peace keeping professionals? Save your breath now and learn something you probably would not thought of. Only if you'll be patient and go through the provisions lavished for your usage in this book; then your hard questions will have been answeredTaking a view point from THE SCIENCE OF LIFE; most people say MATHEMATICS is a Difficult subject, but actually it is the Subject that connotes the real meaning of life. If the GOING Gets TOUGH; then you'll definitely need FORMULARS to solve PROBLEMS that accompanies LIFE. That is how the SECRET of MATHEMATICS works. Because you seek to Understand these Dynamics; nothing will be IMPOSSIBLE for you! (Job 38:1-41).The 84 Laws of Fortune & Misfortune is a book that will save that uncaring situation, bless you, and add to your philosophy.

The Beneficiary

Author : Janny Scott
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399185038
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book The Beneficiary written by Janny Scott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "[A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and decay…like something out of Fitzgerald or Waugh."—The New Yorker A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance—financial, cultural, genetic—conspired in one person's self-destruction. Land, houses, and money tumbled from one generation to the next on the eight-hundred-acre estate built by Scott's investment banker great-grandfather on Philadelphia's Main Line. There was an obligation to protect it, a license to enjoy it, a duty to pass it on—but it was impossible to know in advance how all that extraordinary good fortune might influence the choices made over a lifetime. In this warmly felt tale of an American family's fortunes, journalist Janny Scott excavates the rarefied world that shaped her charming, unknowable father, Robert Montgomery Scott, and provides an incisive look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried secrets. Some beneficiaries flourished, like Scott's grandmother, Helen Hope Scott, a socialite and celebrated horsewoman said to have inspired Katherine Hepburn's character in the play and Academy Award-winning film The Philadelphia Story. For others, including the author's father, she concludes, the impact was more complex. Bringing her journalistic talents, light touch, and crystalline prose to this powerful story of a child's search to understand a parent's puzzling end, Scott also raises questions about our new Gilded Age. New fortunes are being amassed, new estates are being born. Does anyone wonder how it will all play out, one hundred years hence?

The Roots and Origins of Fortune and Misfortune

Author : Armando Benítez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985490935
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Roots and Origins of Fortune and Misfortune written by Armando Benítez and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

All the Money in the World

Author : John Pearson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1448207819
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book All the Money in the World written by John Pearson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the most infamous incident involving the Getty family - now a major film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Williams and Oscar® Nominee Christopher Plummer Oil tycoon J. Paul Getty created the greatest fortune in America - and came close to destroying his own family in the process. Of his four sons who reached manhood, only one survived relatively unscathed. One killed himself, one became a drug-addicted recluse and the third had to bear the stigma all his life of being disinherited in childhood. The unhappiness continued into the next generation, with the name Getty, as one journalist put it, 'becoming synonymous for family dysfunction'. Getty's once favourite grandson John Paul Getty III was kidnapped by the Italian mafia who cut off his ear to raise a ransom and, after a lifetime of drink and drugs, became a paraplegic. His granddaughter Aileen has AIDS. And the Getty family itself has been torn apart by litigation over their poisoned inheritance. But did the disaster have to happen? John Pearson, who has specialized in biographies of families as varied as the Churchills, the British Royal Family, the Devonshires and the Krays, sets out to find the answer. The result, first published in 1995, is a fascinating saga of an extraordinary dynasty. He traces much of the trouble to the bizarre character of the avaricious, sex-obsessed billionaire, J. Paul Getty himself - and demonstrates how much of his behaviour has been repeated in succeeding generations. He describes the famous kidnapping of his grandson in graphic detail, revealing how the old man's attitude added considerably to the boy's sufferings. And he shows how the family has coped with the latest modern scourges: drugs and AIDS. For All the Money in the World is not a hopeless story. While some of the family have been damaged by the Getty legacy, others have saved themselves from disaster, most notably the cricket-loving philanthropist, J. Paul Getty Jr. Pearson's moving story of his recovery from drugs and deep personal tragedy shows that there is hope for future generations of this stricken family - and demonstrates that money can be used to buy survival and even happiness.

(Mis)fortune

Author : Melissa Haag
Publisher : Melissa Haag
ISBN 13 : 0988852322
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book (Mis)fortune written by Melissa Haag and published by Melissa Haag. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They kept me prisoner for four years, using me for my predictions. They thought they had me subdued, meekly following orders, but they were wrong. I was waiting for a chance to run. I had to be careful, though. They had my brothers, and the leader wasn’t exactly human. The sudden death of her stepfather gives Michelle the only chance she may ever have to escape, and she takes it. She needs a place to hide and someone to listen to her predictions so her head doesn’t explode. Yet, there’s nowhere she can hide and no one to protect her from the monsters pursuing her. Then, she meets Emmitt. He’s calm, kind, caring…and a werewolf. If she can find a way to trust him, he might be able to do more than just keep her safe. He might be the one who can help her fight for answers about her gift and the other women like her.

Fortune and Misfortune

Author : Barkhvurdār ibn Maḥmūd Farāhī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Fortune and Misfortune written by Barkhvurdār ibn Maḥmūd Farāhī and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

10 Moral Paradoxes

Author : Saul Smilansky
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470695862
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book 10 Moral Paradoxes written by Saul Smilansky and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting ten diverse and original moral paradoxes, this cutting edge work of philosophical ethics makes a focused, concrete case for the centrality of paradoxes within morality. Explores what these paradoxes can teach us about morality and the human condition Considers a broad range of subjects, from familiar topics to rarely posed questions, among them "Fortunate Misfortune", "Beneficial Retirement" and "Preferring Not To Have Been Born" Asks whether the existence of moral paradox is a good or a bad thing Presents analytic moral philosophy in a provocative, engaging and entertaining way; posing new questions, proposing possible solutions, and challenging the reader to wrestle with the paradoxes themselves

A Case of Misfortune (The Violet Veil Mysteries, Book 2)

Author : Sophie Cleverly
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008308020
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book A Case of Misfortune (The Violet Veil Mysteries, Book 2) written by Sophie Cleverly and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second title in this breakout new detective series, from the author of the spine-tingling Scarlet and Ivy series.

Change of Fortune

Author : Jana DeLeon
Publisher : J&R Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1940270510
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Change of Fortune written by Jana DeLeon and published by J&R Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sinful, Louisiana, is always a hotbed of activity, and despite the steamy heat, August is no exception. Godzilla is terrorizing the town, looking for a home-cooked meal, and Gertie is worried someone will take the gator out before she can get him under control. Francine has a situation of her own at the café, where food is missing from inventory. And Celia is always up to no good. But summer is almost over, which could mean huge changes for Fortune Redding. Her undercover time in Sinful has always been limited to three months, and that time is almost up. With Ahmad still on the loose, Fortune is forced to remain in hiding, but soon she’ll have to move to another town and start all over with a new identity. And that’s the last thing she wants to do. Determined to get her life back, Fortune decides to draw Ahmad out and end this once and for all. Can Fortune take down one of the most dangerous men in the world? And if she can, does she have a future in Sinful?

The Misfortune of Marion Palm

Author : Emily Culliton
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1524731900
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Misfortune of Marion Palm written by Emily Culliton and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything to find her. Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who embezzles." Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her daughters' private school, money that has paid for European vacations, a Sub-Zero refrigerator, and perpetually unused state-of-the-art exercise equipment. But, now, when the school faces an audit, Marion pulls piles of rubber-banded cash from their basement hiding places and flees, leaving her family to grapple with the baffled detectives, the irate school board, and the mother-shaped hole in their house. Told from the points of view of Nathan, Marion's husband, heir to a long-diminished family fortune; Ginny, Marion's teenage daughter who falls helplessly in love at the slightest provocation; Jane, Marion's youngest who is obsessed with a missing person of her own; and Marion herself, on the lam--and hiding in plain sight.

My Summer of Love and Misfortune

Author : Lindsay Wong
Publisher : Simon Pulse
ISBN 13 : 1534443347
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book My Summer of Love and Misfortune written by Lindsay Wong and published by Simon Pulse. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crazy Rich Asians meets Love & Gelato in this hilarious, quirky novel about a Chinese-American teen who is thrust into the decadent world of Beijing high society when she is sent away to spend the summer in China. Iris Wang is having a bit of a rough start to her summer: Her boyfriend cheated on her, she didn’t get into any colleges, and she has no idea who she is or what she wants to do with her life. She’s always felt torn about being Chinese-American, feeling neither Chinese nor American enough to claim either identity. She’s just a sad pizza combo from Domino’s, as far as she’s concerned. In an attempt to snap her out of her funk, Iris’s parents send her away to visit family in Beijing, with the hopes that Iris would “reconnect with her culture” and “find herself.” Iris resents the condescension, but even she admits that this might be a good opportunity to hit the reset button on the apocalyptic disaster that has become her life. With this trip, Iris expects to eat a few dumplings, meet some family, and visit a tourist hotspot or two. Instead, she gets swept up in the ridiculous, opulent world of Beijing’s wealthy elite, leading her to unexpected and extraordinary discoveries about her family, her future, and herself.

Frightfully Fortune

Author : Jana DeLeon
Publisher : J&R Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1940270790
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Frightfully Fortune written by Jana DeLeon and published by J&R Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rest when you’re dead? It’s time for the annual Halloween festival in Sinful, and Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie can’t wait to suit up and enjoy the food and activities. But when a dead man gallops through the park on a black stallion and slides to a decapitated stop right in front of Swamp Team 3, they know another festival is about to be turned on its head…so to speak. Gil Forrest never won any popularity contests and his dramatic and somewhat horrifying ride isn’t going to improve his statistics. But since his body was supposed to be tucked away in a funeral home, no one could explain how it ended up on a horse in the middle of the festival. Everything about the set-up is strange and Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie suspect there is more to the Headless Horseman ride than just a tasteless prank. And they plan to find out what it is.