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Book Synopsis Luck, and What Came of it. A Tale of Our Times by : Charles Mackay
Download or read book Luck, and What Came of it. A Tale of Our Times written by Charles Mackay and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Book Synopsis The Thing About Luck by : Cynthia Kadohata
Download or read book The Thing About Luck written by Cynthia Kadohata and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when 12-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers. Illustrations.
Book Synopsis A Daughter of Our Time and Other Stories by : I. Gilchrist
Download or read book A Daughter of Our Time and Other Stories written by I. Gilchrist and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 10 ½ Stories of our Times by : Prakash Rajan
Download or read book 10 ½ Stories of our Times written by Prakash Rajan and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two colleagues constantly chat about cricket, movies and women at work, much to the annoyance of The Mechanical Engineer. An astrologer has a strange visitor one evening, who is in a tearing hurry to know his Tomorrow, Today. The friendship between two housemates is disrupted by An Old Friend, who reconnects after a long time over a social networking site. An ardent Dravidfan is ridiculed by his playmates for his classical batting technique, but is determined to earn their respect. A boy narrates the story of The Lucky Day to the police who have come home to interrogate him. All this and more in 10½ Stories of Our Times. Set against the backdrop of an increasingly liberated, empowered and connected world, these hard-hitting stories bring to light the shifting paradigms of modern India, eager to break free from the warp of established conventions and traditional mindsets. The classic tales in this collection are full of drama and suspense. Peppered with humor and satire, the stories serve as a compelling commentary on the times we live in. Ten unique stories. Many interesting characters. Many shades of life… And, a half-a-story that will surely raise a few eyebrows.
Book Synopsis Truth in Our Times by : David E. McCraw
Download or read book Truth in Our Times written by David E. McCraw and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David E. McCraw recounts his experiences as the top newsroom lawyer for the New York Times during the most turbulent era for journalism in generations. In October 2016, when Donald Trump's lawyer demanded that The New York Times retract an article focused on two women that accused Trump of touching them inappropriately, David McCraw's scathing letter of refusal went viral and he became a hero of press freedom everywhere. But as you'll see in Truth in Our Times, for the top newsroom lawyer at the paper of record, it was just another day at the office. McCraw has worked at the Times since 2002, leading the paper's fight for freedom of information, defending it against libel suits, and providing legal counsel to the reporters breaking the biggest stories of the year. In short: if you've read a controversial story in the paper since the Bush administration, it went across his desk first. From Chelsea Manning's leaks to Trump's tax returns, McCraw is at the center of the paper's decisions about what news is fit to print. In Truth in Our Times, McCraw recounts the hard legal decisions behind the most impactful stories of the last decade with candor and style. The book is simultaneously a rare peek behind the curtain of the celebrated organization, a love letter to freedom of the press, and a decisive rebuttal of Trump's fake news slur through a series of hard cases. It is an absolute must-have for any dedicated reader of The New York Times.
Book Synopsis The Times Red Cross Story Book by Famous Novelists Serving in His Majesty's Forces by : Various
Download or read book The Times Red Cross Story Book by Famous Novelists Serving in His Majesty's Forces written by Various and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises eighteen short World War I stories by the famous novelists of the time. These absorbing stories set against the backdrop of the war include several real-life personalities and events, making this work historically significant. A must-read for all the admires of war fiction.
Book Synopsis Ripples in Our Time Line by : Mark Wolfal
Download or read book Ripples in Our Time Line written by Mark Wolfal and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old New England cemetery with scandalous headstones...a dirt road filled with wandering livestock...an empty foundation where once a thriving mill stood...a rocky coastline deserted in winter. This is the essence of "Ghosts Along the Road," part historical, part travel guide, part local New England humor. All this and more awaits the armchair traveler when he embarks upon 26 different "roads less traveled" in Rona Mann's part of southwestern Rhode Island and southeastern Connecticut. Each chapter explores the character of a different town or village and makes you want to head for the car to experience it for yourself.
Book Synopsis Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands) by : Dan Ben Amos
Download or read book Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands) written by Dan Ben Amos and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of the books in this series possible: Lloyd E. Cotsen; The Maurice Amado Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture Tales from Arab Lands presents tales from North Africa, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq in the latest volume of the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. This is the third book in the multi-volume series in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg?s timeless classic, Legends of the Jews. The tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA), named in Honor of Dov Noy, at The University of Haifa, a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This series is a monument to a rich but vanishing oral tradition. This series is a monument to a rich but vanishing oral tradition.
Book Synopsis Panama's Story by : David Albert Francis
Download or read book Panama's Story written by David Albert Francis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTRODUCTION My name is David Albert Francis. However, I am known in the music world as “Panama” Francis, a name that was given to me by Roy Eldridge when I joined his band in 1939. I was born in Miami, Florida, on December 21, 1918, four days short of becoming a Christmas present to my parents. I must tell you that I am a stutterer. Sometime, when I get excited or try to make a point, my voice goes up about two octaves. I come across to some people as being angry but, believe me, this [what?] is how I get the words to flow. My facial expression might appear to you to be an angry expression. What is happening is that I am concentrating on getting the words to come out, without interruptions. I am sick now from twenty years of life on the board, riding on a bus for hours on end, eating unhealthy (and sometimes unsanitary?) food, and traveling 300 to 500 miles at a time without a bathroom break. The current health of bodies of my fellow musicians and I bear witness to the pain and suffering we experienced on the road. I am among many, many musicians who are paying now for these deplorable conditions on the road. We have serious health ailments that are directly attributable to what we experienced on the road and have negatively impacted the very days of our lives when we should be reaping the benefits of our long years of hard work. We are paying the price.
Book Synopsis Diary of Mrs. Kitty Trevylyan: a story of the times of Whitefield and the Wesleys. By the author of “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family,” etc. [Mrs. E. Charles.] by : Mrs. Kitty TREVYLYAN
Download or read book Diary of Mrs. Kitty Trevylyan: a story of the times of Whitefield and the Wesleys. By the author of “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family,” etc. [Mrs. E. Charles.] written by Mrs. Kitty TREVYLYAN and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of My Times II. In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time by :
Download or read book The Story of My Times II. In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time written by and published by Pallas Press. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Something New; Or, Tales for the Times: by Several Writers by : Eustace Wilberforce Jacob (Captain, 99th Regiment.)
Download or read book Something New; Or, Tales for the Times: by Several Writers written by Eustace Wilberforce Jacob (Captain, 99th Regiment.) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales by : Kurt Schwitters
Download or read book Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales written by Kurt Schwitters and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is the first collection of these subversive, little-known stories in any language and the first time all but a few of them have appeared in English. Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes, one of the world's leading authorities on fairy tales, this book gathers thirty-two stories written between 1925 and Schwitters's death in 1948--including a complete English-language recreation of The Scarecrow, a children's book illustrated with avant-garde typography that Schwitters created with Kate Steinitz and De Stijl founder Theo van Doesburg. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales also includes brilliant new illustrations that evoke the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Schwitters wrote these darkly humorous, satirical, and surreal tales at a time when traditional German fairy tales were being co-opted by the Nazis. Filled with sharp critiques of German life during the Weimar and early Nazi eras, Schwitters's tales are rich with absurdist events and insist that not everyone--and perhaps not anyone--lives happily ever after. In "Lucky Hans," the starving protagonist tries to catch a rabbit only to have it shed its fur like a coat and run off naked into the forest. In other tales, a sarcastic gypsy stands in for a fairy godmother and an army recruit is arrested for growing to monstrous size. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is a delightfully strange and surprising book.
Book Synopsis The Wrong Cinderella by : Joy Sithole
Download or read book The Wrong Cinderella written by Joy Sithole and published by Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does Cinderella have to marry a prince? May Holden, an independent, expressive young woman, finds herself thrown into the deep end of Hollywood. Just two months after graduating high school, she has become a household name. However starring as the lead role of the biggest book-turned-movie of the century is harder than it looks... Will May hold onto the little bit of independence she has left or will the hypnotic allure of fame brainwash her into thinking that she needs a man to be successful? Will her title as "The Wrong Cinderella" remain or will she lose sight of her true self when two dashing princes come her way?
Book Synopsis Buried by the Times by : Laurel Leff
Download or read book Buried by the Times written by Laurel Leff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-21 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at how The New York Times failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from 1939–45. It examines how the decisions that were made at The Times ultimately resulted in the minimizing and misunderstanding of modern history's worst genocide. Laurel Leff, a veteran journalist and professor of journalism, recounts how personal relationships at the newspaper, the assimilationist tendencies of The Times' Jewish owner, and the ethos of mid-century America, all led The Times to consistently downplay news of the Holocaust. It recalls how news of Hitler's 'final solution' was hidden from readers and - because of the newspaper's influence on other media - from America at large. Buried by The Times is required reading for anyone interested in America's response to the Holocaust and for anyone curious about how journalists determine what is newsworthy.
Book Synopsis America in Our Time by : Godfrey Hodgson
Download or read book America in Our Time written by Godfrey Hodgson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new afterword by the author
Book Synopsis Tom Sawyer's Luck: Tom & Huck (Super Science Showcase Stories #5) by : Lee Fanning
Download or read book Tom Sawyer's Luck: Tom & Huck (Super Science Showcase Stories #5) written by Lee Fanning and published by Wonder Mill Cosmos. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn are in Arkansas when they learn of a local legend-a mythical wild pig that's the size of a calf known as "Haggard Hoofs." Tom brashly claims he and Huck can catch this legendary swine and makes a large bet with a local townsman. But Huck knows it's a bad bet-because he knows "Haggard Hoofs" doesn't actually exist! Has Tom Sawyer finally bet off more than he can chew? This exciting adventure also includes real science facts and a bonus activities section! Super Science Showcase. Smart Adventures for Smart Kids.
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