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The Pecking Order

Author : Dalton Conley
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307489450
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Pecking Order written by Dalton Conley and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family is our haven, the place where we all start off on equal footing — or so we like to think. But if that’s the case, why do so many siblings often diverge widely in social status, wealth, and education? In this groundbreaking and meticulously researched book, acclaimed sociologist Dalton Conley shatters our notions of how our childhoods affect us, and why we become who we are. Economic and social inequality among adult siblings is not the exception, Conley asserts, but the norm: over half of all inequality is within families, not between them. And it is each family’s own “pecking order” that helps to foster such disparities. Moving beyond traditionally accepted theories such as birth order or genetics to explain family dynamics, Conley instead draws upon three major studies to explore the impact of larger social forces that shape each family and the individuals within it. From Bill and Roger Clinton to the stories of hundreds of average Americans, here we are introduced to an America where class identity is ever changing and where siblings cannot necessarily follow the same paths. This is a book that will forever alter our idea of family.

Pecking Order

Author : Omar Tyree
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416580247
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Pecking Order written by Omar Tyree and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-23 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Omar Tyree continues to write captivating novels with Pecking Order, the tale of an ambitious young accountant, Ivan Davis, who jumps into the high-stakes racket of industry promotions and celebrity parties in Southern California. Starting with a simple plan to promote business network events among the rich, famous, and frivolous clients he works with, Ivan begins to make a name for himself. He soon comes face-to-face with Lucina Gallo, the reigning diva of San Diego's nightlife culture. She needs a new partner she can trust, and one who knows everything about money. For this dollar-hungry entrepreneur, the timing couldn't be better. Who wouldn't want to be partners with the most glamorous girl in the city? Ivan quickly teams up with her for business -- and for possible pleasure. However, for Lucina, business is business and nothing extra. Or is it? After throwing a sizzling-hot birthday party for a popular San Diego Charger, Ivan finds himself babysitting Lucina's so-called girlfriends, some of the most spoiled and exotic women he has ever encountered. That's when the business deals begin to fall outside the bounds of simple promotion and parties. Ivan finds himself thrust into the limelight and lands at the doorstep of easy access to women, cash, cars, private jets, and multimillion-dollar real estate. But as the ridiculous amounts of money and power start to pile up, leaving a trail of broken hearts, fractured egos, and challenged loyalties, Ivan is forced to ask himself: How much money is enough? Pecking Order, with its perfect blend of money, plot, sex, and vulnerability, is another urban classic novel as only Omar Tyree can write them!

Pecking Order

Author : Nicole Homer
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1949342107
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Pecking Order written by Nicole Homer and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicole Homer's first full-length poetry collection, Pecking Order, is an unflinching look at how race and gender politics play out in the domestic sphere. Homer challenges the notion of family by forcing the reader to examine how race, race performance, and colorism impact motherhood immediately and from generation to generation. In a world where race and color often determine treatment, the home should be sanctuary, but often is not. Homer's poems question the construction of racial identity and how familial love can both challenge and bolster that construction. Her poems range from the intimate details of motherhood to the universal experiences of parenting; the dynamics of multiracial families to parenting black children; and the ingrained social hierarchy which places the black mother at the bottom. Homer forces us to reckon with the truth that no one–not even the mother–is unbiased.

The Order of Things

Author : Barbara Ann Kipfer
Publisher : Random House Reference
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Order of Things written by Barbara Ann Kipfer and published by Random House Reference. This book was released on 2001 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical, entertaining and amazingly wide-ranging reference book, offering guided access to hundreds of hierarchies, classifications, systems, and other structures. You'll find the 64 emperors of Byzantium, ranks in the British army, how a television dish is operated, the different layers of soil, coal sizes, the various ice iges, how your ear hears something, how all the languages in the world are organized - and much much more.

The Pecking Order

Author : Niko Kolodny
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674292820
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Pecking Order written by Niko Kolodny and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trenchant case for a novel philosophical position: that our political thinking is driven less by commitments to freedom or fairness than by an aversion to hierarchy. Niko Kolodny argues that, to a far greater extent than we recognize, our political thinking is driven by a concern to avoid relations of inferiority. In order to make sense of the most familiar ideas in our political thought and discourse—the justification of the state, democracy, and rule of law, as well as objections to paternalism and corruption—we cannot merely appeal to freedom, as libertarians do, or to distributive fairness, as liberals do. We must instead appeal directly to claims against inferiority—to the conviction that no one should stand above or below. The problem of justifying the state, for example, is often billed as the problem of reconciling the state with the freedom of the individual. Yet, Kolodny argues, once we press hard enough on worries about the state’s encroachment on the individual, we end up in opposition not to unfreedom but to social hierarchy. To make his case, Kolodny takes inspiration from two recent trends in philosophical thought: on the one hand, the revival of the republican and Kantian traditions, with their focus on domination and dependence; on the other, relational egalitarianism, with its focus on the effects of the distribution of income and wealth on our social relations. The Pecking Order offers a detailed account of relations of inferiority in terms of objectionable asymmetries of power, authority, and regard. Breaking new ground, Kolodny looks ahead to specific kinds of democratic institutions that could safeguard against such relations.

The Order of Things

Author : Barbara Ann Kipfer
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0761150447
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book The Order of Things written by Barbara Ann Kipfer and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated, entertaining guide to the organization of everything under the sun--from nature and Earth to general knowledge and philosophy--explains hundreds of hierarchies in the arts, business, history, religion, science, sports, and other fields. Original.

International Pecking Orders

Author : Vincent Pouliot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316565343
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book International Pecking Orders written by Vincent Pouliot and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In any multilateral setting, some state representatives weigh much more heavily than others. Practitioners often refer to this form of diplomatic hierarchy as the 'international pecking order'. This book is a study of international hierarchy in practice, as it emerges out of the multilateral diplomatic process. Building on the social theories of Erving Goffman and Pierre Bourdieu, it argues that diplomacy produces inequality. Delving into the politics and inner dynamics of NATO and the UN as case studies, Vincent Pouliot shows that pecking orders are eminently complex social forms: contingent yet durable; constraining but also full of agency; operating at different levels, depending on issues; and defined in significant part locally, in and through the practice of multilateral diplomacy.

International Pecking Orders

Author : Vincent Pouliot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107143438
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book International Pecking Orders written by Vincent Pouliot and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the establishment of international hierarchies in multilateral diplomacy. Vincent Pouliot observes that in any multilateral setting, some state representatives weigh much more heavily than others, and argues that the practice of diplomacy is structured by a largely unspoken hierarchy of standing, which practitioners refer to as the 'pecking order'.

101 Drama Games and Activities

Author : David Farmer
Publisher : David Farmer
ISBN 13 : 184753841X
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book 101 Drama Games and Activities written by David Farmer and published by David Farmer. This book was released on 2007 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gain access to a personal collection of 101 highly effective drama games and activities suitable for children or adults. Sections include improvisation, mime, ice-breakers, group dynamics, rehearsal, story-telling, voice and warm-ups.

The Pecking Order

Author : Mark Kennedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Pecking Order written by Mark Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five African American boys drift around Chicago's slums and dark places.

Pecking Order

Author : Joy Berthoud
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 9780575060357
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Pecking Order written by Joy Berthoud and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 1996 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the effects of birth order on all aspects of the human personality. According to the author of this book, a child's place in the family leaves an indelible stamp on its personality. It affects parental and sibling relationships, school and work friendships, career and marital choice and, eventually, relationships with the next generation. Much academic research has been done on this aspect of family dynamics. The author interprets the facts and figures behind the research to create a book designed to have popular appeal. It includes interviews with famous people from politics, literature, art, showbusiness and sport.

Testing Static Trade-off Against Pecking Order Models of Capital Structure

Author : Lakshmi Shyam-Sunder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781021260413
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Testing Static Trade-off Against Pecking Order Models of Capital Structure written by Lakshmi Shyam-Sunder and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lucifer Principle

Author : Howard Bloom
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802192181
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Lucifer Principle written by Howard Bloom and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A philosophical look at the history of our species which alternated between fascinating and frightening . . . like reading Dean Koontz or Stephen King.” —Rocky Mountain News The Lucifer Principle is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that “evil” is a by-product of nature’s strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric. In a sweeping narrative that moves lucidly among sophisticated scientific disciplines and covers the entire span of the earth’s—as well as mankind’s—history, Howard Bloom challenges some of our most popular scientific assumptions. Drawing on evidence from studies of the most primitive organisms to those on ants, apes, and humankind, the author makes a persuasive case that it is the group, or “superorganism,” rather than the lone individual that really matters in the evolutionary struggle. But biology is not destiny, and human culture is not always the buffer to our most primitive instincts we would like to think it is. In these complex threads of thought lies the Lucifer Principle, and only through understanding its mandates will we able to avoid the nuclear crusades that await us in the twenty-first century. “A revolutionary vision of the relationship between psychology and history, The Lucifer Principle will have a profound impact on our concepts of human nature. It is astonishing that a book of such importance could be such a pleasure to read.”—Elizabeth F. Loftus, author of Memory

The Butterfly Garden

Author : Mary Campisi
Publisher : Mary Campisi Books, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1940921023
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Butterfly Garden written by Mary Campisi and published by Mary Campisi Books, LLC. This book was released on 2013-01-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes we’re lucky enough to get that second chance – in life and in love. That Second Chance Series are stand-alone stories of strong women who battle heartache and loss with a courage and determination to find new paths and true love. What ties them together? A common theme: belief in the beauty of that second chance. The Butterfly Garden is Book Six of That Second Chance Series. Sometimes love happens when you least expect it… Jenny Romano has never been a white-picket-fence, happily-ever-after girl. Despite a mother who rejected her free-spirited, unique ways as irresponsible and just plain wrong, Jenny has found happiness as a photographer, flitting around the country and snapping photos of other people’s lives. Her older sister, Grace, has a husband, children, and a carpool schedule. She’s the one their mother calls “perfect.” But when tragedy strikes her sister’s carefully constructed life, Jenny must step in and help. Soon, she’s knee-deep in small-town, suburban life, the kind she’s always avoided… Psychologist Elliot Drake spends so much time healing other people’s pain that he prefers to keep his own relationships short and uncomplicated. He’s loved and lost once and with a young daughter to raise, he’s not willing to risk his heart again. Of course, he’s never met anyone quite like Jenny. Outrageous and unpredictable, she’s nothing like her well-controlled older sister. And the more he’s around Jenny, the more he wonders if short-term is really what he wants… Elliot and Jenny are about to discover that real life happens whether you want it to or not. Will they let real love happen, too? That Second Chance Series:Book One: Pulling Home (Also prequel to A Family Affair: The Promise)Book Two: The Way They Were (Also prequel to A Family Affair: The Secret)Book Three: Simple Riches (Also prequel to A Family Affair: Winter)Book Four: Paradise FoundBook Five: Not Your Everyday HousewifeBook Six: The Butterfly Garden

Iggy Peck, Architect

Author : Andrea Beaty
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 161312984X
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Iggy Peck, Architect written by Andrea Beaty and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious, irreverent book about doing your own thing Meet Iggy Peck—creative, independent, and not afraid to express himself! In the spirit of David Shannon’s No, David and Rosemary Wells’s Noisy Nora, Iggy Peck will delight readers looking for irreverent, inspired fun. Iggy has one passion: building. His parents are proud of his fabulous creations, though they’re sometimes surprised by his materials—who could forget the tower he built of dirty diapers? When his second-grade teacher declares her dislike of architecture, Iggy faces a challenge. He loves building too much to give it up! With Andrea Beaty’s irresistible rhyming text and David Roberts’s puckish illustrations, this book will charm creative kids everywhere, and amuse their sometimes bewildered parents. Also from the powerhouse author-illustrator team of Iggy Peck, Architect, is Rosie Revere, Engineer, a charming, witty picture book about believing in yourself and pursuing your passion. Ada Twist, Scientist, the companion picture book featuring the next kid from Iggy Peck's class, is available in September 2016.

The Birds of Australia

Author : John Gould
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Birds of Australia written by John Gould and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Advances in Financial Planning and Forecasting (New Series) Vol．4

Author : Cheng F. Lee
Publisher : Center for PBBEFR & Airiti Press
ISBN 13 : 9866286347
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Financial Planning and Forecasting (New Series) Vol．4 written by Cheng F. Lee and published by Center for PBBEFR & Airiti Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Financial Planning and Froecasting (New Series) is an annual publication designed to disseminate developments in the area of financial analysis, planning, and forecasting. The publication is a froum for statistical, quantitative, and accounting analyses of issues in financial analysis and planning in terms of finance, accounting, and economic data.