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The Big Shuffle

Author : Laura Pedersen
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307482235
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Big Shuffle written by Laura Pedersen and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We’re approaching Cat in the Hat level chaos and no one’s even had breakfast yet.” When the death of her father leaves her mother bereft and incapacitated, card shark Hallie Palmer returns home from college to raise Hallie’s eight younger siblings. Hallie’s older brother has a scholarship and a sensible major–which translates to free tuition and desperately needed future income for the family. So it’s up to Hallie to deal herself in as head of the chaotic household. But even after the invasion of those well-meaning, casserole-carrying purveyors of comfort the local church ladies, Hallie’s in a downward spiral. Thank goodness for old friends like Bernard and Gil, now proud parents, who keep Hallie afloat with good humor, brilliant organizational skills, and Judy Garland’s most quotable quotes–not that life is entirely peaceful now that Bernard’s wise, willful, and delightfully outrageous mother, Olivia, is back from Europe with a big (and shockingly young) surprise. Through it all, Hallie discovers that life can indeed turn on a dime, and that every coin has two sides plus an edge. Just because beginner’s luck doesn’t always last forever doesn’t mean you’re out of the game.

State in Society

Author : Joel S. Migdal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521797061
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book State in Society written by Joel S. Migdal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book trace the development of Joel Migdal's "state-in-society" approach. The essays situate the approach within the classic literature in political science, sociology, and related disciplines but present a new model for understanding state-society relations. It allies parts of the state and groups in society against other such coalitions, determines how societies and states create and maintain distinct ways of structuring day-to-day life, the nature of the rules that govern people's behavior, whom they benefit and whom they disadvantage, which sorts of elements unite people and which divide them, and what shared meaning people hold about their relations with others and their place in the world.

Harlem Shuffle

Author : Colson Whitehead
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385545142
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Harlem Shuffle written by Colson Whitehead and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, this gloriously entertaining novel is “fast-paced, keen-eyed and very funny ... about race, power and the history of Harlem all disguised as a thrill-ride crime novel" (San Francisco Chronicle). "Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time. Cash is tight, especially with all those installment-plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace, Ray doesn't ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweler downtown who doesn't ask questions, either. Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa—the "Waldorf of Harlem"—and volunteers Ray's services as the fence. The heist doesn't go as planned; they rarely do. Now Ray has a new clientele, one made up of shady cops, vicious local gangsters, two-bit pornographers, and other assorted Harlem lowlifes. Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. As Ray navigates this double life, he begins to see who actually pulls the strings in Harlem. Can Ray avoid getting killed, save his cousin, and grab his share of the big score, all while maintaining his reputation as the go-to source for all your quality home furniture needs? Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem. But mostly, it's a joy to read, another dazzling novel from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning Colson Whitehead. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto!

Guns and Ledgers

Author : Bozhong Li
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819963230
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Guns and Ledgers written by Bozhong Li and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to reconcile the dual forces of war and economic globalization in tracing China's early modernity. For late imperial China, there were two forms of encounter with the West; the guns of invading Europeans, and the ledgers by which trade between China and the West was measured and regulated. Even today, China's reactions to the West oscillate between business-driven openness and military paranoia. In this intellectual tour de force, Bozhong Li, one of China's preeminent intellectual and economic historians, traces the unprecedented transition that led China into the modern world; the book will be of value for economists, historians, and sinophiles alike.

Beginner's Luck

Author : Laura Pedersen
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307414655
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Beginner's Luck written by Laura Pedersen and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Laura Pedersen delivers . . . Throughout, you can’t help but think how hilarious some of the scenes would play on the big screen.”—The Hartford Courant “There could be no doubt left in anyone’s mind that my life had all the makings of a country-and-western song.” The second of seven children (with another on the way), Hallie Palmer has one dream: to make it to Vegas. Normally blessed with an uncanny gift for winning at games of chance, she’s just hit a losing streak. She’ s been kicked out of the casino she frequents during school hours, lost all her money for a car on a bad bet at the track, and has been grounded by her parents. Hallie decides the time as come to cut her losses. Answering an ad in the local paper, she lands a job as yard person at the elegant home of the sixty-ish Mrs. Olivia Stockton, a wonderfully eccentric rebel who scribes acclaimed poetry along with the occasional soft-core porn story. Under the same wild roof is Olivia’s son, Bernard, an antiques dealer and gourmet cook who turns out mouthwatering cuisine and scathing witticisms, and Gil, Bernard’s lover, whose down-to-earth sensibilities provide a perfect foil to the Stocktons’ outrageous joie de vivre. Here, in this anything-goes household, Hallie has found a new family. And she’s about to receive the education of her life. From a wonderful new voice in fiction comes the freshest and funniest novel to barrel down the pike since Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café. In Beginner’s Luck, Laura Pedersen introduces us to the endearing oddballs and eccentrics of Cosgrove County, Ohio, who burst to life and steal our hearts–and none more so than Hallie Palmer, sixteen, savvy, and wise beyond her years, a young woman who knows life is a gamble . . . and sometimes you have to bet the house.

Buffalo Gal: A Memoir (Easyread Large Edition)

Author : Laura Pedersen
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458739236
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Buffalo Gal: A Memoir (Easyread Large Edition) written by Laura Pedersen and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in the snowblower society of Buffalo, New York, Laura Pedersen's first words were most likely "turn the wheel into a skid." This vibrant memoir shares the humorous ups and downs of the Pedersens, who, like many families subsisting in the frigid North during the seventies, feared rising prices at the gas pump, argued about the thermostat, and fought over the dog to stay warm at night. While her parents were preoccupied with surviving separation and stagflation, Laura became the neighborhood wild child, skipping school to play poker, bet on horses, and trade stocks. This led her to an illustrious career on Wall Street - she became the youngest person with a seat on the American Stock Exchange and a millionaire by age twenty-one. Combining laugh-out-loud humor with a genuine slice of social history, Buffalo Gal paints a vivid portrait of an era.

Developments in Language Theory

Author : Tero Harju
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540732071
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Developments in Language Theory written by Tero Harju and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory, DLT 2007, held in Turku, Finland in July 2007. It addresses all important issues in language theory including grammars, acceptors and transducers for words, trees and graphs; algebraic theories of automata; relationships to cryptography, concurrency, complexity theory and logic; bioinspired computing, and quantum computing.

Managing People in the New Normal

Author : Richie Perera
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1982286555
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Managing People in the New Normal written by Richie Perera and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book The world of work has changed dramatically. We now live in a world where the use of terms such as “hybrid working” and the “new normal” have become the norm, words never uttered in the world of work before the pandemic. Technology such as Zoom and Teams which now play a crucial and integral part in the way we work was unheard of. The new normal, whatever it is and whatever it will become, brings with it a host of new challenges for organisations and managers. These challenges are brand new and unique. They have not been explored or studied to establish best practices for the new normal we now work and live in. It has left organisations and managers disorientated. Whether you are a shareholder, a business owner, a CEO, a manager or the managed, this book outlines new thoughts and principles for managing people in the new normal based on mental health and wellbeing. New thought and principles that can leverage the human element to shift the thinking and behaviour of organisations. It presents an ideology based on human connection and wellbeing with the power to slingshot the working world into a far better and brighter future If you work, you must read!

Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats

Author : Margarete Klein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317076095
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats written by Margarete Klein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade the "transition paradigm", which is based on the conviction that authoritarian political systems would over time necessarily develop into democracies, has been subjected to serious criticism. The complex political and societal developments in the post-Soviet region in particular have exposed flaws in the claim that a shift from authoritarianism to democracy is inevitable. Using case studies from the post-Soviet region, a broad range of international contributors present an original and innovative contribution to the debate. They explore the character of post-Soviet regimes and review the political transformations they have experienced since the end of the Cold War. Through a combination of theoretical approaches and detailed, empirical analysis the authors highlight the difficulties and benefits of applying the concepts of hybrid regimes, competitive authoritarianism and neopatrimonialism to the countries of the post-Soviet space. Through this in-depth approach the authors demonstrate how "Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats" in the region lead their countries, examine the sources of their legitimacy and their relationship to the societies they govern and advance the general theoretical debate on regime change and transition paths.

Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats

Author : Dr Susan Stewart
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409476650
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats written by Dr Susan Stewart and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade the "transition paradigm", which is based on the conviction that authoritarian political systems would over time necessarily develop into democracies, has been subjected to serious criticism. The complex political and societal developments in the post-Soviet region in particular have exposed flaws in the claim that a shift from authoritarianism to democracy is inevitable. Using case studies from the post-Soviet region, a broad range of international contributors present an original and innovative contribution to the debate. They explore the character of post-Soviet regimes and review the political transformations they have experienced since the end of the Cold War. Through a combination of theoretical approaches and detailed, empirical analysis the authors highlight the difficulties and benefits of applying the concepts of hybrid regimes, competitive authoritarianism and neopatrimonialism to the countries of the post-Soviet space. Through this in-depth approach the authors demonstrate how "Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats" in the region lead their countries, examine the sources of their legitimacy and their relationship to the societies they govern and advance the general theoretical debate on regime change and transition paths.

Back from the Collapse

Author : Curtis H. Freese
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496236645
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Back from the Collapse written by Curtis H. Freese and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back from the Collapse is a clarion call for restoring one of North America’s most underappreciated and overlooked ecosystems: the grasslands of the Great Plains. This region has been called America’s Serengeti in recognition of its historically extraordinary abundance of wildlife. Since Euro-American colonization, however, populations of at least twenty-four species of Great Plains wildlife have collapsed—from pallid sturgeon and burrowing owls to all major mammals, including bison and grizzly bears. In response to this incalculable loss, Curtis H. Freese and other conservationists founded American Prairie, a nonprofit organization with the mission of supporting the region’s native wildlife by establishing a 3.2-million-acre reserve on the plains of eastern Montana, one of the most intact and highest-priority areas for biodiversity conservation in the Great Plains. In Back from the Collapse Freese explores the evolutionary history of the region’s ecosystem over millions of years, as it transitioned from subtropical forests to the edge of an ice sheet to today’s prairies. He details the eventual species collapse and American Prairie’s work to restore the habitat and wildlife, efforts described by National Geographic as “one of the most ambitious conservation projects in American history.”

How to Play Rhythm Guitar

Author : Richard Johnston
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879308117
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book How to Play Rhythm Guitar written by Richard Johnston and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). This how-to guide offers lessons, licks, and tips drawn from the groove gurus in a wide range of classic and modern styles. Players will learn how to create their own memorable rhythm parts and emulate the styles of groove masters such as Keith Richards, Bob Marley, and Malcolm Young. Drawn from the pages of Guitar Player with many of the lessons presented in the players' own words the book presents must-have information on gear and recording, and covers hot topics such as effects and special tunings.

Search for Lazarus

Author : Johanna Ridenow
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481732250
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Search for Lazarus written by Johanna Ridenow and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book two of the Lazarus Trilogy continues the story of Maggie Johnson. She may have changed locations but she still has the same unique way of looking at the world. The headquarters of the North American continent may never be the same. To many this is a good thing. Maggie is on a mission to help her fellow Resurrected that are suffering from a malaise of the spirit. Why were so many disillusioned and unhappy? Why arent the Resurrected rising to the challenge to help the world when the world needs them more now than ever? With the help of some old friends and new ones they are trying to find the answers to those questions. But those questions are being noticed. The changes to relight barely burning fires of passion for life are being questioned. Maggie and her friends have stumbled into a deeply buried secret. A deadly secret that someone will kill to keep. A secret that will totally change everything the Resurrected are and turn brother against brother and sister against sister. As if one job wasnt enough always in the back of her mind remains an outstanding obligation that has nothing to do with intrigues and everything to do with the soul. Maggie has a journey yet to complete, to follow a loved one into trouble, into danger. How could you make a choice between your heart and your soul? How could she let a loved one be in danger and not do something about it? That answer was all too easy. She couldnt.

Blood Sisters

Author : John Miller
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1644244047
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Blood Sisters written by John Miller and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rex Bonner's next case began with the appearance of a strange and engaging woman. She arrived at the office with a very odd and unusual tale to tell. The roots of which began in war-torn Italy in 1944. A group of young girls who had banded together for their own safety, security, and survival received the support from an old and broken-down Catholic convent. There, they became revitalized and, with the advent of an old man's efforts and skills, developed into a group of killers. With

Jokertown Shuffle

Author : George R. R. Martin
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 9780553291742
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Jokertown Shuffle written by George R. R. Martin and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1991 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mad Science

Author : Randy Alfred
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316208183
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Mad Science written by Randy Alfred and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 365 days of inventions, discoveries, science, and technology, from the editors of Wired Magazine. On January 30, Rubik applied for a patent on his cube (1975). On the next day, 17 years earlier, the first U.S. Satellite passed through the Van Allen radiation belt. On March 17, the airplane "black box" made its maiden voyage (1953). And what about today? Every day of the year has a rich scientific and technological heritage just waiting to be uncovered, and Wired's top-flight science-trivia book Mad Science collects them chronologically, from New Year's Day to year's end, showing just how entertaining, wonderful, bizarre, and relevant science can be. In 2010, Wired's popular "This Day in Tech" blog peaked with more than 700,000 page views each month, and one story in 2008 drew more than a million unique viewers. This book will collect the most intriguing anecdotes from the blog's run-one for each day of the year-and publish them in a package that will instantly appeal to hardcore techies and curious laypeople alike.

E Street Shuffle

Author : Clinton Heylin
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0143124552
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book E Street Shuffle written by Clinton Heylin and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated popular music scholar presents an intimate portrait of The Boss and his legendary band Bruce Springsteen fans know that the band makes the man, which is why millions of people have jammed stadiums and arenas to see The Boss play countless shows with his incredible E Street Band. In this revelatory and unapologetic biography, respected music scholar Clinton Heylin turns a critical eye towards Springsteen’s early days, capturing this classic phase of his career and his rise from Asbury Park hood rat to global rock star. Using long-buried archival recordings and bootlegs, Heylin expertly traces Springsteen’s creative process as a songwriter and performer and illuminates the roles of the E Street Band members in creating their distinctive sound. Highly nuanced and as fiery as Springsteen himself, E Street Shuffle offers the most revealing portrait yet written on this American icon.