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The Edge of the Precipice

Author : Paul Socken
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773589880
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Edge of the Precipice written by Paul Socken and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a case be made for reading literature in the digital age? Does literature still matter in this era of instant information? Is it even possible to advocate for serious, sustained reading with all manner of social media distracting us, fragmenting our concentration, and demanding short, rapid communication? In The Edge of the Precipice, Paul Socken brings together a thoughtful group of writers, editors, philosophers, librarians, archivists, and literary critics from Canada, the US, France, England, South Africa, and Australia to contemplate the state of literature in the twenty-first century. Including essays by outstanding contributors such as Alberto Manguel, Mark Kingwell, Lori Saint-Martin, Sven Birkerts, Katia Grubisic, Drew Nelles, and J. Hillis Miller, this collection presents a range of perspectives about the importance of reading literature today. The Edge of the Precipice is a passionate, articulate, and entertaining collection that reflects on the role of literature in our society and asks if it is now under siege. Contributors include Michael Austin (Newman University), Sven Birkerts (author), Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie-Mellon University), Vincent Giroud (University of Franche-Comté), Katia Grubisic (poet), Mark Kingwell (University of Toronto), Alberto Manguel (author), J. Hillis Miller (University of California, Irvine), Drew Nelles (editor-in-chief, Maisonneuve), Keith Oatley (University of Toronto), Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia (British Library), Leonard Rosmarin (Brock University), Lori Saint-Martin (translator, Université du Québec à Montréal), Paul Socken (University of Waterloo), and Gerhard van der Linde (University of South Africa).

At the Edge of the Precipice

Author : Robert V. Remini
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780465024896
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book At the Edge of the Precipice written by Robert V. Remini and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1850, with Northerners demanding that slavery be outlawed in the vast new territory America had just acquired in the Mexican- American War, Southerners threatened to secede from the Union. Veteran statesman Henry Clay proffered a solution: the Compromise of 1850, which saved the Union from dissolution for the next ten years and gave the North time to build its industrial might so that it could defeat the South once secession was at hand. Historian Robert V. Remini masterfully shows how Clay's recognition of the need for bipartisanship in times of crisis saved the Union—not once, but twice.

Talking of Love

Author : Boris Cyrulnik
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141025794
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Talking of Love written by Boris Cyrulnik and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self help.

Precipice

Author : Daniel Pollock
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475923848
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Precipice written by Daniel Pollock and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-02-07 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logistics expert Jane Malcolm got her training under fire literallyin the Gulf War, where movement of supplies and equipment meant the difference between life and death. Eight years later, she’s running her own logistics consulting firm. But as shestands on the brink of her greatest victory, she will be swept into a new, high-stakesgame with an opponent she may not even recognize–until it’s too late.Poised to close a multi-national deal, Jane learns that a plane crash has claimed the life of her father, Royal Akers, head of a faltering superstore chain. Determined to restoreher father’s legacy, she races against time to find ways around the Akers dynasty’swoes and undercover their source. For it rapidly becomes clear that these are not random mishaps, but corporate sabotage. International trading partners suffer the fallout, ratcheting the stakes even higher. Economic disaster threatens to topple a fragile govern-ment. If Jane makes one false move, it could be her last. Tense, taut, Precipice is an edge-of-the-seat thriller, creating an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario.

The Precipice

Author : Toby Ord
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 031648489X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Precipice written by Toby Ord and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential catastrophes - those from which we could never come back. Since then, these dangers have only multiplied, from climate change to engineered pathogens and artificial intelligence. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late. Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind the risks we face. It puts them in the context of the greater story of humanity: showing how ending these risks is among the most pressing moral issues of our time. And it points the way forward, to the actions and strategies that can safeguard humanity. An Oxford philosopher committed to putting ideas into action, Toby Ord has advised the US National Intelligence Council, the UK Prime Minister's Office, and the World Bank on the biggest questions facing humanity. In The Precipice, he offers a startling reassessment of human history, the future we are failing to protect, and the steps we must take to ensure that our generation is not the last. "A book that seems made for the present moment." —New Yorker

The Precipice

Author : Paul Doiron
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466868686
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Precipice written by Paul Doiron and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting new novel from Edgar finalist Paul Doiron, Bowditch joins a desperate search for two missing hikers as Maine wildlife officials deal with a frightening rash of coyote attacks. When two female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness-the most remote stretch along the entire Appalachian Trail-Maine game warden Mike Bowditch joins the desperate search to find them. Hope turns to despair after two unidentified corpses are discovered-their bones picked clean by coyotes. Do the bodies belong to the missing hikers? And were they killed by the increasingly aggressive wild dogs? Soon, all of Maine is gripped with the fear of killer coyotes. But Bowditch has his doubts. His new girlfriend, wildlife biologist Stacey Stevens, insists the scavengers are being wrongly blamed. She believes a murderer may be hiding in the offbeat community of hikers, hippies, and woodsmen at the edge of the Hundred Mile Wilderness. When Stacey herself disappears along the AT, the hunt for answers becomes personal. Can Mike Bowditch find the woman he loves before the most dangerous animal in the North Woods strikes again?

Son of a Wanted Man

Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 055390003X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Son of a Wanted Man written by Louis L'Amour and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outlaw's legacy... In a remote corner of Utah lies the secret outlaw kingdom of Ben Curry. For fifteen years Curry has ruled supreme, as his men have pulled jobs from Canada to Mexico. But the king is getting old... he wants to turn his legacy over to someone younger, tougher. Mike Bastian is Ben's adopted son, a young man who can handle a knife, a gun, his fists, but a man who's never broken the law. Now, as treachery explodes among Ben's riders, and two honest lawmen—Tyrel Sackett and Borden Chantry—begin to zero in on the gang, Mike must choose...between his loyalty to Ben and his yearning for a different life. Yet when the guns start echoing off the Vermilion Cliffs, the time for choosing is over—and the time for battle has begun.

On the Edge of the Precipice

Author : Ovid T. Priffer
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1662433565
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book On the Edge of the Precipice written by Ovid T. Priffer and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcel Issachar: a simple man caught in an accident of history during the early and mid-twentieth century: In the greatest upheaval the world ever experienced. An intellectual he is not: A Jewish pragmatist, snared into less than a pragmatic world. He came to loath the Jewish God...he believed, He did not exist. He despised His little Jew Son...because, he had brought hope to mankind...then failed them and, what’s more, that old bearded Jewish toad, Moses, giving the populace those Ten Commandments: a sadist! He knew all too well that they were too defective to abide by them!

These 6 Things

Author : Dave Stuart Jr.
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1506391028
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book These 6 Things written by Dave Stuart Jr. and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dave Stuart Jr.’s work is centered on a simple belief: all students and teachers can flourish. These 6 Things is all about streamlining your practice so that you’re teaching smarter, not harder, and kids are learning, doing, and flourishing in ELA and content-area classrooms. In this essential resource, teachers will receive: Proven, classroom-tested advice delivered in an approachable, teacher-to-teacher style that builds confidence Practical strategies for streamlining instruction in order to focus on key beliefs and literacy-building activities Solutions and suggestions for the most common teacher and student “hang-ups” Numerous recommendations for deeper reading on key topics

Flappers and Philosophers

Author : Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Middleton Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Flappers and Philosophers written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and published by Middleton Classics. This book was released on 1922 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sweet Dreams, Irene

Author : Jan Burke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743470168
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Sweet Dreams, Irene written by Jan Burke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-09-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irene Kelly is a reporter with a fierce integrity. Detective Frank Harriman is her lover and friend. Now they're both about to be plunged into political hellfire when a ruthless politician rocks a race for district attorney with a stunning allegation: his opponent's son is in the clutches of a satanic cult. The charge takes a fatal turn when a local woman is brutally murdered, and the grisly crime scene bears unholy implications. Tracking the clues takes Irene behind the closed doors of an isolated home for troubled youths, where obscuring the truth is only part of a stranger's diabolic game. To win it, Irene will have the devil to pay.

Girls at the Edge of the World

Author : Laura Brooke Robson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 052555405X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Girls at the Edge of the World written by Laura Brooke Robson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a world on the edge of an apocalyptic flood, this heart-stoppingly romantic fantasy debut is perfect for fans of Rachel Hartman and Rae Carson. In a world bound for an epic flood, only a chosen few are guaranteed safe passage into the new world once the waters recede. The Kostrovian royal court will be saved, of course, along with their guards. But the fate of the court's Royal Flyers, a lauded fleet of aerial silk performers, is less certain. Hell-bent on survival, Principal Flyer, Natasha Koskinen, will do anything to save the flyers, who are the only family she's ever known. Even if "anything" means molding herself into the type of girl who could be courted by Prince Nikolai. But unbeknownst to Natasha, her newest recruit, Ella Neves, is driven less by her desire to survive the floods than her thirst for revenge. And Ella's mission could put everything Natasha has worked for in peril. As the oceans rise, so too does an undeniable spark between the two flyers. With the end of the world looming, and dark secrets about the Kostrovian court coming to light, Ella and Natasha can either give in to despair . . . or find a new reason to live.

World on the Edge

Author : Lester Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113654075X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book World on the Edge written by Lester Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now. We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food shortages? Can we cope with peak water and peak oil at the same time? These are some of the issues Lester R. Brown skilfully distils in World on the Edge. Bringing decades of research and analysis into play, he provides the responses needed to reclaim our future.

Harbinger

Author : David Mack
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471106659
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Harbinger written by David Mack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine Alias combined with Star Trek and you a have the idea behind for VANGUARD, a new concept for Star Trek fiction that takes it in a compelling new direction, presenting a new perspective on the classic Original Series era, with novels running parallel to Kirk's original five-year mission. VANGUARD is a Starfleet space station charged with the exploration and colonization of a region of space that holds a highly coveted, mysterious, and potentially cataclysmic secret - one that the Federation must solve before anyone else. The race is on and at the centre of this intrigue is an eclectic mix of Starfleet and civilian protagonists unlike any crew previously seen in Star Trek. Their turbulent lives aboard the station and on the ships they travel are painted against the backdrop of an evolving storyline that will gain momentum as the series progresses and the layers of ancient mystery are steadily peeled back, one after another.

Precipice

Author : Tom Savage
Publisher : Onyx Books
ISBN 13 : 9780451183330
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Precipice written by Tom Savage and published by Onyx Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The house is named Cliffhanger, a bit of heaven perched high on a hill in a Caribbean paradise, where a twisted conspiracy among the super-rich of St. Thomas turns the sparkling island playground into a killing ground where nothing is what it seems, and no one is who they claim.

The Precipice and Other Catastrophes

Author : Raymond Federman
Publisher : Make Now Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Precipice and Other Catastrophes written by Raymond Federman and published by Make Now Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drama. This book contains a long drama, The Precipice, and two shorter plays--Act without Words for the Hand and Who Will Crack First. Renowned experimentalist Raymond Federman was born in France in 1928 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1947. He has published eight novels, four volumes of poetry, four books of criticism, and numerous articles, essays, poems, plays, and stories. His novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages. SPD carries a number of books by Raymond Federman including AUNT RACHEL'S FUR, THE VOICE IN THE CLOSET and MY BODY IN NINE PARTS.

Near Side of the Precipice

Author : Dale Lowther
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781456333317
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Near Side of the Precipice written by Dale Lowther and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2010-12-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During FBI surveillance of a smuggling operation that originated in British Columbia, a large group of smugglers spring an ambush on the FBI team at a Seattle marina and get away with most of their cargo, leaving the FBI agents and many civilians dead or dying. When a large case abandoned by the smugglers is opened by the bomb squad, it becomes apparent that a terror attack is imminent. FBI agent Kate Seaman finds herself in a desperate search to prevent terrorists from using their weapons of mass destruction on yet unknown targets."--Cover [p. 4].