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The Greatest Nobodies of History

Author : Adrian Bliss
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0593977165
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Nobodies of History written by Adrian Bliss and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “All at once funny, touching, dazzlingly informative and fascinating, brilliantly imaginative and altogether wonderful. Capable of switching between divine silliness and genuinely tender sweetness, tragedy, and wonder.”—STEPHEN FRY History belongs to the heroes. But to get the full story, sometimes you have to ask the side characters. The lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Henry VIII, and Queen Victoria fill bookshelves and fascinate scholars all over the world. But little attention is given to the ferret who posed for the Renaissance master, the servant who oversaw the Tudor’s toilet time, or the famous horse who thrilled the miserable old monarch. These supporting cast members have been waiting in the wings for too long, and Adrian Bliss thinks it’s high time they join their glory-hogging contemporaries in the spotlight. Fortunately—thanks to some recently discovered ancient complaint letters, court transcripts, and memoirs in bottles—now they can. Equal parts fascinating and hilarious, The Greatest Nobodies of History is a surreal love letter to life’s forgotten heroes, featuring hitherto undocumented accounts from Ancient Greece to the front lines of the Great Emu War. All that follows really happened, and some of it could even be true.

The Wikipedia Revolution

Author : Andrew Lih
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401395856
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Wikipedia Revolution written by Andrew Lih and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." --Jimmy Wales With more than 2,000,000 individual articles on everything from Aa! (a Japanese pop group) to Zzyzx, California, written by an army of volunteer contributors, Wikipedia is the #8 site on the World Wide Web. Created (and corrected) by anyone with access to a computer, this impressive assemblage of knowledge is growing at an astonishing rate of more than 30,000,000 words a month. Now for the first time, a Wikipedia insider tells the story of how it all happened -- from the first glimmer of an idea to the global phenomenon it's become. Andrew Lih has been an administrator (a trusted user who is granted access to technical features) at Wikipedia for more than four years, as well as a regular host of the weekly Wikipedia podcast. In The Wikipedia Revolution, he details the site's inception in 2001, its evolution, and its remarkable growth, while also explaining its larger cultural repercussions. Wikipedia is not just a website; it's a global community of contributors who have banded together out of a shared passion for making knowledge free. Featuring a Foreword by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and an Afterword that is itself a Wikipedia creation.

Nobodies to Somebodies

Author : Peter Han
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781591840862
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Nobodies to Somebodies written by Peter Han and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on the lessons learned by the author in his quest to discover how professionals find long-term meaning in their work, identifying fourteen key value systems as imparted by such figures as former senator Bill Bradley, actor John Lithgow, writer Tom Clancy, and others.

Nobody

Author : Marc Lamont Hill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501124943
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Nobody written by Marc Lamont Hill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "analysis of deeper meaning behind the string of deaths of unarmed citizens like Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray, providing ... [commentary] on the intersection of race and class in America today"--

Nobody's Kingdom

Author : T.J. Winnifrith
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1909930954
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Kingdom written by T.J. Winnifrith and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, foreign invasion, communism and tribal conflict: these have been the realities of life in Northern Albania for centuries. In this rich and comprehensive history, Tom Winnifrith examines the many different elements that have shaped this independent and little-known region of the Balkans. He explores the fundamental division between the South of Albania and its mysterious, romantic North - more feudal, more tribal, more Catholic and more prone to Austrian and Italian influence. It is also a region less affected by Greece, both ancient and modern, and by medieval Byzantium or the Orthodox faith. Northern Albania, with a terrain and climate much harsher than the south of the country, has traditionally had little respect for law and authority while its inhabitants remain in thrall to an ancient honour code -- the kanun -- demanding blood feuds and terrible revenge. Nobody's Kingdom traces the history of this ruggedly beautiful region, frequently disturbed by both invaders and internal strife yet retaining a distinct national identity and character. From its origins in the ancient kingdom of Illyria and the Roman province of Illyricum, through Byzantine and Ottoman rule, the granting of Albanian independence in 1912, the rise and fall of communism to its current fragile democracy, Northern Albania can be seen as a cultural crossroads - especially remarkable given its mountainous and difficult landscape. This book, both scholarly and readable, is the first modern comprehensive history of Northern Albania and is a timely and accessible introduction to a remote and inaccessible region.

The Nobodies

Author : Liza Palmer
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250169852
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Nobodies written by Liza Palmer and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Liza Palmer's voice is fresh, exciting, and necessary. She's a must-read author.” —Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & the Six Charmingly candid, hilarious, and deeply moving, The Nobodies is a novel about failing but never losing the core of yourself, from a beloved writer at the top of her game. If there's one thing Joan Dixon knows about herself, it's that she is a damn good journalist. But when she is laid off from yet another soon-to-be-shuttered newspaper, and even the soulless, listicle-writing online jobs have dried up, she is left with few options. Closer to 40 than 30, single, living with her parents again, Joan decides she needs to reinvent herself. She goes to work as a junior copywriter at Bloom, a Los Angeles startup where her bosses are all a decade younger and snacks and cans of fizzy water flow freely. For once, Joan has a steady paycheck and a stable job. She befriends a group of misfit coworkers and even begins a real relationship, after years of false starts. But once a journalist, always a journalist, and as Joan starts to poke beneath Bloom’s bright surface, she realizes that she may have accidentally stumbled onto the scoop of her lifetime. Is it worth risking everything for the sake of the story?

Nobodies

Author : John Bowe
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812971841
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Nobodies written by John Bowe and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans are shocked to discover that slavery still exists in the United States. Yet 145 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the CIA estimates that 14,500 to17,000 foreigners are “trafficked” annually into the United States, threatened with violence, and forced to work against their will. Modern people unanimously agree that slavery is abhorrent. How, then, can it be making a reappearance on American soil? Award-winning journalist John Bowe examines how outsourcing, subcontracting, immigration fraud, and the relentless pursuit of “everyday low prices” have created an opportunity for modern slavery to regain a toehold in the American economy. Bowe uses thorough and often dangerous research, exclusive interviews, eyewitness accounts, and rigorous economic analysis to examine three illegal workplaces where employees are literally or virtually enslaved. From rural Florida to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to the U.S. commonwealth of Saipan in the Western Pacific, he documents coercive and forced labor situations that benefit us all, as consumers and stockholders, fattening the profits of dozens of American food and clothing chains, including Wal-Mart, Kroger, McDonald’s, Burger King, PepsiCo, Del Monte, Gap, Target, JCPenney, J. Crew, Polo Ralph Lauren, and others. In this eye-opening book, set against the everyday American landscape of shopping malls, outlet stores, and Happy Meals, Bowe reveals how humankind’s darker urges remain alive and well, lingering in the background of every transaction–and what we can do to overcome them. Praise for Nobodies: “Investigative, immersion reporting at its best . . . Bowe is a master storyteller whose work is finely tuned and fearless.” –USA Today “A brilliant and readable tour of the modern heart of darkness, Nobodies takes a long, hard look at what our democracy is becoming.” –Thomas Frank, author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? “Bowe dramatizes in gripping detail these stolen lives.” –O: The Oprah Magazine “The vividness of Bowe’s local stories might make you think twice before reaching for that cheap fruit or pair of discount socks.” –Condé Nast Portfolio NAMED ONE OF THE TWENTY BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE VILLAGE VOICE

Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Author : Roy Richard Grinker
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393531651
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness written by Roy Richard Grinker and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from the eighteenth century, through America’s major wars, and into today’s high-tech economy. Nobody’s Normal argues that stigma is a social process that can be explained through cultural history, a process that began the moment we defined mental illness, that we learn from within our communities, and that we ultimately have the power to change. Though the legacies of shame and secrecy are still with us today, Grinker writes that we are at the cusp of ending the marginalization of the mentally ill. In the twenty-first century, mental illnesses are fast becoming a more accepted and visible part of human diversity. Grinker infuses the book with the personal history of his family’s four generations of involvement in psychiatry, including his grandfather’s analysis with Sigmund Freud, his own daughter’s experience with autism, and culminating in his research on neurodiversity. Drawing on cutting-edge science, historical archives, and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia, Grinker takes readers on an international journey to discover the origins of, and variances in, our cultural response to neurodiversity. Urgent, eye-opening, and ultimately hopeful, Nobody’s Normal explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma.

The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century

Author : Walter P. Weaver
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781563382802
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century written by Walter P. Weaver and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a clear and engaging style, Weaver's story chronicles not only the progress of Jesus research but also the cultural drifts and sociological phenomena that relate to the varying pictures of Jesus that scholarship has produced.

Truth

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Truth written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sacred Writings of Saint Athanasius

Author : St. Athanasius
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849676811
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Writings of Saint Athanasius written by St. Athanasius and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athanasius was the greatest champion of Catholic belief on the subject of the Incarnation that the Church has ever known and in his lifetime earned the characteristic title of "Father of Orthodoxy", by which he has been distinguished every since. This book contains almost 700 pages with his most essential writings, as well as valuable introductions to them.

A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Athanasius: Select works and letters. 1892

Author : Philip Schaff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Athanasius: Select works and letters. 1892 written by Philip Schaff and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Second Series, Volume 4

Author : Philip Schaff
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666740306
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Second Series, Volume 4 written by Philip Schaff and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Schaff’s classic work colloquially known as The Early Church Fathers is an invaluable resource filled with the primary documents and early theological building blocks for the Christian church. Comprised of thirty-eight volumes, it is broken into three parts: the Ante-Nicene Fathers, and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First and Second Series.

A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church

Author : Philip Schaff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church written by Philip Schaff and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Murakami Haruki and Our Years of Pilgrimage

Author : Gitte Marianne Hansen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429594917
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Murakami Haruki and Our Years of Pilgrimage written by Gitte Marianne Hansen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a timely and expansive volume on Murakami Haruki, arguably Japan's most high-profile contemporary writer. With contributions from prominent Murakami scholars, this book approaches the works of Murakami Haruki through interdisciplinary perspectives, discussing their significance and value through the lenses of history; geography; politics; gender and sexuality; translation; and literary influence and circulation. Together the chapters provide a multifaceted assessment on Murakami’s literary oeuvre in the last four decades, vouching for its continuous importance in understanding the world and Japan in contemporary times. The book also features exclusive material that includes the cultural critic Katō Norihiro’s final work on Murakami – his chapter here is one of the few works ever translated into English – to interviews with Murakami and discussions from his translators and editors, shedding light not only on Murakami’s works as literature but as products of cross-cultural exchanges. Murakami Haruki and Our Years of Pilgrimage will prove a valuable resource for students and scholars of Japanese studies, comparative and world literature, cultural studies, and beyond.

Handbook of the History of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy

Author : Gianfrancesco Zanetti
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031195507
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of the History of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy written by Gianfrancesco Zanetti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook discusses representative philosophers in the history of the philosophy of law and social philosophy, giving clear concise expert definitions and explanations of key personalities and their ideas. It provides an essential reference for experts and newcomers alike.

Memoirs of a Nobody

Author : Heinrich Börnstein
Publisher : Missouri History Museum
ISBN 13 : 9781883982201
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Nobody written by Heinrich Börnstein and published by Missouri History Museum. This book was released on 1997 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical editor, Republican Party operative, freethinking colleague of Karl Marx - Austrian Henry Boernstein was hardly a "nobody," but his is one of the nineteenth century's great unknown lives. After leaving Paris following the ill-fated revolutions of 1848, Boernstein became a leader of the large German-speaking immigrant population in 1850s St. Louis. He edited the premier German-speaking newspaper in the region, the Anzeiger des Westens, and played a major role in shaping the complex political landscape of St. Louis before the Civil War. A friend of such significant Missourians as Thomas Hart Benton, Francis Blair, Jr., and Nathaniel Lyon, he was also a novelist, playwright, director, and actor who eventually led the St. Louis Opera House. He also served as a colonel of volunteers with the Union forces in Missouri early in the war and participated in the Camp Jackson raid in 1861.