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Author : Allen Upward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Log of the "Folly" written by Allen Upward and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Trivers
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN 13 : 0465027555
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Folly of Fools written by Robert Trivers and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the author's theorized evolutionary basis for self-deception, which he says is tied to group conflict, courtship, neurophysiology, and immunology, but can be negated by awareness of it and its results.
Author : Karen White
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451488466
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book On Folly Beach written by Karen White and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Emmy Hamilton's mother encourages her to buy the local book store, Folly's Finds, she hopes it will distract her daughter from the loss of her husband. But the seller has one condition: Emmy must allow Lulu, the late owner's difficult elderly sister, to continue working there. For the most part Emmy ignores Lulu, but a bundle of love letters she finds in a box help her better understand Lulu. As details of a possible murder and a mysterious disappearance during WWII are revealed, the two women discover that fate has brought them together.
Author : Eleazar Ruiz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692691939
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (919 download)
Download or read book Golly's Folly written by Eleazar Ruiz and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An adventurous story that dispels the notion that things of this world can satisfy. The vibrant illustrations will carry your child along on Golly's rollercoaster attempt to fulfill his desires with stuff. Share this much needed story about what truly matters"--Amazon.com.
Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0345308239
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (453 download)
Download or read book The March of Folly written by Barbara W. Tuchman and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 1985-02-12 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government. Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma’s senseless surrender of his empire in 1520 to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Barbara W. Tuchman defines folly as the pursuit by government of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives. In brilliant detail, Tuchman illuminates four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britain’s George III, and the United States’ own persistent mistakes in Vietnam. Throughout The March of Folly, Tuchman’s incomparable talent for animating the people, places, and events of history is on spectacular display. Praise for The March of Folly “A glittering narrative . . . a moral [book] on the crimes and follies of governments and the misfortunes the governed suffer in consequence.”—The New York Times Book Review “An admirable survey . . . I haven’t read a more relevant book in years.”—John Kenneth Galbraith, The Boston Sunday Globe “A superb chronicle . . . a masterly examination.”—Chicago Sun-Times
Author : Allen Upward
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Log of the "Folly." Narrative of a Voyage in Company with the Poet and the Bookmaker; Containing the Discovery of the Isle of Wight ... Illustrated, Etc written by Allen Upward and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Rogers
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075096958X
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Churchill's Folly written by Anthony Rogers and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In autumn 1943 the Italian-held Dodecanese was the setting for the last decisive German invasion of the Second World War – and the last irreversible British defeat. After the Italian armistice that followed the downfall of Mussolini, Churchill seized the opportunity to open a new front in the eastern Mediterranean, thereby increasing the pressure against Germany and hoping to provide an incentive for Turkey to join the Allies. Rejected by the Americans, it was a strategy fraught with difficulties and doomed to fail. Spearheaded by the LRDG and SBS, British troops were dispatched to the Aegean with naval units, but little or no air cover. They were opposed by German assault troops with overwhelming air superiority. Within 3 months, German forces had seized nearly all of the Dodecanese, which was occupied until the end of the war.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (824 download)
Download or read book The Log of Folly Ranch written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (739 download)
Download or read book The Log of Folly Ranch, Summer. 1929 written by R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gillen D'Arcy Wood
Publisher : Other Press (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hosack's Folly written by Gillen D'Arcy Wood and published by Other Press (NY). This book was released on 2005 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The novel opens twenty years after the ill-fated duel and Hosack is once again at the center of controversy. Struggling to contain an outbreak of yellow fever on the New York docks, Hosack must also contend with the malice of powerful merchants and corrupt politicians who aim to cover up the fever threat at all costs. Brought down by scandal, Hosack turns to his brave young assistant, Albert Dash, to expose the truth. Meanwhile, an powerful newspaper editor and a visionary architect team up on a scheme of their own to save the city: the Croton Aqueduct, the most ambitious public works project since Roman times."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher : anboco
ISBN 13 : 3736406320
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)
Download or read book In Praise of Folly written by Desiderius Erasmus and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Praise of Folly is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511. Inspired by Italian humanist Faustino Perisauli's De Triumpho Stultitiae, it is a satirical attack on superstitions and other traditions of European society as well as on the western Church. Erasmus revised and extended the work, which he originally wrote in the space of a week while sojourning with Sir Thomas More at More's estate in Bucklersbury. In Praise of Folly is considered one of the most notable works of the Renaissance and played an important role in the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation.
Author : Old Sailor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Log Book; Or, Nautical Miscellany.. written by Old Sailor and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Konstantin Pleshakov
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618773614
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Stalin's Folly written by Konstantin Pleshakov and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalin's cunning and ruthlessness brought him to supreme power in the Soviet Union. Yet in the summer of 1941 he appeared to lose his touch. With unparalleled access to the Soviet archives, this text reveals why the dictator behaved as he did.
Author : Jerome Klapka Jerome
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Idler written by Jerome Klapka Jerome and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The Idler written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Log written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393540820
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis written by Serhii Plokhy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The definitive history.…With his masterly book, Mr. Plokhy has sounded a warning bell." — The Economist A harrowing account of the Cuban missile crisis and how the US and USSR came to the brink of nuclear apocalypse. Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis. Serhii Plokhy’s Nuclear Folly offers an international perspective on the crisis, tracing the tortuous decision-making that produced and then resolved it, which involved John Kennedy and his advisers, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and their commanders on the ground. In breathtaking detail, Plokhy vividly recounts the young JFK being played by the canny Khrushchev; the hotheaded Castro willing to defy the USSR and threatening to align himself with China; the Soviet troops on the ground clearing jungle foliage in the tropical heat, and desperately trying to conceal nuclear installations on Cuba, which were nonetheless easily spotted by U-2 spy planes; and the hair-raising near misses at sea that nearly caused a Soviet nuclear-armed submarine to fire its weapons. More often than not, the Americans and Soviets misread each other, operated under false information, and came perilously close to nuclear catastrophe. Despite these errors, nuclear war was ultimately avoided for one central reason: fear, and the realization that any escalation on either the Soviets’ or the Americans’ part would lead to mutual destruction. Drawing on a range of Soviet archival sources, including previously classified KGB documents, as well as White House tapes, Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama and anxiety of those tense days, and provides a way for us to grapple with the problems posed in our present day.
