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Author : Chum Mey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789995060244
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Survivor written by Chum Mey and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Prissy Elrod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780825307836
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Far Outside the Ordinary written by Prissy Elrod and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If anybody had told Prissy, a conservative Southern housewife, she would one day be driving around town with a stoned, drunk black man named Willie in her backseat while she begged--no, ordered--him into her house for the night, she would have told them they were nuts. But it happened. An emotionally honest account, Far Outside the Ordinary chronicles the period in Prissy's life when, during a routine physical, her fifty-year-old husband is given less than a year to live. Southern black caregivers move into her home and work around the clock to aid her family. Soon, Prissy finds herself a spectator in her own home, observing events far outside the boundaries of her once ordinary life. Far Outside the Ordinary is also a story of happily ever after, a romantic fairy tale. When her high school boyfriend reappears in her life, Prissy learns love has no expiration date. Sometimes a second chance at love can come disguised, and when least expected.
Author : Jim Grimsley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765305299
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Ordinary written by Jim Grimsley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ordinary is a powerful and entrancing tale of magic, science, and the mysterious truth that binds them together. Jim Grimsley's novels and short stories have been favorably compared to the works of Samuel R. Delany, Jack Vance, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Now he unleashes an ambitious and audacious collision between science and magic. The Twil Gate links two very different realms. On one side of the portal is Senal, an advanced technological civilization of some thirty billion inhabitants, all cybernetically linked and at war with machine intelligences many light-years away. On the other side is Irion, a land of myth and legend, where the world is flat and mighty wizards once ruled. Jedda Martele is a linguist and trader from Senal. Although fascinated by the languages and cultures of Irion, she shares her people's assumption that Irion is backward and superstitious and no match for her homeland's superior numbers and technology. But as the two realms march inevitably toward war, Jedda finds herself at the center of historic, unimaginable events that will challenge everything she has ever believed about the world--and herself.
Author : Theodor Mommsen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The History of Rome written by Theodor Mommsen and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Uta G. Poiger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520211391
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Jazz, Rock, and Rebels written by Uta G. Poiger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-03-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This significant contribution to German history pioneers a conceptually sophisticated approach to German-German relations. Poiger has much to say about the construction of both gender norms and masculine and feminine identities, and she has valuable insights into the role that notions of race played in defining and reformulating those identities and prescriptive behaviors in the German context. The book will become a 'must read' for German historians."—Heide Fehrenbach, author of Cinema in Democratizing Germany "Poiger breaks new ground in this history of the postwar Germanies. The book will serve as a model for all future studies of comparative German-German history."—Robert G. Moeller, author of Protecting Motherhood "Jazz, Rock, and Rebels exemplifies the exciting work currently emerging out of transnational analyses. [A] well-written and well-argued study."—Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans
Author : Robert Pattison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195365038
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Triumph of Vulgarity written by Robert Pattison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-22 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Triumph of Vulgarity in a thinker's guide to rock 'n' roll. Rock music mirrors the tradition of nineteenth-century Romaniticsm, Robert Patison says. Whitman's "barbaric yawp" can still be heard in the punk rock of the Ramones, and the spirit that inspired Poe's Eureka lives on in the lyrics of Talking Heads. Rock is vulgar, Pattison notes, and vulgarity is something that high culture has long despised but rarely bothered to define. This book is the first effort since John Ruskin and Aldous Huxley to describe in depth what vulgarity is, and how, with the help of ideas inherent in Romaniticism, it has slipped the constraints imposed on it by refined culture and established its own loud arts. The book disassembles the various myths of rock: its roots in black and folk music; the primacy it accords to feeling and self; the sexual omnipotence of rock stars; the satanic predilictions of rock fans; and rock's high-voltage image of the modern Prometheus wielding an electric guitar. Pattison treats these myths as vulgar counterparts of their originals in refined Romantic art and offers a description and justification of rock's central place in the social and aesthetic structure of modern culture. At a time when rock lyrics have provoked parental outrage and senatorial hearings, The Triumph of Vulgarity is required reading for anyone interested in where rock comes from and how it works.
Author : Mary McGarry Morris
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101199474
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Songs in Ordinary Time written by Mary McGarry Morris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. Maria Fermoyle is a strong but vulnerable divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen—involved with a young priest; Norm, sixteen—hotheaded and idealistic; and Benny, twelve—isolated and misunderstood, and so desperate for his mother's happiness that he hides the deadly truth he knows about Duvall. We also meet Sam Fermoyle, the children's alcoholic father; Sam's brother-in-law, who makes anonymous "love" calls from the bathroom of his failing appliance store; and the Klubock family, who—in contrast to the Fermoyles—live an orderly life in the house next door. Songs in Ordinary Time is a masterful epic of the everyday, illuminating the kaleidoscope of lives that tell the compelling story of this unforgettably family.
Author : James Meek
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1786896753
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book To Calais, In Ordinary Time written by James Meek and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY EXPRESS, SCOTSMAN and SPECTATOR Three journeys. One road. England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a Scots proctor sets out for Avignon and a young ploughman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais. Coming in their direction from across the Channel is the Black Death, the plague that will wipe out half of the population of Northern Europe. As the journey unfolds, overshadowed by the archers' past misdeeds and clerical warnings of the imminent end of the world, the wayfarers must confront the nature of their loves and desires. A tremendous feat of language and empathy, it summons a medieval world that is at once uncannily plausible, utterly alien and eerily reflective of our own. James Meek's extraordinary To Calais, In Ordinary Time is a novel about love, class, faith, loss, gender and desire - set against one of the biggest cataclysms of human history.
Author : William Hasker
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830828044
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Triumph of God Over Evil written by William Hasker and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2008-03-24 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted philosopher William Hasker explores a full range of questions concerning the problem of evil. Hasker forges constructive answers in some depth showing why the evil in the world does not provide evidence of a moral fault in God, the world's creator and governor.
Author : Emmanuel Saez
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324002735
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay written by Emmanuel Saez and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most important book on government policy that I’ve read in a long time.” —David Leonhardt, New York Times Even as they have become fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice presents a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation, written by two economists who have revolutionized the study of inequality. Blending history and cutting-edge economic analysis, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman offer a comprehensive view of America’s tax system alongside a visionary, democratic, and practical reinvention of taxes.
Author : James E. Oberg
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811710076
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book New Earths written by James E. Oberg and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting new volume presents every ship in which Admiral Horatio Nelson served, in full detail, for the first time. Includes a comprehensive background of each vessel and the incidents that occurred when Nelson was aboard each ship. 45 photos. 40 line drawings.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Motor Car Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Fortnightly written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin W. D. Redding
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783276576
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The English and French Navies, 1500-1650 written by Benjamin W. D. Redding and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the received wisdom about the relative weakness of French naval power when compared with that of England. This book traces the advances and deterioration of the early modern English and French sea forces and relates these changes to concurrent developments within the respective states. Based on extensive original research in correspondence and memoirs, official reports and accounts, receipts of the exchequer and inventories in both France, where the sources are disparate and dispersed, and England, the book explores the rise of both kingdoms' naval resources from the early sixteenth to the mid seventeenth centuries. As a comparative study, it shows that, in sharing the Channel and with both countries increasing their involvement in maritime affairs, English and French naval expansion was intertwined. Directly and indirectly, the two kingdoms influenced their neighbours' sea programmes. The book first examines the administrative transformations of both navies, then goes on to discuss fiscal and technological change, and finally assesses the material expansion of the respective fleets. In so doing it demonstrates the close relationship between naval power and state strength in early modern Europe. One important argument challenges the received wisdom about the relative weakness of French naval power when compared with that of England.
Author : University of Wisconsin. College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Research Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Research Bulletin written by University of Wisconsin. College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Research Division and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Hartley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134492065
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts written by John Hartley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third edition of an up-to-date, multi-disciplinary glossary of the concepts you are most likely to encounter in the study of communication, culture and media, with new entries and coverage of recent developments.
Author : Maurice Friedman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438403372
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Martin Buber and the Human Sciences written by Maurice Friedman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The specific focus of Martin Buber and the Human Sciences is "dialogue" as the foundation of and integrating factor in the human sciences, using dialogue in the special sense which Buber has made famous: mutuality, presentness, openness, meeting the other in his or her uniqueness and not just as a content for one's own thought categories, and knowing as deriving in the first instance from mutual contact rather than knowledge of a subject about an object. By the "human sciences" the authors/editors mean material that can be meaningfully approached in a dialogic way, hence, the humanities, education, psychology, speech communication, anthropology, history, sociology, and economics. The essays in Martin Buber and the Human Sciences demonstrate that thirty years after Buber's death his influence is still resonating in many countries and in many fields.
