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There Will Be No Miracles Here

Author : Casey Gerald
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735214212
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book There Will Be No Miracles Here written by Casey Gerald and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR AND THE NEW YORK TIMES A PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK "Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking outside his window and inside himself. Extraordinary." —Marlon James "Staccato prose and peripatetic storytelling combine the cadences of the Bible with an urgency reminiscent of James Baldwin in this powerfully emotional memoir." —BookPage The testament of a boy and a generation who came of age as the world came apart—a generation searching for a new way to live. Casey Gerald comes to our fractured times as a uniquely visionary witness whose life has spanned seemingly unbridgeable divides. His story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to see which of them will be carried off. His beautiful, fragile mother disappears frequently and mysteriously; for a brief idyll, he and his sister live like Boxcar Children on her disability checks. When Casey--following in the footsteps of his father, a gridiron legend who literally broke his back for the team--is recruited to play football at Yale, he enters a world he's never dreamed of, the anteroom to secret societies and success on Wall Street, in Washington, and beyond. But even as he attains the inner sanctums of power, Casey sees how the world crushes those who live at its margins. He sees how the elite perpetuate the salvation stories that keep others from rising. And he sees, most painfully, how his own ascension is part of the scheme. There Will Be No Miracles Here has the arc of a classic rags-to-riches tale, but it stands the American Dream narrative on its head. If to live as we are is destroying us, it asks, what would it mean to truly live? Intense, incantatory, shot through with sly humor and quiet fury, There Will Be No Miracles Hereinspires us to question--even shatter--and reimagine our most cherished myths.

Financialization and the World Economy

Author : Gerald A. Epstein
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781008263
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Financialization and the World Economy written by Gerald A. Epstein and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final section offers ideas for policy responses, including capital controls and securities transaction taxes."--BOOK JACKET.

Raising The Bar

Author : Mark Seal
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 0988926156
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Raising The Bar written by Mark Seal and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald D. Hines stands at the top of the international real estate investment and development world. A Purdue graduate with a degree in engineering, Hines may have arrived in Houston in 1948 for a nine-to-five job at a heating and air conditioning company, but before long he was making the deals that would transform Houston’s skyline. Later, with his revolutionary idea that great architecture was good business, he was reshaping the skylines of the world. Today, Hines is a respected global organization with a presence in 20 countries that has developed, redeveloped or acquired more than 1,100 properties. Raising the Bar: The Life and Work of Gerald D. Hines tracks one man’s incredible rise, from building small office/warehouses to manifesting Houston icons like The Galleria, One Shell Plaza, and Pennzoil Place to cultivating the national and then global expansion of his company. It paints the portrait of a man who himself is a study in contradictions: a child of the Depression and a citizen of the world; an engineer who still carries the slide rule that has guided his career yet commissions daring feats of art and architecture; a reserved and humble man in a field known for being brash and aggressive who takes on physical challenges with wild abandon. With enlivening anecdotes and revealing characterizations, Raising the Bar reveals the man behind the premier real estate company in the world like never before.

The Dawning of the Apocalypse

Author : Gerald Horne
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583678743
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book The Dawning of the Apocalypse written by Gerald Horne and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles America's settler colonialism's "creation myth" August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arrival of enslaved Africans occurred in North America. Yet in the 1520s, the Spanish, from their imperial perch in Santo Domingo, had already brought enslaved Africans to what was to become South Carolina. The enslaved people here quickly defected to local Indigenous populations, and compelled their captors to flee. Deploying such illuminating research, The Dawning of the Apocalypse is a riveting revision of the “creation myth” of settler colonialism and how the United States was formed. Here, Gerald Horne argues forcefully that, in order to understand the arrival of colonists from the British Isles in the early seventeenth century, one must first understand the “long sixteenth century”– from 1492 until the arrival of settlers in Virginia in 1607. During this prolonged century, Horne contends, “whiteness” morphed into “white supremacy,” and allowed England to co-opt not only religious minorities but also various nationalities throughout Europe, thus forging a muscular bloc that was needed to confront rambunctious Indigenes and Africans. In retelling the bloodthirsty story of the invasion of the Americas, Horne recounts how the fierce resistance by Africans and their Indigenous allies weakened Spain and enabled London to dispatch settlers to Virginia in 1607. These settlers laid the groundwork for the British Empire and its revolting spawn that became the United States of America.

Gerald Needs a Friend

Author : Robin Boyden
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Limited
ISBN 13 : 0711252084
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Gerald Needs a Friend written by Robin Boyden and published by Frances Lincoln Limited. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun, heartfelt new picture book about the joy of play time and the power of making friends.

Gerald the Third

Author : Faye Early Young
Publisher : LA Leche League International
ISBN 13 : 9780912500058
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gerald the Third written by Faye Early Young and published by LA Leche League International. This book was released on 1977 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A six-year-old boy describes his feelings about the members of his family.

The World within War

Author : Gerald Linderman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476725691
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The World within War written by Gerald Linderman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald Linderman has created a seamless and highly original social history, authoritatively recapturing the full experience of combat in World War II. Drawing on letters and diaries, memoirs and surveys, Linderman explores how ordinary frontline American soldiers prepared for battle, related to one another, conceived of the enemy, thought of home, and reacted to battle itself. He argues that the grim logic of protracted combat threatened soldiers not only with the loss of limbs and lives but with growing isolation from country and commanders and, ultimately, with psychological disintegration.

June 6, 1944

Author : Gerald Astor
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 030756553X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book June 6, 1944 written by Gerald Astor and published by Dell. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ships and planes, they crossed the English Channel. On the other side Hitler’s army waited. And the longest day was about to begin.... In the spring of 1944, 120,000 Allied soldiers crossed the English Channel in the most ambitious invasion force ever assembled. Rangers, paratroopers, infantry, and armored personnel, these soldiers--some who had just cut their teeth in Africa and Sicily and some who were brand-new to war--joined a force aimed at the heart of Europe and Hitler’s defenses. On the morning of June 6, D-Day began. And in the hours that followed, thousands lost their lives, while those who survived would be changed forever No other chronicle of D-Day can match Gerald Astor's extraordinary work--a vivid first-person account told with stunning immediacy by the men who were there. From soldiers who waded through the bullet-riddled water to those who dropped behind enemy lines, from moments of terror and confusion to acts of incredible camaraderie and heroism, June 6, 1944 plunges us into history in the making--and the most pivotal battle ever waged.

The First First Gentleman

Author : Gerald Weaver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911195443
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book The First First Gentleman written by Gerald Weaver and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First First Gentleman is an epic love story about the obstacles overcome by Melinda Sherman, a physically and emotionally wounded war hero who falls in love with a worldly political operative who manages her campaign for President of the United States. Their love is their greatest political asset. She speaks out in a stunning way that punctures the cultural orthodoxy and feeds the public's hunger for a different political leader, while dark forces seek to undo her. This novel is a healing love story, a political thriller, a starkly honest social commentary, and an homage to Charles Dickens.

Border Districts

Author : Gerald Murnane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0374115753
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Border Districts written by Gerald Murnane and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] man moves from a capital city to a remote town in the border country, where he intends to spend the last years of his life. It is time, he thinks, to review the spoils of a lifetime of seeing, a lifetime of reading. Which sights, which people, which books, fictional characters, turns of phrase, and lines of verse will survive into the twilight? A dark-haired woman with a wistful expression? An ancestral house in the grasslands? The colors in translucent panes of glass, in marbles and goldfish and racing silks? Feeling an increasing urgency to put his mental landscape in order, the man sets to work cataloging this treasure, little knowing where his 'report' will lead and what secrets will be brought to light"--Amazon.com.

Warriors

Author : Gerald Hanley
Publisher : Eland Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warriors written by Gerald Hanley and published by Eland Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Somalia is one of the world's most desolate, sun-scorched lands, inhabited by fierce and independent-minded tribesmen. It was here that Gerald Hanley spent the Second World War, charged with preventing bloodshed between feuding tribes at a remote out-station. Rations were scarce, pay infrequent and his detachment of native soldiers near-mutinous." "In these extreme conditions seven British officers committed suicide, but Hanley describes the period as the 'most valuable time' of his life. With intense curiosity and open-mindedness, he explores the effects of loneliness. He comes to understand the Somalis' love of fighting and to admire their contempt for death. 'Of all the races of Africa,' he says, 'there cannot be one better to live among than the most difficult, the proudest, the bravest, the vainest, the most merciless, the friendliest: the Somalis.'"--BOOK JACKET.

Fire and Steel, Volume 1

Author : Gerald N. Lund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781609079925
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (799 download)

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Download or read book Fire and Steel, Volume 1 written by Gerald N. Lund and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1884, the Westland family arrives to settle in the harsh country of San Juan County, Utah, and works hard to make a life as the 19th century comes to a close. In 1908, the Schutze family raises their children and milks their cows in Graswang Village, Germany. For both families, although they don't know it, events are moving them and their world toward World War I.

Colliding Worlds

Author : Gerald de Cruz
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814634913
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Colliding Worlds written by Gerald de Cruz and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the years from the 30s to the 80s, Colliding Worlds is an illuminating portrait of a passionate idealist. Through a crazy paving of anecdotes and essays, Gerald takes the reader into the flow of his variegated world. Whether it is an evocation of his childhood days in Katong or a recounting of his escapes from the Japanese and the Communists, his is a fascinating, sometimes touching, story told with wit and eloquence. Colliding Worlds was first published as Rojak Rebel in 1991.

World Record Breakers in Track & Field Athletics

Author : Gerald Lawson
Publisher : Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780880116794
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book World Record Breakers in Track & Field Athletics written by Gerald Lawson and published by Human Kinetics Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete account of the sport's all-time fastest, highest, and strongest performances

Stream System

Author : Gerald Murnane
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717281
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Stream System written by Gerald Murnane and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from a mind-bending Australian master, “a genius on the level of Beckett” (Teju Cole) Never before available to readers in this hemisphere, these stories—originally published from 1985 to 2012—offer an irresistible compendium of the work of one of contemporary fiction’s greatest magicians. While the Australian master Gerald Murnane’s reputation rests largely on his longer works of fiction, his short stories stand among the most brilliant and idiosyncratic uses of the form since Borges, Beckett, and Nabokov. Brutal, comic, obscene, and crystalline, Stream System runs from the haunting “Land Deal,” which imagines the colonization of Australia and the ultimate vengeance of its indigenous people as a series of nested dreams; to “Finger Web,” which tells a quietly terrifying, fractal tale of the scars of war and the roots of misogyny; to “The Interior of Gaaldine,” which finds its anxious protagonist stranded beyond the limits of fiction itself. No one else writes like Murnane, and there are few other authors alive still capable of changing how—and why—we read.

The Retire-in-Thailand Handbook (The First Six Months)

Author : Gerald Hogg
Publisher : Austin Macauley
ISBN 13 : 9781528928533
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book The Retire-in-Thailand Handbook (The First Six Months) written by Gerald Hogg and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My first six months in Thailand were frustrating. When I dreamt about retiring in Thailand, I thought that when I arrived, I would get my retirement visa, rent a condo, buy a vehicle, then spend my time exploring my new country, going to the beach, going out for meals and meeting new friends. Unfortunately, reality took over and I spent most of my time dealing with Thai bureaucracy and trying to sort out the endless problems that arise when moving to a new country. Back in Australia, I already had a visa, my own house, my own car, medical insurance, driving licence, bank accounts, credit rating, doctor and dentist. Moving to another country, I was more or less starting my life over and I needed to establish myself within the Thai system. Government, banking, medical, everything that was just part of my everyday life at home, I had to recreate in Thailand. Hopefully, this book will give you the information you need to avoid most of the problems that I had and allow you to retire to this wonderful country with confidence and assurance, as well as saving you time, money and your sanity. I wish I had been able to read this book before I left Australia.

My Big Book of the World

Author : Angela Royston
Publisher : Armadillo
ISBN 13 : 9781843228936
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book My Big Book of the World written by Angela Royston and published by Armadillo. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out about the world we live in with this pictoral atlas for young children, packed with fascinating facts and entertaining illustrations. 16 fun and informative maps of continents and countries. 600 individual pictures of people, places, animals, natural wonders and famous buildings. Explains how maps and keys work and what they can tell you. See if you can spot the hot-air balloon!