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The Vicissitudes of Fortune

Author : Bob Siqveland
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1478785896
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book The Vicissitudes of Fortune written by Bob Siqveland and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five teenagers from diverse backgrounds are brought together by a war. A Japanese, a Jew, a Native American, an African American, and a white kid from middle-class America form an interdependent relationship in the jungles of Vietnam. They become the most highly decorated squad in a war they don’t understand, but their relationships transcend the social structures of racism formed through historical injustices, and they remain best friends for decades. Their iconic leader, Billy Stone, one day finds himself entangled with a Medicare scam dreamed up by his sister’s husband. For his sister’s sake, he must find a solution. The livelihoods of the others form within the law enforcement communities in their individual and collective quest for justice as they grow from boys to men of great character. Even the strongest of character has its flaws, but these men are the best of the best, and there is only one adversity they cannot overcome. From the Selma-to-Montgomery march, the internment camps of WWII, the poverty and desolation of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation; to the estrangement of a father and son and a suicide of great consequence, this team of five becomes one. At the same time, there are “takers” like Billy’s brother-in-law who infect the American system. They need to be brought to justice, but the price will be high. On the smallest of scales, this is an epic tale of how the dream of a world community can become a reality.

100 Years of Vicissitude

Author : Andrez Bergen
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780995989
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book 100 Years of Vicissitude written by Andrez Bergen and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First up, a disclaimer. I suspect I am a dead man. I have meagre proof, no framed- up certification, nothing to toss in a court of law as evidence of a rapid departure from the mortal coil. I recall a gun was involved, pressed up against my skull, and a loud explosion followed." Thus begins our narrator in a purgatorial tour through twentieth-century Japanese history, with a ghostly geisha who has seen it all as a guide and a corrupt millionaire as her reluctant companion. Thrown into the milieu are saké, B-29s, Lewis Carroll, Sir Thomas Malory, Melbourne, 'The Wizard of Oz', and a dirigible - along with the allusion that Red Riding Hood might just be involved. ,

The Vanderbilts and the Story of Their Fortune

Author : William Augustus Croffut
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Vanderbilts and the Story of Their Fortune written by William Augustus Croffut and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vicissitudes

Author : Kim Green
Publisher : Transgress Press
ISBN 13 : 0998252182
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Vicissitudes written by Kim Green and published by Transgress Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vicissitudes confronts the transformative power of love in black romance and relationships when we dare to question conventional ideas about gender and sexuality and who we consider worthy of our love and commitment. Narrated through various character perspectives, Vicissitudes explores the intricacies and complexities of being black, queer and trans and boldly confronts the barriers (within and without) that we face when we dare live to love with authenticity, dignity and integrity. Kim Green challenges readers to reconsider the meaning of love, struggle and liberation in a world that clings to labels out of fear of change and the unexpected. Exceedingly relevant for today’s rapidly changing world, this morality play of trial and triumph shines a bright light on the enormous power of love to transform us anew and reinvent the world.

The Billionaire Who Wasn't

Author : Conor O'Clery
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 161039335X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Billionaire Who Wasn't written by Conor O'Clery and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing life of the modest New Jersey businessman who anonymously gave away 10 billion dollars and inspired the "giving while living" movement. In this bestselling book, Conor O'Clery reveals the inspiring life story of Chuck Feeney, known as the "James Bond of philanthropy." Feeney was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to a blue-collar Irish-American family during the Depression. After service in the Korean War, he made a fortune as founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the world's largest duty-free retail chain. By 1988, he was hailed by Forbes Magazine as the twenty-fourth richest American alive. But secretly Feeney had already transferred all his wealth to his foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies. Only in 1997 when he sold his duty free interests, was he "outed" as one of the greatest and most mysterious American philanthropists in modern times, who had anonymously funded hospitals and universities from San Francisco to Limerick to New York to Brisbane. His example convinced Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to give away their fortunes during their lifetime, known as the giving pledge.

As You Like it ...

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As You Like it ... written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mirror of Confusion

Author : Andrew M. Kirk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131794562X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Mirror of Confusion written by Andrew M. Kirk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did English dramatists portray the neighboring domain of France and its history in their plays? The study examines a selection of Shakespearean and other history plays, the French tragedies of George Chapman, Christopher Marlowe's revealing historical tragedy The Massacre at Paris, and several literary and nonliterary historical texts. The result is a unique and timely contribution to our understanding of how cultural differences influenced the historical perspectives of English dramatists as well as how Renaissance plays shaped, and were shaped by, their historical material. Drawing on the insights of cultural studies, historiography, and ethnography, this study re-examines the historical representation of a neglected yet influential part of early modern Europe and the paradoxical relationship between English writers and their French subject matter. Although information about France and French history was becoming increasingly available in England at the end of the sixteenth century, for English writers France remained a distant land, its history and people misunderstood and misrepresented.

Kings of Fortune

Author : Walter Raleigh Houghton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Kings of Fortune written by Walter Raleigh Houghton and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass

Author : Julia Haig Gaisser
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400849837
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass written by Julia Haig Gaisser and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the transmission and reception of one of the most influential novels in Western literature. The Golden Ass, the only ancient Roman novel to survive in its entirety, tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic and his bawdy adventures and narrow escapes before the goddess Isis changes him back again. Its centerpiece is the famous story of Cupid and Psyche. Julia Gaisser follows Apuleius' racy tale from antiquity through the sixteenth century, tracing its journey from roll to codex in fourth-century Rome, into the medieval library of Monte Cassino, into the hands of Italian humanists, into print, and, finally, over the Alps and into translation in Spanish, French, German, and English. She demonstrates that the novel's reception was linked with Apuleius' reputation as a philosopher and the persona he projected in his works. She relates Apuleius and the Golden Ass to a diverse cast of important literary and historical figures--including Augustine, Fulgentius, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Bessarion, Boiardo, and Beroaldo. Paying equal attention to the novel's transmission (how it survived) and its reception (how it was interpreted), she places the work in its many different historical contexts, examining its representation in art, literary imitation, allegory, scholarly commentary, and translation. The volume contains several appendixes, including an annotated list of the manuscripts of the Golden Ass. This book is based on the author's Martin Classical Lectures at Oberlin College in 2000.

Kings of Fortune; Or, The Triumphs and Achievements of Noble, Self-made Men, Whose Brilliant Careers Have Honored Their Calling, Blessed Humanity, and Whose Lives Furnish Instruction for the Young, Entertainment for the Old, and Valuable Lessons for the Aspirants of Fortune

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Author : Walter Raleigh Houghton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Kings of Fortune; Or, The Triumphs and Achievements of Noble, Self-made Men, Whose Brilliant Careers Have Honored Their Calling, Blessed Humanity, and Whose Lives Furnish Instruction for the Young, Entertainment for the Old, and Valuable Lessons for the Aspirants of Fortune written by Walter Raleigh Houghton and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Virtue, Fortune, And Faith

Author : Marieke De Goede
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452907005
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Virtue, Fortune, And Faith written by Marieke De Goede and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing examination of the often misunderstood history of contemporary financial markets.

The Wheel of Fortune, a Story of Modern Life

Author : E. A. Ryder (Novelist.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wheel of Fortune, a Story of Modern Life written by E. A. Ryder (Novelist.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Parterre of fiction, poetry, history [&c.].

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Parterre of fiction, poetry, history [&c.]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories

Author : Henry Seton Merriman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387060572
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories written by Henry Seton Merriman and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

The Man of Fortune a Story of the Present Day

Author : Albany : de Fonblanque
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man of Fortune a Story of the Present Day written by Albany : de Fonblanque and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Retrospective Muse

Author : Froma I. Zeitlin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501772988
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Retrospective Muse written by Froma I. Zeitlin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Retrospective Muse showcases the celebrated work of Froma I. Zeitlin. Over many decades, Zeitlin's innovative studies have changed the field of classics. Her instantly recognizable work brings together anthropology, gender studies, cultural studies, and an acute literary sensibility to open ancient texts and ideas to new forms of understanding. A selection of her luminous essays on topics still timely today are collected for the first time in a volume that shows the full range and flair of her remarkable intellect. Together, these illuminating analyses show why Zeitlin's work on ancient Greek culture has had an enduring impact on scholars around the world, not just in classics but across multiple fields. From Homer to the Greek novel, from religion to erotics, from myth and ritual to theatrical performance, she expounds on some of the most important works of ancient writing and some of modernity's most significant critical questions. Zeitlin's writing still sheds light on the durable aspects of classics as a discipline, and this book encapsulates her achievement.

Telling Queen Michal's Story

Author : David J. A. Clines
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1850753016
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Telling Queen Michal's Story written by David J. A. Clines and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, an anthology of previously published writing about Michal together with some new and original essays, is something of an experiment. Its purpose is to provide reders with raw materials for developing their own reading of the Michal story. It does not offer a unified portrait of this biblical character, but rather invites readers to form their own assessment interactively with these readings of the Michal story. At the same time, this book presents some systematic guidance for coping with these divergent interpretations of the complex and tantalizing figure of Michal.