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21st Century Ellis

Author : Brett Friedman

Publisher : Naval Institute Press

Page : 177 pages

File Size : 10,91 MB

Release : 2015-03-15

Category : History

ISBN : 1612518087

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For years, the Marine Corps has touted the prescience of Lt. Col. “Pete” Ellis, USMC, who predicted in 1921 that the United States would fight Japan and how the Pacific Theater would be won. Now the works of the “amphibious prophet” are collected together for the first time. Included are Ellis’ essays on naval and amphibious operations that the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps would use to win the war against Imperial Japan, as well as his articles about counterinsurgency and conventional war based on his experiences in the Philippines and in Europe during World War I. As the United States focuses on the Pacific once again, Friedman presents Ellis’ ideas as a case study to inform current policymakers about the dynamics of strategy and warfare across the vast reaches of the Pacific. This collection reveals Ellis to be a thinker who was ahead of his time in identifying concepts the U.S. military struggles with even today.



Pete Ellis

Author : Dirk Anthony Ballendorf

Publisher : Leatherneck Classics

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 40,14 MB

Release : 2010-10

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9781591140269

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Few Marines have had more impact on the Corps's history than Pete Ellis, and none have been more controversial. This biography of the brilliant yet troubled Marine disputes many long-accepted but unsubstantiated accounts of his life and death. Ellis's legacy as the father of amphibious warfare is fully examined by the authors, who searched through family papers, fitness reports, Japanese sources, and interviewed eyewitnesses to solve the mysteries of Ellis's tragic life.



Bret Easton Ellis

Author : G. Colby

Publisher : Springer

Page : 378 pages

File Size : 45,30 MB

Release : 2011-08-15

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0230339166

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This book reads the whole of Bret Easton Ellis's oeuvre to date from Less Than Zero to Imperial Bedrooms and asks to what extent Ellis's novels can be read as critiquing the cultural moments of which they are a part. Ellis's work can be thought of as an enactment of a process of underwriting contemporary culture, which offers new paths of understanding and ways of critiquing the contemporary author's place in the relations of production.



Kardashian Kulture

Author : Ellis Cashmore

Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing

Page : 181 pages

File Size : 10,56 MB

Release : 2019-08-30

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 178743964X

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Using the royal family of celebrity culture, the Kardashians, as a lens through which to scrutinize early 21st century culture, this book examines the worlds of business, politics, technology and entertainment, to show how celebrity has fundamentally changed the way we live.



American Dialogue

Author : Joseph J. Ellis

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 15,19 MB

Release : 2018-10-16

Category : History

ISBN : 038535343X

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The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today. The story of history is a ceaseless conversation between past and present, and in American Dialogue Joseph J. Ellis focuses the conversation on the often-asked question "What would the Founding Fathers think?" He examines four of our most seminal historical figures through the prism of particular topics, using the perspective of the present to shed light on their views and, in turn, to make clear how their now centuries-old ideas illuminate the disturbing impasse of today's political conflicts. He discusses Jefferson and the issue of racism, Adams and the specter of economic inequality, Washington and American imperialism, Madison and the doctrine of original intent. Through these juxtapositions--and in his hallmark dramatic and compelling narrative voice--Ellis illuminates the obstacles and pitfalls paralyzing contemporary discussions of these fundamentally important issues.



White

Author : Bret Easton Ellis

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 273 pages

File Size : 18,58 MB

Release : 2019-04-16

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 0525656316

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Own it, snowflakes: you've lost everything you claim to hold dear. White is Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction. Already the bad boy of American literature, from Less Than Zero to American Psycho, Ellis has also earned the wrath of right-thinking people everywhere with his provocations on social media, and here he escalates his admonishment of received truths as expressed by today's version of "the left." Eschewing convention, he embraces views that will make many in literary and media communities cringe, as he takes aim at the relentless anti-Trump fixation, coastal elites, corporate censorship, Hollywood, identity politics, Generation Wuss, "woke" cultural watchdogs, the obfuscation of ideals once both cherished and clear, and the fugue state of American democracy. In a young century marked by hysterical correctness and obsessive fervency on both sides of an aisle that's taken on the scale of the Grand Canyon, White is a clarion call for freedom of speech and artistic freedom. "The central tension in Ellis's art—or his life, for that matter—is that while [his] aesthetic is the cool reserve of his native California, detachment over ideology, he can't stop generating heat.... He's hard-wired to break furniture."—Karen Heller, The Washington Post "Sweating with rage . . . humming with paranoia."—Anna Leszkiewicz, The Guardian "Snowflakes on both coasts in withdrawal from Rachel Maddow's nightly Kremlinology lesson can purchase a whole book to inspire paroxysms of rage . . . a veritable thirst trap for the easily microaggressed. It's all here. Rants about Trump derangement syndrome; MSNBC; #MeToo; safe spaces."—Bari Weiss, The New York Times



Volunteering and Society in the 21st Century

Author : C. Rochester

Publisher : Springer

Page : 289 pages

File Size : 23,94 MB

Release : 2016-01-28

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0230279430

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Expectations about the contribution that volunteering can make are at a new high. This book aims to meet this interest by bringing together in one volume what is known about the phenomenon of volunteering; the principles and practice of involving volunteers, and the enduring challenges for volunteering in today's world.



Imperial Bedrooms

Author : Bret Easton Ellis

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 193 pages

File Size : 29,12 MB

Release : 2010-06-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307593630

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho delivers a riveting, tour-de-force sequel to Less Than Zero, set on the seedy side of Los Angeles. • "A haunting vision of disillusionment, twenty-first-century style" (People). Returning to Los Angeles from New York, Clay, now a successful screenwriter, is casting his new movie. Soon he is running with his old circle of friends through L.A.’s seedy side. His ex-girlfriend, Blair, is married to Trent, a bisexual philanderer and influential manager. Then there's Julian, a recovering addict, and Rip, a former dealer. Then when Clay meets a gorgeous young actress who will stop at nothing to be in his movie, his own dark past begins to shine through, and he has no choice but to dive into the recesses of his character and come to terms with his proclivity for betrayal. Look for Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, The Shards!



The Art of Building a Garden City

Author : Kate Henderson

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 35,37 MB

Release : 2019-08-30

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 1000701476

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The Art of Building a Garden City is a well-researched guide to the history of the garden city movement and the delivery of a new generation of communities for the 21st Century. Bringing together key findings from the TCPA’s campaign work, and drawing on lessons from the first garden cities, the new towns programme and other large-scale developments, it identifies what steps need to be taken in order to deliver the highest standards of design and place making today.



Super Immunity Secrets

Author : Cary Ellis

Publisher :

Page : 80 pages

File Size : 50,76 MB

Release : 2010-02

Category : Cooking

ISBN : 9780984171125

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"Super Immunity Secrets" is easy to pick up and use everyday in your kitchen. Short, to-the-point, light and fun. Speedy healthy recipes with mouth-watering photos. Protect yourself, protect your family from everyday colds and flu; boost your immune system with great tasting super-immunity meals. You'll love these delicious recipes that anyone can make and the whole family will enjoy. Simple for even non-cooks to read and follow. Vegan / vegetarian recipes may be adapted with "soup bone" or dairy garnish, well-seasoned with everyday herbs and spices used for thousands of years. 175 clinical references show how to prevent colds, flu and even serious illness such as cancer, heart disease and other degenerative conditions with everyday herbs and spices. Documented evidence we can no longer deny how natural diet improves immune system vitality. This book is an excellent compliment to natural cancer remedies, a great addition to the breast cancer diet or for those pursuing holistic, alternative natural cancer treatments or natural therapy for any degenerative condition. Fortify against what might come, with this small but mighty book's powerful secrets. Learn natural food sources of the powerful immunity booster beta glucans. For those of us who fear future illness, author, Cary Ellis, offers us inspiration in the old adage, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Get everyday inspiration at her http: //www.gethealthynowshow.com In a hurry? Thankfully, when we don't have much "time," the author's efficient use of words makes it a quick, power-packed read. This "must-have" guide offers us everyday tips on how to take responsibility for our own well-being and avoid becoming a statistic before it's too late. So simple, why wouldn't we do it? Go to http: //www.caryellis.com to get your FREE Guide to Healing Today!