Poor Richard's Almanac
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN :
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Almanacs, American
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Author : Richard Thompson
Publisher : Emmis Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781578601844
Richard's Poor Almanac, inspired by seven years of weekly contributions to the Washington Post, is Richard Thompson's omnium-gatherum of seasoned observations for all seasons -- indoors and out. Like the almanac we've all come to know and ignore, Richard's Poor Almanac is an annual compendium of weathered wisdom rendered in the more palatable form of cartooning.
Author : Nancy Rubin Stuart
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0807011401
“An engrossing look at the human side of Benjamin Franklin . . . Using a post-feminist lens that’s critical of gender essentialism, Stuart rescues these women from obscurity . . . This is a terrific read: poignant, provocative, and probing.” —Library Journal, Starred Review A vivid portrait of the women who loved, nurtured, and defended America’s famous scientist and founding father. Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin—the thrifty inventor-statesman of the Revolutionary era—but not about his love life. Poor Richard’s Women reveals the long-neglected voices of the women Ben loved and lost during his lifelong struggle between passion and prudence. The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for 44 years. Long dismissed by historians, she was an independent, politically savvy woman and devoted wife who raised their children, managed his finances, and fought off angry mobs at gunpoint while he traipsed about England. Weaving detailed historical research with emotional intensity and personal testimony, Nancy Rubin Stuart traces Deborah’s life and those of Ben’s other romantic attachments through their personal correspondence. We are introduced to Margaret Stevenson, the widowed landlady who managed Ben’s life in London; Catherine Ray, the 23-year-old New Englander with whom he traveled overnight and later exchanged passionate letters; Madame Brillon, the beautiful French musician who flirted shamelessly with him, and the witty Madame Helvetius, who befriended the philosophes of pre-Revolutionary France and brought Ben to his knees. What emerges from Stuart’s pen is a colorful and poignant portrait of women in the age of revolution. Set two centuries before the rise of feminism, Poor Richard’s Women depicts the feisty, often-forgotten women dear to Ben’s heart who, despite obstacles, achieved an independence rarely enjoyed by their peers in that era.
Author : James Daugherty
Publisher :
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 22,1 MB
Release : 1991
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ISBN : 9781559051002
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 18,74 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Collects Benjamin Franklin's best-known writings, both personal and public, arranged by period and place, and includes scholarly notes.
Author : Richard Maxwell
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 25,47 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813920979
US scholars of literature explore how illustrated books became a cultural form of great importance in England and Scotland from the 1830s and 1840s to the end of the century. Some of them consider particular authors or editions, but others look at general themes such as illustrations of time, maps and metaphors, literal illustration, and city scenes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Richard (Buz) Cooper
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1421429055
Proof that high health care spending is linked directly to poverty. In Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform, Dr. Richard (Buz) Cooper argues that US poverty and high health care spending are inextricably entwined. Our nation's health care system bears a financial burden that is greater than in any other developed country in large part because impoverished patients use more health care, driving up costs across the board. Drawing on decades of research, Dr. Cooper illuminates the geographic patterns of poverty, wealth, and health care utilization that exist across neighborhoods, regions, and states—and among countries. He chronicles the historical threads that have led to such differences, examines the approaches that have been taken to combat poverty throughout US history, and analyzes the impact that structural changes now envisioned for clinical practice are likely to have. His research reveals that ignoring the impact of low income on health care utilization while blaming rising costs on waste, inefficiency, and unnecessary care has led policy makers to reshape clinical practice in ways that impede providers who care for the poor. The first book to address the fundamental nexus that binds poverty and income inequality to soaring health care utilization and spending, Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform is a must-read for medical professionals, public health scholars, politicians, and anyone concerned with the heavy burden of inequality on the health of Americans.
Author : Charles T. Munger
Publisher : Stripe Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 21,21 MB
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1953953247
From the legendary vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, lessons in investment strategy, philanthropy, and living a rational and ethical life. “Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up,” Charles T. Munger advises in Poor Charlie’s Almanack. Originally published in 2005, this compendium of eleven talks delivered by the legendary Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman between 1986 and 2007 has become a touchstone for a generation of investors and entrepreneurs seeking to absorb the enduring wit and wisdom of one of the great minds of the 20th and 21st centuries. Edited by Peter D. Kaufman, chairman and CEO of Glenair and longtime friend of Charlie Munger—whom he calls “this generation’s answer to Benjamin Franklin”—this abridged Stripe Press edition of Poor Charlie’s Almanack features a brand-new foreword by Stripe cofounder John Collison. Poor Charlie’s Almanack draws on Munger’s encyclopedic knowledge of business, finance, history, philosophy, physics, and ethics—and more besides—to introduce the latticework of mental models that underpin his rational and rigorous approach to life, learning, and decision-making. Delivered with Munger’s characteristic sharp wit and rhetorical flair, it is an essential volume for any reader seeking to go to bed a little wiser than when they woke up.
Author : Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 14,52 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Readers
ISBN :
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Almanacs
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