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Be swept away by passion... with intense drama and compelling plots, these emotionally powerful reads will keep you captivated from beginning to end. Iron Cowboy Diana Palmer
Author : Diana Palmer
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408900610
Be swept away by passion... with intense drama and compelling plots, these emotionally powerful reads will keep you captivated from beginning to end. Iron Cowboy Diana Palmer
Author : Diana Palmer
Publisher : Mills & Boon
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Love stories, American
ISBN : 9780263859157
Iron Cowboy Diana Palmer Hard-hearted Texan rancher Jared Cameron was a mystery to everyone in town and he liked it that way. Only sweet-natured bookseller Sara dared to intrude on his privacy. Captivated by her audaciousness, Jared pursued the plain-Jane. But their burgeoning relationship soon thrust Sara into Jared's hidden world of intrigue. Now the iron cowboy had the fight of his life on his hands. Seduced by the Rich Man Maureen Child Billionaire Max Striver surprised Janine Shaker by suddenly proposing a fake marriage. Max's need for a temporary wife and his desire for Janine seemed to coincide perfectly. He knew that Janine wasn't in a position to refuse his offer or his bed. But then their make-believe marriage became more passionate than either anticipated
Author : Theodore Dwight Weld
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Enslaved persons
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Louis Haines
Publisher :
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN :
Author : J. Yellowlees Douglas
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780472088461
An exploration of the possibilities of hypertext fiction as art form and entertainment
Author : Nancy Isenberg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 47,68 MB
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 110160848X
The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended books A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016 Globe & Mail 100 Best of 2016 “Formidable and truth-dealing . . . necessary.” —The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” —O Magazine In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash. “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity. We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.
Author : Ludwig Von Mises
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Socialism
ISBN :
Author : Russell M. Hillier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319469576
This book argues that McCarthy’s works convey a profound moral vision, and use intertextuality, moral philosophy, and questions of genre to advance that vision. It focuses upon the ways in which McCarthy’s fiction is in ceaseless conversation with literary and philosophical tradition, examining McCarthy’s investment in influential thinkers from Marcus Aurelius to Hannah Arendt, and poets, playwrights, and novelists from Dante and Shakespeare to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Antonio Machado. The book shows how McCarthy’s fiction grapples with abiding moral and metaphysical issues: the nature and problem of evil; the idea of God or the transcendent; the credibility of heroism in the modern age; the question of moral choice and action; the possibility of faith, hope, love, and goodness; the meaning and limits of civilization; and the definition of what it is to be human. This study will appeal alike to readers, teachers, and scholars of Cormac McCarthy.
Author : Andrew Yang
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 17,47 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0316414255
The New York Times bestseller from CNN Political Commentator and 2020 former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, this thought-provoking and prescient call-to-action outlines the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income (UBI), to stabilize our economy amid rapid technological change and automation. The shift toward automation is about to create a tsunami of unemployment. Not in the distant future--now. One recent estimate predicts 45 million American workers will lose their jobs within the next twelve years--jobs that won't be replaced. In a future marked by restlessness and chronic unemployment, what will happen to American society? In The War on Normal People, Andrew Yang paints a dire portrait of the American economy. Rapidly advancing technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and automation software are making millions of Americans' livelihoods irrelevant. The consequences of these trends are already being felt across our communities in the form of political unrest, drug use, and other social ills. The future looks dire-but is it unavoidable? In The War on Normal People, Yang imagines a different future--one in which having a job is distinct from the capacity to prosper and seek fulfillment. At this vision's core is Universal Basic Income, the concept of providing all citizens with a guaranteed income-and one that is rapidly gaining popularity among forward-thinking politicians and economists. Yang proposes that UBI is an essential step toward a new, more durable kind of economy, one he calls "human capitalism."
Author : Raphael Semmes
Publisher :
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN :