Author : Wesley Cartier
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 21,49 MB
Release : 2003-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152048280
"A boy runs so fast that he imagines himself to be a rabbit, a bobcat, a horse, and a cheetah."--[Source inconnue].
Author : Myles Garcia
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1456626507
Until they were expelled from power thirty years ago, in early 1986, the late dictator Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos (she, the Shoe Queen) jointly ruled the Philippines with impunity for 20+ years. They were an efficient cash-and-carry team—while he raided the national till, she shopped 'til she dropped. In the words of the US congressman investigating them, "Compared to her (Imelda), Marie Antoinette was a bag lady," . . . while Ferdinand made master embezzler Bernie Madoff look like a rank amateur. With the passing of 30 years, this book becomes a full accounting of the rapacious and avaricious rule the pair enjoyed—how they hoodwinked an unsuspecting people, and the truth behind many of the dirty tricks they employed revealed at last. The present is an opportune time to take stock, especially as their only son and heir, Ferdinand, Jr., and others of his ilk, launches a comeback attempt for national office in this year's Philippine elections, and trying to re-fabricate history in the process. This book will set the record straight.
Author : Jim Kimmel
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781585445424
The San Marcos springs have flowed for around ten million years. In this ode to the river they form, Jim Kimmel brings us a picture of a watercourse brimming with life, past and present. Native, non-native, prehistoric, and modern-day plants, animals, and people have inhabited the river and its banks. Kimmel touches on them all with the affectionate and knowledgeable voice of one whose own life has been closely linked to the San Marcos. As readers journey with Kimmel from the river's headwater springs to its junction with the Guadalupe River, The San Marcos: A River's Story will capture the imagination and provide valuable information about the river and its crucial role in the ecological health of Texas. Original photographs by Jerry Touchstone Kimmel add a sense of the beauty and complexity of the river.
Author : John Tully
Publisher : John Tully
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 2015-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
WOMAN ALIVE (3m 3f) An updated edition of a favourite one-act farce. Roger Berry writes crime novels and his wife, Amanda, stages a mock murder as the basis for a plot for his next novel. Her well-intentioned efforts to be helpful go disastrously wrong and Roger finds himself arrested as a murderer. From then on things can only get worse — and more hilarious. THE KING OF ARGOS (7m 2f) Kronos, King of Argos in Ancient Greece, cannot decided which of his two quarrelsome sons should succeed him. He decides to consult the oracle of Apollo at Delphi, only to receive the usual ambiguous advice. Meantime Helen, his daughter, has brought another protégé home to the palace, Marcos, a scruffy musician who sings revolutionary songs in the market place. To his own surprise as much as anyone’s Marcos is destined to play a leading role in the hectic events that ensue. LOVE FROM MICHAEL (1m 3f) Dorothy Stevens and her daughter, Jenny, live in trepidation, awaiting yet another message from husband and father, Michael.,whol appears to know exactly what they are doing at any time and, even more disturbingly, what they and others are going to do. Yet he is supposed to be dead! Who can find an explanation? Who can stop the persecution? A medium? Or a private enquiry agent such as Emily Cooper who brings a keen mind to the task.
Author : Sherri Grasmuck
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 26,59 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813535555
Annotation Through an exploration of a boys' baseball league in a gentrifying neighbourhood of Philadelphia, this book reveals the accommodations and tensions that characterize multicultural encounters in contemporary US public life. Protecting Home offers an account for racial accommodation in a space that was previously known for conflict and exclusion.
Author : Maurice R. Greenberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 28,30 MB
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118345878
Selected as one of Motley Fool’s "5 Great Books You Should Read" In The AIG Story, the company's long-term CEO Hank Greenberg (1967 to 2005) and GW professor and corporate governance expert Lawrence Cunningham chronicle the origins of the company and its relentless pioneering of open markets everywhere in the world. They regale readers with riveting vignettes of how AIG grew from a modest group of insurance enterprises in 1970 to the largest insurance company in world history. They help us understand AIG's distinctive entrepreneurial culture and how its outstanding employees worldwide helped pave the road to globalization. Corrects numerous common misconceptions about AIG that arose due to its role at the center of the financial crisis of 2008. A unique account of AIG by one of the iconic business leaders of the twentieth century who developed close relationships with many of the most important world leaders of the period and helped to open markets everywhere Offers new critical perspective on battles with N. Y. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and the 2008 U.S. government seizure of AIG amid the financial crisis Shares considerable information not previously made public The AIG Story captures an impressive saga in business history--one of innovation, vision and leadership at a company that was nearly--destroyed with a few strokes of governmental pens. The AIG Story carries important lessons and implications for the U.S., especially its role in international affairs, its approach to business, its legal system and its handling of financial crises.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands
Publisher :
Page : 1412 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Castillo de San Marcos National Monument (Saint Augustine, Fla.)
ISBN :
Author : Sara Erlichman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1483688259
In this series of short stories, each one incorporates an individual plot within the fictional genre. Jellyfish Scars pulls the strings of the heart, while Healing Water leaves a lifetime worth of mystery. Lastly, The Comare incorporates the unnerving, with an Italian edge.
Author : Cecilio D. Duka
Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 2008
Category :
ISBN : 9789712350450
Author : Innovative Language Learning
Publisher : Innovative Language Learning
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release :
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
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