Author : Florence King
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 1990-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312039786
In this collection of essays, King surveys the wide spectrum of American foolishness, leaving few sacred cows ungored. Her subjects include "helpism", education, feminist literature, and America's most fundamental principle, "Democrazy". The Washington Post calls Florence King "a Southern spinster who doesn't suffer fools gladly and likes to see fools suffer".
Author : James McCurrach
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 38,4 MB
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 149182932X
Andrew is a troubled youth in search of direction. He finds himself groping to find his place in the face of numerous frustrations - frustrations that include trying to overcome a domineering Father who has very specific ideas about Andrew's future. In the midst of many social upheavals, Andrew must also deal with incipient homosexuality that later overtakes his life. Despite trying to throw over his Father's yoke, there is a residue of needing to please him and hope for his approval. Andrew's Mom had always thought that he would be a late bloomer and over time that would prove to be the accurate truth. Reflections had long been an inborn part of Andrew's personality and he would eventually find it cathartic to go back and explore all of it out loud and reflect on a varied and difficult past.
Author : Elena Popova
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,95 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0875866395
What do you think of those Russian brides? What do they think of YOU? International marriages bring a substantial number of newcomers to the US and contribute to the transformation of the basic institution of society the family. When men are from Mars and women are aliens, the marital dynamic can be quite dramatic. A Russian-born journalist, Ms. Popova shines a blinding light on some of the amusing and amazing oddities that are revealed when an outsider takes a blunt look at how we live.
Author : Florence King
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 10,16 MB
Release : 1991-08-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 146681618X
Lump It or Leave It, Florence King's latest volume of rapier-edged contemplations on American tomfoolery--er, values--takes on everything from the hazards of fame to the joys of menopause, with all of the bile and brio that has made her the nation's most beloved misanthrope. From college professors ("incapable of earning a living with either their minds or their hands") to the South ("if at first you don't secede, try, try, again") to the U.S. government ("the crude leading the crud"), few fools remain unskewered by the reigning Queen of Spleen.
Author : François duc de La Rochefoucauld
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 1875
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Page : 874 pages
File Size : 20,16 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Agriculture
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Author : John Bartlett
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 5269 pages
File Size : 46,93 MB
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 031625018X
More than 150 years after its original publication, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations has been completely revised and updated for its eighteenth edition. Bartlett's showcases a sweeping survey of world history, from the times of ancient Egyptians to present day. New authors include Warren Buffett, the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates, David Foster Wallace, Emily Post, Steve Jobs, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Krugman, Hunter S. Thompson, Jon Stewart, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Barack Obama, Che Guevara, Randy Pausch, Desmond Tutu, Julia Child, Fran Leibowitz, Harper Lee, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Patti Smith, William F. Buckley, and Robert F. Kennedy. In the classic Bartlett's tradition, the book offers readers and scholars alike a vast, stunning representation of those words that have influenced and molded our language and culture.
Author : Dana Ferguson
Publisher : Book Review Index Cumulation
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781414419121
Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index an exceptionally useful reference tool. More than 600 publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers. Book Review Index is available in a three-issue subscription covering the current year or as an annual cumulation covering the past year.
Author : Madhavi Sunder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1351157744
This volume chronicles a quarter-century of feminist theorizations on equality and liberty. The essays demonstrate a continuing commitment to feminist method (a democratic notion that all people have a right to participate in the production of knowledge of the world, including legal knowledge) and manifest feminism's continuing critical tradition (namely, theorists' willingness to see multiple factors, including feminism itself, as obstructing enlightened constructions of the world). Taken together, the essays suggest that liberty to make the world is not just a means to an end - equality - but is a substantive end in itself.
Author : François de LA ROCHEFOUCAULD (2nd Duke.)
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 28,80 MB
Release : 1875
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