Author : Brenda Harlen
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373658192
Will single dad Andrew find a second chance at love with florist Rachel? His daughter Maura sure hopes so!
Author : Joseph Henrich
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0374710457
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020 A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2020 A Human Behavior & Evolution Society Must-Read Popular Evolution Book of 2020 A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world. Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re rather psychologically peculiar. Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist, and analytical. They focus on themselves—their attributes, accomplishments, and aspirations—over their relationships and social roles. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically distinct? What role did these psychological differences play in the industrial revolution and the global expansion of Europe during the last few centuries? In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more. He illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts through ancient history and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that the most fundamental institutions of kinship and marriage changed dramatically under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church. It was these changes that gave rise to the WEIRD psychology that would coevolve with impersonal markets, occupational specialization, and free competition—laying the foundation for the modern world. Provocative and engaging in both its broad scope and its surprising details, The WEIRDest People in the World explores how culture, institutions, and psychology shape one another, and explains what this means for both our most personal sense of who we are as individuals and also the large-scale social, political, and economic forces that drive human history. Includes black-and-white illustrations.
Author : Henry George
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3849657973
This is the book that made its author Henry George suddenly famous. From the year 1879 to the present the doctrines of 'Progress and Poverty' have been familiar to all who are interested in social problems. The book has been read by many to whom Political Economy is still 'the dismal science', and it has been circulated in cheap editions by the thousand among the classes to which it holds out such an alluring prospect. 'Progress and Poverty' has become a classic in labor literature. Its doctrines have been accepted not only by many who see in them a means of personal rescue from distress and want, but by many others who are convinced by the reasoning of the author. Clergymen , in the Catholic as well as in the Protestant church, have become Mr. George's disciples, and business and professional men have gladly sat at his feet.
Author : Scott E. Giltner
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1421402378
This innovative study re-examines the dynamics of race relations in the post–Civil War South from an altogether fresh perspective: field sports. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, wealthy white men from Southern cities and the industrial North traveled to the hunting and fishing lodges of the old Confederacy—escaping from the office to socialize among like-minded peers. These sportsmen depended on local black guides who knew the land and fishing holes and could ensure a successful outing. For whites, the ability to hunt and fish freely and employ black laborers became a conspicuous display of their wealth and social standing. But hunting and fishing had been a way of life for all Southerners—blacks included—since colonial times. After the war, African Americans used their mastery of these sports to enter into market activities normally denied people of color, thereby becoming more economically independent from their white employers. Whites came to view black participation in hunting and fishing as a serious threat to the South’s labor system. Scott E. Giltner shows how African-American freedom developed in this racially tense environment—how blacks' sense of competence and authority flourished in a Jim Crow setting. Giltner’s thorough research using slave narratives, sportsmen’s recollections, records of fish and game clubs, and sporting periodicals offers a unique perspective on the African-American struggle for independence from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s.
Author : Emily Faithfull
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1429004606
A woman from Scotland recounts her travels in the U.S., focusing particularly issues relating to women (education, employment, etc.), also discussing more general cultural matters.
Author : Brenda Harlen
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1867225336
The Single Dad’s Second Chance Dear Diary, Today I met my new mummy! Well, I wish Rachel would be my new mommy. See, I love my daddy a lot but ever since my real mommy died I think he’s been very lonely. I know he loves me but grandma says he needs a wife just like I need a mommy, and grandma is always right. Grandpa says so! Rachel is so pretty and she has the coolest job — she owns the flower shop in town! She promised to show me how to make a bouquet! My best friend Kristy says daddy should take Rachel out on dates and then they hafta kiss and then they can get married. Diary, I wish Rachel would like my daddy and me as much as I like her. Maybe if she did, she would want to be my mummy and join our family. Maybe if I close my eyes and wish hard, it will come true... A Wife For One Year To claim his trust fund and launch a new career, Daniel needs to be married...and no one can tick all the ‘wifely’ boxes like Kenna. And since she’s his best friend, the celibacy part should be a piece of (wedding) cake! Or so Daniel thinks...until he hears the words that make him freeze: ‘You may kiss your bride.’ One official kiss has the former confirmed bachelor reeling...one unplanned night with his virgin bride has him staggering. Will it be the end of an era for the two best friends...or will a surprise pregnancy make the two become three...for keeps? The Daddy Wish The holidays are over, but Allison Caldwell can’t stop thinking about the kiss she shared with Nathan Garrett under the mistletoe. The dazzlingly attractive playboy she’s secretly crushed on for years isn’t just off limits because he’s out of her league. The heir apparent to the Garrett furniture empire is about to be crowned CFO — and the single mother’s new boss! One night changed everything for Nathan. And now his executive assistant is strictly hands-off despite their intense physical attraction. Besides, Allison has a son, and Nathan’s no family man. Then why is Nathan’s head suddenly filled with fantasies of being a father? Perhaps this once-happy bachelor won’t be single for long...
Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher :
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Enslaved persons
ISBN :
Examines the economy and it's impact of slavery on the coast land slave states pre-Civil War.
Author : Samuel MOSSMAN (and BANISTER (Thomas))
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 1853
Category :
ISBN :
Author : James L. Machor
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801899338
James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War. Machor takes four antebellum authors—Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Catharine Sedgwick, and Caroline Chesebro'—and analyzes how their works were published, received, and interpreted. Drawing on discussions found in book reviews and in private letters and diaries, Machor examines how middle-class readers of the time engaged with contemporary fiction and how fiction reading evolved as an interpretative practice in nineteenth-century America. Through careful analysis, Machor illuminates how the reading practices of nineteenth-century Americans shaped not only the experiences of these writers at the time but also the way the writers were received in the twentieth century. What Machor reveals is that these authors were received in ways strikingly different from how they are currently read, thereby shedding significant light on their present status in the literary canon in comparison to their critical and popular positions in their own time. Machor deftly combines response and reception criticism and theory with work in the history of reading to engage with groundbreaking scholarship in historical hermeneutics. In so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors’ conceptions of their own readership.
Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher :
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN :
Frederick Douglass recounts early years of abuse, his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves. It is also the only of Douglass's autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American presidents such as Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield.
