Duke Sucks
Duke Sucks

Author: Reed Tucker

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2012-01-31

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1250008190

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In the ranks of NCAA college basketball, Duke University is like something scraped off the bottom of a shoe. It's like a nasty virus you catch from a door handle at a public toilet. No team in sports is as uniquely hated as those smug, entitled, floor-slapping, fist-pumping, insufferable Blue Devils. The loathing has almost reached the level of a religion. Christian Laettner is a punk. Amen. The Cameron Crazies are obnoxious. The Plumlees are worthless times three. Coach K is a jerk. Kumbaya. The team is dogged by an intense hatred that no other team can match—and for good reason. Millions of hoops fans and March Madness aficionados around the world are not imagining things. Duke really is evil, and within the pages of Duke Sucks, Reed Tucker and Andy Bagwell show readers exactly why Duke deserves to be so detested. They bruise and batter the Blue Devils with fact after fact, story after story, statistic after statistic. They build an airtight case that could stand up in a court of law. So sit back in your "I Hate Duke" t-shirt, and in true Duke fashion, force someone poorer than you to do your work as you crack open the ultimate guide to Duke suckitude.

The Mad Bad Duke
The Mad Bad Duke

Author: Jennifer Ashley

Publisher: Jennifer Ashley

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1941229344

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London, 1820 Miss Meagan Tavistock doesn’t believe the talisman her friend purchases from a so-called witch is truly a love spell—that is, until the love spell backfires, catching her in it with the handsome, ruthless Grand Duke Alexander, ambassador to England from the far-off kingdom of Nvengaria. The last thing Alexander needs is to be swept into a wild love-spelled frenzy with an innocent miss. He has problems of his own—memory losses, strange and terrible dreams, and a shape-shifting logosh called Myn following him around. Alexander is honorable enough to ensure Meagan is not ruined by their love-spell induced encounter. He thinks to marry her, conquer his seeming madness, and carry on with his task of intimidating King George of England for the good of his beloved Nvengaria. What he doesn’t figure into the equation is Meagan—a very determined and lovely young woman who seeps into his every thought. Meagan is resolved to have a real marriage and a real family, and to see that Alexander does too. She will ensure Alexander will take up his duties as her husband and father to his nine-year-old son, even if she has to resort to some very Nvengarian intrigue to accomplish it. Alexander admires her resilience, but the secret he harbors about himself and his past is sure to endanger her and his son, two people he swears to protect and love even at the cost of his own happiness and quite probably his life. Welcome back to Nvengaria, a land of intense beauty and wild magic, where shape-shifters are real and fairy tales might just come true.

Bad Education
Bad Education

Author: Lee Edelman

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2022-12-05

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1478023228

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Long awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman’s Bad Education proposes a queerness without positive identity—a queerness understood as a figural name for the void, itself unnamable, around which the social order takes shape. Like Blackness, woman, incest, and sex, queerness, as Edelman explains it, designates the antagonism, the structuring negativity, preventing that order from achieving coherence. But when certain types of persons get read as literalizing queerness, the negation of their negativity can seem to resolve the social antagonism and totalize community. By translating the nothing of queerness into the something of “the queer,” the order of meaning defends against the senselessness that undoes it, thus mirroring, Edelman argues, education’s response to queerness: its sublimation of irony into the meaningfulness of a world. Putting queerness in relation to Lacan’s “ab-sens” and in dialogue with feminist and Afropessimist thought, Edelman reads works by Shakespeare, Jacobs, Almodóvar, Lemmons, and Haneke, among others, to show why queer theory’s engagement with queerness necessarily results in a bad education that is destined to teach us nothing.

The Good, the Bad, and the Duke
The Good, the Bad, and the Duke

Author: Janna MacGregor

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks

Published: 2018-11-27

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1250295971

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Best Books of November - Bookriot A lady with a noble mission. A duke looking for redemption. A forbidden love that cannot be denied, in The Good, The Bad, and The Duke by Janna MacGregor. Lady Daphne Hallworth is ready to celebrate the holidays with her family. But when they accidentally leave her home alone, Daphne uses the time to work on her dream—opening a home for unwed mothers. But her quest isn’t problem-free: She’s in a battle to win the property for the home against her brother’s best friend-turned-enemy, Paul Barstowe, Duke of Southart. And that’s not all: someone has stolen her personal diary, which holds secrets that could devastate her family. Daphne has always harbored private feelings for the man her family scorns...though perhaps striking a bargain with the handsome Duke will solve both their problems? Paul, long considered good for nothing, aims to open a hospital to honor his brother and restore his reputation. So when a conflict over the land brings him straight into Daphne’s life, they make a deal: He will help her find her diary if Daphne can change her family’s opinion of him. But before he can win her family’s affection, he has to win hers first. Maybe love was the answer to their family feud all along?

Bad Duke
Bad Duke

Author: Emily Bishop

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-03-09

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781986347341

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Most dukes settle for Earl Grey and crumpets. Playboy parties are more my cup of tea. Now, I've got 30 days to marry or lose my billion-pound inheritance. Isabella is my saving grace, but we hated each other as teens. The eyes, the body, the confidence. Quite the goddess she's become since high school. Between arguing and fucking, we must somehow pretend to be married. Wanting her to be more than a "fake" fiancé was never an option. Needing her wasn't part of the plan. But when opposing forces come between us, neither God, queen, nor country will stop me from having her.

Reborn as Problematic Duke's Daughter
Reborn as Problematic Duke's Daughter

Author: Wintersnow

Publisher: Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd

Published:

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13:

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This is book 2 of Reborn as Problematic Duke's Daughter. Because committed a grave sin, Ji Eun has to be reborn to be the problematic Duke's Daughter and restore her reputation as the punishment! And who said being Duke's Daughter is easy?

The Dukes of Durham, 1865-1929
The Dukes of Durham, 1865-1929

Author: Robert Franklin Durden

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780822307433

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Chiefly a record of the life and descendants of Washington Duke. He was born 20 Dec 1820 to Taylor Duke and Dicey Jones. He married Mary Caroline Clinton in 1842. They were the parents of two children. She died in 1847. He married Artelia Toney in Dec 1852. They were the parents of three children. She died in 1858. He died 8 May 1905.

The Duke of Deception
The Duke of Deception

Author: Geoffrey Wolff

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1990-02-19

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0679727523

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Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman -- a product of Yale and the OSS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of undistinguished schools, was passed up for military service, and supported himself with desperately improvised scams, exploiting employers, wives, and, finally, his own son. In The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff unravels the enigma of this Gatsbyesque figure, a bad man who somehow was also a very good father, an inveterate liar who falsified everything but love.

Bad Souls
Bad Souls

Author: Elizabeth Anne Davis

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2012-02-08

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 0822351064

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As part of the agreement for Greece to join the EU, the country had to undertake a massive psychiatric reform, moving patients out of custodial hospitals and returning them to the community to be treated as outpatients. In this subtle ethnography, Elizabeth Davis shows how this played out at the edge of the nation, in the border region of Thrace.