The Last Man's Reward

The Last Man's Reward

Author: David Patneaude

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0807543721

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1997 Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library 1999-2000 Volunteer State Book Award Master List (Tennessee) 1999-2000 Iowa Children's Choice Awards Master List 1999 Sasquatch Reading Award Master List (Washington) 1999 Utah Children's Book Award Master List 2001 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Master List (Illinois) When a chance yard-sale purchase nets five boys a Willie Mays rookie card worth $4,000, their lives seem to narrow and intensify. The boys devise a "last man" contest—the winner gets the Mays card, and the losers get zip. Twelve-year-old Albert has a life-and-death reason for winning the card—and his own very special terrors aobut the abandoned mine where the boys have hidden it for safekeeping. Just how far is Albert willing to go to be the last man?


The Working Man's Reward

The Working Man's Reward

Author: Elaine Lewinnek

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0199769222

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"Between the 1860s and 1920s, Chicago's working-class immigrants designed the American dream of home-ownership. They imagined homes as small businesses, homes that were simultaneously a consumer-oriented respite from work and a productive space that workers hoped to control. Leapfrogging out of town along with Chicago's assembly-line factories, Chicago's early suburbs were remarkably diverse. These suburbs were marketed with the elusive promise that homeownership might offer some bulwark against the vicissitudes of industrial capitalism, that homes might be "better than a bank for a poor man, " in the words of one evocative advertisement, and "the working man's reward." This promise evolved into what Lewinnek terms "the mortgages of whiteness:" the hope that property values might increase if that property could be kept white. Suburbs also developed through nineteenth-century notions of the gendered respectability of domesticity, early ideas about city planning and land economics, as well as an evolving twentieth-century discourse about the racial attributes of property values. Because Chicago presented itself as a paradigmatic American city and because numerous Chicago-based experts eventually instituted national real-estate programs, Chicago's early growth affected the growth of twentieth-century America. Framed by two working-class riots against suburbanization in 1872 and 1919, spurred from both above and below, this work shows how Chicagoans helped form America's urban sprawl and examines the roots of America's suburbanization, synthesizing the new suburban history into the diversity of America's suburbs"--


Complete Works

Complete Works

Author: Thomas Brookes (Preacher at Margaret's, New Fish Street.)

Publisher:

Published: 1866

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13:

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Works

Works

Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

Publisher:

Published: 1832

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13:

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Wake the Bride

Wake the Bride

Author: Jeff Kinley

Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0736965173

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Jeff Kinley wrote this innovative guide to the book of Revelation for the same reason the apostle John wrote the original—to arouse a sleeping church to prepare for Christ's return. Jesus said, "Wake up and strengthen the things that remain." The apostle Paul shared the same concern. "Wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed." Many people are unaware of the signs of the times. Many others seem consumed by end-times hype. Kinley shows that our primary concern should not be the timing of Christ's return but rather the spirit and character He desires in His bride. You'll find enlightening descriptions of Jesus and His coming, the church and its mission, heaven and judgment, Satan and the antichrist, and other themes of Revelation. Bolster your confidence and conviction with this up-to-date presentation of Christ's clear message to the church.


The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture

Author: Randy Pausch

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780340978504

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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.