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Author: Stanley Roger Green
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780720607437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJust after World War II Green sailed around the world in the tramp steamer, The SS Rembrandt. The world was then a very different place, and some of the countries he visited no longer exist politically. This is a true story which celebrates the passi
Author: Lauren DeStefano
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-12-06
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1442409061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 616
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1996-01-31
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780262691826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rapid collapse of socialism has raised new economic policy questions and revived old theoretical issues. In this book, Joseph Stiglitz explains how the neoclassical, or Walrasian model (the formal articulation of Adam Smith's invisible hand), which has dominated economic thought over the past half century, may have wrongly encouraged the belief that market socialism could work. Stiglitz proposes an alternative model, based on the economics of information, that provides greater theoretical insight into the workings of a market economy and clearer guidance for the setting of policy in transitional economies. Stiglitz sees the critical failing in the standard neoclassical model underlying market socialism to be its assumptions concerning information, particularly its failure to consider the problems that arise from lack of perfect information and from the costs of acquiring information. He also identifies problems arising from its assumptions concerning completeness of markets, competitiveness of markets, and the absence of innovation. Stiglitz argues that not only did the existing paradigm fail to provide much guidance on the vital question of the choice of economic systems, the advice it did provide was often misleading.
Author: Edmund Clarence Stedman
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 808
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Burton Egbert Stevenson
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 616
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edith Granger
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 1088
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Murray Pura
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0736952888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor fans of the hugely popular Downton Abbey television series and lovers of British historical sagas, award-winning author Murray Pura continues the enthralling story of the Danforths of Lancashire. The second book in the series (following Ashton Park) transports the reader back in time to 1924 as Sir William—recently named Lord Preston—celebrates his sixtieth birthday at the Danforth summer home in Dover. Although the ravages of World War I are in the past, new threats loom as a man named Adoph Hitler publishes a book called Mein Kampf. Is he a danger to Europe? And what of Lord Preston’s growing friendship with an up and coming political leader named Winston Churchill? On the home front, one of the Danforth daughters, the recently widowed Catherine, sells her home in Belfast to spend more time at Dover—where she finds herself annoyed at the impertinent German theologian her father has befriended. The entire Danforth family faces many changes as illness and tragedy strike. Young Edward finally makes his move into the political arena while Michael and Libby welcome a new family member. Readers will be captivated by the upstairs/downstairs interplay as they once again savor this compelling saga of the well-loved Danforth family overcoming obstacles by placing their trust in the God who has always been faithful. Book 2 in The Danforths of Lancashire series
Author: Lamed Shapiro
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 1480440809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe “skilled translators of this admirably edited volume” offer English-speaking readers the chance to savor this Yiddish author’s “tale-telling power” (Harold Bloom). Lamed Shapiro (1878–1948) was the author of groundbreaking and controversial short stories, novellas, and essays. Himself a tragic figure, Shapiro led a life marked by frequent ocean crossings, alcoholism, and failed ventures, yet his writings are models of precision, psychological insight, and daring. Shapiro focuses intently on the nature of violence: the mob violence of pogroms committed against Jews; the traumatic aftereffects of rape, murder, and powerlessness; the murderous event that transforms the innocent child into witness and the rabbi’s son into agitator. Within a society on the move, Shapiro’s refugees from the shtetl and the traditional way of life are in desperate search of food, shelter, love, and things of beauty. Remarkably, and against all odds, they sometimes find what they are looking for. More often than not, the climax of their lives is an experience of ineffable terror. This collection also reveals Lamed Shapiro as an American master. His writings depict the Old World struggling with the New, extremes of human behavior combined with the pursuit of normal happiness. Through the perceptions of a remarkable gallery of men, women, children—of even animals and plants—Shapiro successfully reclaimed the lost world of the shtetl as he negotiated East Broadway and the Bronx, Union Square, and vaudeville. Both in his life and in his unforgettable writings, Lamed Shapiro personifies the struggle of a modern Jewish artist in search of an always elusive home.
