American Sucker
American Sucker

Author: David Denby

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2005-04-07

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0141957255

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In early 2000 the bottom dropped out of the life of writer David Denby when his wife decided to leave him. Propelled to make some money quickly, and seized by the 'irrational exuberance' of the stock market, then approaching its peak, Denby enthusiastically joined the investment frenzy. Over the next few months he listened raptly to bullish stock analysts, dreamy hi-tech gurus and boastful heads of companies. He plunged into a season of mania and was swept forward on currents of hope, greed and hucksterism - with cataclysmic results. American Sucker is a mesmerising account of those years of madness. What begins as a money chase and an engagement with rampant capitalism soon becomes an encounter with such timeless issues as love, envy, true value - and life and death itself. This is a classic tale of the bubble related not by a market guru or an investment professional but by a witty, perceptive and eloquent outsider.

Salvation on Sand Mountain
Salvation on Sand Mountain

Author: Dennis Covington

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2010-02

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1458766276

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For Dennis Covington, what began as a journalistic assignment - covering the trial of an Alabama preacher convicted of attempting to murder his wife with poisonous snakes - would evolve into a headlong plunge into a bizarre, mysterious, and ultimately irresistible world of unshakable faith: the world of holiness snake handling, where people drink strychnine, speak in tongues, lay hands on the sick, and, some claim, raise the dead. Set in the heart of Appalachia, Salvation on Sand Mountain is Covington's unsurpassed and chillingly captivating exploration of the nature, power, and extremity of faith - an exploration that gradually turns inward, until Covington finds himself taking up the snakes. University.

Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader
Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader

Author: Celia Pearce

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 1312115874

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Together with the Olympics, world's fairs are one of the few regular international events of sufficient scale to showcase a spectrum of sights, wonders, learning opportunities, technological advances, and new (or renewed) urban districts, and to present them all to a mass audience. Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader breaks new ground in scholarship on world's fairs by incorporating a number of short new texts that investigate world's fairs in their multiple aspects: political, urban/architectural, anthropological/ sociological, technological, commercial, popular, and representational. Contributors come from eight different countries and represent affiliations in academia, museums and libraries, professional and architectural firms, non-profit organizations, and government regulatory agencies. In taking the measure of both the material artifacts and the larger cultural production of world's fairs, the volume presents its own phantasmagoria of disciplinary perspectives, historical periods, geographical locales, media, and messages, mirroring the microcosmic form of the world's fair itself.

Creative Sewing Techniques by Machine
Creative Sewing Techniques by Machine

Author: Nancy Fiedler

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781574326680

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Let your quilting creativity soar with these magical machine techniques! Are you using your sewing machine to its fullest creative capacity? Do you know what each foot can do? Expand your repertoire with machine techniques, embellishment, surface design, and thread painting skill, thanks to your sewing machine. Nine highly qualified, experienced sewing machine educators have developed 13 delightful projects to show you how to make the most of your machine's technical possibilities. From pillows to bed scarves, from wallhangings to table runners, any quilt will benefit when its creator uses these techniques. OUT OF PRINT

El Conservador
El Conservador

Author: George H. Rodriguez

Publisher:

Published: 2018-09-12

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781532051111

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George H. Rodriguez has dedicated his life to sharing conservative values with fellow Hispanics and all Americans. As a Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush appointee, he worked with the Department of Justice in community relations and immigration outreach, going on to work with the White House and on President Bush's 1988 presidential campaign. In recent years, Rodriguez has served with the GOP and was one of the first Hispanics to be president of a major Tea Party group. Now in El Conservador: Conservative Opinions, George H. Rodriguez shares a hard-hitting collection of his political essays and commentaries. As a nationally known blogger and political commenter, George Rodriguez is a constitutional conservative Texan of Mexican descent, also known as a Tejano. His essays reflect his belief in personal freedom, and they support the idea that all Texans and Americans should live life as they wish, as long as it does not harm others or infringe on another person's rights. With a commitment to conservative values--and in some cases with a little bit of a chile picoso attitude--Rodriguez focuses on critical political topics that all Americans should be informed about: from the basics of constitutional government, personal property ownership, and states' rights to contemporary issues like the debt, immigration, and so-called diversity. Because liberal misinformation and a growing government can be dangerous to the freedom and liberty of citizens, Rodriguez believes it is important to remember why America is the greatest nation on earth and protect its God-given destiny.

Better to Have Loafed and Lost
Better to Have Loafed and Lost

Author: James Thurber

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780091885649

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James Thurber was the most original, influential and, less we should forget, funniest American humorist of the last century. Writing and drawing cartoons for the New Yorker magazine from it's beginnings in the 1930s, he steadily shaped his own unique comic universe: a world governed by absurd logic where the trivial anxieties of everyday life slowly grind down its resigned citizens. Thurber's tales, alternately related in bemused deadpan and bewildered rage and are always excruciatingly funny and occasionally quietly disturbing too. This brand new selection, the first in over 50 years, reassembles his finest work for a new generation brought up on David Lynch and Jerry Seinfeld and features all his famous obsessions: the battle of the sexes, animals, travel, the delusional and certifiably insane. His 'casuals', as he liked to call his short pieces, drift between out and out fiction and surreal memoir. Spanning his whole career, this collection includes all his classic writings and cartoons, 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', 'The Catbird Seat', 'The Seal in the Bedroom', and half-forgotten gems that may be new even to fully qualified Thurber fans.

The Soft Atlas of Amsterdam
The Soft Atlas of Amsterdam

Author: Jan Rothuizen

Publisher:

Published: 2015-02-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789046816394

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This book features famous places in Amsterdam, as well as less familiar corners of the city: houseboat, the city's most expensive hotel room and a coffee shop. The Soft Atlas of Amsterdam is a uniquely original and charming guide to a thoroughly diversi city.