The Dream Merchant
The Dream Merchant

Author: Fred Waitzkin

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2013-03-26

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 125001137X

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A powerful, exquisitely written tale about a charismatic yet morally ambiguous salesman Jim can sell anything to anyone. Born into abject poverty, he uses street smarts, irresistible charms, and increasingly sophisticated schemes to pull himself up from door-to-door salesman to international mogul, the father of the pyramid scheme. Jim becomes fabulously wealthy, owning estates and dining with royalty, but along the way he leaves an army of disillusioned customers broke and ruined in his wake. To escape his past, as well as government investigators, he leaves the country to become the leader of a lawless and predatory gold-mining operation in the Brazilian Amazon---an entirely lush, violent, dissolute life. Worn down by age, and a lifetime of shady enterprise, his world suddenly changes when he meets Mara, a beautiful, young Israeli woman with dark ambitions of her own. In the process of their unlikely life together, Mara finds herself attracted to this ruined old man, as if his profligate history of glory and big money, and finally his weakness and proximity to death, creates an urgency and eroticism for her. Narrated by an anonymous writer who is equally mesmerized and repulsed by Jim, Fred Waitzkin's The Dream Merchant is an unwavering look at the price of heedless ambition, the indissoluble bonds of male friendship, and the unsettling nature of love and sexuality.

Manhattan Projects
Manhattan Projects

Author: Samuel Zipp

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-05-24

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 019975070X

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Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in the decades after World War II. Focusing on four iconic "Manhattan projects"--the United Nations building, Stuyvesant Town, Lincoln Center, and the great swaths of public housing in East Harlem--Zipp unearths a host of forgotten stories and characters that flesh out the conventional history of urban renewal. He shows how boosters hoped to make Manhattan the capital of modernity and a symbol of American power, but even as the builders executed their plans, a chorus of critics revealed the dark side of those Cold War visions, attacking urban renewal for perpetuating deindustrialization, racial segregation, and class division; for uprooting thousands, and for implanting a new, alienating cityscape. Cold War-era urban renewal was not merely a failed planning ideal, Zipp concludes, but also a crucial phase in the transformation of New York into both a world city and one mired in urban crisis.

Merchants of Doubt
Merchants of Doubt

Author: Naomi Oreskes

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-10-03

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1408828774

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The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. These scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly-some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive. These "experts" supplied it. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.

A Nation of Neighborhoods
A Nation of Neighborhoods

Author: Benjamin Looker

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2015-10-22

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 022629031X

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Benjamin Looker investigates the cultural, social, and economic complexities of the idea of neighborhood in postwar America. In the face of urban decline, competing visions of the city neighborhood s significance and purpose became proxies for broader debates over the meaning and limits of American democracy. Looker examines radically different neighborhood visions by urban artists, critics, writers, and activists to show how sociological debates over what neighborhood values resonated in art, political discourse, and popular culture. The neighborhood- both the epitome of urban life and, in its insularity, an escape from it was where twentieth-century urban Americans worked out solutions to tensions between atomization or overcrowding, harsh segregation or stifling statism, ethnic assimilation or cultural fragmentation."

Winning Goals
Winning Goals

Author:

Publisher: Sound Wisdom

Published: 2016-12-31

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 0768410924

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Your Goals Help You Find the Purpose of Your Life! This is a book about setting winning goals and moving toward your goals with increased determination. How do you set winning goals and reach them? You begin by learning what motivates you and using that knowledge as leverage to achieve. Through setting and achieving goals, you will change your life! In these pages, you will also read price-less information about how goal-setting can help you: Oversome Obstacles Manage Time Visualize Your Ideal Life Give Direction to Your Dreams Achieve Balance in Life Improve Relationships Bring Peace of Mind Vitalize Your Lifestyle The magnitude of your goals depends on you. We get in life what we ask for--start making your dreams real today!

Four Illusions
Four Illusions

Author: Candrakīrti

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780195151138

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Candrakrti, who lived in India in the 7th century CE, is a major Mahayana Buddhist scholar whose works are studied in modern western universities and traditional Tibetan Buddhist monasteries. This is a translation of the first four chapters of Candrakrti's commentary on Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas.

COLLECTION 2: Sermons
COLLECTION 2: Sermons

Author: St. Nikolai of Serbia (Velimirovic)

Publisher: Vladimir Djambov

Published:

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13:

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“Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html Troparia Tone 8 Oh Chrysostomous preacher of the Resurrected Christ, guide of the Serbian Crusader family through the centuries, sweet-voiced lyre of the Holy Spirit, word and love of the monks, joy and praise of the priests, teacher of repentance, leader of the worshippers army of Christ, Saint Nikolai of Serbia and of all the Orthodox beg the One Lover of Men to grant peace and unity to our family. Kontakion Tone 3 Born in the Serbian Lelich, archpastor in Ohrid of St. Naum wast thou, from the throne of Saint Sava in Zhicha thou appeareth, teaching and enlightening the people of God with the Holy Gospel. Thou hast led many to repentance and love for Christ; for Christ's sake thou suffereth passions in Dachau, and for this, Oh holy, by Him [God] thou art glorified, Oh Nikolai, newly appeared pleaser of God.