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Mr Brecher s Fiasco
Author | : Martin Kessel |
Publsiher | : Terrace Books |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0299214303 |
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In the offices of a large media conglomerate responsible for all kinds of advertising, Max Brecher considers himself the intellectual among the clerks. He reflects on the personal relations in the office, his own situation as an employee and human being, and the shifts in the values and ideas of life in 1920s Berlin. His office has its share of interesting characters, such as the corrupt Dr. Geist, who becomes a hypocrite in order to advance in the office hierarchy; the lovely Mucki Schopps, a tricky young girl with whom everyone falls in love; Gudula Often, who strives for harmony among her coworkers but never achieves her goal; and the department head, Mr. Sack, who meets an unfortunate end.
Albion s Seed
Author | : David Hackett Fischer |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 972 |
Release | : 1991-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019974369X |
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This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Crisis Decisionmaking
Author | : Eric K. Stern |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9187136732 |
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War Nerd
Author | : Gary Brecher |
Publsiher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2009-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781593763022 |
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“[A] raucous, offensive, and sometimes amusing CliffsNotes compilation of wars both well-known and ignored.” —Utne Reader Self-described war nerd Gary Brecher knows he’s not alone, that there’s a legion of fat, lonely Americans, stuck in stupid, paper-pushing desk jobs, who get off on reading about war because they hate their lives. But Brecher writes about war, too. War Nerd collects his most opinionated, enraging, enlightening, and entertaining pieces. Part war commentator, part angry humorist à la Bill Hicks, Brecher inveighs against pieties of all stripes—Liberian generals, Dick Cheney, U.N. peacekeepers, the neo-cons—and the massive incompetence of military powers. A provocative free thinker, he finds much to admire in the most unlikely places, and not always for the most pacifistic reasons: the Tamil Tigers, the Lebanese Hezbollah, the Danes of 1,000 years ago, and so on, across the globe and through the centuries. Crude, scatological, un-P.C., yet deeply informed, Brecher provides a radically different, completely unvarnished perspective on the nature of warfare. “Military columnist Gary Brecher’s look at contemporary war is both offensive and illuminating. His book, War Nerd . . . aims to explain why the best-equipped armies in the world continue to lose battles to peasants armed with rocks . . . Brecher’s unrefined voice adds something essential to the conversation.” —Mother Jones “It’s international news coverage with a soul and acne, not to mention a deeply contrarian point of view.” —The Millions
Commonweal
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 972 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : Periodicals |
ISBN | : NWU:35556027099993 |
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Critical Reaction to Irish Drama on the New York Stage 1900 1958
Author | : Kenneth Cox Lyman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 856 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Dramatic criticism |
ISBN | : UGA:32108011058685 |
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David and Goliath
Author | : Malcolm Gladwell |
Publsiher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780316204385 |
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Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won. Or should he have? In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwellchallenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there, David and Goliath examines Northern Ireland's Troubles, the minds of cancer researchers and civil rights leaders, murder and the high costs of revenge, and the dynamics of successful and unsuccessful classrooms—all to demonstrate how much of what is beautiful and important in the world arises from what looks like suffering and adversity. In the tradition of Gladwell's previous bestsellers—The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw—David and Goliath draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to reshape the way we think of the world around us.
Anthropocene Back Loop
Author | : Stephanie Wakefield |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2020-05-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1785420712 |
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We are entering the Anthropocene's back loop, a time of release and collapse, confusion and reorientation, in which not only populations and climates are being upended but also physical and metaphysical grounds. Needed now are forms of experimentation geared toward autonomous modes of living within the back loop's new unsafe operating spaces.