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Author: David Denby Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141957255 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 328
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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.
Author: David Denby Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141957255 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
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.
Author: Celia Pearce Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1312115874 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 560
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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.
Author: August Kleinzahler Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 1466880775 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 113
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Those aren't stars, darling That's your nervous system Nanna didn't take you to planetariums like this --from "Hyper-Berceuse: 3 A.M." August Kleinzahler's new poems stretch and go places he has never gone before: they have his signature high color and rhythmic jump, but they take on a breadth of voice and achieve registers that his earlier work only hinted at. Ranging from Vegas and Mayfair to the Asian steppes and contemporary Berlin, these poems touch down at will in tableaux where Liberace unceremoniously meets with St. Kevin and Attila with Zsa Zsa Gabor. Surprise after surprise, nothing seems to lie outside Kleinzahler's purview. This is the strongest collection to date from a poet with "the vision and confident skill to make American poetry new" (Clive Wilmer, The Times [London]).
Author: Dennis Covington Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1458766276 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 306
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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.
Author: Sonny Brewer Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc. ISBN: 034547631X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 254
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In 1925, Henry Stuart leaves his home and grown sons in Idaho to move to the woods on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, Alabama, where he builds a round house and lives for more than two decades on the property he names after Leo Tolstoy.
Author: A. Collection of Stories by Regenerate Publisher: ISBN: 9781475977998 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 0
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You are holding a collection of stories, the aim of this collection is to equip and inspire you to make a positive impact in your own community, through relationships and creative initiatives. In this material, you will read about Dave and Will who developed gardens on wasteland in inner city London council estates, encouraging residents to be part of the process of renewal and creativity by growing plants and vegetables. Will hosts community harvest feasts, bringing together local residents to eat their own locally-grown produce. Andy in his 20s, started a lunch club for isolated elderly people, rallying his student friends to help serve homemade meals in a borrowed church hall. Pauline responded to a news bulletin about the lack of housing for refugees and asylum seekers, by setting up homes across North London to provide safe housing. Annie set up regular meals in her church building for homeless people and rough sleepers. Mark started a football club for local lads from an estate in London, most of whom were from extremely difficult backgrounds and not in education or employment. Countless others have weeded gardens for families referred by social services, mentored children in foster care and painted a wall in a refuge. Abroad, Mick and Ruby moved into an inner city slum community in the heart of Manilla for 9 years with their young children. At the heart of City Lights are stories and friendships. Find out more about City Lights. regenerateuk.co.uk
Author: Historical League Publisher: ISBN: 9780692950241 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Tastes & Treasures II is a colorful souvenir of the Southwest that's part cookbook, part history book and all Arizona. You'll find recipes from the Grand Canyon's Harvey House at Bright Angel Lodge, Bisbee's Cafe Roka and Kai at Wild Horse Pass as well as recipes from Historymakers, including The Honorable Jon Kyl, columnist Erma Bombeck and Ambassador/astronaut Barbara Barrett. Cherished Legacy Recipes contain history and recipes from some of Arizona¿s original families.
Author: Bob Kerrey Publisher: Harvest Books ISBN: 9780156027434 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 308
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Kerrey's much-acclaimed and fascinating memoir tells the tale of a young boy's life in Nebraska, his journey as a young man into the dangers of Vietnam and finally to the Nixon White House. As much a story of the American heartland at mid-century as it is a story of a man who rebuilt his life after it was wrenched awry by war. photo insert.
Author: Disc Golf Player Notebooks Publisher: ISBN: 9781708283414 Category : Languages : en Pages : 100
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Funny Writing Book and Copybook for any lover of disc throwing, golfing or tournaments. This Logbook is a special Birthday or Christmas gift idea for any disc golfer enthusiast. Fantastic as a unique Organizer, Day Planner, Workbook for sketching, drawing and copyrighting. Suprise your brother, sister dad, mom, uncle or co-worker to x-mas if they are fans of team sport with this humorous Sketchbook, Datebook or Address Book.
Author: David Denby
Author: David Denby
Author: Celia Pearce
Author: August Kleinzahler
Author: Dennis Covington
Author: Sonny Brewer
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Author: A. Collection of Stories by Regenerate
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Author: Bob Kerrey
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