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Author: Lawrence Weschler
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: exile, calamities
Number of Pages: 211
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0226893928
ISBN-13: 9780226893921
The three essays in this volume, each long enough to be referred to as a nonfiction novella, originally appeared in the New Yorker, where Weschler is a staff writer. They engage directly with the theme of political exile by delving into the lives of three exiles: South African author Breyten Breytenbach, who would attempt to reenter the country to participate more actively in the struggle against apartheid, only to be captured and imprisoned; Kanan Makiya, an Iraqi whose Republic of Fear offered many Westerners their first in-depth knowledge of Saddam Hussein’s regime; and Jan Karan, a p
Author: John Cassidy
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: calamities, economic, logic, markets
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-11-10
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0374173206
ISBN-13: 9780374173203
Behind the alarming headlines about job losses, bank bailouts, and corporate greed is a little-known story of bad ideas. For fifty years or more, economists have been busy developing elegant theories of how markets workhow they facilitate innovation, wealth creation, and an efficient allocation of societys resources. But what about when markets dont work? What about when they lead to stock market bubbles, glaring inequality, polluted rivers, real estate crashes, and credit crunches?In How Markets Fail, John Cassidy describes the rising influence of what he calls utopian economicsthinking t
Author: Kathie Lee Gifford
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: life, calamities, egg, last, dropped, thought
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-04-14
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0345512065
ISBN-13: 9780345512062
Just When I Thought Id Dropped My Last Egg is Kathie Lee Giffords triumphant laugh-out-loud celebration of forging ahead with gusto, even long after were old enough to know better. Age, after all, isnt a number, its a state of mind, and being fertile isnt just about having babies, its about being passionate and creative. Writing with the candor of a friend who knows where the bodies are buried, Kathie Lee reveals the truth every woman of a certain age knows but wont admit: that we love our kids every second of every day but are counting the minutes till theyre ready to go off to colle
Author: Marian Keye
Publisher: Avon A
Keywords: babies, families, calamities, builders, blues, shoes, reviews, having, duvet
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0060562080
ISBN-13: 9780060562083
From the acclaimed bestselling author of Sushi for Beginners and Angels comes a collection of personal essays on shopping, writing, moviemaking, motherhood and all the assorted calamities involved in being a savvy woman in the new millennium.Her novels are read and adored by millions around the world, and with Under the Duvet, Marian Keyes tackles the world of nonfiction. These are her collected pieces: regular bulletins from the woman writing under the covers.Marian loves shoes and her LTFs (Long-Term Friends), hates realtors and lost luggage, and she once had a Christmas office party that in
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