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Friday, September 30, 2016

Around the World in 50 Years

By :"Albert Podell"
Published on 2015-03-24 by Macmillan

Category :"Travel"

This is the inspiring story of an ordinary guy who achieved two great goals that others had told him were impossible. First, he set a record for the longest automobile journey ever made around the world, during the course of which he blasted his way out of minefields, survived a breakdown atop the Peak of Death, came within seconds of being lynched in Pakistan, and lost three of the five men who started with him, two to disease, one to the Vietcong. After that-although it took him forty-seven more years-Albert Podell set another record by going to every country on Earth. He achieved this by surviving riots, revolutions, civil wars, trigger-happy child soldiers, voodoo priests, robbers, pickpockets, corrupt cops, and Cape buffalo. He went around, under, or through every kind of earthquake, cyclone, tsunami, volcanic eruption, snowstorm, and sandstorm that nature threw at him. He ate everything from old camel meat and rats to dung beetles and the brain of a live monkey. And he overcame attacks by crocodiles, hippos, anacondas, giant leeches, flying crabs-and several beautiful girlfriends who insisted that he stop this nonsense and marry them. Albert Podell's Around the World in 50 Years is a remarkable and meaningful tale of quiet courage, dogged persistence, undying determination, and an uncanny ability to extricate himself from one perilous situation after another-and return with some of the most memorable, frightening, and hilarious adventure stories you have ever read.

Lenght : 368

Language : en

This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword unruly places

Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

By :"Woody Holton"
Published on 2008-10-14 by Macmillan

Category :"History"

Average Americans Were the True Framers of the Constitution Woody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution's origins by telling the history of the average Americans who challenged the framers of the Constitution and forced on them the revisions that produced the document we now venerate. The framers who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 were determined to reverse America's post–Revolutionary War slide into democracy. They believed too many middling Americans exercised too much influence over state and national policies. That the framers were only partially successful in curtailing citizen rights is due to the reaction, sometimes violent, of unruly average Americans. If not to protect civil liberties and the freedom of the people, what motivated the framers? In Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, Holton provides the startling discovery that the primary purpose of the Constitution was, simply put, to make America more attractive to investment. And the linchpin to that endeavor was taking power away from the states and ultimately away from the people. In an eye-opening interpretation of the Constitution, Holton captures how the same class of Americans that produced Shays's Rebellion in Massachusetts (and rebellions in damn near every other state) produced the Constitution we now revere. Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution is a 2007 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

Lenght : 384

Language : en

This Book was ranked 17 by Google Books for keyword unruly places

Atlas of Lost Cities

By :"Aude de Tocqueville"
Published on 2016-04-05 by Black Dog & Leventhal

Category :"Travel"

Like humans, cities are mortal. They are born, they thrive, and they eventually die. In Atlas of Lost Cities, Aude de Tocqueville tells the compelling narrative of the rise and fall of such notable places as Pompeii, Teotihuacán, and Angkor. She also details the less well known places, including Centralia, an abandoned Pennsylvania town consumed by unquenchable underground fire; Nova Citas de Kilamba in Angola, where housing, schools, and stores were built for 500,000 people who never came; and Epecuen, a tourist town in Argentina that was swallowed up by water. Beautiful, original artwork shows the location of the lost cities and depicts how they looked when they thrived.

Lenght : 144

Language : en

This Book was ranked 8 by Google Books for keyword unruly places

Brunelleschi's Dome

By :"Ross King"
Published on 2001 by Penguin Group USA

Category :"Architecture"

Describes how a fifteenth-century goldsmith and clockmaker, Filippo Brunelleschi, came up with a unique design for the dome to crown Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, in a dramatic study set against the turbulent backdrop of Renaissance Italy. Reprint.

Lenght : 194

Language : en

This Book was ranked 37 by Google Books for keyword the story of buildings

The Lighthouse Stevensons

By :"Bella Bathurst","HarperCollins Publishers Ltd."
Published on 2011-06-28 by Harper Collins

Category :"History"

For centuries the seas around Scotland were notorious for shipwrecks. Mariners' only aids were skill, luck, and single coal-fire light on the east coast, which was usually extinguished by rain. In 1786 the Northern Lighthouse Trust was established, with Robert Stevenson appointed as chief engineer a few years later. In this engrossing book, Bella Bathhurst reveals that the Stevensons not only supervised the construction of the lighthouses under often desperate conditions but also perfected a design of precisely chiseled interlocking granite blocks that would withstand the enormous waves that batter these stone pillars. The same Stevensons also developed the lamps and lenses of the lights themselves, which \

Lenght : 304

Language : en

This Book was ranked 19 by Google Books for keyword the story of buildings

Outrageous Fortune

By :"Tom Bower"
Published on 2006-11-07 by Harper Collins

Category :"Biography & Autobiography"

The rise and fall of media tycoon Conrad Black and his journalist wife, Barbara Amiel, is one of the great stories of the modern business world. In Outrageous Fortune, London-based journalist Tom Bower reveals how Conrad and Lady Black used other people's money to finance a billionaire's lifestyle, winning friends and influence in London and New York along the way. Their story of overweening ambition and greed is a modern-day classic of hubris. Born into considerable wealth in Canada, Conrad Black bought and sold (but never effectively managed) several businesses, from mining and tractors to broadcasting companies and newspapers. In 1985 Black's holding com-pany, Hollinger, bought the Telegraph Group, the British newspaper publishing conglomerate. In the years that followed, Black additionally became the proprietor of the Chicago Sun-Times, the Jerusalem Post, and a host of other magazines and newspapers in the English-speaking world. In 1992 Conrad married Barbara Amiel, who later famously said, \

Lenght : 448

Language : en

This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword house of outrageous fortune

The House of Wittgenstein

By :"Alexander Waugh"
Published on 2009 by A&C Black

Category :"History"

The true story of a one-handed pianist and the fall of his aristocratic family.

Lenght : 366

Language : en

This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword house of outrageous fortune

Model

By :"Michael Gross"
Published on 2011-10-18 by Harper Collins

Category :"Design"

The definitive story of the international modeling business—and its evil twin, legalized flesh peddling—Model is a tale of beautiful women empowered and subjugated; of vast sums of money; of sex and drugs, obsession and tragic death; and of the most unholy combination in commerce: stunning young women and rich, lascivious men. Investigative journalist Michael Gross takes us into the private studios and hidden villas where models play and are preyed upon, and tears down modeling’s carefully constructed façade of glamour to reveal the untold truths of an ugly trade.

Lenght : 576

Language : en

This Book was ranked 16 by Google Books for keyword house of outrageous fortune

740 Park

By :"Michael Gross"
Published on 2006 by Random House Digital, Inc.

Category :"Architecture"

Provides a close-up look at one of the world's most coveted addresses, the apartment building at seventy-four Park Avenue that was constructed by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's grandfather and has housed the Bouviers, Rockefellers, Saul Steinberg, Ronald O. Perelman, and other legendary icons. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Lenght : 561

Language : en

This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword house of outrageous fortune

House of Outrageous Fortune

By :"Michael Gross"
Published on 2015-03-10 by Simon and Schuster

Category :"Biography & Autobiography"

The author of 740 Park presents a portrait of the nouveau-riche area of Central Park's southwest rim and how its high-profile, international residents are redefining the meaning of affluence in today's world.

Lenght : 416

Language : en

This Book was ranked 3 by Google Books for keyword house of outrageous fortune

Mechanical Engineering

By :
Published on 1922 by

Category :"Engineering"

Lenght :

Language : en

This Book was ranked 37 by Google Books for keyword how to study public life

Framing Public Life

By :"Stephen D. Reese","Oscar H Gandy Jr, Professor","Oscar H. Gandy, Jr.","August E. Grant","J Rion McKissick Professor of Journalism August E Grant"
Published on 2001-06-01 by Routledge

Category :"Language Arts & Disciplines"

This distinctive volume offers a thorough examination of the ways in which meaning comes to be shaped. Editors Stephen Reese, Oscar Gandy, and August Grant employ an interdisciplinary approach to the study of conceptualizing and examining media. They illustrate how texts and those who provide them powerfully shape, or \

Lenght : 416

Language : en

This Book was ranked 17 by Google Books for keyword how to study public life

History of Engineering and Technology

By :"Ervan G. Garrison"
Published on 1998-06-29 by CRC Press

Category :"Technology & Engineering"

History of Engineering and Technology provides an illustrated history of engineered technology from the Stone Age to the Nuclear Age. Examining important areas of engineering and technology, this second edition contains: New contributions on Airships and zeppelins Highways and economics Early hydroelectricity Chemical engineering Technology and history Brunel and the Royal Navy Stealth and the submarine Computer history Deepwater engineering Science fiction and the evolution of modern engineering Art and engineering Electric motors, radio, and batteries Expansion of these existing chapters Mining and the Location of Minerals Water Distribution: Qanots to Acequias Biomedical Engineering Communication Engineering: Shannon to Satellites Personalities and the Auto: Ford and Ferrari Failures in Engineering: Chernobyl, Titanic, Tacoma Narrows, Challenger Cold Fusion, Electric Cars, and Other \

Lenght : 368

Language : en

This Book was ranked 38 by Google Books for keyword the parthenon enigma

Pericles of Athens

By :"Vincent Azoulay"
Published on 2014-07-21 by Princeton University Press

Category :"Biography & Autobiography"

Pericles has had the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world. \

Lenght : 312

Language : en

This Book was ranked 9 by Google Books for keyword the parthenon enigma

Architecture, Print Culture, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-century France

By :"Richard Wittman"
Published on 2007 by

Category :"Architecture"

Offering systematic surveys and detailed studies of the debates surrounding major Parisian architectural works in 18th century France, this book provides a new perspective on a turning point in the history of architecture, and its absorption into a nascent mass-media culture.

Lenght : 290

Language : en

This Book was ranked 31 by Google Books for keyword the paris architect

Pastrix

By :"Nadia Bolz-Weber"
Published on 2013-09-10 by Jericho Books

Category :"Biography & Autobiography"

Now a New York Times bestseller, Nadia Bolz-Weber takes no prisoners as she reclaims the term \

Lenght : 224

Language : en

This Book was ranked 23 by Google Books for keyword the paris architect

The Arcades Project

By :"Walter Benjamin","Rolf Tiedemann"
Published on 1999 by Harvard University Press

Category :"Literary Criticism"

Critiquing the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that served as early malls--the author, who wrote the work in the 1920s and 1930s, covers thirty-six still-trenchant topics, including fashion, boredom, photography, advertising, and prostitution, among others.

Lenght : 1073

Language : en

This Book was ranked 5 by Google Books for keyword the paris architect

The Paris Wife

By :"Paula McLain"
Published on 2011-02-22 by Ballantine Books

Category :"Fiction"

“A beautiful portrait of being in Paris in the glittering 1920s—as a wife and as one’s own woman.”—Entertainment Weekly A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures the love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley. Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness—until she meets Ernest Hemingway. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the golden couple in a lively and volatile group—the fabled “Lost Generation”—that includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Though deeply in love, the Hemingways are ill prepared for the hard-drinking, fast-living, and free-loving life of Jazz Age Paris. As Ernest struggles to find the voice that will earn him a place in history and pours himself into the novel that will become The Sun Also Rises, Hadley strives to hold on to her sense of self as her roles as wife, friend, and muse become more challenging. Eventually they find themselves facing the ultimate crisis of their marriage—a deception that will lead to the unraveling of everything they’ve fought so hard for. A heartbreaking portrayal of love and torn loyalty, The Paris Wife is all the more poignant because we know that, in the end, Hemingway wrote that he would rather have died than fallen in love with anyone but Hadley. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER—BEST HISTORICAL FICTION—GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY People • Chicago Tribune • NPR • The Philadelphia Inquirer • Kirkus Reviews • The Toronto Sun • BookPage Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.

Lenght : 336

Language : en

This Book was ranked 3 by Google Books for keyword the paris architect

The Book on Flipping Houses

By :"J. Scott","Joshua Dorkin","Brandon Turner"
Published on 2013-03-01 by Biggerpockets Publishing, LLC

Category :"Flipping (Real estate investment)"

Are you ready to leave the 9-5 and get started flipping houses? The Book on Flipping Houses is written by active real estate fix-and-flipper J Scott, author of the popular real estate website 123Flip.com, and is published by BiggerPockets Publishing, the publishing arm of the premier real estate investing website BiggerPockets.com. This book contains more than 350 pages of detailed, step-by-step training perfect for both the complete newbie or seasoned pro looking to build a killer house flipping business. In this book you'll discover how to: How to get financing for your deals, even with no cash and poor credit How to evaluate a potential market or \

Lenght : 352

Language : en

This Book was ranked 31 by Google Books for keyword compact houses

A Little History Of The English Country Church

By :"Roy Strong"
Published on 2012-05-31 by Random House

Category :"History"

This fascinating and beautifully illustrated little history is a celebration of the English country church - and a passionate plea for its preservation. In his engaging account Roy Strong tells the dramatic story of the English parish church, from the first temporary buildings erected in Anglo-Saxon times to its uncertain future in the twenty-first century. From the arrival of the missionaries from Ireland and Rome, who erected crosses in the country to mark the places where they preached, to the beautiful architecture and rich spirituality of medieval Catholicism; from the cataclysm of the Reformation, which replaced the splendour of ritual with the preaching of the Word, to the age of the 'squarson', the gentrified cleric we meet in the novels of Jane Austen: Roy Strong takes us on a journey - historical, social and spiritual - to explore what men and women experienced through the age when they went to church on Sunday.

Lenght : 272

Language : en

This Book was ranked 32 by Google Books for keyword the english country house

Requisitioned

By :"John Martin Robinson"
Published on 2014-05-06 by Aurum Press Limited

Category :"Architecture"

This book profiles 20 country houses and their fate during WW2, from schools (Chatsworth) to hospitals to barracks (Eaton Hall) to storing the National Art Collection (Penrhyn Castle). Wide geographical spread, including Scotland (where the SOE trained in West Coast castles like Rosneath) and Wales. Some houses have since been restored to former glory, like Arundel, some are famous only as a result of their wartime role - Bletchley Park - and others have been destroyed for ever.

Lenght : 192

Language : en

This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword the english country house

The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home

By :"Peter Mandler"
Published on 1999-05-01 by Yale University Press

Category :"History"

How much do the English really care about this stately homes? In this path-breaking and wide-ranging account of the changing fortunes and status of the stately homes of England over the past two centuries, Peter Mandler melds social, cultural, artistic and political perspectives and reveals much about the relationship of the nation to its past and its traditional ruling elite. Challenging the prevailing view of a modern English culture besotted with its history and its aristocracy, Mandler portrays instead a continuously changing and modernizing society in which both popular and intellectual attitudes towards the aristocracy - and its stately homes - have veered from selective appreciation to outright hostility, and only recently to thoroughgoing admiration. With great panache, Mandler adds the missing pieces to the story of the country house. Going beyond its architects and its owners, he brings to centre stage a much wider cast of characters - aristocratic entrepreneurs, anti-aristocratic politicians, campaigning conservationists, ordinary sightseers, and votersand a scenario full of incident and of local and national colour. He traces attitudes towards stately homes, beginning in the first half of the nineteenth century when public feeling about the aristocracy was mixed and divided, and criticism of the 'foreign' and 'exclusive' image of the aristocratic country house was widespread. At the same time, interest grew in those older houses that symbolized an olden time of imagined national harmony. The Victorian period saw also the first mass tourist industry, and a strong popular demand emerged for the right to visit all the stately homes. By the 1880s, however, hostility towards the aristocracy made appreciation of any country house politically treacherous, and interest in aristocratic heritage declined steadily for sixty years. Only after 1945, when the aristocracy was no longer seen as a threat, was a gentle revival of the stately homes possible, Mandler contends, and only since the 1970s has that revival become a triumphant appreciation. He enters the current debate with a discussion of how far people today - and tomorrow - are willing to see the aristocracy's heritage as their own.

Lenght : 523

Language : en

This Book was ranked 24 by Google Books for keyword the english country house

Hidden Illness in the White House

By :"Kenneth R. Crispell","Carlos Gomez"
Published on 1989-05-02 by Duke University Press

Category :"Political Science"

The serious illness of three presidents—Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy—as well as the injury Ronald Reagan received in the assassination attempt upon him have revealed our woefully inadequate system for handling presidential incapacity. The authors believe that this flawed system poses a major threat to the nation, and they provide sobering reports on how the government functioned (or failed to function) during times of presidential impairment. The public was kept in the dark regarding the gravity of the presidential condition, often unaware that critical decisions were being made while the president was suffering from a severe illness. Hidden Illness in the White House contains startling new information on the severity of Roosevelt’s illness during the crucial Yalta negotiations and the fact that Kennedy suffered from Addison’s disease, a life-threatening illness, long before he was elected to the presidency. In each case the authors demonstrate that a largely successful effort was made to conceal the president’s true medical condition from the public.

Lenght : 267

Language : en

This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword the hidden white house

Hatchet

By :"Gary Paulsen"
Published on 2001-01 by Macmillan Children's Books

Category :"Adventure stories"

In this book, Paulsen describes some of the dangerous episodes in his own life, many of which he has drawn on in his novels.

Lenght : 102

Language : en

This Book was ranked 40 by Google Books for keyword i m feeling lucky

Hard Luck

By :"Jeff Kinney"
Published on 2013-11-06 by Penguin UK

Category :"Juvenile Nonfiction"

Jeff Kinney's 8th book of this hilarious and highly successful series, and Greg Heffley and his friends now have a whole new set of adventures. Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story? '[This] 'novel in cartoons' should keep readers in stitches, eagerly anticipating Greg's further adventures.' Publishers Weekly

Lenght : 228

Language : en

This Book was ranked 38 by Google Books for keyword i m feeling lucky