Author: William Freke WILLIAMSPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The Life and Times of the ... Duke of Wellington: by Lieut. Colonel Williams. Comprising the Campaigns and Battle-fields of Wellington and His Comrades, Etc. (Vol. 3: the Political Life of the Duke; by T. Gaspey.).
Author: William Freke WILLIAMSPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Humanitarianism in the Modern World
Author: Norbert GötzPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108493521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A fresh look at two centuries of humanitarian history through a moral economy approach focusing on appeals, allocation, and accounting.
"By the River Potomac"
Author: Matthew R. LairdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"The Red Watch"
Author: John Allister CurriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Moronic Inferno
Author: Martin AmisPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446401731
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles, and interviewed its literati, filmmakers, thinkers, opinion makers, leaders and crackpots with characteristic discernment and wit. Included in a gallery of Great American Novelists are Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Joseph Heller, William Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike, Paul Theroux, Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. Amis also takes us to Dallas, where presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is attempting to liaise with born-again Christians. We glimpse the beau monde of Palm Beach, where each couple tries to out-Gatsby the other, and examine the case of Claus von Bulow. Steven Spielberg gets a visit, as does Brian de Palma, whom Amis asks why his films make no sense, and Hugh Hefner's sybaritic fortress and sanitised image are penetrated. There can be little that escapes the eye of Martin Amis when his curiosity leads him to a subject, and America has found in him a superlative chronicler.
A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography
Author: VariousPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
"A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century" by various and edited by Hector Willoughby Charlesworth had the aim to give recognition of the emergence of Canada from colonial territory to something like a national status by recording something of the achievements of those who had contributed to the intellectual, industrial and commercial growth of the country, as well as of its political leaders. Many of the people in this book are woefully under-appreciated, thus this book has attempted to bring these important historical figures to light.
The Buchanan Book. The Life of Alexander Buchanan, Q.C., of Montreal, Followed by an Account of the Family of Buchanan
Author: A. W. Patrick BuchananPublisher:
ISBN: 9789354035029
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Plutocrats
Author: Chrystia FreelandPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101595949
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but recently what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Forget the 1 percent—Plutocrats proves that it is the wealthiest 0.1 percent who are outpacing the rest of us at breakneck speed. Most of these new fortunes are not inherited, amassed instead by perceptive businesspeople who see themselves as deserving victors in a cutthroat international competition. With empathy and intelligence, Plutocrats reveals the consequences of concentrating the world’s wealth into fewer and fewer hands. Propelled by fascinating original interviews with the plutocrats themselves, Plutocrats is a tour de force of social and economic history, the definitive examination of inequality in our time.
GLORIES OF IRELAND
Author: Joseph 1872- Ed DunnPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781362477204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
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