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This book is for men who worship women. It's for women who think feminism doesn't go far enough. It's for people of all genders who are fed up with male dominance. The opposite of patriarchy is Gynarchy, but it's not just a simple flip of the script. The Gynarchist must not emulate the same mistakes, or perpetuate the oppressive power dynamics prevalent for thousands of years. This book offers a theoretical background and a simple set of ideas and dynamics for bringing about the downfall of male dominance and ending the brutalization of women. Liberation begins at home. This includes using sex and sexuality to shift the collective psyche. 150 Years of Gynarchy will deprogram misogyny, heal wounds, balance the scales of history, and lead to a real and lasting equality.

Your ultimate guide to stunning crochet borders, perfect for blankets, garments, home décor, and more.Give your crochet projects a professional and polished look with 150+ Crochet Borders, an essential guide to adding beautiful, intricate edges to your work. Whether you’re finishing off a cozy blanket, embellishing a handmade garment, or adding a decorative touch to home décor, this book provides endless inspiration for crocheters of all skill levels.With more than 150 carefully curated border designs, including lacework, scalloped edges, geometric patterns, and delicate picot trims, these patterns offer a diverse range of styles to suit any project. Each edging includes crisp full-color photography, step-by-step written instructions, and detailed stitch charts to ensure success. Grouped into chapters inspired by cities around the world, you can pick and choose motifs perfectly suited to your project! Plus, tips on choosing yarns, adjusting stitch counts, and customizing designs make this a must-have resource for anyone passionate about crochet.Inside, you’ll find: 150+ unique crochet borders: From classic to contemporary, designs to complement any project. Detailed instructions and charts: Easy-to-follow patterns with clear visual guides. Versatile applications: Borders suitable for blankets, shawls, table linens, and more. Expert crochet techniques: Learn professional finishing tips to elevate your work. Perfect for beginners looking to master decorative crochet techniques and experienced crocheters seeking fresh inspiration,150+ Crochet Borders is the ultimate reference for adding artistry and elegance to any handmade piece.

***Winner, Best International Horse Training Book at the EQUUS Film Festival 2024 - 151 Polework Exercises for Horses***Are you ready to spice up your arena work and have fun with your horse? Enjoy 151 creative polework exercises that your horse will love! Polework exercises have many benefits from improving straightness, bending, suppleness and rhythm to better accuracy, impulsion, lateral work and collection. These exercises use between 1 to 8 poles, with a few layouts up to 14-16 poles. They are suitable for beginner to advanced levels. You can enjoy walk, trot and canter polework exercises - and even groundwork and in-hand exercises too! So what are you waiting for? It's time to set up some poles and have fun with your horse.

"1577," and its Afterword offer a powerful and thought-provoking commentary on the historical persecution of women, particularly during the witch trials that took place in Malmö, and connect it directly to ongoing struggles for female autonomy.

It’s the morning of Carter Cohen’s 16th birthday, and everything’s going his way. He’s psyched and ready to get his driver’s license, his little brother’s not hogging the bathroom, and, man, something smells good for breakfast…But when Carter bounds downstairs, Mom bursts into tears. It happened again. It’s Carter’s 16th birthday—for the sixth time. Every time he’s supposed to turn 17, he loops back a year. His memory gets wiped clean, his body ages backward—the rest of the world moves on, just not him.Maggie Spear, on the other hand, has been dreading this day ever since she and Carter started dating. When she spies him in the halls and he doesn’t seem to know her at all, it’s obvious that it’s over between them. She can’t be in a relationship with someone who is just going to forget her again and again. Since Carter doesn’t remember that they’re together, then it’s probably better if she just pretends that they never were.Except Carter senses that there’s more to their story than Maggie’s letting on, and Maggie’s keeping secrets of her own—but in the process of trying to let the other go, they find themselves falling in love all over again.With Maggie soon leaving for college and Carter’s birthday quickly coming around again, will they be able to find a forever that isn’t stuck at 16? Filled with tender moments, silly banter, and lots of teenage angst, 16 Forever is the latest YA page-turner from New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Lance Rubin.

For nearly seven decades now, Walter Schels' work has straddled the lines between documentation and transformation, between formal rigor and an experimental spirit. Schels is best-known as an empathetic portraitist, one who explores the essence of his subjects in a minimalistic visual language. Whether young or old, elephant or wilted flower—at the heart of his portraits and long-term studies lie existential themes such as identity, birth and death. Schels' experimental work, however, has been comparatively overlooked: through overpainting, double-exposure, collage and polarization, he has increasingly moved into the realm of painting. Indeed Schels views photography as a changeable, open-ended process: "An image is never finished," he says, referencing both his creative stance and the infinite possibilities of the darkroom. Walter Schels 16° Pisces. Photographs 1958-2026 brings together both halves of Schels' œuvre for the first time. Here we discover his acclaimed portraits alongside cutting-edge images including reshaped cityscapes of 1960s New York and recent abstractions using photographic chemicals and plant fragments. The book's title, not unlike its content, is poetic self-reflection: on the day of Schels' birth in 1960, the sun was in Pisces at precisely 16 degrees. From this constellation he has defined his artistic temperament: one of sensitivity, intuition, imagination, and an inexhaustible curiosity for his subjects.

Create useful and essential items that can't be purchased commercially, from an auxiliary workbench and tap holders to distance and height gauges, a lathe backstop, faceplate clamps, and so much more. 16 Metalworking Workshop Projects for Home Machinists contains a collection of unique projects based on the author's most popular articles that have been published in Model Engineer's Workshop magazine. Every satisfying project is intended to make workshop tasks easier once the item is completed and ready for use. Author Harold Hall was the editor of Model Engineers' Workshop magazine and established himself as a mentor to Tyro model engineers worldwide. He is also the author of seven books in the indispensable Home Machinists Series.

Czernys kurze, achttaktige Übungen zählen "ohne Zweifel zu den besten, umfassendsten, vielseitigsten Etüden Czernys" (Klaus Wolters, Handbuch der Klavierliteratur). Neben dem allgemeinen Ziel einer geschmeidigen, differenzierten, ausdrucksvollen Geläufigkeit behandeln die Übungen in konzentriertester Form vielfältige Grundlagen des Klavierspiels: diatonisches und chromatisches Tonleiterspiel, Tonrepetitionen, Doppelgriffe, simultane und gebrochene Terzen bzw. Oktaven, Akkordspiel, Zweistimmigkeit in einer Hand, Polyphonie, Alternieren der Hände, Doppelschläge, Triller, Vorschläge und vieles mehr. Unsere Neuausgabe basiert auf der Erstausgabe aus dem Jahr 1853 und enthält die originalen Fingersätze Carl Czernys.Schwierigkeitsgrad: 3-4

These short piano studies, all only 8 measures long, provide a fantastic quick resource for working on specific technical aspects - scales, legato, staccato, trills, arpeggios - from one of the most famous piano teachers of all time.160 kurze Übungen op. 821 für KlavierAls Klaviervirtuose und Schüler von namhaften Lehrern wie Beethoven, Clementi und Hummel wusste Carl Czerny, wie man sein Spiel optimal trainiert. Seine Kenntnisse teilt er in 80 Klavierschulen, die unzählige Etüden sammeln. Zur kurzen, intensiven Übung sind in dieser Ausgabe 160 Etüden gesammelt, die jeweils acht Takte lang sind. Dabei liegt der Fokus sowohl auf den Händen einzeln als auch auf beiden Händen und von technisch-rhythmischen Herausforderungen bis zu melodisch-lyrischen Stücken hat Czerny alle Nuancen berücksichtigt. Mit den meisten Stücken in schnellem Tempo und lebhafter Gestaltung sind diese Übungen eher für fortgeschrittene Schüler geeignet.

The 17th century was a period of unprecedented blossoming in Dutch art and culture. Rembrandt developed his innovative techniques and Vermeer captured life in silent tableaus while trade flourished and supplied the Netherlands with goods from all over the world. The decorative arts responded, and the canal-side houses inhabited by a burgeoning merchant class came to resemble royal palaces, filled with art, luxury items from the Far East, porcelain and silk.A newly updated companion guide to the Rijksmuseum's unparalleled collection of art from this period, 1600-1700 features more than 150 highlights from the Amsterdam institution. Painting a spectacular picture of the glory of the Dutch Golden Age through its art and material culture, this volume features illustrated entries on beloved masterpieces such as Rembrandt's "Night Watch," Vermeer's "Milkmaid" and Frans Hals' "The Merry Drinker," among many others.

The story of Manic Street Preachers is unique in pop. Raging out of the stricken mining communities of south Wales in the late 80s, they were bonded by friendships, family ties and a self-styled 'geometry of contempt', whereby James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore would orchestrate the daring intellectual broadsides written by Richey Edwards and Nicky Wire. Seemingly condemned to mere cult status by a cruel juncture of artistic triumph, commercial failure and personal despair, the story took an agonising twist when the tragedy of Edwards' 1995 disappearance was followed by a remarkable rebirth built upon 'A Design For Life's hymn to the band's working-class roots, and then the award-winning, multi-million-selling album Everything Must Go, a majestic soundtrack to history and loss.<BR><BR> Less than five years later, Manic Street Preachers played to 60,000 at the national stadium of Wales and had their second UK Number 1 single. Subsequent output has confirmed the band as both a wellspring of restless creativity and a barometer of the cultural conversation.<BR><BR> Because it was music that saved them, it's through the prism of their music that Keith Cameron tells the definitive history of Manic Street Preachers, drawing on many hours of new interviews to dive deep into 168 songs, from 1988's debut single 'Suicide Alley' to the late day peaks of 2025's album Critical Thinking. Writing with the band's full co-operation, his book charts the dynamic evolution of a universe in which Karl Marx and Kylie Minogue happily co-exist, that accords Rush and The Clash equal favor, and where Morrissey & Marr meet Torvill & Dean via Nietzsche and New Order in a single four-minute pop song - all in the name of what Nicky Wire himself calls 'the fabulous disaster' of Manic Street Preachers.

The current edition of the European Biotechnology Science & Industry Guide is showcasing brilliant science and excellent business from companies, universities, research institutes, and expert support providers. In addition to the detailed portraits on 144 colored pages, the guide features a report about the largest biotech deals and fundings in 2025. Readers will discover many success stories and current trends in the European biotech industry.

17 STRANDS is a reflective guide for youth on systemic leadership towards a greener and sustainable world. While global leaders debate solutions, youth changemakers are quietly and consistently making an impact in their communities. The book's purpose is to not only celebrate changemakers, but to alsoremind our global leaders that hope is local, to also bridge youthactions in their community to global change and to raiseawareness about sustainability and youth leadership. This is done in order to inspire a new generation of thoughtful and compassionate leaders who are humanely connected to their community. This book humanizes global policies into personal narratives of young change-makers, while drawing on my personal experience as a youth ambassador of UNMGCY as well as the stories of other changemakers from various countries. In hopes of simplifying and personalizing jargon driven SDGs, this book recontextualizes policy within the lived-experience of different communities. When readers close the book, they will walk away more enlightened and attentive to the sustainable development goals. They will know that they have the permission to act imperfectly and empathetically towards those goals. The ultimate purpose of the book is to remind young change makers that no impact is too small and they are not alone.

Über ein Jahrhundert lang sind die 1847 in Hamburg gegründete Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft und der zehn Jahre jüngere Norddeutsche Lloyd in Bremen erbitterte Wettbewerber, die nur dann miteinander kooperieren, wenn es unumgänglich ist. Beide rivalisierenden Reedereien bringen es zu Weltgeltung, sie bauen die größten Frachter und die schnellsten Passagierdampfer, sie dominieren das Auswanderergeschäft und erfinden die Kreuzfahrt. Zwei Weltkriege kosten sie ihre gesamten Flotten, doch sie bauen sie wieder auf, jeweils größer und effizienter als zuvor. Als Ende der 1960er der Container seinen globalen Siegeszug antritt und Reedereien und Seestädte zu stetig höherenInvestitionen in Flotten und Häfen zwingt, setzt sich in Hamburg und Bremen die Erkenntnis durch, Kräfte zu bündeln und Hapag und Lloyd zu fusionieren. Heute zählt die 1970 gegründete Hapag- Lloyd AG mit einer Flotte von 250 Containerschiffen, einem jährlichen Transportvolumen von zwölf Millionen TEU und über 13.000 Mitarbeitern in 129 Ländern zu den weltweit führenden Linienreedereien.'Number One for Quality' lautet das Kundenversprechen, mit dem Hapag-Lloyd den Fortbestand als profitabler Global Player sichern will. Dieses Buch erzählt die spannende Geschichte dieses Unternehmens von der Gründung 1847 bis zum Jubiläum 2022.

When students arrive for a theatre class, they appreciate a game or exercise that will loosen them up and activate their right brain - the artistic side. A good warm-up allows class members to tune in to their creative natures and readies them for the adventures ahead. The games and exercises in this book are designed to be used as warm-ups at the beginning of a theatre class period. They are organized into sections focusing on one of 12 specific skills - cooperation, focus, improvisation, listening, stage movement, voice, and several more. The games were initially created for middle school students but can easily be adapted for use with younger children, older teens, and even adults. Each game involves most, if not all, of the students in a class, has simple easy-to-implement directions, offers a practical benefit, and, most important, is fun for your students.

Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for "Truman" and "John Adams," David McCullough returns with the story of the Revolutionary War--a book certain to be another landmark in the literature of American history.Simon & Schuster

McCullough takes the reader on the extraordinary journey of Henry Knox, the Boston book seller who set off in mid-winter to bring back the heavy British artillery that had been left at Fort Ticonderoga. This is narrative history at its best that brings to life an extraordinary period, and a vast array of extraordinary characters on both sides of the conflict. This is not "military" history, though it contains many battles, nor "biography", though it illuminates the lives of many men and women, but quite history well told.

Celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States of America with this collector’s edition of David McCullough’s 1776—the unforgettable saga of the people and events that forged American independence.<BR><BR>America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that placed America’s survival in the hands of George Washington.<BR><BR>In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence—when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.<BR> <BR> Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color; farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King’s men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known.<BR> <BR> Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCullough’s 1776 is another landmark in the literature of American history.<BR><BR>This deluxe hardcover includes:<BR> - A beautifully designed slipcase with foil accents - Striking sprayed edges - A ribbon marker - Designed endpapers

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject History - Miscellaneous, Harvard University (GSAS), course: International History, language: English, abstract: This work seeks to better understand how a small and, under a political perspective, seemingly insignificant northern Italian state, the Dukedom of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, became connected to the political and military storm brewing in a far-distant corner of the world called America. The time examined in this essay is the year 1776. During the eighteenth century the Dukedom of Parma depended both economically and politically on the two main Bourbon powers: France and Spain. France and Spain were also the two main allies of the American revolutionaries. Parma was diplomatically represented by Spain, while its only independent diplomatic representation of the small state resided in France. Nonetheless, it would not, at first consideration, seem obvious to find such a wide and detailed amount of information concerning the American Revolution, or about the parliamentary debates taking place in London, in the dukedom¿s only official means of communication, the Gazzetta di Parma. Indeed, in this period, Parma was arguably the most politically conservative state on the Italian peninsula, one unlikely to be so interested in the talk of rights and freedom being spread by the American Revolution. The primary sources used for this research are mostly unpublished. They are the dispatches from the ambassador of Parma at Versailles to the Parmesan secretary of state, contained in Parmäs State Archive (PSA), and editions of the Gazetta di Parma from 1776, contained in the municipal archive.

Presenting a wealth of new, bespoke imagery and building on the authors' unrivalled level of expertise, 17th-Century Men's Dress Patterns is a definitive resource for costume designers, fashion historians and students.

NPR Best Books of 2017NOW IN GLORIOUS PAPERBACH AND FEATURING NEW PHOTOS18 And Life on Skid Row tells the story of a boy who spent his childhood moving from Freeport, Bahamas to California and finally to Canada and who at the age of eight discovered the gift that would change his life. Throughout his career, Sebastian Bach has sold over twenty million records both as the lead singer of Skid Row and as a solo artist. He is particularly known for the hit singles I Remember You, Youth Gone Wild, & 18 & Life, and the albums Skid Row and Slave To The Grind, which became the first ever hard rock album to debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 and landed him on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. Bach then went on to become the first rock star to grace the Broadway stage, with starring roles in Jekyll & Hyde, Jesus Christ Superstar and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He also appeared for seven seasons on the hit television show The Gilmore Girls.In his memoir, Bach recounts lurid tales of excess and debauchery as he toured the world with Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Motley Crue, Soundgarden, Pantera, Nine Inch Nails and Guns N’ Roses. Filled with backstage photos from his own personal collection, 18 And Life on Skid Row is the story of hitting it big at a young age, and of a band that broke up in its prime. It is the story of a man who achieved his wildest dreams, only to lose his family, and then his home. It is a story of perseverance, of wine, women and song and a man who has made his life on the road and always will. 18 And Life On Skid Row is not your ordinary rock memoir, because Sebastian Bach is not your ordinary rock star.

A rare instructional treatise of Chinese boxing from the Kwongsai Dragon-Tiger Mountain, Bamboo Forest Temple, Praying Mantis Clan, as transmitted by the late Grandmaster Lam Sang. Details include stories of Lam Sang's supernatural ability such as Poison Snake Staff, Sun Gazing, and Light Body Skills. Boxing principles elaborated are Body posture, Rooting, Sinking, Center-line, Spiral power, Contact-control-strike, Intercepting and sticky hand, Bridging, Anticipating-telegraphing, Dead and live power, Form and function, 4 word secret, Dim Mak vital points and more. Boxing Fundamentals included are Footwork: Chop, Circle, Advance, Shuffle step, Turnarounds, Side to side; Kicks, Sweeps, Takedowns, Grappling, Chin Na Seizing, Hook hands, Elbow strokes, Dui Jong, Sticky hands, Forms, and Phases of training. Eighteen Buddha Hand techniques, 9 defensive, 9 offensive, are illustrated in color with instruction in attributes, function and vital point targeting. Boxing maxims of strategy and tactics are included.

'AN INTENSELY SMART, INSANELY READABLE AND EMINENTLY PRACTICAL GUIDE' Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of Drive. Transform your life in just 18 minutes a day. The most important business/self-help book since EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE and THE ONE-MINUTE MANAGER.How often do you get to the end of another long and frantic day and wonder why so many important things didn't get finished? We've never worked so hard and felt so unproductive and unfulfilled. 18 MINUTES takes this challenge and turns it on its head. Peter Bregman, top HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW columnist and global management consultant, shatters the myth of getting it all done by offering a clear and simple plan for getting the right things done. He shows how the best way to fight distracting interruptions is to create productive ones ourselves, a practice that can be easily implemented in 18 minutes a day. The result is a simple yet comprehensive approach to managing your life a year, a day, and a moment at a time so that your life moves forward the way you want and at the pace you want.

Drum and bass incorporates a number of scenes and styles, from the highly electronic, industrial sounds of techstep through to the use of conventional, acoustic instrumentation that characterize the more jazz-influenced end of the spectrum. The sounds of drum and bass are extremely varied due to the range of influences behind the music. Get to know this diverse genre through its history, artists, and development.

180 of the sharpest and stickiest ways to get better results at work..<BR><BR> "Flip the org chart and put the customer on top."<BR> "Write the press release before you start development."<BR> "Give someone busy more work to do."<BR><BR> In 180 Business Hacks, you'll find these and 177 other surprising, sharp and inspiring ways to get better results at work.<BR> These cheat codes will help you succeed by shifting the way you think about business problems.<BR><BR> Conventional thinking gets you conventional results but often the stickiest ideas are small. And like tiny cracks, they eventually turn<BR> into in something bigger.<BR> The hacks are organized into 9 themed chapters (Innovation, Strategy, Structure, Management, Analysis, Portfolio, Change, Impact and Effectiveness) so you can find them quickly, but for best results just flip through and open at random.<BR><BR> You'll always find something unexpected to add to your daily routine.

Help fourth grade students build reading skills with meaningful and engaging daily practice activities. The daily reading practice in this workbook covers fiction, nonfiction, and nontraditional texts, organized by interesting thematic units.

Tsumego are the heartbeat of Go study - concise challenges that sharpen your sense for life and death. Each position is a small drama of tension and precision. Regular practice trains the eye to see vital points through clear, logical patterns. Your reading grows faster, your judgment steadier, and subtle details in real games begin to stand out.This book gives you 180 carefully selected life-and-death problems themed around nakade and damezumari.

2022 Reprint of the 1921 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published in 1921 as Mechanical Movements, Powers and Devices. It is a treatise describing mechanical movements and provides a basic mechanical dictionary of mechanical movements. It serves as a fascinating compendium of early-twentieth-century mechanical devices and covers a variety of applications. More than 1,800 engravings - ranging from simple diagrams to detailed cross-sections - illustrate the workings of each item, from simple hooks and levers to complex machinery used in steam, motive, hydraulic, air, and electric power, navigation, gearing, clocks, mining, construction, and more. Compiled as a ready reference for inventors, students of mechanics, artisans, and other workers, this volume features only minimal text. Its true value lies in its wealth of illustrated information, offering the quickest and most satisfactory method of conveying the exact conditions of mechanical action and construction.

1800-1900 tells the eventful story of the 19th century in the Netherlands--from the Napoleonic Wars and the Industrial Revolution to Belgian independence and colonial politics in the Dutch East Indies--through the Rijksmuseum's 100 most important objects from the era. From Jan Willem Pieneman's huge painting "The Battle of Waterloo" to Vincent van Gogh's self-portrait; from the piano once owned by Louis Napoleon to the most beautiful art nouveau vases; from the most famous Hague School and Breitner paintings to the exuberant applied art once displayed at world's fairs, this volume is an essential companion to the Rijksmuseum's important 19th century collection. Each object is fully contextualized with a detailed explanation of its origin, history and function. An essential volume for lovers of the art and history of the era, 1800-1900 traces the political, social, economic and artistic history of the 19th century through its objects.

***SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND STANDARD CHARTERED BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2026***'The book to read right now [is 1873] . . . All of us are reading this' - Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, The TimesFrom the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance comes a brilliant account of the earliest truly global financial calamity.On Friday, 9 May 1873 the Vienna stock market collapsed. Four months later Wall Street was in trouble. Elsewhere, as panic selling spread across financial markets, some countries defaulted on their debts, while the Bank of England was forced to raise its rates to their highest level in a century. It was the first global crash in history. And it was to have calamitous consequences.In his powerful new book, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance tells the epic story of that crash and explores its economic and human costs. He describes how the growth of the international bond market in the 1850s and 60s funded a frenzy of speculation in railways, construction and nation-building. He examines those who became swept up in the boom, from leading bankers like the Rothschild dynasty to national leaders both visionary and venal, to rogues and chancers like the shameless Jay Gould, to such sceptical onlookers as Mark Twain and Karl Marx. He then traces how, in the subsequent panic, investors were left with catastrophic losses, while governments on both sides of the Atlantic rushed misguidedly to reorder the world's financial system.As he shows, the blunders made as the crisis unfolded set the stage for twenty years of deflation, and a punitive legacy of aggrieved populism that infected every part of the globe. Amid the crash's many aftershocks, the US abandoned Reconstruction, European powers staged an economic takeover of the heavily indebted Ottoman Empire, and the principle of international free trade came under pressure. Meanwhile there was a revival of antisemitic movements in Europe that blamed 'Jewish finance' for the disaster.A brilliant evocation of a key turning point in world history, 1873 is also a masterly examination of the unforeseen political and social consequences of financial misjudgements.

A Financial Times Business Book of the Year finalist<BR><BR>“The book to read right now [is 1873] . . . All of us are reading this.” —Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, The Times (UK)<BR><BR>“Superb . . . Ahamed thrillingly brings back to life a boom not unlike today's . . . In the process, he illuminates new ways of thinking about finance.” —Patrick Foulis, Financial Times<BR><BR>From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lords of Finance, a magnificent and timely reckoning with the first truly global financial calamity and the famous banking family at the center of the whirlwind<BR><BR>Over the course of the 1850s and 1860s, during the first era of globalization, the world experienced an unprecedented economic boom. Fueling this expansion was an explosion in the global bond market, at the hub of which stood one family—the Rothschilds, arguably the wealthiest banking family in history. While the giant sums of capital provided through the bond market built the railroads, the century’s most transformative investments, the money raised also unleashed a frenzy of speculation, massive overinvestment, and wasteful borrowing by governments.<BR><BR>With excessive euphoria leading to disappointed expectations, in the early 1870s the bubble burst. Stock markets from Vienna to New York crashed, and dozens of railroads and many governments defaulted. Financial officials responded by blundering into a precipitous remaking of the global currency system—exacerbating the ensuing economic collapse and setting the stage for decades of a punitive deflation that sparked waves of anti-globalist populism. As Liaquat Ahamed shows us in this enthralling history, the crisis of 1873 was, among other things, a death blow to Reconstruction in the United States and the proximate cause of the Ottoman Empire’s slow death spiral. Ironically, though the Rothschilds had presciently kept a low profile during the bubble, when the deluge came, they were viciously scapegoated as part of a wider hatred directed at “Jewish finance,” a strain of antisemitism that would come to full evil flower during the twentieth century.<BR><BR>1873 is a bird’s-eye reckoning with the full dimension of the crisis, from its buildup to its long aftermath. The Rothschilds and a cast of other witnesses give us the human perspective. And we have a brilliant financial historian’s grasp of the larger forces at play, resulting in a global narrative with thrilling explanatory power.

"Tell me how to live so many lives at once ..."Fowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes; Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his West Bank garden; mysterious Uncle Mohammed, who moved to the mountain; a girl in a red sweater dangling a book bag; children in velvet dresses who haunt the candy bowl at the party; Baba Kamalyari, age 71; Mr. Dajani and his swans; Sitti Khadra, who never lost her peace inside.Maybe they have something to tell us.Naomi Shihab Nye has been writing about being Arab-American, about Jerusalem, about the West Bank, about family all her life. These new and collected poems of the Middle East -- sixty in all -- appear together here for the first time.

"Tell me how to live so many lives at once ..."Fowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes; Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his West Bank garden; mysterious Uncle Mohammed, who moved to the mountain; a girl in a red sweater dangling a book bag; children in velvet dresses who haunt the candy bowl at the party; Baba Kamalyari, age 71; Mr. Dajani and his swans; Sitti Khadra, who never lost her peace inside.Maybe they have something to tell us.Naomi Shihab Nye has been writing about being Arab-American, about Jerusalem, about the West Bank, about family all her life. These new and collected poems of the Middle East -- sixty in all -- appear together here for the first time.

2019 Reprint of 1896 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. In this work Lockwood creates an alternate history of the United States that puts William Jennings Bryan in power, and in which Bryan immediately took America off the gold standard. Mob actions and political chas follows. Prescient for those unhappy with the 2016 election; the issues are entirely different, but the turmoil seems similar.

In Ingersoll Lockwood's 1900; Or, The Last President, a politically charged New York City is on edge after a political outsider overcomes stiff opposition to be elected President of the United States. Mob rule threatens, and marching protests rove up and down Fifth Avenue searching for symbols of wealth to destroy. Lockwood uses this setting to critique the socialist and collectivist mentality of his era and illustrate the inherent danger of the crowd. The story is a small and relatively unknown political satire from the late 19th century, which found new popularity after the election of Donald Trump in 2016.

A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever.<BR><BR>The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. Kafka falls in love; Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet; a young seamstress called Coco Chanel opens her first boutique; Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract; and new drugs like cocaine usher in an age of decadence.<BR><BR>Yet everywhere there is the premonition of ruin - the number 13 is omnipresent, and in London, Paris and Vienna, artists take the omen and act as if there were no tomorrow. In a Munich hotel lobby, Rilke and Freud discuss beauty and transience; Proust sets out in search of lost time; and while Stravinsky celebrates the Rite of Spring with industrial cacophony, an Austrian postcard painter by the name of Adolf Hitler sells his conventional cityscapes.

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The chilling novella featured in Stephen King's bestselling collection Full Dark, No Stars, 1922 - about a man who succumbs to the violence within - is now available as a stand-alone publication.I believe there is a man inside every man, a strangerSo writes Wilfred James in his confession. It's 1922. Wilfred owns eighty acres of farmland in Nebraska that have been in the family for generations. His wife, Arlette, owns an adjoining one hundred acres.But if Arlette carries out her threat to sell her land to a pig butcher, Wilfred will be forced to sell too. Worse, he'll have to move to the city. But he has a daring plan. It may work if he can persuade his son. A powerful tale of betrayal, murder, madness and rats, 1922 is a breathtaking exploration into the dark side of human nature from the great American storyteller Stephen King. It was adapted into a film from Netflix.

"In 1923, the Weimar Republic faced a series of crises, including foreign occupation of its industrial heartland, rampant inflation, radical violence, and finally Hitler's infamous "beer hall putsch." Fanning the flames of anti-government and anti-Semitic sentiment, the Nazis tried to violently seize power in Munich, only failing after they were abandoned by like-minded conservatives. In 1923, historian Mark William Jones draws on new research to offer a revealing portrait of German politics and society in this turbulent year. Tracing Hitler's early rise, Jones reveals how political pragmatism and unprecedented international cooperation with the West brought Germany out of its crisis year. Although Germany would succumb to tyranny a decade later, the story of the republic's survival in 1923 offers essential lessons to anyone concerned about the future of democracy today."--Provided by publisher.