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Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power
America's power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable What has happened these past few years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Celebrated Slate columnist Fred Kaplan explains the grave misconceptions that enabled George W. Bush and his aides to get so far off track, and traces the genesis and evolution of these ideas from the era of Nixon through Reagan to the present day..
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Wrecked: What God Can Do When Things Crash and Burn
We all feel the crash and burn of this broken world at some point in our lives, whether from situations out of our control, from paths that we've chosen, or even as a result of our obedience to God. Ryan Dobson and Toben Heim have been there--they know what it is to be wrecked by bad choices and uninvited circumstances. But they also know that being wrecked is not the end of the story. They have seen firsthand how God can take the mangled pieces of our lives and transform them into something beyond what we could fathom. Through their honest stories and insights into Scripture, you will find that your life doesn't have to be wrecked forever. But it can be wrecked for good..
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Big Cotton: How A Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map
Cotton has touched off wars and revolutions, inspired astonishing inventions, laid waste to entire ecosystems, and enslaved untold millions of people. Alexander the Great carried cotton cloth on his back from India to Europe. Starting from the late eighteenth century, the fiber transformed creaky rural England into the greatest industrial power on earth. Today, cotton is, if anything, more preeminent than ever and at the center of raging global controversies. Now Stephen Yafa delves deep into the past to tell the amazing story of this humble, infinitely adaptable fiber that hasagain and againreinvented our world. Domesticated simultaneously in Peru and Pakistan some 5,500 years ago, later a prime motive for the colonization of the New World, as Yafa shows, cottons most profound impact came after the Industrial Revolution. By the mid-nineteenth century, the vast plantations of the antebellum South, the grim mill towns of New England, and the soot-spewing factories of the English Midlands were knit together in a global system of exploitation and enslavementall of it based on cotton. When Marx and Engels composed The Communist Manifesto, they chose cotton manufacturing as the prime symbol of capitalism run amok. Beautifully researched and written, Big Cotton traces the cultural, economic, and social history of the worlds friendliest fiber from the kingdoms of Mesopotamia to the Gap..
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Wrecked
Dear anyone who cared about Cameron,I was the driver of the "other" car. The police and my mother and my father and plenty of people are saying that I didn't kill her. But I know I did. That's what her parents must believe And my brother, Jack. He always sees what's true. I want to tell him how sorry I am about the accident I want to say a lot of things to him and to everybody -- like how Cameron was smart and beautiful and kind in a way that isn't all that common in high school. Like how much Jack loved her and how sometimes I can hear him crying through the wall at night. I want to say how bad everything can get. In one split second. Upside down and shattered. Just like that.
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Admirable Crichton: A ship wrecked comedy
An exciting comedy from the author of Peter Pan with the wit and insight of the Importance of Being Ernest. A group of aristocrats who are shipwrecked find themselves stranded on an island and are totally out of their element.. Much to their embarrassment, they are saved by their low born butler named Crichton, who soon became their leader. Shock horror, what would proper society think back home?.
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Oedipus Wrecked
If David Sedaris were straight (or Margaret Cho were a man), they might be Kevin Keck. Keck mines the same rich vein of candid, confessional humor as these popular comics, but Oedipus Wrecked goes further in single-mindedly, hilariously recounting every grim detail of the author's almost absurdly varied sexual history. Keck pulls no punches in describing his endless, obsessive erotic experiments. In essays like "Ass Backwards," "Wet, Hot Presbyterian Summer," and "I Was a Teenage Homosexual," Keck skewers his eccentric mother (whose dildo he swipes), documents his plunge into the "chorus of coming" on a sex party line, and limns a particularly outré encounter with a girl who demands he participate in water sports but won't "have sex" because "that's a sin." For a driven horndog like Keck, sexual taboos exist to be broken. Still he always pays a price through numbing guilt or fear of discovery — though neither prevents him from embarking on the next quest for love and orgasms. Keck's tableaux of sexual excess are rendered in vivid, unflinching language that marks the emergence of a new voice in contemporary humor that's both cuttingly comic and startlingly revelatory. .
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The Life of Captain James Cook the Circumnavigator
Captain James Cook was one of the greatest most famous British explorer, navigator and cartographer Cook was the first Captain to find a cure for scurvy by feeding his crew limes that gave them the yet to be discovered vitamin C. Cook also mapped much of the American west coast from Oregon up to Alaska. He discovered New Zealand and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef on which he crashed his ship. While repairing his ship his men discovered a new strange hopping animal which they named kangaroo..
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Admirable Crichton - A Shipwrecked Comedy
A Play in the tradition of "The Importance of Being Ernest" by the author of Peter Pan. It's the story of a group of shipwrecked aristocrats who are stranded on a desert island and are totally out of their element Much to their embarrassment, they are saved by a low born 'butler' named Crichton. The working class Crichton soon became their leader- Shock horror- what would proper society think back home? Author J.M. Barrie is a master playwright and is not afraid to take on the British class system..
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