Severed States

Author : Robert K. Schaeffer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847693351
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Severed States written by Robert K. Schaeffer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia, Bosnia, Palestine, Ireland--and many other nations are torn by seemingly intractable conflict in which partition has played a major role.

Author : United States. Supreme Court
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digest of the United States Supreme Court Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Gilmore
Publisher : Amok Books
ISBN 13 : 187892317X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Severed written by John Gilmore and published by Amok Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the L.A. noir classic is released just in time to accompany the Brian De Palma film.

Author : Daniel Moreau Barringer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law of Mines and Mining in the United States written by Daniel Moreau Barringer and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abraham Clark Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American State Reports written by Abraham Clark Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ling Ma
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717117
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Severance written by Ling Ma and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance. "A stunning, audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring." —Michael Schaub, NPR.org “A satirical spin on the end times-- kind of like The Office meets The Leftovers.” --Estelle Tang, Elle NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR * The New Yorker ("Books We Loved") * Elle * Marie Claire * Amazon Editors * The Paris Review (Staff Favorites) * Refinery29 * Bustle * Buzzfeed * BookPage * Bookish * Mental Floss * Chicago Review of Books * HuffPost * Electric Literature * A.V. Club * Jezebel * Vulture * Literary Hub * Flavorwire Winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award * Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction * Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award * Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel * A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 * An Indie Next Selection Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies cease operations. The subways screech to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost. Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers? A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale, and a hilarious, deadpan satire. Most important, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive.

Author : Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400842867
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When They Severed Earth from Sky written by Elizabeth Wayland Barber and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks? What was the Golden Calf? Why are mirrors believed to carry bad luck? How could anyone think that mortals like Perseus, Beowulf, and St. George actually fought dragons, since dragons don't exist? Strange though they sound, however, these "myths" did not begin as fiction. This absorbing book shows that myths originally transmitted real information about real events and observations, preserving the information sometimes for millennia within nonliterate societies. Geologists' interpretations of how a volcanic cataclysm long ago created Oregon's Crater Lake, for example, is echoed point for point in the local myth of its origin. The Klamath tribe saw it happen and passed down the story--for nearly 8,000 years. We, however, have been literate so long that we've forgotten how myths encode reality. Recent studies of how our brains work, applied to a wide range of data from the Pacific Northwest to ancient Egypt to modern stories reported in newspapers, have helped the Barbers deduce the characteristic principles by which such tales both develop and degrade through time. Myth is in fact a quite reasonable way to convey important messages orally over many generations--although reasoning back to the original events is possible only under rather specific conditions. Our oldest written records date to 5,200 years ago, but we have been speaking and mythmaking for perhaps 100,000. This groundbreaking book points the way to restoring some of that lost history and teaching us about human storytelling.

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Total Pages : 1134 pages
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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of United States Supreme Court Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edith Sheffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199876207
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book Burned Bridge written by Edith Sheffer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 shocked the world. Ever since, the image of this impenetrable barrier between East and West, imposed by communism, has been a central symbol of the Cold War. Based on vast research in untapped archival, oral, and private sources, Burned Bridge reveals the hidden origins of the Iron Curtain, presenting it in a startling new light. Historian Edith Sheffer's unprecedented, in-depth account focuses on Burned Bridge-the intersection between two sister cities, Sonneberg and Neustadt bei Coburg, Germany's largest divided population outside Berlin. Sheffer demonstrates that as Soviet and American forces occupied each city after the Second World War, townspeople who historically had much in common quickly formed opposing interests and identities. The border walled off irreconcilable realities: the differences of freedom and captivity, rich and poor, peace and bloodshed, and past and present. Sheffer describes how smuggling, kidnapping, rape, and killing in the early postwar years led citizens to demand greater border control on both sides--long before East Germany fortified its 1,393 kilometer border with West Germany. It was in fact the American military that built the first barriers at Burned Bridge, which preceded East Germany's borderland crackdown by many years. Indeed, Sheffer shows that the physical border between East and West was not simply imposed by Cold War superpowers, but was in some part an improvised outgrowth of an anxious postwar society. Ultimately, a wall of the mind shaped the wall on the ground. East and West Germans became part of, and helped perpetuate, the barriers that divided them. From the end of World War II through two decades of reunification, Sheffer traces divisions at Burned Bridge with sharp insight and compassion, presenting a stunning portrait of the Cold War on a human scale.