The Friday Society

Author : Adrienne Kress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780803737617
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Friday Society written by Adrienne Kress and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cora, Nellie, and Micto three powerful men in Edwardian London, meet by chance and discover a murdered man, leading the three to work together to solve this and other related crimes.

Author : Adam Gidwitz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735231702
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Creature of the Pines written by Adam Gidwitz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller! Unicorns are real. (At least we think they are.) Are you ready to protect the creatures of myth and legend? Then you belong in The Unicorn Rescue Society. HURRY–THE CREATURES NEED YOU! Elliot Eisner isn't exactly thrilled with the first day at his new school. His class is going on a field trip to a creepy forest called the Pine Barrens. The trip is being led by Professor Fauna, the weirdest teacher Elliot has ever met. And the only kid who will talk to Elliot, Uchenna Devereaux, isn’t afraid of danger. She likes danger. Elliot and Uchenna are about to become part of a secret group of adventurers, The Unicorn Rescue Society, whose goal is to protect and defend the world’s mythical creatures. Together with Professor Fauna, Elliot and Uchenna must help rescue a Jersey Devil from a duo of conniving, greedy billionaires, the Schmoke Brothers. Join Elliot and Uchenna on their very first quest as members of the Unicorn Rescue Society in this fantasy-adventure series from Adam Gidwitz, the beloved bestselling and Newbery Honor-winning author of The Inquisitors Tale and A Tale Dark & Grimm. Illustrated throughout, this is the perfect fit for newly independent readers looking for a story full of adventure, fun, and friendship.

Author : Leslie Brothers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195147049
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Friday's Footprint written by Leslie Brothers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing the brain as a social organ, adapted to respond to and process specific social stimuli that are unique to human evolution, Dr Leslie Brothers uses findings from neuroscience, anthropology and palaeontology to make a convincing argument.

Author : Paul Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608198189
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impulse Society written by Paul Roberts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's something most of us have sensed for years-the rise of a world defined only by “mine” and “now.” A world where business shamelessly seeks the fastest reward, regardless of the long-term social consequences; where political leaders reflexively choose short-term fixes over broad, sustainable social progress; where individuals feel increasingly exploited by a marketplace obsessed with our private cravings yet oblivious to our spiritual well-being or the larger needs of our families and communities. At the heart of The Impulse Society is an urgent, powerful story: how the pursuit of short-term self-gratification, once scorned as a sign of personal weakness, became the default principle not only for individuals, but for all sectors of our society. Drawing on the latest research in economics, psychology, political philosophy, and business management, Paul Roberts shows how a potent combination of rapidly advancing technologies, corrupted ideologies, and bottom-line business ethics has pushed us across a threshold to an unprecedented state: a virtual merging of the market and the self. The result is a socioeconomic system ruled by impulse, by the reflexive, id-like drive for the largest, quickest, most “efficient” reward, without regard for long-term costs to ourselves or to broader society. More than thirty years ago, Christopher Lasch hinted at this bleak world in his landmark book, The Culture of Narcissism. In The Impulse Society, Roberts shows how that self-destructive pattern has grown so pervasive that anxiety and emptiness are becoming embedded in our national character. Yet it is in this unease that Roberts finds clear signs of change-and broad revolt as millions of Americans try step off the self-defeating treadmill of gratification and restore a sense of balance. Fresh, vital, and free of ideological, right-wing/left-wing formulations, The Impulse Society shows the way back to a world of real and lasting good.

Author : American Physical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the American Physical Society written by American Physical Society and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School & Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Diana Peterfreund
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 044033618X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Society Girl written by Diana Peterfreund and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2006-07-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Beautiful Disaster will devour Diana Peterfreund’s Ivy League novels—Secret Society Girl, Under the Rose, Rites of Spring (Break), and Tap & Gown. At an elite university, Amy Haskel has been initiated into the country’s most notorious secret society. But in this power-hungry world where new blood is at the mercy of old money, hooking up with the wrong people could be fatal. Eli University junior Amy Haskel never expected to be tapped into Rose & Grave. She isn’t rich, politically connected, or . . . well, male. So when Amy is one of the first female students to receive the distinctive black-lined invitation with the Rose & Grave seal, she’s blown away. Could they really mean her? Whisked off into an elaborate initiation rite, Amy awakens the next day to a new reality and a whole new set of “friends”—from the gorgeous son of a conservative governor to an Afrocentric lesbian activist whose society name is Thorndike. And that’s when Amy starts to discover the truth about getting what you wish for. Because Rose & Grave is quickly taking her away from her familiar world of classes and keggers, fueling a feud and undermining a very promising friendship with benefits. And that’s before Amy finds out that her first duty as a member of Rose & Grave is to take on a conspiracy of money and power that could, quite possibly, ruin her whole life.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bulletin of the Affiliated Engineering Societies of Minnesota written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 5, no. 8, Aug. 1920, contains the constitution, by-laws and complete rosters of membership of the five societies mentioned above.

Author : Herman Goldstein
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Ballinger Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policing a Free Society written by Herman Goldstein and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Ballinger Publishing Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ellis Cashmore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319681648
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screen Society written by Ellis Cashmore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screens have been with us since the eighteenth century, though we became accustomed to staring at them only after the appearance of film and television in the twentieth century. But there was nothing in film or TV that prepared us for the revolution wrought by the combination of screens and the internet. Society has been transformed and this book asks how and with what consequences? Screen Society’s conclusions are based on an original research project conducted by scholars in the UK and Australia. The researchers designed their own research platform and elicited the thoughts and opinions of nearly 2000 participants, to draw together insights of today’s society as seen by users of smartphones, tablets and computers – what the authors call Screenagers. The book issues challenges to accepted wisdom on many of the so-called problems associated with our persistent use of screen devices, including screen addiction, trolling, gaming and gambling.