The Son Also Rises

Author : Gregory Clark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691168377
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Son Also Rises written by Gregory Clark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does this influence our children? More than we wish to believe! While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social ladder has changed little over eight centuries. Using a novel technique -- tracking family names over generations to measure social mobility across countries and periods -- renowned economic historian Gregory Clark reveals that mobility rates are lower than conventionally estimated, do not vary across societies, and are resistant to social policies. The good news is that these patterns are driven by strong inheritance of abilities and lineage does not beget unwarranted advantage. The bad news is that much of our fate is predictable from lineage. Clark argues that since a greater part of our place in the world is predetermined, we must avoid creating winner-take-all societies."--Jacket.

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sun Also Rises written by Ernest Hemingway and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Linda Wagner-Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521317870
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Essays on The Sun Also Rises written by Linda Wagner-Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-06-26 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays by prominent scholars examine major aspects of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.

Author : Scott Donaldson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825224
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Hemingway written by Scott Donaldson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-26 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion serves both as an introduction for the interested reader and as a source of the best recent scholarship on the author and his works. In addition to analysing his major texts, the contributors provide insights into Hemingway's relationship with gender history, journalism, fame and the political climate of the 1930s. The essays are framed by an introductory chapter on Hemingway and the costs of fame and an invaluable conclusion providing an overview of Hemingway scholarship from its beginnings to the present. Students will find the selected bibliography a useful guide to future research. Contributors include both distinguished established figures and brilliant newcomers, all chosen with regard to the clarity and readability of their prose.

Author : Lesley M. M. Blume
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780544944435
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everybody Behaves Badly written by Lesley M. M. Blume and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling depiction of the genesis of The Sun Also Rises and how Ernest Hemingway created his own legend

Author : Gregory Clark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400827817
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Farewell to Alms written by Gregory Clark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did it make large parts of the world even poorer? In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark tackles these profound questions and suggests a new and provocative way in which culture--not exploitation, geography, or resources--explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations. Countering the prevailing theory that the Industrial Revolution was sparked by the sudden development of stable political, legal, and economic institutions in seventeenth-century Europe, Clark shows that such institutions existed long before industrialization. He argues instead that these institutions gradually led to deep cultural changes by encouraging people to abandon hunter-gatherer instincts-violence, impatience, and economy of effort-and adopt economic habits-hard work, rationality, and education. The problem, Clark says, is that only societies that have long histories of settlement and security seem to develop the cultural characteristics and effective workforces that enable economic growth. For the many societies that have not enjoyed long periods of stability, industrialization has not been a blessing. Clark also dissects the notion, championed by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, that natural endowments such as geography account for differences in the wealth of nations. A brilliant and sobering challenge to the idea that poor societies can be economically developed through outside intervention, A Farewell to Alms may change the way global economic history is understood.

Author : Various Authors,
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310294142
Total Pages : 6637 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Bible (NIV) written by Various Authors, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 6637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.

Author : Marian Hale
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1429981628
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Water Rising written by Marian Hale and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I looked and saw water rushing in from Galveston Bay on one side and from the gulf on the other. The two seas met in the middle of Broadway, swirling over the wooden paving blocks, and I couldn't help but shudder at the sight. All of Galveston appeared to be under water. Galveston, Texas, may be the booming city of the brand-new twentieth century, but to Seth, it is the end of a dream. He longs to be a carpenter like his father, but his family has moved to Galveston so he can go to a good school. Still, the last few weeks of summer might not be so bad. Seth has a real job as a builder and the beach is within walking distance. Things seem to be looking up, until a storm warning is raised one sweltering afternoon. No one could have imagined anything like this. Giant walls of water crash in from the sea. Shingles and bricks are deadly missiles flying through the air. People not hit by flying debris are swept away by rushing water. Forget the future, Seth and his family will be lucky to survive the next twenty-four hours. Dark Water Rising is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393656008
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Sun Also Rises written by Ernest Hemingway and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first Norton Critical Edition of Ernest Hemmingway's The Sun also Rises features the authoritative text of the modern classic with new annotations by Michael Thurston. The novel follows expatriate journalist Jake Barnes as he travels through Paris and Pamplona pursuing the favor of the Lady Brett Ashley. In addition to the annotated text, the "Backgrounds and Contexts" section provides valuable biographical information as well as letters offering insight into the creative evolution of the novel. "Reviews and Early Criticism" explores the critical reception of the novel on its date of publication, while "Modern Criticism" offers a variety of newer readings, exploring the novel's themes of sexuality, gender, and masculinity among others. A chronology and further readings sections are also included"--

Author : Cormac Ó Gráda
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691122373
Total Pages : 352 pages
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Download or read book Famine written by Cormac Ó Gráda and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History.