Lucky Strikes

Author : R. W. Lucky
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0780304330

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Lucky Strikes...Again by R. W. Lucky Pdf

Author of the widely acclaimed "Reflections" column in Spectrum magazine, Lucky provides ten-years-worth of his own humorous and nostalgic refections on typical situations engineers encounter during their careers. Spiced with some new anecdotes and personal experiences, Lucky Strikes...Again takes good-natured gibes at corporate bureaucrats.

Author : Jennifer C. Dunn,Jimmie Manning,Danielle M. Stern
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443884228

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Lucky Strikes and a Three Martini Lunch by Jennifer C. Dunn,Jimmie Manning,Danielle M. Stern Pdf

This second edition of Lucky Strikes and a Three Martini Lunch: Thinking About Television’s Mad Men explores the attributes of the AMC series that allow it to be such a popular and vital contribution to contemporary cultural discourse. Set in the 1960s in New York, the Emmy and Peabody-winning series follows the competitive, seductive, and oftentimes ruthless lives of the men and women of Madison Avenue’s advertising agencies. Many alluring and captivating qualities constitute the Mad Men experience: the way it evokes nostalgia, even from those who did not live in the era being portrayed; its interrogations of identities, and how these explorations of the past illuminate viewers’ concepts of the present; the compelling (and often heartbreaking) relationships between characters trying to make their way in an ever-changing and increasingly complex world; and the titillation of the characters’ discovery of the power of mass-mediated communication and its abilities to allow learning, information sharing, manipulation, and connection, not to mention how their journeys reflect our own in contemporary society. The essays collected in this volume speak to both fans of the show who may not typically embrace theory and criticism, as well as those who do. Additionally, this version was designed with educators in mind. It still includes engaging essays that critically analyze the show from a multitude of perspectives, but now they are organized in way to facilitate easy use in the classroom. This structure allows educators to simply construct and conduct a course using this book as a primary textbook and organize the course according to the way it is laid out. Each chapter provides any type of reader with the opportunity to think about and enjoy the show even after it is no longer on the air.

Author : Louis Bayard
Publisher : Square Fish
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1250115094

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Lucky Strikes by Louis Bayard Pdf

Set in Depression-era Virginia, Lucky Strikes by Louis Bayard is the story of orphaned Amelia and her struggle to keep her siblings together. With her mama recently dead and her pa sight unseen since birth, fourteen-year-old Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister, and of the family gas station. Harley Blevins, local king and emperor of Standard Oil, is in hot pursuit to clinch his fuel monopoly. To keep him at bay and her family out of foster care, Melia must come up with a father, and fast. And so when a hobo rolls out of a passing truck, Melia grabs opportunity by its beard. Can she hold off the hounds till she comes of age? "This is a darn good yarn with plenty of room for rooting and more than a few laughs." —Booklist, starred review "The story hurtles to a surprising, honest conclusion . . . A grand adventure." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Author : Bobbie Pyron
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545592192

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Lucky Strike by Bobbie Pyron Pdf

A rich, southern voice tells the unforgettable story of two vulnerable outsiders, the lightning strike that turns their world upside down and the true meaning of lucky. Nate Harlow would love to be lucky, just once!He'd like to win a prize, get picked first, call a coin toss right, even! But his best friend, Genesis Beam (aka Gen), believes in science and logic, and she doesn't think for one second that there's such a thing as luck, good or bad. She doesn't care what names the other kids call them. She cares about being right, about saving the turtles of Paradise Beach, and she cares about Nate.Then, on his birthday, at the Goofy Golf mini-golf course, Nate is struck by lightning -- and survives! Suddenly baseballs are drawn to his bat-popular kids want HIM on their side. It seems the whole town of Paradise Beach thinks Nate has the magic touch. But is there room for Gen in Nate's lucky new world?Lucky Strike tells the unforgettable story of two vulnerable outsiders and what luck is really all about.

Author : Nancy Zafris
Publisher : Unbridled Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781932961041

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Lucky Strike by Nancy Zafris Pdf

Spanning western Europe from 1875 to 1917 and presenting a gothic historical Paris that subverts our old assumptions regarding the City of Light, M. Allen Cunningham’s new novel brings a brooding atmosphere and human complexity to an intimate and imaginative portrait of one of the most uniquely sensitive artists of his time, a poet whose odd childhood and difficult early life will both fascinate and perhaps help explain his determination to stay true to his artistic vision at almost any cost. Here is Rainer Maria Rilke in the grip of his greatest artistic struggle: life itself. Rilke’s gripping emotional drama as child, lover, husband, father, protégé, misfit soldier, and wanderer is framed by a haunted young figure, a researcher who, a century later, feels compelled to trace Rilke’s itinerant footsteps and those of Rilke’s fictional alter ego, the bewitched poet Malte Laurids Brigge. The result is an exploration of the forever imperfect loyalties we face in work and life, the seemingly immeasurable distances that can separate life and art, and the generational tensions between masters and admirers.

Author : Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781458775160

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The Lucky Strike by Kim Stanley Robinson Pdf

This stimulating little chapbook would work very well as a basis for classroom debate on speculative fiction, history, or the notion of free will. - Publishers Weekly The foremost writer of literary utopias.' - Time magazine Its no coincidence that one of our most visionary science fiction writers is also a profoundly good nature writer.' ...

Author : Pat Wilson,Kris Wood
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459716322

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Lucky Strike by Pat Wilson,Kris Wood Pdf

Lucky Strike is a light-hearted laugh-out-loud mystery with a cast of characters who epitomize life Down East. Eric Spratt, a conservative accountant from Toronto, is forced to flee to the remote Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia and there, become Charles Trenchant, reclusive writer. He knows that anonymity and discretion are the only weapons he has to protect himself from the retribution of the Mafia dons whom he helped to send to jail. Surely, fifty years of a quiet, unassuming existence would prepare him for the life that he must now lead. However, the steamroller hospitality of the rambunctious locals overwhelms any hope that Charles has to keep his profile lower than low. Within days he is embroiled in their nefarious doings and wild antics. The resident rector, Father Donald Peasgood, and his redoubtable sister drag a reluctant Charles into the fold, while his disreputable next-door neighbor involves him in a scheme to burn down the house for the insurance money. Despite his best intentions to remain aloof, Charles lurches from crisis to crisis as this rollicking tale hurtles like a runaway train to its inevitable disastrous climax. When one very unpleasant lady ends up dead, and Charles is the prime suspect, it looks like the only way he can save himself is to flee the humble sanctuary and the open-hearted people he has come to love on the Eastern Shore. Lucky Strike is as full of fun as a Cape Breton kitchen party and as refreshing as a dip in the Atlantic Ocean.

Author : Louis Bayard
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781627793919

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Lucky Strikes by Louis Bayard Pdf

With her mama recently dead and her pa sight unseen since birth, fourteen-year-old Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister--and of the family gas station. Harley Blevins, local king and emperor of Standard Oil, is in hot pursuit to clinch his fuel monopoly. To keep him at bay and keep her family out of foster care, Melia must come up with a father--and fast. And so when a hobo rolls out of a passing truck, Melia grabs opportunity by its beard. Can she hold off the hounds till she comes of age?

Author : Roland Marchand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1985-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520058852

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Advertising the American Dream by Roland Marchand Pdf

"A convincing and perceptive analysis that provides a careful sociological portrait of advertising agency people in the 1920s and 1930s. Marchand has rare talent for bringing out things in the ads that the reader would not have seen alone."—Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego "This work illuminates some of the most important developments in twentieth-century America."—T.J. Jackson Lears, Rutgers University

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1002678961

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A Lucky Strike by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nan Enstad
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226533452

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Cigarettes, Inc. by Nan Enstad Pdf

Traditional narratives of capitalist change often rely on the myth of the willful entrepreneur from the global North who transforms the economy and delivers modernity—for good or ill—to the rest of the world. With Cigarettes, Inc., Nan Enstad upends this story, revealing the myriad cross-cultural encounters that produced corporate life before World War II. In this startling account of innovation and expansion, Enstad uncovers a corporate network rooted in Jim Crow segregation that stretched between the United States and China and beyond. Cigarettes, Inc. teems with a global cast—from Egyptian, American, and Chinese entrepreneurs to a multiracial set of farmers, merchants, factory workers, marketers, and even baseball players, jazz musicians, and sex workers. Through their stories, Cigarettes, Inc. accounts for the cigarette’s spectacular rise in popularity and in the process offers nothing less than a sweeping reinterpretation of corporate power itself.

Author : American Tobacco Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Advertising
ISBN : UVA:X002313052

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Lucky Strike Advertising by American Tobacco Company Pdf

Author : Daniel Delis Hill
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0814208908

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Advertising to the American Woman, 1900-1999 by Daniel Delis Hill Pdf

The author focuses on the marketing perspective of the topic and illustrates how women's roles in society have shifted during the past century. Among the key issues explored is a peculiar dichotomy of American advertising that served as a conservative reflection of society and, at the same time, became an underlying force of progressive social change. The study shows how advertisers of housekeeping products perpetuated the Happy Homemaker stereytype while tobacco and cosmetics marketers dismantled women's stereotypes to create an entirely new type of consumer.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2016 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Ship registers
ISBN : WISC:89107209850

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Merchant Vessels of the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Temple, Ph.D.
Publisher : Saint Simons Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0989186547

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Lucky Strikes by David Temple, Ph.D. Pdf

Someone inside the Pentagon, the White House, or both is trading information with the enemy. When it involves national security, terrorism and theft, "The Bureau" calls on former Special Operative hitman Carter Matheson to handle a job he is uniquely qualified to perform. With the help of his best friend, Steve "Mack" McKenzie and a surprise visit from his father, Randall "Bulldog" Matheson," they head to remote Nicaragua to intercept a plan that has America and her leaders in the crosshairs.