Paradise For Sale

Author : Willie Drye
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493018994

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For Sale —American Paradise by Willie Drye Pdf

Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal for Best Regional Nonfiction in the Southwest The story of how Florida became entwined with Americans’ 20th-century hopes, dreams, and expectations is also a tale of mass delusion, real estate collapses, and catastrophic hurricanes. The Fantasy of Florida hones in on the experiences of William Jennings Bryan and Edwin Menninger, the two men who shaped the image of Florida that we know today and who sold that image as America’s paradise. The cast of characters also includes the Marx Brothers, Thomas Edison, Al Capone, and Mark Twain. A tale of a colorful and tragicomic era during which the allure and illusion of the American Dream was on full display—a Jazz Age period when Americans started chasing what F. Scott Fitzgerald called “the orgiastic future”—the book reveals how the recent economic collapse in Florida is eerily similar to events that happened there between 1925 and 1928. What sets the mid-1920s’ Florida land boom apart from more recent booms-and-busts, however, is that this was the first modern boom, the first time that emerging new technologies, mass communications and modern advertising techniques were used to sell the nation on the notion that prosperity and happiness are simply there for the taking. Florida’s image as a place where the rules of everyday life don’t apply and winners go to play was formed during this dawn of the age of consumerism when Americans wanted to have fun and make lots of money, and millions of them thought Florida was the perfect place to do that.

Author : Carl N. McDaniel,John M. Gowdy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520924451

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Paradise for Sale by Carl N. McDaniel,John M. Gowdy Pdf

The grim history of Nauru Island, a small speck in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Australia, represents a larger story of environmental degradation and economic dysfunction. For more than 2,000 years traditional Nauruans, isolated from the rest of the world, lived in social and ecological stability. But in 1900 the discovery of phosphate, an absolute requirement for agriculture, catapulted Nauru into the world market. Colonial imperialists who occupied Nauru and mined it for its lucrative phosphate resources devastated the island, which forever changed its native people. In 1968 Nauruans regained rule of their island and immediately faced a conundrum: to pursue a sustainable future that would protect their truly valuable natural resources—the biological and physical integrity of their island—or to mine and sell the remaining forty-year supply of phosphate and in the process make most of their home useless. They did the latter. In a captivating and moving style, the authors describe how the island became one of the richest nations in the world and how its citizens acquired all the ills of modern life: obesity, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension. At the same time, Nauru became 80 percent mined-out ruins that contain severely impoverished biological communities of little value in supporting human habitation. This sad tale highlights the dire consequences of a free-market economy, a system in direct conflict with sustaining the environment. In presenting evidence for the current mass extinction, the authors argue that we cannot expect to preserve biodiversity or support sustainable habitation, because our economic operating principles are incompatible with these activities.

Author : Elwood Morris Wherry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555050326

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A comprehensive commentary on the Qurán, comprising Sale's tr. and prelim. discourse, with additional notes and emendations by E.M. Wherry by Elwood Morris Wherry Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015030569290

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A Comprehensive Commentary on the Quran: Comprising Sale's Translation & Preliminary Discourse, with Additional Notes & Emendations...by the Rev. E.M. Wherry... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030845093

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Boise National Forest (N.F.), Paradise Integrated Resource Management Jroject by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patty Wallis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312443419

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Mysteries of the Bird of Paradise by Patty Wallis Pdf

Paleontologists Alice and Juan experience life-changing events after discovering a Bird of Paradise fossil. Will it be possible to clone the extinct bird? If successful, the Wintun Indians could once again worship the sacred bird that transports their souls to paradise. Would a greedy Arab Prince upset their plans? The ancient spirit of the Wintun High Priestess Lianaka begins to appear to her grandson, many generations removed, with strange riddles that only he can solve. Alice never could have imagined the life and death struggles that awaited them when the secrets are revealed.

Author : C.J. Box
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466851993

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Paradise Valley by C.J. Box Pdf

She almost caught him once. Now, he’s back. For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on a hunt for a serial killer known as the Lizard King whose hunting grounds are the highways and truck stops where runaways and prostitutes are most likely to vanish. Cassie almost caught him...once. Working for the Bakken County, North Dakota sheriff's department, Cassie has set what she believes is the perfect trap and she has lured him and his truck to a depot. But the plan goes horribly wrong, and the blame falls on Cassie. Disgraced, she loses her job and investigation into her role is put into motion. At the same time, Kyle Westergaard, a troubled kid whom Cassie has taken under her wing, has disappeared after telling people that he’s going off on a long-planned adventure. Kyle's grandmother begs Cassie to find him and, with nothing else to do, Cassie agrees—all the while hunting the truck driver. Now Cassie is a lone wolf. And in the same way that two streams converge into a river, Kyle's disappearance may have a more sinister meaning than anyone realizes. With no allies, no support, and only her own wits to rely on, Cassie must take down a killer who is as ruthless as he is cunning. But can she do it alone, without losing her own humanity or her own life? Paradise Valley continues the Highway Quartet series from bestselling author C. J. Box.

Author : Joel T. Rosenthal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429553097

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The Purchase of Paradise by Joel T. Rosenthal Pdf

Originally published in 1972, The Purchase of Paradise is an account of medieval philanthropy and looks at the late medieval aristocracy as a social, rather than political group. The book analyses their voluntary behaviour, their gift giving and the Church, and addresses the nature of charity in the Middle Ages, providing an insight into the noble families of the time. The book depicts charitable practices within the family, such as the buying of prayers for relatives, and the family traditions of support for favoured houses lasting through several generations. The book shows that the family was the most operative unit for most forms of benefaction and ecclesiastical contact, and that the hard necessities of baronial politics were often ignored when men turned their thoughts to philanthropy and prayers for their immortal souls. The book will of value to historians and sociologists alike, as well as those working in the field of anthropology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : NWU:35556023611353

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The Westminster Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080304199

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An Equitable International Copyright Law by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104249281

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Hearings by United States. Congress Senate Pdf

Author : Stephen Pratt,David Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317682578

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Tourism in Pacific Islands by Stephen Pratt,David Harrison Pdf

Pacific Island Countries have been shown to be especially vulnerable to such external influences as natural disasters, political unrest and downturns in the global economy and their tourism industries have been notably affected. In particular, they typically have a narrow resource base and a fragile and often vulnerable natural environment. While there is some research on islands and small states, there is a dearth of information on the South Pacific and very little research is being undertaken in the region compared to other geographical regions in the world. This volume brings together current work in Pacific Island tourism. In this collection, three main themes arise: Images of the South Pacific; Socio-economic Impacts of Tourism; and Pacific Island Countries and the Outside World. The first focus is on the question of image, namely, stereotypes of a destination held by tourists and potential tourists, the extent to which residents, for their part, really welcome visitors, and the role tourism might play in changing pre-established images. The second theme is tourism's impacts, notably the economic and socio-cultural effects of international tourism's intrusion in the region which, though often hotly debated, have attracted relatively little empirical research. The third focus is on the challenges of how PICs articulate with their external geo-political and physical environment. These involve existing relations with formal colonial centres, geographical isolation, the need for greater air access to the outside world and for more tourists, and the continuing threat to several PICs of global warming, which increased air travel will inevitably exacerbate. This text will be of interest to tourism students, researchers and academics in the fields of tourism, development studies and cultural studies.

Author : Charles B. Strozier,Michael Flynn
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814780312

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The Year 2000 by Charles B. Strozier,Michael Flynn Pdf

A fascinating collection of predictions for the end-times in the year 2000 The Year 2000 is at hand. The end of the millennium means many things to many people, but it has significance for almost everyone. A thousand years ago, monks stopped copying manuscripts and religious building projects came to a halt as panic swept Europe. Today, anxiety about global warming, government power, superviruses, even recycling, is on some level rooted in the fear of irreversible cataclysm. In a landscape shadowed by racial conflict, technological upheaval, AIDS, and nuclear weapons, we reasonably fear the end of history. 2000 looms large in our religious, political, and cultural imagination. But while 2000 brings dread it also raises the prospect of transformation. There is hope to be found in the apocalyptic. This panoramic volume explores how the Year 2000 operates in contemporary political discourse, from Black evangelical politics to radical right-wing rhetoric. One section is devoted specifically to apocalyptic violence, analyzing twentieth-century cults and cultural movements, from David Koresh—who renamed his Waco compound Ranch Apocalypse and perished in a modern-day Armageddon that fueled the millennialist angst of other extremist groups—to environmental campaigns like Earth First! that also rely on the language of violence and imminent doom in their greening of the Apocalypse.

Author : Christopher Knowlton
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982128371

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Bubble in the Sun by Christopher Knowlton Pdf

Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression. The 1920s in Florida was a time of incredible excess, immense wealth, and precipitous collapse. The decade there produced the largest human migration in American history, far exceeding the settlement of the West, as millions flocked to the grand hotels and the new cities that rose rapidly from the teeming wetlands. The boom spawned a new subdivision civilization—and the most egregious large-scale assault on the environment in the name of “progress.” Nowhere was the glitz and froth of the Roaring Twenties more excessive than in Florida. Here was Vegas before there was a Vegas: gambling was condoned and so was drinking, since prohibition was not enforced. Tycoons, crooks, and celebrities arrived en masse to promote or exploit this new and dazzling American frontier in the sunshine. Yet, the import and deep impact of these historical events have never been explored thoroughly until now. In Bubble in the Sun Christopher Knowlton examines the grand artistic and entrepreneurial visions behind Coral Gables, Boca Raton, Miami Beach, and other storied sites, as well as the darker side of the frenzy. For while giant fortunes were being made and lost and the nightlife raged more raucously than anywhere else, the pure beauty of the Everglades suffered wanton ruination and the workers, mostly black, who built and maintained the boom, endured grievous abuses. Knowlton breathes dynamic life into the forces that made and wrecked Florida during the decade: the real estate moguls Carl Fisher, George Merrick, and Addison Mizner, and the once-in-a-century hurricane whose aftermath triggered the stock market crash. This essential account is a revelatory—and riveting—history of an era that still affects our country today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Autographs
ISBN : UCAL:B3422075

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American Book Prices Current by Anonim Pdf

A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.