Ten Years In

Author : Nick Hornby
Publisher : McSweeney's
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781944211158

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Ten Years in the Tub by Nick Hornby Pdf

"How often do you begin reading a book that makes you—immediately, urgently, desperately—want to read more books?” (Booklist). Nick Hornby has managed to write just such a book in this hilarious, insightful, and infectious volume. Ten Years in the Tub chronicles Hornby's journey through a decade’s worth of books, as related in his wildly popular Believer column “Stuff I’ve Been Reading.” Ten Years in the Tub is a one-way ticket into the mind of one of the most beloved contemporary writers on his favorite pastime, but it's also a meditation on what Celine Dion can teach us about ourselves, a warning about how John Updike can ruin our sex lives, and a recommendation for the way Body Shop Vanilla Shower Gel can add excitement to our days. This "decade-long addiction for many... makes standing in line at the bank a blessed interval for snorting another page.” (the New York Times Book Review)

Author : Pernille Hughes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008478414

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Ten Years by Pernille Hughes Pdf

‘Some days I feel like I’ve lived more than one lifetime, so, couldn’t we be right for each other this time around?’ Everyone is talking about this book: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘What an absolute page-turner!...keeps you guessing before pulling off THE PERFECT ending!’ Anita

Author : Blair H. Sheppard
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781523088768

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Ten Years to Midnight by Blair H. Sheppard Pdf

“Shows how humans have brought us to the brink and how humanity can find solutions. I urge people to read with humility and the daring to act.” —Harpal Singh, former Chair, Save the Children, India, and former Vice Chair, Save the Children International In conversations with people all over the world, from government officials and business leaders to taxi drivers and schoolteachers, Blair Sheppard, global leader for strategy and leadership at PwC, discovered they all had surprisingly similar concerns. In this prescient and pragmatic book, he and his team sum up these concerns in what they call the ADAPT framework: Asymmetry of wealth; Disruption wrought by the unexpected and often problematic consequences of technology; Age disparities--stresses caused by very young or very old populations in developed and emerging countries; Polarization as a symptom of the breakdown in global and national consensus; and loss of Trust in the institutions that underpin and stabilize society. These concerns are in turn precipitating four crises: a crisis of prosperity, a crisis of technology, a crisis of institutional legitimacy, and a crisis of leadership. Sheppard and his team analyze the complex roots of these crises--but they also offer solutions, albeit often seemingly counterintuitive ones. For example, in an era of globalization, we need to place a much greater emphasis on developing self-sustaining local economies. And as technology permeates our lives, we need computer scientists and engineers conversant with sociology and psychology and poets who can code. The authors argue persuasively that we have only a decade to make headway on these problems. But if we tackle them now, thoughtfully, imaginatively, creatively, and energetically, in ten years we could be looking at a dawn instead of darkness.

Author : Joseph C. Grew
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447495086

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Ten Years in Japan by Joseph C. Grew Pdf

Ten Years in Japan is a fascinating and unique look inside the government of Japan before and during the attack on Pearl Harbour. Written from the detailed personal diaries of Joseph C. Grew the American ambassador based in Tokyo from 1932 and up until war was declared in the beginning of 1942. This book deals, as is right and proper, primarily with American-Japanese relations. But for British readers it has a special interest because it covers a period during which British and American policies in the Orient followed parallel lines; a period when the two Governments were grappling with problems always similar and sometimes identical. The interest is not lessened by the peeps that we get of what were, in fact, unremitting efforts on the part of the Japanese to sow discord between Britain and America on the principle of 'divide et impera.'

Author : Lindsay Ellis
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250256744

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Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis Pdf

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The alternate history first contact adventure Axiom's End is an extraordinary debut from Hugo finalist and video essayist Lindsay Ellis. Truth is a human right. It’s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government might have engaged in first contact. Cora Sabino is doing everything she can to avoid the whole mess, since the force driving the controversy is her whistleblower father. Even though Cora hasn’t spoken to him in years, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press, the Internet, the paparazzi, and the government—and with him in hiding, that attention is on her. She neither knows nor cares whether her father’s leaks are a hoax, and wants nothing to do with him—until she learns just how deeply entrenched her family is in the cover-up, and that an extraterrestrial presence has been on Earth for decades. Realizing the extent to which both she and the public have been lied to, she sets out to gather as much information as she can, and finds that the best way for her to uncover the truth is not as a whistleblower, but as an intermediary. The alien presence has been completely uncommunicative until she convinces one of them that she can act as their interpreter, becoming the first and only human vessel of communication. Their otherworldly connection will change everything she thought she knew about being human—and could unleash a force more sinister than she ever imagined.

Author : Hoda Kotb,Jane Lorenzini
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451656046

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Ten Years Later by Hoda Kotb,Jane Lorenzini Pdf

"New York Times"-bestselling author and beloved "Today" show co-anchor tells the incredible stories of people who, when faced with impossibly challenging or tragic life situations, persevere--and even thrive.

Author : Daniel Genis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698405769

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Sentence by Daniel Genis Pdf

A memoir of a decade in prison by a well-educated young addict known as the "Apologetic Bandit" In 2003 Daniel Genis, the son of a famous Soviet émigré writer, broadcaster, and culture critic, was fresh out of NYU when he faced a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt and ultimately crime. After he was arrested for robbing people at knifepoint, he was nicknamed the “Apologetic Bandit” in the press, given his habit of expressing regret to his victims as he took their cash. He was sentenced to twelve years—ten with good behavior, a decade he survived by reading 1,046 books, taking up weightlifting, having philosophical discussions with his fellow inmates, working at a series of prison jobs, and in general observing an existence for which nothing in his life had prepared him. Genis describes in unsparing and vivid detail the realities of daily life in the New York penal system. In his journey from Rikers Island and through a series of upstate institutions, he encounters violence on an almost daily basis, while learning about the social strata of gangs, the “court” system that sets geographic boundaries in prison yards, how sex was obtained, the workings of the black market in drugs and more practical goods, the inventiveness required for everyday tasks such as cooking, and how debilitating solitary confinement actually is—all while trying to preserve his relationship with his wife, whom he recently married. Written with empathy and wit, Sentence is a strikingly powerful memoir of the brutalities of prison and how one man survived them, leaving its walls with this book inside him, “one made of pain and fear and laughter and lots of other books.”

Author : Mary Clemmer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385418455

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Ten Years in Washington by Mary Clemmer Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Missions
ISBN : UOM:39015000532153

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Ten Years in Oregon by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alice Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178206768X

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Ten Years On (Unabridged) by Alice Peterson Pdf

Author : Sweden. [Appendix.]
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000681177

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Ten Years in Sweden. Being a Description of the Landscape ... by Sweden. [Appendix.] Pdf

Author : Mary Clemmer
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:4066338107572

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Ten Years in Washington: Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital as a Woman Sees Them by Mary Clemmer Pdf

In her introduction the author describes this book as being a full account of the many marvels and interesting sights of Washington; of the daily life at the white house, both past and present; of the wonders and inside workings of all our government departments; and descriptions and revelations of every phase of political, public, and social life at the nation's capital.

Author : Steven Masley, M.D.
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-23
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780767927352

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Ten Years Younger by Steven Masley, M.D. Pdf

How would you like to look and feel ten years younger in just ten weeks time? Studies show that Americans on the whole are aging faster than ever with conditions like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease occurring increasingly earlier on in life—along with everyday age indicators like wrinkles and love handles. Now, Dr. Steven Masley, former medical director of the prestigious Pritikin Longevity Center® and a pioneer in anti-aging medicine, delivers a breakthrough plan to turn back the clock, inside and out—no matter what your age! Originally featured on the Discovery Channel, the Ten Years Younger Program is designed to combat the roots of accelerated aging. Poor nutrition, toxins in the environment, stress, and exposure to free radicals all make us old before our time, along with a little-known aging culprit: low- and no-carb diets. As Dr. Masley shows, low-carb diets deprive the body of anti-aging phytonutrients and fiber, accelerate osteoporosis, and damage brain cells. So the first secret of turning back time is: Eat your carbs! Each week, Ten Years Younger guides you through an age-busting combination of cutting-edge nutritional choices, relaxation techniques to reduce the aging effects of stress, and simple workouts designed to build lean muscle and trim and tone your body from head to toe. By following the plan for just ten weeks, you will: Achieve significant weight loss—up to twenty-five pounds Boost your energy levels Rejuvenate your skin Enhance brain function Prevent and reverse the onset of diabetes and heart disease Lower your cholesterol and blood pressure Improve sexual vitality With tools to help you assess how your body is really aging, weekly shopping lists and meal plans, and over 100 delicious recipes packed with antioxidants and anti-aging nutrients, Ten Years Younger is the healthiest, safest, and fastest way to take off the years—no surgery required!

Author : Victoria J. Barnett
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506433394

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"After Ten Years" by Victoria J. Barnett Pdf

How does one read the signs of the times? What does it mean to resist? How do we engage faithfully in struggle? Dietrich Bonhoeffer has achieved iconic status as one who epitomizes what it means to struggle and resist tyranny and fascism and how one acts in faithful witness as a religious and political commitment. Bonhoeffer‘s witness and example is more relevant than ever. A testimony to that is a crucial essay penned by Bonhoeffer in 1942; "After Ten Years" is a succinct and sober reflection, and remains one of the best descriptions ever written about what happened to the German people under National Socialism. This volume presents this timely and unique essay in a fresh translation and a penetrating introduction and analysis of the importance of this essay-in Bonhoeffer‘s time and now in our own.

Author : Shreve Stockton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781416592181

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The Daily Coyote by Shreve Stockton Pdf

Developed from her tremendously popular blog, this book offers the inspiring and beautifully illustrated account of the author's experiences raising an orphaned coyote as a beloved pet. Full-color photographs throughout.