The Haircut Who Would Be King

Author : Robert Trebor
Publisher : Palindrome Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578475685

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The Haircut Who Would Be King by Robert Trebor Pdf

A farcical sendup of Donald Trump's rise to power and volatile partnership with Vladimir Putin...As a young boy, Donald Rump was less than precocious--a miserable student, prone to implacable tantrums, whose emotional intelligence ceased maturing at the age of 9. But the region of the brain responsible for egomaniacal self-assessment was prodigiously large. After some success and plenty more failure in real estate, he turns his attentions to reality TV and hosts a show called "Paycheck," each episode of which concludes with Rump singing "Don't Cry for Me Argentina." Meanwhile, Vladimir Poutine was raised by KGB agents during the early years of Khrushchev's reign. Poutine, a latent homosexual who immerses himself in the self-consciously manly world of "physical culture," reads magazines about bodybuilding. Crushed by the demise of the Soviet Union, he copes in the most peculiar way: "he would slip into a silver lamé gown, pop on a curly wig and perform Marlene Dietrich classics at a local drag bar." Rump decides he'd like to try his hand at politics and recruits shock jock Alex Clamz from the popular but frothing radio show, "Disinfowarz." He runs for president opposite Mallory Claxton, a sensible woman with a sterling career in public service. Despite a bizarre campaign and a trail of seedy scandals, Rump wins with clandestine help from Poutine. And then, the fun really begins.

Author : Prof. N L Shraman
Publisher : Memory Book: Smaran Shakti
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Motivation Short Stories by Prof. N L Shraman Pdf

Short Inspirational stories are powerful reads; The great thing about them is that they’re so easy to digest, and there’s always a moral at the end of the story. Whether they’re true stories or not is another thing, as many of them are legends supposedly hundreds of years old. However, the stories that I’m talking about are so powerful and motivational and inspirational that many of them really do get you thinking and even leave you speechless at times.

Author : Richard Stoneman,Kyle Erickson,Ian Richard Netton
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9789491431043

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The Alexander Romance in Persia and the East by Richard Stoneman,Kyle Erickson,Ian Richard Netton Pdf

Alexander the Great of Macedon was no stranger to controversy in his own time. Conqueror of the Greek states, of Egypt and of the Persian Empire as well as many of the principalities of the Indus Valley, he nevertheless became revered as well as vilified. Was he simply a destroyer of the ancient civilizations and religions of these regions, or was he a hero of the Persian dynasties and of Islam? The conflicting views that were taken of him in the Middle East in his own time and the centuries that followed are still reflected in the tensions that exist between east and west today. The story of Alexander became the subject of legend in the medieval west, but was perhaps even more pervasive in the east. The Alexander Romance was translated into Syriac in the sixth century and may have become current in Persia as early as the third century AD. From these beginnings it reached into the Persian national epic, the Shahnameh, into Jewish traditions, and into the Quran and subsequent Arab romance. The papers in this volume all have the aim of deepening our understanding of this complex development. If we can understand better why Alexander is such an important figure in both east and west, we shall be a little closer to understanding what unites two often antipathetic worlds. This volume collects the papers delivered at the conference of the same title held at the University of Exeter from July 26-29 2010. More than half the papers were by invited speakers and were designed to provide a systematic view of the subject; the remainder were selected for their ability to carry research forward in an integrated way.

Author : Alice Kane
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551110474

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The Dreamer Awakes by Alice Kane Pdf

The late Alice Kane was born in Ireland in 1908. Moving with her parents to Canada in 1921, she was educated in New Brunswick and at McGill University in Montreal before beginning a career with the Toronto Public Library, where she had a major interest in fairy tales. After her retirement in 1973, she taught Children’s Literature at the University of New Brunswick, then began a second career as a professional storyteller in association with the Storytellers School of Toronto. She was a featured performer at many storytelling events, including the American Storytelling Festival at Jonesborough, Tennessee. Her rich oral heritage is remembered in Songs and Sayings of and Ulster Childhood, edited by Edith Fowke (1983).

Author : Jonathan Eig
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374719678

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King: A Life by Jonathan Eig Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award | Named one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Time A New York Times bestseller and notable book of 2023 | One of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2023 One of The New Yorker's essential reads of 2023 | A Christian Science Monitor best book of the year | One of Air Mail's twelve best books of 2023 A Washington Post and National Indie Bestseller | One of Publishers Weekly's best nonfiction books of 2023 | One of Smithsonian magazine's ten best books of 2023 “Supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable . . . Eig’s book is worthy of its subject.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times (Editors’ Choice) “[King is] infused with the narrative energy of a thriller . . . The most compelling account of King’s life in a generation.” —Mark Whitaker, The Washington Post “No book could be more timely than Jonathan Eig’s sweeping and majestic new King . . . Eig has created 2023′s most vital tome.” —Will Bunch, The Philadelphia Inquirer Hailed by The New York Times as “the new definitive biography,” King mixes revelatory new research with accessible storytelling to offer an MLK for our times. Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King family’s origins as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death. As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became our only modern-day founding father—as well as the nation’s most mourned martyr. In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history’s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime. Includes 8 pages of black-and-white photographs

Author : Jonathan Eig
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471181023

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King by Jonathan Eig Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023* Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. – and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King family’s origins as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death. As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became its only modern-day founding father – as well as the nation’s most mourned martyr. In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history’s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.

Author : Yumi Moon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467950

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Populist Collaborators by Yumi Moon Pdf

An empire invites local collaborators in the making and sustenance of its colonies. Between 1896 and 1910, Japan's project to colonize Korea was deeply intertwined with the movements of reform-minded Koreans to solve the crisis of the Choson dynasty (1392-1910). Among those reformers, it was the Ilchinhoe (Advance in Unity Society)-a unique group of reformers from various social origins-that most ardently embraced Japan's discourse of "civilizing Korea" and saw Japan's colonization as an opportunity to advance its own "populist agendas." The Ilchinhoe members called themselves "representatives of the people" and mobilized vibrant popular movements that claimed to protect the people's freedom, property, and lives. Neither modernist nor traditionalist, they were willing to sacrifice the sovereignty of the Korean monarchy if that would ensure the rights and equality of the people. Both the Japanese colonizers and the Korean elites disliked the Ilchinhoe for its aggressive activism, which sought to control local tax administration and reverse the existing power relations between the people and government officials. Ultimately, the Ilchinhoe members faced visceral moral condemnation from their fellow Koreans when their language and actions resulted in nothing but assist the emergence of the Japanese colonial empire in Korea. In Populist Collaborators, Yumi Moon examines the vexed position of these Korean reformers in the final years of the Choson dynasty, and highlights the global significance of their case for revisiting the politics of local collaboration in the history of a colonial empire.

Author : CreaShakthi
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781482888089

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No Drama, Just Theatre by CreaShakthi Pdf

This book of plays has been written keeping in mind an age group of six and above. The children who will be reading this book will be able to apply quite easily the exercises and techniques that the book describes. Some will require facilitation by a trainer, of course, but many can be practiced at home as well. The book aims to be a guidebook for lessons in theatre and performance arts and is designed keeping in mind international syllabi for the same. The language used has been kept as simple as possible so as to help the children and teachers apply the techniques given. The activities and exercises described in the book range from techniques used by world-renowned theater artists to techniques that we ourselves devised in classrooms. The theme of the book, Folk Tales from Around the World, was chosen keeping in mind the fact that such plays would be best suited for children of that age. The plays included have been inspired by tales passed on from generation to generation in many lands across the seas.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Krishna Prakashan Media
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8179331431

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Horns on the King's Head by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yogita Bansal Ahuja
Publisher : My Authors Hub
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Folklogue by Yogita Bansal Ahuja Pdf

The name of book is Folklogue

Author : Alessandro Vercelli
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030279127

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Finance and Democracy by Alessandro Vercelli Pdf

This book is an extension of the author's last book (Crisis and Sustainability: The Delusion of Free Markets, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and sheds light on the evolution of the financial system after the 2007/08 crisis and on changes and developments in the regulatory framework that have taken place concurrently over the last ten years. The book’s central theme addresses the neoliberal philosophy of financial regulation and, in particular, the role of self-regulating markets in the finance sector and how this has affected incentives and behaviour within the finance sector. The author contends that neoliberal maxims have led us to believe that market-based finance is superior to, and safer than, a more rules-based regulatory regime for the sector, and then explains that experience suggests otherwise. The huge expansion of ‘financialization’ in the developed economies over the last two decades has greatly magnified the risks emanating from the impact of highly leveraged, risk averse, under-regulated finance on other sectors of these economies. The author concludes that financial institutions need to be encouraged to operate within a more socially responsible matrix that facilitates and promotes long-term economic growth coupled with social stability.

Author : Pradeep Atrey
Publisher : Pradeep Atrey
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Indian Folktales by Pradeep Atrey Pdf

Indian Folktales is a collection of folk-stories, legends, and anecdotes, collected and translated from Hindi by Pradeep Atrey. These enchanting bedtime stories present the colourful world of their characters- kings, queens, gods, goddesses, ordinary men, women, demons, animals, insects, and so on, and in turn generate all sorts of aesthetic sentiments, like love, laughter, anger, pity, disgust, fear, peace, etc. The tales also provide a glimpse of Indian culture as they are primarily grounded in the everyday lives of Indian people. The tales will undoubtedly interest readers from all age groups.

Author : John Flanagan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101187722

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The Kings of Clonmel by John Flanagan Pdf

The international bestselling series with over 5 million copies sold in the U.S. alone! When a cult springs up in neighboring Clonmel, promising to quell the recent attacks by lawless marauders, people flock from all over to offer gold in exchange for protection. But Halt is all too familiar with this particular group, and he knows they have a less than charitable agenda. Secrets will be unveiled and battles fought to the death as Will and Horace help Halt in ridding the land of a dangerous enemy. Perfect for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, T.H. White’s The Sword in the Stone, Christopher Paolini’s Eragon series, and George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire series.

Author : Rajkumari Moksha
Publisher : Word Alive Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781486623389

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The King's Daughter by Rajkumari Moksha Pdf

Are you faced with fundamental questions about life? Who are we? Why are we here? Or are you seeking answers in an uncertain world of prejudice, inequality, oppression, and turmoil? This tear-jerking book will inspire and invigorate you, giving you hope in your unique circumstances to also experience triumph in your journey of life. This is the extraordinary true story of a girl, Rajkumari Moksha, growing up under the social and religious biases of Hinduism. In sharing her insightfully written heartfelt struggles as she reaches rock bottom, this book enlightens the reader about the systematic miraculous events orchestrated by a loving Sovereign God. Her encounter with Jesus Christ in the most powerful way is both transformative and life-changing. Her story proves that you too can experience mental, emotional, and most importantly, spiritual freedom. May you be challenged to examine your belief if you aren’t sure that God exists, and realize you can also be a son or daughter of the King, the Lord Jesus Christ, Who will anchor you as you journey through life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : UOM:39015058762736

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Proceedings of the Marine Safety Council by Anonim Pdf