The Independent Man

Author : Harry Barnard
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814335871

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Independent Man by Harry Barnard Pdf

First published in 1958 by Charles Scribner’s Sons, Independent Man is the only book-length biography of one of Michigan’s most remarkable men. His many careers embraced both the business and political spheres. Couzens was a prominent businessman who helped shape Ford Motor Company, but he left the company when he and Henry Ford clashed over politics. Upon leaving Ford, Couzens began his political career, first serving as Detroit’s police commissioner. He went on to a controversial term as mayor of Detroit and then represented Michigan in the U.S. Senate. This book reveals the life of a truly unique and inspirational man.

Author : Matthew McCormack
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0719070546

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The Independent Man by Matthew McCormack Pdf

In Georgian England, independence was associated with manly virtue and physical vigour. Fundamentally, the political world was thought to consist of "independent men" exercising their consciences and standing up for the general good. As such, Georgians thought about political action and masculine virtue very differently to the ways in which we do today.

Author : Eddie Jordan
Publisher : Orion
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781409105558

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An Independent Man by Eddie Jordan Pdf

The hugely entertaining, and extremely candid, autobiography of one of the most colourful characters in motor sport Eddie Jordan gave Michael Schumacher his first drive, and helped groom a whole series of drivers early in their careers, including Damon Hill and Johnny Herbert. But he funded his first move into motor sport by selling smoked salmon well past its sell-by date to rugby fans leaving Lansdowne Road; when stopped for speeding by a policeman, he ended up selling him his car. Jordan set up his own team, and moved into Formula One at the end of the 1980s. It wasn't long before the team began to pick up podium finishes, and in 1998 won its first race - a remarkable achievement on a comparatively small budget. The following year was even better, but sadly this was to be the peak, as the search for more finance and legal battles with sponsors hit hard. Eventually, in January 2005 he sold the team. AN INDEPENDENT MAN goes behind the scenes to reveal the true personalities of the drivers Jordan worked with, and his battles with Bernie Ecclestone. It shows how, when so much money is involved, nothing is ever simple. His has been a life lived to the full, and his account is packed full of superb stories, colourful adventures and revealing tales.

Author : Halldor Laxness
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679767923

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Independent People by Halldor Laxness Pdf

From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author, a magnificent, epic novel—"funny, clever, sardonic and brilliant" (Annie Proulx)—at last available to contemporary American readers. Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic. Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece.

Author : George Ensor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Education
ISBN : PRNC:32101068026457

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The Independent Man by George Ensor Pdf

Author : David Sadring
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1450291783

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Will Sonnet: the Independent Man by David Sadring Pdf

Middle-aged Will Sonnet lives on twelve acres in the middle of peace and serenity, where fixing fences and pounding nails distracts him from a string of pompous, egotistical bosses he has endured at his job for the last several years. Content with his independent life and his dog, Stretch, as his best friend, Will finds it challenging to find a good womanone who will not be concerned with changing him. As a result, marriage is but a distant thought. But when his neighbor Sarah shows up at his door with lunch, an invitation to share the day in the country arises, everything changes. Suddenly Will realizes that Sarahs companionship is hard to surpass. With a comforting laugh and total acceptance of him as a man, Sarah envelops Will in the folds of unconditional love as two souls are brought together by fate. As two dreams are brought together as one, both Will and Sarah soon learn that the past is better left behind, leaving the future guided by only their hearts as they finally learn to embrace and accept true love.

Author : George ENSOR (Political Writer)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023228474

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The Independent Man: Or, an Essay on the Formation and Development of Those Principles and Faculties of the Human Mind which Constitute Moral and Intellectual Excellence by George ENSOR (Political Writer) Pdf

Author : James M. Jeffords
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Legislators
ISBN : 9780743228435

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An Independent Man by James M. Jeffords Pdf

"In his first term as Vermont state senator, he supported welfare bills and environmental protection. As Vermont's attorney general, he helped draft and then implement some of the most important legislation in the nation - the bottle bill, ban on billboards, and land protection.".

Author : OCCASIONAL LETTERS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1780
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017378479

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Occasional letters upon taxation ... By an independent man by OCCASIONAL LETTERS Pdf

Author : Marie B. Hecht
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000026688794

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John Quincy Adams by Marie B. Hecht Pdf

Author : Candace Camp
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472053480

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An Independent Woman by Candace Camp Pdf

Only one person ever treated Juliana Holcott with anything other than disdain–Nicholas Barre, the orphaned heir to the estate where she spent her childhood. And when wild, rebellious Nick left home, Juliana was left to fend for herself.

Author : Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374534141

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My Struggle: by Karl Ove Knausgaard Pdf

An autobiographical novel focuses on a young man trying to make sense of his place in the disjointed world that surrounds him.

Author : Nicole Krauss
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443449427

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To Be a Man by Nicole Krauss Pdf

In a dazzling collection of stories, the New York Times–bestselling author of The History of Love, National Book Award finalist Nicole Krauss, explores what it means to be in that most perplexing of partnerships: a couple. In one of her strongest books of fiction, Nicole Krauss plunges fearlessly into the confusion of what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman that has existed from the very beginning in all Western myths that inform our culture. Set in contemporary times in Switzerland New York, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles and South America, these stories open a window onto young women’s coming of age and their newfound, somewhat mysterious sexual power, as well as the opportunities and dangers it presents (“Switzerland”). In a Los Angeles of terrible wildfires, a high school student, distressed by her divorcing parents and determined to assert her agency in the intoxicating freedom of a dangerous environment, forges an original and surprising sexual path (“End Days”). Men play a key role in all these stories as fathers, lovers, friends, children, seducers—even as a husband who is not a husband (“The Husband”). The stories mirror one another and resonate beautifully with a balance so finely tuned that the book almost feels like a novel: aging parents and newborn babies; generation gaps and unexpected deliveries of strange new leases on life; mystery and wonder at a life lived or one still to come. The two stories that bookend the collection, “Switzerland” and “To Be a Man,” perfectly introduce and play out the author’s major themes: sex and violence, men and women, coming of age and growing older.

Author : T’ien-wen Chu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231500084

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Notes of a Desolate Man by T’ien-wen Chu Pdf

Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan. The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, as he watches his childhood friend, Ah Yao, succumb to complications from AIDS. The brute fact of Ah Yao's death focuses Shao's simultaneously erudite and erotic reflections magnetically on the core theme of mortality. By turns humorous and despondent, the narrator struggles to come to terms with Ah Yao's risky lifestyle, radical political activism, and eventual death; the fragility of romantic love; the awesome power of eros; the solace of writing; the cold ennui of a younger generation enthralled only by video games; and life on the edge of mainstream Taiwanese society. His feverish journey through forests of metaphor and allusion—from Fellini and Lévi-Strauss to classical Chinese poetry—serves as a litany protecting him from the ravages of time and finitude. Impressive in scope and detail, Notes of a Desolate Man employs the motif of its characters' marginalized sexuality to highlight Taiwan's vivid and fragile existence on the periphery of mainland China. Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin's masterful translation brings Chu T'ien-wen's lyrical and inventive pastiche of political, poetic, and sexual desire to the English-speaking world.

Author : John Winters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1719838631

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The 88 Laws of the Masculine Mindset by John Winters Pdf

Powerful Mindset Principles Combined With Real World Practical Information To Transform Your Life: The 88 Laws of The Masculine Mindset This book is not like other books. It is written and designed to be practical and useful. The Problem with most self-help books is that people get bored and don't finish them. This book can be started at any chapter and can be read as you see fit. The book is a collection of the most important mindset and personal development laws or guidelines for men. The laws are listed from 1-88. The format allows you to load up 88 important ideas into your mind very quickly. This book is designed to be an introduction to all of the most valuable personal development ideas I have used to change and improve my own life. If you had 1 hour to find the most important ideas to change your life, then this book will help you achieve that goal. We live in a world that is out of balance and one big reason for that is the lack of mindset control. Your mindset is the software you load into your mind. If you don't take conscious control over that then you might find yourself ending up at a place you did not want to be. Most people on this planet just go with the flow and have no idea that they are going in the wrong direction in life. They are being affected by outside influences and don't even know it. When you understand and accept this reality then you can change it. You can take your power back. You can start living life on your own terms. So if you want to change your life or improve your current position then this book will help you get there. Inside this book You Will Learn: The Masculine Approach To Living The Most Important Choice Of Your Life How To Take Control Of Your Mind How To Change Your Current Reality How To Start Winning In Life The Things You Have To Change To Become Successful How Your Habits Control Your Life Why You Have To Believe In Yourself How To Live With Purpose How To Transform Your Life How To Live Free Much, much more!