The Long Detour

Author : James Weinstein
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786729791

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The Long Detour is an intellectually engaging overview of the history of socialism in the United States and of the continuing relevance of socialist principles today. Historian and journalist James Weinstein, a lifelong socialist and one-time Communist, takes readers from the movement's early years of utopian communities, through the heyday of engagement with the makers of corporate America, and into the future of a de-industrializing era. He contends that socialism as a political movement was sidetracked when Communist domination of the American left stifled creative social thought and diverted the traditional left into sterile disputes over the true nature of the Soviet Union. And he argues that while "real existing socialism" -- which is what the Soviets called their system -- is dead, the humane social principles articulated by Marx and the leaders of the pre-1917 socialist movement remain vitally important to those on the left who seek to realize the promise of American democracy.

Author : Morgan Matson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780857072696

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Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson Pdf

An ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Readers, Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Book Prize and a Publisher's Weekly "Flying Start" book Amy Curry's year sucks. And it's not getting any better. Her mother has decided to move, so somehow Amy has to get their car from California to the East Coast. There's just one problem: since her father's death Amy hasn't been able to get behind the wheel of a car. Enter Roger, the son of a family friend, who turns out to be funny, nice . . . and unexpectedly cute. But Roger's plans involve a more "scenic" route than just driving from A to B, so suddenly Amy finds herself on the road trip of a lifetime. And, as she grows closer to Roger, Amy starts to realise that sometimes you have to get lost to find your way home. . . Praise for Amy & Roger's Epic Detour 'One of the most touching, irresistible, and feel-good road trips I've been on in a long, long while. Amy & Roger is a book to love.' Deb Caletti, National Book Award Finalist 'A near-perfect summer read that should leave readers with a thirst for travel and romance.' Publishers Weekly, Starred Review 'This entertaining and thoughtful summertime road trip serves up slices of America with a big scoop of romance on the side.' Kirkus Reviews 'A classic literary road trip is what Matson delivers in high style…if all road trips were like this, nobody'd ever stay home.' BCCB 'An emotionally rewarding road novel.' School Library Journal

Author : Andromeda Romano-Lax
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616950507

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A “compelling” novel of art, danger, and one man’s adventure in pre-World War II Italy, from the author of Plum Rains (Library Journal). Ernst Vogler is twenty-six years old in 1938 when he is sent to Rome by his employer—the Third Reich’s Sonderprojekt, which is collecting the great art of Europe and bringing it to Germany for the Führer. Vogler is to collect a famous Classical Roman marble statue, The Discus Thrower, and get it to the German border, where it will be turned over to the Gestapo. It is a simple, three-day job. Things start to go wrong almost immediately. The Italian twin brothers who have been hired to escort Vogler to the border seem to have priorities besides the task at hand—wild romances, perhaps even criminal jobs on the side—and Vogler quickly loses control of the assignment. The twins set off on a dangerous detour and Vogler realizes he will be lucky to escape this venture with his life, let alone his job. With nothing left to lose, the young German gives himself up to the Italian adventure, to the surprising love and inevitable losses along the way. From the celebrated author of The Spanish Bow and Behave, The Detour is a bittersweet novel about artistic obsession, misplaced idealism, diversions, and second chances, set along the beautiful back-roads of northern Italy.

Author : S. A. Bodeen
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250078636

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The Detour by S. A. Bodeen Pdf

Livvy Flynn is a big deal - she's a New York Times-bestselling author whose YA fiction has sold all over the world. She's rich, she's famous, she's gorgeous, and she's full of herself. When she's invited to an A-list writer's conference, she decides to accept so she can have some time to herself. She's on a tight deadline for her next book, and she has no intention of socializing with the other industry people at the conference. And then she hits the detour. Before she knows it, her brand new car is wrecked, she's hurt, and she's tied to a bed in a nondescript shack in the middle of nowhere. A woman and her apparently manic daughter have kidnapped her. And they have no intention of letting her go.

Author : Lizzie Simon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743446607

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In the fall of 1999, 23-year-old Simon hit the road on a journey that took her across the United States. Her inspired interviews with other young men and women suffering from manic depression comprise the heart and soul of this remarkable memoir.

Author : Noah Isenberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838715274

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Detour by Noah Isenberg Pdf

Long considered an unpolished gem of film noir, the private treasure of film buffs, cinephiles and critics, Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour (1945) has recently earned a new wave of recognition. In the words of film critic David Thomson, it is simply 'beyond remarkable.' The only B-picture to make it into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, Detour has outrun its fate as the bastard child of one of Hollywood's lowliest studios. Ulmer's film follows, in flashback, the journey of Al Roberts (Tom Neal), a pianist hitching from New York to California to join his girlfriend Sue (Claudia Drake), a singer gone to seek her fortune in Hollywood. In classic noir style, Detour features mysterious deaths, changes of identity, an unforgettable femme fatale called Vera (Ann Savage), and, in Roberts, a wretched, masochistic antihero. Noah Isenberg's study of Detour draws on a vast array of archival sources, unpublished letters and interviews, to provide an animated and thorough account of the film's production history, its critical reception, its afterlife (including various remakes) and the different ways in which the film has been understood since its release. He devotes significant attention to each of the key players in the film – the crew as well as the principal actors – while charting the uneasy transformation of Martin Goldsmith's pulp novel into Ulmer's signature film, the disagreements between the director and writer, and the severe financial and formal limitations with which Ulmer grappled. The story that Isenberg tells, rich in historical and critical insight, replicates the briskness of a B-movie.

Author : Souvik Pal,Debashis De,Rajkumar Buyya
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030870591

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Artificial Intelligence-based Internet of Things Systems by Souvik Pal,Debashis De,Rajkumar Buyya Pdf

The book discusses the evolution of future generation technologies through Internet of Things (IoT) in the scope of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The main focus of this volume is to bring all the related technologies in a single platform, so that undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academicians, and industry people can easily understand the AI algorithms, machine learning algorithms, and learning analytics in IoT-enabled technologies. This book uses data and network engineering and intelligent decision support system-by-design principles to design a reliable AI-enabled IoT ecosystem and to implement cyber-physical pervasive infrastructure solutions. This book brings together some of the top IoT-enabled AI experts throughout the world who contribute their knowledge regarding different IoT-based technology aspects.

Author : Cheryl Crane,Cliff Jahr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 038070580X

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Detour by Cheryl Crane,Cliff Jahr Pdf

Author : Paul Muldoon
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780374721435

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Frolic and Detour by Paul Muldoon Pdf

A new collection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Though Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon’s thirteenth collection, it shows all the energy and ambition we might generally associate with a first book. Here, the poet brings his characteristic humor and humanity to the chickadee, the house wren, the deaths of Leonard Cohen and C. K. Williams, the Irish Rising, the Great War, and how “a streak of ragwort / may yet shine / as an off-the-record / remark becomes the party line.” Frolic and Detour reminds us that the sidelong glance is the sweetest, the tangential approach the most telling, and shows us why Paul Muldoon was described by Nick Laird, writing in The New York Review of Books, as “the most formally ambitious and technically innovative of modern poets, [who] writes poems like no one else.”

Author : Jane Kolven
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635557190

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The Holiday Detour by Jane Kolven Pdf

Sometimes it takes everything going wrong to make you see how right things are. Dana Gottfried is a stressed-out Jewish lesbian who’s just quit her job and wants to get home to see her grandmother. When her car breaks down in Indiana on Christmas Eve, Dana is stranded—until she’s rescued by Charlie, a pig farmer who doesn’t identify as male or female. Although they come from different worlds, Dana is intrigued by Charlie’s sense of humor and kindness. Despite her better judgment, Dana says yes when Charlie offers a ride. But the journey home is paved with detours. From car accidents to scheming ex-girlfriends to a snowy and deserted Chicago Loop, everything that could go wrong on their road trip does, but it leads Dana on a path of self-discovery that just might end in love.

Author : Eric J. Cesal
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262289054

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Down Detour Road by Eric J. Cesal Pdf

A young architect's search for new architectural values in a time of economic crisis. I paused at the stoop and thought this could be the basis of a good book. The story of a young man who went deep into the bowels of the academy in order to understand architecture and found it had been on his doorstep all along. This had an air of hokeyness about it, but it had been a tough couple of days and I was feeling sentimental about the warm confines of the studio which had unceremoniously discharged me upon the world.—from Down Detour Road What does it say about the value of architecture that as the world faces economic and ecological crises, unprecedented numbers of architects are out of work? This is the question that confronted architect Eric Cesal as he finished graduate school at the onset of the worst financial meltdown in a generation. Down Detour Road is his journey: one that begins off-course, and ends in a hopeful new vision of architecture. Like many architects of his generation, Cesal confronts a cold reality. Architects may assure each other of their own importance, but society has come to view architecture as a luxury it can do without. For Cesal, this recognition becomes an occasion to rethink architecture and its value from the very core. He argues that the times demand a new architecture, an empowered architecture that is useful and relevant. New architectural values emerge as our cultural values shift: from high risks to safe bets, from strong portfolios to strong communities, and from clean lines to clean energy.This is not a book about how to run a firm or a profession; it doesn't predict the future of architectural form or aesthetics. It is a personal story—and in many ways a generational one: a story that follows its author on a winding detour across the country, around the profession, and into a new architectural reality.

Author : Arthur Pike,David Pike
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625857224

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Detour New Mexico by Arthur Pike,David Pike Pdf

New Mexico's rich and varied history is easily accessible via detours down obscure backroads and overlooked off-ramps. By taking the road less traveled in any direction, visitors can experience ancient landmarks, cultural heritage sites and striking vistas. Stop at places along the old Route 66, sample the world's best chiles by the Rio Grande or soak in geothermal water flowing under Truth or Consequences. Ancient dwellings in remote canyons, the town where the first atomic bomb was secretly assembled and the grave of Billy the Kid all lie off the beaten path in the Land of Enchantment. Authors Arthur and David Pike map out these and many more worthwhile points of interest for the curious traveler.

Author : Cindi Myers
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460370421

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Detour Ahead by Cindi Myers Pdf

Drive me to distraction! Okay, so there are some cliches that are true—rolling stones gathering no moss and the grass is greener are two that come to mind…mainly because I'm stuck in a ditch next to a sinfully gorgeous and far too stubborn man who won't allow himself to smell the roses. (Yes, I know. It's another true one.) But I've learned that the kindness of strangers can lead to some pleasant surprises, if not actual happiness. So that (along with a fear of flying and a pesky judge who took away my license) is how I found myself driving cross-country to a friend's wedding with the groom's best friend. Hmm. Best friend? Isn't there something about that I should remember…?

Author : Tony Evans
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433686597

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Detours by Tony Evans Pdf

Dr. Tony Evans walks readers through what it is like to recognize God's will and his plan for your life.

Author : Feng Wang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781009444897

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China's Age of Abundance by Feng Wang Pdf

Shifting the perspective to rural populations as drivers of global change, Wang Feng reconsiders China's meteoric rise in prosperity.