This Town

Author : Mark Leibovich
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781101611081

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This Town by Mark Leibovich Pdf

A #1 New York Times bestseller! From the New York Times bestselling author of Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times Washington D.C. might be loathed from every corner of the nation, yet these are fun and busy days at this nexus of big politics, big money, big media, and big vanity. There are no Democrats and Republicans anymore in the nation's capital, just millionaires. Through the eyes of Leibovich we discover how the funeral for a beloved newsman becomes the social event of the year; how political reporters are fetishized for their ability to get their names into the predawn e-mail sent out by the city's most powerful and puzzled-over journalist; how a disgraced Hill aide can overcome ignominy and maybe emerge with a more potent "brand" than many elected members of Congress. And how an administration bent on "changing Washington" can be sucked into the ways of This Town with the same ease with which Tea Party insurgents can, once elected, settle into it like a warm bath. Outrageous, fascinating, and very necessary, This Town is a must-read whether you're inside the highway which encircles DC - or just trying to get there.

Author : M. K. Krys
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593097151

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This Town Is Not All Right by M. K. Krys Pdf

"An engaging, plot-driven thriller that begs for a sequel." - Kirkus Reviews "For junior conspiracy theorists everywhere." - Booklist Driftwood Harbor may seem like an ordinarily boring, small New England town, but there's something extremely strange and downright creepy happening within town limits. Twins Beacon and Everleigh McCullough are moving from their home in sunny LA to Driftwood Harbor, a rainy fishing village in New England. If that wasn't bad enough, there's something strange about this town and the mysterious group of too-perfect students called The Gold Stars. After Everleigh is recruited into their ranks, Beacon must uncover Driftwood Harbor's frightening secret before he loses his sister forever. This Town Is Not All Right is the middle-grade horror debut from M. K. Krys (YA author Michelle Krys). Be prepared for a thrilling page-turner with a major mystery, because the residents of Driftwood Harbor will do whatever it takes to keep their dark secrets from rising to the surface.

Author : Thomas O. Scarborough
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781666783421

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This Town by Thomas O. Scarborough Pdf

Like Thomas Scarborough’s previous book Everything, Briefly (2022), This Town, too, is a metaphysics. However, it adopts the form of a story, which “concretizes” abstract thought. A narrator visits a pre-modern town, where he engages with various people: an old man, a young woman, the chief, and other townsfolk. The method of “concretization” brings a metaphysics down to the level of teens and up—covering core issues of language, reality, ethics, politics, science, math, meaning, holism, and God (this town believes in God). The focus is primarily on how these various areas of philosophy and life may be integrated into one, harmonious whole. This Town serves as an excellent introduction not merely to philosophy, but to philosophical thought.

Author : Dennis E. Staples
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781640092853

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This Town Sleeps by Dennis E. Staples Pdf

“Elegant and gritty, angry and funny. Staples’s work is emotional without being sentimental. Dennis unmakes something in us, then remakes it, a quilt of characters that embody this town, this place, which sleeps but doesn’t dream, or it is all a dream we want to wake up from with its characters.” —Tommy Orange, author of There, There On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake, within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the rez, two men enter into a secret romance. Marion Lafournier, a midtwenties gay Ojibwe man, begins a relationship with his former classmate Shannon, a heavily closeted white man. While Marion is far more open about his sexuality, neither is immune to the realities of the lives of gay men in small towns and closed societies. Then one night, while roaming the dark streets of Geshig, Marion unknowingly brings to life the spirit of a dog from beneath the elementary school playground. The mysterious revenant leads him to the grave of Kayden Kelliher, an Ojibwe basketball star who was murdered at the age of seventeen and whose presence still lingers in the memories of the townsfolk. While investigating the fallen hero’s death, Marion discovers family connections and an old Ojibwe legend that may be the secret to unraveling the mystery he has found himself in. Set on a reservation in far northern Minnesota, This Town Sleeps explores the many ways history, culture, landscape, and lineage shape our lives, our understanding of the world we inhabit, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of it all.

Author : John C. Buechner Ph. D.
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780595516469

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Who's Running This Town, Anyway? by John C. Buechner Ph. D. Pdf

This little book does not prophesize that the sky is falling on cities and towns. It does not suggest that officeholders lack commitment and dedication. It is argued here that city and town councils are generally locked into governance structures that restrict them from being more effective. Councils are bombarded with demands, requests, and even threats, and often are unable to satisfy all constituencies. The fundamental premise is this: For councils to fulfill their roles more effectively requires a transformation not of the structure of governance but of a government's culture, using different and possibly new leadership styles. Councils must change rigid habits, arrangements, and thoughts and adopt an outside-in culture, one that discards unnecessary processes, procedures, and structures; allows extensive probing and questioning of premises and arrangements; and avoids the status quo in making decisions. Councils in large and small towns must comprehend the changing nature of society beyond their city limits and how these changes influence the behavior of citizens. An outside-in culture suggests the need to elect and appoint people who exhibit renaissance leadership skills and talents.

Author : Olwen Purdue
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788550055

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The First Great Charity of This Town by Olwen Purdue Pdf

Belfast Charitable Society was established in 1752 with the purpose of raising funds to build a poorhouse and hospital for the poor of Belfast; twenty years later, the foundation stone of the Poorhouse was laid. From here the Society would go on to assume increasing responsibility for a range of matters relating to health, welfare and public order, and its members would play a key part in the civic life of Belfast. It continues to provide vital social services to this day and its Poorhouse, now Clifton House, is still one of the finest buildings in the city. During the century following the establishment of the Society, Belfast was transformed from a relatively small mercantile town into a major industrial city, a transformation that was accompanied by political upheaval and the major societal challenges associated with rapid industrialisation and urban growth. Taking as its focus the work of the Society, the global connections that influenced its thinking and the societal issues it sought to address, this fascinating volume provides valuable insights into the wider social, economic and political life of the nineteenth-century Irish town of which the Society became such an iconic part.

Author : Giuseppe Santamaria
Publisher : Hardie Grant
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Design
ISBN : 1742707815

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Men In This Town by Giuseppe Santamaria Pdf

From five distinct cities around the world - New York, Tokyo, Milan, London and Sydney - photographer, art director and blogger Giuseppe Santamaria brings together a unique photographic collection showcasing the styles of the modern man. Giuseppe seeks out the everyday man in each city whose dress sense speaks volumes about who they are. Alongside striking images captured from the streets, Giuseppe has chosen a handful of men from each city with a particular, distinct style and photographed them in their various attire, as well as profiled them about their particular approach to fashion and their sense of the menswear scene today.

Author : Lawrence Miles
Publisher : Mad Norwegian Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Faction Paradox: This Town Will Never Let Us Go by Lawrence Miles Pdf

Faction Paradox: A group of time-travelling ritualists, saboteurs and subterfugers -- essentially, the criminal-cult to end all criminal-cults. The Faction seeks to subvert history to its own ends, preferably by letting its rivals kill each other off, then swooping in to seize whatever's left -- presuming the Universe survives... An examination of ritual and suburban horror, This Town Will Never Let Us Go features the 19-year-old Inangela, a city-dweller who's under observation by Faction Paradox's elders and archons. Before this story's done, Inangela's going to encounter the Great Urban Horror – an unidentified force seeking to tunnel its way out of the ground and feed on the surface world.

Author : Giuseppe Santamaria
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781922417381

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Men in This Town: A Decade of Men's Street Style by Giuseppe Santamaria Pdf

A selection of the best of men's street fashion, through the last ten years. For the last decade, Giuseppe Santamaria has observed and recorded the men of big cities while they cross streets, sit at cafes, and pose, momentarily, on busy sidewalks. Traveling the continents, Giuseppe has documented the evolution of men's identities, communicated through their attitude and style as they move through their different concrete jungles. With photos shot in Sydney, New York, Tokyo, Milan, London, Melbourne, Toronto, L.A., Madrid, Florence, and Paris, this collection is a truly global retrospective of men's street fashion. Filled with striking photographs, Men In This Town is a record of the men who stick out in a crowd with their particular sense of just who and what they are. For anyone with a love of photography, fashion, or culture's evolution, Giuseppe's photography collection is a must have.

Author : Julia Phillips
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399590900

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You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again by Julia Phillips Pdf

“The Hollywood memoir that tells all . . . Sex. Drugs. Greed. Why, it sounds just like a movie.”—The New York Times Every memoir claims to bare it all, but Julia Phillips’s actually does. This is an addictive, gloves-off exposé from the producer of the classic films The Sting, Taxi Driver, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind—and the first woman ever to win an Academy Award for Best Picture—who made her name in Hollywood during the halcyon seventies and the yuppie-infested eighties and lived to tell the tale. Wickedly funny and surprisingly moving, You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again takes you on a trip through the dream-manufacturing capital of the world and into the vortex of drug addiction and rehab on the arm of one who saw it all, did it all, and took her leave. Praise for You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again “One of the most honest books ever written about one of the most dishonest towns ever created.”—The Boston Globe “Gossip too hot for even the National Enquirer . . . Julia Phillips is not so much Hollywood’s Boswell as its Dante.”—Los Angeles Magazine “A blistering look at La La Land.”—USA Today “One of the nastiest, tastiest tell-alls in showbiz history.”—People

Author : John James Babson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Gloucester (Mass.)
ISBN : UCAL:B5541007

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History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann by John James Babson Pdf

Author : Leominster (Mass.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Leominster (Mass.)
ISBN : HARVARD:LI3D37

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Annual Report of the School Committee of the Town of Leominster by Leominster (Mass.) Pdf

Author : M. K. Krys
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593097168

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This Town Is Not All Right by M. K. Krys Pdf

"For junior conspiracy theorists everywhere." - Booklist Driftwood Harbor may seem like an ordinarily boring, small New England town, but there's something extremely strange and downright creepy happening within town limits. Twins Beacon and Everleigh McCullough are moving from their home in sunny LA to Driftwood Harbor, a rainy fishing village in New England. If that wasn't bad enough, there's something strange about this town and the mysterious group of too-perfect students called The Gold Stars. After Everleigh is recruited into their ranks, Beacon must uncover Driftwood Harbor's frightening secret before he loses his sister forever. This Town Is Not All Right is the middle-grade horror debut from M.K. Krys (YA author Michelle Krys). Be prepared for a thrilling page-turner with a major mystery because the residents of Driftwood Harbor will do whatever it takes to keep their dark secrets from rising to the surface.

Author : Thomas Lalor Cooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Birr (Ireland)
ISBN : UOM:39015013161743

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The Early History of the Town of Birr, Or Parsonstown by Thomas Lalor Cooke Pdf

Author : Woburn (Mass.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Municipal government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112108079333

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Annual Report of the Town Clerk, and the Receipts and Expenditures of the Town of Woburn by Woburn (Mass.) Pdf