Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

Author: Florence King
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312039786
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
In this collection of essays, King surveys the wide spectrum of American foolishness, leaving few sacred cows ungored. Her subjects include "helpism", education, feminist literature, and America's most fundamental principle, "Democrazy". The Washington Post calls Florence King "a Southern spinster who doesn't suffer fools gladly and likes to see fools suffer".

Reflections Through a Jaundiced Eye

Author: James McCurrach
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 149182932X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
Andrew is a troubled youth in search of direction. He finds himself groping to find his place in the face of numerous frustrations - frustrations that include trying to overcome a domineering Father who has very specific ideas about Andrew's future. In the midst of many social upheavals, Andrew must also deal with incipient homosexuality that later overtakes his life. Despite trying to throw over his Father's yoke, there is a residue of needing to please him and hope for his approval. Andrew's Mom had always thought that he would be a late bloomer and over time that would prove to be the accurate truth. Reflections had long been an inborn part of Andrew's personality and he would eventually find it cathartic to go back and explore all of it out loud and reflect on a varied and difficult past.

Lump It or Leave It

Author: Florence King
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 146681618X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
Lump It or Leave It, Florence King's latest volume of rapier-edged contemplations on American tomfoolery--er, values--takes on everything from the hazards of fame to the joys of menopause, with all of the bile and brio that has made her the nation's most beloved misanthrope. From college professors ("incapable of earning a living with either their minds or their hands") to the South ("if at first you don't secede, try, try, again") to the U.S. government ("the crude leading the crud"), few fools remain unskewered by the reigning Queen of Spleen.

Through Alien Eyes

Author: Elena Popova
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 0875866395
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
What do you think of those Russian brides? What do they think of YOU? International marriages bring a substantial number of newcomers to the US and contribute to the transformation of the basic institution of society the family. When men are from Mars and women are aliens, the marital dynamic can be quite dramatic. A Russian-born journalist, Ms. Popova shines a blinding light on some of the amusing and amazing oddities that are revealed when an outsider takes a blunt look at how we live.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Author: John Bartlett
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031625018X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 5216

Book Description
More than 150 years after its original publication, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations has been completely revised and updated for its eighteenth edition. Bartlett's showcases a sweeping survey of world history, from the times of ancient Egyptians to present day. New authors include Warren Buffett, the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates, David Foster Wallace, Emily Post, Steve Jobs, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Krugman, Hunter S. Thompson, Jon Stewart, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Barack Obama, Che Guevara, Randy Pausch, Desmond Tutu, Julia Child, Fran Leibowitz, Harper Lee, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Patti Smith, William F. Buckley, and Robert F. Kennedy. In the classic Bartlett's tradition, the book offers readers and scholars alike a vast, stunning representation of those words that have influenced and molded our language and culture.

Gender and Feminist Theory in Law and Society

Author: Madhavi Sunder
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351157744
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 534

Book Description
This volume chronicles a quarter-century of feminist theorizations on equality and liberty. The essays demonstrate a continuing commitment to feminist method (a democratic notion that all people have a right to participate in the production of knowledge of the world, including legal knowledge) and manifest feminism's continuing critical tradition (namely, theorists' willingness to see multiple factors, including feminism itself, as obstructing enlightened constructions of the world). Taken together, the essays suggest that liberty to make the world is not just a means to an end - equality - but is a substantive end in itself.

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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1464

Book Description

The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Quotes

Author: Helicon Publishing, Limited
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9781859860663
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
A compilation of around 7000 quotes with illustrations and information features about some of the less familiar authors. There is a quote to suit every occasion with old favourites as well as contemporary quotes.

The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations

Author: Robert Andrews
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 604

Book Description
From Margot Asquith to Monica Lewinsky, from George V to Boutros Boutros-Galli and Jonathan Aitken to Frank Zappa, "The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations" is the definitive collection.

Though the Mountains Tremble

Author: Gene L. Davenport
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725244756
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
Though the Mountains Tremble is a collection of random commentaries, from a biblical perspective, on issues and events in the contemporary world. Though most of the essays speak to specific events, they carry general observations that can provide insight into issues and events of any time. At the heart of these observations are a few basic assumptions--that God still works in history through nations and institutions, that God's purposes for the Creation are centered in Jesus Christ, that humankind was created to be God's representatives in caring for the world and all living things, that the crucial struggles in history are waged against the Powers and Principalities, and that both nations and individuals are held accountable to God for their actions. These reflections are rooted in the assumption that, although it is not an answer book or a spiritual almanac, the Bible bears testimony to the character of God and sets forth an ethos that can, if embraced, engender basic discernment in the midst of the world's chaos.