Download or read book The Outlier written by Kai Bird and published by Crown. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Important . . . [a] landmark presidential biography . . . Bird is able to build a persuasive case that the Carter presidency deserves this new look.”—The New York Times Book Review An essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter’s presidential legacy—from the expert biographer and Pulitzer Prize–winning co-author of American Prometheus Four decades after Ronald Reagan’s landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter’s one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view Carter as the only ex-president to have used the White House as a stepping-stone to greater achievements. But in retrospect the Carter political odyssey is a rich and human story, marked by both formidable accomplishments and painful political adversity. In this deeply researched, brilliantly written account, Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Kai Bird deftly unfolds the Carter saga as a tragic tipping point in American history. As president, Carter was not merely an outsider; he was an outlier. He was the only president in a century to grow up in the heart of the Deep South, and his born-again Christianity made him the most openly religious president in memory. This outlier brought to the White House a rare mix of humility, candor, and unnerving self-confidence that neither Washington nor America was ready to embrace. Decades before today’s public reckoning with the vast gulf between America’s ethos and its actions, Carter looked out on a nation torn by race and demoralized by Watergate and Vietnam and prescribed a radical self-examination from which voters recoiled. The cost of his unshakable belief in doing the right thing would be losing his re-election bid—and witnessing the ascendance of Reagan. In these remarkable pages, Bird traces the arc of Carter’s administration, from his aggressive domestic agenda to his controversial foreign policy record, taking readers inside the Oval Office and through Carter’s battles with both a political establishment and a Washington press corps that proved as adversarial as any foreign power. Bird shows how issues still hotly debated today—from national health care to growing inequality and racism to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—burned at the heart of Carter’s America, and consumed a president who found a moral duty in solving them. Drawing on interviews with Carter and members of his administration and recently declassified documents, Bird delivers a profound, clear-eyed evaluation of a leader whose legacy has been deeply misunderstood. The Outlier is the definitive account of an enigmatic presidency—both as it really happened and as it is remembered in the American consciousness.

Download or read book Kai Can Do Virtually Anything written by Kai Gift Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Notebook / Journal is the Perfect Gift Idea for men, Boys, Husband, father, grandfather, friend, coworker, teammate and your loved one feature 120 pages of lined paper with a matte finish cover. Perfect for note taking, diary entry, journal writing, to do list or daily schedules.

Download or read book The Pleasure Instinct written by Gene Wallenstein and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immensely fascinating look at the origins and evolutionary purpose of human pleasure From our enjoyment of music to our cravings for chocolate, from our love for children and family to our attraction to things of beauty, this book embarks on an intriguing and accessible exploration of the purpose of pleasure in our lives and in human history. How did pleasure evolve and why? How does it develop in children? How does the pursuit of pleasure play a critical role in brain development? The Pleasure Instinct explores everything we need to know about our urge to feel good.

Download or read book The Electric Slide and Kai written by Kelly Baptist and published by Lee & Low Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone in the Donovan family can dance--and has a dance nickname--except Kai, but his family helps him practice his moves to prepare for his aunt's wedding reception.

Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Download or read book One Day The End written by Rebecca Kai Dotlich and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very short, creative stories pair with bold illustrations in this picture book that will inspire young readers to stretch their imaginations and write stories of their own. "One day. . . I went to school. I came home. The end," says our storyteller—a girl with a busy imagination and a thirst for adventure. The art tells a fuller tale of calamity on the way to school and an unpredictably happy ending. Each illustration in this inventive picture book captures multiple, unexpected, and funny storylines as the narrator shares her shorter-than-ever stories, ending with "One day. . . I wanted to write a book." This book demonstrates a unique approach to writing and telling stories and is a delightful gift for children as well as for teachers seeking a mentor text for their classrooms.

Download or read book Classical Elements in English Words written by Robert E. Wolverton and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Brittanys written by Brittany Ackerman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bursting with bittersweet nostalgia, a funny, poignant, perfectly voiced debut that captures what it's like to be a teenage girl—“full of brilliantly-rendered awkwardness and the hilarious minor horrors of a privileged adolescence, The Brittanys shimmers with the everyday incandescence of youth” (Kimberly King Parsons, author of Black Light). They're not the most popular freshmen at their Florida prep school, but at least everyone knows their name(s). The Brittanys. Brittany Rosenberg: drives her golf cart around her subdivision to meet boys. Brittany Gottlieb: insists you can't lose your virginity if you haven't gotten your period. (She heard it somewhere!) Brittany Tomassi: is from New York. Brittany Jensen: once threw her tampon into a stranger's swimming pool. A brash, bold, unapologetic tomboy. And the greatest person in the whole wide world. At least as far as the fifth Brittany--our narrator--is concerned. Even within their friend group, she and Jensen are a duo: with their matching JanSport backpacks, Tiffany chokers, and Victoria's Secret push-up bras, they are unstoppable. And now that they're finally growing up, they're going to do everything: dye their hair, attend no-parent parties, try pot . . . maybe even lose their virginities. 2004 is totally going to be their year! Except Jensen's interests may be diverging from her friends'. And within our narrator's own family--in the lives of her exhausted mother and beloved, genius older brother--life-changing events may be taking shape. Events that only years later, looking back, she has the perspective to see. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

Download or read book AI 2041 written by Kai-Fu Lee and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How will AI change our world within twenty years? A pioneering technologist and acclaimed writer team up for a “dazzling” (The New York Times) look at the future that “brims with intriguing insights” (Financial Times). This edition includes a new foreword by Kai-Fu Lee. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times Long before the advent of ChatGPT, Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan understood the enormous potential of artificial intelligence to transform our daily lives. But even as the world wakes up to the power of AI, many of us still fail to grasp the big picture. Chatbots and large language models are only the beginning. In this “inspired collaboration” (The Wall Street Journal), Lee and Chen join forces to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping, globe-spanning short stories and accompanying commentary, their book introduces readers to an array of eye-opening settings and characters grappling with the new abundance and potential harms of AI technologies like deep learning, mixed reality, robotics, artificial general intelligence, and autonomous weapons.

Download or read book The Self Wired written by Lisa Yaszek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Advanced technologies challenge conventional understandings of the human subject by transforming the body into a conduit between external forces and the internal psyche. This title discusses the intense controversy about how to best understand and represent human subjectivity in a technology-intensive era. Yaszek provides an overview by linking specific modes of identity and agency to engagement with specific manifestations of technology itself.

Download or read book Goddess of Sea and War written by Vivienne Savage and published by Lady Raven Press. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the day of her wedding approaches, Kai discovers Atlantis isn't the only realm threatened by the Gloom. Darkness spreads to more than the underwater kingdom, and if she's to abolish the evil of the dark sea gods, she'll need to make new allies beyond the ocean. Don't miss the thrilling conclusion of the Atlantis saga.

Download or read book The Kingdom in the Sea Trilogy written by Vivienne Savage and published by Lady Raven Press. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 1055 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the general’s son, Manu carries a heavy responsibility to protect Atlantis. The key to saving his world lies in retrieving a woman from above the surface: his people’s long-lost princess. But he never expects desires to ignite and reawaken his soul… A breathtaking romance told in this three-book collection. Read it all at once and go on an underwater marathon through the Atlantis kingdom in Return to Atlantis, A Drop in the Ocean, and Goddess of Sea and War. Free exclusive side story novella included. Turning the Tide is a 32,000 word romantic novella starring Elpis and detailing her secret mission.

Download or read book Kai the opihi Gets the Point written by Gail Omoto and published by Partners in Development. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhyming text and illustrations describe what happens when a Hawaiian limpet overcomes his fears and follows his grandmother's advice.

Download or read book The Metamorphosis of English written by Richard M. Swiderski and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1996-05-23 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the motley crew of invaders who mingled with the Gaelic, Norse, Latin, and French speakers to produce a small nation of empire-builders who would carry their language to the far corners of the globe, the story of the birth and migration of the English language is well known to us through the popular works of Robert McNeil, Robert McCrum, and Bill Bryson. Swiderski expands and extends our understanding of the predatory aspects of the language as he shows how English acquires and is transformed by the myriad other languages with which it comes into contact. Swiderski's examples begin with major world languages, especially Spanish and Chinese, and then go on to look at the less considered connections with remote and extinct languages. Through Swiderski's lens, English takes on the look of an agglutinative museum of linguistic artifacts in danger of having no describable identity or common fabric. Each speaker's variety of English is as individual as his or her genetic makeup; it is both so universal and so dissimilar that English as we know it may be endangered as a separate language.

Download or read book Head Count written by Adrian Truss and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A native-American family, four evil bikers, an uncertain teacher, two mythological demons and an outward-bound corporate group meet a bus-load of students on a deadly field trip to the desert. Head Count.

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