Download or read book MANHATTANITIS an Inflammation of the Brain that Causes an Absurd Obsession with the Island of Manhattan Chapter 2 F king and the Ghetto written by H. K Michaels and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MANHATTAN- the epitome of urban civilization; what would you do to live in Manhattan? Who would you be in Manhattan? What does Manhattan mean to you and how much would you pay to experience it? Would you pay with money? Would you pay with your mind and body, or with your spirit and soul?These questions have been pondered by many and for most, the answers are within reason, but for others the answers illustrate a hilarious affliction known as Manhattanitis, a disease associated with- SAD, Superficiality Addiction Disorder.SAD is as its name suggests, an addiction to superficiality. This addiction of excess manifests itself in a variety of ways such as an overindulgent lifestyle of overpriced clothes, overhyped people and overvalued real-estate, all of which can be found in Manhattan.In chapter 2, Anna wants to find love from the Manhattan man that will give her the Manhattan life she feels she deserves, however, Anna discovers that no one can love you or give you the life you deserve like you can.
Download or read book MANHATTANITIS an Inflammation of the Brain that Causes an Absurd Obsession with the Island of Manhattan Chapter 1 White N Word written by H. K Michaels and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MANHATTAN- the epitome of urban civilization; what would you do to live in Manhattan? Who would you be in Manhattan? What does Manhattan mean to you and how much would you pay to experience it? Would you pay with money? Would you pay with your mind and body, or with your spirit and soul?These questions have been pondered by many and for most, the answers are within reason, but for others the answers illustrate a hilarious affliction known as Manhattanitis, a disease associated with- SAD, Superficiality Addiction Disorder. SAD is as its name suggests, an addiction to superficiality. This addiction of excess manifests itself in a variety of ways such as an overindulgent lifestyle of overpriced clothes, overhyped people and overvalued real-estate, all of which can be found in Manhattan. In chapter 2, Anna wants to find love from the Manhattan man that will give her the Manhattan life she feels she deserves, however, Anna discovers that no one can love you or give you the life you deserve like you can.
Download or read book MANHATTANITIS an Inflammation of the Brain that Causes an Absurd Obsession with the Island of Manhattan Chapter 3 Itchy Bitchy Crystal and Meth written by H. K Michaels and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MANHATTAN- the epitome of urban civilization; what would you do to live in Manhattan? Who would you be in Manhattan? What does Manhattan mean to you and how much would you pay to experience it? Would you pay with money? Would you pay with your mind and body, or with your spirit and soul?These questions have been pondered by many and for most, the answers are within reason, but for others the answers illustrate a hilarious affliction known as Manhattanitis, a disease associated with- SAD, Superficiality Addiction Disorder. SAD is as its name suggests, an addiction to superficiality. This addiction of excess manifests itself in a variety of ways such as an overindulgent lifestyle of overpriced clothes, overhyped people and overvalued real-estate, all of which can be found in Manhattan. In chapter 2, Anna wants to find love from the Manhattan man that will give her the Manhattan life she feels she deserves, however, Anna discovers that no one can love you or give you the life you deserve like you can.
Download or read book MANHATTANITIS An inflammation of the brain that causes an absurd obsession with the island of Manhattan Chapter 4 The Adventures of Mandingo Berkowitz and His Quest for a Negro Shiksa Princess written by H.K. Michaels and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1 001 Things They Won t Tell You written by Jonathan Dahl and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers insider knowledge and tips for consumers on one hundred businesses, professions, and institutions including insurance agencies, real estate brokers, funeral directors, home builders, dentists, financial planners, plumbers, and personal trainers.
Download or read book 1959 written by Fred Kaplan and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the era of pivotal change that swept the nation, Fred Kaplan argues that it was 1959 that ushered in the wave of tremendous cultural, political, and scientific shifts that would play out in the decades that followed. Pop culture exploded in upheaval with the rise of artists like Jasper Johns, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, and Miles Davis. Court rulings unshackled previously banned books. Political power broadened with the onset of Civil Rights laws and protests. The sexual and feminist revolutions took their first steps with the birth control pill. America entered the war in Vietnam, and a new style in superpower diplomacy took hold. The invention of the microchip and the Space Race put a new twist on the frontier myth. Vividly chronicles 1959 as a vital, overlooked year that set the world as we know it in motion, spearheading immense political, scientific, and cultural change Strong critical acclaim: "Energetic and engaging" (Washington Post); "Immensely enjoyable . . . a first-rate book" (New Yorker); "Lively and filled with often funny anecdotes" (Publishers Weekly) Draws fascinating parallels between the country in 1959 and today Drawing fascinating parallels between the country in 1959 and today, Kaplan offers a smart, cogent, and deeply researched take on a vital, overlooked period in American history.
Download or read book Genius Explained written by Michael J. A. Howe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-31 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study controversially suggests genius is made not born by tracing the lives of famous figures.
Download or read book Molly Ivins written by Bill Minutaglio and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was a groomed for a gilded life in moneyed Houston, but Molly Ivins left the country club behind to become one of the most provocative, courageous, and influential journalists in American history. Presidents and senators called her for advice; her column ran in 400 newspapers; her books, starting with Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?, were bestsellers. But despite her fame, few people really knew her: what her background was, who influenced her, how her political views developed, or how many painful struggles she fought. Molly Ivins is a comprehensive, definitive narrative biography, based on intimate knowledge of Molly, interviews with her family, friends, and colleagues, and access to a treasure trove of her personal papers. Written in a rollicking style, it is at once the saga of a powerful, pugnacious woman muscling her way to the top in a world dominated by men; a fascinating look behind the scenes of national media and politics; and a sobering account of the toll of addiction and cancer. Molly Ivins adds layers of depth and complexity to the story of an American legend -- a woman who inspired people both to laughter and action.
Download or read book Radical written by Michelle Rhee and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Radical, Michelle Rhee, a fearless and pioneering advocate for education reform, draws on her own life story and delivers her plan for better American schools. Rhee’s goal is to ensure that laws, leaders, and policies are making students—not adults—our top priority, and she outlines concrete steps that will put us on a dramatically different course. Informing her critique are her extraordinary experiences in education: her years of teaching in inner-city Baltimore; her turbulent tenure as chancellor of the Washington, DC public schools; and her current role as CEO of the education nonprofit StudentsFirst. Rhee draws on dozens of compelling examples from schools she’s worked in and studied, from students who’ve left behind unspeakable home lives and thrived in the classroom to teachers whose groundbreaking methods have produced unprecedented leaps in student achievement. An incisive and intensely personal call-to-arms, Michelle Rhee’s Radical is required reading for anyone who seeks a guide to not only the improvement of our schools, but also a brighter future for America’s children.
Download or read book Love at the End of the World written by Tonia Rotkopf Blair and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After thirty-five years of quiet acceptance, Tonia Rotkopf Blair returned to Poland and confronted the Holocaust. Growing into an outspoken survivor, she began to write precise, poignant stories. Some concerned her childhood or traveling halfway around the world, or New York City, where she raised a family and attended the renown Columbia University. But all grappled with memories, dreams, and the Holocaust, many taking us into its depths, notably the three weeks she endured in Auschwitz. What makes Rotkopf Blair's perspective unique is that, while working as a nurse in the Lodz ghetto or enduring the concentration camps, she remained very much a romantic young woman. As history's most murderous war raged around her, she practiced love and kindness, and was sustained by encounters with decent people-including some Germans. So fresh are her views on these fraught subjects, Love at the End of the World includes an essay by her son, which teases those issues out by examining Darwin's theory of evolution, revising it from "survival of the fittest" to "survival of the 'lovingest.'"
Download or read book Double Victory written by Ronald T. Takaki and published by Little Brown & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of America in World War II is told through the lives of an ethnically diverse group of ordinary Americans struggling for equality at home and fighting for freedom overseas. Takaki's revealing book shows that there were more struggles--and more victories--during WWII than most people ever imagined. 37 photos.
Download or read book The Wall Street Lawyer written by Erwin Orson Smigel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams written by Lady Sarashina and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1989-12-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born at the height of the Heian period, the pseudonymous Lady Sarashina reveals much about the Japanese literary tradition in this haunting self-portrait. Born in 1008, Lady Sarashina was a lady-in-waiting of Heian-period Japan. Her work stands out for its descriptions of her travels and pilgrimages and is unique in the literature of the period, as well as one of the first in the genre of travel writing. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book A Death in the Desert written by Willa Cather and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-01-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "High Line Flyer," as this train was derisively called among railroad men, was jerking along through the hot afternoon over the monotonous country between Holdridge and Cheyenne. Besides the blond man and himself the only occupants of the car were two dusty, bedraggled-looking girls who had been to the Exposition at Chicago, and who were earnestly discussing the cost of their first trip out of Colorado. The four uncomfortable passengers were covered with a sediment of fine, yellow dust which clung to their hair and eyebrows like gold powder. It blew up in clouds from the bleak, lifeless country through which they passed, until they were one color with the sagebrush and sandhills.
Download or read book Sum It Up written by Pat Head Summitt and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Pat Summitt was only 21 when she became head coach of the Tennessee Vols women's basketball team. For 38 years, she broke records, winning more games than any NCAA team in basketball history. She coached an undefeated season, co-captained the first women's Olympic team, was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, and was named Sports Illustrated 'Sportswoman of the Year'. She owed her coaching success to her personal struggles and triumphs. She learned to be tough from her strict, demanding father. Motherhood taught her to balance that rigidity with communication and kindness. She was a role model for the many women she coached; 74 of her players have become coaches. Pat's life took a shocking turn in 2011, when she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, an irreversible brain condition that affects 5 million Americans. Despite her devastating diagnosis, she led the Vols to win their sixteenth SEC championship in March 2012. Pat continued to be a fighter, facing this new challenge the way she's faced every other--with hard work, perseverance, and a sense of humor.
Download or read book A Gold Slipper written by Willa Cather and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-08-14 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshall McKann followed his wife and her friend Mrs. Post down the aisle and up the steps to the stage of the Carnegie Music Hall with an ill-concealed feeling of grievance. Heaven knew he never went to concerts, and to be mounted upon the stage in this fashion, as if he were a "highbrow" from Sewickley, or some unfortunate with a musical wife, was ludicrous. A man went to concerts when he was courting, while he was a junior partner. When he became a person of substance he stopped that sort of nonsense. His wife, too, was a sensible person, the daughter of an old Pittsburgh family as solid and well-rooted as the McKanns. She would never have bothered him about this concert had not the meddlesome Mrs. Post arrived to pay her a visit. Mrs. Post was an old school friend of Mrs. McKann, and because she lived in Cincinnati she was always keeping up with the world and talking about things in which no one else was interested, music among them. She was an aggressive lady, with weighty opinions, and a deep voice like a jovial bassoon. She had arrived only last night, and at dinner she brought it out that she could on no account miss Kitty Ayrshire's recital; it was, she said, the sort of thing no one could afford to miss.When McKann went into town in the morning he found that every seat in the music-hall was sold. He telephoned his wife to that effect, and, thinking he had settled the matter, made his reservation on the 11.25 train for New York. He was unable to get a drawing-room because this same Kitty Ayrshire had taken the last one. He had not intended going to New York until the following week, but he preferred to be absent during Mrs. Post's incumbency.In the middle of the morning, when he was deep in his correspondence, his wife called him up to say the enterprising Mrs. Post had telephoned some musical friends in Sewickley and had found that two hundred folding-chairs were to be placed on the stage of the concert-hall, behind the piano, and that they would be on sale at noon. Would he please get seats in the front row? McKann asked if they would not excuse him, since he was going over to New York on the late train, would be tired, and would not have time to dress, etc. No, not at all. It would be foolish for two women to trail up to the stage unattended. Mrs. Post's husband always accompanied her to concerts, and she expected that much attention from her host. He needn't dress, and he could take a taxi from the concert-hall to the East Liberty station.The outcome of it all was that, though his bag was at the station, here was McKann, in the worst possible humour, facing the large audience to which he was well known, and sitting among a lot of music students and excitable old maids. Only the desperately zealous or the morbidly curious would endure two hours in those wooden chairs, and he sat in the front row of this hectic body, somehow made a party to a transaction for which he had the utmost contempt.When McKann had been in Paris, Kitty Ayrshire was singing at the Comique, and he wouldn't go to hear her—even there, where one found so little that was better to do. She was too much talked about, too much advertised; always being thrust in an American's face as if she were something to be proud of. Perfumes and petticoats and cutlets were named for her. Some one had pointed Kitty out to him one afternoon when she was driving in the Bois with a French composer—old enough, he judged, to be her father—who was said to be infatuated, carried away by her. McKann was told that this was one of the historic passions of old age. He had looked at her on that occasion, but she was so befrilled and befeathered that he caught nothing but a graceful outline and a small, dark head above a white ostrich boa. He had noted with disgust, however, the stooped shoulders and white imperial of the silk-hatted man beside her, and the senescent line of his back.
Download or read book The Diamond Mine written by Willa Cather and published by . This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) was an eminent American author. She spent her childhood in Red Cloud, Nebraska, the same town that has been made famous by her writing. She insisted on attending college, so her family borrowed money so she could enroll at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. While there, she became a regular contributor to the Nebraska State Journal. She then moved to Pittsburgh, where she taught high school English and worked for Home Monthly, and eventually got a job offer from McClure's Magazine in New York City. Later, she became the managing editor in 1908. The latter publication serialized her first novel, Alexander's Bridge (1912), which was heavily influenced by Henry James. For her novels she returned to the prairie for inspiration, and these works became popular and critical successes. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours (1922). Her other works include: O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), My Antonia (1918) and A Lost Lady (1923).
