Download or read book The Sleeping President written by Peter L. Harding and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Threats of a Russian invasion of Afghanistan shattered the idyllic wedding and future dreams of a young Mustafa Rahman and Shereen Taraki. Accepting offered help to escape, their terrifying ?Çÿflight to freedom over the infamous Khyber Pass into Pakistan quickly follows. Securing American refugee status in Karachi, the frightened, penniless immigrants are befriended and well mentored by New York based Afghans where, over the ensuing years, they will amass a personal wealth and affluence, unimagined. First born Shawn, combining radio and television, achieves enviable popularity as a political broadcaster that will serve him well in his bid for election to public office, seeking the ultimate pinnacle of political success. Sibling twins, his younger brother George enlists in the U.S. military to help fight the new war on terror - ironically, he is sent to Afghanistan. Sister Kristen, skilled in languages, chooses a government career in Washington DC. Against Shereens wishes and childrens advice, Mustafa, with idle time and the advantage of money and connections, decides to honor a youthful, lifelong, family promise. Unwittingly, this time, the help sought and given, guarantees ?ÇÿMission Accomplished to a once meticulously planned, sinister, evil plot. Spanning almost 100 years, this epic fictional story, with factual historical events and people, woven through the headlines of the day, is as much about love and survival, business and high-stakes politics, as it is about patience and intrepid, masterful forethought. It culminates, when the ultimate price of freedom, as originally expected, is finally, shockingly claimed! COULD IT HAPPEN?
Download or read book Sleeping Presidents written by John Ransom Phillips and published by Black Book. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical fictional title from New York artist John Ransom Phillips featuring previously unpublished material This 200-page publication from artist John Ransom Phillips takes on US Presidents in his signature dreamlike style. Inspired by the Walt Whitman poem, The Dreamers, this historical fictional book takes us inside the minds and dreams of the current and former United States Presidents through the artist's distinctive paintings and poems. The book's chapters are named after all 45 US Presidents and includes previously unpublished works.
Download or read book Go to Bed Ted written by Shirin Yim Bridges and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even the future president of the United States has to wash up, put his toys away, settle down, and go to bed Go to bed, Ted! It’s time for little Theodore Roosevelt, the future president, to take a bath, quit playing, and put away his toys. Time to stop rough-riding the bed, keep his nightclothes on, and dream big. It’s tough going to bed every night—for presidents and kids alike.
Download or read book Sleeping with the President written by Gennifer Flowers and published by Anonymous Press (NY). This book was released on 1998 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stop Tweeting and Go to Sleep Mr President written by John Spreincer McKellyanne Huckamucci and published by Koyillb Books. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stop Tweeting and Go to Sleep, Mr. President (the all-ages edition of the similarly-named book by the same author) is a bedtime book for civilized citizens who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send the 45th President of the United States sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Unaffectionate and radically desperate, end-of-their-rope author John Spreincer McKellyanne Huckamucci's verses perfectly capture the familiar--and unspoken--tribulations of putting your little president down for the night. With illustrations by John Spreincer McKellyanne Huckamucci, Stop Tweeting and Go to Sleep, Mr. President is horrifying, hopeless, and tear ducts-wettingly sad--a book for Americans new, old, and expectant. You probably should not read it to your president.
Download or read book The Sleeping President written by Peter Harding and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-12 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Threats of war in Afghanistan shattered the idyllic wedding and dreams of young Mustafa Rahman and Shereen Taraki. Accepting offered escape from Kabul's Khaimaad Village to an unknown well planned destiny, a terrifying Khyber Pass 'flight to freedom' into Pakistan becomes their first harrowing challenge. Securing American refugee status in Karachi, the penniless immigrant's, befriended and mentored by New York based Afghans, will over time, amass a personal wealth once unimagined. First born Shawn - becomes a highly successful media icon before entering elected public public office. George - his tormented younger brother joins the military only to fight the new war on terror while his twin sister, Kristen, a language expert, moves to Washington DC. Against family wishes, when Mustafa again accepts help honoring a lifelong promise, he unwittingly guarantees 'Mission Accomplished' to a once meticulously planned, sinister, evil plot. Love and survival, business and high stakes politics, patience and intrepid, masterful forethought, all culminate, when the ultimate price, originally expected, was finally, shockingly claimed! Could it happen?
Download or read book Power Sleep written by James B. Maas and published by Villard. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rest is the basis of dynamic activity. . . . Want to be more creative, loving, and successful? Follow Dr. Maas's powerful practical advice for doing less but accomplishing more." --Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D., author of The Power of 5 and TM "As the world speeds up and shrinks, physical energy and mental activity increase in importance, particularly with the drag of jet travel and 55-plus-hour workweeks. . . . Here is a handbook for successful survival." --William E. Phillips, former chairman and CEO, Ogilvy & Mather Do your eyelids feel heavy during afternoon meetings? Do you use caffeine to stay alert? Need a glass of wine to fall asleep? An alarm to get out of bed? These are all symptoms of sleep deficiency--signals that you are operating below your peak performance and beneath your mental capacity. Despite popular perceptions, sleep is not a luxury--it is a necessity. Over 100 million Americans are sleep-deprived, and make crucial business and personal decisions in an impaired state. In Power Sleep, Dr. James B. Maas, pioneer of sleep research at Cornell University, provides an easy, drug-free way to improve your body and brain for an alert and productive tomorrow. With adequate sleep, your potential is renewed every morning. Dr. Maas has lectured to top corporations around the country and the world on the importance of sleep. He has collected all of his research and time-tested formulas to create a lucid and easy program geared specifically toward helping you achieve peak performance in every aspect of your life. In Power Sleep, you'll find: The golden rules of sleep Twenty great sleep strategies Do's and don'ts of sleeping pills and over-the-counter remedies How to combat travel fatigue, including jet lag and drowsy driving Tips for exhausted parents of newborns, infants, and toddlers How to overcome sleep disorders, including insomnia An important and practical book, Power Sleep will help you get the sleep you need to quickly and dramatically improve your mental and physical well-being.
Download or read book Why We Sleep written by Matthew Walker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity ... An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now ... neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming"--Amazon.com.
Download or read book President Henry Wallace and the Sleeping Prophet written by Doug Moore and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1944. Near the White House, the Vice President's aide is inexplicably murdered in the middle of an investigation. The Secret Service thought they were tailing a simple mole. Instead, the aide's dying breath implicates Vice President Henry Wallace as the leading Soviet spy. The stakes are raised when Wallace becomes President upon FDR's death, fulfilling a prediction made by the Sleeping Prophet, Edgar Cayce. Adept at the spy game, Wallace comes to realize that he is locked in a deadly war against a nameless group that knows his every move and believes he is a traitor. But Wallace can't distinguish between old allies and new enemies. He is playing a double game with the Soviets that brings him to the edge of treason. Wallace can only save the world from nuclear annihilation if he steps further into the darkness of Cayce's cryptic prophecies. Yet in so doing he risks his own assassination and unleashing forces greater than his or the enemy's militaries can handle. In a break from the traditional suspense novel, Henry Wallace and the Sleeping Prophet reimagines WWII, culminating with a Commander in Chief bent on avoiding nuclear confrontation at all costs. At the same time lightning paced, highly plausible, and meticulously researched, the novel proves to be tough to put down and stunning in its conclusion.
Download or read book The Book of Sleep written by Haytham El Wardany and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states--metaphorically called death's shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence--be envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens to the waking selves we understand ourselves to be? Written in the spring of 2013, as the Egyptian government of President Mohammed Morsi was unraveling in the face of widespread protests, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. Drawing on the devices and forms of poetry, philosophical reflection, political analysis, and storytelling, this genre-defying work presents us with an assemblage of fragments that combine and recombine, circling around their central theme but refusing to fall into its gravity. "My concern was not to create a literary product in the conventional sense, but to try and use literature as a methodology for thinking," El Wardany explains. In this volume, sleep shapes sentences and distorts conventions. Its protean instability throws out memoir and memory, dreams and hallucinatory reverie, Sufi fables and capitalist parables, in the quest to shape a question. The Book of Sleep is a generous and generative attempt to reimagine possibility and hope in a world of stifling dualities and constrictions.
Download or read book A Promised Land written by Barack Obama and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND PEOPLE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times • NPR • The Guardian • Slate • Vox • The Economist • Marie Claire In the stirring first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of November 4, 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office. Reflecting on the presidency, he offers a unique and thoughtful exploration of both the awesome reach and the limits of presidential power, as well as singular insights into the dynamics of U.S. partisan politics and international diplomacy. Obama brings readers inside the Oval Office and the White House Situation Room, and to Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, and points beyond. We are privy to his thoughts as he assembles his cabinet, wrestles with a global financial crisis, takes the measure of Vladimir Putin, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds to secure passage of the Affordable Care Act, clashes with generals about U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, tackles Wall Street reform, responds to the devastating Deepwater Horizon blowout, and authorizes Operation Neptune’s Spear, which leads to the death of Osama bin Laden. A Promised Land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective—the story of one man’s bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage. Obama is candid about the balancing act of running for office as a Black American, bearing the expectations of a generation buoyed by messages of “hope and change,” and meeting the moral challenges of high-stakes decision-making. He is frank about the forces that opposed him at home and abroad, open about how living in the White House affected his wife and daughters, and unafraid to reveal self-doubt and disappointment. Yet he never wavers from his belief that inside the great, ongoing American experiment, progress is always possible. This beautifully written and powerful book captures Barack Obama’s conviction that democracy is not a gift from on high but something founded on empathy and common understanding and built together, day by day.
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by Michael Burlingame and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised. Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a surpassingly eloquent champion of national unity, freedom, and democracy, Abraham Lincoln is arguably the most studied and admired of all Americans. Michael Burlingame's astonishing Abraham Lincoln: A Life, an updated, condensed version of the 2,000-page two-volume set that The Atlantic hailed as one of the five best books of 2009, offers fresh interpretations of this endlessly fascinating American leader. Based on deep research in unpublished sources as well as newly digitized sources, this work reveals how Lincoln's character and personality were the North's secret weapon in the Civil War, the key variables that spelled the difference between victory and defeat. He was a model of psychological maturity and a fully individuated man whose influence remains unrivaled in the history of American public life. Burlingame chronicles Lincoln's childhood and early development, romantic attachments and losses, his love of learning, legal training, and courtroom career as well as his political ambition, his term as congressman in the late 1840s, and his serious bouts of depression in early adulthood. Burlingame recounts, in fresh detail, the Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln marriage and traces the mounting moral criticism of slavery that revived his political career and won this Springfield lawyer the presidency in 1860. This abridgement delivers Burlingame's signature insight into Lincoln as a young man, a father, and a politician. Lincoln speaks to us not only as a champion of freedom, democracy, and national unity but also as a source of inspiration. Few have achieved his historical importance, but many can profit from his personal example, encouraged by the knowledge that despite a lifetime of troubles, he became a model of psychological maturity, moral clarity, and unimpeachable integrity. His presence and his leadership inspired his contemporaries; his life story will do the same for generations to come.
Download or read book President Lincoln and the Sleeping Sentinel written by Lucius Eugene Chittenden and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stop F king Tweeting and Go the F k to Sleep Mr President written by John Spreincer McKellyanne Huckamucci and published by Koyillb Books. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stop F**king Tweeting and Go the F**k to Sleep, Mr. President is a bedtime book for civilized citizens who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send the 45th President of the United States sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, unaffectionate, and radically desperate, end-of-their-rope author John Spreincer McKellyanne Huckamucci's verses perfectly capture the familiar--and unspoken--tribulations of putting your little president down for the night. With illustrations by John Spreincer McKellyanne Huckamucci, Stop F**king Tweeting and Go the F**k to Sleep, Mr. President is horrifying, hopeless, and tear ducts-wettingly sad--a book for Americans new, old, and expectant. You probably should not read it to your president.
Download or read book The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep written by Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin and published by Crown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The magical book that will have your kids asleep in minutes." —The New York Post This groundbreaking #1 international bestseller is sure to put an end to nightly bedtime battles. Children and parents everywhere can't stop raving about this book! Do you struggle with getting your child to fall asleep? Join parents all over the world who have embraced The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep as their new nightly routine. When Roger can’t fall asleep, Mommy Rabbit takes him to see Uncle Yawn, who knows just what to do. Children will join Roger on his journey and be lulled to sleep alongside their new friend. Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin’s simple story uses a unique and distinct language pattern that will help your child relax and fall asleep—at bedtime or naptime. Reclaim bedtime today! New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller Publishers Weekly Bestseller Translated into 43 Languages “On the cover of [The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep] there’s a sign that reads, ‘I can make anyone fall asleep’—and that’s a promise sleep-deprived parents can’t resist.” —NPR “For many parents, getting kids to fall asleep can be a nightmare. But [The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep] . . . promises to make the process easier and help kids to drift off to sleep faster.” —CBS News “A book whose powerfully soporific effects my son is helpless to resist.” —The New York Times
Download or read book The Presidents Club written by Nancy Gibbs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines presidential power within the context of U.S. history and the ongoing relationships presidents and ex-presidents formed with one another.
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by Allen Culling Clark and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
