Essays on the great depression

Essays on the Great Depression

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Hollywood and the Great Depression

This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

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Write Great Essays

This book is essential reading for students embarking on writing an essay or report for the first time, or returning to study after a break. It will b

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Great Depression in Latin America

The contributors to this collection examine the lasting impact of the Great Depression on Latin America in terms of its effects on the role of the sta

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Essays In Love

Essays in Love will appeal to anyone who has ever been in a relationship or confused about love. The book charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak. The work's genius lies in the way it minutely analyses emotions we've all felt before but have perhaps never u...

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Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature

A classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosopher and essayist Jose Ortega y

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Treatise on Grace

Three essays on Grace and the Trinity by the great eighteenth-century American evangelical, published together for the first time.

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Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother - Anne Sebba

<p>Ethel Rosenberg was a supportive wife, loving mother to two small children and courageous idealist who grew up during the Depression with aspirations to become an opera singer.On 19 June 1953 she became the first woman in the US to be executed for a crime other than murder. She was thirty-seven years old.Ethel's conviction for conspiracy to commit espionage on be...

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Command and Morale: The British Army on the Western Front 1914-1918

* A selection of Gary Sheffield's most important essays on the British army in the Great War * An original perspective on the organization and experi

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Babylon Revisited - Fitzgerald Francis Scott

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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Fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust

This book contains essays by distinguished scholar Professor Dan Stone on Fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust. This book will be of great interest to sc

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It's Not the How or the What but the Who

Succeed by mastering the art of the who Why surround yourself with the best? Because it matters--in all aspects of life. In fact, in professional environments, getting people right--what global leadership authority Claudio Fernandez-Araoz calls "the art of great 'who' decisions"--marks the difference between success and failure. To thrive, you need to identify those wit...

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The Queen - Matthew Dennison

<p>Matthew Dennison's elegant and magisterial biography of Her late Majesty, updated following the death of Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles III. </p> <p> </p> <p>'A worthy and balanced overview of the Queen's life. Dennison is especially good on her childhood... quietly, tactfully, tastefully reverent.'The Times</p> <p...

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String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis. A Library of America Special Publication (1598534807)

Kniha - autor David Foster Wallace, 138 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá A classic work from the late author of "Infinite Jest", this collects his 5 essays on tennis. Once a 'near-great junior tennis player' himself, he profiles Roger Federer and Tracy Austin and writes about tennis with the authority of an insider.

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The Black Angels. The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis - Maria Smilios

<p>New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage.So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest plagues, told alongside the often strange chronicle of the cure's discovery.During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed 1 in 7 people, white nurses at ...

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The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money : with The Economic Consequences of the Peace - John Maynard Keynes

<p>John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx; and his impact on how economics was practiced, from the Great Depression to the 1970s, was unmatched. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money was first published in 1936. But its ideas had b...

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Way of Rest, Finding the Courage to Hold Everything in Love Sounds True Inc

The Way of Rest gathers nearly 200 of Jeff Foster's most inspiring essays, poems, and reflections on restoring and reviving ourselves when we feel exhausted or defeated. Drawing from his personal journey--including his own struggles with illness and depression--Jeff invites us to contemplate "the Way of Rest" and its potential to transform o...

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The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth - Tolkien John Ronald Reuel

Anotace: Collector`s slipcased edition of the first ever standalone presentation of one of J.R.R. Tolkien`s most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts. In 991 AD, vikings attacked an Anglo-Saxon defence-force led b...

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The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth - Tolkien John Ronald Reuel

Anotace: First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts. In 991 AD, vikings attacked an Anglo-Saxon defence-force led by their duke, Beorhtnoth, resulting in brutal fighting ...

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The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, 1. vydání - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

<p>First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts.</p> <p>In 991 AD, vikings attacked an Anglo-Saxon defence-force led by their duke, Beorhtnoth, resulting in brut...

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The Raven and Other Poems, 1. vydání - Edgar Allan Poe

<p>Fully annotated edition with over 400 notes. It contains Poe’s complete poems and three essays on poetry.The undisputed pioneer of the horror, detective and science-fiction genres, Edgar Allan Poe was an accomplished poet as well as a celebrated writer of short stories. The present edition contains all of his works in verse, from the major poems of his maturity –...

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Modern New York: The Illustrated Story of Architecture in the Five Boroughs from 1920 to Present - Novotný Lukáš

Anotace: Modern New York: The Illustrated Story of Architecture in the Five Boroughs from 1920 to Today takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through the changing fortunes of New York City throughout the last hundred years, from the heights of the Roaring Twenties and Mad Men Fifties, to the depths of the Great Depression Thirties, through to Fear City in the Sev...

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Modern New York: The Illustrated Story of Architecture in the Five Boroughs from 1920 to Present - Lukáš Novotný

<p>Modern New York: The Illustrated Story of Architecture in the Five Boroughs from 1920 to Today takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through the changing fortunes of New York City throughout the last hundred years, from the heights of the Roaring Twenties and Mad Men Fifties, to the depths of the Great Depression Thirties, through to Fear City in the Seve...

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The Raven and Other Poems - Poe Edgar Allan, Poe Edgar Allan

Anotace: Fully annotated edition with over 400 notes. It contains Poe's complete poems and three essays on poetry. The undisputed pioneer of the horror, detective and science-fiction genres, Edgar Allan Poe was an accomplished poet as well as a celebrated writer of short stories. The present edition contains all of his works in verse, from the major poems of his ma...

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James Lovelock et al. The Earth and I - James Lovelock

<p>A richly illustrated collection of essays on earth and human science from 12 of today’s leading thinkers. From stars to cells, quantum theory to capitalism, ancient fossils to Artificial Intelligence, this book delivers a holistic understanding of our planet and is a trusted tool kit for an informed and enlightened future.</p> <p> </p> <p>...

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This Tender Land

A magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the bestselling author of Ordinary Grace.

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Adventures of Augie March

A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupat

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Adam Smith and Modernity

This volume features 19 original essays on Adam SmithÂ’s conception of modernity. The contributions demonstrate the relevance of Smith as the great in

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Miscellanies

In the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on lexical or textual problems

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Miscellanies

In the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on lexical or textual problems

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History, Policy, And Economic Theory

This collection of professional essays traces the sequence of the great issues of public policy that marked a half-century. It includes information on

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Notes to Literature

Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. AdornoÂ’s essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Goethe, and Benjamin, as

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Adam Smith and Modernity Taylor & Francis Ltd

This volume features essays on Adam Smith’s conception of modernity. The contributions demonstrate the relevance of Smith as the great interpreter of modernity 250 years after the publication of The Wealth of Nations. The chapters in Section 1 focus on structural aspects of Smith’s work. Part 2 addresses the construction of modern subjectivity between Lectures on Rhetoric...

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Motherthing - Ainslie Hogarth

<p>'A gruesome, blackly funny, utterly original feminist horror story' New York Times, Notable Book of the Year 'A buzz-worthy and ferocious horror comedy from one of the genre's most promising voices'BuzzfeedAbby Lamb has done it. She's found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to res...

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General Theory of Employment - neuveden

Anotace: John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx; and his impact on how economics was practiced, from the Great Depression to the 1970s, was unmatched.The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money was first published in 1936. But its ideas had be...

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Lance - Vladimir Nabokov

<p>'The illegible signature of teetering disaster' Three great stories--The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance--the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real pain and horror that would accompany space travel. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with...

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Nightmare Alley - William Lindsay Gresham

Anotace: A cool, cruel, rediscovered classic of American noir adapted for cinemas by Guillermo del Toro, starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara 'Read and shudder. And relish' Guardian 'A creepy, all-too-harrowing masterpiece' Washington Post Stanton Carlisle, employed as a carny at a travelling circus watches their freak-show geek ...

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Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock's revolutionary 'drip paintings' put American art on the map, representing the first real break with the formal structures of European art. But it was not only his vibrant canvases that made him a celebrity during his life and a legendary figure after his death in a car crash at the age of forty-four. In the 1950s Pollock became an icon of rebellion, brood...

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Babylon Revisited - Francis Scott Fitzgerald

<p>Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean islan...

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New Deal Photography: USA 1935–1943 - Peter Walther

Amid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) was first founded in 1935 to address the country’s rural poverty. Its efforts focused on improving the lives of sharecroppers, tenants, and very poor landowning farmers, with resettlement and collectivization programs, as well as modernized farming methods. In a parallel documen...

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Two Metres From You - Heidi Stephens

<p>LOVE MIGHT BE CLOSER THAN YOU THINK . . .Gemma isn't sure what upsets her more. The fact she just caught her boyfriend cheating, or that he did it on her brand-new Heal's cushions.All she knows is she needs to put as many miles between her and Fraser as humanly possible. So, when her best friend suggests a restorative few days in the West Country, it seems like t...

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Christopher Wool - Hans Werner Holzwarth

<p>His painting spells TRBL: Christopher Wool's stark and beautiful art</p> <p>Covering all work phases in large-scale reproductions and accompanied by extensive texts as well as production Polaroids and installation photos by Wool himself. Limited to 1,000 copies, each numbered and signed by the artist. Also available in an Art Edition, limited to 100 c...

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Detective Fiction

"Detective Fiction" is a clear and compelling look at some of the best known, yet least-understood, characters and texts of the modern day. Charles J. Rzepka traces the history of the genre from its modern beginnings in the early eighteenth century, with the criminal broadsheets and 'true' crime stories of "The Newgate Calendar", to its present state of diversity, innovat...

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Western Civilization Bites Back

"Anyone who experienced Jonathan Bowden speak in public was in awe of his ability to thrill and inspire his audiences. His energy and personal magnetism were truly amazing and a huge asset to our cause. In reading these essays, most of which are transcriptions from his talks, one is also impressed by his very broad intellectual background and his far-ranging interests-art...

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