![]() Urn:isbn:0060769793 Republisher_date 20120718102459 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120718015418 Scanner . This is the book that started it all The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguires breathtaking New York Times. OL66233W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 89.39 Pages 426 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0613621697 Urn:lcp:wickedlifetim00magu:epub:e3fb8cfb-9b13-49f3-8c91-7883f7d9af47 Extramarc University of North Carolina Foldoutcount 0 Identifier wickedlifetim00magu Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6n02b36g Isbn 0060391448 Lccn 95000669 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL1269540M Openlibrary_edition Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West By Gregory Maguire Books Details : Author : Gregory Maguire Pages : 409 pages Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks Language : en-US ISBN-10 : 10750. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:03:47 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA103518 Boxid_2 CH108401 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. ![]()
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After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. ![]() ![]() "Joshua Mohr's new memoir, Model Citizen, is not for the faint of heart, but there's something profoundly beautiful and deeply humanizing about it, too. Pulsing with humanity and humor, revealing the immediacy of an addict climbing out of the murky pit of his past, Model Citizen is a darkly beautiful, incisive confession. Mohr shines a harsh spotlight into all corners of his life, throwing the wild joys, tragedies, embarrassments, and adventures of his past into bold relief. This forced "freelapse" should fix his heart, but what will it do to his sobriety? And what if it doesn't work? Told in stunning, surreal, time-hopping vignettes, Model Citizen is a raw, revealing portrait of an addict. ![]() Which requires fentanyl, one of his myriad drugs of choice. After years of hard-won sobriety, while rebuilding a life with his wife and young daughter, thirty-five-year-old Joshua Mohr suffers a stroke-his third, it turns out- which uncovers a heart condition requiring surgery. Maybe it's a pill and when it falls out I can gobble it up. And as it ricochets from side to side, I always think about pills. I hold it over my head, hole down, shaking it back and forth, the pick rattling around in there. Every now and again she rips the pick out of my hand and tosses it inside the guitar. The intimate, gorgeous, garish confessions of Joshua Mohr-writer, father, alcoholic, addict Her teeth marks in the wood are some of my favorite things. ![]() ![]() According to freethought encyclopedist Joseph McCabe, Engels' acquaintance, Ernest Belfort Bax, called him "the devout Atheist" (A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists). After Marx's death in 1883, Engels edited and translated his writings. Engels' books include Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. Prayaag Akbar’s Leila is a dark, dystopian view of a city governed by boundaries and order where the rules of the Council are imperative to obey or the Repeaters will violently punish you. Prime Minister John Russell had refused to expel Marx or Engels on principles of freedom of thought. ![]() Engels became a primary financial supporter of the Marx family, returning to work in Germany with his father while Marx lived in England. A month after it was published in 1848, Marx was expelled from Belgium. They founded the Communist League in London in 1846 and co-wrote The Communist Manifesto. While co-writing an article with Engels called "The Holy Family," Marx was expelled from France at Prussian insistence. The whole idea of the community is based on purity. After their meeting in 1844, Engels and Karl Marx became lifelong colleagues. This book by Prayaag Akbar is set in a dystopian future where people live in communities called as sectors. ![]() ![]() ![]() He wrote his first socialist work, Conditions of the Working Class in England. Managing a branch of his father's business in Manchester, England, from 1842-1845, Engels became appalled at the poverty of the workers. In 1820, Friedrich Engels was born in Germany into a wealthy family. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, it could be easily suggested that Debord’s statements are still relevant to the contemporary context, when technologies that constitute specificity of media are significantly advanced. ![]() This assumption could be explained at least by the fact that his basic positions presented in the well-recognized book The Society of the Spectacle (1967) obtain both critical and appreciative perceptions, which in fact are going to be discussed further. As far as Guy Debord is concerned in particular, his ideas definitely refer to a potential list of conceptions that need to be reconsidered today. Even though it is not quite a widespread attitude fulfilled in practice, analysing whether certain theoretical legacy of the past could be regarded as appropriate and valuable to the contemporary times is without any doubt appears to be a procedure that might provide one with productive outcomes. ![]() ![]() But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jacks way once his mo.show more. and possibly murder.Įndlessly surprising, this sly, sharp-edged narrative is the author at his very best, making readers laugh out loud at the most unexpected things in a dead-funny depiction of growing up in a slightly off-kilter place where the past is present, the present is confusing, and the future is completely up in the air. Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos, 9781250010230, available at Book. ![]() As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launched on a strange adventure involving molten wax, Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the past, Hells Angels. Love & Death feels familiar, as it should. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a feisty old neighbor with a most unusual chore-typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town. Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. This week voters across England will head to the polls for a series of local elections. Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction! ![]() ![]() ![]() No one was supposed to know who she was, but she almost expected a horde of journalists to leap out, waving cameras and microphones. This was the first time she'd been in a public place since the story broke. Tay walked around, looking at the familiar souvenir shops, sniffing the spicy-food scents from the cafeteria bar-a thin girl with golden-brown hair, wearing a blue cotton dress, a Yankees baseball cap and desert boots. ![]() They were in luck on Airport Road and got through the police checkpoints with no delay, which meant they had ages to wait before the plane from Singapore arrived. Lucia Fernandez the graduate student came with Tay instead. ![]() Mum and Dad couldn't come to the airport to meet Donny, but that was okay: he would understand. ![]() ![]() I would like to make it mandatory that everyone in advertising read David Ogilvy's first book, Confessions of an Advertising Man at least once a year.-George Parker in Business Insider Fizzing with Ogilvy's pioneering ideas and inspirational philosophy, it covers not only advertising, but also people management, corporate ethics, and office politics, and forms an essential blueprint for good practice in business. It also became an international bestseller, translated into 14 languages. ![]() First published in 1963, this seminal book revolutionized the world of advertising and became a bible for the 1960s ad generation. David Ogilvy David Ogilvy was considered the father of advertising and a creative genius by many of the biggest global brands. ![]() In promoting people to top jobs, we are influenced as much by their character as anything else. ![]() The way up our ladder is open to everybody. We detest office politicians, toadies, bullies, and pompous asses. Book Synopsis A new edition of the timeless business classic featured on Mad Men-as fresh and relevant now as the day it was written We admire people who work hard, who are objective and thorough. ![]() ![]() His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. It may be stated thus: Behind the scenes of life lurks something pernicious that makes a nightmare of our world." "There is a signature motif discernible in both works of philosophical pessimism and supernatural horror. ![]() ![]() In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. ![]() ![]() ![]() Holmes could only pull off this scam by getting FDA approval, which she carefully tiptoed around doing correctly.As long as you can come up with a convincing front, people won’t immediately know you can’t deliver.A $9 billion product valuation can be the result of deceit. Unfortunately for them, what sounded too good to be true actually was. They all thought it was their ticket to fame and fortune. Many venture capitalists bought into the revolutionary blood analysis device that Elizabeth Holmes and her startup company, Theranos, created. This is precisely what happened to many otherwise savvy investors as you’ll see in the story of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou. But how would you feel if you had invested millions of dollars into a device that promised to change the world, only to discover it was virtually useless? It’s one thing to shell out $50, then realize you made a mistake. ![]() I often make the purchase only to find out the product is full of false promises later. I’m a real sucker for those online ads offering gadgets promising to change my life. ![]() 1-Sentence-Summary: Bad Blood is the story of how Elizabeth Holmes promised the world a medical miracle that actually operated on deception and lies. ![]() |