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* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 * An Economist Best Book of 2017 * A Business Insider Best Book of 2017 *“Moving and magnificently well-researched...Janesville joins a growing family of books about the evisceration of the working class in the United States. What sets it apart is the sophistication of its storytelling and analysis.” —The New York TimesA Washington Post reporter’s intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors’ assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin—Paul Ryan’s hometown—and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class.This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills—but it’s not the familiar tale. Most observers record the immediate shock of vanished jobs, but few stay around long enough to notice what happens next, when a community with a can-do spirit tries to pick itself up.Pulitzer Prize winner Amy Goldstein has spent years immersed in Janesville, Wisconsin where the nation’s oldest operating General Motors plant shut down in the midst of the Great Recession, two days before Christmas of 2008. Now, with intelligence, sympathy, and insight into what connects and divides people in an era of economic upheaval, she makes one of America’s biggest political issues human. Her reporting takes the reader deep into the lives of autoworkers, educators, bankers, politicians, and job re-trainers to show why it’s so hard in the twenty-first century to recreate a healthy, prosperous working class.For this is not just a Janesville story or a Midwestern story. It’s an American story.
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Invalids follow switters, a 35 year old c i a agent on his journey as a wheelchair bound intelligence officer switters experiences love and danger across several continents robbins "explores, challenges, mocks, and celebrates virtually every major aspect of our mercurial era "( quote from the hardcover book jacket )
robbins has stated in numerous interviews that in this book he was trying to deal with contradiction, but rather than avoiding his contradictory nature, his character embraces it he's a c i a agent but despises the government he's a pacifist but carries a gun he's as much in love with his 17 year old stepsister as he is with a 46 year old nun
switters feels that the core of the universe and the basis of human existence is the paradox of light and dark coexisting together one is not separate from the other; they just co exist this is the main idea of " fierce invalids home from hot climates", along with an interest in the lady of fatima and a squawking parrot the title of the novel comes from arthur rimbaud's a season in hell, in which he daydreams about becoming one of "ces féroces infirmes retour des pays chauds "
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Desert adventure describes a year long journey, made by wilderness artist paul augustinus, through the rich diversity of desert landscapes of the namib and the kalahari infused with the spirit of adventure, it is an odyssey in search of southern africa's last remnants of unspoiled and untamed wilderness paul's own story is enlivened and given substance by the inclusion of narratives from the explorers of the past, one of whom described travelling in africa as requiring the endurance of a camel and the courage of a lion lavishly illustrated by the author's paintings, photographs, and pencil sketches of animals and birds in their natural settings, as well as by detailed maps, this desert adventure is for all to experience and to treasure '
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A History of Combat and Culture spans the globe and the centuries to explore the way ideas shape the conduct of warfare. Drawing its examples from Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and America, John A. Lynn challenges the belief that technology has been the dominant influence on combat from ancient times to the present day. In battle, ideas can be more far more important than bullets or bombs. Clausewitz proclaimed that war is politics, but even more basically, war is culture. The hard reality of armed conflict is formed by -- and, in turn, forms -- a culture's values, assumptions, and expectations about fighting. The author examines the relationship between the real and the ideal, arguing that feedback between the two follows certain discernable paths. Battle rejects the currently fashionable notion of a "Western way of warfare" and replaces it with more nuanced concepts of varied and evolving cultural patterns of combat. After considering history, Lynn finally asks how the knowledge gained might illuminate our understanding of the war on terrorism.
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anthony delius
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anthony delius (1916 1989) was a south african journalist, political commentator, poet, author and playwright
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he was born anthony ronald st martin delius at simonstown at the end of the first world war and was educated at st aidan's college and rhodes university in grahamstown married to tina and the couple had two children
having finished his studies, he became a reporter in port elizabeth in 1940 he joined the south african military intelligence for the duration of the war after his return he returned to journalism, helping to found the evening post in port elizabeth, before joining the cape times in cape town besides travelling widely as a reporter in africa, as well as the u s a and europe, he also lectured in african government at the university of cape town
he was a highly regarded political commentator and strongly opposed to the nationalist government, which led to numerous clashes withy the government, especially in his period as parliamentary reporter besides his work with the cape times, he also wrote as correspondent for several international papers, including the new york reporter, the manchester guardian, the b b c and the washington post in 1967, with the pressure mounting, he left south africa to settle in the u k, working full time for the b b c, though still continuing with a column in the cape times for many years
his writing includes a number of books of poetry and prose, e g the last division (1959), the day natal took off: a satire (1963), border: a novel (1976), the young traveller in south africa (1949), the paperbook of south african english poetry (1984) upsurge in africa (1960),
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The answer series Accounting grade 11
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