Albion's Seed

Albion's Seed
Author: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 981
Release: 1991-03-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 019974369X

This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.

The Crime Against Kansas

The Crime Against Kansas
Author: Charles Sumner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1856
Genre: Kansas
ISBN:

Speech delivered in the Senate condemning the Southern expansion of slavery and the force used in compelling Kansas to be a slave state. In the course of the speech, Sumner ridicules South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler.

The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870

The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870
Author: William Charvat
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1992
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780231070775

This study focuses on the complex relations between author, publisher and contemporary reading public in 19th-century America; in particular, the emergence of Irving and Cooper as America's first successful literary entrepreneurs, how Poe's and Melville's successes and failures affected their writing, the popularization of poetry in the 1830s and 1840s, the role of the literary magazine in the 1840s and 1850s, and the beginnings of book promotion. It pays particular attention to the way social and economic forces helped to shape literary works.

Driving Home for Christmas

Driving Home for Christmas
Author: Lexy Timms
Publisher: Dark Shadow Publishing
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2017-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

USA Today Bestselling Author, Lexy Timms, shares a holiday romance that’ll warm the heart and having you wishing on love—or beating it with a stick! Colin Murphy Is the CEO of Murphy Inc and is a workaholic. Christmas, or any holiday in face, doesn't mean much to him. When his business trip travel plans get interrupted by a freak snowstorm, he’s forced to find a way home by other means. Abigail Thompson can’t wait for this year to be over. After losing her job, her boyfriend and apartment, she’s ready to go home for a much-needed break and to regroup. But when her plane is grounded because of a snow storm, she has to find another way. She makes her way to the car rentals only to find the last car has just been given to a tall dark sexy man. Definitely not Santa, his name is Colin Murphy. When Colin finds out they’re head in the same direction, he offers her a lift. It’s nearly Christmas afterall. What should be an easy 8-hour drive turns into 2 days of mishaps and mayhem. She knows every Christmas song off by heart, even though she can’t carry a turn. She’s happy, he’s a real Christmas Grinch. Will this unplanned fiasco be the start of something magical? Billionaire Holiday Romance Series Driving Home for Christmas The Valentine Getaway A Holiday Romance series because every holiday is special… Search Terms: bad boy obsession, bbw, new, billionaire romance, billionaire romance, happily ever after, hot and steamy, hot romance, bad boy, Alpha Bad Boy, Alpha male romance, billionaire, fake girlfriend, drugs, women's fiction, overcoming, coming of age, true love, billionaire romanc, melody anne billionaire bachelors series, free kindle romance, romance billionaire series, contemporary romance and sex, billionaire obsession, true l, famous actor, hot doctors, romance, new adult, contemporary romance, love and life, cancer, fiction, big beautiful women, big beautiful woman, fake boss, pepper winters, romantic comedy, action romance, suspense, sw, fiction, fake, sexy hero, sweet romance, hot steamy, love, Managing the Bosses, billionaire obsession

In Search of Lake Wobegon

In Search of Lake Wobegon
Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Studio
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

"This book combines text and image to reveal the real-life origins of the place where "the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the children above average." Keillor meditates on the enduring culture of the county and on the years he spent there as a young writer and an outsider. And a short story of Lake Wobegon, "October," appears here for the first time in print."--BOOK JACKET.

Runaway Wife

Runaway Wife
Author: Charlotte Lamb
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Total Pages: 187
Release: 1989
Genre:
ISBN: 9780263122220

Complexity

Complexity
Author: M. Mitchell Waldrop
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 150405914X

“If you liked Chaos, you’ll love Complexity. Waldrop creates the most exciting intellectual adventure story of the year” (The Washington Post). In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell—and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today. This book is their story—the story of how they have tried to forge what they like to call the science of the twenty-first century. “Lucidly shows physicists, biologists, computer scientists and economists swapping metaphors and reveling in the sense that epochal discoveries are just around the corner . . . [Waldrop] has a special talent for relaying the exhilaration of moments of intellectual insight.” —The New York Times Book Review “Where I enjoyed the book was when it dove into the actual question of complexity, talking about complex systems in economics, biology, genetics, computer modeling, and so on. Snippets of rare beauty here and there almost took your breath away.” —Medium “[Waldrop] provides a good grounding of what may indeed be the first flowering of a new science.” —Publishers Weekly