Cautionary

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days With new, updated material, P. J. O'Rourke covers the whole election process from the pig pile of presidential candidates circa June 2015, through his come-to-Satan moment with Hillary and the Beginning of End Times in November 2016, to the current shape of US politics. How the Hell Did This Happen? answers the key question of the 2016 presidential election: Should we laugh or should we cry or should we hurl? (They are not mutually exclusive.) Features Summary An essential take on the stranger-than-fiction 2016 presidential election from a quintessential voice on American politics and culture. Author P.J O'Rourke Publisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Release date 20180502 Pages 256 ISBN 1-61185-511-X ISBN 13 978-1-61185-511-1

Born of the question, "How do we explain the 2016 election to our kids?", this book is a cautionary tale of two big personalities who run against each other for the highest public office in the land. Paperback: 48 pages Language: English Publisher: The Pumpkin and The Pantsuit (January 13, 2017)

Author: Alan Axelrod Publisher: Sterling (2008) ISBN-10: 1402797788 ISBN-13: 9781402797781 Condition: Very Good. The cover has some rubbing and wear to edges and corners. Else a very good copy. Binding: Softcover Pages: 342 Dimensions: 15.1 x 2.5 x 22.7 cm +++ by Alan Axelrod +++ Using the same engrossing anecdotal format that proved so popular in Profiles in Audacity, bestselling author Alan Axelrod turns to the dark side of audacious decision-making and explores history's most tragic errors. While Axelrod looks at the hopelessly dumb and the overtly evil, the main focus is on smart people who had the best of intentions - but whose plans went disastrously wrong. The 35 compelling, often poignant stories include: the sailing of the Titanic; Edward Bernays's 1929 campaign to recruit women smokers; Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of the Nazis and Ken Lay's deception with Enron. These are cautionary tales - albeit with exquisite twists ranging from acerbic to horrific.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days 'An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs' Guardian'Not only Lewis's most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in the United States' New YorkerA vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant, fearmongering demagogue runs for President of the United States - and wins. Sinclair Lewis's chilling 1935 bestseller is the story of Buzz Windrip, 'Professional Common Man', who promises poor, angry voters that he will make America proud and prosperous once more, but takes the country down a far darker path. As the new regime slides into authoritarianism, newspaper editor Doremus Jessup can't believe it will last - but is he right? This cautionary tale of liberal complacency in the face of populist tyranny shows it really can happen here. Features Summary 'An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs' Guardian'Not only Lewis's most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in the United States' New YorkerA vain... Author Sinclair Lewis Publisher Penguin Classics Release date 20170302 Pages 400 ISBN 0-241-31066-0 ISBN 13 978-0-241-31066-3

  Written by Alan Moore Art and cover by J.H. Williams III & Mick Gray   Sophie Bangs was a just an ordinary college student in a weirdly futuristic New York when a simple assignment changed her life forever. While researching Promethea, a mythical warrior woman, Sophie receives a cryptic warning to cease her investigations. Ignoring the cautionary notice, she continues her studies and is almost killed by a shadowy creature when she learns the secret of Promethea. Surviving the encounter, Sophie soon finds herself transformed into Promethea, the living embodiment of the imagination. Her trials have only begun as she must master the secrets of her predecessors before she is destroyed by Promethea's ancient enemy.  

xx    What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton ePUB eBOOK-ZAK    "In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I'm letting my guard down." (Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What Happened)    For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference, and an opponent who broke all the rules. This is her most personal memoir yet.    In this book she describes what it was like to run against Donald Trump, the mistakes she made, how she has coped with a shocking and devastating loss, and how she found the strength to pick herself back up afterward. With humor and candor, she tells readers what it took to get back on her feet - the rituals, relationships, and reading that got her through and what the experience has taught her about life. She speaks about the challenges of being a strong woman in the public eye, the criticism over her voice, age, and appearance, and the double standard confronting women in politics.    She lays out how the 2016 election was marked by an unprecedented assault on our democracy by a foreign adversary. By analyzing the evidence and connecting the dots, Hillary shows just how dangerous the forces are that shaped the outcome and why Americans need to understand them to protect our values and our democracy in the future.    The election of 2016 was unprecedented and historic. What Happened is the story of that campaign and its aftermath - both a deeply intimate account and a cautionary tale for the nation.    xx  

Arrow Books, 2004 . Book Condition: Used. This Book is in Good Condition. Cover creased at corners, edges bumped.  Not suitable as a gift. 531 pp. Summary: "One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980's." New York Times Book Review A #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written,Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco. An enduring masterpiece of investigative journalism by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, it includes a new afterword by the authors that brings this remarkable story of greed and double-dealings up to date twenty years after the famed deal. The Los Angeles Times calls Barbarians at the Gate, "Superlative." The Chicago Tribune raves, "It's hard to imagine a better story.and it's hard to imagine a better account." And in an era of spectacular business crashes and federal bailouts, it still stands as a valuable cautionary tale that must be heeded.

Paperback. English. In good condition.Baxter's ability to combine wildly divergent narrative threads has become a trademark of his writing and has been seen to its best effect in the previous two novels from this sequence. TRANSCENDENT, with its melding of a near future narrative that carries a terrible warning about the post-oil and post-global warming world and a narrative thread that tours the fantastically varied diverse species that mankind has become in the impossibly distant future is an example of Baxter at his best.At once a cautionary tale of what we are capable of destroying and a celbration of what we could become this is the capstone to Baxter's best series to date.In TRANSCENDENT we find out what happened to the children of the Poole brothers (from COALESCENT) and what will happen to mankind.

What do you need to know to survive college? Valmont University freshman Hamilton Carr thought that most everything had been covered in the freshmen orientation. Unfortunately, no one told him what to do if he ever found himself waking up in the hospital, soaked in his own pee, and missing his shoes. How does one handle a situation like that with dignity and grace? Find out in this hilarious tale of college misadventures. Author Devin DeShields combines stories from his own college experiences with anecdotes related by four different friends to create Hams adventures. The blend of nonfiction memoirs and fictional characters keeps the writing sharp, witty, and real. It may sound completely insane, but nothing is too strange or shocking to include in The Hammy Grail. Anyone with a frail constitution or aversion to recklessness may be advised to stay away! For some, Hams journey may be a trip back in time. For others, it can serve as a cautionary tale about the dos and donts of college life. Feel free to take Hams lessons to heartor throw the book out and make your own mistakes. Its the mistakes that tend to be the most memorable experiences of all. About the Author Devin DeShields may have a respectable life now, but he still remembers the days when he and his friends were eighteen-year-old college freshmen, up for any adventure life threw their way. DeShields compiled his own memoirs with stories submitted by four of his best friends to create Hamilton Carrs All-American college experience. Read more Paperback: 134 pages Language: English Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December 29, 2016) Devin DeShields may have a respectable life now, but he still remembers the days when he and his friends were eighteen-year-old college freshmen, up for any adventure life threw their way. DeShields compiled his own memoirs with stories submitted by four of his best friends to create Hamilton Carrs All-American college experience.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days 'An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs' Guardian 'Not only Lewis's most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in the United States' New Yorker A vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant, fearmongering demagogue runs for President of the United States - and wins. Sinclair Lewis's chilling 1935 bestseller is the story of Buzz Windrip, 'Professional Common Man', who promises poor, angry voters that he will make America proud and prosperous once more, but takes the country down a far darker path. As the new regime slides into authoritarianism, newspaper editor Doremus Jessup can't believe it will last - but is he right? This cautionary tale of liberal complacency in the face of populist tyranny shows it really can happen here. Features Summary 'An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs' Guardian 'Not only Lewis's most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in the United States' New Yorker A vain... Author Sinclair Lewis Publisher Penguin Classics Release date 20170302 Pages 384 ISBN 0-241-31066-0 ISBN 13 978-0-241-31066-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. 'Matthew Dennison skilfully covers the facts, producing a vivid impression of this strange, shy, awkward figure. The result is a highly readable book' Literary Review. 'A haunting new biography... A compelling account of Grahame's life' Daily Mail. 'A sensitively probing and nuanced portrait that makes sense of the darker character furled in the dreamer' New Statesman. During the week Kenneth Grahame sat behind a mahogany desk as Secretary of the Bank of England; at the weekend he retired to the house in the country he shared with his fanciful wife Elspeth and fragile son Alistair and took lengthy walks along the Thames in Berkshire, 'tempted [by] the treasures of hedge and ditch; the rapt surprise of the first lords-and-ladies, the rustle of a field-mouse, the splash of a frog.' The result of these pastoral wanderings was The Wind in the Willows: an enduring classic of children's literature; a cautionary tale for adult readers; a warning of the fragility of the English countryside; and an expression of fear at threatened social changes that, in the aftermath of the World War I, became reality. Like its remarkable author, it balances maverick tendencies with conservatism. Grahame was an Edwardian pantheist whose work has a timeless appeal, an escapist whose withdrawal from reality took the form of time travel into his own past. Features Summary The story of Kenneth Grahame, author of the children's classic Wind in the Willows, and of the vision of English pastoral that inspired it. Author Matthew Dennison Publisher Head of Zeus Release date 20190808 Pages 304 ISBN 1-78669-774-2 ISBN 13 978-1-78669-774-5