The Power of Nothing to Lose: The Hail Mary Effect in Politics, War, and Business, Silber William L.
Автор: Nina Silber Название: Gender and the Sectional Conflict ISBN: 1469627078 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469627076 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4703.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In an insightful exploration of gender relations during the Civil War, Nina Silber compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and femininity among Northerners and Southerners. She argues that attitudes about gender shaped the experiences of the Civil War's participants, including how soldiers and their female kin thought about their ""causes"" and obligations in wartime. Despite important similarities, says Silber, differing gender ideologies shaped the way each side viewed, participated in, and remembered the war.Silber finds that rhetoric on both sides connected soldiers' reasons for fighting to the women left at home. Consequently, although in different ways, women on both sides took up new roles to advance the wartime agenda. At the same time, both Northern and Southern women were accused of waning patriotism as the war dragged on, but their responses to such charges differed. Finally, noting that our postwar memories are often dominated by images of Southern belles, Silber considers why Northern women, despite their heroic contributions to the Union cause, have faded from Civil War memory. Silber's investigation offers a new understanding of how Unionists and Confederates perceived their reasons for fighting, of the new attitudes and experiences that women - black and white - on both sides took up, and of the very different ways that Northern and Southern women were remembered after the war ended.
Автор: Silber Joan Название: Secrets of Happiness ISBN: 1640094458 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781640094451 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 2483.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARWhen a man discovers his father in New York has long had another, secret, family--a wife and two kids--the interlocking fates of both families lead to surprise loyalties, love triangles, and a reservoir of inner strength in this expansive and elegantly crafted novel (Fresh Air, NPR).Rich with the complexities of life . . . the stories create a world made fully dimensional through changes of perspective--major characters appear and reappear as part of one or another's experience and testimony . . . Pull any life's thread and you discover a mesh of involvement that soon takes in all the others. It is a fine thing, subtly done, and truly exhilarating. --The Wall Street Journal Ethan, a young lawyer in New York, learns that his father has long kept a second family--a Thai wife and two kids living in Queens. In the aftermath of this revelation, Ethan's mother spends a year working abroad, returning much changed, as events introduce her to the other wife. Across town, Ethan's half brothers are caught in their own complicated journeys: one brother's penchant for minor delinquency has escalated, and the other must travel to Bangkok to bail him out, while the bargains their mother has struck about love and money continue to shape their lives. As Ethan finds himself caught in a love triangle of his own, the interwoven fates of these two households elegantly unfurl to encompass a woman rallying to help an ill brother with an unreliable lover and a filmmaker with a girlhood spent in Nepal. Evoking a generous and humane spirit, and a story that ranges over three continents, Secrets of Happiness elucidates the ways people marshal the resources at hand to forge their own forms of joy.
Автор: Silber, Nina, Название: This war ain`t over : ISBN: 1469646544 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469646541 Издательство: Turpin Рейтинг: Цена: 6644.00 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: The New Deal era witnessed a surprising surge in popular engagement with the history and memory of the Civil War era. From the omnipresent book and film Gone with the Wind and the scores of popular theater productions to Aaron Copeland's ""A Lincoln Portrait,"" it was hard to miss America's fascination with the war in the 1930s and 1940s. Nina Silber deftly examines the often conflicting and politically contentious ways in which Americans remembered the Civil War era during the years of the Depression, the New Deal, and World War II. In doing so, she reveals how the debates and events of that earlier period resonated so profoundly with New Deal rhetoric about state power, emerging civil rights activism, labor organizing and trade unionism, and popular culture in wartime. At the heart of this book is an examination of how historical memory offers people a means of understanding and defining themselves in the present. Silber reveals how, during a moment of enormous national turmoil, the events and personages of the Civil War provided a framework for reassessing national identity, class conflict, and racial and ethnic division. The New Deal era may have been the first time Civil War memory loomed so large for the nation as a whole, but, as the present moment suggests, it was hardly the last.
Автор: Silber Alexandra Название: White Hot Grief Parade: A Memoir ISBN: 1643132466 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643132464 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2476.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Alexandra "Al" Silber seems to have everything: brilliance, beauty, and talent in spades. But when her beloved father dies after a decade-long battle with cancer when she is just a teenager, it feels like the end of everything. Lost in grief, Al and her mother hardly know where to begin with the rest of their lives.
Into this grieving house burst Al's three friends from theatre camp, determined to help out as only drama students know how--and they're moving in for the duration. Over the course of that winter, the now five-strong household will do battle with everything Death can throw at them--meddling relatives, merciless bureaucracy, soul-sapping sadness, the endless Tupperware. They will learn (almost) everything about love and will eventually return to the world, altered in different ways by their time in a home by a river.
Told with raw passion, candor and wit, White Hot Grief Parade is an ode to the restorative power of family and friendship--and the unbreakable bond, even in death, between father and daughter.
Автор: Silber Joan Название: Improvement ISBN: 1911630075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911630074 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1424.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A bold and piercing novel about a young single mother, her eccentric aunt and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them.
Автор: John Silber Название: Kant`s Ethics: The Good, Freedom, and the Will ISBN: 1614510717 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781614510710 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 24165.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: By a comprehensive examination of Kant`s views of the good, freedom and the will, this book aims to dispel this common misconception of Kant`s ethics and to replace it with a richer understanding that gives proper emphasis to the central importance of the good, restoring the balanced relationship Kant intended between duty and the good.
Описание: This is the Digital Practitioner Foundation Study Guide for the DPBoK Part 1Examination. It gives an overview of every learning objective included in the DigitalPractitioner Foundation syllabus, and provides in-depth coverage on preparing andtaking the DPBoK Part 1 Examination. It is specifically designed to help individualsprepare for certification.This Study Guide is excellent material for:¢ Senior digital business professionals who need an increased awareness of digitalpractices¢ Mid-career IT professionals who need to stay relevant and validate their digitalSubject Matter Expert (SME) status in specific domain areas¢ Entry-level computing and digital business professionals¢ College-level students and computing and digital business majorsIt covers the following topics:¢ An introduction to DPBoK Foundation certification, including the DPBoK Part 1Examination¢ Key terminology, key concepts, and the structure of the Body of Knowledge¢ Basic concepts employed by the Digital Practitioner¢ The capabilities of digital infrastructure and initial concerns for its effective, efficient,and secure operation¢ The objectives and activities of application development¢ Why product management is formalized as a company or team grows, and thedifferences between product and project management¢ The key concerns and practices of work management as a team increases in size¢ The basic concepts and practices of operations management in a digital/IT context¢ How to coordinate as the organization grows into multiple teams and multipleproducts¢ IT investment and portfolio management¢ Organizational structure, human resources, and cultural factors¢ Governance, risk, security, and compliance¢ Information and data management on a large scale¢ Practices and methods for managing complexity using Enterprise Architecture
Описание: Recovering from betrayal can be hard, but it can be done with grace, love, and dignity, using the tips and tools in this warm and engaging book on learning to trust again. You couldn't brace yourself because you never saw it coming. Your sense of safety and security is shattered in an instant, and the shock is imprinted on your body and mind. Your heart breaks, you feel like you got sucker punched, and the pain is so raw, consuming, and overwhelming you can barely breathe. Someone close to you, possibly a family member, partner, or friend, just pulled the rug out from underneath you--lies you so easily believed and actions you dismissed because it never crossed your mind that the one you trusted the most could ever hurt you. You thought this person had your back. You thought the two of you were honoring the same rules, sharing the same moral code, and respecting the same beliefs. This was a person you loved, trusted, and believed. This is what it feels like to be blindsided by betrayal. During times of betrayal, when we most need support, sometimes the ones we would turn to first are the betrayers. Other times, we're saddled with shame and fear. But it's during these times when we need to turn for help and learn to trust again. This work offers support, comfort, and community to those struggling with feelings associated with betrayal and guides them to healing from a painful experience with betrayal. Readers will learn about, and move through the proven five stages from betrayal to breakthrough, and will be lovingly guided with tools and strategies along the way. They'll also learn how predictable healing can be as they read not only Debi's journey through betrayal, but the stories of others who have learned to copy, heal, and move on from betrayal to a place of trust and well-being. Readers will identify with at least a few of the many people in the book who share their unique experiences. In addition, they'll learn about the three groups who didn't heal and be inspired to take a different course of action so that they can have a more positive outcome.
Автор: Silber, Laura Название: Yugoslavia ISBN: 0140262636 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140262636 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1563.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation draws on hundreds of interviews with politicians, soldiers, and citizens to bring readers behind the scenes of Europe`s bloodiest conflict since World War II. Published as the companion to the critically acclaimed BBC documentary broadcast on the Discovery Channel.of photos.
Автор: Silber, Lee Название: Time Management For Creative P ISBN: 0609800906 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780609800904 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1471.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book describes quantum chaos and quantum transport in microscopic billiards. Microscopic billiards are typical dynamical systems in which it is easy to see chaos classically and also to investigate effects of chaos on quantum phenomena. Owing to recent progress in microstructure fabrication technology, quantum chaos can now be studied experimentally rather than only as a sophisticated theory.
How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters today
This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world, Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt, during the 1970s altered the course of American and world history. FDR pumped up the price of silver to help jump start the U.S. economy during the Great Depression, but this move weakened China, which was then on the silver standard, and facilitated Japan's rise to power before World War II. Bunker Hunt went on a silver-buying spree during the 1970s to protect himself against inflation and triggered a financial crisis that left him bankrupt.
Silver has been the preferred shelter against government defaults, political instability, and inflation for most people in the world because it is cheaper than gold. The white metal has been the place to hide when conventional investments sour, but it has also seduced sophisticated investors throughout the ages like a siren. This book explains how powerful figures, up to and including Warren Buffett, have come under silver's thrall, and how its history guides economic and political decisions in the twenty-first century.
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