Charles Meryon
Title | Charles Meryon PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Collins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
The Wealth Hoarders
Title | The Wealth Hoarders PDF eBook |
Author | Chuck Collins |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2021-03-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1509543503 |
For decades, a secret army of tax attorneys, accountants and wealth managers has been developing into the shadowy Wealth Defence Industry. These ‘agents of inequality’ are paid millions to hide trillions for the richest 0.01%. In this book, inequality expert Chuck Collins, who himself inherited a fortune, interviews the leading players and gives a unique insider account of how this industry is doing everything it can to create and entrench hereditary dynasties of wealth and power. He exposes the inner workings of these “agents of inequality”, showing how they deploy anonymous shell companies, family offices, offshore accounts, opaque trusts, and sham transactions to ensure the world’s richest pay next to no tax. He ends by outlining a robust set of policies that democratic nations can implement to shut down the Wealth Defence Industry for good. This shocking exposé of the insidious machinery of inequality is essential reading for anyone wanting the inside story of our age of plutocratic plunder and stashed cash.
Dear Girls Above Me
Title | Dear Girls Above Me PDF eBook |
Author | Charles McDowell |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2013-06-04 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 0307986349 |
Based on the wildly popular Twitter feed Dear Girls Above Me, a roman à clef about how thinking like a couple of girls turned one single guy into a better man. When Charlie McDowell began sharing his open letters to his noisy upstairs neighbors—two impossibly ditzy female roommates in their mid-twenties—on Twitter, his feed quickly went viral. His followers multiplied and he got the attention of everyone from celebrities to production studios to major media outlets such as Time and Glamour. Now Dear Girls breaks out of the 140-character limit as Charlie imagines what would happen if he put the wisdom of the girls to the test. After being unceremoniously dumped by the girl he was certain was “the one,” Charlie realized his neighbors’ conversations were not only amusing, but also offered him access to a completely uncensored woman’s perspective on the world. From the importance of effectively Facebook-stalking potential girlfriends and effortlessly pulling off pastel, to learning when in the early stages of dating is too presumptuous to bring a condom and how to turn food poisoning into a dieting advantage, the girls get Charlie into trouble, but they also get him out of it—without ever having a clue of their impact on him.
221B
Title | 221B PDF eBook |
Author | Vincent Starrett |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2021-02-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 150406593X |
A collection of works on everyone’s favorite gentleman sleuth: Sherlock Holmes. This compendium of Sherlockiana compiled by Vincent Starrett, one of the world’s foremost Holmes experts, is sure to please fans everywhere. Enjoy scholarly works on such topics as: “Was Sherlock Holmes an American?,” “On the Emotional Geology of Baker Street,” “Dr. Watson’s Secret,” “The Care and Feeding of Sherlock Holmes,” and “The Other Boarder.” Featured contributors include illustrator Frederic Dorr Steele, and writers Christopher Morley, Elmer Davis, “Jane Nightwork”—and, of course, Arthur Conan Doyle. A founder of the Baker Street Irregulars and the author of indispensable biography The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Starrett combined a scholar’s authority with a fan’s enthusiasm in his appreciation of the great detective. So, if you enjoy the adventures of Holmes and Watson, head down to Baker Street and prepare to enter 221B. “Useful, entertaining, imaginative, it belongs on every reader-insomniac’s bedside shelf.” —A Catalogue of Crime
Growing Up Biden
Title | Growing Up Biden PDF eBook |
Author | Valerie Biden Owens |
Publisher | Celadon Books |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2022-04-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1250821770 |
**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** A memoir from Valerie Biden Owens, Joe Biden’s younger sister, trusted confidante and lifelong campaign manager. Valerie, one of the first female campaign managers in United States history, writes of the role of family, faith, and fate in shaping her life, and the power of empathy and kindness in the face of turmoil and division. Growing Up Biden details Valerie’s decades-long professional career in politics, and the central role she played in her brother’s life as an insightful adviser, an ever-loyal advocate and best friend. This memoir, full of candor and warmth, brings readers into the Biden home and shares stories from growing up in Delaware as the only daughter of the close-knit Irish Catholic family. Valerie writes in a compelling, relatable way about the challenges she faced breaking through gender barriers, the elusive nature of confidence, and navigating professional responsibilities while raising children.
Reformation Anglicanism (The Reformation Anglicanism Essential Library, Volume 1)
Title | Reformation Anglicanism (The Reformation Anglicanism Essential Library, Volume 1) PDF eBook |
Author | Ashley Null |
Publisher | Crossway |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2017-02-14 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1433552167 |
A Clear Vision for What It Means to Be Anglican Today Conceived under the conviction that the future of the global Anglican Communion hinges on a clear, welldefined, and theologically rich vision, the Reformation Anglicanism Essential Library was created to serve as a go-to resource aimed at helping clergy and educated laity grasp the coherence of the Reformation Anglican tradition. With contributions from Michael Jensen, Ben Kwashi, Michael Nazir-Ali, Ashley Null, and John W. Yates III, the first volume in the Reformation Anglicanism Essential Library examines the rich heritage of the Anglican Communion, introducing its foundational doctrines rooted in the solas of the Reformation and drawing out the implications of this tradition for life and ministry in the twenty-first century.
Hiraeth (Deluxe Hard Cover)
Title | Hiraeth (Deluxe Hard Cover) PDF eBook |
Author | David Charles Collins |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2021-04-05 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781034738305 |
HIRAETH engages boldly with masculinity - its origins, how it shapes relations and individual identity - however it is also undeniably queer. Through framing, lighting and pose, Collins evokes a queer masculine desire of his subjects. They are young, able bodied and traditionally beautiful, and almost-exclusively white, positioning the images in a tradition of high end gay erotica. (These sorts of publications, waning now due to the collapse of print media, would often draw on Classical references, seen also in HIRAETH, to refer to an imagined history where same-sex attraction was not only permitted but celebrated.) Hand in hand with queerness is the visual vocabulary of camp, Collins' images demonstrating a fixation on luxurious materials, decorative details, and other 'feminised' aesthetics. The traditional masculine archetypes depicted are thus complicated by a desire both to attain their status, and to consummate a union. Collins articulates the oft-contradictory relationship that queer men have with masculinity, one of repulsion and desire, of exclusion from the patriarchy and the desire to be loved and accepted.