Faculty Brat
Title | Faculty Brat PDF eBook |
Author | Dominic Bucca |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2020-03-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1609386868 |
At the most prestigious preparatory schools in the United States, the children of educators are referred to as “faculty brats.” Though generally lacking the privilege of the institution’s wealthy students, faculty brats enjoy access to the school’s extensive grounds and facilities and are part of everyday campus life. Dominic Bucca’s art teacher mother married his music teacher stepfather twice, and the young boy wondered if the union might be twice as strong as a result. Instead, this faculty brat quickly discovered that the marriage was twice as flawed. When Dominic was nine years old, his stepfather began sexually abusing him in the faculty housing attached to the boys’ dorm his parents oversaw. Years later, he found escape by reaching out to his biological father, and learned to split his life between two realities. For nearly twenty-five years, Bucca hid the secret of his stepfather’s abuse from his mother and sisters. When he decided to tell, hoping to prevent his stepfather from continuing to teach young boys, Bucca discovered the limits of both his family and the legal system.
Slingshot
Title | Slingshot PDF eBook |
Author | Lauren Cohen Bell |
Publisher | CQ Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2015-10-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1506311954 |
"This is a book that needed to be written. Eric Cantor’s defeat was not only shocking but it runs against everything we teach in our election courses. By extracting the lessons from Cantor’s defeat, Slingshot helps to inform our more general understanding of campaigns & elections." -Professor Kirby Goidel, Texas A&M University Incumbents don′t lose. So how did nationally prominent House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lose a primary battle to college professor David Brat, an unknown political rookie? In Slingshot: The Defeat of Eric Cantor, authors Lauren Cohen Bell, David Elliot Meyer and Ronald Keith Gaddie take advantage of exceptional behind-the-scenes access to the Brat campaign to explain the challenger’s victory. They examine the essential need for elected officials to maintain strong support in their home districts and just how Cantor’s focus on climbing the party ranks in Washington contributed to his loss. They also show how local "rules of the game" —particularly voter mobilization in this case—affect elections, and they explore the continuing impact of the Tea Party and its role in the factionalism of current Southern politics.
Dictionary of American Slang
Title | Dictionary of American Slang PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Ann Kipfer |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 612 |
Release | 2010-10-19 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 0062043242 |
The fourth edition of this authoritative reference offers clear definitions for the slang words and idioms used in everyday American conversation. First published in 1960, this newly updated edition of Dictionary of American Slang traces the language of today back to its American roots. With thousands of entries ranging from the widely accepted to the taboo and obscure, slang words are explained in terms of definition, usage, and historical etymology. As language continues to evolve at an ever-increasing rate, Dictionary of American Slang offers an essential guide to the terms that are here to stay—as well as those that might otherwise be forgotten.
The Best of the Best
Title | The Best of the Best PDF eBook |
Author | Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2010-01-30 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0674053877 |
For two years, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández shared the life of what he calls the "Weston School," an elite New England boarding school. Vividly describing the pastoral landscape and graceful buildings, the rich variety of classes and activities, and the official and unofficial rules that define the school, The Best of the Best reveals a small world of deeply ambitious, intensely pressured students. For Gaztambide-Fernández, Weston is daunting yet strikingly bucolic, inspiring but frustratingly incurious, and sometimes - especially for young women - a gilded cage for a gilded age.
The Last Chairlift
Title | The Last Chairlift PDF eBook |
Author | John Irving |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 1096 |
Release | 2022-10-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1501189298 |
John Irving’s fifteenth novel is “powerfully cinematic” (The Washington Post) and “eminently readable” (The Boston Globe). The Last Chairlift is part ghost story, part love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, he will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren’t the first or last ghosts he sees. John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time—among them, The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules. A visionary voice on the subject of sexual tolerance, Irving is a bard of alternative families. In the “generously intertextual” (The New York Times) The Last Chairlift, readers will once more be in his thrall.
Taming Your Inner Brat
Title | Taming Your Inner Brat PDF eBook |
Author | Pauline Wallin |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2012-06-12 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1582704104 |
I can`t believe I did that! What was I thinking? We’ve all got one: an inner brat that compels us to grab one more cookie or throw a hissy fit over a minor irritation. This inner brat can wreak havoc at work, in relationships, and with our self-esteem. With humor and kindness, Taming Your Inner Brat gives you specific strategies to bring your attitudes and bratty behaviors under control. You can learn to deal with any situation in a productive, adult manner. By teaching you how to recognize your inner brat, psychologist Pauline Wallin, Ph.D. helps you bring problems into manageable perspective and make changes that last. . . . Which leaves just one question, answered in this new edition: “Now that I’ve tamed my own inner brat, what do I do about people who haven’t tamed theirs?”
Steering by Starlight
Title | Steering by Starlight PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Beck |
Publisher | Rodale |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2009-06-09 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 1605298646 |
Outlines a step-by-step process for reconnecting with one's life purpose, drawing on research in psychiatry and neurology while sharing inspirational tips for changing one's perspective, overcoming roadblocks, and experiencing greater fulfillment.