Wasp, where is Thy Sting?

Wasp, where is Thy Sting?
Title Wasp, where is Thy Sting? PDF eBook
Author Florence King
Publisher Scarborough House
Pages 222
Release 1977
Genre History
ISBN

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The Things They Say Behind Your Back

The Things They Say Behind Your Back
Title The Things They Say Behind Your Back PDF eBook
Author William B. Helmreich
Publisher Transaction Publishers
Pages 292
Release
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9781412839334

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Helmreich explores the myths and historical roots of stereotypes pertaining to several ethnic groups. He discusses which stereotypes are false, which are trye, how they originated, and why some of the most libeled groups promote warped perceptions about themselves.

Snobbery

Snobbery
Title Snobbery PDF eBook
Author Joseph Epstein
Publisher HMH
Pages 293
Release 2003-07-07
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0547561644

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Observations on the many ways we manage to look down on others, from “a writer who can make you laugh out loud on every third page” (The New York Times Book Review). Snobs are everywhere. At the gym, at work, at school, and sometimes even lurking in your own home. But how did we, as a culture, get this way? With dishy detail, Joseph Epstein skewers all manner of elitism as he examines how snobbery works, where it thrives, and the pitfalls and perils in thinking you’re better than anyone else. Offering arch observations on the new footholds of snobbery, including food, fashion, high-achieving children, schools, politics, being with-it—whatever “it” is—name-dropping, and much more, Epstein explores the shallows and depths of a concept that has become part of our everyday lives . . . for better or worse. “Smart, witty, perceptive . . . and almost always—in the best sense of the word—entertaining,” Snobbery provides the ultimate social commentary on arrogance in America (TheWashington Post Book World). It’s a book you shouldn’t be caught dead without.

Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art

Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art
Title Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art PDF eBook
Author Hope B. Werness
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 502
Release 2006-01-01
Genre Art
ISBN 9780826419132

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Animals and their symbolism in diverse world cultures and different eras of human history are chronicled in this lovely volume.

Flight of the WASP

Flight of the WASP
Title Flight of the WASP PDF eBook
Author Michael Gross
Publisher Grove Press
Pages 334
Release 2023-11-14
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 080216188X

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Fifteen families.Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America’s history. For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph Alsop to the editors of Politico have proclaimed the diminishment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who for generations were the dominant socio-cultural-political force in America. While the WASP elite has, in the last half century, indeed drifted from American centrality to the periphery, its relevance and impact remain, as Michael Gross reveals in his compelling chronicle. From Colonial America’s founding settlements through the Gilded Age to the present day, Gross traces the complex legacy of American WASPs—their profound accomplishments and egregious failures—through the lives of fifteen influential individuals and their very privileged, sometimes intermarried families. As the Bradford, Randolph, Morris, Biddle, Sanford, Peabody and Whitney clans progress, prosper and periodically stumble, defining aspects in the four-century sweep of American history emerge: our wide, oft-contentious religious diversity; the deep scars of slavery, genocide, and intolerance; the creation and sometime mis-use of astonishing economic and political power; an enduring belief in the future; an instinct to offset inequity with philanthropy; an equal capacity for irresponsible, sometimes wanton, behavior. “American society was supposed to be different,” writes Gross, “but for most of our history we have had a patriciate, an aristocracy, a hereditary oligarchic upper class, who initiated the American national experiment.” In previous acclaimed books such as 740 Park and Rogues’ Gallery, Gross has explored elite culture in microcosm; expanding the canvas, Flight of the WASP chronicles it across four centuries and fifteen generations in an ambitious and consequential contribution to American history.

And Yet...

And Yet...
Title And Yet... PDF eBook
Author Christopher Hitchens
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 352
Release 2015-11-24
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1476772088

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The seminal, uncollected essays—lauded as “dazzling” (The New York Times Book Review)—by the late Christopher Hitchens, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller God Is Not Great, showcase the notorious contrarian’s genius for rhetoric and his sharp rebukes to tyrants and the ill-informed everywhere. For more than forty years, Christopher Hitchens delivered essays to numerous publications on both sides of the Atlantic that were astonishingly wide-ranging and provocative. His death in December 2011 from esophageal cancer prematurely silenced a voice that was among the most admired of contemporary voices—writers, readers, pundits and critics the world over mourned his loss. At the time of his death, Hitchens left nearly 250,000 words of essays not yet published in book form. “Another great book of essays from a writer who we wish were still alive to produce more copy” (National Review), And Yet… ranges from the literary to the political and is a banquet of entertaining and instructive delights, including essays on Orwell, Lermontov, Chesterton, Fleming, Naipaul, Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, and Dickens, among others, as well as his laugh-out-loud self-mocking “makeover.” The range and quality of Hitchens’s essays transcend the particular occasions for which they were originally written, yielding “a bounty of famous scalps, thunder-blasted targets, and a few love letters from the notorious provocateur-in-chief’s erudite and scathing assessments of American culture” (Vanity Fair). Often prescient, always pugnacious, formidably learned, Hitchens was a polemicist for the ages. With this posthumous volume, he remains, “America’s foremost rhetorical pugilist” (The Village Voice).

The King of Sting

The King of Sting
Title The King of Sting PDF eBook
Author Coyote Peterson
Publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages 211
Release 2018-11-27
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 0316423149

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Wildlife expert and Emmy Award-winning Coyote Peterson brings his 12.5 million YouTube subscribers and legions of kid fans a full-color exploration of his "Sting Zone" adventure series, featuring shots from the episodes and culminating in his thrilling encounter with the "King of Sting"--the Executioner Wasp. Coyote Peterson, YouTube star, animal enthusiast, and creator of the Brave Adventure series, has tracked down some of the world's most painfully stinging insects and chronicled getting stung by each of them on his YouTube channel. Coyote has saved the best--or possibly the worst--for last, and he's finally ready to share his experience with the most painful sting in the world: the Executioner Wasp. Featuring full-color stills from his show, and packed with facts about nature's most misunderstood creatures, King of Sting is a dream book for any kid that loves animals, bugs, outdoor exploration, and danger!