Interesting Times explores efforts to confront the complexities of contemporary life at times with humor, as in Florida, at other times, as in Irene, with resolve, having sunk roots so deep hopes possible, and at all times, with the ...
With Interesting Times, we see the history of the twentieth century through the unforgiving eye of one of its most intensely engaged participants, the incisiveness of whose views we cannot afford to ignore in a world in which history has ...
" The book takes us from his birth in Alexandria, Egypt, and early schooling in Weimar Berlin to his student days as a Cambridge Red and Apostle at King's College.
'There is a curse. They say: may you live in interesting times . . .' This is the worst thing you can wish on a citizen of Discworld.
The oldest and most inscrutable empire in the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise 'What I Did On My Holidays'.
Whether exploring American policies in the wake of September 11, tracking a used T-shirt from New York to Uganda, or describing the ambivalent response in Appalachia to Obama, these essays hold a mirror up to our own troubled times and ...
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When President Richard Nixon held his meetings with Chairman Mao in Beijing in February 1972, at his side was a young U.S. diplomat serving as his principal interpreter: Chas W. Freeman, Jr. Interesting Times: China, America, and the ...
The temporal transformation occurs, and the story recounts the impact on the government and citizens of Israel, the crew of the US Navy cruiser docked in Haifa at the fateful moment, and many others in Europe and the Middle East.
For better or for worse, Oliver lives in interesting times.
Interesting Times is an anthology of four stories that confront the mysteries of time and space to present the readers with the ultimate possibility--anything goes.
Martin begins a journey to the south, and scheming by nations begins. Who will rule and what will change? The sequel to Coppers Journey continues the tale of blood and heroism.
Its thematic focus is on the varied ways artists in Australia today, convey social and political ideas through their work. This catalogue is an important component of the project, contextualising...
"May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld -- especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life.
The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Interesting Times is the fifth installment in the Wizards collection (and the 18th Discworld book).
ONE NATION SUBJECT TO CHANGE America at the turn of the twentieth century and just after is the focus of this collection of essays and nonfiction from a veteran journalist, essayist, critic and observer of American life and popular culture.
... interesting times ' . Rincewind I hate interesting times . You're very educated , for a barbarian . Ronald Saveloy Oh dear me , I didn't start out as a barbarian . I used to be a schoolteacher . That's why they call me Teach . Rincewind ...
... interesting part of the conference was that it was financed by the Swiss drug giant, HoffmannLaRoche, and, for the ... hours of the morning sitting on a grand staircase with Joe Brady—who had offered me a job in Washington 20 years ...
'There is a curse. They say: may you live in interesting times . . .' This is the worst thing you can wish on a citizen of Discworld.
Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying... ...and a very SPECIAL butterfly. "From the Paperback edition.