![]() ![]() Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today’s hillbillies. Yet the voters that put Trump in the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. ![]() ![]() ![]() “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg, #4 on the 2016 Politico 50 list, takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing-if occasionally entertaining-poor white trash. ![]()
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![]() The reading level would be 4.0 and the interest level would be k-4th grade What will happen to the hole in the fence and what consequences will come from her not watching Gabby well enough? When she realizes that her dad is fixing the hole in the fence that leads to Pixie Hollow Mia's world has the chance of being ruined. Mia doesn't take the responsibilty seriously and sneaks off on her own making a couple of bad decisions. ![]() Mia, her two friends Kate and Lainey, and her little sister Gabby have just discovered a secret passage through a hold in her backyard's fence to a magical land called Pixie Hollow where real fairies live! Mia is so excited to go back to Pixie Hollow the next day but to her disappointment she is left babysitting her little sister while her mom runs errands and her dad does yard work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Same rule also applies for collectibles and the light damages their boxes can take. ![]() If you feel like we missed a glaringly bad damage in your order, or your entire order was damaged by the mail, please contact us and we'll take it on a case-by-case basis to resolve you issue. But we are human and we do deal with 100s of books everyday, so we have the potential to miss some things on our inspection. We do strive to try and spot all seriously damaged items before they are made available to you for order. ![]() Higher priced books and variant covers, or if an item is being sold as something other than 'New', should have photos of the actual item in the listings so you can judge for yourself before purchase if the damage is acceptable. Items listed with a stock photo in the listing (not taken by us) will fall under this provision. Minor damages like light corner dings or light spine dings may be present. Gonna be a pretty intense week for comics the big debuts this week are the highly-anticipated TRILLIUM and SIDEKICK, one from a critical darling comic. Many times these books don't arrive to us from the distributors in that sort of condition, so it is impossible to promise. We cannot guarantee your ungraded book will be a 9.8. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Taking a fresh look at Leonardo's celebrated but challenging notebooks, as well as other sources, Fiorani argues that Leonardo became familiar with advanced thinking about human vision when he was still an apprentice in a Florence studio-and used his understanding of optical science to develop and perfect his painting techniques. In this pathbreaking new interpretation, the art historian Francesca Fiorani offers a different view. They have argued that there are, in effect, two Leonardos-an artist and an inventor. But what was the connection between Leonardo the painter and Leonardo the scientist? Historians of Renaissance art have long supposed that Leonardo became increasingly interested in science as he grew older and turned his insatiable curiosity in new directions. ![]() He was the painter who gave us the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and the inventor who anticipated the advent of airplanes, hot air balloons, and other technological marvels. Leonardo da Vinci has long been celebrated for his consummate genius. ![]() ![]() ![]() Results provided with scores to determine "status".Complementary quiz material for yourself or your reading group.Insightful commentary to answer every question. ![]()
![]() ![]() “A new novel in the New York Times–bestselling Remnant Chronicles universe, in which a reformed thief and the young leader of an outlaw dynasty lock wits in a battle that may cost them their lives-and their hearts.” ( Goodreads) “As conspiracies arise, Lu, Vex, and Ben will have to decide who they really are … and what they are willing to become for peace” ( Goodreads) These Rebel Waves follows a soldier, Adeluna, a pirate, Devereaux, and a prince, Benat. The first book in a new fantasy series by the author of the Snow Like Ashes trilogy. Read more for release dates, titles, and synopsis!īlog || Goodreads || Bookstagram || Twitter || Reviews August 7 August is almost here, and so are so many great releases! Today I want to share a few that I am dying to read! ![]() ![]() ![]() Although the Latin refers to "violets and other flowers", Alma-Tadema depicts Elagabalus smothering his unsuspecting guests with rose petals released from a false ceiling. The painting depicts a (probably invented) episode in the life of the Roman emperor Elagabalus, also known as Heliogabalus (204–222), taken from the Augustan History. A woman plays the double pipes beside a marble pillar in the background, wearing the leopard skin of a maenad, with a bronze statue of Dionysus, based on the Ludovisi Dionysus, in front of a view of distant hills. The Roman emperor Elagabalus reclines on a platform behind them, wearing a golden robe and a tiara, watching the spectacle with other garlanded guests. ![]() It shows a group of Roman diners at a banquet, being swamped by drifts of pink rose petals falling from a false ceiling above. The Roses of Heliogabalus is an 1888 painting by the Anglo-Dutch artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema depicting the young Roman emperor Elagabalus hosting a banquet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each chapter will cover a different game, from major studios with nine-figure budgets to indie games with half a dozen people on their teams. His reputation for great storytelling and fly-on-the-wall detail will provide readers with the clearest picture yet of what actually goes on behind the scenes. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Schreier takes you behind the scenes of some of the biggest recent games to share never-before-told stories of the struggles and failures the development teams faced along the way. ![]() ![]() In his years covering the industry, Jason Schreier has often heard developers say that any game actually released is a miracle. And suddenly the investor is asking if maybe you can slash that $10 million budget down to $8 million, even if you have to fire a few people to make it happen? Welcome to video game development. You'll have to cut out some of the game's biggest features just to hit your deadlines. Your E3 demo is due in two weeks, and you know there's no way you can get it done in less than four. Also, your lead designer keeps micromanaging the programmers, which is driving them crazy. Turns out that wall-jumping trick won't work because the artists don't have time to design a separate animation just for the plumber to move that way. One morning, you get a call from your producer. You have a great project, great designs, and clever controls. "You've got your dream job-making video games. ![]() ![]() ![]() The editor of the journal’s prose section, Anna Berzer, was quick to grasp the significance of the unusual submission, and passed it on to Novy Mir’s editor-in-chief, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, with the remark that it was about “a prison camp though the eyes of a peasant, a very national kind of work.” Once Tvardovsky had joined battle for One Day, he began gathering appraisals of the work from the most authoritative writers of the day, in order to pass their testimonials to the powers-that-be. ![]() ![]() He sent the manuscript, still titled Щ-854, to the Moscow journal Novy Mir in the fall of 1961. He risked offering it for publication only some two years later, after Khrushchev’s vociferous attack on Stalin’s “cult of personality” at the Twenty-second Party Congress. In May 1959, when Solzhenitsyn was living in Ryazan, he finally sat down to write Щ-854 ( One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich). ![]() ![]() Although I think it will be of particular interest to immigrant and first-generation children, it is also just a fun holiday story that can be enjoyed by all young readers looking for 4th of July tales. Wong, the child of Korean and Chinese immigrants herself, delivers an engaging story in Apple Pie 4th of July, one that addresses everything from the immigrant experience during the holidays, to the importance of food in shaping our identity. Do her immigrant parents know something she, despite being born in America, doesn't.? Despite her gloomy predictions - which seem, at first, to be borne out by the events of the day - they calmly carry on preparing the chow mein and sweet-and-sour pork. A young girl - believing that the 4th of July is a time when people eat American foods like apple pie - tries to convince her parents that no one will be interested in the Chinese food they sell in their store. ![]() |