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When the powerful are threatened, no one is safe. Elizabeth Eden was the most glamorous actress of her day. But when she dared to take on the studio system, she paid a terrible price. Twenty years later, Tess Jordan, escaping a life of crime on the streets of NYC, has become Hollywood’s most powerful studio head. Her first project – the shattering true story of Elizabeth Eden. Meanwhile the charismatic son of former President Tom Madigan is making his own run for the White House. And Tess soon discovers that the wealthy and powerful will stop at nothing to ensure the secrets of the past remain buried forever. About the Author Jennifer Bacia’s first novel, Indecent Ambition (original ti...
Eine eindrucksvolle Stimme aus New York - erstmals übersetzt ins Deutsche. Die Gedichte von Donald Berger, der 1956 in New York City geboren wurde, haben einen unverkennbaren Ton. Sie sind lakonisch und unruhig zugleich, unterlegt mit höchstem Raffinement. Berger arbeitet mit und im Material der Alltagssprache, er steht in der Tradition der amerikanischen Popdichter wie Allen Ginsberg und ebenso in der einer symbolistischen europäischen Poesie. Seine Gedichte entstehen als Übersetzungen einer an die Sprache und das Sprechen gebundenen Analyse und meiden das direkte Aussprechen von Gefühlen, sie geben nicht vor, eine »Wahrheit" zu verkünden.
This volume answers questions that lead to a clearer picture of third-person self- knowledge, the self-interpretation it embeds, and its narrative structure. Bringing together current research on third-person self-knowledge and self-interpretation, the book focuses on third-person self-knowledge, and the role that narrative and interpretation play in acquiring it. It regards the third-personal epistemic approach to oneself as a problem worthy of investigation in its own right, and makes clear the relation between third-person self-knowledge, self-interpretation, and narrative capacities. In recent years, the idea that each person is in a privileged position to acquire knowledge about her own...
Illustrated profiles of the greatest motorsports pairings of man and machine, from the winner of the first Indy 500 race to the Audi R10 the dominated Le Mans for nearly a decade.
2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Since the mass production of Henry Ford’s Model T, car enthusiasts have been redesigning, rebuilding, and reengineering their vehicles for increased speed and technical efficiency. They purchase aftermarket parts, reconstruct engines, and enhance body designs, all in an effort to personalize and improve their vehicles. Why do these car enthusiasts modify their cars and where do they get their aftermarket parts? Here, David N. Lucsko provides the first scholarly history of America’s hot rod business. Lucsko examines the evolution of performance tuning through the lens of the $34-billion speed equipment industry that supports it. As early as 1910, do...
Tom Madigan, with foreword by Benny Parson, NASCAR champion. The Edelbrock Corporation emerged from a young mechanic's dream in Southern California during the earliest years of the American love affair with the automobile. One of the central figures of the hot rod culture that began before World War II and blossomed after the war, Vic Edelbrock, Sr. built his company around a simple philosophy: never overextend yourself, and never put your name on a product that hasn't been tested and proven true. When Vic Edelbrock, Jr. took over after his father's death, he stayed true to the family philosophy while incorporating progressive marketing plans to grow the company into a corporate giant. It is...
For more than two generations, the traditional urban school system--the district--has utterly failed to do its job: prepare its students for a lifetime of success. Millions and millions of boys and girls have suffered the grievous consequences. The district is irreparably broken. For the sake of today's and tomorrow's inner-city kids, it must be replaced. The Urban School System of the Future argues that vastly better results can be realized through the creation of a new type of organization that properly manages a city's portfolio of schools using the revolutionary principles of chartering. It will ensure that new schools are regularly created, that great schools are expanded and replicated...