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Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Nebraska
"Rules of the supreme court. In force February 1, 1914": v. 94, p. vii-xx.
Martin Boyd
Martin Boyd was one of the generation whose lives were changed by World War I. He served in a British regiment, survived the trenches in 1916-17 and joined the Royal Flying Corps. The pacifist beliefs which emerged from that war experience are central to his fiction, as they were to his life. Boyd's was a complex personality: witty, generous, sociable yet deeply reserved. He looked for his 'home of the spirit' in many places: an Anglican monastery, London's West End clubland, a Cambridge village, and an old famly house in Harkaway, Victoria, and among English expatriates in Rome. In a fine study of a man and his work, Brenda Niall re-creates the Melbourne in which Boyd grew up, just before World War I, and traces his development as a writer during his restless expatriate years.
Building Home
Building Home is an innovative biography that weaves together three engrossing stories. It is one part corporate and industrial history, using the evolution of mortgage finance as a way to understand larger dynamics in the nation‘s political economy. It is another part urban history, since the extraordinary success of the savings and loan business in Los Angeles reflects much of the cultural and economic history of Southern California. Finally, it is a personal story, a biography of one of the nation‘s most successful entrepreneurs of the managed economy —Howard Fieldstad Ahmanson. Eric John Abrahamson deftly connects these three strands as he chronicles Ahmanson’s rise against the b...
SLAUGHTERED: A FAS STORY
"Those bastards!" Chris spat angrily. "They just murdered an innocent girl!" He felt his grief turning into rage and suddenly he pictured himself shooting all eight bullets into Porter's chest. With someone he loved murdered, Chris is hell-bent on exacting revenge on his new nemesis and then... a catastrophic attack turns his world upside down. No longer able to work for MI6, Chris is forced to return to a small Surrey police station to bide his time. While Chris is recovering from a major loss, David's workload grows more intense as his policework becomes busier than he had ever known. The vengeful strikes of a manic executive grows more cruel by the day and both good men stand to lose everything they both hold dear.
The Age of Discontent
"For much of the last century, three narratives framed American history. The plantation narrative, with its Gone-with-the-Wind view of slavery and Reconstruction, bolstered racial apartheid. The frontier narrative worshipped individualism over collective responsibility and ignored the decimation of indigenous cultures. The industrial narrative, redefined by Ralph Brauer in this sweeping history of late-nineteenth-century labor and farmer activism, traditionally celebrated laissez-faire capitalism and the achievements of wealthy industrialists. The Age of Discontent offers an alternative perspective, asserting that the largest and most important expression of mass democracy in American history laid the foundations for economic growth and prosperity. Main Street, not Wall Street, was responsible for the American Century. Grassroots activists and reformers from the working and farming classes take center stage in this fascinating success story of government programs and legislation"--
Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Nebraska
"Rules of the supreme court. In force February 1, 1914": v. 94, p. vii-xx.
Robin Boyd
Robin Boyd, gifted architect, writer, teacher and social commentator, was the leading Australian propagandist for the International Modern Movement in architecture. In partnership with Roy Grounds and Frederick Romberg, he was noted for his innovative domestic buildings. Indeed the suburban home was often a focus of Boyd's thinking, writing and criticism, and in Australia's Home (1952) he provided the first substantial interpretation of Australia's architectural history. But the most popular and controversial of Boyd's nine books was The Australian Ugliness (1960) in which he scourged prevailing tastes in both architecture and popular culture.The sentiments he expressed here made him one of Australia's liveliest social critics. But his criticism sprang from patriotism and ambition for his country. Boyd was a very private man who left few personal letters or records. In this highly acclaimed and beautifully-illustrated book Geoffrey Serle writes predominantly about Boyd's work and public activities, allowing key selections from Boyd's writings to reveal the inner man.
Tyler-Browns of Brattleboro
The Tylers of Brattleboro, Vermont, descendants of Royal Tyler (1757-1826), and the Browns, who also date from early America "and whom the Tylers consistently married.".
