Added by: naokokt | Karma: 186.54 | Fiction literature | 11 January 2011
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The Ask: A Novel
How can a life so miserable be so funny? Is it because the stakes are so low (Milo Burke, the antihero of Sam Lipsyte's novel, The Ask, is a failure at many things, but most prominently at his job of pulling in major donors for a deadwater arts program at a middling university neither you nor he care about), or because they are so high (among them death, love, and the general squandering of the glories of creation on trivia)?
Since the '60s, the Beatlemaniac has proven to be a different breed of rock fanatic, but even the most passionate of the Fab Four's cult eventually grew up to realize that the world didn't revolve around John, Paul, George and Ringo. O'Donnell (Wonderful Tonight) would do well to add that to his many notes. His eight years of intensive research among all variety of resources provide the reader with an overwhelming panorama of what turns out to be a split-second glance into a pretty average summer day.
Family Business - Litigation and the Political Economies of Daily Life in Early Modern France
In seventeenth-century France, families were essential as both agents and objects in the shaping of capitalism and growth of powerful states -- phenomena that were critical to the making of the modern world. For household members, neighbors, and authorities, the family business of the management of a broad range of tangible and intangible resources -- law, borrowing, violence, and marital status among them -- was central to political stability, economic productivity and cultural morality.
The book includes an abundance of reading comprehension questions in order to guide the student through specific elements of the story; you may want to select among them according to the needs and reading levels of your students.
The author has included an abundance of reading comprehension questions in order to guide
the student through specific elements of the story; you may want to select among them
according to the needs and reading levels of your students.
The book includes an abundance of reading comprehension questions in order to guide the student through specific elements of the story; you may want to select among them according to the needs and reading levels of your students.
