Author: Vera Morrill
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 147972467X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Three women from different backgrounds play their part in the moulding of Helen Calloway's character as she makes the transition from life in a cottage, to fame in the world of haute couture and a marriage which takes her across the sea.... The spinster for whom education is all; a Baroness, the epitome of charm and gentility and an Indian Princess, who reflects all that is best of her creed and culture. Set in the Edwardian era with the country. Moving towards war, Helen's changing fortunes reflect the shifting status of women, until finally accepted as full members of society.
Author: Vera Morrill
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479724661
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Three women from different backgrounds play their part in the moulding of Helen Calloway's character as she makes the transition from life in a cottage, to fame in the world of haute couture and a marriage which takes her across the sea.... The spinster for whom education is all; a Baroness, the epitome of charm and gentility and an Indian Princess, who reflects all that is best of her creed and culture. Set in the Edwardian era with the country. Moving towards war, Helen's changing fortunes reflect the shifting status of women, until finally accepted as full members of society.
Author: David Rothenberg
Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
ISBN: 9781557839268
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A memoir of the social justice advocate and Broadway producer discusses his life's work of helping imprisoned men and women change their lives.
Author: Émile Zola
Publisher: London : Vizetelly
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Author: E. A. Ryder (Novelist.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Author: Ian Vásquez
Publisher: Cato Institute
ISBN: 9781882577903
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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This collection of essays proposes improvements to the international financial system and evaluates the prospects that the recent conversion to global capitalism will be sustained.
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Author: Jonathan Levy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674067207
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 425
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Until the early nineteenth century, "risk" was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells the story of how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas, risk migrated inland and became essential to the financial management of an inherently uncertain capitalist future. Focusing on the hopes and anxieties of ordinary people, Jonathan Levy shows how risk developed through the extraordinary growth of new financial institutions-insurance corporations, savings banks, mortgage-backed securities markets, commodities futures markets, and securities markets-while posing inescapable moral questions. For at the heart of risk's rise was a new vision of freedom. To be a free individual, whether an emancipated slave, a plains farmer, or a Wall Street financier, was to take, assume, and manage one's own personal risk. Yet this often meant offloading that same risk onto a series of new financial institutions, which together have only recently acquired the name "financial services industry." Levy traces the fate of a new vision of personal freedom, as it unfolded in the new economic reality created by the American financial system. Amid the nineteenth-century's waning faith in God's providence, Americans increasingly confronted unanticipated challenges to their independence and security in the boom and bust chance-world of capitalism. Freaks of Fortuneis one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives.
Author: Douglas Goldring
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Author: Mercedes Lackey
Publisher: LUNA
ISBN: 1426814828
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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The seventh daughter of the Sea King, Ekaterina is more than a pampered princess-she's also the family spy. Which makes her the perfect emissary to check out interesting happenings in the neighboring kingdom…and nothing interests her more than Sasha, the seventh son of the king of Belrus. Ekaterina suspects he's far from the fool people think him. But before she can find out what lies beneath his facade, she is kidnapped! Trapped in a castle at the mercy of a possessive Jinn, Ekaterina knows her chances of being found are slim. Now fortune, a fool and a paper bird are the only things she can count on-along with her own clever mind and intrepid heart.…
