Author: Carlotta Frances Roddey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781519041340
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
This is the true story a woman swindled out of a fortune by her famous ex-Confederate-general husband, Philip Dale Roddey. You will find this story no where else in material about Roddey but it was splashed across the nation in newspapers in 1874 and followed closely by "The New York Times."From the date of their marriage until her trials for grand larceny and perjury, Carlotta Frances (Shotwell) Roddey believed nearly everything her charming southern husband told her. Why wouldn't she? He was twenty years her senior, was friends with President Ulysses S. Grant, and loved to stay in the best hotels in New York and Washington.The well-invested legacy left by her father had made her rich and she didn't know the man who introduced her to everyone as his wife was a bigamist and adulterer.While pregnant, her life was turned upside-down. She was arrested, put on trial, and denied by Roddey.Here are the lurid details by Carlotta herself, with plenty of updated information about the players and the trials. Was she really as naive as she portrays herself in this book? Decide for yourself.
A General Betrayal: the Sufferings and Trials of Carlotta Frances Roddey (Annotated)
Author: Carlotta Frances Roddey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781519041340
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
This is the true story a woman swindled out of a fortune by her famous ex-Confederate-general husband, Philip Dale Roddey. You will find this story no where else in material about Roddey but it was splashed across the nation in newspapers in 1874 and followed closely by "The New York Times."From the date of their marriage until her trials for grand larceny and perjury, Carlotta Frances (Shotwell) Roddey believed nearly everything her charming southern husband told her. Why wouldn't she? He was twenty years her senior, was friends with President Ulysses S. Grant, and loved to stay in the best hotels in New York and Washington.The well-invested legacy left by her father had made her rich and she didn't know the man who introduced her to everyone as his wife was a bigamist and adulterer.While pregnant, her life was turned upside-down. She was arrested, put on trial, and denied by Roddey.Here are the lurid details by Carlotta herself, with plenty of updated information about the players and the trials. Was she really as naive as she portrays herself in this book? Decide for yourself.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781519041340
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
This is the true story a woman swindled out of a fortune by her famous ex-Confederate-general husband, Philip Dale Roddey. You will find this story no where else in material about Roddey but it was splashed across the nation in newspapers in 1874 and followed closely by "The New York Times."From the date of their marriage until her trials for grand larceny and perjury, Carlotta Frances (Shotwell) Roddey believed nearly everything her charming southern husband told her. Why wouldn't she? He was twenty years her senior, was friends with President Ulysses S. Grant, and loved to stay in the best hotels in New York and Washington.The well-invested legacy left by her father had made her rich and she didn't know the man who introduced her to everyone as his wife was a bigamist and adulterer.While pregnant, her life was turned upside-down. She was arrested, put on trial, and denied by Roddey.Here are the lurid details by Carlotta herself, with plenty of updated information about the players and the trials. Was she really as naive as she portrays herself in this book? Decide for yourself.
The Politics of Fear
Author: Michiel Hofman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190624477
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The Politics of Fear is Médecins sans Frontières's commissioned analysis of the politics surrounding the 2014 Ebola epidemic and response. Comprising eleven topic-based chapters and four eyewitness vignettes from contributors inside and outside MSF (all of whom have been given access to MSF Ebola archives from Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia for research), it aims to provide a politically agnostic account of the defining health event of the 21st century so far, a resource that will inform current opinions and foster effectual, cooperative response to the future epidemics.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190624477
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The Politics of Fear is Médecins sans Frontières's commissioned analysis of the politics surrounding the 2014 Ebola epidemic and response. Comprising eleven topic-based chapters and four eyewitness vignettes from contributors inside and outside MSF (all of whom have been given access to MSF Ebola archives from Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia for research), it aims to provide a politically agnostic account of the defining health event of the 21st century so far, a resource that will inform current opinions and foster effectual, cooperative response to the future epidemics.
When the Astors Owned New York
Author: Justin Kaplan
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101218819
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin Kaplan––Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain––vividly brings to life a glittering, bygone age. Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, cousins John Jacob Astor IV and William Waldorf Astor vied for primacy in New York society, producing the grandest hotels ever seen in a marriage of ostentation and efficiency that transformed American social behavior. Kaplan exposes it all in exquisite detail, taking readers from the 1890s to the Roaring Twenties in a combination of biography, history, architectural appreciation, and pure reading pleasure
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101218819
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin Kaplan––Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain––vividly brings to life a glittering, bygone age. Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, cousins John Jacob Astor IV and William Waldorf Astor vied for primacy in New York society, producing the grandest hotels ever seen in a marriage of ostentation and efficiency that transformed American social behavior. Kaplan exposes it all in exquisite detail, taking readers from the 1890s to the Roaring Twenties in a combination of biography, history, architectural appreciation, and pure reading pleasure
Wings for Our Courage
Author: Stephanie H Jed
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520267699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
On January 6, 1537, Lorenzino de’ Medici murdered Alessandro de’ Medici, the duke of Florence. This episode is significant in literature and drama, in Florentine history, and in the history of republican thought, because Lorenzino, a classical scholar, fashioned himself after Brutus as a republican tyrant-slayer. Wings for Our Courage offers an epistemological critique of this republican politics, its invisible oppressions, and its power by reorganizing the meaning of Lorenzino’s assassination around issues of gender, the body, and political subjectivity. Stephanie H. Jed brings into brilliant conversation figures including the Venetian nun and political theorist Archangela Tarabotti, the French feminist writer Hortense Allart, and others in a study that closely examines the material bases—manuscripts, letters, books, archives, and bodies—of writing as generators of social relations that organize and conserve knowledge in particular political arrangements. In her highly original study Jed reorganizes republicanism in history, providing a new theoretical framework for understanding the work of the scholar and the social structures of archives, libraries, and erudition in which she is inscribed.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520267699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
On January 6, 1537, Lorenzino de’ Medici murdered Alessandro de’ Medici, the duke of Florence. This episode is significant in literature and drama, in Florentine history, and in the history of republican thought, because Lorenzino, a classical scholar, fashioned himself after Brutus as a republican tyrant-slayer. Wings for Our Courage offers an epistemological critique of this republican politics, its invisible oppressions, and its power by reorganizing the meaning of Lorenzino’s assassination around issues of gender, the body, and political subjectivity. Stephanie H. Jed brings into brilliant conversation figures including the Venetian nun and political theorist Archangela Tarabotti, the French feminist writer Hortense Allart, and others in a study that closely examines the material bases—manuscripts, letters, books, archives, and bodies—of writing as generators of social relations that organize and conserve knowledge in particular political arrangements. In her highly original study Jed reorganizes republicanism in history, providing a new theoretical framework for understanding the work of the scholar and the social structures of archives, libraries, and erudition in which she is inscribed.
100 Greatest Film Scores
Author: Matt Lawson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538103680
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The background music on a film can make or break the audience experience. Imagine the shower scene in Psycho without the shrieking violins or Jaws without the ominous notes thatportend the shark’s attack! Musical accompaniment helps create atmosphere for the viewer, from subtle undertones to compositions that heighten the drama. In 100 Greatest Film Scores, authors Matt Lawson and Laurence E. MacDonald consider the finest music produced for cinema since the development of motion picture sound. Each entry includes background details about the film, biographical information about the composer, a concise analysis of the score, and a summary of the score’s impact both within the film and on cinematic history. Among the many films cited here are iconic scores for The Adventures of Robin Hood, A Beautiful Mind,The Big Country, Chariots of Fire, Citizen Kane, Edward Scissorhands, Fargo, Gonewith the Wind, The Great Escape, Jurassic Park, King Kong, Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter, North by Northwest, On the Waterfront, Out of Africa, The Pink Panther, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Vertigo, and Up. Arranged alphabetically and featuring a photo of each movies, the entries in this volume give the reader insight into how music functions across a wide spectrum of film genres. Representing some of the greatest composers in the history of cinema including Elmer Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Newman, John Williams, and Hans Zimmer, 100 Greatest Film Scores will be of interest to fans of movie music everywhere.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538103680
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The background music on a film can make or break the audience experience. Imagine the shower scene in Psycho without the shrieking violins or Jaws without the ominous notes thatportend the shark’s attack! Musical accompaniment helps create atmosphere for the viewer, from subtle undertones to compositions that heighten the drama. In 100 Greatest Film Scores, authors Matt Lawson and Laurence E. MacDonald consider the finest music produced for cinema since the development of motion picture sound. Each entry includes background details about the film, biographical information about the composer, a concise analysis of the score, and a summary of the score’s impact both within the film and on cinematic history. Among the many films cited here are iconic scores for The Adventures of Robin Hood, A Beautiful Mind,The Big Country, Chariots of Fire, Citizen Kane, Edward Scissorhands, Fargo, Gonewith the Wind, The Great Escape, Jurassic Park, King Kong, Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter, North by Northwest, On the Waterfront, Out of Africa, The Pink Panther, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Vertigo, and Up. Arranged alphabetically and featuring a photo of each movies, the entries in this volume give the reader insight into how music functions across a wide spectrum of film genres. Representing some of the greatest composers in the history of cinema including Elmer Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Newman, John Williams, and Hans Zimmer, 100 Greatest Film Scores will be of interest to fans of movie music everywhere.
Hitchcock's Films Revisited
Author: Robin Wood
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231126953
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
When Hitchcock's Films was first published, it quickly became known as a new kind of book on film and as a necessary text in the growing body of Hitchcock criticism. This revised edition of Hitchcock's Films Revisited includes a substantial new preface in which Wood reveals his personal history as a critic--including his coming out as a gay man, his views on his previous critical work, and how his writings, his love of film, and his personal life and have remained deeply intertwined through the years. This revised edition also includes a new chapter on Marnie.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231126953
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
When Hitchcock's Films was first published, it quickly became known as a new kind of book on film and as a necessary text in the growing body of Hitchcock criticism. This revised edition of Hitchcock's Films Revisited includes a substantial new preface in which Wood reveals his personal history as a critic--including his coming out as a gay man, his views on his previous critical work, and how his writings, his love of film, and his personal life and have remained deeply intertwined through the years. This revised edition also includes a new chapter on Marnie.
Anagram Solver
Author: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408102579
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 719
Book Description
Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408102579
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 719
Book Description
Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.
One Hour Guide to Great Web Copywriting: for Business Websites
Author: Brian V. Hunt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781519042002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Sharpen your web writing skills and write great content that hooks readers and makes them happy to do business with you. Learn to do this without sleazy, manipulative copy and instead with writing that helps your readers reach the goals that brought them to their web browser. ROCK-STAR WRITING SKILLS IN ONE HOUR Throwing any old words on a web page is the same as throwing away business. You won't grab the attention of the audience that should be buying from you.Whether you write for clients, a company you work for, or your own business, this book GUARANTEES that in about one hour, you'll have the blueprint for great web writing skills and exercises that will help you be a better web writer.And more tips that will turn you into a rock star web writer. Plus you'll learn to become a lifetime student of web behavior that will help you every time you sit down to write copy. MAKE THE WEB MORE WEBULAR Start being part of the solution for making the web a better place for real people looking to solve real problems and answer real questions. You'll get more web writing gigs and have more fun. And your mom will be proud. I asked her and she said that she would be.Click LOOK INSIDE or download a sample. You'll refer back to this book again and again. Why wait! Buy it today.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781519042002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Sharpen your web writing skills and write great content that hooks readers and makes them happy to do business with you. Learn to do this without sleazy, manipulative copy and instead with writing that helps your readers reach the goals that brought them to their web browser. ROCK-STAR WRITING SKILLS IN ONE HOUR Throwing any old words on a web page is the same as throwing away business. You won't grab the attention of the audience that should be buying from you.Whether you write for clients, a company you work for, or your own business, this book GUARANTEES that in about one hour, you'll have the blueprint for great web writing skills and exercises that will help you be a better web writer.And more tips that will turn you into a rock star web writer. Plus you'll learn to become a lifetime student of web behavior that will help you every time you sit down to write copy. MAKE THE WEB MORE WEBULAR Start being part of the solution for making the web a better place for real people looking to solve real problems and answer real questions. You'll get more web writing gigs and have more fun. And your mom will be proud. I asked her and she said that she would be.Click LOOK INSIDE or download a sample. You'll refer back to this book again and again. Why wait! Buy it today.
Cold Heart
Author: Kimberly Tilley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781684336043
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
How a lurid scandal amongst the young elite of 1903 Buffalo led to one of the most shocking unsolved murders In U.S. history.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781684336043
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
How a lurid scandal amongst the young elite of 1903 Buffalo led to one of the most shocking unsolved murders In U.S. history.
Timetables of World Literature
Author: George Thomas Kurian
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816041978
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Which authors were contemporaries of Charles Dickens? Which books, plays, and poems were published during World War II? Who won the Pulitzer Prize in the year you were born? Timetables of World Literature is a chronicle of literature from ancient times through the 20th century. It answers the question "Who wrote what when?" and allows readers to place authors and their works in the context of their times. A chronology of the best in global writing, this valuable resource lists more than 12,000 titles and 9,800 authors, includes all genres of literature from more than 58 countries, and covers 41 languages. It is divided into seven sections, spanning the Classical Age (to 100 CE), the Middle Ages (100–1500 CE), and the 16th through the 20th centuries. Comprehensive in scope, Timetables of World Literature provides students, researchers, and browsers with basic facts and a worldwide perspective on literature through time. Four extensive indexes by author, title, language/nationality, and genre make research quick and easy. Features include: Birth and death dates as well as nationalities of authors and other literary figures Winners of major literary prizes and awards, such as the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prizes, for each year Brief discussions of literary developments in each period or century, and the relationship of literature to the social and political climate Timelines of key historical events in each century.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816041978
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Which authors were contemporaries of Charles Dickens? Which books, plays, and poems were published during World War II? Who won the Pulitzer Prize in the year you were born? Timetables of World Literature is a chronicle of literature from ancient times through the 20th century. It answers the question "Who wrote what when?" and allows readers to place authors and their works in the context of their times. A chronology of the best in global writing, this valuable resource lists more than 12,000 titles and 9,800 authors, includes all genres of literature from more than 58 countries, and covers 41 languages. It is divided into seven sections, spanning the Classical Age (to 100 CE), the Middle Ages (100–1500 CE), and the 16th through the 20th centuries. Comprehensive in scope, Timetables of World Literature provides students, researchers, and browsers with basic facts and a worldwide perspective on literature through time. Four extensive indexes by author, title, language/nationality, and genre make research quick and easy. Features include: Birth and death dates as well as nationalities of authors and other literary figures Winners of major literary prizes and awards, such as the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prizes, for each year Brief discussions of literary developments in each period or century, and the relationship of literature to the social and political climate Timelines of key historical events in each century.