Colossal Ambitions

Colossal Ambitions
Author: Adrian Brettle
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2020-07-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813944384

Leading politicians, diplomats, clerics, planters, farmers, manufacturers, and merchants preached a transformative, world-historical role for the Confederacy, persuading many of their compatriots to fight not merely to retain what they had but to gain their future empire. Impervious to reality, their vision of future world leadership—territorial, economic, political, and cultural—provided a vitally important, underappreciated motivation to form an independent Confederate republic. In Colossal Ambitions, Adrian Brettle explores how leading Confederate thinkers envisioned their postwar nation—its relationship with the United States, its place in the Americas, and its role in the global order. Brettle draws on rich caches of published and unpublished letters and diaries, Confederate national and state government documents, newspapers published in North America and England, conference proceedings, pamphlets, contemporary and scholarly articles, and more to engage the perspectives of not only modern historians but some of the most salient theorists of the Western World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. An impressive and complex undertaking, Colossal Ambitions concludes that while some Confederate commentators saw wartime industrialization as pointing toward a different economic future, most Confederates saw their society as revolving once more around coercive labor, staple crop production, and exports in the war’s wake.

Colossal Science Fiction Tales

Colossal Science Fiction Tales
Author: E.K. Jarvis
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2019-01-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0359389333

Classical science fiction awaits the reader with these tales which are gigantic, and more importantly, colossal. 1.....Vengeance of the Golden God....When that mysterious door swung open, and revealed the dead dust of two thousand years, three archaeologists experienced the meaning of fear. 2.....King of the Dinosaurs....Join Toka, stone-age warrior he fought the big cats, traveled to land of the man bats, now he matches wits with the King of the Dinosaurs....Everybody loves ball-games; but who wants to play the part of the ball---especially if the players are dinosaurs! 3.....Vacation in Shasta.....Over a cliff in Shasta he fell---and into an unearthly world of terror and death!! Three tales from the best and brightest writers of the genre.

Speed Dash

Speed Dash
Author: Blake Hoena
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2018-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1496578821

Atlanta is the fastest truck in the world, and she it out to prove it. It's not going to be easy with every hero and monster truck challenging her for the title. And with each race she wins, her challengers get more devious in their attempts to stop her. Mixing Greek myths and monster trucks makes the ThunderTrucks early chapter books perfect for young readers. A glossary, author and illustrator bios, and additional Greek myth information add to the fun.

Class Fictions

Class Fictions
Author: Pamela Fox
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 1994-11-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0822382938

Many recent discussions of working-class culture in literary and cultural studies have tended to present an oversimplified view of resistance. In this groundbreaking work, Pamela Fox offers a far more complex theory of working-class identity, particularly as reflected in British novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the concept of class shame, she produces a model of working-class subjectivity that understands resistance in a more accurate and useful way—as a complicated kind of refusal, directed at both dominated and dominant culture. With a focus on certain classics in the working-class literary "canon," such as The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and Love on the Dole, as well as lesser-known texts by working-class women, Fox uncovers the anxieties that underlie representations of class and consciousness. Shame repeatedly emerges as a powerful counterforce in these works, continually unsettling the surface narrative of protest to reveal an ambivalent relation toward the working-class identities the novels apparently champion. Class Fictions offers an equally rigorous analysis of cultural studies itself, which has historically sought to defend and value the radical difference of working-class culture. Fox also brings to her analysis a strong feminist perspective that devotes considerable attention to the often overlooked role of gender in working-class fiction. She demonstrates that working-class novels not only expose master narratives of middle-class culture that must be resisted, but that they also reveal to us a need to create counter narratives or formulas of working-class life. In doing so, this book provides a more subtle sense of the role of resistance in working class culture. While of interest to scholars of Victorian and working-class fiction, Pamela Fox’s argument has far-reaching implications for the way literary and cultural studies will be defined and practiced.

Ski

Ski
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1999-05
Genre:
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Colossus Reborn

Colossus Reborn
Author: David M. Glantz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 872
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN:

"Beyond the battles themselves, Glantz also presents an in-depth portrait of the Red Army as an evolving military institution. Assessing more clearly than ever before the army's size, strength, and force structure, he provides keen insights into its doctrine, strategy, tactics, weaponry, training, officer corps, and political leadership. In the process, be puts a human face on the Red Army's commanders and soldiers, including women and those who served in units - security (NKVD), engineer, railroad, auto-transport, construction, and penal forces - that have till now remained poorly understood."--BOOK JACKET.

Collision Course

Collision Course
Author: Hans Greimel
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2021-06-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1647820480

Named one of the Best Business Books of 2021 by The Wall Street Journal In Japan it's called the "Ghosn Shock"—the stunning arrest of Carlos Ghosn, the jet-setting CEO who saved Nissan and made it part of a global automotive empire. Even more shocking was his daring escape from Japan, packed into a box and put on a private jet to Lebanon after months spent in a Japanese detention center, subsisting on rice gruel. This is the saga of what led to the Ghosn Shock and what was left in its wake. Ghosn spent two decades building a colossal partnership between Nissan and Renault that looked like a new model for a global business, but the alliance's shiny image fronted an unsteady, tense operation. Culture clashes, infighting among executives and engineers, dueling corporate traditions, and government maneuvering constantly threatened the venture. Journalists Hans Greimel and William Sposato have followed the story up close, with access to key players, including Ghosn himself. Veteran Tokyo-based reporters, they have witnessed the end of Japan's bubble economy and attempts at opening Japan Inc. to the world. They've seen the fraying of keiretsu, Japan's traditional skein of business relationships, and covered numerous corporate scandals, of which the Ghosn Shock and Ghosn's subsequent escape stand above all. Expertly reported, Collision Course explores the complex suspicions around what and who was really responsible for Ghosn's ouster and why one of the top executives in the world would risk everything to escape the country. It explains how economics, history, national interests, cultural politics, and hubris collided, crumpling the legacy of arguably the most important foreign businessman ever to set foot in Japan. This gripping, unforgettable narrative, full of fascinating characters, serves as part cautionary tale, part object lesson, and part forewarning of the increasing complexity of doing global business in a nationalistic world.

The Guiltless

The Guiltless
Author: Hermann Broch
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2000
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780810160781

"Murder, lust, shame, hypocrisy, and suicide are at the center of The Guiltless, Hermann Broch's postwar novel about the disintegration of European society in the three decades preceding the Second World War. Broch's characters - an apathetic man who can barely remember his own name; a high-school teacher and his lover who return from the brink of a suicide pact to carry on a dishonest relationship; Zerline, a lady's maid who enslaves her mistresses, prostitutes the young country girl Melitta, and metes out her own justice against the "empty wickedness" of her betters - are trapped in their indifference, prisoners of a sort of "wakeful somnolence." These men and women may mention the "imbecile Hitler," yet they prefer a nap or sexual encounter to any social action. Broch thought the kind of ethical perversity and political apathy exhibited by his characters paved the way for Nazism. He believed in the purifying power of writing and hoped that by revealing Germany's underlying guilt he could purge indifference from his own and future generations. In The Guiltless, Broch captures how apathy and ennui - very human failings - evolve into something dehumanizing and dangerous." --Book Jacket.