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IELTS Academic Made Easy combines a critical review of this testing system's marking rubrics and time constraints with an assortment of practical listening, speaking and writing tasks. It also provides detailed references to listening and reading past-test papers published by Cambridge University Press.
Five years after the Civil War, North Carolina Republican state senator John W. Stephens was found murdered inside the Caswell County Courthouse. Stephens fought for the rights of freedpeople, and his killing by the Ku Klux Klan ultimately led to insurrection, Governor William W. Holden's impeachment, and the early unwinding of Reconstruction in North Carolina. In recounting Stephens's murder, the subsequent investigation and court proceedings, and the long-delayed confessions that revealed what actually happened at the courthouse in 1870, Drew A. Swanson tells a story of race, politics, and social power shaped by violence and profit. The struggle for dominance in Reconstruction-era rural North Carolina, Swanson argues, was an economic and ecological transformation. Arson, beating, and murder became tools to control people and landscapes, and the ramifications of this violence continued long afterward. The failure to prosecute anyone for decades after John Stephens's assassination left behind a vacuum, as each side shaped its own memory of Stephens and his murder. The malleability of and contested storytelling around Stephens's legacy presents a window into the struggle to control the future of the South.Mostra libro
From the celebrated author of ‘As A Man Thinketh’ this is another of Allen’s life shaping books in audio format. ‘The Path To Prosperity’ will teach you the secret of ‘Health and Success’, How to discover and direct your ‘Personal Force’. Why the outside World is a ‘mirror’ of you. How to direct and shape your life to ‘Realize Your Prosperity’. How to escape any undesirable conditions that affect your life and change for the better.Mostra libro
Why do people—even identical twins reared in the same home—differ so much in personality? Armed with an inquiring mind and insights from evolutionary psychology, Judith Rich Harris sets out to solve the mystery of human individuality.Mostra libro
Socrates questions Ion, an actor who just won a major prize, about his ability to interpret the epic poetry of Homer. How does an actor, a poet, or any other artist create? Is it by knowing? Is it by inspiration? As the dialogue proceeds, the nature of human creativity emerges as a mysterious process and an unsolved puzzle.Mostra libro
Are you working for a F**ked up Boss? How would you know? Ever had one of those jobs where you feel like a mix between a stressed-out intern and a contestant on Survivor, constantly questioning your life choices and wondering if your IQ has somehow dropped since you clocked in? Yeah, welcome to life under a F**ked-Up Boss (FUB). The gift that keeps on screwing up your day. Let me save you some sleepless nights—it’s not you, it’s 100% them. And yes, crap really does float to the top. The real kicker? FUBs are masters of disguise. These sneaky, narcissistic chameleons can take your dream job and flip it into an actual nightmare. Your 9-to-5 slowly morphs into a 24/7 hellscape. So how do you spot one? How do you even know if you’re working for a FUB? That’s where My F**ked-Up Boss comes in. After years of research, I’ve cracked the code and identified over 100 red flags to help you figure out if you’re being played by a FUB. Life’s way too short to let a FUB suck the soul out of you. Time to grab a copy of My F**ked Up Boss, dodge the BS, and take back your sanity. You’ll thank me later.Mostra libro
“Read him.” — George Elliott Clarke, author of I & I and George and Rue An award-winning author goes looking for the meaning of family and belonging on a glorious wild-goose-chase road trip across middle America Wangersky’s great-great-grandfather crossed the continent in search of gold in 1849. William Castle Dodge was his name, and he was 22 years old. He wrote a diary of that eventful journey that comes into the author’s hands 160 years later. And typically, quixotically, Wangersky decides to follow Dodge’s westward trail across the great bulging middle of America, not in search of gold but something even less likely: that elusive thing called family. What ensues becomes this story, by turns hilarious and profound, about a very long trip — by car, in Wangersky’s case, and on mule and foot in Dodge’s. Interweaving his experiences on the road with Dodge’s diary, the author contemplates the human need to hunt for roots and meaning as he — and Dodge — encounter immigrants who risk everything to be somewhere else, while only glimpsing those who are there already and who want to hold onto their claim in the stream of human migration. Same Ground is a story about what time washes away and what persists — and what we might find, unexpectedly, if we go looking.Mostra libro
