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Party Is Over
The New York Times bestselling expose of what passes for business as usual in Washington today There was a time, not so very long ago, when perfectly rational people ran the Republican Party. So how did the party of Lincoln become the party of lunatics? That is what this book aims to answer. Fear not, the Dems come in for their share of tough talk- they are zombies, a party of the living dead. Mike Lofgren came to Washington in the early eighties-those halcyon, post-Nixonian glory days-for what he imagined would be a short stint on Capitol Hill. He has witnessed quite a few low points in his twenty-eight years on the Hill-but none quite so pitiful as the antics of the current crop of legislators whom we appear to have elected. Based on the explosive article Lofgren wrote when he resigned in disgust after the debt ceiling crisis, The Party Is Over is a funny and impassioned expose of everything that is wrong with Washington. Obama and his tired cohorts are no angels but they have nothing on the Republicans, whose wily strategists are bankrupting the country one craven vote at a time. Be prepared for some fireworks.
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Plessy Case
In 1896 the U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson upheld `equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races' on all passenger railways within the state of Louisiana. In this account, which has implications for present-day America, Lofgren traces the roots of this landmark case in the post-Civil War South, stressing the constitutional, legal, and intellectual premises that shaped this episode.
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Secret World of Doing Nothing
In this insightful and pathbreaking reflection on 'doing nothing', Billy Ehn and Orvar Lofgren take us on a fascinating tour of what is happening when, to all appearances, absolutely nothing is happening. Sifting through a wide range of examples drawn from literature, published ethnographies, and firsthand research, they probe the unobserved moments in our daily lives - waiting for a bus, daydreaming by the window, performing a routine task - and illuminate these 'empty' times as full of significance. Creative, insightful, and profound, "The Secret World of Doing Nothing" leads us to rethink the ordinary and find meaning in today's hypermodern reality.
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Culture Builders
"Explains brilliantly the structures and processes of middle-class culture in historical perspective."--Robert Nye, Rutgers University "[This] illuminating study of the Swedish middle class around the turn of the century ...is one welcome sign that bourgeois, too, are once again recognized as parts of society worth studying ...to be understood rather than to be savaged. Culture Builders is a welcome sign of yet another development: the ease with which historical studies may be integrated with neighboring disciplines."--Journal of Modern History "The authors take an impressively broad intellectual perspective...The everyday routines of bourgeoisie, peasantry, and working class are dramatically portrayed through a skillful weaving together of excerpts from ethnological archives, schoolbooks, memoirs, novels, and etiquette manuals ...provides insight into the sociocultural complexities, conflicts, and contradictions that are ignored in widely held national stereotypes."--American Anthropologist "Unites historical and ethnological approaches so as to present a way of life that will be of interest not only to scholars of Scandinavia but to historians, sociologists, and everyone trying to describe and interpret the bourgeois Western culture during the nineteenth century."--Ethnos Jonas Frykman and Orvar Lofgren teach in the Department of European Ethnology at the University of Lund, Sweden.
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My Grandma the Chameleon
Grandma loves to play hide and seek, and she's very good at not being seen, just like her pet chameleons. Ari loves searching for Grandma while exploring her fascinating house. Could Grandma be hiding among the surprising outfits in her closet, or the curious objects in her study? Or is she in the junk room among the exotic souvenirs from her adventures? Eagle-eyed young readers will spot Grandma peeking out from clever hiding places. They can also look for the ten colourful chameleons hiding throughout this quirky and characterful picture book. My Grandma the Chameleon is a fun celebration of curiosity, discovery and the special relationship between a grandparent and grandchild. Each page is packed with funny and intriguing details giving readers clues about Grandma's exciting life.
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Piper Pays
"The Piper Pays" is a true story about the 1972 kidnap of Virginia Piper from her Orono home in Minnesota for a million dollar ranson. The million dollar ransom disapeared and has never been found since nor have the real kidnappers! This story takes you on an inside journey into the real happenings of the investigation and the kidnapping and reveals events you never could imagine possible. You just may have some answers of your own after reading this amazing story!
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