![]() ![]() ![]() Jon Stewart is the author of the national bestseller, Naked Pictures of Famous People (Rob Weisbach Books, 1998). In 2001, the show won a writing Emmy and a Peabody for its 2000 election coverage. ![]() In 2003, the show won two Emmy Awards and two Television Critics Association Awards. Since Jon Stewart took over The Daily Show in 1999, its ratings have soared and it now beats CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News among young adults in its time slot. Topics include: Ancient Rome: The First Republicans The Founding Fathers: Young, Gifted, and White The Media: Can it Be Stopped? and more! But what is American democracy? In America (The Book), Jon Stewart and The Daily Show writing staff offer their insights into our unique system of government, dissecting its institutions, explaining its history and processes, and exploring the reasons why concepts like one man, one vote, government by the people, and every vote counts have become such popular urban myths. ![]() American-style democracy is the world's most beloved form of government, which explains why so many other nations are eager for us to impose it on them. Jon Stewart, host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, and his coterie of patriots, deliver a hilarious look at American government. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree is a cosy, heartwarming slice-of-life fantasy about found families and fresh starts – perfect for fans of TJ Klune, Katherine Addison and T. And Viv’s adventuring past isn’t so eager to leave her behind – or the fabled piece of loot she took with her. New enemies threaten her beloved coffee shop and rag-tag team. Then there’s Tandri, a charming succubus who’s determined not to let anyone assume anything about her.īut Thune has a shady underbelly that keeps goading Viv to take up her sword once more. She enlists a gruff hob builder shunned by humans, and a shy baker whose cinnamon rolls are to die for. To build something that will last, Viv needs a new crew. Armed with hope and a hard-earned secret, she plans to open the first coffee shop in Thune. ![]() Now she sets her sights on a new dream – one that involves pulling more shots than punches. 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Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. ![]() ![]() ![]() The chemistry between them is red hot and the urge to take things to the next level is more tempting than Layla’s double fudge mocha brownies. All the benefits of dating, without the added pressure of feelings and unmet expectations.īut there’s one ingredient they haven’t considered. He’ll do his best to renew her faith in men while she rates his dating game. Good thing Caleb Alvarez has the perfect solution.Īfter saving Layla from another date gone bad, he has a simple proposition: One month of no-strings dating. All she wants is a partner who gives her butterflies, not someone who ghosts her at dinner and leaves her with the check. Apparently owning the bakery at Inglewild’s most romantic destination does not help one’s love life-despite her best efforts. She’s waded through all of the fish in the sea, each one more disappointing than the last. ![]() ![]() It’s the perfect proposition: a fauxmance played out on social media, with strategically staged photographs and a specific end date in mind. Laurie wants a hot new man to give the rumor mill something else to talk about. Jamie Carter doesn’t believe in love, but he needs a respectable, steady girlfriend to impress their bosses. Then a chance encounter in a broken-down elevator with the office playboy opens up a new possibility. When news of her ex’s pregnant girlfriend hits the office grapevine, taking the humiliation lying down is not an option. Her once perfect life is in shambles and the thought of dating again in the age of Tinder is nothing short of horrifying. When her partner of over a decade suddenly ends things, Laurie is left reeling-not only because they work at the same law firm and she has to see him every day. ![]() Genres: Adult, Diverse, Fiction, Humor, Romance This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence. ![]() ![]() The theory presented now in his mature work has come to a more clear understanding of the element of the darker side, the side of human nature which is evil and vicious. That is, as a social scientist in the tradition of Rousseau, he was dedicated to the view that human nature is essentially neutral or good and that it is corrupted by the social environment. It is also important to note that Becker also announces in his Preface that he now recognizes the fact that in his earlier work, he had slighted the underside of human nature. He also has come to terms with Freud and Freudian theory, meaning that he is now able to deal appreciatively with what psychoanalysis has contributed with this general theory of human nature. ![]() In this book, Becker begins his presentation of what he confidently feels is a unified and well rounded general theory of human nature. ![]() ![]() This book represents the first of Becker's final trilogy, what can be considered his mature theoretical work. ![]() ![]() ![]() The time and place, Cape Cod in the mid-1920's: a wild, windswept outpost of the land. The Outermost House presents us with a time, a place, and a man. This subjective quality distinguishes nature-writing from natural history, and keeps it fresh: the source is inexhaustible, and each inquiry unique as the personality which makes it. Henry Beston produced a masterpiece on Cape Cod, but he did not say the last word treading the same sacred ground today, John Hay and Robert Finch point to signs that only they have noticed. With nature-writers, the lens is personality - and that makes all the difference. The American Southwest of Edward Abbey is one place and although the geographical territory may be the same in the writings of Wallace Stegner or Terry Tempest Williams, our sense of it - the things we notice and choose to look at, the way we look at them and the questions we ask - is different. When we think of Henry Beston's Cape Cod, Annie Dillard's Blue Ridge, Rachel Carson's Maine coast or Florida Keys, we imagine not a clinical, purely objective landscape but a personal one, a place colored by the particular sensibility, the individual filter, through which it passed. The best nature-writing, it seems to us, brings together a place, a time, and a personality in such a way that, after we've read the book, the writer's experience, and something of his or her personality, seems to be our own. ![]() ![]() ![]() Before collapsing, he tells her his name is Lucas, he's a Were, and Bryn's protection is his only hope.īut Lucas isn't part of Bryn's pack, and she has no right to claim another alpha's Were. Then she finds a teenage boy bleeding on her front porch. Bryn becomes obsessed with getting her questions answered, and Chase is the only one who can provide the information she needs.īut in her drive to find the truth, will Bryn push too far beyond the constraints of the pack, forcing her to leave behind her friends, her family, and the identity that she's shaped?īryn is finally settling into her position as alpha of the Cedar Ridge Pack - or at least, her own version of what it means to be alpha when you're a human leading a band of werewolves. ![]() ![]() That doesn't mean that she's averse to breaking a rule or two.īut when her curiosity gets the better of her and she discovers Chase, a new teen locked in a cage in her guardian's basement, and witnesses him turn into a wolf before her eyes, the horrific memories of her parents' murders return. Adopted by the Alpha of a werewolf pack after a rogue wolf brutally killed her parents right before her eyes, fifteen-year-old Bryn knows only pack life, and the rigid social hierarchy that controls it. ![]() |