![]() ![]() We’ll also examine how nations might change over time to become open or exclusive-or how they might resist such change. In our guide, we’ll fully define what it means for a nation to be “open” or “exclusive” and how these qualities determine a nation’s success or failure. Exclusive nations-those with restricted and unfair economies and governments-fail. Robinson try to answer one question: Why do some nations have wealth and high standards of living while others struggle with poverty and instability? They argue that the answer to this question has to do with freedom and fairness in a nation’s economy and government: Open nations-those with free and fair economies and governments-succeed. ![]() In Why Nations Fail, economist Daron Acemoglu and political scientist James A. ![]() Book Rating by Shortform Readers: 4.6 ( 157 reviews) ![]()
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![]() Lia's goal is eighty-five pounds, but maybe eighty or seventy-five or seventy might not be bad. She misses Lia and wants her friend to cross the line and join her where it's possible to sleep and eat and not feel pain. She haunts Lia's nights and shows up in unexpected places. And thirty-three times, Lia didn't answer her phone.īut Cassie won't stay in her coffin and won't stay buried. She called Lia thirty-three times the weekend that she died. Her esophagus has ruptured from vomiting too much and too violently. She's living with her father and stepmother pretending to be normal when she learns that her childhood friend, Cassie, has died alone at eighteen in a dingy motel room. ![]() Lia has been in the clinic twice already. Or maybe she needs to use the razor so that she can feel something-anything. Sometimes Lia is sure that all she needs to do is open up the shell of her body so all the bad will just flow out. ![]() If she doesn't stay on top of her food intake every second of every day, she will succumb to her weaknesses, and she will prove to herself and the world just how stupid, ugly, and fat she really is. Lia's life is ruled by numbers: number of bites, number of calories, number of pounds. ![]() ![]() ![]() She currently lives in Oxford with her husband. She received a first class BA honours in illustration from Loughborough University, and won the Hallmark M&S division Talented Designer Award. SHIRIN ADL was born in Harlow, England, in 1975. Elizabeth divides her time between London and Edinburgh. Her other books for Frances Lincoln are Pea Boy: Stories from Iran, A Fistful of Pearls: Stories from Iraq, and The Ogress and the Snake: Stories from Somalia. She has a longstanding interest in Persian literature and has travelled extensively throughout the Middle East. She has been shortlisted five times for the Carnegie Medal. Elizabeth Laird is the renowned author of Kiss the Dust, The Garbage King and A Little Piece of Ground. ![]() ![]() By giving his adolescent protagonist these concerns about identity, Gratz mirrors the examination of self and identity that many teenagers go through as they mature. Dee partially blames himself for the situation that has arisen in Germany, as he sees its impacts firsthand. ![]() He also fears that his parents’ decision to escape Germany rather than defying Hitler directly shows that their convictions against Nazism were weak and he worries what his Jewish friend’s reaction will be when he learns the truth. He fears discovering that he has an innate loyalty to his natal homeland rather than his adopted country and its values. It is not the first World War II book he has written, but it is unique in its formatit features the stories and perspectives of several characters instead of just one. The underlying question for Dee as he enters battle is how much he will identify with the German soldiers he will encounter. This year his fans are in for a real treat as Gratz’s latest novel, Allies (Scholastic, October 2019), is being published in honor of the 75 th anniversary of D-Day. ![]() However, Dee is caught up in a profound internal conflict because of his identity as a native German citizen whose parents brought him to the US as a young child. He is committed to the American/Ally cause of freeing Europe from the Nazis, so much so that he forges his personal documents to join the military early. ![]() ![]() Dee is idealistic, cooperative, and courageous. Dee is a 16-year-old American soldier who has yet to see action as he lands on Omaha Beach. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Within Showing Our Colors, Oguntoye features her own poetry, much of which focuses on her own understanding of Afro-Germanness, her Afro-German subjectivity, and the relationship between Afro-German women and white German feminism. That move back was hard and she often describes internalized racism. Growing up with her father and other African relatives allowed her to see her Blackness in a positive way and she missed that when she returned to Germany at the age of nine. Born in Zwickau, East Germany, to a German mother and a Nigerian father, Katharina Oguntoye was raised in both Nigeria and Heidelberg, Germany. Oguntoye has played an important role in the Afro-German Movement. She founded the nonprofit intercultural association Joliba in Germany and is perhaps best known for co-editing the book Farbe bekennen with May Ayim (then May Opitz) and Dagmar Schultz.The English translation of this book was entitled Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out. ![]() AbstractKatharina Oguntoye (born January 1959 in Zwickau, East Germany) is an Afro-German writer, historian, activist, and poet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gruelle biographer and Raggedy Ann historian Patricia Hall notes that the dolls have "found themselves at the center of several legend cycles-groups of stories that, while containing kernels of truth, are more myth than they are history. The exact details of the origins of the Raggedy Ann doll and related stories, which were created by Johnny Gruelle, are not specifically known, although numerous myths and legends about the doll's origins have been widely repeated. ![]() Further characters such as Beloved Belindy, a black mammy doll, were featured as dolls and characters in books. A sequel, Raggedy Andy Stories (1920), introduced the character of her brother, Raggedy Andy. When a doll was marketed with the book, the concept had great success. The character was created in 1915, as a doll, and was introduced to the public in the 1918 book Raggedy Ann Stories. Gruelle received US Patent D47789 for his Raggedy Ann doll on September 7, 1915. Raggedy Ann is a rag doll with red yarn for hair and a triangle nose. Raggedy Ann is a character created by American writer Johnny Gruelle (1880–1938) that appeared in a series of books he wrote and illustrated for young children. Raggedy Ann meets Raggedy Andy for the first time illustrated by Johnny Gruelle ![]() ![]() ![]() He is determined to build an automaton and enter the clockmakers' guild - if only he can create a working head. She learns about a hidden treasure, which she knows will save her family - if she can find it.Īnd Frederick, the talented and intense clockmaker's apprentice, seeks to learn the truth about his mother while trying to forget the nightmares of the orphanage where she left him. Hannah is a soft-hearted, strong-willed girl from the tenements, who supports her family as a hotel maid when tragedy strikes and her father can no longer work. But when a mysterious green violin enters his life he begins to imagine a life of freedom. Giuseppe is an orphaned street musician from Italy, who was sold by his uncle to work as a slave for an evil padrone in the U.S. ![]() ![]() THE CLOCKWORK THREE is a richly woven adventure story that is sure to become a classic! An enchanted green violin, an automaton that comes to life, and a hidden treasure. ![]() ![]() ![]() You wouldn't expect to be eager to return to the harsh, impoverished Glasgow environs of Stuart's debut, but the gut-wrenching gay story of Romeo and Juliet sucks you in like a vacuum.īoasting Stuart's masterful storytelling and characterisation, Young Mungo follows Protestant Mungo and Catholic James as they tentatively fall in love amid the brutal landscape of sectarian divide, family dysfunction and the ever-present danger of living an authentic life. ![]() ![]() Brace yourselves, for the formidable second novel from the Booker prizewinning author of Shuggie Bain, Young Mungo, is a ruthlessly heart-breaking story of dangerous first love, family, and survival packed with the same emotional intensity as Douglas Stuart's unforgettable debut. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL20897244W Pages 34 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200902105113 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 176 Scandate 20200827044717 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780763649760 Tts_version 4. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 04:03:34 Associated-names Jeram, Anita, illustrator Boxid IA1917205 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() Thirty-eight children and six adults were dead, among them Kehoe, who had literally blown himself to bits by setting off a dynamite charge in his car. ![]() Mardi Link, author of When Evil Came to Good Hart On May 18, 1927, the small town of Bath, Michigan, was forever changed when Andrew Kehoe set off a cache of explosives concealed in the basement of the local school. Contemporary mass murderers Timothy McVeigh, Columbine's Dylan Klebold, and Virginia Tech's Seung-Hui Cho can each trace their horrific genealogy of terror to one man: Bath school bomber Andrew Kehoe." "A chilling and historic character study of the unfathomable suffering that desperation and fury, once unleashed inside a twisted mind, can wreak on a small town. Gregg Olsen, New York Times best-selling author of Starvation Heights "With the meticulous attention to detail of a historian and a storyteller's eye for human drama, Bernstein shines a beam of truth on a forgotten American tragedy. ![]() |