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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith»rank: 6544par: Jon Krakauer
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting read. The Lafferty boys were brought up in a squeaky clean All-American family. So what made two of them follow revelations from God to slit the throat of their ex-beauty queen sister-in-law and her infant daughter? The problem was that they got involved in the fundamentalist, survivalist wing of the Mormon Church. Author Jon Krakauer expertly jumps from the immediate horror of the Lafferty boys to the context of Mormonism and the wider questions of religious violence. ln the ... |
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Statistics For Dummies»rank: 431par: Deborah Rumsey
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting read. The Lafferty boys were brought up in a squeaky clean All-American family. So what made two of them follow revelations from God to slit the throat of their ex-beauty queen sister-in-law and her infant daughter? The problem was that they got involved in the fundamentalist, survivalist wing of the Mormon Church. Author Jon Krakauer expertly jumps from the immediate horror of the Lafferty boys to the context of Mormonism and the wider questions of religious violence. ln the ... |
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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management»rank: 4674par: Roger Lowenstein
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0n September 23, 1998, the boardroom of the New York Fed was a tense place. Around the table sat the heads of every major Wall Street bank, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, and representatives from numerous European banks, each of whom had been summoned to discuss a highly unusual prospect: rescuing what had, until then, been the envy of them all, the extraordinarily successful bond-trading firm of Long-Term Capital Management. Roger Lowenstein's When Genius Failed is the gripping story of the Fed's unprecedented move, ... |
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The Fountainhead»rank: 5711par: Ayn Rand
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. 0n the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, ... |
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iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind»rank: 20037par: Gary W. Small, Gigi Vorgan
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. 0n the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, ... |
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My Years as Prime Minister»rank: 10475par: Jean Chretien
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. 0n the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, ... |
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Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples»rank: 9274par: Roberto Saviano
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. 0n the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, ... |
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Teaching with Intention»rank: 17962par: Debbie Miller
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. 0n the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, ... |
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Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life»rank: 18664par: Richard Florida
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. 0n the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, ... |
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The Brothers Karamazov»rank: 4851par: Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. 0n the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, ... |