Mackey, Sandra, 1937-:
The Saudis : inside the desert kingdom. [The oil boom, 1974-1980 -- The coming of a foreigner -- The Magic Kingdom -- Managing the boom -- Servants of God -- Living with Islam -- Bedouin pride -- The shackles of sex -- Mysteries of the hareem -- Putting Saudis to work -- The royal tribe -- There was no tomorrow -- The twilight, 1980 and beyond -- The press : Pride and denial -- Jail : a clear and present danger -- Swords and missiles : the search for security -- The world creeps closer -- The new realities -- Castles of sand -- Stalled between seasons] - Erstausgabe
1988, ISBN: 9780452010635
Taschenbuch, Gebundene Ausgabe
Paperback / softback. New. How do YouTube stars live life in front of the lens? And who is behind them? More than 100 insiders laid bare the reality of their lives for this, the first in… Mehr…
Paperback / softback. New. How do YouTube stars live life in front of the lens? And who is behind them? More than 100 insiders laid bare the reality of their lives for this, the first in-depth independent book on YouTube. It charts the platform's rise from single home video to global boom - while getting the facts on brand deals, burnout and authenticity., 6, New York: Oxford University Press, 1972. Fine condition. NOT a library discard. Bright, clean, square, and tight. Bound in the original rust-colored cloth. Sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are crisp and clean. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with 3 maps and 43 vintage photos. "The true story of a town too tough to die." Winner of The Border Regional Library Association Regional History Award in 1973. "Odie B. Faulk, noted author and historian of the American West, looks beyond the saga of Wyatt Earp to recreate life in Tombstone. He describes a town founded on the nearby discovery of silver and populated by hard working, hard drinking men. He tells how the silver mines were discovered, how the town grew, how the boom ended, and even the hows and whys of the violence that became an integral part of the legend of Tombstone." List of chapter notes/sources. Bibliography. Index.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket. 8vo. xi, 242pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., Oxford University Press, 1972, 5, Paperback / softback. New. In Playing with Reality, BBC journalist and presenter Alex Humphreys, a passionate gamer herself, investigates the extraordinary boom in the gaming industry. Playing with Reality explores exactly what it was that made gaming a lifeline for so many, and whether the pandemic has sparked a new Golden Age of Gaming., 6, New York New York: Monthly Review Press, 2012. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x 227 pages, indexed. "The days of boom and bubble are over, and the time has come to understand the long-term economic reality. Although the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009, hopes for a new phase of rapid economic expansion were quickly dashed. Instead, growth has been slow, unemployment has remained high, wages and benefits have seen little improvement, poverty has increased, and the trend toward more inequality of incomes and wealth has continued. It appears that the Great Recession has given way to a period of long-term anemic growth, which Foster and McChesney aptly term the Great Stagnation. This incisive and timely book traces the origins of economic stagnation and explains what it means for a clear understanding of our current situation. The authors point out that increasing monopolization of the economy--when a handful of large firms dominate one or several industries--leads to an over-abundance of capital and too few profitable investment opportunities, with economic stagnation as the result. Absent powerful stimuli to investment, such as historic innovations like the automobile or major government spending, modern capitalist economies have become increasingly dependent on the financial sector to realize profits. And while financialization may have provided a temporary respite from stagnation, it is a solution that cannot last indefinitely, as instability in financial markets over the last half-decade has made clear." (Publisher), Monthly Review Press, 2012, 5, Elmsford, New York : Pergamon Press , 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.Library marks remain. Series; Pergamon Policy Studies on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe ; Number 52. Physical description; 416 pages. Contents; Front Cover; Flashpoint Poland; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Look Back in Anger; List of Abbreviations; Part I: Gierek's Miracle: December 1970-June 1976; Chapter 1. Gomulka'sLegacy; Chapter 2. One We ek That Shook the Communist World: December 1970; Gdansk and Warsaw; Gdynia; Szczecin; The Country at Large; Earthquake at the Top; The New Team; First Days After; The Significance of December Events; Chapter 3. A Year of Agonizing Reappraisals: 1971; DEFUSING THE SITUATION: PHASE ONE; Defusing the Situation: Phase Two. Gierek's Program for Poland. Chapter 4. Forward with Gierek: (1971-1975); The Church: a Key Force in the Country; The Party, The Sejm, and The Government; Administrative Reform; Educational Reform; The Workers: Their Strength and Their Pressure; The Intellectuals: THE Conscience of the Nation; Mass Media: The Instriument of the Party; The Economic Miracle; Economic Dynamism and Politcal Retrenchment; Chapter 5. Foreign Policy: (1971-1977); THE Soviet Cornerstone; Poland and the Socialist Commonwealth; West Germany: Toward Reconciliation; East Germany: Toward Integration. Opening to the West: An Exercise in Counterbalance the Chinese Factor; Looking Toward Eurocommunism; Helsinki: Hopes and Apprehensions; Chapter 6. From Boom to Reality: December 1975; Chapter 7. The Growing SocialTension: 1975-June 1976; Part Il: The Fulcrum ofPoland's Fate; Chapter 8. One Fridayin June 1976; Chapter 9. Events Speak for Themselves: June 1976-March 1977; Repressions and Hesitations; Committee for the Defense of Workers; Chapter 10. The Economic Necessity; Chapter 11. Who Rules the Country?; The Political Misjudgment; Assessment on the Spot; Chapter 12. After June: Confusion. Chapter 13. New Measures: Whois Leading Whom?Chapter 14. Gierek: Prisonerof the System; Chapter 15. Playing for Time: 1977-March 1979; Tension Grows Again: 1977; State of the Nation as Seen in Warsaw: October 1977; Church-State Summits: October 1977-January 1978; THE Anatomy of Opposition: (1977-1979); Procrastination and Qualified Tolerance: 1978 - March 1979; Chapter 16. The Pope from Poland: Has History Smiled on Poles?; Postscript - The Pope in Poland; Part Ill: Conclusion; Chapter 17. Testing the Limits of the Possible; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Pergamon Policy Studies. Subjects; Poland History. Poland History (1945-1980). Poland Political events (1945-)., Elmsford, New York : Pergamon Press, 1979, 0, U.S.A.: Atria Books/Beyond Words, 1996. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The Venture Adventure contains the secrets to transform your business idea into a thriving company. For highly successful entrepreneur Daryl Bernstein, entrepreneurship is an adventure-an expedition into the jungle in search of hidden treasure. Filled with true motivational stories of prosperous entrepreneurs and famous explorers, The Venture Adventure presents a radically new perspective on entrepreneurship. With his positive, adventuresome spirit and his wealth of business experience, Bernstein offers practical and innovative suggestions that will help you to start or grow your business.-From the Author: Turn your business dream into reality! Too many of us never act on our good business ideas. This book contains the strategies and secrets you need to turn your business idea into a booming business! Read "The Venture Adventure," and let me know what you think. -Daryl Bernstein, Scottsdale, Arizona, Atria Books/Beyond Words, 1996, 6, New York: An Ace Book Published by Ace Publishing Corporation Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Which would decide the fate of Galaxy II--sorcery or science? SYNOPSIS: Once there were mighty worlds and vast commercial empires. Once there were the Lords of the Exchange, masters of the multifold works of science whose products made II Galaxy boom and its myriads of inhabitants happy. But dark days had fallen, the lights had gone out everywhere, and superstition, ignorance, and the frightful reality of mutants and monsters had made that universe a place of terror. Pastora was one of the most backward of the surviving worlds, and on that world it fell to the lot of four people to go out on a faltering spaceship to loot a nearby planet. One went for adventure, one was sent for punishment, one went for wealth, and one went for the holy purpose of rekindling a fire that would relight the beacons of a lost civilization. This is their exciting story.. First Edition 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Illus. by Jeff Jones. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall., An Ace Book Published by Ace Publishing Corporation, 2.5, MP3 Audio CD. Kena Upanishad Chapter 1 In the Kena Upanishad we live in this atmosphere, the going beyond the senses, the determined seeking for the Atman, the eternal truth of all experience. Somewhere to experience it is hidden, and the search is on. The body and the sense-organs which common sense and some schools of philosophy take to be self-sufficient and final, are not so. They point to a reality beyond themselves. With a view to knowing this, the student puts a question to the teacher which forms the opening verse of this Upanishad: kene?ita? pre?ita? mana? kena pra?a? prathama? praiti yukta? | kene?ita? vacamima? vadanti cak?u? srotra? ka u devo yunakti || 1 || ‘At whose desire and by whom impelled does the mind alight on its objects. By whom impelled does the chief prana (vital force) prceed to its functions? By whom impelled do men utter this speech? What deva (luminous being) directs the eyes and the ears? ’ The new-born baby gets information about his environing world through his sense organs. At birth, he is surrounded by a world of things and persons which seem to him, in the words of William James, ‘a buzzing booming confusion’. Out of this buzzing confusion the child gradually develops knowledge by discriminating individual items, and the first thing he discriminates is the sound, the presence of his mother. The mother stands apart from the general confusion around. He gradually attains more and more knowledge and the confusion acquires some clarity and order. Thus the child learns to understand the world, to grasp it, to control it, to understand also himself, although only in a hazy way, and is ultimately able to find his own way and independent of his mother. Then the child undergoes still further training. He is educated. His knowledge of the world grows clearer, though his knowledge of himself does not keep pace with it. It remains a mixture of the self and t, 0, MP3 Audio CD. Kena Upanishad Chapter 1 In the Kena Upanishad we live in this atmosphere, the going beyond the senses, the determined seeking for the Atman, the eternal truth of all experience. Somewhere to experience it is hidden, and the search is on. The body and the sense-organs which common sense and some schools of philosophy take to be self-sufficient and final, are not so. They point to a reality beyond themselves. With a view to knowing this, the student puts a question to the teacher which forms the opening verse of this Upanishad: kene?ita? pre?ita? mana? kena pra?a? prathama? praiti yukta? | kene?ita? vacamima? vadanti cak?u? srotra? ka u devo yunakti || 1 || ‘At whose desire and by whom impelled does the mind alight on its objects. By whom impelled does the chief prana (vital force) prceed to its functions? By whom impelled do men utter this speech? What deva (luminous being) directs the eyes and the ears? ’ The new-born baby gets information about his environing world through his sense organs. At birth, he is surrounded by a world of things and persons which seem to him, in the words of William James, ‘a buzzing booming confusion’. Out of this buzzing confusion the child gradually develops knowledge by discriminating individual items, and the first thing he discriminates is the sound, the presence of his mother. The mother stands apart from the general confusion around. He gradually attains more and more knowledge and the confusion acquires some clarity and order. Thus the child learns to understand the world, to grasp it, to control it, to understand also himself, although only in a hazy way, and is ultimately able to find his own way and independent of his mother. Then the child undergoes still further training. He is educated. His knowledge of the world grows clearer, though his knowledge of himself does not keep pace with it. It remains a mixture of the self and t, 0, New York: Ballantine Books, 1989. First Ballantine Books Edition, Presumed First Printing. Mass market paperback. Good. xiv, 287, [3] pages. Illustrations. Some cover wear and some page discoloration. Includes Preface, Acknowledgments, Prologue, and a Note on Sources. Chapters include Waiting; The Battle for Washington; Bureaucracies a War; "Locked in Deadly Struggle..."; Boom Town; "Parties for a Purpose": Press Lords and Reporters; Congressional Blues; The Strains of the New; and Endings and Beginnings. Also includes A Note on Sources. The Extraordinary Story of the Transformation of a City and a Nation. David Brinkley has written an impressionist history, comparable to a pointillist painting composed of small points of color that, seen whole, comprise a remarkably truthful record of reality. Though it is today the hub of international affairs and government, Washington, D.C. was once little more than a small Southern town that happened to host our nationally elected officials. Award-winning journalist David Brinkley remembers what it was like--how Washington awoke from its slumber and found itself with a war on its hands. Washington had to print the paper, alphabetize the bureaucracies, host the parties, pitch the propaganda, write the laws, launch the drives, draft the boys, hire the "government girls," and engage in an often hilarious administrative war of words, wit, and even wisdom. David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 - June 11, 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Derived from a Kirkus review: A vivid, knowing reconstruction of the sociopolitical changes that convulsed the nation's capital just before and during WW II. Washington was something of a backwater before WW II. Isolationist sentiment remained strong on Capitol Hill, and the listless Southern seat of government was largely content to stick to the undemanding business of administering its bureaucracies. Overtaken by events, however, the city underwent an astonishing transformation that, despite geography, made it the hub of the Allies' deadly struggle against the Axis powers. Although he witnessed much of the dramatic metamorphosis as a young radio reporter, Brinkley rarely intrudes on his anecdotal narrative, which runs from the late 1930's through V-J Day. His lively account nonetheless abounds in telling details that put the chaotic times in clear perspectives. To illustrate, he notes without further comment that the ammunition ostentatiously stacked beside White House antiaircraft batteries was the wrong size--a lapse not discovered until years after the war. In like vein, he observes that when Nazi Germany marched on Poland, effectively transferring leadership of the Western world, District of Columbia residents in general and black in particular were still making do with 15,000 privies. By no coincidence, then, the first lunch-counter sit-ins occurred in wartime Washington. In the meantime, while Congress shambled along its wayward, typically partisan way, armies of dollar-a-year men, academics, nubile secretaries and others recruited or volunteering to support the war effort invaded the city, doubling its population between 1940 and 1945. The new arrivals faced shortages of every conceivable kind--housing, hotel rooms, cigarettes, decent booze, office space, typewriters, even paper. Against the helter-skelter backdrop of a wartime capital, Brinkley offers sharply etched portraits of the notables and lesser lights who were at the heart of the home-front action. In addition to F.D.R., his dramatis personae include the consequential likes of Cissy Patterson (publisher of the Times-Herald), Chester Bowles (who made the Office of Price Administration a viable agency), Beardsley Rural (the Macy's economist who devised tax withholding), Evalyn Walsh MacLean (a celebrated hostess), Drew Pearson, Senator Robert A. Taft, and Sam Rayburn (Speaker of the House). An effective, engrossing evocation of a time and place marked in about equal measure by low comedy and high drama., Ballantine Books, 1989, 2.5, New York: Playgirl, 1974. The cover has some surface wear: The Don Stroud center is loose from the spine. Articles include - DON STROUD FOUR PAGE FOLDOUT - OUR MAN FOR NOVEMBER, NURSING MODELING - MYTH VS REALITY, WAT DO YOU SAY TO NAKED SKY DIVER?, RICHARD HARRIS - ON WOMEN SEX AND HIMSELF, MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE CEILING - THE MOTEL BUSINESS IN BOOMING. First Princeton Book Edition. Magazine. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall., Playgirl, 1974, 3, Paperback / softback. New. The old economy is shattered, and gone forever. However, when it comes to wealth, one instrumental reality is unchanged: No matter the economic conditions - booms or recessions, including the fast-emerging New Economy - there is wealth. The author shows you how to lure, bait, attract, and become a magnet for it., 6, London: Fontana/Collins, 1974. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. His New Bestseller. BOOK NUMBER: 3441. TV TIE-IN: This novel was the basis for the 1979 Made-for-Television mini series of the same name. CONTENTS: Drym; Jarra Jarra; Golden Soak; Ora Banda; Ed Garrety; Interlude on Remand; McIlroy's Monster. SYNOPSIS: Hammond Innes was in Australia when the great mineral boom began to collapse in 1970. The iron cauldron of the Pilbara was part of that boom. So was Blue Spec up by Marble Bar, and it was this mine that became the Golden Soak of his imagination. The appalling heat of the Australian outback burns through the pages as disaster hits this old abandoned gold mine. It hangs over the drought-starved cattle station of Jarra Jarra, once a pastoral empire of a million and a half acres. And beyond the sun-scorched horizon, deep in the Gibson Desert, McIlroy's Monster lies waiting for the fool who dares. This story of a pioneer girl and a bankrupt English mining engineer builds, through the tragedy of the past and the greed of the present, to a terrible climax that is as close to the guts and reality of Australia as any writer of our time has come.. First Thus 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall., Fontana/Collins, 1974, 3, Paperback. New. Contemporary poetry par excellence, each word crowns an underlying boom of reality, spread around a little above half a year of autobiographical account, dated and versified, waving a magician's wand in the end and leaving everyone spellbound., 6, Paperback / softback. New. The days of boom and bubble are over, and the time has come to understand the long-term economic reality. Although the Great Recession officially ended in 2009, hopes for a new phase of economic expansion were quickly dashed. Instead, growth has been slow, unemployment has remained high, wages and benefits have seen little improvement, 6, [New York] : Meridian, 1988, 1987, 1988. Book. Good. Soft cover. 5th printing ; x, 433 p. : maps ; 20 cm. ; ISBN: 0452010632; 9780452010635 ; LC: DS204; Dewey: 953/.8 ; OCLC: 17649063 ; stiff paper wrappers ; store stamps ; front ep clipped ; Contents: The oil boom, 1974-1980 -- The coming of a foreigner -- The Magic Kingdom -- Managing the boom -- Servants of God -- Living with Islam -- Bedouin pride -- The shackles of sex -- Mysteries of the hareem -- Putting Saudis to work -- The royal tribe -- There was no tomorrow -- The twilight, 1980 and beyond -- The press : Pride and denial -- Jail : a clear and present danger -- Swords and missiles : the search for security -- The world creeps closer -- The new realities -- Castles of sand -- Stalled between seasons ; G., [New York] : Meridian, 1988, 1987, 1988, 2.5<
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