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The cultural ubiquity of The Great Gatsby is such that it is tempting to think we know almost all there is to say about it. But F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous work still has the capacity to surprise us. Perhaps few admirers of the novel know that it was also adapted for the stage by Owen Davis. In 1926 a successful production ran at the Ambassador Theater in New York City. This edition presents, for the first time in print, the original Broadway script: a fascinating social and literary document, now all but forgotten. The play re-forged Fitzgerald's novel into a fast-moving dramatization of parties and bootlegging, dancing and drinking, hot jazz, adultery and violence. It afforded an evening of first-rate entertainment for Manhattan theatergoers. Incorporating photographs of the original sets and actors, reviews, and publicity pasted into Fitzgerald's scrapbooks, this volume lifts the curtain anew on a singular drama.
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Ancient Celts saw "thin places" where heaven and earth came strangely close to touching. Stephen Copeland experienced something similar when his mentor took him to the Double Door Inn, an historic hole-in-the-wall blues venue in Charlotte, North Carolina. This unassuming place invited Copeland further into a spiritual journey that calls out to each of us: to open our senses and "tune our ears" to thin places all around; to become aware of sacred spaces in everyday places. When Copeland learned the half-century-old Double Door Inn would be tragically closing, he made the old white house of sound his home during its final year. What do thin places teach us about ourselves? What do they teach us about reality itself? And what do we do when they're gone? Copeland's soul-searching journey--with the Double Door as his guide--will help readers become more present and attentive to the thinness of reality as we walk "with our feet on the ground and our soul in the stars."
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A survey of the world of the wealthy heiress - glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating - from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.
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The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. This authoritative collector's edition provides fascinating cultural and historical context and many rich illustrations. Readers from all backgrounds will appreciate anew Fitzgerald's classic work of illicit desire and glittering parties among the super-rich in jazz-age New York.
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Paul Sullivan shows how people can make better financial decisions, and come to terms with what money means to them. He lays out they can avoid the pitfalls around saving, spending and giving their money away, and think differently about wealth to lead more secure and less stressful lives. An essential complement to all of the financial advice available, this unique guide is a welcome antidote to the idea that wealth is a number on a bank statement.
Rich people. --- Wealth. --- Rich people --- Wealth
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Millionaires --- Rich people --- Wealth
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"What do people in the United States and Europe think about the rich? There are several thousand books and articles on stereotypes and prejudices directed at minorities, women, the people of other nations, and even the poor. In contrast, there has only been sporadic research into stereotypes about the rich and no comprehensive, scientific study on this topic has yet been published-until now. What We Think When We Think about Wealth examines attitudes about wealth and the wealthy in four industrialized western countries: The United States, Great Britain, Germany, and France. Consisting of three parts, this book surveys the literature about stereotypes and prejudices; reports on original survey data, which used identical questions to survey residents of four countries regarding various aspects of their attitudes toward wealth; and examines the important role the media plays in forming opinions on wealth and the rich. This book aims to examine how we think about a minority that, while undeniably powerful, can still be the subject of negative stereotypes, prejudice, and scapegoating-often with dire effects for us all"--
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Über 900 Millionen Menschen leiden gegenwärtig weltweit an Hunger. Dieses Buch geht der Frage auf den Grund, was die Bewohner der vermögenden Staaten diesen Menschen schulden. Der Fokus liegt dabei weniger auf der Frage, wie eine gerechte Welt beschaffen wäre, als auf der Frage, was einzelne Individuen angesichts der offenkundigen Ungerechtigkeit und des immensen Leidens zu tun verpflichtet sind. Dabei plädiert das Buch für einen Pflichtenpluralismus, der die Bewohner der Industrieländer sowohl als Bürger als auch als Konsumenten und als moralische Subjekte in die Pflicht nimmt. Entsprechend basiert ihre Verantwortung sowohl auf ihrer Verstrickung in Ausbeutung und Unrecht, die das Leiden der extrem armen Bevölkerung weiter verschlimmert, als auch auf der Tatsache, dass sie in der Lage sind, Hilfsmaßnahmen zu ergreifen. Da das Individuum im Alleingang wenig ausrichten kann und der Pflichtbegriff auf Distanz normative Kraft einzubüßen droht, plädiert das Buch für eine geteilte Verantwortung, institutionelle Strukturen zu schaffen, die einerseits Armut effizient bekämpfen und andererseits das Individuum von seiner individuellen Verantwortung zu entlasten vermögen. Dies führt allerdings nur bedingt zu einer Entlastung des Individuums: Die Pflichten bleiben anspruchsvoll, solange entsprechende Strukturen fehlen.
Poverty. --- Rich people. --- Responsibility.
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