![]() The object of the game is to get at least 61 points by taking a number of tricks. ![]() Sheepshead is played with 32 cards, each with a different point value and strength. Sheepshead reach sexual maturity around 2 years of age and there appears to be little difference in age of maturity between sexes. ![]() ![]()
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Michelle Ruiz Keil’s YA fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() Writing in an entertaining narrative style, the author tackles major intellectual issues related to the underestimation of the influence of happenstance on our lives. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill–the world of trading– Fooled by Randomness provides captivating insight into one of the least understood factors in all our lives. This book is about luck–or more precisely, about how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. ![]() ![]() Nassim Nicholas Taleb–veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan–has written a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill. 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The documentary adds a visual dimension to the harrowing imagery Douglas A. ![]() PBS bases its Slavery by Another Name documentary on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by the same name. ![]() The peonage system represents one of the great failures of Reconstruction. Limp federal legislation enabled the racist social and political climate in the American South to fester, depriving all Americans of the opportunity to experience a "more perfect union." The PBS documentary Slavery by Another Name examines the perpetuation of slavery under the guise of the peonage system. ![]() Its most formidable social, economic, and political institutions persisted in spite of federal legislation following the end of the Civil War. The emancipation of slaves did not lead to the dismantling of the underlying structures of slavery. ![]() ![]() ![]() And John said that his mother was always listening to people, and afterward scribbling down detailed notes about their stories. 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Out of its ashes, the political world we know now was born. Yet the next year, scores of liberals were tossed out of Congress, America was more divided than ever, and a disgraced politician was on his way to a shocking comeback: Richard Nixon.Between 19, America experienced no less than a second civil war. ![]() Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency.Perlstein's epic account begins in the blood and fire of the 1965 Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon Johnson's historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater appeared to herald a permanent liberal consensus in the United States. ![]() ![]() Joshi with a preface by filmmaker and self-confessed fantasy geek Guillermo del Toro), had a timely wartime subject, featuring a band of beleaguered British soldiers about to be overrun. ![]() The story, titled "The Bowmen"' and now republished in The White People and Other Weird Stories(edited by horror scholar S. On September 29, 1914, the News ran a short story with Machen's byline it was the first time in more than a decade that he'd published any fiction. He'd gone through the modest inheritance left him by his father, and he was working, neither happily nor efficiently by all accounts, as a reporter and critic at a big London paper, The Evening News. By 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, his once promising career as an imaginative writer appeared to be on the wane. ![]() ARTHUR MACHEN (rhymes with "bracken") was born in Caerleon-on-Usk, in Wales, in 1863. ![]() ![]() ![]() This novel’s spiritual heart is found in the languorous south, the location of African Americans’ resistance to racismĪiley’s branch of the Garfields, numbered among the black Americans who migrated from southern states to Washington DC, are riven with societal anxiety over maintaining their middle-class status. On entering puberty, she becomes increasingly conscious of the family’s pretensions and hypocrisy, as well as her sexual abuse by a relative. The protagonist, Ailey Pearl Garfield, daughter of light-skinned parents who describes herself as a “gourd filled with secrets”, narrates as a reserved, watchful guide. Originating from Chicasetta, a fictitious town in Georgia, the Garfields are the book’s focus. ![]() ![]() Impeccable comic timing, evergreen comic writing. 'The UK's bestselling fiction book of the eighties and one of the great comic creations of the past half-century. Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life as he writes candidly about the dog, his parents' marital troubles and life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual.'įorty years after it first appeared, Sue Townsend's comic masterpiece continues to be rediscovered by new generations of readers. 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