Ben Johnson

Documents the career of the iconic deal-maker, offering insight into topics ranging from his humble origins as the son of Polish immigrants and his blunt perspectives to his early achievements and his tumultuous takeover of Tribune Company.

Inside the Contrarian Mind of Billionaire Mogul Sam Zell

Money Talks, Bullsh*t Walks

Included in this volume are: "The Alchemist," "Catiline His Conspiracy," "Bartholomew Fair," and "The Devil Is an Ass."

Four Plays of Ben Johnson

Helen Ostovich

This edition of Ben Jonson's four middle comedies places the works in the popular history and culture of the times, 1605-1614, and surveys the influences, both classical and contemporary, on Jonson as a playwright. On-the-page annotations recreate the audiences perception of the plays as performances by commenting on the stage-directions, the self-conscious theatricality of characters and scenes, and the vivid colloquialisms of early modern London that give the dialogue a heightened dimension of realism. Brief introductions to each play discuss the local settings, sources, theatre history and further readings. The general introduction includes a biography of Jonson, a chronology of the plays and masques, and separate essays on each play, dealing particularly with Jonson's satirical treatments of trends and shams of the day, whether political, social, commercial, or spiritual.

Four Comedies

Ben Jonson

Ben Johnson was eind jaren tachtig de snelste man van de wereld. Zijn faam bereikte een hoogtepunt op het moment dat hij de gouden plak won op de 100 meter sprint in 1988. Maar even later was kwam er een abrupt eind aan zijn heldenstatus, toen hij de hoofdpersoon werd in het grootste dopingschandaal uit de geschiedenis van de Olympische Spelen. Na bijna dertig jaar vertelt hij zijn verhaal. Over de rivaliteit met Carl Lewis, wat er echt gebeurde in Seoul, de politiek en het racisme in de sportwereld, zijn depressie. Dit is het verhaal van een gevallen ster die weigerde te bezwijken onder de druk. Zelfs toen de hele wereld zich tegen hem keerde.

De Outsider

David Horowitz

Party of Defeat is a well-documented and disturbing account of the unprecedented attacks by leaders of the Democratic Party on a war they supported and then turned their backs on. In a democracy, criticism of war policy is legitimate and necessary. But deliberate undermining of a war policy, the authors urge, is another matter entirely. Every American concerned about the future of their country in the war on terror should consider the arguments in this book. -- [Blurb signed by] Senators Jim Bunning, Tom Coburn, James Inhofe, Jon Kyl, Jeff Sessions, Rick Santorum; Representatives Ginny Brown-Waite, Howard Coble, David Dreier, Peter Hoekstra, Peter King, Howard Buck McKeon, Mike Pence, Ed Royce, Jim Saxton, John Shadegg, Lamar Smith, Mark Souder, Tome Tancredo; committees represented: Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, International Relations, Homeland Security, Judiciary.

How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America's War on Terror Before and After 9-11

Party of Defeat

Murat Ukray

The greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such his strong personality assumes an interest to us almost unparalleled, at least in his age. Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to the world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of Annandale, over the Solway, whence he migrated to England. Jonson's father lost his estate under Queen Mary, "having been cast into prison and forfeited." He entered the church, but died a month before his illustrious son was born, leaving his widow and child in poverty. Jonson's birthplace was Westminster, and the time of his birth early in 1573. He was thus nearly ten years Shakespeare's junior, and less well off, if a trifle better born. But Jonson did not profit even by this slight advantage. His mother married beneath her, a wright or bricklayer, and Jonson was for a time apprenticed to the trade. As a youth he attracted the attention of the famous antiquary, William Camden, then usher at Westminster School, and there the poet laid the solid foundations of his classical learning. Jonson always held Camden in veneration, acknowledging that to him he owed, "All that I am in arts, all that I know;" and dedicating his first dramatic success, "Every Man in His Humour," to him. It is doubtful whether Jonson ever went to either university, though Fuller says that he was "statutably admitted into St. John's College, Cambridge." He tells us that he took no degree, but was later "Master of Arts in both the universities, by their favour, not his study." When a mere youth Jonson enlisted as a soldier, trailing his pike in Flanders in the protracted wars of William the Silent against the Spanish. Jonson was a large and raw-boned lad; he became by his own account in time exceedingly bulky. In chat with his friend William Drummond of Hawthornden, Jonson told how "in his service in the Low Countries he had, in the face of both the camps, killed an enemy, and taken opima spolia from him;" and how "since his coming to England, being appealed to the fields, he had killed his adversary which had hurt him in the arm and whose sword was ten inches longer than his." Jonson's reach may have made up for the lack of his sword; certainly his prowess lost nothing in the telling. Obviously Jonson was brave, combative, and not averse to talking of himself and his doings. In 1592, Jonson returned from abroad penniless. Soon after he married, almost as early and quite as imprudently as Shakespeare. He told Drummond curtly that "his wife was a shrew, yet honest"; for some years he lived apart from her in the household of Lord Albany. Yet two touching epitaphs among Jonson's "Epigrams," "On my first daughter," and "On my first son," attest the warmth of the poet's family affections. The daughter died in infancy, the son of the plague; another son grew up to manhood little credit to his father whom he survived. We know nothing beyond this of Jonson's domestic life.

The Alchemist

The ancient order of the web spinners is changing. An old friend returns brandishing a curious silver knife, and Stewart Zanderson is drawn into a strange world of wonder and deceit. The ensuing bloody scene sets Detective Clementine Figgins on his tail, and into a case she could never explain. But the boy, escaped from the dreaded warehouse, now has the knife. And running from his captors through the canyons of San Diego with his new friends and special dog, he ties everything together. People fight. Some die.The ancient order will change, but who will rise when the dust settles? Enter the world of the webspinners. Where everything is connected and nothing is what it seems. San Diego's own two fisted, hard boiled urban fantasy!Magic! Murder! Mayhem! Ancient alchemy and shamanic sorcery combine with gritty police drama. Set in the streets and canyons of Golden Hill, San Diego.

Book One of the Webworld Trilogy

A Shadow Cast in Dust

This collection of twenty-six stories, from Verga, Svevo and Pirandello to today's most important Italian writers, represents the major genre of modern Italian fiction"--Book jacket.

From Verga, Svevo and Pirandello to the Present

Stories of Modern Italy

Alexander Loyd

Codul vindecării este echipamentul vostru pentru viață: folositi-l! În 2001, Alexander Loyd a descoperit cum să activeze funcția fizică încorporată în organism, care poate înlătura, în proporție de până la 95%, sursa tuturor bolilor și stărilor de rău. în acest caz, sistemul neuro-imunitar își poate îndeplini misiunea de a vindeca orice rău din organism. Descoperirile dr. Loyd au fost validate prin teste și mărturii ale oamenilor din întreaga lume, care au folosit sistemul Codul vindecării pentru a corecta, practic, orice problemă fizică, emoțională sau relațională, dar și pentru a avea succes deosebit în carieră. Testele doctorului Alexander Loyd au arătat că există un „cod universal al vindecării“ care poate ajuta la vindecarea celor mai multe probleme pentru cei mai mulți oameni. cartea cuprinde și: Cele șapte secrete ale vieții, sănătății și prosperității;Tehnica de 10 secunde a Impactului imediat pentru dezamorsarea stresului zilnic;Detectorul de probleme sufletești, singurul test care identifică problemele de bază printr-un raport personalizat și succint. „Am folosit aproape toate tehnologiile moderne, protocoale de tratament, tehnici, sisteme, filozofii și modalități de vindecare atât din medicina alopată, cât și din cea alternativă, dar, dacă ar fi să aleg doar una, aceasta ar fi lucrarea dr. Loyd. Nu cunosc niciun alt proces care să fie atât de elegant în simplitatea lui, atât de ușor de învățat, de profund eficient și, mai ales, etern. Cea mai bună recomandare pe care o pot face este să spun că îl folosesc eu însumi, îl folosesc pentru familia și pacienții mei.“ – Merril Ken Galera, medic, director medical la Galera Center „Aproape că trebuie să treci printr-un proces ca acela din Codul vindecării pentru a-ți schimba convingerile greșite care te împiedică să ai viața și sănătatea pe care ți le dorești.“ – Dr. Bruce Lipton, fost cercetător în domeniul biologiei celulei la Stanford și autor al bestsellerului Biology of Belief

Codul vindecării. 6 minute pentru vindecarea problemelor de sănătate, succes sau relaționale

Ann Bukantas

This stunning book showcases the work of internationally acclaimed artist Ben Johnson. Cityscape: Ben Johnson's Liverpool has been three years in the making and takes in Liverpool’s famous skyline from a vantage point high above the River Mersey. It encompasses several thousand individual buildings and has taken Johnson and up to 11 assistants 24,000 person hours so far. Cityscape: Ben Johnson's Liverpool is both a breathtaking portrait of the city of Liverpool and part of Johnson’s magnificent World Panoramas series. The artist works to the scale of a Renaissance painter, producing what The Guardian has called ‘almost impossibly ambitious cityscapes’ from around the world. This extraordinary book will be a must buy for those interested in contemporary art and architecture and for anyone fascinated by Liverpool, European Capital of Culture for 2008.

Ben Johnson's Liverpool

Cityscape

Kathleen Barnes

This book presents a unique approach that stems from the principles of the Law of Attraction as presented in the blockbuster "The Secret." Johnson and Barnes's work is also loaded with practical advice about maintaining breast health or recovering after breast disease.

Breast Wisdom

The Secret of Health

Charles Jencks

David Jenkins

Mel Gooding

Norman Foster

Painter and photographer Ben Johnson captures the spirit of Norman Foster's architectural masterpieces in this book. For more than thirty years Ben Johnson has been documenting the work of one of today's most acclaimed architects in photographs that have served as source material for his own neo-realist paintings. Included in this intimate volume are nearly all of Foster's most celebrated projects, such as the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, the restoration of the Reichstag, Hong Kong and Beijing airports, and the British Museum's Great Court. Johnson's images allow readers to explore the ineffable qualities of Foster's architecture--his use of light and scale, innovative materials and attention to natural and man-made surroundings. Fans of Foster will find much to discover in this unique amalgam of architecture and art. AUTHOR: Charles Jencks is the author of the best-selling The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (Academy Editions) and has written numerous other books on contemporary art and architecture. Mel Gooding is an art writer, critic and curator. David Jenkins is an architect, editor and writer. He is the series editor of Norman Foster Works and Foster 40 (all published by Prestel). 250 illustrations *

Foster in View

Catriona Hoy

This picture book for the very young is a simple, moving look at Anzac Day through the eyes of a little girl. She goes to the pre-dawn Anzac Day service with her father where they watch the girl s grandfather march in the parade. This beautifully illustrated book explains what happens on Anzac Day and its significance in terms a young child can understand It is an excellent introduction to this highly venerated ceremony, and poignantly addresses the sentiments aroused by the memory of those who gave their lives for their country.

My Grandad Marches on Anzac Day

Alex Loyd

The Healing Code is your healing kit for life - to heal the issues you know about, and the ones you don't. In 2001, while trying to cure his wife of her long term depression, Dr. Alex Loyd discovered how to activate a physical function built into the body that consistently and predictably removes the source of 95% of all illness and disease, so that the neuro-immune system takes over its job of healing whatever is wrong with the body. He also discovered that there is a Universal Healing Code that will heal most issues for most people - physical, emotional and relational, as well as enabling breakthroughs in success and well being. The Healing Code has been subjected to numerous tests which have validated its success, as do the testimonies of the thousands of people for whom it has worked. In this book you will discover for yourself The Healing Code process. It's easy to learn, can be used just about anywhere and takes only six minutes to complete. This life changing book also includes the Seven Secrets of life, health and prosperity, the 10-second Instant Impact technique for defusing everyday stress and the Heart Issues Finder - a simple test that identifies quickly your own personal source issues and imbalances. In just six minutes, lower stress, turn the immune and healing systems back on and discover the life changing effects of The Healing Code.

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