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Intimations of Immortality

By: Gerald Leinwand

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My grandfather died when he was sixty-five, my father died at seventy. At eighty-eight, I am the eldest of three brothers all of us older than our father was at his death. Given a reasonable degree of vitality, however, I would like to live to forever. Wouldn't you? I would like to be at my grandchildren and great-grand children's weddings. Wouldn't you? I would like to see how it all comes out in the end of time, for my family, my country, for the world. Wouldn't you? Wouldn't it be great if the intellectual giants of centuries past could be with us yet. Many of them achieved their best work in literature, art, philosophy, science or mathematics at advanced ages. Wouldn't the world be a better place if the accumulated wisdo111 of these talented people could still be around to set us straight? The poet, William Wordsworth thought so when he eulogized John Milton: "Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen /Of stagnant waters." With England traumatized by Napoleon, Wordsworth sought Milton's help. Surely, these greats of yesteryear could contribute to our own trauma of global terrorism. It is asserted by some that the search for immortality is pornographic. Yet, it will be remembered of the twenty-first century that a conscious effort was made to confront and perhaps conquer death. Wasserman (helped conquer sexually transmitted diseases) Salk(the anti-polio vaccine." Pornographers? Nonsense? "Death be not proud," wrote the poet, John Donne. He was right. While searching for immortality we are baffled by age. My first wife for forty-three years died of rampaging breast cancer, my second wife for six years died of virulent brain cancer. How does one make sense as to why we are attacked by Parkinson's and Alzheimers, by heart disease and cancer? Why the Holocaust? Why the terror of 9/11 ?Thus, the young may see things as they are and ask, "Why?" while the old may still dream of things that never were and ask, "Why not?

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1452073295

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Mackerels in the Moonlight

Four Corrupt American Mayors

By: Gerald Leinwand

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Mackerels in the Moonlight

Four Corrupt American Mayors

By: Gerald Leinwand

Political corruption is easy to define--the use of public office for private gain--but it isn't so readily seen because politicians cover their tracks so well. Four of America's most corrupt mayors and their shady dealings are covered in this work. "Big Bill" Thompson, who was mayor of Chicago three times, is considered America's worst mayor, having, among other questionable activities, accepted support from gangster Al Capone. Frank Hague of Jersey City described his town as the "moralest city in the nation" and banished prostitution and pornography, but he saw no evil in gambling and Jersey City became a gambling mecca. Jimmy Walker of New York City was a "good time" mayor and did well as the city prospered, but cared little for the city's money and his own when the Great Depression struck. James Michael Curley of Boston openly asserted that "politics is my business," but he flaunted a lavish home built entirely at the public's expense and was elected again and again, once while he was still in jail.

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286

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McFarland

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0786418451

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9780786418459

Proust, Mann, Joyce in the Modernist Context, Second Edition

By: Gerald Gillespie,Gerald Ernest Paul Gillespie

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Proust, Mann, Joyce in the Modernist Context, Second Edition

By: Gerald Gillespie,Gerald Ernest Paul Gillespie

The original version of Proust, Mann, Joyce in the Modernist Context strove to show how a kindred encyclopedic drive and sacramental sense informed their responses to the epochal trauma, yielding three distinct and monumental visions of the human estate by the 1920s.

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393

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CUA Press

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0813217881

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9780813217888

Eukaryotic Gene Regulation

Volume II

By: Gerald M. Kolodny

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Eukaryotic Gene Regulation

Volume II

By: Gerald M. Kolodny

The cause of cancer and its many manifestations is at present unknown. Since many of its manifestations, including is control of cell division, appear to represent abnormal patterns of gene expression, studies of the regulation of gene expression nwill provide important insights in the understanding and treatment of cancer. This volume attempts to present some of the recent work on regulation of gene expression in eukaryotic cells.

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CRC Press

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1351088823

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9781351088824

Pageant World History

By: Gerald Leinwand

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Pageant World History

By: Gerald Leinwand

Dear students, I want to share a dream with you. I dreamed that a young person of 14 whom I was going to be teaching would become president of the United States during the first half of the twenty-first century. As a teacher, I was struck by this immense responsibility. What should I teach my student about the world as preperation for this awesome task? How could my world history class help this person to mature into an intelligent and humane president and leader of the free world?

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