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Discover someone’s true personality by looking at their face

Have you ever wondered if the person you are about to hire is a natural leader? What if you can measure a person’s ambition by the bridge of their nose? Did you know that you can determine a person’s fidelity by the markings around their eyes? Mien Shiang, the ancient practice of Chinese Face Reading, gives you answers to all of these questions— and more. Fully illustrated with examples of each technique, The Face Reader is a fascinating look at how this practice can be applied at home, in the workplace, and throughout our lives..
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Publius Clodius Pulcher was a prominent political figure during the last years of the Roman Republic Born into an illustrious patrician family, his early career was sullied by military failures and especially by the scandal that resulted from his allegedly disguising himself as a woman in order to sneak into a forbidden religious ceremony in the hope of seducing Caesar's wife. Clodius survived this disgrace, however, and emerged as a major political force. He renounced his patrician status and was elected tribune of the people. As tribune, he pursued an ambitious legislative agenda, winning the loyalties of the common people of Rome to such a degree that he was soon able to summon forceful, even violent, demonstrations on his own behalf.

The first modern, comprehensive biography of Clodius, The Patrician Tribune traces his career from its earliest stages until its end in 52 B.C., when he was murdered by a political rival. Jeffrey Tatum explores Clodius's political successes, as well as the limitations of his popular strategies, within the broader context of Roman political practices. In the process, Tatum illuminates the relationship between the political contests of Rome's elite and the daily struggles of Rome's urban poor..
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The leadership of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt dramatically reshaped the political landscape of our nation, from TR's Square Deal to FDR's New Deal and wartime leadership to Eleanor Roosevelt's pivotal role in the early days of the United Nations. The Three Roosevelts is the first biography to combine the intertwining lives of these three leaders, who emerged from the closed society of New York's Knickerbocker elite to become unwavering enemies of economic privilege and the most prominent American political family of the twentieth century. As Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author James MacGregor Burns and acclaimed historian Susan Dunn follow the evolution of the progressive Roosevelt political philosophy, they illuminate how Theodore's vision and example would inspire the careers of his fifth cousin Franklin and niece Eleanor. The Three Roosevelts traces TR's transformation from Harvard-bred socialite to Republican reformer, president, and Bull Moose radical who declared war on the "wealthy scoundrels" and plutocrats. Franklin Roosevelt would continue this crusade as he closely followed TR's example, imitating his career track to the White House. After FDR's death, Eleanor carried on the progressive Roosevelt legacy through personal activism and advocacy, becoming a tireless champion of the rights of women, minorities, and the poor. Insightful and authoritative, The Three Roosevelts is a fascinating portrait of three of America's most forceful leaders, whose legacy is as controversial today as their vigorous brand of progressive politics was in their own lifetimes..
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In Women and Men in Renaissance Venice Stanley Chojnacki explores the central role played by women in holding Venetian patrician society together. Family relations, marriages, and dowries were the areas in which women interacted dynamically with men. The three parts of the book discuss the involvement of the state in those interactions; the social and economic consequences for women; and their unexpectedly varied consequences for men of the patriciate.

The society Chojnacki describes is at once socially complex and highly regulated. On the one hand, women of the Venetian nobility, like patrician women in other cities, were subordinate to their fathers and husbands. But unlike their counterparts elsewhere, Venetian patrician women exercised much control over their own wealth and property and were key players in family strategies. Thanks to advantageous state regulations regarding dowries and marriage practices, Venetian women influenced their fathers' financial and social choices, which in turn affected their fathers' and husbands' attitudes and behavior toward them. Because limited family resources favored some daughters' marriage prospects at the expense of their sisters', the family and marriage practices of the Venetian nobles led to a range of vocations for women, as well as for men.

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Three decades after Robert Kennedy's death, his complexities and contradictions continue to fascinate and perplex Americans. In The Last Patrician, Michael Knox Beran offers a much-needed reassessment of the man, one that will force many to rethink what they thought they knew. Challenging the claims of Arthur Schlesinger, Jack Newfield, and others, Beran shows how Bobby Kennedy came, at the end of his life, to question the assumptions of a liberal faith that was at odds with his own deepest beliefs. In reconstructing Kennedy's forgotten critique of the postwar liberal imagination, The Last Patrician explains the most revolutionary of all his controversial acts - his break with the patrician caste to which he and his brothers had been brought up to belong, a powerful ruling class that was undermining some of America's most cherished traditions. .
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Meticulously researched and fascinating to read, A Patrician of Ideas chronicles the remark­able life of McKeesport native Adolph W. Schmidt (1904-2000). A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School, Schmidt married Patsy Mellon (granddaughter of Thomas Alexander) in 1936. He served as an intelligence officer in World War II, managed the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust from 1946 to 1969 (and again in its closing years of 1979-80), and served as U. S. Ambassador to Canada from 1969 to 1974.In summing up Schmidt's influence, author Clarke Thomas notes:"As scholars continue to delve into the history of Pittsburgh, there will be an increasing realization of the role Adolph Schmidt played in the Renaissance of the 1950s and, through his management of the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, of the development of numerous institutions, most notably the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh .... But in a curious way, his most lasting legacy may be in the realm of ideas. For Schmidt was more than an old-fashioned country-club 'patrician' He was a man of ideas who worked assiduously with others to attempt to bring them to fruition.".
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