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  • Book cover of The English Poets Selections with Critical Introductions

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

  • Book cover of Govern Like Us
    M. A. Thomas

     · 2015

    In the poorest countries, such as Afghanistan, Haiti, and Mali, the United States has struggled to work with governments whose corruption and lack of capacity are increasingly seen to be the cause of instability and poverty. The development and security communities call for "good governance" to improve the rule of law, democratic accountability, and the delivery of public goods and services. The United States and other rich liberal democracies insist that this is the only legitimate model of governance. Yet poor governments cannot afford to govern according to these ideals and instead are compelled to rely more heavily on older, cheaper strategies of holding power, such as patronage and repression. The unwillingness to admit that poor governments do and must govern differently has cost the United States and others inestimable blood and coin. Informed by years of fieldwork and drawing on practitioner work and academic scholarship in politics, economics, law, and history, this book explains the origins of poor governments in the formation of the modern state system and describes the way they govern. It argues that, surprisingly, the effort to stigmatize and criminalize the governance of the poor is both fruitless and destabilizing. The United States must pursue a more effective foreign policy to engage poor governments and acknowledge how they govern.

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  • Book cover of New Mistakes
    M. A. Thomas

     · 2019

    Why does growing up take so damn long? I'm so over being young and poor and bored. On the plus side, at least I finally have some friends. In the minus column though: 1 - I've been dumped (so that sucks). 2 - I'm in possession of evidence that could get me expelled and; 3 - I've lost internet privileges. . . AGAIN! I feel like all I do is write about all the mundane things that happen to me in this journal. Why can't my life be awesome and interesting? You know, like those kids on American sitcoms? The one's that never have to study Exponentiation or clean window tracks? The ones who aren't lower class Australians living in the middle of Butt F#*k nowhere. Told in first person diary entries, this unashamedly honest take on growing up Australian will have you questioning everything you ever thought you knew about high schoolers. "It's cringe-worthy, it's quirky AF and every young person should definitely read this series!" -The Book Review Project "This series helped me to reflect on my own life and finally start to get over my unfortunate teen years" - Amazon Reviewer.

  • Book cover of Awkward Honesty
    M. A. Thomas

     · 2019

    The Girl Diaries first instalment ‘Awkward Honesty’ follows the ramblings of a newly teenage girl. For this young Australian, life is—uncomfortable. Her body is changing, her family is morphing into a new shape, and her social circle at school is, well, non-existent. Writing down her days in a journal proves to be the outlet this young person needs; but she can't help thinking about how she got her new diary—the grey notebook—stolen from the coffin of her recently deceased classmate. Facing the difficult twists and turns of teenage existence in modern Australian society, she starts realising just how troubling life's real questions can be. This book is a candid and often confronting introspective into the reality of life for adolescents, delivered to you in what can only be described as one truly, cringe-worthy journal.

  • Book cover of Still Growing
    M. A. Thomas

     · 2019

    Growing up as we know it is changing. The Girl Diaries' second installment follows the awkward and often selfish ramblings of a modern Australian high school girl as she continues exploring that rough stage of life all emerging adults must face; Adolescence. This is a book for the young, and the young at heart. As the title implies, Still Growing explores the complicated choices and consequences that young people face as they start making decisions for themselves, often to their own detriment. Who knew the angst of adolescence could be so much fun to relive? This uncomfortably truthful, albeit egocentric, view of teenage life is universally recognizable to anyone who is, or has ever been, a woefully unprepared teenager trying to carve out their own place in this world.

  • Book cover of The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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