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Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Hard Luck (Book 8)
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Hard Luck (Book 8)Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Hard Luck (Book 8)

Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?
 
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Tags: chance, things, decisions, faith, decides, Diary, Wimpy, fortunes
Fortunes of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America
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Fortunes of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of AmericaFortunes of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America

Packed with fascinating data that paints a provocative picture of the new rich
In Fortunes of Change, David Callahan contends that something big is happening among the rich in America: they’re drifting to the left. When Callahan set out to write a book on the new upper class, he expected to profile a greedy and reactionary elite—the robber barons of a second Gilded Age. Instead, he discovered something else. While many of the rich still back a GOP that stands against taxes and regulation, liberalism is spreading fast among the wealthy.  
 
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Tags: Callahan, something, among, America, Fortunes, Change
Capitalism and Slavery
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Capitalism and SlaveryCapitalism and Slavery

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide.
 
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Tags: Slavery, heavy, banks, fortunes, industry, Capitalism
Fortune's Stroke
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Fortune's Stroke
Fortune's Stroke

by Eric Flint and David Drake

Link, the supercomputer from a future that should not exist, has used terror and gunpowder weapons to forge the Malwa Empire: harnessing the vast manpower of the Indian subcontinent and using the barbarian races of the periphery to bind the whole together. No power on Earth in the 6th century could stand against Link's evil.


 
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Tags: Fortunes, Stroke, periphery, whole, races