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Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader offers in-depth portraits of North Korea+s two ruthless and bizarrely Orwellian leaders, Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il Lifting North Korea+s curtain of self-imposed isolation, this book will take readers inside a society that, to a Westerner, will appear to be from another planet. Subsisting on a diet short on food and long on lies, North Koreans have been indoctrinated from birth to follow unquestioningly a father-son team of megalomaniacs. Revised and expanded for the paperback edition, this fascinating, definitive history brings the reader right up to the present-day tensions. For as this book direly predicted, North Korea has a legitimate nuclear program and appears to be the greatest threat to the world today..
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Pocket Dad: Everyday Wisdom, Practical Tips, and Fatherly Advice
When it comes to buying a car, fixing a clogged drain, and barbecuing the juiciest steak, Dad has all the answers—but when you're living on your own, Pocket Dad is the handiest next-best-thing. Here are more than 50 essential how-tos of fatherly know-how, including: - How to fix a flat tire
- How to dress for success
- How to carve a turkey
- How to row a canoe
- How to hammer a nail
- How to do the box step
And much, much more. Complete with whimsical illustrations and a fun "dial-a-dad" cover wheel, Pocket Dad makes a great gift for anyone leaving home for the first time. Whether you're fixing things around the house, getting ready to conquer the great outdoors, or learning the ABCs of financial security, one thing will be clear: Father really does know best!.
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A Fatherly Eye: Indian Agents, Government Power, and Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918-1939 (Canadian Social History Series)
For more than a century, government policy towards Aboriginal peoples in Canada was shaped by paternalistic attitudes and an ultimate goal of assimilation Indeed, remnants of that thinking still linger today, more than thirty years after protests against the White Paper of 1969 led to reconsideration Canada's 'Indian' policy. In A Fatherly Eye , historian Robin Brownlie examines how paternalism and assimilation during the interwar period were made manifest in the 'field', far from the bureaucrats in Ottawa, but never free of their oppressive supervision. At the same time, she reveals how the Aboriginal 'subjects' of official policy dealt with the control and coercion that lay at the heart of the Indian Act. This groundbreaking study sheds new light on a time and a place we know little about. Brownlie focuses on two Indian agencies in southern Ontario - Parry Sound and Manitowaning (on Manitoulin Island) - and the contrasting management styles of two agents, John daly and Robert Lewis, especially during the Great Depression. In administering the lives of the Anishinabek people, the government paid inadequate attention to the protection of treaty rights and was excessively concerned with maintaining control, in part through the paternalistic provision of assistance that helped to silence critics of the system and prevent political organizing. As Brownlie concludes, the Indian Affairs system still does not work well, and 'has come to represent all that is most oppressive about the history of colonization in this country'. Previously published by Oxford University Press .
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Gentlewomen and Learned Ladies: Women and Elite Formation in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia (Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World)
This engaging and important study explores women's central involvement in the creation of an elite class in colonial Philadelphia. It shows how major mercantile families adopted an English model of class identity and adapted it to the realities of colonial life in the mid-Atlantic region. Critical figures in this process of elite formation, wealthy women employed strategies in marriage, consumption, education, and leisure that established them and their male kin as the dominant social and cultural figures in the Quaker city and its hinterland.In the process, women themselves enjoyed increased intellectual opportunities and political power as well as other privileges of elevated social rank that blunted the limitations they faced living in a highly patriarchal culture. When the American Revolution launched its democratic challenge to aristocratic and imperial structures, women's commitment to the elite social rank they had helped create ensured its survival. Sarah Fatherly is Associate Professor of History and Director of Women's Studies at Otterbein College..
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