Böcker av Stephen Moore

After an introduction to the world of Pangolins, this book focusses on one Pangolin family who are disturbed by a gang of animal smugglers while feeding in the jungle one night. The two Pangolin youngsters, Timmie and Toby are kidnapped and imprisoned in a suitcase, destined to be trafficked and sold. After a frightening journey the little Pangolin brothers engineer their own escape from captivity, encountering kind support from animal conservation workers who return them to their jungle home. The smugglers get their just desserts.

President Obama has declared that the standard by which all policies and policy outcomes are judged is fairness. He declared in 2011 that "we've sought to ensure that every citizen can count on some basic measure of security. We do this because we recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us, at any moment, might face hard times, might face bad luck, might face a crippling illness or a layoff." And that, he says, is why we have a social safety net. He says that returning to a standard of fairness where anyone can get ahead through hard work is the "issue of our time." And perhaps it is.This book explores what it means for our economic system and our economic results to be "fair." Does it mean that everyone has a fair shot? Does it mean that everyone gets the same amount? Does it mean the government can assert the authority to forcibly take from the successful and give to the poor? Is government supposed to be Robin Hood determining who gets what? Or should the market decide that? The surprising answer: nations with free market systems that allow people to get ahead based on their own merit and achievement are the fairest of them all.

In this original work, Moore considers God's male bodies and our obsessive earthly quest for the perfect human form. God's Gym is about divinity, physical pain and visions of male perfectibility.

Rogrig Wishard is a killer, a liar and a thief.Rogrig is the last person the fey would turn to for help. But they know something he doesn't.In a world without government or law, where a man's loyalty is to his family and faerie tales are strictly for children, Rogrig is not happy to discover that he's carrying faerie blood. Especially when he starts to see them wherever he goes.To get his life back, he's going to have to journey further from home than he's ever been before and find out what the fey could possibly want from him. But that's easier said than done when the punishment for abandoning your family is death.

This reference traces in fascinating detail the exceptionally long career of Helen Hayes, the First Lady of the American Theatre.