Download or read book Low Life written by Lucy Sante and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic social history of corruption and vice in nineteenth-century NYC: “A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves” (John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review). Lucy Sante’s Low Life is a portrait of America’s greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city’s slums; the teeming streets—scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape. Low Life voyages through Manhattan from four different directions. Part One examines the actual topography of Manhattan from 1840 to 1919; Part Two, the era’s opportunities for vice and entertainment—theaters and saloons, opium and cocaine dens, gambling and prostitution; Part Three investigates the forces of law and order which did and didn’t work to contain the illegalities; Part Four counterposes the city’s tides of revolt and idealism against the city as it actually was. Low Life is one of the most provocative books about urban life ever written—an evocation of the mythology of the quintessential modern metropolis, which has much to say not only about New York’s past but about the present and future of all cities.
Download or read book The Low Lives written by J. D. Rush and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Low Lives is a first-hand account of Bo, a young man who slips into homelessness in San Francisco. The story follows his progression from his initial carefree days in Golden Gate Park through more dark and dangerous times in the notorious Tenderloin district. Bo teams up with Ronnie, a magnetic and unpredictable homeless man, who acts as Bo's guide through the gritty and drug-ridden underworld. They embark upon a quest to find the true meaning of freedom while living outside the rules of traditional society. After a series of misadventures, Bo and Ronnie find themselves moving toward a turbulent conclusion that changes everything they believe about their lives on the streets.
Download or read book High Life Low Life written by Liam Gildea and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are living with bipolar illness or have a family member with the illness, this book may prove to be of some help. Whilst living with a mental health condition can be extremely difficult it can be a great teacher. By the end of the book you will realise that no mental illness defines you as a person. You're on the cusp of a life worth living, it's just a matter of making the next right step.
Download or read book Low Life written by Jeremy Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremy Clarke made his girlfriend pregnant, resigned from his job as a refuse collector, resigned his church membership, sold his house, went to the Democratic Republic of Congo, then came back altered. Now the author of the 'Low Life' column in the Spectator, Clarke tells his story.
Download or read book A Low Life in High Heels written by Holly Woodlawn and published by Perennial. This book was released on 1991 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bound to captivate the many fans of the motion picture Paris Is Burning, Woodlawn's autobiography is a walk on the wild side with Andy Warhol's last superstar and the avant-garde community of the 1960s and '70s. At the age of 16, Harold became Holly Woodlawn and skyrocketed to fame as a superstar in Warhol's movie Trash. "This is must reading".--Harvey Fierstein. Photographs.
Download or read book Low life written by Charles Farrell and published by Hamilcar Publications. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Low)life is a gripping memoir from Charles Farrell, a world-class jazz musician and onetime fight fixer and gangster. A world-class jazz pianist, Charles Farrell made his living working Mob clubs from the time he was a teenager in the 1960s. He later moved from music to the complex world of professional boxing, managing dozens of fighters, including the former heavyweight champion Leon Spinks and the former gang leader Mitch "Blood" Green, who famously went toe-to-toe with Mike Tyson--once in the ring and once in the street. A fight-fixer and gangster, Farrell ran afoul of New York mobsters in the 1990s, and fled to a farm in Puerto Rico, coming home only after an aging boxing legend brokered his safe return. Retired from the fight game, he returned to jazz and, among other collaborators, played frequently with his friend, Ornette Coleman, the godfather of "Free Jazz" and one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. (Low)life is a singular book by a singular man.
Download or read book Low Life Paranoia written by Rob Williams and published by 2000 AD. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It takes a special kind of Judge to go undercover on the mean streets of Mega-City One, especially in the crime-infested Low Life; the nastiest part of the Big Meg. These Judges are brave, rebellious and completely unhinged! It takes a special kind of Judge to go undercover on the mean streets of Mega-City One, especially in the crime-infested Low Life; the nastiest part of the Big Meg. These Judges are brave, rebellious and completely unhinged! Judge Aimee Nixon has operated the Low Life for over eleven years, infiltrating ground level crime with fellow ‘Wally squad’ Judges, Thora the oldster, ‘baby Judge’ Eric Coil and the aptly-named Dirty Frank.
Download or read book Low Road written by Eddie B. Allen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From infamous to famous, "Low Road" follows the life and times of the legendary novelist Donald Goines, father of ghetto realism.
Download or read book Low Life written by Mike Duff and published by Crocus Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riotous, spunky novel that plunges into the murky depths of Manchester's petty underworld scene. The style is bold and brash as protagonist Rooftop Rafferty - small time con man with attitude - teams up with the cream of Manchester's petty thieves, credit card fraudsters and shoplifters. Rooftop is an avowedly working class character with a Thatcherite addiction to making money the easy way. His attempts to enrich himself at society's expense form the comic backdrop to a remarkably well-written debut novel.
Download or read book High Life Low Life Level 4 Book with Audio CDs 2 Pack written by Alan Battersby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grand Central Station, New York in mid-July. It's early morning, but everyone is suffering in the heat. Private investigator Nathan Marley is on his way to another wasted day at the office. But a chance meeting with a homeless woman at the station and a surprise letter changes all of that. Marley starts a journey through parts of the burning summer city he has never visited.
Download or read book Demographic Trends and Full Employment written by Robert A. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Living the Low Carb Life written by Jonny Bowden and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide cuts through the confusion, showing dieters how to choose and customize an effective low-carb plan for their own metabolisms and lifestyles.
Download or read book Low Tox Life written by Alexx Stuart and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever stopped to read the list of ingredients in the products you use every day? In Low Tox Life, activist and educator Alexx Stuart gently clears a path through the maze of mass-market ingredient cocktails, focusing on four key areas: Body, Home, Food and Mind. Sharing the latest science and advice from experts in each area, Alexx tackles everything from endocrine-disruptors in beauty products to the challenge of going low plastic in a high-plastic world, and how to clean without a hit of harmful toxins. You don't need to be a fulltime homesteader with a cupboard full of organic linens to go low tox. Start small, switching or ditching one nasty at a time, and enjoy the process as a positive one for you and the planet.
Download or read book No Slack written by Michael S. Barr and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The financial crisis exposed unsavory results of interactions between low- and moderate-income households and alternative and mainstream financial institutions: overleveraged incomes, high cost for financial services, and lack of access to useful financial products that can cushion against economic instability. It revealed a financial services system that is not well designed to serve these households, leaving them without financial slack. Pivotal analysis, focusing on metropolitan Detroit's low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, examines household decision making processes, behaviors, and attitudes toward a full range of financial transactions during the subprime lending boom. The author advocates helping families seek financial stability in three primary ways: enhancing individuals' financial capability, using technology to promote access to financial products and services that meet their needs, and establishing strong protections for consumers.
Download or read book Low Life One Middle Aged Man in Search of the Point written by Jeremy Clarke and published by Short Books. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two O levels. Three convictions for smash and grab in off licenses. Two for drunk driving. One for possession of amphetamine sulphate. General labouring and factory work. Attended charismatic Baptist church. Made girlfriend pregnant. Resigned from job as refuse collector, resigned church membership, returned library books, sold house, went to the Democratic Republic of Congo, then known as Zaire. Came back altered. Conscious decision to join bourgeoisie. Night classes for a year in Torquay, then three at School of Oriental and African Studies in London and the Institute of Kiswahili, Zanzibar. Reviewed book by the late, great Dr Brian Plummer on ferret husbandry for University College London student literary magazine. Taken on by legendary editor Dr Karl Miller as his latest great white hope . Book deal. Fifty grand advance. Spent advance. Failed to write book. Now, author of the Low Life column in the Spectator. 53 years old and a grandfather. Unmarried. Currently coughing and sneezing in a remote cottage on Dartmoor. Meet Jeremy Clark...
Download or read book High Life Low Life written by Taki and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exploration of secular America, journalist Katherine Ozment takes readers on a quest to understand the trends and ramifications of a nation in flight from organized religion. Studies show that religion makes us happier, healthier and more giving, connecting us to our past and creating tight communal bonds. Most Americans are raised in a religious tradition, but in recent decades many have begun to leave religion, and with it their ancient rituals, mythic narratives, and sense of belonging. So how do the nonreligious fill the need for ritual, story, community, and, above all, purpose and meaning without the one-stop shop of religion? What do they do with the space left after religion? With Nones swelling to one-fourth of American adults, and more than one-third of those under thirty, these questions have never been more urgent. Writer, journalist, and secular mother of three Katherine Ozment came face-to-face with the fundamental issue of the Nones when her son asked her the simplest of questions: "what are we?" Unsettled by her reply -- "Nothing" -- she set out on a journey to find a better answer. She traversed the frontier of American secular life, sought guidance in science and the humanities, talked with noted scholars, and wrestled with her own family's attempts to find meaning and connection after religion.
Download or read book Life After the Down Low written by Ingrid M. Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life After the Down Low is the story of a woman deceived by a man who lived a double life as an undercover homosexual and accused child molester.
