Download or read book Blood Steel Canvas written by Craig A. Wilson and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLOOD, STEEL & CANVAS: THE ASIAN ODYSSEY OF A FIGHTER is a story about fighting on two levels: the American lawyer author’s improbable career as Asia’s oldest amateur boxer and his fight to overcome colon cancer and its consequences. Through his friendships with boxers in the Philippines and Thailand, his efforts (not always successful) to learn the languages and his delight in experiencing local cultures, he sets an example for other expatriates who have the great fortune to live and work overseas. His unremitting enthusiasm and refusal to give up, under any circumstances, set an example for others with serious or life-threatening diseases.
Download or read book Al Bernstein written by Al Bernstein and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary cable television sports broadcaster takes a humorous look back on the fight game—as seen from a ringside seat. For more than thirty years, Al Bernstein has been one of the most recognizable and respected sportscasters in America. In those three decades, the “voice of boxing” reported the funny, poignant, and bizarre events that helped shape sports television, ESPN, boxing, Las Vegas, and SHOWTIME. With an eclectic cast of characters that includes every big name in boxing, including Marvin Hagler, Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, as well as such names in the entertainment world as Rodney Dangerfield, Sylvester Stallone, Russell Crowe, and Jerry Lewis, Bernstein’s memoir will have you in stitches.
Download or read book High Art Lite written by Julian Stallabrass and published by Verso. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High Art Lite takes a cool and critical look at the way in which British art in the 1990s has reinvented itself, successfully appealing both to the mass media and to the elite art world. In this extensively illustrated polemic, Julian Stallabrass asks whether it has done so at the price of dumbing down and selling out. 18 color and 53 b/w photographs.
Download or read book The Echoing Grove written by Rosamond Lehmann and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two sisters fall for the same man in this New York Times–bestselling novel of WWII-era England by an “immensely readable” author (Elizabeth Jane Howard). Rickie Masters is married to Madeleine, who is sitting out the war in the country with their children. Their domestic serenity is shattered when Rickie falls in love with Madeleine’s sister, Dinah, and they begin a clandestine, guilt-ridden affair. When Madeleine discovers their infidelity, accusations are hurled and hard choices are made. Then, a year before the war officially ends, tragedy strikes, and it is only after an estrangement of fifteen years that Madeleine and Dinah will begin to struggle toward some kind of reconciliation. Shifting between the three characters’ viewpoints, and shuttling seamlessly between past and present, The Echoing Grove is a story of life: messy, unpredictable, and unstoppable. It is about family, the things that hold us accountable, the events that lead to life-altering decisions, and the emotions that make us human. And above all it is about love: romantic love, married love, familial love, and illicit love. The heart wants what it wants, regardless of the cost.
Download or read book Seaboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Corporation Commission written by North Carolina. Corporation Commission and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Record written by George Frederick Shrady and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mad Merlin written by J. Robert King and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-08-13 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary magician Merlin works to unlock the secrets of his past and his future destiny in this fantasy adventure. “Everyone seems to know me. After fifteen hundred years, they remember me. Everyone knows Merlin. I am, of course, delighted . . . “This is the story of King Arthur and mad Merlin . . . ” In the tradition of The Mists of Avalon and Mythago Wood, J. Robert King weaves an epic tale of Avalon, Excalibur, the Once and Future King, and the mad magician Merlin as he draws on the ideas and writings of Joseph Campbell to shape and interpret the legendary Arthurian mythos. “A nicely written and engaging perspective on the wizard’s actual identity, the book’s sad in spots, funny in others and a worthwhile read.” —San Diego Union-Tribune
Download or read book Rosamond Lehmann and Her Critics written by Wendy Pollard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of contemporary and later critical responses to the work of the novelist Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) offers an original approach to twentieth-century literary history by foregrounding the cultural and commercial fields in which Lehmann's writing was situated. Wendy Pollard examines the effect recent developments in literary theory and movements from modernism to feminism have had on Lehmann's literary reception. She also considers the interpolation of a damning third category between te and popular culture, namely middlebrow; a widening gender divide in readership; controversies within book reviewing; changes in the publishing world; and the introduction of popularist means of book marketing. While considering the general privileging of male authors from the 1920s to the 1950s, Lehmann's most prolific period, Pollard argues that her novels have been unfairly subjected to specific forms of neglect, and their exclusion from many academic comparative studies is due to a diversity of form and content that can also be considered their strength.
Download or read book Blood and Salt written by Kim Liggett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last words Ash hears her mother say are, “When you fall in love, you will carve out your heart and throw it into the deepest ocean. You will be all in—blood and salt.” Determined to find her mother when she disappears, Ash follows her to Quivara, Kansas, the spiritual commune she escaped long ago. But something sinister and ancient waits among the rustling cornstalks of this village lost to time. Her mother is nowhere to be found, but Ash is plagued by memories of her ancestor, Katia, which harken back to the town’s history of unrequited love, murder, alchemy, and immortality. Charming traditions give way to a string of deaths. And Ash feels herself drawn to Dane, a mysterious, forbidden boy with secrets of his own. As the community prepares for a ceremony five hundred years in the making, Ash fights to save her mother, her lover, and herself. She must discover the truth about Quivara before it’s too late. Before she’s all in—blood and salt.
Download or read book The Book of Mercer written by Malvin M. Pilato and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In this place I, much like you, have been given no other option, but to crawl around on my belly much the same, and these eyes have gazed upon the truth that lies within the walls holding all of us captive.” – Capra Harlot
Download or read book Eccentric Objects written by Jo Applin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America during the 1960s, sculpture as an artistic practice underwent a series of radical transformations. Artists including Lee Bontecou, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, H. C. Westermann, and Bruce Nauman offered alternative ways of imagining the three-dimensional object. The objects they created were variously described as erotic, soft, figurative, aggressive, bodily, or, in the words of the critic Lucy Lippard, "eccentric." Looking beyond the familiar and canonic artworks of the 1960s, the book challenges not only how we think about these artists, but how we learn to look at the more familiar narratives of 1960s sculpture, such as Pop and Minimalism. Ambivalent and disruptive, the work of this decade articulated a radical renegotiation—rejection, even—of contemporary paradigms of sculptural practice. This invigorating study explores that shift and the ways in which the kinds of work made in this period defied established categories and questioned the criteria for thinking about sculpture.
Download or read book The President s Hero written by Louis V. Rohr and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Malloy, former All American football player from Notre Dame and a running back for the New York Jets, becomes a bum when his football days are over. His classmate, Sam Shalom, becomes the president of the United States. As president Shalom is concerned with the high cost of incarcerating prisoners. He plans to use an abandoned Naval base in the South Pacific to determine if 500 prisoners can support themselves. He needs someone to represent him on the island. The individual must be courageous, strong, likeable, and a bit crazy. He thinks of Jack Malloy. The FBI finds Jack in jail with a bunch of drunks. Jack is brought to Washington D.C. where he meets the first lady and falls in love with her. Jack's mind rebels at the idea of coping with hundreds of hardened criminals on an isolated island, but he's desperate for work, needs food, and a place to live. Moreover, he wants to get as far away as possible from the first lady. He's a drunk but he doesn't want to make a fool of himself. He agrees to help the President and join the criminals on the island.
Download or read book Medical record written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sex and War written by Malcolm Potts and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As news of war and terror dominates the headlines, scientist Malcolm Potts and veteran journalist Thomas Hayden take a step back to explain it all. In the spirit of Guns, Germs and Steel, Sex and War asks the basic questions: Why is war so fundamental to our species? And what can we do about it? Malcolm Potts explores these questions from the frontlines, as a witness to war-torn countries around the world. As a scientist and obstetrician, Potts has worked with governments and aid organizations globally, and in the trenches with women who have been raped and brutalized in the course of war. Combining their own experience with scientific findings in primatology, genetics, and anthropology, Potts and Hayden explain war's pivotal position in the human experience and how men in particular evolved under conditions that favored gang behavior, rape, and organized aggression. Drawing on these new insights, they propose a rational plan for making warfare less frequent and less brutal in the future. Anyone interested in understanding human nature, warfare, and terrorism at their most fundamental levels will find Sex and War to be an illuminating work, and one that might change the way they see the world.
Download or read book Barbara s History written by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward's novel of a young woman's growth from chidlhood to maturity is traced through her relationship with Hugh Farquhar whom she idolises from the first moment when, still a child, she meets him, already a mature man of the world. The development of their love for each other makes challenging and even painful demands upon them both before it reaches final fruition. This story of a spirited and talented heroine is set against the background of life in France and Germany and Italy and is rich in narrative and character
Download or read book John Isaacs written by Philipp Bollmann and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Architecture of Empathy ist der Titel einer Marmorstatue von John Isaacs und zugleich grundsätzliche Haltung und Rohmaterial all seiner Arbeiten. Der britische Künstler, der in den 1990er-Jahren zu den Young British Artists um Damien Hirst zählte und heute in Berlin lebt, arbeitet mit verschiedensten Materialien und Techniken, von Keramik, Neon, Bronze, Marmor und Wachs bis zu Fotografie und Zeichnung. Die reich bebilderte Publikation ist die erste umfangreiche Zusammenschau und bietet anhand von zahlreichen Essays und Gesprächen mit Wegbegleitern einen Überblick über Isaacs technische Bandbreite ebenso wie über seine besondere ästhetische, psycho-anthropologische Poesie.
