Author : Tom Coyne
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 13,59 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781592402090
Traces the author's year-long attempt to earn a competitor's spot at the PGA Tour Qualifying School, an endeavor marked by such challenges as crash diets, sports psychiatrists, and obscure tournaments.
Author : Nayanika Mathur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107106974
Paper Tiger shifts the debate on state failure and opens up new understanding of the workings of the contemporary Indian state.
Author : Ken Liu
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1481424378
Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume. With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories. This mesmerizing collection features many of Ken’s award-winning and award-finalist stories, including: “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards), “Mono No Aware” (Hugo Award winner), “The Waves” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” (Nebula and Sturgeon Award finalists), “All the Flavors” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” (Nebula Award finalist), and the most awarded story in the genre’s history, “The Paper Menagerie” (The only story to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards). Insightful and stunning stories that plumb the struggle against history and betrayal of relationships in pivotal moments, this collection showcases one of our greatest and original voices.
Author : Xu Zhiyuan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1781859817
In PAPER TIGER the Chinese journalist and intellectual Xu Zhiyuan paints a portrait of the world's second-largest economy via a thoughtful and wide-ranging series of mini essays on contemporary Chinese society. Xu Zhiyuan describes the many stages upon which China's great transformation is taking place, from Beijing's Silicon district to a cruise down the Three Gorges; he profiles China's dissidents, including Liu Xiaobo, Ai Weiwei and Chen Guangcheng; and explores lesser-known stories of scandals that rocked China but which most people outside that country did not hear about – and which shed troubling light on China's dark heart. Xu Zhiyuan understands his homeland in a way no foreign correspondent ever could. PAPER TIGER is a unique insider's view of China that is measured and brave, ambitious in scope and deeply personal.
Author : Douglas B. Fuller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,9 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198777205
This book provides an in-depth study of China's information technology (IT) industry and policy in the 21st century, and explores the connection between China's financial system and technological development outcomes.
Author : Christopher Prohaska
Publisher : Page Publishing, Inc
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1646282108
Paper Tiger is a small concise picture of my thirteen years spent contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Starting with securing weapons of mass destruction in Southern Iraq to giving away billions of US tax dollars while leading teams in Hillary's army. This book was written in the most sarcastic manner; as sarcasm was my endurance formula for the incompetence of leadership provided to us in mission accomplishment. If the enemy ever knew how much we improvised and the illusions we created, then we would all be getting our heads lopped off on the Internet.
Author : Ted A. Kluck
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 0762766336
Author : Gary Hoppenstand
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,83 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780879723569
The author examines the process of social life and the relationship of myth, popular formula, and the mystery genre to social psychology. The book presents social construction of reality theory as a methodology upon which the structure of mass-mediated popular fiction can be examined, postulating definitions of myth and formula and advancing a new language of literary analysis that acknowledges the socially defining, democratizing experience of popular fiction. Social-psychological analysis is focused on the mystery genre and examines its taxonomy, including the supernatural, fiction noir, gangster, thief, thriller, and detective formulas.
Author : John Sturrock
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Carol Freeman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 2010-08-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9004186727
Images of animals generate perceptions that have a profound effect on attitudes toward species. Can representations contribute to their extinction? Paper Tiger considers the role of illustrations in the demise of the thylacine or Tasmanian ‘tiger’. It critiques 80 engravings, lithographs, drawings and photographs published between 1808 and 1936, paying attention to the messages they convey, the politics of representation, and the impact on the lives of animals. This approach challenges conventional histories, offers new understandings of human-animal interactions, and presents a chilling story of just how misleading and powerful visual representation can be. It demonstrates how pictures, together with words, can have a vital influence on species’ survival. " ... this book is a remarkable achievement. Freeman writes thoughtfully, carefully and with force, and the book is a very good read."’ (Nigel Rothfels, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
