Author : Shugoro Yamamoto
Publisher : Shelley Marshall
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1959002066
No one lives life alone. Edo, Japan Eiji is a smart, good-looking, young man dedicated to mastering the craft of scroll mounting and framing. Sabu, neither handsome nor clever, is his best friend and fellow apprentice. The future looks bright for these friends until Eiji is accused of stealing and vanishes.
Author : Paul J. Kubis
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 22,64 MB
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1681390841
My life story, tells of a very innocent young boy raised up in very innocent times, by his grandparents, in the suburbs of Chicago and how he becomes man of the house at eleven when his grandfather suddenly dies. In high school he does something that alienates him from his classmates simply because he said he would do it. He is criticized and bullied for the next two and a half years and then the two most popular boys in school befriend him. After graduating he goes to live with his mother in Miami, Florida and is exposed to the outside world. A short, boring stint in college and he finds puppy love. He marries, has a little girl and is doing very well as a realtor on the north shore of Chicago. Two men burst into his office one afternoon and take him down into a basement where he is handcuffed to a chair, bolted to the floor, and threaten. They play one way russian roulette with him from 8:00p.m. to 12:00a.m. and then throw him in jail with a guy who just killed a man. He proves his innocence and moves on with his life, divorces, starting a new job, remarries and divorces, becomes a landlord and refurbisher, remarries and divorces, remarries his first wife, eludes hit man hired by his partner and moves to Miami Florida, divorces first wife again and he moves on.
Author : Elle Brian
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1524539406
The Vessel is a five chapter, nonfiction book based on the life of a psychic woman named Marie Nan. The book delineates this native New Yorkers life from childhood in the 1950s to adulthood. It details a journey in which Marie is emotionally impacted by both her psychic experiences and her extraterrestrial encounters. Her fear of both unknowns impels her to seek spiritual guidance from Maria. As a santera, Maria channels a spirit who explains to Marie her mission in life. Throughout the book, Maries frightening experiences are intertwined with her personal lifes successes and disappointments. She is married more than once and has a daughter, whom she knows has been a victim of an encounter of the third kind. Her familys psychic and alien-related experiences are also interlaced into Maries journey. Throughout her life, Marie accepts her spiritual experiences but continues to question the purpose for her alien-related encounters. Ultimately, Marie seeks a regression to uncover why she has been chosen.
Author : Paige McClanahan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1668011778
A brilliantly evocative, surprising, and page-turning exploration of how tourism has shaped the world, for better and for worse—essential reading for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the implications of their wanderlust. Through deep and perceptive dispatches from tourist spots around the globe—from Hawaii to Saudi Arabia, Amsterdam to Angkor Wat—The New Tourist lifts the veil on an industry that accounts for one in ten jobs worldwide and generates nearly ten percent of global GDP. How did a once-niche activity become the world’s most important means of contact across cultures? When does tourism destroy the soul of a city, and when does it offer a place a new lease on life? Is “last chance tourism” prompting a powerful change in perspective, or driving places we love further into the ground? Filled with revelations about an industry that shapes how we view the world, The New Tourist spotlights painful truths but also delivers a message of hope: that the right kind of tourism—and the right kind of tourist—can be a powerful force for good.
Author : Osmond Borradaile
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 16,49 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780773522978
The personal journey of a great adventurer and artist, Life Through a Lens details how "Bordie" thrived on the evolving technical demands of an art form in constant flux that changed forever the way we view the world and ourselves."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Anthony Serritella
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 29,57 MB
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1456743333
Book Jacket: From taking $2 horse bets at his uncles newsstand in Chicagos downtown district as a nine-year-old in the 1940s, to taking $20,000 Super Bowl bets from traders on the floor at one of Chicagos Exchanges , Anthony Serrano has seen every bet and every character that comes with themsome loved, and some who wield machine guns. Serrano, a lifelong resident of Chicagos Chinatown, takes readers on a story about his childhood experience with a book-maker, in the army, as an options clerk and broker and as a railroad clerk. Where it seemed everyone just couldnt resist the thrill of a good (or bad) bet. Told first-hand, Serrano walks us through light-hearted tales that often lead to funny yet sometimes serious circumstances. After taking steep bets from what appeared to be a wealthy businessman, Serrano is exposed to what turns out to be a drug-crazed, bankrupt husband who will stop at nothing to get his ex-wife back and suffers a brutal fate in his pursuit. Meanwhile, Serrano is swept into this drama after the husband cannot pay back a bet. Serrano also explains how his experience as a bookie gave him an advantage while in the army, giving him job opportunities that few other reserves had. He tells how his investment in a Lounge in Cicero, Illinois, welcomes some threatening and dangerous company, and how his neighborhood connections may have saved his life. From being shaken down by Chicago Police for their share of the action from a bookie on the railroads to trying to rescue a dear friend from financial ruins in the commodity markets in 1980s, we see a self-made man who has an unusual grace in pressure situations and an affinity for forging friendships with the most unlikely of characters, resulting in some fascinating tales.
Author : J. G. Rogers
Publisher : Writers Republic LLC
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The great flood and Atlantis, history’s most tragic event and most sought-out mystery. Witness this tragedy and uncover the mystery through one man’s account, documenting A Lifetime in Aries. In ancient times, much like today, players on the world stage operated on one of two principles, for themselves or for their people. Find out who’s who in this gripping debut novel that tackles some of history’s most tragic events, biggest conspiracies, and introduces some lost heroes of a bygone age. Set against the backdrop of antiquity and the last Ice age, history is reimagined with alternative science challenging the conventional. With modern-day riddles explored and answered
Author : Shaji K. John
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Kalarippayattu is an indigenous martial art of Kerala. I am a traditionally trained Kalarippayattu practitioner. I joined the Indian contemporary dance-choreographer, Chandralekha (1928–2006), in Chennai, as instructed by my Kalari Guru Shri E P Vasudevan Gurukkal (1932–2015) (Kaduthuruthy, Kerala). I worked with Chandralekha and performed nine of her creative productions for twenty years (1986–2006). I continued to perform her last creative production for another ten years. In this book, I am narrating my thirty years (1986–2016) of experience performing the creative works of Chandralekha. “…he has the capacity to ‘disappear’ when he moves. We don’t see him, we see the movement.” “…He does not represent the movement. He is the movement. Or more simply, he is.” – Rustom Bharucha (Chandralekha: Woman Dance Resistance, pp.253-4.)
Author : Gabriella Coleman
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1781689830
The ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists collectively known as Anonymous—by the writer the Huffington Post says “knows all of Anonymous’ deepest, darkest secrets” “A work of anthropology that sometimes echoes a John le Carré novel.” —Wired Half a dozen years ago, anthropologist Gabriella Coleman set out to study the rise of this global phenomenon just as some of its members were turning to political protest and dangerous disruption (before Anonymous shot to fame as a key player in the battles over WikiLeaks, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street). She ended up becoming so closely connected to Anonymous that the tricky story of her inside–outside status as Anon confidante, interpreter, and erstwhile mouthpiece forms one of the themes of this witty and entirely engrossing book. The narrative brims with details unearthed from within a notoriously mysterious subculture, whose semi-legendary tricksters—such as Topiary, tflow, Anachaos, and Sabu—emerge as complex, diverse, politically and culturally sophisticated people. Propelled by years of chats and encounters with a multitude of hackers, including imprisoned activist Jeremy Hammond and the double agent who helped put him away, Hector Monsegur, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy is filled with insights into the meaning of digital activism and little understood facets of culture in the Internet age, including the history of “trolling,” the ethics and metaphysics of hacking, and the origins and manifold meanings of “the lulz.”
Author : Tod Gordon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1637588674
The uncensored inside story of ECW’s founder Tod Gordon’s journey from jewelry store owner to one of the three most powerful promoters in pro wrestling. “An incredible, entertaining and insightful story of one of the most important—and also underappreciated—promoters in wrestling history. A must-read for any wrestling fan, promoter, executive or any of the boys looking to laugh and learn.” —Alfred Boima Konuwa III, Forbes Extreme Championship Wrestling was the revolutionary, industry-redefining wrestling federation of the ’90s, and founder and owner Tod Gordon is telling his story for the first time. Gordon went from local Philadelphia businessman to the third most influential man in wrestling as ECW became the fiery challenger to WWE and WCW. ECW’s young roster featured inventive risk-taking talent that both major federations sought to emulate but could never duplicate. Chants of “E-C-W!” rang out in wrestling arenas across all federations for decades. “…a must-read story detailing the colorful history of ECW.” —Justin Barrasso, Sports Illustrated In Tod is God—so named for a chant the ECW fans created to honor the founder—Gordon chronicles each step of the company’s meteoric rise to prominence, as well as the elements that led to his removing himself from the company before its demise. Gordon’s former partnership with ECW booker Paul Heyman made for magical TV and in-ring moments. The friendship between Gordon and Heyman, both a blessing and curse, was the once-in-a-lifetime bond responsible for so many of history’s greatest teams, bands, and partners. Gordon has stayed silent on the causes for the split and, by doing so, assumed blame for it. Until now. "The true, raw and unvarnished journey of an extreme influencer who changed the entire trajectory of the professional wrestling industry. The letters ECW never cease to fascinate fans and Tod Gordon finally reveals all the inner workings and machinations that came with the creation, rise and fall of the most influential wrestling company of the 1990s.” —Mike Johnson, PWInsider Tod is God is the closest you’ll ever get to living ECW’s ride to the top. Come sit beside Sandman, Sabu, Terry Funk, Cactus Jack, and other ECW stars as Gordon brings you inside the locker rooms, hotel rooms, and car rides. From the triumphs and breakthroughs to the frustrations and tragedies, you’ll live it all alongside the man who started it all. “ECW was figuratively (and occasionally literally) the match and accelerant that took the wrestling business from being a niche product to a staple of broadcast and cable television. Without Tod Gordon, there never would have been a WWF Attitude Era. He ended up changing an entire industry.” —Dave Scherer, PWInsider
