Author : Tom Coyne
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 24,24 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 : 35,58 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 : Ted A. Kluck
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
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ISBN : 0762766336
Author : Xu Zhiyuan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 39,78 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 : Olivier Rolin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803289995
Their generation was anything but lost, at least in the beginning. Filled with fiery ambition and idealistic to a fault, they found their voice in the Paris of 1968 and were intent on exposing the powers of repression and the demons of Western capitalism (and what, really, was the difference?)?by any means. But the acts of violence misfired, the principles of Marxism and Maoism became emptied of meaning, and the casualties mounted. The protagonist Martin is now middle-aged; his group, ?The Cause,? is disbanded; his best friend has committed suicide; and he finds he must try to explain to the man?s daughter who they were, what they thought they were doing, and what happened. ø Paper Tiger takes place during one night that this unlikely couple spends driving around Paris as they revisit a somewhat distant past. This odyssey is adroitly evoked by Rolin's long, fluid sentences as they reflect the car?s route past the sundry signs of the past and advertisements of the present dotting the Paris beltway. ø This prize-winning novel by one of France?s most acclaimed writers tells, through Martin, the elegiac story of a whole generation?s coming of age.
Author : Christopher Prohaska
Publisher : Page Publishing, Inc
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 31,49 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 : Douglas B. Fuller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 23,2 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 : Ken Liu
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,94 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 : Gordon Korman
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,19 MB
Release : 1995-05
Category : Baseball stories
ISBN : 9780785772248
When his Little League team gets a coach who knows nothing about baseball, seventh grader Corey is dismayed to see the team taken over by the coach's pushy twelve-year-old granddaughter.
Author : Stanley Woodward
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803259614
Stanley Woodward (1895-1964) was a veteran sports writer, newspaperman, and sports editor of the New York Herald Tribune; indeed, some believe he was the greatest of all sports editors. Paper Tiger is his lively and vivid account of his life as an athlete, sailor, war correspondent, and metropolitan journalist. Whether discussing his war experiences, the world of sports, or the tough and exciting world of newspaper life, Woodward speaks with a rare directness. When he doesn't like something or someone, he makes no bones about it. Yet, despite all of his often acerbic comments, we always have the feeling that the author's honesty is matched by his fairness. Partisan he may be; vindictive and sour he is not. Although Paper Tiger will appeal especially to sports fans, anyone who wants to know the inside story of newspaper life will find it a fascinating book. In his phenomenal career, Stanley Woodward wrote a number of sports books, including Sports Page and Stanley Woodward's Football. He is the winner of three E. P. Dutton awards for sports writing. John Schulian is the author of Writers' Fighters and Other Sweet Scientists and Twilight of the Long-ball Gods: Dispatches from the Disappearing Heart of Baseball, available in a Bison Books edition.
