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Tree of Smoke

Author : Denis Johnson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374279127
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Tree of Smoke written by Denis Johnson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

People of Memorial Park

Author : Stacy Holden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781599328065
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book People of Memorial Park written by Stacy Holden and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Refuge Inspiration Make Your Path on The Trail A place of restoration. A center of well-being. A trail of freedom. A path to enhancement. You have stepped into the hallowed grounds of Houston's beloved Memorial Park. A place where anyone belongs . . . all that's required is a spirit of camaraderie and desire to improve oneself and the world around. Finding a trail so vital and so integrated with a community is a rarity, and that's just what Memorial Park is: a rarity, treasure, and pleasure for anyone who visits. Turn the pages and follow the many footsteps on the trail--those of the fast, slow, old, and young--and learn how one city's dedication to conserving its natural beauty and resources has changed countless lives, families, and organizations. Through others' perspectives, you will -find humor and appreciation for the diverse personalities who frequent the trail; -find the inspiration to overcome difficult situations; and -find the encouragement that anyone can be active. Follow the people of Memorial Park.

Brotherhood of the Rope

Author : Bernadette McDonald
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9780898869422
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Brotherhood of the Rope written by Bernadette McDonald and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of Charles Houston, M.D., famed for leading the heroic K2 expedition of 1953 and his pioneering research in high-altitude medicine. · Drawn from extensive interviews with Houston and full access to his letters and personal journals· Historic photos from Houston's Himalayan expeditions, Peace Corps leadership in India, pioneering high-altitude medicine research, and more · Foreword by Bill Moyers, introduction by Tom Hornbein

Handbook of Early Literacy Research

Author : David K. Dickinson
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 159385577X
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Early Literacy Research written by David K. Dickinson and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2007-05-02 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current research increasingly highlights the role of early literacy in young children's development--and informs practices and policies that promote success among diverse learners. The Handbook of Early Literacy Research presents cutting-edge knowledge on all aspects of literacy learning in the early years. Volume 2 provides additional perspectives on important topics covered in Volume 1 and addresses critical new topics: the transition to school, the teacher-child relationship, sociodramatic play, vocabulary development, neuroimaging work, Vygotskian theory, findings from international studies, and more.

A View to Die For

Author : Richard Houston
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781481995832
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book A View to Die For written by Richard Houston and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story is not your typical murder mystery. The sleuth is not a detective, private eye, or lawyer. He's an ordinary guy with an extraordinary dog. Jacob Martin is trying to make the best of a divorce and mid-life crisis when he gets a call at two o'clock Sunday morning from his mother. His sister has been arrested for the murder of her fourth husband, and his father is near death. Thus begins an adventure that takes Jake and his golden retriever from their Colorado retreat to a backwater town in the Missouri Ozarks, where they search for cold-blooded killers, a cache of gold coins buried by Jesse James, and the love of a beautiful nurse.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Author : Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061795836
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle written by Barbara Kingsolver and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain. "Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel. . . ." Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. "This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew . . . and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air." Includes an excerpt from Flight Behavior.

Sig Byrd's Houston

Author : Sigman Byrd
Publisher : Viking
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Sig Byrd's Houston written by Sigman Byrd and published by Viking. This book was released on 1955 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very funny book. The marvelous stories it tells with such economy and force could be the basis for many novels, motion pictures and folk song.

The Lost Frontier

Author : Mark Asquith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623568196
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Frontier written by Mark Asquith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The success of The Shipping News and the film of Brokeback Mountain brought Proulx international recognition, but their success merely confirms what literary critics have known for some time: Proulx is one of the most provocative and stylistically innovative writers in America today. She is at her best in the short story format, and the best of these are to be found in her Wyoming trilogy, in which she turns her eye on America's West-both past and present. Yet despite the vast amount of print expended reviewing her books, there has been nothing published on the Wyoming Stories. There is appetite for such a work; the plethora of critical work on McCarthy''s Border Trilogy indicates that the reinvention of the West is a subject for serious academic study."--Provided by publisher.

An Economic History of Film

Author : John Sedgwick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134344309
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book An Economic History of Film written by John Sedgwick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The movie industry boomed in the twentieth century, and is still going strong today. However, the economics of movies has been curiously under explored until now. Innovative and informative, this accessible book, which includes contributions from some of the leading experts in the area, is a huge step forward in our understanding of this important topic.

Sports and Entertainment Marketing, 2e

Author : Ken Kaser
Publisher : Thomson South-Western
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sports and Entertainment Marketing, 2e written by Ken Kaser and published by Thomson South-Western. This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Sports and Entertainment Marketing! The field of sports and entertainment marketing is rapidly growing. Many colleges, universities, and high schools offer specializations in sports and entertainment marketing. In this text, you will explore the intriguing world of sports and entertainment from the perspective of marketing. The functions of marketing that are presented are intended to be a guide in taking your first career step into the exciting worls of sports and entertainment. - To the student.

Plunkett's Entertainment & Media Industry Almanac

Author : Jack W. Plunkett
Publisher : Plunkett Research, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1593921306
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book Plunkett's Entertainment & Media Industry Almanac written by Jack W. Plunkett and published by Plunkett Research, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers profiles on many of firms in film, radio, television, cable, media, and publishing of various types including books, magazines and newspapers. This book contains many contacts for business and industry leaders, industry associations, Internet sites and other resources. It provides profiles of nearly 400 of top entertainment and media firms.

Lost in the New West

Author : Mark Asquith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501349538
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Lost in the New West written by Mark Asquith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost in the New West investigates a group of writers – John Williams, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx and Thomas McGuane – who have sought to explore the tensions inherent to the Western, where the distinctions between old and new, myth and reality, authenticity and sentimentality are frequently blurred. Collectively these authors demonstrate a deep-seated attachment to the landscape, people and values of the West and offer a critical appraisal of the dialogue between the contemporary West and its legacy. Mark Asquith draws attention to the idealistic young men at the center of such works as Williams's Butcher's Crossing (1960), McCarthy's Blood Meridian (1985) and Border Trilogy, Proulx's Wyoming stories and McGuane's Deadrock novels. For each writer, these characters struggle to come to terms with the difference between the suspect mythology of the West that shapes their identity and the reality that surrounds them. They are, in short, lost in the new West.

Jet

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-05-16 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

Entertainment Science

Author : Thorsten Hennig-Thurau
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319892924
Total Pages : 879 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Entertainment Science written by Thorsten Hennig-Thurau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 879 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entertainment industry has long been dominated by legendary screenwriter William Goldman’s “Nobody-Knows-Anything” mantra, which argues that success is the result of managerial intuition and instinct. This book builds the case that combining such intuition with data analytics and rigorous scholarly knowledge provides a source of sustainable competitive advantage – the same recipe for success that is behind the rise of firms such as Netflix and Spotify, but has also fueled Disney’s recent success. Unlocking a large repertoire of scientific studies by business scholars and entertainment economists, the authors identify essential factors, mechanisms, and methods that help a new entertainment product succeed. The book thus offers a timely alternative to “Nobody-Knows” decision-making in the digital era: while coupling a good idea with smart data analytics and entertainment theory cannot guarantee a hit, it systematically and substantially increases the probability of success in the entertainment industry. Entertainment Science is poised to inspire fresh new thinking among managers, students of entertainment, and scholars alike. Thorsten Hennig-Thurau and Mark B. Houston – two of our finest scholars in the area of entertainment marketing – have produced a definitive research-based compendium that cuts across various branches of the arts to explain the phenomena that provide consumption experiences to capture the hearts and minds of audiences. Morris B. Holbrook, W. T. Dillard Professor Emeritus of Marketing, Columbia University Entertainment Science is a must-read for everyone working in the entertainment industry today, where the impact of digital and the use of big data can’t be ignored anymore. Hennig-Thurau and Houston are the scientific frontrunners of knowledge that the industry urgently needs. Michael Kölmel, media entrepreneur and Honorary Professor of Media Economics at University of Leipzig Entertainment Science’s winning combination of creativity, theory, and data analytics offers managers in the creative industries and beyond a novel, compelling, and comprehensive approach to support their decision-making. This ground-breaking book marks the dawn of a new Golden Age of fruitful conversation between entertainment scholars, managers, and artists. Allègre Hadida, Associate Professor in Strategy, University of Cambridge

Bird of Another Heaven

Author : James D. Houston
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307388085
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Bird of Another Heaven written by James D. Houston and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-04-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Snow Mountain Passage comes this richly evocative novel that follows a half-Indian, half-Hawai'ian woman and her complex relationship with the last king of Hawai'i.When talk show host Sheridan Brody finds the journals of his great grandmother Nani Keala (aka Nancy Callahan), he uncovers a mythic, unknown tale. Nani, a shy girl from a remote Indian village, met the Hawai'ian king, David Kalakaua, on his grand progress by train across the United States in 1881, eventually returning with him to Honolulu. There, as his young ally and protégée, ever more assured and charming, she played an integral role in his attempt to revive the monarchy and spirit of his people and, eventually, witnessed the mysterious circumstances surrounding his downfall. Deeply engaging through its vivid portrayal of California and Hawai'i at the end of the nineteenth century, Bird of Another Heaven is a masterful portrait of an era long past.

Nanny State

Author : David Harsanyi
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767928458
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Nanny State written by David Harsanyi and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When did we lose our right to be lazy, unhealthy, and politically incorrect? Move over Big Brother! An insidious new group has inserted itself into American politics. They are the nannies—not the stroller-pushing set but an invasive band of do-gooders who are subtly and steadily stripping us of our liberties, robbing us of the inalienable right to make our own decisions, and turning America into a nation of children. As you read this, countless busybodies across the nation are rolling up their sleeves to do the work of straightening out your life. Certain Massachusetts towns have banned school-yard tag. San Francisco has passed laws regulating the amount of water you should use in dog bowls. The mayor of New York City has french fries and doughnuts in his sights. In some parts of California, smoking is prohibited . . . outside. The government, under pressure from the nanny minority, is twisting the public’s arm into obedience. Playground police, food fascists, anti-porn crusaders —whether they're legislating morality or wellbeing—nannies are popping up all over America. In the name of health, safety, decency, and—shudder—good intentions, these ever-vigilant politicians and social activists are dictating what we eat, where we smoke, what we watch and read, and whom we marry. Why do bureaucrats think they know what's better for us than we do? And are they selectively legislating in the name of political expediency? For instance, why do we ban mini-motorbikes, responsible for five deaths each year, and not skiing, which accounts for fifty deaths each year? Why is medical marijuana, a substance yet to claim a single life, banned and not aspirin, which accounts for about 7,600 deaths? Exhaustively researched, sharply observed, and refreshingly lucid, Nanny Sate looks at the myriad ways we are turning the United States into a soulless and staid nation—eroding not only our personal freedoms but our national character.

The Secret Science Behind Movie Stunts & Special Effects

Author : Steve Wolf
Publisher : Saddleback Educational Publ
ISBN 13 : 1599053853
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Science Behind Movie Stunts & Special Effects written by Steve Wolf and published by Saddleback Educational Publ. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how stunt performers, camera trickery, and computer graphics are used to create illusions of reality in movies.