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Impossible Histories

Author : Hal Johnson
Publisher : Odd Dot
ISBN 13 : 125090580X
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Impossible Histories written by Hal Johnson and published by Odd Dot. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across 1400 years and six continents (sorry, Australia), Impossible Histories examines pivotal moments in history from both sides—what happened and what would have happened had things gone differently. The results are by turns strange, hilarious, tragic...and always fascinating. Imagine a world in which... - Hitler builds a thousand-year Reich - Columbus gets driven from the Americas by mounted knights - Robespierre decapitates Caesar Augustus - The Inca Empire has an air force - Jimmy Carter presses the Button These brave new worlds are merely our own, familiar world—if something small had happened differently. We're all one elephant away from peace in the Middle East, one knife thrust away from nuclear Armageddon. This book examines twenty pivotal moments in history, asks what if?...,and drags the answers kicking and screaming into the light. History--factual and counterfactual has never been so entertaining. A whirlwind ride through history as it never happened--but could have.

Impossible Histories

Author : Dubravka Djurić
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262042161
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Impossible Histories written by Dubravka Djurić and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first critical survey of the largely unknown avant-garde movements of the former Yugoslavia.

William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s

Author : Saree Makdisi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226502619
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s written by Saree Makdisi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern scholars often find it difficult to account for the profound eccentricities in the work of William Blake, dismissing them as either ahistorical or simply meaningless. But with this pioneering study, Saree Makdisi develops a reliable and comprehensive framework for understanding these peculiarities. According to Makdisi, Blake's poetry and drawings should compel us to reconsider the history of the 1790s. Tracing for the first time the many links among economics, politics, and religion in his work, Makdisi shows how Blake questioned and even subverted the commercial, consumerist, and political liberties that his contemporaries championed, all while developing his own radical aesthetic.

Past Futures

Author : Ged Martin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802086457
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Past Futures written by Ged Martin and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Past Futures, Ged Martin advocates examining the decisions that people take, most of which are not the result of a 'process, ' but are reached intuitively.

Impossible

Author : Cole Louison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762768002
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Impossible written by Cole Louison and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skateboarding: the background, technicality, culture, rebellion, marketing, conflict, and future of the global sport as seen through two of its most influential geniuses Since it all began half a century ago, skateboarding has come to mystify some and to mesmerize many, including its tens of millions of adherents throughout America and the world. And yet, as ubiquitous as it is today, its origins, manners, and methods are little understood. The Impossible aims to get skateboarding right. Journalist Cole Louison gets inside the history, culture, and major personalities of skating. He does solargely by recounting the careers of the sport’s Yoda—Rodney Mullen, who, in his mid-forties, remains the greatest skateboarder in the world, the godfather of all modern skateboarding tricks—and its Luke Skywalker—Ryan Sheckler, who became its youngest pro athlete and a celebrity at thirteen. The story begins in the 1960s, when the first boards made their way to land in the form of off-season surfing in southern California. It then follows the sport’s spikes, plateaus, and drops—including its billion-dollar apparel industry and its connection with art, fashion, and music. In The Impossible, we come to know intimately not only skateboarding, but also two very different, equally fascinating geniuses who have shaped the sport more than anyone else.

The Impossible Presidency

Author : Jeremi Suri
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465093906
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Impossible Presidency written by Jeremi Suri and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new history of the American presidency, arguing that the successful presidents of the past created unrealistic expectations for every president since JFK, with enormously problematic implications for American politics In The Impossible Presidency, celebrated historian Jeremi Suri charts the rise and fall of the American presidency, from the limited role envisaged by the Founding Fathers to its current status as the most powerful job in the world. He argues that the presidency is a victim of its own success-the vastness of the job makes it almost impossible to fulfill the expectations placed upon it. As managers of the world's largest economy and military, contemporary presidents must react to a truly globalized world in a twenty-four-hour news cycle. There is little room left for bold vision. Suri traces America's disenchantment with our recent presidents to the inevitable mismatch between presidential promises and the structural limitations of the office. A masterful reassessment of presidential history, this book is essential reading for anyone trying to understand America's fraught political climate.

Major Impossible (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #9)

Author : Nathan Hale
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683356322
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Major Impossible (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #9) written by Nathan Hale and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ninth book in the bestselling series tells the story of John Wesley Powell, the one-armed geologist who explored the Grand Canyon John Wesley Powell (1834–1902) always had the spirit of adventure in him. As a young man, he traveled all over the United States exploring. When the Civil War began, Powell went to fight for the Union, and even after he lost most of his right arm, he continued to fight until the war was over. In 1869 he embarked with the Colorado River Exploring Expedition, ten men in four boats, to float through Grand Canyon. Over the course of three months, the explorers lost their boats and supplies, nearly drowned, and were in peril on multiple occasions. Ten explorers went in, only six came out. Powell would come to be known as one of the most epic explorers in history! Equal parts gruesome and hilarious, this latest installment in the bestselling series takes readers on an action-packed adventure through American history.

Impossible Stories

Author : John Murillo III
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814257777
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Impossible Stories written by John Murillo III and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bold new readings of recent and canonical Black creative works that excavate how time, space, and blackness intersect to show how through Afro-pessimism, Black people can fight the anti-Black cosmos.

Failure is Impossible!

Author : Martha E. Kendall
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822517443
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Failure is Impossible! written by Martha E. Kendall and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the development of feminist ideas and women's rights in America from the Salem witchcraft trials of the seventeenth century through the appointment of the first woman secretary of state in the late twentieth century.

We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible

Author : Darlene Clark Hine
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0926019813
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible written by Darlene Clark Hine and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by 30 authors attempt to reclaim and to create heightened awareness about individuals, contributions, and struggles that have made African American women's survival and progress possible.

The Impossible People

Author : Georgess McHargue
Publisher : Holt McDougal
ISBN 13 : 9780030802379
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Impossible People written by Georgess McHargue and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1972 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the origins and evolution of various mythological beings such as giants, faeries, trolls, and mermaids in European and American folklore.

The Impossible Office?

Author : Anthony Seldon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009429779
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Impossible Office? written by Anthony Seldon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 300 years, fifty-seven individuals have held the office of British Prime Minister - who have been the best and worst?

Impossible Peace

Author : Mark Levine
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848137036
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Impossible Peace written by Mark Levine and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1993 luminaries from around the world signed the 'Oslo Accords' - a pledge to achieve lasting peace in the Holy Land - on the lawn of the White House. Yet things didn't turn out quite as planned. With over 1, 000 Israelis and close to four times that number of Palestinians killed since 2000, the Oslo process is now considered 'history'. Impossible Peace provides one of the first comprehensive analyses of that history. Mark LeVine argues that Oslo was never going to bring peace or justice to Palestinians or Israelis. He claims that the accords collapsed not because of a failure to live up to the agreements; but precisely because of the terms of and ideologies underlying the agreements. Today more than ever before, it's crucial to understand why these failures happened and how they will impact on future negotiations towards the 'final status agreement'. This fresh and honest account of the peace process in the Middle East shows how by learning from history it may be possible to avoid the errors that have long doomed peace in the region.

The Secret History of Magic

Author : Peter Lamont
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524704458
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Secret History of Magic written by Peter Lamont and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pull back the curtain on the real history of magic – and discover why magic really matters If you read a standard history of magic, you learn that it begins in ancient Egypt, with the resurrection of a goose in front of the Pharaoh. You discover how magicians were tortured and killed during the age of witchcraft. You are told how conjuring tricks were used to quell rebellious colonial natives. The history of magic is full of such stories, which turn out not to be true. Behind the smoke and mirrors, however, lies the real story of magic. It is a history of people from humble roots, who made and lost fortunes, and who deceived kings and queens. In order to survive, they concealed many secrets, yet they revealed some and they stole others. They engaged in deception, exposure, and betrayal, in a quest to make the impossible happen. They managed to survive in a world in which a series of technological wonders appeared, which previous generations would have considered magical. Even today, when we now take the most sophisticated technology for granted, we can still be astonished by tricks that were performed hundreds of years ago. The Secret History of Magic reveals how this was done. It is about why magic matters in a world that no longer seems to have a place for it, but which desperately needs a sense of wonder.

Permanent Crisis

Author : Paul Reitter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022673823X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Permanent Crisis written by Paul Reitter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leads scholars and anyone who cares about the humanities into more effectively analyzing the fate of the humanities and digging into the very idea of the humanities as a way to find meaning and coherence in the world. The humanities, considered by many as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, seem to be in a perpetual state of crisis, at the mercy of modernizing and technological forces that are driving universities towards academic pursuits that pull in grant money and direct students to lucrative careers. But as Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon show, this crisis isn’t new—in fact, it’s as old as the humanities themselves. Today’s humanities scholars experience and react to basic pressures in ways that are strikingly similar to their nineteenth-century German counterparts. The humanities came into their own as scholars framed their work as a unique resource for resolving crises of meaning and value that threatened other cultural or social goods. The self-understanding of the modern humanities didn’t merely take shape in response to a perceived crisis; it also made crisis a core part of its project. Through this critical, historical perspective, Permanent Crisis can take scholars and anyone who cares about the humanities beyond the usual scolding, exhorting, and hand-wringing into clearer, more effective thinking about the fate of the humanities. Building on ideas from Max Weber and Friedrich Nietzsche to Helen Small and Danielle Allen, Reitter and Wellmon dig into the very idea of the humanities as a way to find meaning and coherence in the world. ,

Demanding the Impossible

Author : Peter Marshall
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007375832
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Demanding the Impossible written by Peter Marshall and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and comprehensive history, 'Demanding the Impossible' is a challenging and thought-provoking exploration of anarchist ideas and actions from ancient times to the present day.

Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific

Author : Susan Y. Najita
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134211716
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific written by Susan Y. Najita and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita proposes that the traumatic history of contact and colonization has become a crucial means by which indigenous peoples of Oceania are reclaiming their cultures, languages, ways of knowing, and political independence. In particular, she examines how contemporary writers from Hawai‘i, Samoa, and Aotearoa/New Zealand remember, re-tell, and deploy this violent history in their work. As Pacific peoples negotiate their paths towards sovereignty and chart their postcolonial futures, these writers play an invaluable role in invoking and commenting upon the various uses of the histories of colonial resistance, allowing themselves and their readers to imagine new futures by exorcising the past. Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific is a valuable addition to the fields of Pacific and Postcolonial Studies and also contributes to struggles for cultural decolonization in Oceania: contemporary writers’ critical engagement with colonialism and indigenous culture, Najita argues, provides a powerful tool for navigating a decolonized future.