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Author : Paul DuBois Jacobs
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423600738
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)
Download or read book My Taxi Ride written by Paul DuBois Jacobs and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2006 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrations and rhythmic text describe the sights and sounds of a taxi ride in New York City.
Author : Joseph Rodriguez
Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 : 9781576879313
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (793 download)
Download or read book Taxi written by Joseph Rodriguez and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City in the late '70s was a collection of villages with its downtown scene, midtown workers, and uptown elegance. It was also a city that was more integrated than ever before or ever would be again. All of the city's humanity met in its streets with layered soundtracks of salsa, rock, disco, reggae, and soon hip-hop booming for all to groove to. But, NYC was also a place of chaos and mayhem. Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy with rampant crime it was the city's drug users, dealers, and pimps and prostitutes who ruled the streets of Manhattan. The grittiness of the city was a beacon and a promise to many outsiders, those who didn't quite fit into any mold, and a vibrant LGBTQ community became the nexus of an underworld of sex workers who liked to party. For a NYC cabbie such as Joseph Rodriguez, the hot spots to pick up fares were clubs like the Hellfire, Mineshaft, The Anvil, The Vault, and Show World. Losing his first camera and lens in a classic '70s New York stabbing and mugging, Rodriguez's wounds healed and he armed himself with a new camera to document what he saw on the job: hookers getting off their shifts, transvestites and S&M partiers doin' it in the back seat or somehow pulling off an unlikely costume change from bondage gear to emerge from the cab clean-cut in an oxford and khakis ready to face unwitting family and friends. A humanist at heart, his photographs speak of the dignity of the city's working class from all the boroughs and those struggling to get by. The Economic Hardship Reporting Project provided funding to support Taxi: Journey Through My Windows 1977–1987.
Author : A. X. Ahmad
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250016835
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Caretaker written by A. X. Ahmad and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the caretaker hiding in the shadows of the Martha's Vineyard mansions he tends? Back in India, Ranjit Singh commanded an elite army squad. But that was years ago, before his Army career ended in dishonor, shattering his reputation. Driven from his homeland, he is now a caretaker on the exclusive resort island of Martha's Vineyard, looking after the vacation homes of the rich and powerful. One harsh winter, faced with no other choice, he secretly moves his family into the house of one of his clients, an African-American Senator. Here, his wife and daughter are happy, and he feels safe for the first time in ages. But Ranjit's idyll is shattered when mysterious men break into the house. Pursued and hunted, Ranjit is forced to enter the Senator's shadowy world, and his only ally is Anna, the Senator's beautiful wife, who has secrets of her own. Together, they uncover a trail of deception that leads from the calm shores of the Vineyard to countries half a world away. And when his investigation stirs up long forgotten events, the caretaker must finally face the one careless decision that ruined his life- and forced him to leave India. A gripping tale of hidden histories, political intrigue and dangerous attractions, A. X. Ahmad's The Caretaker introduces a new hero for our times: an immigrant caught between two worlds and a man caught between two loves.
Author : Paul Arden
Publisher : Perigee Books
ISBN 13 : 9780399535086
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)
Download or read book God Explained in a Taxi Ride written by Paul Arden and published by Perigee Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advertising and design legend Paul Arden takes an exciting, visually creative, and thoroughly digestible approach to a subject of enormous proven interest and relevance. Using a series of poignant, contemporary vignettes, God Explained in a Taxi Rideanalyzes and explores the questions that have persisted since mankind’s earliest days. This brilliant little gem of a book compels readers to scratch their heads as it examines man’s relationship to the divine—all within the length of a taxi ride.
Author : Sara Trofa
Publisher : Prestel Junior
ISBN 13 : 9783791374062
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Taxi Ride with Victor written by Sara Trofa and published by Prestel Junior. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Victor is everyone's favorite extraterrestrial taxi driver, but he has a big problem. His memory is terrible! He can never remember his way around the galaxy. When he drops off his passengers at the wrong locations, there are some unexpected and hilarious high jinks"--
Author : A. X. Ahmad
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 125001686X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Last Taxi Ride written by A. X. Ahmad and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up to The Caretaker finds New York City cab driver Ranjit Singh wrongly accused of murder when a Bollywood star is found murdered in an apartment where Ranjit had recently eaten, a case that is complicated by a key witness's disappearance. 35,000 first printing.
Author : Charles S. Cockell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674271831
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Taxi from Another Planet written by Charles S. Cockell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taxi drivers love to talk, and when astrobiologist Charles Cockell is their passenger, they love to talk about aliens. This humorous, insightful collection gathers essays inspired by conversations with cabbies, ranging over the possible nature of alien societies, the inevitability of life, and links between environmentalism and space exploration.
Author : Dmitry Samarov
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226734749
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Hack written by Dmitry Samarov and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cabdrivers and their yellow taxis are as much a part of the cityscape as the high-rise buildings and the subway. We hail them without thought after a wearying day at the office or an exuberant night on the town. And, undoubtedly, taxi drivers have stories to tell—of farcical local politics, of colorful passengers, of changing neighborhoods and clandestine shortcuts. No one knows a city’s streets—and thus its heart—better than its cabdrivers. And from behind the wheel of his taxi, Dmitry Samarov has seen more of Chicago than most Chicagoans will hope to experience in a lifetime. An artist and painter trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Samarov began driving a cab in 1993 to make ends meet, and he’s been working as a taxi driver ever since. In Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab, he recounts tales that will delight, surprise, and sometimes shock the most seasoned urbanite. We follow Samarov through the rhythms of a typical week, as he waits hours at the garage to pick up a shift, ferries comically drunken passengers between bars, delivers prostitutes to their johns, and inadvertently observes drug deals. There are long waits with other cabbies at O’Hare, vivid portraits of street corners and their regular denizens, amorous Cubs fans celebrating after a game at Wrigley Field, and customers who are pleasantly surprised that Samarov is white—and tell him so. Throughout, Samarov’s own drawings—of his fares, of the taxi garage, and of a variety of Chicago street scenes—accompany his stories. In the grand tradition of Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Mike Royko, and Studs Terkel, Dmitry Samarov has rendered an entertaining, poignant, and unforgettable vision of Chicago and its people.
Author : Amy Braunschweiger
Publisher : 671 Press
ISBN 13 : 0982173326
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Taxi Confidential written by Amy Braunschweiger and published by 671 Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outrageous encounter in a cab is a rite of passage in New York City. Trap two or more strangers in a careening yellow sedan and add an unexpected variable-say, a well-armed transvestite hooker, the urgent need for a restroom, or a stabbing victim-and the story that emerges is sure to be worth telling. In Taxi Confidential, cabbies ranging from a lead-footed pothead to a philosophizing immigrant sage grapple with what chance tosses their way. Author Amy Braunschweiger uncovers the best taxi stories from the 1970s through present day, and takes the reader on a 100-mile-per-hour ride through Gotham's darkest alleys, roughest neighborhoods, and hidden sweet spots.
Author : Sean Singer
Publisher : Tupelo Press
ISBN 13 : 1946482854
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Today in the Taxi written by Sean Singer and published by Tupelo Press. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the passenger seat of Sean Singer’s taxicab, we witness New York’s streets livid and languid with story and contemplation that give us awareness and aliveness with each trip across the asphalt and pavement. Laced within each fare is an illumination of humanity’s intimate music, of the poet’s inner journey—a signaling at each crossroad of our frailty and effervescence. This is a guidebook toward a soundscape of higher meaning, with the gridded Manhattan streets as a scoring field. Jump in the back and dig the silence between the notes that count the most in each unique moment this poet brings to the page. “Sean Singer’s radiant and challenging body of work involves, much like Whitman’s, nothing less than the ongoing interrogation of what a poem is. In this way his books are startlingly alive... I love in this work the sense that I am the grateful recipient of Singer’s jazzy curation as I move from page to page. Today in the Taxi is threaded through with quotes from Kafka, facts about jazz musicians, musings from various thinkers, from a Cathar fragment to Martin Buber to Arthur Eddington to an anonymous comedian. The taxi is at once a real taxi and the microcosm of a world—at times the speaker seems almost like Charon ferrying his passengers, as the nameless from all walks and stages of life step in and out his taxi. I am reminded of Calvino’s Invisible Cities, of Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn... Today in the Taxi is intricate, plain, suggestive, deeply respectful of the reader, and utterly absorbing. Like Honey and Smoke before it, which was one of the best poetry books of the last decade, this is work of the highest order.” —Laurie Sheck
Author : John Egan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792054600
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (546 download)
Download or read book Taxi Cab Stories written by John Egan and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-22 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infused with John's unique sense of wry humor, these stories take the reader along on a ride through John's experiences as a cab driver in Brockton, Mass during the late 1970s. The stories are a mixture of the hilarious, odd, insightful, and sorrowful; introducing the reader to such characters as Black Laurel and Hardy, Captain Quaalude, and Mr. Magoo.This is how one cab ride ended as John pulled up to an ER..."An orderly, hearing the tires give up their remaining tread in an anguished squeal, ran out expecting a near death emergency arrival. I jammed my driver seat forward and ran over to open Mom's door. She got out calmly, I was anticipating a warm "thanks."She got hold of her purse. I figured to get the fare and a great tip. Instead, she starts beating me with it! Hard! I am 6′4″ and she was able to hit me squarely on top of my head. She was going to nail me into the ground like a human spike!She said, "I told you to get me to the hospital quickly, not to put me in it!" (as she rained beats down on me with her purse) Little Guy (her son) was hopping up and down saying "Can we do that again!?! That was unbelievable!" which made Mom angrier.The orderly skidded to a stop, wondering if I was the bad guy, Mom was a maniac, or this might be some personal matter between two consenting adults, especially one (Mom) that weighed about 4 times what he did. He said nothing, did not come an inch closer. He seemed frozen in fear, a desire for personal safety, and a crushing curiosity to see how it played out."This is how another cab ride ended after two guys considered robbing John..."I got them to their destination in one piece. The fare was just under $10, blond threw me a twenty and said, "Keep it," as they fell over themselves in their hurry to get out. I didn't even thank them for the tip, just acted as if I expected it. Like it was payment for the 'joy ride.'The last thing the black-haired guy said as the scrambled out. "I never met someone as nuts as you, man. Never!"Blond goes, "You're not safe, man. You're nuts. You shouldn't be f**kin' driving!"I looked at them with a bored, 'do this all the time' look and shrugged....I radioed for Gary to get the cops. I gave the address, a description, and said the cops should be careful as at least one was armed."Join John for other fares as he drives from experience to experience, wending his way through an incredible world of stories from his cab driving days.
Author : Frank Langfitt
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1610398157
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Shanghai Free Taxi written by Frank Langfitt and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As any traveler knows, some of the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So, when a long-time NPR correspondent wanted to learn more about the real China, he started driving a cab--and discovered a country amid seismic political and economic change. China--America's most important competitor--is at a turning point. With economic growth slowing, Chinese people face inequality and uncertainty as their leaders tighten control at home and project power abroad. In this adventurous, original book, NPR correspondent Frank Langfitt describes how he created a free taxi service--offering rides in exchange for illuminating conversation--to go beyond the headlines and get to know a wide range of colorful, compelling characters representative of the new China. They include folks like "Beer," a slippery salesman who tries to sell Langfitt a used car; Rocky, a farm boy turned Shanghai lawyer; and Chen, who runs an underground Christian church and moves his family to America in search of a better, freer life. Blending unforgettable characters, evocative travel writing, and insightful political analysis, The Shanghai Free Taxi is a sharply observed and surprising book that will help readers make sense of the world's other superpower at this extraordinary moment.
Author : Paul DuBois Jacobs
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423604776
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)
Download or read book NASCAR 1-2-3s written by Paul DuBois Jacobs and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book teaches counting skills by using NASCAR themes and images
Author : Nalini Juthani
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475998732
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)
Download or read book An Uncompromising Activist written by Nalini Juthani and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When author Nalini Juthani and her new husband, Viren, left India for the United States in June of 1970, neither they nor their families knew this adventure would continue for a lifetime, that America would be the place where they would fulfill their dreams, raise a family, and find a new home. In An Uncompromising Activist, Juthani shares the stories from her life as a woman, daughter, wife, immigrant, medical educator, mother, and grandmother. These essays, with photographs included, provide a glimpse of what it was like for the first twenty-four years of growing up in India as a woman and how the loss of her father at an early age affected her and her future. An Uncompromising Activist narrates her experiences of getting her first job in New York, her first car, her first house, and her first American friend. The stories show the courage of a woman who became a trendsetter in a new country. Inspiring and touching, the essays describe the influence Juthani had on the lives of others while overcoming cultural barriers. It also offers the story of the Ghevaria-Juthani families and provides a history for future generations.
Author : Nicky Gentil
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1838597204
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Taxi Tales from Paris written by Nicky Gentil and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taxi Tales From Paris is not your typical account of what happens when you move to another country. Nicky Gentil’s memoir offers the reader a truly original insight into life in the French capital because, as the title suggests, everything is seen through the prism of her most memorable taxi rides taken during the thirty years she has lived there.
Author : Cecelia Frances Page
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595461336
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)
Download or read book Pathways to Spiritual Realization written by Cecelia Frances Page and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Part I entitled WALKING IN THE LIGHT, Gerard Jensen learned about ancient religions and Metaphysics in Trinity, California. He was a journalist from Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. His boss Bill Klein assigned Gerard to write a sensational feature story about Trinity University. Gerard decided to write an objective, truthful story about Metaphysical knowledge. Murray Sheldon, another reporter from the same newspaper, wrote a sensational, untrue, feature story. Gerard Jensen fell in love with Corina Hilliard, a Metaphysical Professor at Trinity University. Corina encouraged Gerard to look within to awaken to spiritual realization. Knowledge about reincarnation, cause and effect, sacred centers (chakras) and the I Am Presence are explained. Metaphysics means wisdom beyond the physical plane. Astral and etheric planes exist. STARTLING FLASHBACKS in Part II, is a startling account about Celeste Waters, who had flashbacks about six, past embodiments. Celeste learned to evaluate, understand and forgive traumatic memories about sudden death, suffering, dangers and grief caused from losing loved ones. Celeste realized that reincarnation does exist.
Author : James L Gillis
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1644626632
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Jim versus Thailand written by James L Gillis and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this short statement, I will try and give a snapshot of my life at that time, and why I wrote this book. During my travels, I have lived for at least a year or more in many countries around the world, courtesy of the United States Air Force. The first foreign country I resided in was Thailand, which started in late 1967 to early 1969. This was the first time in my life that I flew on a sleek 707 airliner, landing halfway around the world and being floored by the culture shock. Since that time, I have lived and worked in many foreign places, like the Middle East (Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and other UAE countries), Europe (Germany, England, plus road trips to many other European countries), and South East Asia (Japan, China, Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, and of course, Thailand). The Thailand first stop is what prompted me to write about being encased in another culture and its aftereffects.
