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Book Synopsis Snapshots From My Uneventful Life by : David I. Aboulafia
Download or read book Snapshots From My Uneventful Life written by David I. Aboulafia and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "…she drove her right fist three inches deep into my solar plexus, putting her entire 102 pounds behind the blow. I retreated a full foot but remained on my feet. I gasped, treasuring the oxygen remaining in my lungs, and knew that little more was likely to enter there for some time. I wondered how long a person could live without breathing. More so, I wondered how long I could convince my sixteen-year-old daughter that I was unfazed by her puny blow." In this hysterical, irreverent and sometimes thought-provoking collection of essays, the author takes us on a journey through everyday, real-life events that start out as uneventful, but that wind up being anything but. 'Snapshots' is a book that everyone will identify with, and that will have you holding your stomach with laughter!
Book Synopsis More Snapshots? From My Uneventful Life by : David I. Aboulafia
Download or read book More Snapshots? From My Uneventful Life written by David I. Aboulafia and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Snapshots is the cheeky sibling of its predecessor Snapshots From My Uneventful Life. Chatty, hilarious and often poignant, David I. Aboulafia takes us on a journey through every day, real-life events that start out as uneventful, but that wind up being anything but…
Book Synopsis Snapshots of an Uneventful Life by : Dave Aboulafia
Download or read book Snapshots of an Uneventful Life written by Dave Aboulafia and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hysterical, irreverent and sometimes thought-provoking collection of essays, the author takes us on a journey through everyday, real-life events that started out as "uneventful," but wound up being anything but. "Snapshots" is a book that everyone will identify with, and that will have you holding your stomach with laughter and scratching your head in wonder! This book will not read like a novel, or even a group of short stories. It does not have a riveting beginning or a memorable conclusion. It will never appear on any best-seller list. Hey, you could have written this. A thousand-thousand people could have and should have, but they didn't, and that's the point; it was left to me to do it for all of you. You're welcome.
Book Synopsis Visions Through a Glass, Darkly by : David I. Aboulafia
Download or read book Visions Through a Glass, Darkly written by David I. Aboulafia and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two days, eighteen hours, fifty-eight minutes... The time of your life on this earth. Richard Goodman is the caretaker of a unique institution that trains disabled youth in the art of watchmaking. But he is no ordinary administrator. He possesses extra sensory powers he does not fully understand and cannot control. But an innocent outing to Coney Island results in him obtaining a more disturbing ability, along with a terrifying prophecy that he will die in less than three days. As the clock of his life counts down, a still greater threat emerges. An uncanny assassin who will destroy everyone he knows and loves. Unless he can discover who the killer is. And stop him in time.
Book Synopsis Writings of the Dawn - The Spiritual Journey of a Baby-Boomer by : Steven J. Gold
Download or read book Writings of the Dawn - The Spiritual Journey of a Baby-Boomer written by Steven J. Gold and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical writings of Steven J. Gold, (author of Yoga and Judaism, Explorations of a Jewish Yogi; IVRI: The Essence of Hebrew Spirituality; Torah Portion Summaries, With Insights from the Perspective of Jewish Yogi; and Basic Spiritual Principles) describing his early spiritual journey in prose, poetry, art and journal entries. The material is explained and tied together by retrospective narratives.
Download or read book The Wide World Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Snapshots written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of seventeen stories written by some of the century's best women writers deals with "a single, central, and vital theme, the relationship of mothers to daughters and daughters to mothers."--Front jacket.
Book Synopsis Metropolis and Experience by : Hye-Joon Yoon
Download or read book Metropolis and Experience written by Hye-Joon Yoon and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metropolis and Experience: Defoe, Dickens, Joyce offers a close reading of the major texts of Defoe, Dickens, and Joyce, in their respective historical contexts and in comparison with their intertextual companions, from seventeenth-century “character” pamphlets through Baudelaire to Calvino. In doing so, it challenges the quietist complacency of specialization prevalent in current academia to contribute to a critique of urban modernity in the tradition of Simmel, Benjamin, and Lefebvre. Taking its cue from Benjamin’s bisection of “experience” into subjective sensory Erlebnis and communal reflective Erfahrung, Metropolis and Experience uses this binary pair as a categorical guide in its analysis of the stylistic and thematic adventures of the three centerpiece authors. Whereas Defoe’s novels embody a Simmelian metropolitan mentality through its narration of lived experience in paratactic prose, Dickens strives to humanize the sprawling Victorian metropolis into an experience for communal sharing. In Joyce’s works, the colonial dejections and belatedness of the Hibernian metropolis are transformed into an exuberant excess where both Erlebnis and Erfahrung meet their joyous end. This investigation of the interconnections between the metropolis, experience, and the novel takes place in tandem with a sustained query on non-literary subtopics such as finance capitalism and urban class antagonism. This is literary criticism charged with relevance for the age of “Occupy Wall Street.”
Book Synopsis Danny Boyle - Lust for Life by : Mark Browning
Download or read book Danny Boyle - Lust for Life written by Mark Browning and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danny Boyle is one of contemporary filmmaking's most exciting talents. Since the early 1990s he has steadily created a body of work that crosses genres and defies easy categorisation, from black humour (Shallow Grave), gritty realism (Trainspotting), screwball comedy (A Life Less Ordinary), cult adaptations (The Beach), and horror (28 Days Later), to science fiction (Sunshine), children's drama (Millions), love stories (Slumdog Millionaire) and tales of personal redemption (127 Hours). Unlike many of his peers, Boyle seems most comfortable when working with modest budgets, relying on acting ability rather than special effects, and surrounding himself with a trusted team of writers, cinematographers and production designers. His restless energy, vitality and drive find their expression in the celebratory tone of his films – their lust for life. In this book, Mark Browning provides a rigorous but highly accessible analysis of Boyle’s work, discussing the processes by which he absorbs generic and literary influences, the way he gains powerful performances both from inexperienced casts and A-list stars, his portrayal of regional identity, his use of moral dilemmas as a narrative trigger, and the religious undercurrents that permeate his films.
Book Synopsis A niece of Snapshot Harry's, Trent's trust and other stories by : Bret Harte
Download or read book A niece of Snapshot Harry's, Trent's trust and other stories written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letter to My Father by : G. Thomas Couser
Download or read book Letter to My Father written by G. Thomas Couser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having wounded his father with a hurtful letter when he was twenty-three, Tom Couser felt somewhat responsible for his later mental collapse. When his father died, Tom found personal documents that revealed facets of his father’s life of which Tom had known nothing. Too traumatized to grieve properly, much less to probe his father’s complicated history, Tom boxed the documents and stored them—for over thirty years. When he finally explored his father’s rich legacy, he achieved a belated reconciliation with a man he had not really known.
Book Synopsis The Story of My Life by : William Dunnett Spanton
Download or read book The Story of My Life written by William Dunnett Spanton and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Line written by Olga Grushin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grushin's stunning debut drew praise that placed her in the top rank of young literary voices. Now she returns with that rarity: a second novel even more dazzling than her first. The line: the universal symbol of scarcity and bureaucracy that exists wherever petty officials are let loose to abuse their powers. The line begins to form on the whispered rumor that a famous exiled composer is returning to Moscow to conduct his last symphony. Tickets will be limited. Nameless faces join the line, jostling for preferred position. But as time passes and the seasons change and the ticket kiosk remains shuttered, these anonymous souls take on individual shape. Unlikely friendships are forged, long-buried memories spring to life, and a year-long wait is rewarded with unexpected acts of kindness that ease the bleakness of harshly lived lives. A disparate gaggle of strangers evolves into a community of friends united in their desire to experience music they have never been allowed to hear. The Line is a transformative novel that speaks to the endurance of the human spirit even as it explores the ways in which we love-and what we do for love.
Download or read book Uneventful written by Jeff Gates and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2012, Facebook users added seven petabytes of images each month - 7,516,192,768 megabytes every four weeks. And the power of photographs to impact and move us diminishes as we are increasingly overwhelmed by the sheer number of images to which we are exposed. In this thought-provoking essay, author Jeff Gates examines how the nature of picture taking and picture making is changing, and explores how we interpret historic photographs in an environment in which sharing is starting to replace exhibiting. Jeff Gates taught college photography for 23 years before joining the Smithsonian, where he is Lead Producer, New Media Initiatives at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Book Synopsis Snapshot of a Killer by : Bryan M. Powell
Download or read book Snapshot of a Killer written by Bryan M. Powell and published by New Life Publications On-Line. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After surviving Nelson Peterson’s vicious attempt on his daughter’s life, Trace tries to build a relationship with Lily. It isn’t long before he finds that to be one of his greatest challenges. But an anonymous threatening phone call shatters his plans and things rapidly spin out of control. Bodies begin to pile up and he is once again drawn into the vortex of a storm he and Lily might not survive. It is only God’s grace and his quick thinking that turns the tide. Buckle up for this heart-pounding ride filled with deception, misdirection, and unexpected turns in which no one is safe.
Book Synopsis The Great Dismissal by : Henry Sussman
Download or read book The Great Dismissal written by Henry Sussman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran scholar and critic Henry Sussman deploys anecdote, reportage, and memoir to lament and scrutinize the rise of anti-intellectualism in the past few decades. How are we to reckon with the decline of impartiality and sharp increase in self-interested interference in politic, legal, and cultural spheres; the normalization of pathological narcissism in public life; and the blanket dismissal of scientific findings and their counterparts in the humanities and social sciences? In retracing his own intellectual and experiential steps, Sussman revisits many of his lasting inspirations, including Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Immanuel Kant, and J. Hillis Miller. The result is an intellectual meditation on 'the great dismissal,' in public and political life, of venerable and vital humanistic traditions, ethics, and ways of thinking.
Book Synopsis Tell Me the Truth About Love by : Mary Cable
Download or read book Tell Me the Truth About Love written by Mary Cable and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich novel of family conflict and closely guarded secrets, Mary Cable explores dreams and fears that lie hidden deep within the human heart. Alex Smithson, forty-two-years-old and living in Santa Fe, leads an under-demanding life made prickly only by her oppressive, aristocratic in-laws to whom Alex will never be entirely acceptable. The Smithsons have always treated Alex as an outsider, despite the fact that she has been married to the older of their two sons, Oz, for nearly twenty years. Putting up with their behavior, however, is a small price to pay in exchange for her comfortable world. But Alex’s life is about to change, for her in-laws have threatened to disinherit both of their sons. Feeling vulnerable and unsure of her future, Alex is suddenly swamped with memories of earlier years of uncertainty and loss. The daughter of Foreign Service parents, Alex spent her childhood moving from one exotic location to another, learning new languages and customs but never quite feeling that she belonged. Then, following a searing love affair with disastrous consequences, Alex thought she had at last found security when she met reliable Oz Smithson. Now, Alex finds herself at a crossroads. She wants to hold on to what is safe and familiar but faces the unknown. And before she can take risks, she must ask herself penetrating questions and make difficult choices. Deftly addressing universal themes of love, family, and self-realization, Mary Cable gives us a warm, sympathetic story about how one woman comes to terms with her past and the future.
