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Book Synopsis The Boxer's Soliloquy by : Matt Lucas
Download or read book The Boxer's Soliloquy written by Matt Lucas and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt Lucas' first collection, The Boxer's Soliloquy, explores the intricacies of Thailand's most famous martial art. Set against the squalor of Bangkok and in the sweaty confines of Muay Thai gyms, only gradually do these tales reveal their true intentions. These are fifteen stories about the ring, the ropes, the fighters, the smack of bodies against bodies, and the relationships in between.
Download or read book Boxers Today written by Jo Royle and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Poems of the Ring by : Ezequiel Kratsman
Download or read book Poems of the Ring written by Ezequiel Kratsman and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if you read poems dedicated to boxers you watched fighting or you idolized at some point of your life? Would you start remembering about their fights and skills in their prime? In this edition, the author shows his boxing knowledge in this extensive collection of poems dedicated to boxers from different countries, weight divisions, and eras. The book is based on his research, analysis, and rigorous studies of the fighting style of every mentioned boxer that left a legacy in the sport
Book Synopsis King Leopold's Soliloquy by : Mark Twain
Download or read book King Leopold's Soliloquy written by Mark Twain and published by LeftWord Books. This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear, dear, when the soft-hearts get hold of thing like that missionary's contribution they completely lose their tranquility they speak profanely and reproach Heaven for allowing such a find to live. Meaning me . They think it irregular. They go shuddering around, brooding over the reduction of that Congo population from 25,000,000 to 15,000,000 in the twenty years of my administration; then they burst out and call me the King with Ten Million Murders on his Soul. They call me a 'record'. - From King Leopold's Soliloquy
Download or read book The Boxer written by Stephanie Abraham and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boxer has long been one of America's best-loved dog breeds and this newest book is a true celebration of Boxers and why so many dog lovers have been, and continue to be, attracted to them. The Boxer: Family Favorite is the ideal book for the pet owner, novice fancier and veteran enthusiast alike. The reasons for the Boxer's solid reputation can be recognized throughout this bright, new book. Those seeking information on the breed for any reason will find all their questions answered by one of the Boxer world's foremost authorities. Like the other titles in Howell's Best of Breed Library, this book features chapters on all aspects of caring for, and enjoying a dog in and away from the home, and includes several valuable appendices.
Book Synopsis Bitch Boxer by : Charlotte Josephine
Download or read book Bitch Boxer written by Charlotte Josephine and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Soliloquy in Shadows by : Arunas Bartusevicius
Download or read book A Soliloquy in Shadows written by Arunas Bartusevicius and published by Arunas Bartusevicius. This book was released on with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melancholic and introspective look into the life and the complexities of human interaction.
Book Synopsis Cracking Shakespeare by : Kelly Hunter
Download or read book Cracking Shakespeare written by Kelly Hunter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cracking Shakespeare serves to demystify the process of speaking Shakespeare's language, offering hands-on techniques for drama students, young actors and directors who are intimidated by rehearsing, performing and directing Shakespeare's plays. For some artists approaching Shakespeare, the ability to capture the dynamic movement of thought from mind to mouth, and the paradox of using the formality of verse to express a realistic form of speech, can seem daunting. Cracking Shakespeare includes practical techniques and exercises to solve this dilemma – including supporting online video which demonstrate how to embody Shakespeare's characters in rehearsal and performance – offering a toolkit that will free actors and directors from their fear of Shakespeare. The result of thirty years of acting, teaching and directing Shakespeare, Kelly Hunter's Cracking Shakespeare is the ideal textbook for actors and directors looking for new ways to approach Shakespeare's plays in a hands-on, down-to-earth style.
Book Synopsis British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century by : Sharon Harrow
Download or read book British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Sharon Harrow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and a performance; and gaming organized itself around sporting culture. Examining the underexplored intersection of sport, literature, and culture, this collection situates sport within multiple contexts, including religion, labor, leisure time, politics, nationalism, gender, play, and science. A poetics, literature, and culture of sport swelled during the era, influencing artists such as John Collett and writers including Lord Byron, Jonathan Swift, and Henry Fielding. This volume brings together literary scholars and historians of sport to demonstrate the ubiquity of sport to eighteenth-century life, the variety of literary and cultural representations of sporting experiences, and the evolution of sport from rural pastimes to organized, regular events of national and international importance. Each essay offers in-depth readings of both material practices and representations of sport as they relate to, among other subjects, recreational sports, the Cotswold games, clothing, women archers, tennis, celebrity athletes, and the theatricality of boxing. Taken together, the essays in this collection offer valuable multiple perspectives on reading sport during the century when sport became modern.
Book Synopsis Sources of Western Society, Volume 2 by : John Beeler
Download or read book Sources of Western Society, Volume 2 written by John Beeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanies: A history of Western society, 10th ed., and Western society: a brief history, 2nd ed.
Download or read book Joe Gans written by Colleen Aycock and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Gans captured the world lightweight title in 1902, becoming the first black American world title holder in any sport. Gans was a master strategist and tactician, and one of the earliest practitioners of "scientific" boxing. As a black champion reigning during the Jim Crow era, he endured physical assaults, a stolen title, bankruptcy, and numerous attempts to destroy his reputation. Four short years after successfully defending his title in the 42-round "Greatest Fight of the Century," Joe Gans was dead of tuberculosis. This biography features original round-by-round ringside telegraph reports of his most famous and controversial fights, a complete fight history, photographs, and early newspaper drawings and cartoons.
Book Synopsis Visions of Dystopia in China’s New Historical Novels by : Jeffrey C. Kinkley
Download or read book Visions of Dystopia in China’s New Historical Novels written by Jeffrey C. Kinkley and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The depiction of personal and collective suffering in modern Chinese novels differs significantly from standard Communist accounts and many Eastern and Western historical narratives. Writers such as Yu Hua, Su Tong, Wang Anyi, Mo Yan, Han Shaogong, Ge Fei, Li Rui, and Zhang Wei skew and scramble common conceptions of China's modern development, deploying avant-garde narrative techniques from Latin American and Euro-American modernism to project a surprisingly "un-Chinese" dystopian vision and critical view of human culture and ethics. The epic narratives of modern Chinese fiction make rich use of magical realism, surrealism, and unusual treatments of historical time. Also featuring graphic depictions of sex and violence, as well as dark, raunchy comedy, these novels reflect China's recent history re-presenting the overthrow of the monarchy in the early twentieth century and the resulting chaos of revolution and war; the recurring miseries perpetrated by class warfare during the dictatorship of Mao Zedong; and the social dislocations caused by China's industrialization and rise as a global power. This book casts China's highbrow historical novels from the late 1980s to the first decade of the twenty-first century as a distinctively Chinese contribution to the form of the global dystopian novel and, consequently, to global thinking about the interrelations of utopia and dystopia.
Book Synopsis Blues Song for a Fighter by : J. J. Parker
Download or read book Blues Song for a Fighter written by J. J. Parker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonny Liston"" -- these words pictured menace and boxing ring beatings in Americans' minds in the 1960s. Was the ""Big Ugly Bear,"" as a youthful Muhammad Ali called him, as mean and antisocial as he seemed? Or was he a man -- hampered by illiteracy -- misunderstood? ""Blues Song for a Fighter"" reveals the real Sonny Liston: witty, hopeful, vengeful, loving children and his wife, determined, humorous, yet -- when drunk -- lascivious, crude, and violent. J.J. Parker, author of the acclaimed ""Tink Wilson,"" has penned a stage play version of Liston's tempestuous, ill-fated existence ... a vital sunbeam whose starting and ending points no one ever knew. Though a former thug paroled from prison ( he did time for armed robbery), Sonny never was paroled from his fate: to uneasily ride a personal Night Train to (and from) nowhere, to be divorced from, yet part of, the human race. This book offers a three-act play depicting the drama of Sonny Liston's life, the ""blues song for a fighter"" that he correctly predicted some day would be written, read, and understood. Settle into your ringside seat ... the bell for Round One is about to clang....
Book Synopsis Sources of Western Society Since 1300 by : Amy R. Caldwell
Download or read book Sources of Western Society Since 1300 written by Amy R. Caldwell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This primary source collection provides a diverse selection of sources to accompany each chapter of A History of Western Society, Tenth Edition. Each chapter contains at least five sources that present history from the viewpoints of well-known and ordinary individuals alike. Now with 19 visual sources and 30% more documents, this edition offers great breadth and depth in its sources. To foster lively comparative debates, a new “Viewpoints” feature in each chapter highlights two or three documents that address the same topic from different perspectives.
Book Synopsis Mark Twain in China by : Selina Lai-Henderson
Download or read book Mark Twain in China written by Selina Lai-Henderson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) has had an intriguing relationship with China that is not as widely known as it should be. Although he never visited the country, he played a significant role in speaking for the Chinese people both at home and abroad. After his death, his Chinese adventures did not come to an end, for his body of works continued to travel through China in translation throughout the twentieth century. Were Twain alive today, he would be elated to know that he is widely studied and admired there, and that Adventures of Huckleberry Finn alone has gone through no less than ninety different Chinese translations, traversing China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Looking at Twain in various Chinese contexts—his response to events involving the American Chinese community and to the Chinese across the Pacific, his posthumous journey through translation, and China's reception of the author and his work, Mark Twain in China points to the repercussions of Twain in a global theater. It highlights the cultural specificity of concepts such as "race," "nation," and "empire," and helps us rethink their alternative legacies in countries with dramatically different racial and cultural dynamics from the United States.
Book Synopsis Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt by : Walter Armbrust
Download or read book Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt written by Walter Armbrust and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of popular culture and the representation of modern life in Egypt.
Book Synopsis The Change of Narrative Modes in Chinese Fiction (1898–1927) by : Pingyuan Chen
Download or read book The Change of Narrative Modes in Chinese Fiction (1898–1927) written by Pingyuan Chen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Chinese fictions (xiaoshuo) published between 1898 and 1927 – three pivotal decades, during which China underwent significant social changes. It applies Narratology and Sociology of the Novel methods to analyze both the texts themselves and the social-cultural factors that triggered the transformation of the narrative mode in Chinese fiction. Based on empirical data, the author argues that this transformation was not only inspired by translated Western fiction, but was also the result of a creative transformation in tradition Chinese literature.