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Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien

Author : Brian Winter
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1586486578
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien written by Brian Winter and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After moving to Argentina on a whim, Brian Winter, a young American reporter, embarks on a crusade to learn that devilishly difficult dance that demands both discipline and passion: the tango. While he dances the night away in the milongas with the fiery denizens of Buenos Aires, the country around them collapses, gripped by inflation, street riots, and revolution. In a book that is part travelogue and part history, the author evokes his immersion in a dark underworld. He visits old dance salons, brothels, and shacks on the dusty Pampa, searching for the tango's shady origins in the hope that understanding may help him dance better. Along the way, he discovers that the tango, with its tales of jealousy, melodrama, and lost glory, may hold the secret to the country that is inexplicably disintegrating before his eyes.

Global Tangos

Author : Melissa A. Fitch
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 161148653X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Global Tangos written by Melissa A. Fitch and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Tangos: Travels in the Transnational Imaginary argues against the hackneyed rose-in-mouth clichés of Argentine tango, demonstrating how the dance may be used as a way to understand transformations around the world that have taken place as a result of two defining features of globalization: transnationalism and the rise of social media. Global Tangos demonstrates the cultural impact of Argentine tango in the world by assembling an unusual array of cultural narratives created in almost thirty countries, all of which show how tango has mixed and mingled in the global imaginary, sometimes in wildly unexpected forms. Topics include Tango Barbie and Ken, advertising for phone sex, the presence of tango in political upheavals in the Middle East and in animated Japanese children’s television programming, gay tango porn, tango orchestras and composers in World War II concentration camps, global tango protests aimed at reclaiming public space, the transformation of Buenos Aires as a result of tango tourism, and the use of tango for palliative care and to treat other ailments. They also include the global development of queer tango theory, activism, and festivals. Global Tangos shows how the rise in social media has heralded a new era of political activism, artistry, solidarity, and engagement in the world, one in which virtual global tango communities have indeed become very “real” social and support networks. The text engages some key concepts from contemporary critics in the fields of tourism studies, geography, dance studies, cultural anthropology, literary studies, transnational studies, television studies, feminism, and queer theory. Global Tangos underscores the interconnectedness of cultural identity, economics, politics, and power in the production, marketing, distribution, and circulation of global images related to tango—and, by extension, Latin America—that travel the world.

Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien

Author : Brian Winter
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1586483706
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien written by Brian Winter and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2007 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book that is part travelogue, part history, a young American reporter moves to Argentina and struggles to learn the tango. He discovers that the tango, with its tales of jealousy, melodrama, and lost glory, may hold the secret to the country that is inexplicably disintegrating before his eyes.

Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien

Author : Brian Winter
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1586486578
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien written by Brian Winter and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After moving to Argentina on a whim, Brian Winter, a young American reporter, embarks on a crusade to learn that devilishly difficult dance that demands both discipline and passion: the tango. While he dances the night away in the milongas with the fiery denizens of Buenos Aires, the country around them collapses, gripped by inflation, street riots, and revolution. In a book that is part travelogue and part history, the author evokes his immersion in a dark underworld. He visits old dance salons, brothels, and shacks on the dusty Pampa, searching for the tango's shady origins in the hope that understanding may help him dance better. Along the way, he discovers that the tango, with its tales of jealousy, melodrama, and lost glory, may hold the secret to the country that is inexplicably disintegrating before his eyes.

The Times Index

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Times Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indexes the Times and its supplements.

The British National Bibliography

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1922 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance

Author : Lloyd Jones
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307369684
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance written by Lloyd Jones and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available in Canada for the first time from the author of Mister Pip The two intertwined love stories in this brilliant novel take the reader from New Zealand to Buenos Aires to Sydney, from the final days of WWI, to the present moment, and back again. Drawing on the intimate rhythms of the tango to find its shape, Jones has written a thrilling and sensuous essay on how we can fall in love, while brilliantly evoking the spare and windswept landscapes of New Zealand’s South Island and the stately sensuous contours of one of the world’s most famous dances.

The Publishers Weekly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Latino America

Author : Matt Barreto
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610395026
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Latino America written by Matt Barreto and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometime in April 2014, somewhere in a hospital in California, a Latino child tipped the demographic scales as Latinos displaced non-Hispanic whites as the largest racial/ethnic group in the state. So, one-hundred-sixty-six years after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo brought the Mexican province of Alta California into the United States, Latinos once again became the largest population in the state. Surprised? Texas will make the same transition sometime before 2020. When that happens, America's two most populous states, carrying the largest number of Electoral College votes, will be Latino. New Mexico is already there. New York, Florida, Arizona, and Nevada are shifting rapidly. Latino populations since 2000 have doubled in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, and South Dakota. The US is undergoing a substantial and irreversible shift in its identity. So, too, are the Latinos who make up these populations. Matt Barreto and Gary M. Segura are the country's preeminent experts in the shape, disposition, and mood of Latino America. They show the extent to which Latinos have already transformed the US politically and socially, and how Latino Americans are the most buoyant and dynamic ethnic and racial group, often in quite counterintuitive ways. Latinos' optimism, strength of family, belief in the constructive role of government, and resilience have the imminent potential to reshape the political and partisan landscape for a generation and drive the outcome of elections as soon as 2016.

Why Soccer Matters

Author : Pelé
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451468759
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Why Soccer Matters written by Pelé and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pelé—legendary footballer and humanitarian—explores the sport’s recent history and shares his most inspiring experiences, heartwarming stories, and hard-won wisdom. “I know in my heart that soccer was good to me, and great to the world....I saw, time and again, how the sport improved countless millions of lives, both on and off the field. For me, at least, that’s why soccer matters.” The world’s most popular sport goes by many names—soccer, football, the beautiful game—but fans have always agreed on one thing: The greatest player of all time was Pelé. Before Messi, before Ronaldo, before Beckham, Pelé had a stunning twenty-year career, where he was heralded as an international treasure. His accomplishments on the field proved to be pure magic: an unprecedented three World Cup championships and the all-time scoring record, with 1,283 goals. Since retiring, he has traveled the world as soccer’s global ambassador, relentlessly promoting the positive ways soccer can transform young men and women, struggling communities, even entire nations. This is Pelé’s legacy, his way of passing on everything he’s learned and inspiring a new generation. In Why Soccer Matters, Pelé details his ambitious goals for the future of the sport and, by extension, the world.

The Eyes of Darkness

Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101525363
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Eyes of Darkness written by Dean Koontz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother’s greatest wish—or worst nightmare—comes true in this chilling novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. Tina Evans has spent a year suffering from incredible heartache since her son Danny's tragic death. But now, with her Vegas show about to premiere, Tina can think of no better time for a fresh start. Maybe she can finally move on and put her grief behind her. Only there is a message for Tina, scrawled on the chalkboard in Danny's room: NOT DEAD. Two words that send her on a terrifying journey from the bright lights of Las Vegas to the cold shadows of the High Sierras, where she uncovers a terrible secret...

Oblivion

Author : Anthony Howell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Oblivion written by Anthony Howell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oblivion is a novel - a cocktail of tango, crime and fantasy set in Buenos Aires. It's a thriller drawing on the world of tango dancing that makes a perfect gift for any lover of the dance.

Toll the Hounds

Author : Steven Erikson
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1429926996
Total Pages : 1300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Toll the Hounds written by Steven Erikson and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling, harrowing novel of war, intrigue and dark, uncontrollable magic, Toll the Hounds is the new chapter in Erikson's monumental series - epic fantasy at its most imaginative and storytelling at its most exciting. In Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that love and death shall arrive dancing. It is summer and the heat is oppressive, but for the small round man in the faded red waistcoat, discomfiture is not just because of the sun. All is not well. Dire portents plague his nights and haunt the city streets like fiends of shadow. Assassins skulk in alleyways, but the quarry has turned and the hunters become the hunted. Hidden hands pluck the strings of tyranny like a fell chorus. While the bards sing their tragic tales, somewhere in the distance can be heard the baying of Hounds...And in the distant city of Black Coral, where rules Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, ancient crimes awaken, intent on revenge. It seems Love and Death are indeed about to arrive...hand in hand, dancing. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Accidental President of Brazil

Author : Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 9781586483241
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The Accidental President of Brazil written by Fernando Henrique Cardoso and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2006-03-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like to govern one of the world's most notoriously ungovernable, most vibrant countries? Brazil's former president offers a wry and illuminating view. This is his story and his love song to his country.

Darkfall

Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440619336
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Darkfall written by Dean Koontz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blizzard brings a city to a standstill and ushers in an evil that defies imagination in this gripping tale from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. Winter gripped the city. Terror gripped it, too. They found four corpses in four days, each more hideous than the last. At first the cops thought they were dealing with a psychopath. But soon they heard eerie sounds in the ventilation system—and saw unearthly silver eyes in the snow-slashed night. In a city paralyzed by a blizzard, something watches, something stalks…

A Chinaman's Chance

Author : Eric Liu
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610391950
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Chinaman's Chance written by Eric Liu and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent unique is that Chinese Americans are emerging at just the same moment when China has emerged -- and indeed may displace America -- at the center of the global scene. What does it mean to be Chinese American in this moment? And how does exploring that question alter our notions of just what an American is and will be? In many ways, Chinese Americans today are exemplars of the American Dream: during a crowded century and a half, this community has gone from indentured servitude, second-class status and outright exclusion to economic and social integration and achievement. But this narrative obscures too much: the Chinese Americans still left behind, the erosion of the American Dream in general, the emergence -- perhaps -- of a Chinese Dream, and how other Americans will look at their countrymen of Chinese descent if China and America ever become adversaries. As Chinese Americans reconcile competing beliefs about what constitutes success, virtue, power, and purpose, they hold a mirror up to their country in a time of deep flux. In searching, often personal essays that range from the meaning of Confucius to the role of Chinese Americans in shaping how we read the Constitution to why he hates the hyphen in "Chinese-American," Eric Liu pieces together a sense of the Chinese American identity in these auspicious years for both countries. He considers his own public career in American media and government; his daughter's efforts to hold and release aspects of her Chinese inheritance; and the still-recent history that made anyone Chinese in America seem foreign and disloyal until proven otherwise. Provocative, often playful but always thoughtful, Liu breaks down his vast subject into bite-sized chunks, along the way providing insights into universal matters: identity, nationalism, family, and more.

Everything Sad Is Untrue

Author : Daniel Nayeri
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1646140028
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Everything Sad Is Untrue written by Daniel Nayeri and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Indie Bestseller An NPR Best Book of the Year A New York Times Best Book of the Year An Amazon Best Book of the Year A Booklist Editors' Choice A BookPage Best Book of the Year A NECBA Windows & Mirrors Selection A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year A Today.com Best of the Year PRAISE "A modern masterpiece." —The New York Times Book Review "Supple, sparkling and original." —The Wall Street Journal "Mesmerizing." —TODAY.com "This book could change the world." —BookPage "Like nothing else you've read or ever will read." —Linda Sue Park "It hooks you right from the opening line." —NPR SEVEN STARRED REVIEWS ★ "A modern epic." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review ★ "A rare treasure of a book." —Publishers Weekly, starred review ★ "A story that soars." —The Bulletin, starred review ★ "At once beautiful and painful." —School Library Journal, starred review ★ "Raises the literary bar in children's lit." —Booklist, starred review ★ "Poignant and powerful." —Foreword Reviews, starred review ★ "One of the most extraordinary books of the year." —BookPage, starred review A sprawling, evocative, and groundbreaking autobiographical novel told in the unforgettable and hilarious voice of a young Iranian refugee. It is a powerfully layered novel that poses the questions: Who owns the truth? Who speaks it? Who believes it? "A patchwork story is the shame of the refugee," Nayeri writes early in the novel. In an Oklahoman middle school, Khosrou (whom everyone calls Daniel) stands in front of a skeptical audience of classmates, telling the tales of his family's history, stretching back years, decades, and centuries. At the core is Daniel's story of how they became refugees—starting with his mother's vocal embrace of Christianity in a country that made such a thing a capital offense, and continuing through their midnight flight from the secret police, bribing their way onto a plane-to-anywhere. Anywhere becomes the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy, and then finally asylum in the U.S. Implementing a distinct literary style and challenging western narrative structures, Nayeri deftly weaves through stories of the long and beautiful history of his family in Iran, adding a richness of ancient tales and Persian folklore. Like Scheherazade of One Thousand and One Nights in a hostile classroom, Daniel spins a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. EVERYTHING SAD IS UNTRUE (a true story) is a tale of heartbreak and resilience and urges readers to speak their truth and be heard.