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Author : Stephen Hawes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The pastime of pleasure written by Stephen Hawes and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Hawes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Pastime of Pleasure written by Stephen Hawes and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Wright
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368870513
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (688 download)
Download or read book The Pastime of Pleasure: an Allegorical Poem written by Thomas Wright and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Author : Wislawa Szymborska
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544618858
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Nonrequired Reading written by Wislawa Szymborska and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unquestionably one of the great living European poets. She's accessible and deeply human and a joy--though it is a dark kind of joy--to read. . . . She is a poet to live with." —Robert Hass, The Washington Post Book World Wislawa Szymborska's poems are admired around the world, and her unsparing vision, tireless wit, and deep sense of humanity are cherished by countless readers. Unknown to most of them, however, Szymborska, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, also worked for several decades as a columnist, reviewing a wide variety of books under the unassuming title "Nonrequired Reading." As readers of her poems would expect, the short prose pieces collected here are anything but ordinary. Reflecting the author's own eclectic tastes and interests, the pretexts for these ruminations range from books on wallpapering, cooking, gardening, and yoga, to more lofty volumes on opera and world literature. Unpretentious yet incisive, these charming pieces are on a par with Szymborska's finest lyrics, tackling the same large and small questions with a wonderful curiosity.
Author : Stephen Hawes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Pastime of Pleasure written by Stephen Hawes and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Salter
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 145324381X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book A Sport and a Pastime written by James Salter and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing novel and “tour de force” about a love affair in postwar France from the iconic author of All That Is (The New York Times Book Review). Twenty-year-old Yale dropout Phillip Dean is traveling Europe aimlessly in a borrowed car with little money. When he stops for a few days in a church-quiet town near Dijon, he meets Anne-Marie Costallat, a young shop assistant. The two begin an affair both carnal and innocent, and she quickly becomes to him the real France, its beating heart and an object of pure longing. James Salter, author of Light Years and the memoir Burning the Days, was an essential voice in the evolution of late twentieth-century prose, a stylist on par with Updike and Roth who won the PEN/Faulkner Award for his collection Dusk and Other Stories. One of the first great American novels to speak frankly of human desire free of guilt and shame, A Sport and a Pastime inspired Reynolds Price to call it “as nearly perfect as any American fiction I know.” This ebook edition features an illustrated biography of James Salter including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Author : David Sterritt
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034053
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Guiltless Pleasures: A David Sterritt Film Reader written by David Sterritt and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William E. Engel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107086817
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Memory Arts in Renaissance England written by William E. Engel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of a selection of early modern works on memory.
Author : Douglas Gomery
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299132149
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Shared Pleasures written by Douglas Gomery and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gomery (The coming of sound to the American cinema, 1975; The Hollywood studio system, 1986) draws upon his earlier work and that of other scholars to address the broader social functions of the film industry, showing how Hollywood adapted its business policies to diversity and change within American society. Includes 31 bandw photographs. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Kate Pearce
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780758269454
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (694 download)
Download or read book Simply Carnal written by Kate Pearce and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Delornay hires a young widow to be his assistant at his mother's Madame Helene's Pleasure House with the intention of instructing her in the ways of sensual seduction.
Author : Stephen Hawes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780384218406
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (184 download)
Download or read book Pastime of Pleasure written by Stephen Hawes and published by . This book was released on 1987-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George B. Kirsch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140084925X
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Baseball in Blue and Gray written by George B. Kirsch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. While soldiers slaughtered each other over the country's fate, players and fans struggled over the form of the national pastime. George Kirsch gives us a color commentary of the growth and transformation of baseball during the Civil War. He shows that the game was a vital part of the lives of many a soldier and civilian--and that baseball's popularity had everything to do with surging American nationalism. By 1860, baseball was poised to emerge as the American sport. Clubs in northeastern and a few southern cities played various forms of the game. Newspapers published statistics, and governing bodies set rules. But the Civil War years proved crucial in securing the game's place in the American heart. Soldiers with bats in their rucksacks spread baseball to training camps, war prisons, and even front lines. As nationalist fervor heightened, baseball became patriotic. Fans honored it with the title of national pastime. War metaphors were commonplace in sports reporting, and charity games were scheduled. Decades later, Union general Abner Doubleday would be credited (wrongly) with baseball's invention. The Civil War period also saw key developments in the sport itself, including the spread of the New York-style of play, the advent of revised pitching rules, and the growth of commercialism. Kirsch recounts vivid stories of great players and describes soldiers playing ball to relieve boredom. He introduces entrepreneurs who preached the gospel of baseball, boosted female attendance, and found new ways to make money. We witness bitterly contested championships that enthralled whole cities. We watch African Americans embracing baseball despite official exclusion. And we see legends spring from the pens of early sportswriters. Rich with anecdotes and surprising facts, this narrative of baseball's coming-of-age reveals the remarkable extent to which America's national pastime is bound up with the country's defining event.
Author : Lee Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300245092
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Palaces of Pleasure written by Lee Jackson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century’s growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the free time to pursue leisure activities, their every whim was satisfied by entrepreneurs building new venues for popular amusement. Contrary to their reputation as dour, buttoned-up prudes, the Victorians reveled in these newly created ‘palaces of pleasure’. In this vivid, captivating book, Lee Jackson charts the rise of well-known institutions such as gin palaces, music halls, seaside resorts and football clubs, as well as the more peculiar attractions of the pleasure garden and international exposition, ranging from parachuting monkeys and human zoos to theme park thrill rides. He explores how vibrant mass entertainment came to dominate leisure time and how the attempts of religious groups and secular improvers to curb ‘immorality’ in the pub, variety theater and dance hall faltered in the face of commercial success. The Victorians’ unbounded love of leisure created a nationally significant and influential economic force: the modern entertainment industry.
Author : David Wootton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674989902
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Power, Pleasure, and Profit written by David Wootton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents. We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning—cost-benefit analysis—to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and inescapable. As David Wootton shows, it is anything but. In Power, Pleasure, and Profit, he traces an intellectual and cultural revolution that replaced the older systems of Aristotelian ethics and Christian morality with the iron cage of instrumental reasoning that now gives shape and purpose to our lives. Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought—from Machiavelli to Madison—to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and economics stepped into a gap opened up by religious conflict and the Scientific Revolution. As ideas about godliness and Aristotelian virtue faded, theories about the rational pursuit of power, pleasure, and profit moved to the fore in the work of writers both obscure and as famous as Hobbes, Locke, and Adam Smith. The new instrumental reasoning cut through old codes of status and rank, enabling the emergence of movements for liberty and equality. But it also helped to create a world in which virtue, honor, shame, and guilt count for almost nothing, and what matters is success. Is our world better for the rise of instrumental reasoning? To answer that question, Wootton writes, we must first recognize that we live in its grip.
Author : Harvey Frommer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1589792548
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Old Time Baseball written by Harvey Frommer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frommer's latest book takes us to the birthplace of America's most beloved sport. Starting from baseball's humble beginnings, Frommer vividly introduces the reader to the trailblazing personalities that shaped baseball's history. From the first games in Madison, New York to the rise of the National League, Frommer vividly recreates the energy of this early time. Frommer's expertise lends itself to tell the magical story of baseball's history and insight into an era that is not to be forgotten.
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ISBN 13 : 9780989486682
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Occupied Pleasures written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occupied Pleasures by Tanya Habjouqa is a testimony to Palestinian resilience as they pursue simple pleasures in the face of the modern world's longest occupation. Tanya's lens explores how people find normalcy through the daily absurdities and indignities of occupation.Inspired by Martin Parr, Tanya documents the growing "fringe pleasures," from the flying parkour boys of Qalqilya to the surfers and break-dancers of Gaza. She focuses on the quiet moments of release and escape.As Dr. Laleh Khalili says about Occupied Pleasures in her introduction, "We also need imagery that captures the poetry of everyday life, and not only the prose of strife. We need the fleeting wash of pleasure to color our memories in the interstices of devastation, ruination and grief... We need to remember people embodied in their flesh and not just reflected through the lens of news, or prejudice, or stereotype." Habjouqa recalls a trip to Gaza, where one industrious man refused to be deprived of his right to love and snuck his young Jordanian bride through one of the smuggling tunnels which link the beleaguered coastal enclave to Egypt. He said, "It was like a Bollywood film, her standing there and trembling, covered in earth ....I ran to her and covered her with my kisses." That moment stayed with Habjouqa and infused in her a desire to capture those little nuggets of happiness and light that Palestinians literally find at the end of the tunnel. Occupied Pleasures is a hardcover edition that measures 10 x 10 inches, with 128 pages and 68 color photographs. It includes and introduction by Dr. Laleh Khalili, Professor in Middle Eastern Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and a foreword from Nathalie Handal. The book is embellished with original poetry by Najwan Darwish, Sousan Hammad and Hind Shoufani. It includes several Arabic language proverbs drawn from, "Popular Proverbs, an Entrance into Palestinian Culture" by Nassar B. Isleem.
Author : Stephen Hawes
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Example of Vertu written by Stephen Hawes and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Example of Vertu: The Example of Virtue" by Stephen Hawes Stephen Hawes was a popular English poet during the Tudor period who is now little known. This book is an epic that describes virtues in verse. Written in an old version of the English dialect, this book reads melodically as nature, wisdom, fortune, hardiness, and more are described as being some of the qualities one should strive for in life.
