Cliffs Of Insanity

Author : Keith Duggan
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446487210
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cliffs Of Insanity written by Keith Duggan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surfing in Ireland was once considered little more than a fringe and slightly lunatic pursuit. The treacherous coastline and ice waters of the Atlantic did not sit comfortably with the stereotype of surfing as the favoured pastime of the bronzed and privileged. But with the discovery in the past few years of the gargantuan Aileen’s wave at the Cliffs of Moher and other heavy waves, the Irish coast has become one of the worst kept secrets in world surfing. In Cliffs of Insanity, the Irish Times sportswriter Keith Duggan tells the story of a dedicated group of surfers in County Clare whose lives revolve around the pursuit of Ireland’s wildest waves. The book traces the evolution of Fergal Smith, the young Mayo man whose intuition for big waves has earned him a serious reputation and explores the world of Mickey Smith, the roving Cornish man who discovered Aileen’s and whose breathtaking surf photography has caught the Irish landscape in an entirely new and original light. Bitter cold days, broken bones, busted boards, scars, near drownings and countless hours in the freezing water trying to read the ocean is the price they pay for those few transcendent seconds when they master a wave. Cliffs of Insanity is about the importance of pursuing what matters in life but it is also about community and friendship, and the passionate pursuit of a way of life that flies in the face of everything championed in Ireland over the last decade.

Author : Cary Elwes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476764026
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As You Wish written by Cary Elwes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a 25th anniversary, behind-the-scenes account of the making of the cult-classic film, the lead actor shares never-before-told stories and exclusive photographs as well as interviews with Robin Wright, Billy Crystal and more. 100,000 first printing.

Author : Ethan Nichtern
Publisher : North Point Press
ISBN 13 : 0865478384
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dharma of The Princess Bride written by Ethan Nichtern and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engagingly contemporary approach to Buddhism—through the lens of an iconic film and its memorable characters Humorous yet spiritually rigorous in the tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and The Tao of Pooh, drawing from pop culture and from personal experience, The Dharma of “The Princess Bride” teaches us how to understand and navigate our most important personal relationships from a twenty-first-century Buddhist perspective. Friendship. Romance. Family. These are the three areas Ethan Nichtern delves into, taking as departure points the indelible characters from Rob Reiner’s perennially popular film—Westley, Fezzik, Vizzini, Count Rugen, Princess Buttercup, and others—as he also draws lessons from his own life and his work as a meditation teacher. Nichtern devotes the first section of the book to exploring the dynamics of friendship. Why do people become friends? What can we learn from the sufferings of Inigo Montoya and Fezzik? Next, he leads us through all the phases of illusion and disillusion we encounter in our romantic pursuits, providing a healthy dose of lightheartedness along the way by sharing his own Princess Buttercup List and the vicissitudes of his dating life as he ponders how we idealize and objectify romantic love. Finally, Nichtern draws upon the demands of his own family history and the film’s character the Grandson to explore the dynamics of “the last frontier of awakening,” a reference to his teacher Chogyam Trungpa’s claim that it’s possible to be enlightened everywhere except around your family. With The Dharma of “The Princess Bride” in hand, we can set out on the path to contemporary Buddhist enlightenment with the most important relationships in our lives.

Author : Gregg Easterbrook
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780789306517
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tuesday Morning Quarterback written by Gregg Easterbrook and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the popular football commentary on the e-zine "Slate", this is a collection of haikus, Zen poetry, historical allusions, and other conceits Easterbrook uses to creates fresh commentary on the philosophy of the game. 50 illustrations.

Author : Robert Pinsky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324001798
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling written by Robert Pinsky and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new anthology of poems that contend with the most extreme human emotions, from former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: poetry is our most intimate, personal source for the urgency of these experiences. Poems get under our skin; they engage with the balm, and the sting, of understanding. In The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall—its title inspired by a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem—acclaimed poet Robert Pinsky gives us more than 130 poems that explore emotion at its most expansive, distinct, and profound. With seven illuminating chapters and succinct headnotes for each poem, Pinsky leads us through the book’s sweeping historical range. Each chapter, with contents chronologically presented from Shakespeare to Terrance Hayes, Dante to Patricia Lockwood, shows the persistence and variation in our states of mind. “The Sleep of Reason” explores sanity and the imagination, moving from William Cowper’s “Lines Written During a Time of Insanity” to Nicole Sealey’s “a violence.” “Grief” includes Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs last in the Door-yard Bloom’d” and Marie Howe’s “What the Living Do,” and “Manic Laughter” highlights both Lewis Carroll and Martín Espada. Each poem reveals something new about the vastness of human emotion; taken together they offer a sweeping ode to the power of poetry. Guided by “our finest living example of [the American civic poet]” (New York Times), The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall demonstrates how extreme feelings can be complementary and contradicting, and how poetry is not just an expression of emotion, but emotion itself.

Author : Mimi Matthews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999036457
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Matrimonial Advertisement written by Mimi Matthews and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Matrimonial advertisement, Muslim groom wanted for sister of Textile Inspector in Calcutta, India.

Author : Whitney Gardner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481495585
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fake Blood written by Whitney Gardner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “LOL funny.” –Girls Life A Huffington Post Best Children’s Book of 2018 A middle schooler comes head-to-head with his vampire slayer crush in this laugh-out-loud funny graphic novel that’s a perfect coming-of-age story for anyone who’s ever felt too young, too small, or too average. It’s the beginning of the new school year and AJ feels like everyone is changing but him. He hasn’t grown or had any exciting summer adventures like his best friends have. He even has the same crush he’s harbored for years. So AJ decides to take matters into his own hands. But how could a girl like Nia Winters ever like plain vanilla AJ when she only has eyes for vampires? When AJ and Nia are paired up for a group project on Transylvania, it may be AJ’s chance to win over Nia’s affection by dressing up like the vamp of her dreams. And soon enough he’s got more of Nia’s attention than he bargained for when he learns she’s a slayer. Now AJ has to worry about self-preservation while also trying to save everyone he cares about from a real-life threat lurking in the shadows of Spoons Middle School.

Author : Diane Kredensor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1665939532
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Superbuns! written by Diane Kredensor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A little bunny, who dreams of being a superhero, proves to her know-it-all older sister that kindness really is a superpower"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Dianne Duvall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781666149197
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cliff's Descent written by Dianne Duvall and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan McRoberts
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1602473137
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lifter of My Head written by Susan McRoberts and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Lifter of My Head" offers medical guidance and spiritual insight to women who may be plagued with this disorder. Sue explains in her memoir, the phases of illness, recovery, and the scriptures that sustained her throughout her healing.