Down To The Wire

Author : Gregory Gordon
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down to the Wire written by Gregory Gordon and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1990 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, in the aftermath of UPI's tragic plummet, it is still hard to believe that a journalistic institution with a tradition of excellence so hard earned and well deserved could have been allowed to self-destruct and almost disappear. The authors- who together have a combined forty-three years of experience at UPI- tell a stunning, insiders' tale of intrigue, mismanagement, financial gymnastics, greed, and lust for power. The story, spiced with heroics and betrayals, comedy, and pathos, provides an extraordinary glimpse into how UPI was dragged from the ranks of the world's media giant. -- Book Jacket.

Author : Jeff Miller
Publisher : Taylor Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780878337835
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down to the Wire written by Jeff Miller and published by Taylor Pub. This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the American League pennant race of 1967, when four teams had a chance to win up to the last week, and the final winner was not determined until the last day

Author : Mary Newhall Andersen
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780061066092
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thoroughbred #38 Down to the Wire written by Mary Newhall Andersen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1999-12-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonder's Star has returned to Whitebrook Farm, and Christina Reese is thrilled to have him home. Star won't run well for anyone but Christina. Christina is terrified of racing.

Author : Jonathan P. D. Abrams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0451498143
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Pieces Matter written by Jonathan P. D. Abrams and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An oral history of HBO"s The Wire"--

Author : David W. Orr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199745753
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down to the Wire written by David W. Orr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives.... It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and for worse, of our actions." So writes David Orr in Down to the Wire, a sober and eloquent assessment of climate destabilization and an urgent call to action. Orr describes how political negligence, an economy based on the insatiable consumption of trivial goods, and a disdain for the well-being of future generations have brought us to the tipping point that biologist Edward O. Wilson calls "the bottleneck." Due to our refusal to live within natural limits, we now face a long emergency of rising temperatures, rising sea-levels, and a host of other related problems that will increasingly undermine human civilization. Climate destabilization to which we are already committed will change everything, and to those betting on quick technological fixes or minor adjustments to the way we live now, Down to the Wire is a major wake-up call. But this is not a doomsday book. Orr offers a wide range of pragmatic, far-reaching proposals--some of which have already been adopted by the Obama administration--for how we might reconnect public policy with rigorous science, bring our economy into alignment with ecological realities, and begin to regard ourselves as planetary trustees for future generations. He offers inspiring real-life examples of people already responding to the major threat to our future. An exacting analysis of where we are in terms of climate change, how we got here, and what we must now do, Down to the Wire is essential reading for those wanting to join in the Great Work of our generation.

Author : Ryan Twomey
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030459926
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Examining The Wire written by Ryan Twomey and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines The Wire’s authenticity and its establishment of the series realism. Along with tracing creator David Simon’s onscreen critique of numerous failed American institutions, the book focuses on the connection between authenticity and realism in three distinct areas: language, character, and location. While it is shown that The Wire is indeed authentic, the study examines occasions where the language, characters, and even the location are ‘curated’. Yet, while we can witness these moments of curation, it is The Wire’s unflinching focus on authentic dialogue, authentic characterisation, and an authentic location that makes the series the most realistic, and arguably the best, television show of all time.

Author : Steve Busfield
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0852652216
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wire Re-Up written by Steve Busfield and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epic, multi-layered, morally challenging and action-packed - The Wire is everything a TV programme should be and more. A cult hit in the US and Britain, it has thousands of committed fans willing to engage in endless debates. Once you've watched it, you'll be drawn in, too: Is Omar Little the coolest criminal since Robin Hood? Which series has the best theme tune? Will Bubbles survive Baltimore? Avon or Stringer? This book collects the thoughts of Guardian journalists and the readers of the Guardian's Wire Re-up blog and combines them with interviews with the show's creators and stars and the all important xxx ratings, to bring you a more than fitting eulogy that will follow the airing of the show's final season.

Author : Doug Gold
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063012308
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Note Through the Wire written by Doug Gold and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised as an “unforgettable love story” by Heather Morris, New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, this is the real-life, unlikely romance between a resistance fighter and prisoner of war set in World War II Europe. In this true love story that defies all odds, Josefine Lobnik, a Yugoslav partisan heroine, and Bruce Murray, a New Zealand soldier, discover love in the midst of a brutal war. In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One an underground resistance fighter, a bold young woman determined to vanquish the enemy occupiers; the other a prisoner of war, a man longing to escape the confines of the camp so he can battle again. A crumpled note passes between these two strangers, slipped through the wire of the compound, and sets them on a course that will change their lives forever. Woven through their tales of great bravery, daring escapes, betrayal, torture, and retaliation is their remarkable love story that survived against all odds. This is an extraordinary account of two ordinary people who found love during the unimaginable hardships of Hitler’s barbaric regime as told by their son-in-law Doug Gold, who decided to tell their story from the moment he heard about their remarkable tale of bravery, resilience, and resistance.

Author : Dawn Cusick
Publisher : Lark Books
ISBN 13 : 9781579903886
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Bead & Wire Jewelry written by Dawn Cusick and published by Lark Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the techniques involved in making bead and wire jewelry, discusses tools and materials, and features illustrated instructions for seventy-five projects, including necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and pins.

Author : Stanley Corkin
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477311777
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connecting The Wire written by Stanley Corkin and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically acclaimed as one of the best television shows ever produced, the HBO series The Wire (2002–2008) is a landmark event in television history, offering a raw and dramatically compelling vision of the teeming drug trade and the vitality of life in the abandoned spaces of the postindustrial United States. With a sprawling narrative that dramatizes the intersections of race, urban history, and the neoliberal moment, The Wire offers an intricate critique of a society riven by racism and inequality. In Connecting The Wire, Stanley Corkin presents the first comprehensive, season-by-season analysis of the entire series. Focusing on the show’s depictions of the built environment of the city of Baltimore and the geographic dimensions of race and class, he analyzes how The Wire’s creator and showrunner, David Simon, uses the show to develop a social vision of its historical moment, as well as a device for critiquing many social “givens.” In The Wire’s gritty portrayals of drug dealers, cops, longshoremen, school officials and students, and members of the judicial system, Corkin maps a web of relationships and forces that define urban social life, and the lives of the urban underclass in particular, in the early twenty-first century. He makes a compelling case that, with its embedded history of race and race relations in the United States, The Wire is perhaps the most sustained and articulate exploration of urban life in contemporary popular culture.