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Author : Norman Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book God's Playground written by Norman Davies and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199253401
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book God's Playground A History of Poland written by Norman Davies and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century. The writing of Polish history, like Poland itself, has frequently fallen prey to interested parties. Professor Norman Davies adopts a sceptical stance towards all existing interpretations and attempts to bring a strong dose of common sense to his theme. He presents the most comprehensive survey in English of this frequently maligned and usually misunderstood country.
Author : Norman Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199253395
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book God's Playground A History of Poland written by Norman Davies and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century. The writing of Polish history, like Poland itself, has frequently fallen prey to interested parties. Professor Norman Davies adopts a sceptical stance towards all existing interpretations and attempts to bring a strong dose of common sense to his theme. He presents the most comprehensive survey in English of this frequently maligned and usually misunderstood country.
Author : Norman Davies
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 1846148324
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beneath Another Sky written by Norman Davies and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'He writes history like nobody else. He thinks like nobody else ... He sees the world as a whole, with its limitless fund of stories' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times Where have the people in any particular place actually come from? What are the historical complexities in any particular place? This evocative historical journey around the world shows us. 'Human history is a tale not just of constant change but equally of perpetual locomotion', writes Norman Davies. Throughout the ages, men and women have endlessly sought the greener side of the hill. Their migrations, collisions, conquests and interactions have given rise to the spectacular profusion of cultures, races, languages and polities that now proliferates on every continent. This incessant restlessness inspired Davies's own. After decades of writing about European history, and like Tennyson's ageing Ulysses longing for one last adventure, he embarked upon an extended journey that took him right round the world to a score of hitherto unfamiliar countries. His aims were to test his powers of observation and to revel in the exotic, but equally to encounter history in a new way. Beneath Another Sky is partly a historian's travelogue, partly a highly engaging exploration of events and personalities that have fashioned today's world - and entirely sui generis. Davies's circumnavigation takes him to Baku, the Emirates, India, Malaysia, Mauritius, Tasmania, Tahiti, Texas, Madeira and many places in between. At every stop, he not only describes the current scene but also excavates the layers of accumulated experience that underpin the present. He tramps round ancient temples and weird museums, summarises the complexity of Indian castes, Austronesian languages and Pacific explorations, delves into the fate of indigenous peoples and of a missing Malaysian airliner, reflects on cultural conflict in Cornwall, uncovers the Nazi origins of Frankfurt airport and lectures on imperialism in a desert oasis. 'Everything has its history', he writes, 'including the history of finding one's way or of getting lost.' The personality of the author comes across strongly - wry, romantic, occasionally grumpy, but with an endless curiosity and appetite for knowledge. As always, Norman Davies watches the historical horizon as well as what is close at hand, and brilliantly complicates our view of the past.
Author : Chisato O. Dubreuil
Publisher : Smithsonian Inst/Motoko Ikeda Spiegel
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book From the Playground of the Gods written by Chisato O. Dubreuil and published by Smithsonian Inst/Motoko Ikeda Spiegel. This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bikky Sunazawa's art was unknown in North America and relatively little-known outside Hokkaido, Japan, when the Smithsonian opened its special Ainu exhibition [in 1999]. Conceived to explore the relationship of history, culture, and art of the Ainu people with other North Pacific native groups, the exhibition included a large section of contemporary Ainu sculpture, painting, graphic arts, and textile arts. The largest body of work was sculptures created by Bikky Sunazawa. . . . This is the first English-language book devoted to Bikky's life and the most complete presentation of his principal artworks. . . . [It] is the most comprehensive treatment of the artist who became the pivot point in the development of modern Ainu fine art." --from the Preface by William W. Fitzhugh
Author : Vincent M. Mallozzi
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0385506767
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book Asphalt Gods written by Vincent M. Mallozzi and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2003-06-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real basketball deal–the inside story of Harlem’s legendary tournament and the pros and playground legends who have made it world famous. Earl “The Goat” Manigault. Herman “Helicopter” Knowings. Joe “The Destroyer” Hammond. Richard “Pee Wee” Kirkland. These and dozens of other colorfully nicknamed men are the “Asphalt Gods,” whose astounding exploits in the Rucker Tournament, often against multimillionaire NBA superstars, have made them playground divinity. First established in the 1950s by Holcombe Rucker, a New York City Parks Department employee, the tournament has grown to become a Harlem institution, an annual summer event of major proportions. On that fabled patch of concrete, unknown players have been lighting it up for decades as they express basketball as a freestyle art among their peers and against such pro immortals as Julius Erving and Wilt Chamberlain. X’s and O’s are exchanged for oohs and aahs in one of the great examples of street theater to be found in urban America. Asphalt Gods is a streetwise, supremely entertaining oral history of a tournament that has influenced everything from NBA playing style to hip-hop culture. Now, legends transmitted by word of mouth find a home and the achievements of basketball’s greatest unknowns a permanent place in the game’s record.
Author : Yasmina Reza
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822223993
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book God of Carnage written by Yasmina Reza and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: A playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first, diplomatic niceties are observed, but as the meeting progresses, and the rum flows, tension
Author : Swami Bhakti Caitanya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788187897248
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book Vr̥ndāvana written by Swami Bhakti Caitanya and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547346727
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book God's Gym written by John Edgar Wideman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In God's Gym, the celebrated author John Edgar Wideman offers stories that pulse with emotional electricity. The ten pieces here explore strength, both physical and spiritual. The collection opens with a man paying tribute to the quiet fortitude of his mother, a woman who "should wear a T-shirt: God's Gym." In the stories that follow, Wideman delivers powerful riffs on family and fate, basketball and belief. His mesmerizing prose features guest appearances by cultural luminaries as diverse as the Harlem Globetrotters, Frantz Fanon, Thelonious Monk, and Marilyn Monroe. As always, Wideman astounds with writing that moves from the intimate to the political, from shock to transcendence.
Author : Cathy Cash Spellman
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780446603478
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Playground of the Gods written by Cathy Cash Spellman and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 1996 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six rich and powerful men take six beautiful, accomplished women to a tropical island playground for a fun, no-strings-attached vacation, but when one man goes too far, the women band together in the jungle to teach the men a lesson they will never forget. Reprint.
