How To Live Dangerously

Author : Warwick Cairns
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1743291930
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Live Dangerously written by Warwick Cairns and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a society governed by fear. Packets of peanuts "may contain nuts", our children are locked away safe indoors, and we are encouraged to fear risks that previous generations took for granted. The result is a temptation never to leave the house. 'How to Live Dangerously' is a sane, straight-talking, wonderfully entertaining manifesto that assesses the real risks of modern-day life, and encourages us to embrace a new freedom in the way we live. Sometimes, sh1t happens - but you may as well get out there and enjoy yourself while you can because, in the end, you're a long time dead.

Author : Christopher J. Koch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140065350
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year of Living Dangerously written by Christopher J. Koch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1983-03-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intelligent, compelling tale of political turmoil in mid-twentieth-century Indonesia. "Well conceived and beautifully executed."—Larry McMurtry.

Author : Ranulph Fiennes
Publisher : Long Riders Guild Press
ISBN 13 : 9781590481448
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Dangerously written by Ranulph Fiennes and published by Long Riders Guild Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought up in South Africa, he never knew his father, who had died in the Italian Campaign the year before he was born. Ranulph followed his father's path into the Royal Scots Greys. After that came the SAS, from which he was dismissed for blowing up an American film set at the idyllic Cotswold village of Castle Combs, then two vicious years as a volunteer fighting communist insurgents in Oman. Then began the series of expeditions for which Fiennes is best known and which caused The Guinness Book of Records to hail him in 1984 as 'the world's greatest living explorer.' Up the White Nile in a hovercraft, parachuting onto Europe's highest glacier, forcing his way up 4,000 miles of terrifying rivers in northern Canada and Alaska, overland to the North Pole and to the ends of the earth, across the world's axis-the Transglobe Expedition-which took ten years from conception to completion. He writes here too about his attempt to reach the North Pole without dogs or motorised equipment, beating the world record by 300 miles, his determination to find the lost city of Urbar in the Arabian desert and, finally, his extraordinary journey across the Antarctic Continent via the South Pole. Living Dangerously is a remarkable testament from a remarkable man.

Author : Brad Evans
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745682839
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resilient Life written by Brad Evans and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to live dangerously? This is not just a philosophical question or an ethical call to reflect upon our own individual recklessness. It is a deeply political issue, fundamental to the new doctrine of ‘resilience’ that is becoming a key term of art for governing planetary life in the 21st Century. No longer should we think in terms of evading the possibility of traumatic experiences. Catastrophic events, we are told, are not just inevitable but learning experiences from which we have to grow and prosper, collectively and individually. Vulnerability to threat, injury and loss has to be accepted as a reality of human existence. In this original and compelling text, Brad Evans and Julian Reid explore the political and philosophical stakes of the resilience turn in security and governmental thinking. Resilience, they argue, is a neo-liberal deceit that works by disempowering endangered populations of autonomous agency. Its consequences represent a profound assault on the human subject whose meaning and sole purpose is reduced to survivability. Not only does this reveal the nihilistic qualities of a liberal project that is coming to terms with its political demise. All life now enters into lasting crises that are catastrophic unto the end.

Author : Katie Fforde
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099446650
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Dangerously written by Katie Fforde and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published London Penguin, 1995.

Author : Jennie Lucas
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN 13 : 459626046X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A NIGHT OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY written by Jennie Lucas and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】Lilley is invited to a ball by CEO Alessandro on the worst day of her life. She had been despairing over her broken life, but attending the ball with this overwhelmingly gorgeous millionaire and wearing stunning clothes of the highest quality, she feels like she’s gone from being a pitiful little mouse to Cinderella. She has a beautiful night and gives him her virginity, but how long can she keep her true identity from him?

Author : James M. Ronan
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498514723
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Dangerously written by James M. Ronan and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask the average American who takes over in the event something happens to the President of the United States, and you’re likely to receive the correct answer. However, what about succession beyond the vice presidency? Fortunately, our nation has an established line of presidential succession that is meant to ensure continuity in the nation’s highest office. Unfortunately, there are several fundamental flaws in the model. This work begins by examining the fascinating history of presidential disability and succession, an issue that has impacted our nation’s highest office since the very beginning. After highlighting the reoccurring nature of this problem, it then provides an analysis of the alarming state of our current disability and succession guidelines, many of which are dangerously outdated, especially when it comes to the threat of terrorism. It then explores these flaws, specifically the glaring problems associated with including members of Congress in the line of succession. Along with questions concerning suitability and preparedness, statistics detailing the partisan composition of Congress over the last half-century illustrate that a sudden shift in party control of the presidency is not only possible, but likely. Finally, it concludes by highlighting an inherent flaw in a line of succession in which every member is located in one small area that happens to be the most attractive target for a would-be terrorist. While the issues explored in this work have been present for more than a half-century, the combination of an increased partisan divide between the executive and legislative branches, as well as the dangers of terrorist attack, combine to require immediate action. Just as the average American may be surprised to discover the Speaker of the House stands second in the line of succession, they would likely be shocked at the potential for chaos and confusion that could unfold in a battle for the presidency. Therefore, it is vitally important to address these concerns now, before they play out in front of a national audience.

Author : Jane Kelly
Publisher : Blake Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781844541713
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colin Farrell written by Jane Kelly and published by Blake Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin Farrell is one of Hollywood’s A-list actors, but it’s not just his box-office success that he’s known for. Charming, quick-witted, and rebellious, the Irish lothario has filled a staggering number of column inches with his love of booze, women, and the LA party scene. The magnetic young actor first turned heads in the BBC television seriesBallykissangel,establishing himself as a talent to watch, and it wasn’t long before he was approached by the movie industry. He’s since gone on to garner film credits that include Joel Schumacher’sPhone Booth,Steven Spielberg’sMinority Report, andOliver Stone’sAlexander,and his star will no doubt continue to rise. This is his story.

Author : Donald Tate
Publisher : Histria Books
ISBN 13 : 1592112579
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Dangerously written by Donald Tate and published by Histria Books. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Dangerously: In Sweet Delusions And Datelines From Shrieking Hell is a history-driven story casting a wide net over the Vietnam War, called the most important event of the second half of the twentieth century. It is a story with flashbacks and live action, from the battlefield to the bedroom, politics and the military, to a his-her war of sweet, bitter, and brave love.

Author : Edwidge Danticat
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307946509
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Create Dangerously written by Edwidge Danticat and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their homelands. Combining memoir and essay, these moving and eloquent pieces examine what it means to be an artist from a country in crisis. BONUS MATERIAL: This edition includes an excerpt from Edwidge Danticat's Claire of the Sea Light.