In The Slipstream

Author : Andrew M. Homan
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597976857
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in the Slipstream written by Andrew M. Homan and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century before Lance Armstrong captured headlines around the world by winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France, another American dominated the world of competitive cycling. His name was Bobby Walthour, and in the early 1900s he was one of the world's most famous and highly paid athletes. Life in the Slipstream chronicles Walthour's rise from a lowly bicycle messenger in Georgia to a two-time national and international cycling champion who was nearly as popular in Paris and his adopted home of Berlin as he was in his hometown of Atlanta. His career parallels the surging popularity of the bicycle in America, and this biography depicts his life against the backdrop of the bicycle craze that swept America in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Readers will experience the rough-and-tumble world of professional cycling at the turn of the twentieth century, where deadly accidents and illicit drugs were commonplace. During Walthour's long career, more than a dozen of his rivals were killed or permanently injured. He himself suffered multiple injuries—from fractured ribs and separated collarbones to mangled fingers and concussions—and was twice declared dead as a result of racing accidents. But Walthour's fortunes on the racing circuit ultimately took a dramatic turn for the worse when his personal life began to unravel because of drug abuse and an unhappy marriage that culminated in his attempted murder—by his own wife. Life in the Slipstream is an unforgettable account of the rise and fall of one of the greatest athletes of the twentieth century.

Author : Elizabeth Jane Howard
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330527835
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slipstream written by Elizabeth Jane Howard and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slipstream brilliantly illuminates the literary world of the latter half of the 20th century, as well as giving a highly personal insight into the life of Elizabeth Jane Howard, one of our most beloved British writers. 'This is a brave, absorbing and vulnerable book' – Guardian Elizabeth looks back over the course of her eventful life, providing a story of as full of love, passion and betrayal as her novels. Born in London in 1923, she was privately educated at home, moving on to short-lived careers as an actress and model, before writing her first acclaimed novel, The Beautiful Visit, in 1950. She has written many highly regarded novels, including Falling and After Julius. Her Cazalet Chronicles have become established as modern classics and were adapted for a major BBC television series and for BBC Radio 4. She has been married three times – firstly to Peter Scott, the naturalist and son of Captain Scott, and most famously and tempestuously to Kingsley Amis. It was Amis' son by another marriage, Martin, to whom she introduced the works of Jane Austen and ensured that he received the education that would be the grounding of his own literary career. Her closest friends have included some of the greatest writers and thinkers of the day: Laurie Lee, Arthur Koestler and Cecil Day-Lewis, among others. In this memoir, Elizabeth Jane Howard lays bare the slipstream of experience that has comprised her life – in the process, revealing her incredible adventures, wisdom and resilience. 'Her talent seemed so effervescent, so unstoppable, that there was no predicting where it might take her' – Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall

Author : Benjamin P. Hardy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997071016
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slipstream Time Hacking written by Benjamin P. Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time is the number one currency of life. Time is the new money. People want it more than anything else. As you read SLIPSTREAM TIME HACKING and apply the principles contained therein, you will learn to:1. Quickly design the life of your choosing2. Add decades of quality time to your life3. Achieve bigger goals than you can presently conceive4. Command time rather than the other way aroundThis book will provide you a mind-bending and soul-expanding experience like no other self-improvement book you've ever read. The goal is to radically alter your entire perception of reality and what's possible.Take control of your time - take control of your life. Our time should be of utmost quality and memorable. As you read these pages, you will see in a very real way, that most people spend only a few minutes living every 24 hours. Most people's time is on fast-forward to their deathbed. This may be you right now.The goal is to get where you want to be--your ideal life--quickly so you can live there as long as possible. You can live thousands of years' worth of life in a single life-time by understanding the principles in this book.SLIPSTREAM TIME HACKING will challenge you to answer these questions:1. Ideally, how would you spend your time?2. What activities, if you could spend the majority of your time doing, would be most impactful?3. What activities would be most meaningful and important?4. What lifestyle resonates with your firmest convictions?5. Take actionRead SLIPSTREAM TIME HACKING and live the life you always wanted to live right now.

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ISBN 13 : 9781616963446
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book FEELING VERY STRANGE written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Damien Broderick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313003165
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transrealist Fiction written by Damien Broderick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transrealist writing treats immediate perceptions in a fantastic way, according to science fiction writer and mathematician Rudy Rucker, who originated the term. In the expanded sense argued in this book, it also intensifies imaginative fiction by writing the fantastic from the standpoint of richly personalized experience. Transrealism is also related to slipstream writing, another category introduced into studies of speculative fiction to account for texts that seem to follow trajectories mapped by the huge body of science fiction accumulated in the last century, while retaining a central interest in traditional literary strategies. This book examines a variety of work from the transrealist perspective, something that has not been done previously. It emphasizes the texts of Philip K. Dick and Rucker himself, while it additionally engages the texts of such slipstream writers as Kurt Vonnegut, J.G. Ballard, and John Barth. It places its argument against the antihumanist trend in science fiction and builds comparisons with more traditional varieties of science fiction works.

Author : Natalka Burian
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1507200757
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welcome to the Slipstream written by Natalka Burian and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her mother is lured into the desert by a cult leader, Van, seventeen, must leave Alex, the boy she is falling for, her comfortable life in a Las Vegas casino, and the dream of playing in a rock band, to rescue her.

Author : Ronald Sukenick
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573660808
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Slipstream written by Ronald Sukenick and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the way, FC2 has introduced readers to the works of Mark Layner, Russell Banks, Raymond Federman, Ronald Sukenick, Eurudice, Gerald Vizenor and many more."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Slipstream written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jill Black
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909716247
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living in the Slipstream written by Jill Black and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the period between the Cold War and the present day, 'Living in the Slipstream' features a collection of tales told by wives of RAF personnel. Often hilarious, and always witty and touching, they provide an insight into what service life is like.

Author : Roger Wagner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191065145
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penultimate Curiosity written by Roger Wagner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all human religions. It has, in many cultures, shaped and motivated a more down to earth scientific interest in the physical world, which could therefore be described as penultimate curiosity. These two manifestations of curiosity have a history of connection that goes back deep into the human past. Tracing that history all the way from cave painting to quantum physics, this book (a collaboration between a painter and a physical scientist that uses illustrations throughout the narrative) sets out to explain the nature of the long entanglement between religion and science: the ultimate and the penultimate curiosity.