La Breakdown Deluxe Edition

Author : Lou Mathews
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 168442979X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book L.A. Breakdown (Deluxe Edition) written by Lou Mathews and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1999 LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST BOOK DELUXE EDITION, WITH NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN RECOVERED CHAPTERS —Los Angeles, 1967— With gleaming detail and blinding precision, Lou Mathews freeze-frames a hidden corner of L.A.’s outlaw culture in the moments before it becomes extinct. The heart of the culture is the drive-in, where street racers meet to challenge their rivals and place their bets. This world comes to life after dark, lit by headlights and street lamps, a moveable feast of drag races, peopled with its own lost generation: young men and women who have left high school but have no thoughts of college. Drifting from one dead end job to another, supplementing their income through thieving, doing the occasional stint in prison, and reluctantly entering the armed services when there is nothing else left, they live, and sometimes die, for the excitement, the danger, the money of racing. In the world of drag racing—fleeting and bittersweet, like the end of summer—the stakes the stakes grow higher and higher as, one by one, each player spins out and disappears from the scene: Here, we meet Vaca, crippled in soul and body, prefers the armor of his car to a wheelchair. The ex-con Brody—Vaca’s driver—is the best street racer in town. Reinhard, a loner who has no one and nothing but the exquisite machines he builds and races. Charlie, the race organizer who tells the story. And Connie, who rolls her eyes at the whole parade, never without a sarcastic riposte, but who can’t stay away from the boys and their toys. Stunning, bleakly beautiful, and laugh-out-loud funny, L.A. Breakdown paints a riveting portrait of 1960s Los Angeles, frozen in time yet disintegrating before our eyes with all the reckless speed of romantic era. “Mathews keeps the reader so firmly focused on horsepower, hand-rubbed black lacquer paint jobs and custom pinstripes that the small epiphanies that unfold here really do sneak up, as surprising and pungent as burning oil.” —Los Angeles Times

Author : Lou Mathews
Publisher : Malvern Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780947993801
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book L.A. Breakdown written by Lou Mathews and published by Malvern Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel on illegal car races in the streets of 1960s Los Angeles. One of the protagonists is a paraplegic who uses money from the injury award to build a souped-up Ford. He gets a driver and with himself in the passenger seat takes on a souped-up Chevy.

Author : Neill Nugent
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349068683
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Left in France written by Neill Nugent and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-06-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Soule
Publisher : Image Comics
ISBN 13 : 1534326723
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eight Billion Genies Deluxe Edition Book One written by Charles Soule and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you had one wish…what would you wish for? What if everyone else on the planet had one wish too? That’s EIGHT BILLION GENIES. Eight seconds after magical genies grant every person on earth one wish, the world is transformed forever…and that’s just the beginning! From #1 New York Times-bestselling author CHARLES SOULE (UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, Light of the Jedi) and superstar artist RYAN BROWNE (CURSE WORDS, GOD HATES ASTRONAUTS) comes the most thought-provoking, hilarious, terrifying, and emotional ride of the year. Collects EIGHT BILLION GENIES #1-8

Author : Andre Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135446962
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Key Ideas for a Contemporary Psychoanalysis written by Andre Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: André Green attempts the complex task of identifying and examining the key ideas for a contemporary psychoanalytic practice. This undertaking is motivated both by the need for an outline of the evolution of psychoanalysis since Freud's death, and by the hope of tackling the fragmentation which has led to the current 'crisis of psychoanalysis'. In three sections covering the theoretical and practical aspects of psychoanalysis, and analysing the current state of the field, André Green provides a stimulating overview of the principal concepts that have guided his work. Subjects covered include: Transference and countertransference Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: modalities and results Language-speech-discourse in psychoanalysis Recognition of the unconscious This unique contemporary perspective on the psychoanalytic enterprise will fascinate all those with an interest in the problems that face the field and the opportunities for its future development.

Author : Lou Mathews
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1684428238
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaky Town written by Lou Mathews and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shaky Town, Lou Mathews has written a timeless novel of working-class Los Angeles. A former mechanic and street racer, he tells his story in cool and panoramic style, weaving together the tragedies and glories of one of L.A.’s eastside neighborhoods. From a teenage girl caught in the middle of a gang war to a priest who has lost his faith and hit bottom, the characters in Shaky Town live on a dangerous faultline but remain unshakable in their connections to one another. Like Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, Katherine Ann Porter’s Ship of Fools, Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place, and Pat Barker’s Union Street, Shaky Town is the story of complicated, conflicted, and disparate characters bound together by place.

Author : Isidore Kafui Dorpenyo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030263991
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book User Localization Strategies in the Face of Technological Breakdown written by Isidore Kafui Dorpenyo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Ghana’s use of the fingerprint biometric technology in order to further conversations about localization championed by technical communication scholars. Localization, in this case, refers to the extent to which users demonstrate their knowledge of use by subverting and reconfiguring the purpose of technology to solve local problems. Dorpenyo argues that the success of a technology depends on how it meets the users’ needs and the creative efforts users put into use situations. In User Localization Strategies in the Face of Technological Breakdown, Dorpenyo advocates studying how users of technological systems construct knowledge about the technology and develop local strategies to solve technological breakdowns. By analyzing technical documents and interview transcripts, the author identifies and advances three user localization strategies: linguistic localization, subversive localization, and user-heuristic experience localization, and considers how biometric systems can become a tool of marginalization.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1446 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
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Download or read book The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 926402266X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book OECD Territorial Reviews: France 2006 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review examines trends and challenges facing the regions of France in particular looking at competitiveness policies and multilevel governance. It includes interesting statistics related to regions and makes a series of recommendations for French authorities.