Leather Soul

Author : Bob Murphy
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1743820569
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leather Soul written by Bob Murphy and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A young, naive kid, with a brand-new football. Over time, the leather aged from the bumps along the trail. The Footscray winters and some glorious liniment-scented afternoons. All of the laughs, the scraps, the yarns and characters. The game. It all left a mark on me, on my soul.’ Bob Murphy has never been a typical footballer. Music buff, Age columnist and Winnebago driver, he is as comfortable in a quiet corner of a Fitzroy café or the front bar of a grungy pub as he is in the locker room. Murphy takes the reader inside his 17-year career, including his three years as captain of the Bulldogs, exploring the people, places and events that shaped him: from playing backyard cricket in 1980s Warragul to Community Cup with Paul Kelly in the 2000s, and from the joy of marrying his high-school crush to the agony of a season-ending ACL ruptures. How did the country kid with a gypsy’s heart become an All-Australian captain? What’s it like to have your club win the grand final for the first time in 62 years and have to cheer from the sidelines? How does it feel to realise you can no longer do the things that made you great? The celebrated Australian football bard Martin Flanagan has long insisted Bob Murphy has a book in him like no footballer has written. Leather Soul proves him right.

Author : Ted Quinn
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738557311
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peabody's Leather Industry written by Ted Quinn and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of the leather industry in America, Peabody and leather have always been considered synonymous. The Civil War and Reconstruction Era brought great prosperity to the industry, and by the late 19th century, the leather industrys success was firmly established in Peabody. After the great Boston fire of 1872, many leather shops in Boston were completely destroyed, leaving Peabodys tanneries unrivaled. In 1894, Arthur C. Lawrence and his A. C. Lawrence Leather Company arrived in Peabody, employed thousands of workers, and secured the citys place in history as the largest manufacturer of calf and sheep skins in the world, earning Peabody the title of Leather Capital of the World.

Author : Robert Kanigel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205596
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faux Real written by Robert Kanigel and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes genuine leather genuine? What makes real things real? In an age of virtual reality, veneers, synthetics, plastics, fakes, and knockoffs, it's hard to know. Over the centuries, men and women have devoted enormous energy to making fake things seem real. As early as the fourteenth century, fabric was treated with special oils to make it resemble leather. In the 1870s came Leatherette, a new bookbinding material. The twentieth century gave us Fabrikoid, Naugahyde, Corfam, and Ultrasuede. Each claims to transcend leather's limitations, to do better than nature itself—or at least to convince consumers that it does. Perhaps more than any other natural material, leather stands for the authentic and the genuine. Its animal roots etched in its pores and in the swirls of its grain, leather serves as cultural shorthand for the virtues of the real over the synthetic, the original over the copy, the luxurious over the shoddy and second-rate. From formica, vinyl siding, and particle board to cubic zirconium, knockoff designer bags, and genetically altered foods, inspired fakes of every description fly the polyester pennant of a brave new man-made world. Each represents a journey of scientific, technical, and entrepreneurial innovation. Faux Real explores this borderland of the almost-real, the ersatz, and the fake, illuminating a centuries-old culture war between the authentic and the imitative.

Author : Paul Carus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soul of Man written by Paul Carus and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Werner Delanoy
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823343646
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experiencing a Foreign Culture written by Werner Delanoy and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. W. Ocker
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 1581575548
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts written by J. W. Ocker and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Award-winning travel writer spends an autumn living in one of America's spookiest tourist destinations: Salem, Massachusetts Salem, Massachusetts, may be the strangest city on the planet. A single event in its 400 years of history—the Salem Witch Trials of 1692—transformed it into the Capital of Creepy in America. But Salem is a seasonal town—and its season happens to be Halloween. Every October, this small city of 40,000 swells to close to half a million as witches, goblins, ghouls, and ghosts (and their admirers) descend on Essex Street. For the fall of 2015, occult enthusiast and Edgar Award–winning writer J.W. Ocker moved his family of four to downtown Salem to experience firsthand a season with the witch, visiting all of its historical sites and macabre attractions. In between, he interviews its leaders and citizens, its entrepreneurs and visitors, its street performers and Wiccans, its psychics and critics, creating a picture of this unique place and the people who revel in, or merely weather, its witchiness.

Author : J. Lincoln Fenn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501110934
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Souls written by J. Lincoln Fenn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Fiona Quinn is approached in a bar by a man who calls himself Scratch and claims he's the devil, she figures it's just some kind of post-modern ironic pickup line. But since he offers to pick up the tab, what the hell. A few drinks in, Scratch offers something much stranger--a wish in exchange for her immortal soul. Fiona has been wondering if her boyfriend is having an affair. What if she could become invisible, see what he's really up to? It can be done, but for a price--in addition to her soul, Fiona must perform a special favor for Scratch whenever the time comes"--

Author : Thomas Guzman-Sanchez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313386935
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Underground Dance Masters written by Thomas Guzman-Sanchez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive, historical bible on the subject of urban street dance and its influence on modern dance, hip hop, and pop culture. Urban street dance—which is now referred to across the globe as "break dance" or "hip-hop dance"—was born 15 years prior to the hip hop movement. In today's pop culture, the dance innovators from "back in the day" have been forgotten, except when choreographic echoes of their groundbreaking dance forms are repeatedly recycled in today's media. Sadly, this is still the case when dance moves that were engendered from 1965 through the 1970s on the streets of Reseda, South Central Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, and Fresno, CA; or in the Bronx in New York City, are utilized by modern performers. In Underground Dance Masters: Final History of a Forgotten Era, an urban street dancer who was part of the scene in the early 1970s sets the record straight, blowing the lid off this uniquely American dance style and culture. This text redefines hip hop dance and the origins of a worldwide phenomenon, explaining the origins of classic forms such as Funk Boogaloo, Locking, Popping, Roboting, and B'boying—some of the most important developments in modern dance that directly affect today's pop culture.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1726 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boot and Shoe Recorder written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Austin Bullock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class-book Manual of Spelling, Etc written by Thomas Austin Bullock and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: