Pulling Up Stakes

Author : Harriet Kimble Wrye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983925521
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pulling Up Stakes written by Harriet Kimble Wrye and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a High Sierra packtrip with her husband and their six llamas, psychologist Harriet Wrye felt a millennial call to pull up stakes in her life, as she did with tent stakes and llama stakes each day as they moved along the trail. Inspired, she closed her Los Angeles psychoanalytic practice of thirty years , they leased their house at the beach, and set out on a journey to the back of beyond. Creating a sabbatical from the familiar, her journey became a life-changing spiritual pilgrimage that led to a deep practice of letting go of assumptions, habits and patterns, and stepping into freedom.

Author : T. L. Taylor
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262527588
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raising the Stakes written by T. L. Taylor and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a form of play becomes a sport: players, agents, referees, leagues, tournaments, sponsorships, and spectators, and the culture of professional computer game play. Competitive video and computer game play is nothing new: the documentary King of Kong memorably portrays a Donkey Kong player's attempts to achieve the all-time highest score; the television show Starcade (1982–1984) featured competitions among arcade game players; and first-person shooter games of the 1990s became multiplayer through network play. A new development in the world of digital gaming, however, is the emergence of professional computer game play, complete with star players, team owners, tournaments, sponsorships, and spectators. In Raising the Stakes, T. L. Taylor explores the emerging scene of professional computer gaming and the accompanying efforts to make a sport out of this form of play. In the course of her explorations, Taylor travels to tournaments, including the World Cyber Games Grand Finals (which considers itself the computer gaming equivalent of the Olympics), and interviews participants from players to broadcasters. She examines pro-gaming, with its highly paid players, play-by-play broadcasts, and mass audience; discusses whether or not e-sports should even be considered sports; traces the player's path from amateur to professional (and how a hobby becomes work); and describes the importance of leagues, teams, owners, organizers, referees, sponsors, and fans in shaping the structure and culture of pro-gaming. Taylor connects professional computer gaming to broader issues: our notions of play, work, and sport; the nature of spectatorship; the influence of money on sports. And she examines the ongoing struggle over the gendered construction of play through the lens of male-dominated pro-gaming. Ultimately, the evolution of professional computer gaming illuminates the contemporary struggle to convert playful passions into serious play.

Author : Ben Sanders
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250140110
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stakes written by Ben Sanders and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NYPD robbery detective uses his insider cop knowledge to rob rich criminals. The latest from Ben Sanders, following his novels American Blood and Marshall’s Law. Rip-offs are a dangerous game, but heist man Miles Keller thinks he’s found a good strategy: rob rich New York criminals and then retire early, before word’s out about his true identity. New town, new name, no worries. Retirement can’t come soon enough, though. The NYPD is investigating him for the shooting of a hitman named Jack Deen, who was targeting Lucy Gates—a former police informant and Miles’s ex-lover. Miles thinks shooting hitmen counts as altruism, but in any case a murder charge would make life difficult. He’s ready to go to ground, but then Nina Stone reappears in his life. Nina is a fellow heist professional and the estranged wife of LA crime boss Charles Stone. Miles last saw her five years ago, and since then her life has grown more complicated: her husband wants her back, and he’s dispatched his go-to gun thug to play repo man. Complicating matters is the fact that the gun thug in question is Bobby Deen, cousin of the dead Jack Deen—and Bobby wants vengeance. The stakes couldn’t be higher, but Nina has an offer that could be lucrative. Maybe Miles can stick around a while longer...

Author : Mychal Denzel Smith
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1568588720
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stakes Is High written by Mychal Denzel Smith and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode and through an uncertain future. The events of the past decade have forced us to reckon with who we are and who we want to be. We have been invested in a set of beliefs about our American identity: our exceptionalism, the inevitable rightness of our path, the promise that hard work and determination will carry us to freedom. But in Stakes Is High, Mychal Denzel Smith confronts the shortcomings of these stories -- and with the American Dream itself -- and calls on us to live up to the principles we profess but fail to realize. In a series of incisive essays, Smith exposes the stark contradictions at the heart of American life, holding all of us, individually and as a nation, to account. We've gotten used to looking away, but the fissures and casual violence of institutional oppression are ever-present. There is a future that is not as grim as our past. In this profound work, Smith helps us envision it with care, honesty, and imagination.

Author : Derek Hansen
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781466263680
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Hang written by Derek Hansen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hammock camping--one of the most comfortable ways to enjoy a long-distance thru-hike, a weekend backpacking trip, or just an overnight in the woods. With more than 200 illustrations to guide you, this book helps you get off the ground to discover the freedom, comfort, and convenience of hammock camping. Learn how to set up and use a hammock to stay dry, warm, and bug free in a Leave No Trace-friendly way. This book covers hammock camping basics such as how to get a perfect hang and how to stay dry, warm, and bug free. Plus, it illustrates techniques and tips to get the most out of a hammock shelter, whether you have purchased an all-in-one kit or you've assembled your own customized system.

Author : Emma Donoghue
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781529046199
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pull of the Stars written by Emma Donoghue and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick, from the acclaimed author of Room. The Pull of the Stars is set during three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. 'Moving, gripping and dazzlingly written' - Stylist Dublin, 1918. In a country doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders: Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over the course of three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue tells an unforgettable and deeply moving story of love and loss. 'A visceral, harrowing, and revelatory vision of life, death, and love in a time of pandemic. This novel is stunning' - Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven 'Reads like an episode of Call The Midwife set during a pandemic' - Mail on Sunday Guardian, Cosmopolitan and Telegraph's 'Books of the Year'

Author : Rob Reid
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838997511
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reid's Read-Alouds written by Rob Reid and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling author Rob Reid makes reading aloud to children and teens easy by selecting titles in high-interest topics published between 2000 and 2008.

Author : Leah Cutter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943663729
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pulling Up Stakes: A Campcon Anthology written by Leah Cutter and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a magician trying to prove his worth to rootless space denizen; to women with Grand Purpose; and engineered creatures who just want to live a normal life; these tales will engage your heart as well as your imagination as you consider what may come next... Another fantastic read for lovers of diverse fiction and strange stories.

Author : John Russell Bartlett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Americanisms, 2nd ed. enlarged written by John Russell Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Russell Bartlett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Americanisms written by John Russell Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: