White Swan Black Swan

Author : Adrienne Sharp
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307493105
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Swan, Black Swan written by Adrienne Sharp and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most famous choreographer becomes infatuated with a coltish young dancer who proves both siren and muse. A rising star plunges into an affair with a principal but finds that ecstasy on the stage can't be surpassed in the bed. A dying legend reflects on the evanescent beauty of a life of gesture, lost to everything but memory. Each bittersweet story plants the reader amid a cast of dancers and choreographers who struggle—valiantly, playfully, fiercely—to find in the rigorous discipline and animating beauty of ballet a counterbalance to the chaos of unscripted life. Many of the tales dare to imagine the inner lives of the century's titans—Balanchine, Fonteyn and Nureyev—which rival in emotional complexity and pathos the classic dramas they enacted onstage: La Bayadere, Don Quixote, Swan Lake. White Swan, Black Swan translates the pure and essential gestures of ballet into starkly elegant prose while showing the sweat and sex beneath the serene surface. Adrienne Sharp's debut is a bravura performance.

Author : J. Patrick Lewis
Publisher : Aladdin
ISBN 13 : 9781416961581
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Swan/White Crow written by J. Patrick Lewis and published by Aladdin. This book was released on 2007-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the freedom of nature with this collection of nineteen haiku written by J. Patrick Lewis and the vibrant woodcuts by Christopher Manson accompanying each poem. Escape the pages of this book into the magic of the outdoors through the haiku and woodcut illustrations that fill the pages of Black Swan/White Crow. With themes of nature and the outdoors in each poem, young readers will feel as if they are watching bison during winter storms, crows resting on a phone wire, and grizzly bears fishing in a stream with their own eyes.

Author : Ellen Datlow
Publisher : Wildside Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809572540
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Swan, White Raven written by Ellen Datlow and published by Wildside Press. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers contemporary retellings of traditional fairy tales, including Gregory Frost's "Sparks," "The Dog Rose" by Sten Westgard, and other works by Jane Yolen, Joyce Carol Oates, Nancy Kress, and John Crowley.

Author : John Elkington
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1732439133
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Green Swans written by John Elkington and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even leading capitalists admit that capitalism is broken. Green Swans is a manifesto for system change designed to serve people, planet, and prosperity. In his twentieth book, John Elkington—dubbed the “Godfather of Sustainability”—explores new forms of capitalism fit for the twenty-first century. If Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “Black Swans” are problems that can take us exponentially toward breakdown, then “Green Swans” are solutions that take us exponentially toward breakthrough. The success—and survival—of humanity now depends on how we rein in the first and accelerate the second. Green Swans draws on Elkington’s firsthand experience in some of the world’s best-known boardrooms and C-suites. Using case studies, real-world examples, and profiles on emergent technologies, Elkington shows how the weirdest “Ugly Ducklings” of today’s world may turn into tomorrow’s world-saving Green Swans. This book is a must-read for business leaders in corporations great and small who want to help their businesses survive the coming shift in global priorities over the next decade and expand their horizons from responsibility, through resilience, and onto regeneration.

Author : D. Sullivan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137276894
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in Classic and Contemporary Film written by D. Sullivan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mortality is a recurrent theme in films across genres, periods, nations, and directors. This book brings together an accomplished set of authors with backgrounds in film analysis, psychology, and philosophy to examine how the knowledge of death, the fear of our mortality, and the ways people cope with mortality are represented in cinema.

Author : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307476774
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mistress of Spices written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work of magical realism, this bestselling novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni tells the story of Tilo, a young woman from another time who has a gift for the mystical art of spices. Now immortal, and living in the gnarled and arthritic body of an old woman, Tilo has set up shop in Oakland, California, where she administers curatives to her customers. But when she's surprised by an unexpected romance with a handsome stranger, she must choose between everlasting life and the vicissitudes of modern society. Spellbinding and hypnotizing, The Mistress of Spices is a tale of joy, sorrow, and one special woman's magical powers.

Author : Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0812979184
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Swan written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the author's point of view, a black swan is an improbable event with three principal characteristics - It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don't know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the 'impossible'.

Author : Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822979675
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Swan written by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2002-11-15 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Prize Selected by Marilyn Nelson Finalist, 2003 Paterson Poetry Prize "Imagine Leda black—" begins Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon’s exciting new collection of poems. Mixing vernacular language with classical mythology, modern struggles with Biblical trials, she gives voice to silenced women past and present. In Van Clief-Stefanon’s powerful voice, last night’s angry words "puffed / into the dark room like steam / punching through the thick surface / of cooking grits." She remembers a child’s innocence "lost / in the house where I learned the red rug / against my chest, my knees / my tongue, . . . ." Black Swan is filled with pain, loss, hope, and the promise of salvation.

Author : David Gemmell
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 147321999X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Knight/Black Swan written by David Gemmell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Gemmell was the UK's number one fantasy and historical novelist until his death in 2006. A regular Sunday Times bestseller, and international sensation, his legacy lives on through his novels, his influence on the genre, and through the David Gemmell Legend awards. White Knight/Black Swan was David Gemmell's crime thriller debut, first published under a pseudonym in 1993 and long out of print, and highly sought-after by readers. Re-editing and republished under his own name, it's a must read for fans of his heroic and powerful style. An action-filled story set in working class London in the 1980's, Jardine is a bouncer and gang enforcer with a heart of gold. To protect a friend, he goes up against an Irishman demanding protection money - only to realise too late that they work for the same employer. One act of kindness will lead to murder, betrayal, blackmail and some long-hidden secrets . . .

Author : Faisal Marzipan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781951897284
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The White Swan written by Faisal Marzipan and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary debut of short story author, parodist, and new immigrant Faisal Marzipan, The White Swan blends cultural critique, satire, Christianity, and social commentary into a masterwork aimed at reinvigorating the modern man.