Author: Witold Szabłowski
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925603369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
• Incisive, humorous and heartbreaking oral histories of people living in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives, from one of Poland’s finest journalists. • Like Anna Funder’s Stasiland or Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time, readers are guided through the aftereffects of authoritarian rule and the challenges of freedom via Szablowski’s immediate, heartwrenching stories of the people who lived through the collapse of Communism. • The bold and brilliant allegory at the centre of Dancing Bears is of bears raised and trained by Bulgarian Gypsies. With the fall of Communism, the bears were released into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance. • Dancing Bears traces the remarkable true stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and Cuba who, like the bears, are now free, but seem nostalgic for a time when they were not. • Szablowski is an award-winning Polish journalist—his reportage on illegal immigrants flocking to the EU won the European Parliament Journalism Prize, and his previous book about Turkey, The Assassin from Apricot City, won an English PEN Award. • This book comes at a pivotal moment for oral histories, following the success of 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time. • For fans of Stasiland by Anna Funder, Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick and Tale of Two Cities by John Freeman.
Dancing Bears
Author: Witold Szabłowski
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925603369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
• Incisive, humorous and heartbreaking oral histories of people living in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives, from one of Poland’s finest journalists. • Like Anna Funder’s Stasiland or Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time, readers are guided through the aftereffects of authoritarian rule and the challenges of freedom via Szablowski’s immediate, heartwrenching stories of the people who lived through the collapse of Communism. • The bold and brilliant allegory at the centre of Dancing Bears is of bears raised and trained by Bulgarian Gypsies. With the fall of Communism, the bears were released into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance. • Dancing Bears traces the remarkable true stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and Cuba who, like the bears, are now free, but seem nostalgic for a time when they were not. • Szablowski is an award-winning Polish journalist—his reportage on illegal immigrants flocking to the EU won the European Parliament Journalism Prize, and his previous book about Turkey, The Assassin from Apricot City, won an English PEN Award. • This book comes at a pivotal moment for oral histories, following the success of 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time. • For fans of Stasiland by Anna Funder, Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick and Tale of Two Cities by John Freeman.
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925603369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
• Incisive, humorous and heartbreaking oral histories of people living in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives, from one of Poland’s finest journalists. • Like Anna Funder’s Stasiland or Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time, readers are guided through the aftereffects of authoritarian rule and the challenges of freedom via Szablowski’s immediate, heartwrenching stories of the people who lived through the collapse of Communism. • The bold and brilliant allegory at the centre of Dancing Bears is of bears raised and trained by Bulgarian Gypsies. With the fall of Communism, the bears were released into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance. • Dancing Bears traces the remarkable true stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and Cuba who, like the bears, are now free, but seem nostalgic for a time when they were not. • Szablowski is an award-winning Polish journalist—his reportage on illegal immigrants flocking to the EU won the European Parliament Journalism Prize, and his previous book about Turkey, The Assassin from Apricot City, won an English PEN Award. • This book comes at a pivotal moment for oral histories, following the success of 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time. • For fans of Stasiland by Anna Funder, Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick and Tale of Two Cities by John Freeman.
Amy, the Dancing Bear
Author: Carly Simon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780440847571
Category : Bears
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Mother Bear tries to persuade her young daughter Amy to stop dancing and go to bed with unexpected results.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780440847571
Category : Bears
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Mother Bear tries to persuade her young daughter Amy to stop dancing and go to bed with unexpected results.
Chrysalis
Author: Brendan Reichs
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525517073
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Now in paperback, the stunning finale of the Project Nemesis trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Brendan Reichs. The 64 members of Fire Lake's sophomore class have managed to survive the first two phases of the Program--and each other. Now, they alone have emerged into the dawn of a new era on Earth, into a Fire Lake valley that's full of otherworldly dangers and challenges. Although staying alive in this broken world should force Min, Noah, Tack, and the others to form new alliances, old feuds die hard, and the brutality of the earlier Program phases cannot be forgotten. But being a team isn't easy for the sophomores, and when they discover that they may not be alone on the planet after all, they'll have to decide if they're going to work together . . . or die together.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525517073
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Now in paperback, the stunning finale of the Project Nemesis trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Brendan Reichs. The 64 members of Fire Lake's sophomore class have managed to survive the first two phases of the Program--and each other. Now, they alone have emerged into the dawn of a new era on Earth, into a Fire Lake valley that's full of otherworldly dangers and challenges. Although staying alive in this broken world should force Min, Noah, Tack, and the others to form new alliances, old feuds die hard, and the brutality of the earlier Program phases cannot be forgotten. But being a team isn't easy for the sophomores, and when they discover that they may not be alone on the planet after all, they'll have to decide if they're going to work together . . . or die together.
Another Celebrated Dancing Bear
Author: Gladys Scheffrin-Falk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781930900509
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Max, a dancing bear with the Moscow Circus, teaches his friend Boris how to dance.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781930900509
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Max, a dancing bear with the Moscow Circus, teaches his friend Boris how to dance.
The Dancing Bear
Author: MICHAEL. MORPURGO
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780008728199
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780008728199
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Dancing Bear
Author: Manasi Subramaniam
Publisher: Karadi Tales Picturebooks
ISBN: 9788181902009
Category : Animal welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Somu is a dancing bear who longs to be free, just like his friend Altaf.
Publisher: Karadi Tales Picturebooks
ISBN: 9788181902009
Category : Animal welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Somu is a dancing bear who longs to be free, just like his friend Altaf.
The Dancing Bear
Author: Ron McDole
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496212614
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
From the early sixties to the late seventies, defensive end Ron McDole experienced football’s golden age from inside his old?school, two?bar helmet. During an eighteen?year pro career, McDole—nicknamed “The Dancing Bear”—played in over 250 games, including two AFL Championships with the Buffalo Bills and one NFL Championship with the Washington Redskins. A cagey and deceptively agile athlete, McDole wreaked havoc on football’s best offenses as part of a Bills defensive line that held opponents without a rushing touchdown for seventeen straight games. His twelve interceptions remain a pro record for defensive ends. Traded by the Bills in 1970, he was given new life in Washington as one of the most famous members of George Allen’s game?smart veterans known as “The Over?the?Hill Gang.” Through it all, McDole was known and loved by teammates and foes alike for his knowledge and skill on the field and his ability to have fun off it. In The Dancing Bear McDole the storyteller traces his life from his humble beginnings in Toledo, Ohio, to his four years at the University of Nebraska, his marriage to high school sweetheart Paula, and his long, accomplished professional career. He recounts the days when a pro football player needed an off?season job to pay the bills and teams had to drive around in buses to find a city park in which to practice. The old AFL and NFL blitz back to life through McDole’s straightforward stories of time when the game was played more for love and glory than for money.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496212614
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
From the early sixties to the late seventies, defensive end Ron McDole experienced football’s golden age from inside his old?school, two?bar helmet. During an eighteen?year pro career, McDole—nicknamed “The Dancing Bear”—played in over 250 games, including two AFL Championships with the Buffalo Bills and one NFL Championship with the Washington Redskins. A cagey and deceptively agile athlete, McDole wreaked havoc on football’s best offenses as part of a Bills defensive line that held opponents without a rushing touchdown for seventeen straight games. His twelve interceptions remain a pro record for defensive ends. Traded by the Bills in 1970, he was given new life in Washington as one of the most famous members of George Allen’s game?smart veterans known as “The Over?the?Hill Gang.” Through it all, McDole was known and loved by teammates and foes alike for his knowledge and skill on the field and his ability to have fun off it. In The Dancing Bear McDole the storyteller traces his life from his humble beginnings in Toledo, Ohio, to his four years at the University of Nebraska, his marriage to high school sweetheart Paula, and his long, accomplished professional career. He recounts the days when a pro football player needed an off?season job to pay the bills and teams had to drive around in buses to find a city park in which to practice. The old AFL and NFL blitz back to life through McDole’s straightforward stories of time when the game was played more for love and glory than for money.
The Deliverance of Dancing Bears
Author: Elizabeth Stanley
Publisher: Uwa Pub
ISBN: 9781875560370
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A contemporary fable about a dancing bear, whose dreams of freedom keep her spirit alive despite the pain and degradation of her existence.
Publisher: Uwa Pub
ISBN: 9781875560370
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A contemporary fable about a dancing bear, whose dreams of freedom keep her spirit alive despite the pain and degradation of her existence.
The Dancing Bear
Author: Peter Dickinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
A Greek slave, his dancing bear, and an old holy man journey from Byzantium to rescue the slave's young mistress from the Huns.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
A Greek slave, his dancing bear, and an old holy man journey from Byzantium to rescue the slave's young mistress from the Huns.
Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear
Author: Andy Stanton
Publisher: Dean
ISBN: 9780603579967
Category : Bears
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Good evening. Do you like bears called Padlock? Course you do. Do you like hot air balloons? Course you do. Do you like tall sailing ships with mad sea captains, and horrifying old villains and words like "wab!," "tungler," and "kelp?" COURSE you do! Well, guess what, you lucky little nibbleheads? This books got all of those things and a lot more besides. Its a rollicker! Its a frolicker! Its a funtime sun time yollicker! So what you waiting for?
Publisher: Dean
ISBN: 9780603579967
Category : Bears
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Good evening. Do you like bears called Padlock? Course you do. Do you like hot air balloons? Course you do. Do you like tall sailing ships with mad sea captains, and horrifying old villains and words like "wab!," "tungler," and "kelp?" COURSE you do! Well, guess what, you lucky little nibbleheads? This books got all of those things and a lot more besides. Its a rollicker! Its a frolicker! Its a funtime sun time yollicker! So what you waiting for?