Author: Miles Upton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780972785709
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A complete and thorough DIY repair manual for Exakta VX and VXIIa cameras. The step-by-step instructions combined with excellent photographt allow a high rate of success. Much of the information specific to these models has never been published!
Ultimate Exakta Repair - a CLA and New Curtains for Your Camera
Author: Miles Upton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780972785709
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A complete and thorough DIY repair manual for Exakta VX and VXIIa cameras. The step-by-step instructions combined with excellent photographt allow a high rate of success. Much of the information specific to these models has never been published!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780972785709
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A complete and thorough DIY repair manual for Exakta VX and VXIIa cameras. The step-by-step instructions combined with excellent photographt allow a high rate of success. Much of the information specific to these models has never been published!
Hey, America, Your Roots are Showing
Author: Megan Smolenyak
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806534466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A noted genealogist reveals what it is like to be a history detective using twenty-first-century techniques and technology, and discusses some of the cases she has solved, including the families of celebrities and work for the Army and the FBI.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806534466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A noted genealogist reveals what it is like to be a history detective using twenty-first-century techniques and technology, and discusses some of the cases she has solved, including the families of celebrities and work for the Army and the FBI.
Farewell to Sport
Author: Paul Gallico
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504009487
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
One of Sports Illustrated’s Top 100 Sports Books of All Time: A classic collection by one of the twentieth century’s most influential sportswriters From 1923 to 1937, New York Daily News columnist Paul Gallico’s dispatches from ringside, rink-side, the sidelines, and the grandstand were a must-read for every American sports fan. Where else could one discover what it was really like to box heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey? To tee off against golfing legend Bobby Jones? To strap on a glove and try to catch Dizzy Dean’s ferocious fastball? Gallico went where no other reporter dared, and for that he earned a permanent place in the pantheon of great American sportswriters alongside Ring Lardner, Red Smith, and Roger Kahn. Then, like a pitcher hanging up his cleats after throwing a perfect game, Gallico walked away to pursue other authorial interests, including the fiction that earned him his greatest renown. His parting gift to his devoted readers was Farewell to Sport, a collection of twenty-six of his finest pieces. In these bulletins from the golden age of sports, Gallico profiles icons such as Babe Ruth, Bill Tilden, and Gene Tunney. He exposes the scripted drama of professional wrestling and the hypocrisy of big-time college football. And in feats of daring that went on to inspire a whole new school of journalism, he sacrifices his pride to meet the greatest athletes of the day on their own turf. A brilliant snapshot of a fascinating era in sports history and a masterwork remarkably ahead of its time, Farewell to Sport is a fitting testament to the legacy of Paul Gallico.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504009487
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
One of Sports Illustrated’s Top 100 Sports Books of All Time: A classic collection by one of the twentieth century’s most influential sportswriters From 1923 to 1937, New York Daily News columnist Paul Gallico’s dispatches from ringside, rink-side, the sidelines, and the grandstand were a must-read for every American sports fan. Where else could one discover what it was really like to box heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey? To tee off against golfing legend Bobby Jones? To strap on a glove and try to catch Dizzy Dean’s ferocious fastball? Gallico went where no other reporter dared, and for that he earned a permanent place in the pantheon of great American sportswriters alongside Ring Lardner, Red Smith, and Roger Kahn. Then, like a pitcher hanging up his cleats after throwing a perfect game, Gallico walked away to pursue other authorial interests, including the fiction that earned him his greatest renown. His parting gift to his devoted readers was Farewell to Sport, a collection of twenty-six of his finest pieces. In these bulletins from the golden age of sports, Gallico profiles icons such as Babe Ruth, Bill Tilden, and Gene Tunney. He exposes the scripted drama of professional wrestling and the hypocrisy of big-time college football. And in feats of daring that went on to inspire a whole new school of journalism, he sacrifices his pride to meet the greatest athletes of the day on their own turf. A brilliant snapshot of a fascinating era in sports history and a masterwork remarkably ahead of its time, Farewell to Sport is a fitting testament to the legacy of Paul Gallico.
Butterfly Boy
Author: Rigoberto González
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299219038
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Winner of the American Book Award
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299219038
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Winner of the American Book Award
The Cave of Fontéchevade
Author: Philip G. Chase
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521898447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Summary of recent Paleolithic excavations at Fontéchevade, France, and their archaeological and paleontological implications.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521898447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Summary of recent Paleolithic excavations at Fontéchevade, France, and their archaeological and paleontological implications.
How Languages Saved Me
Author: Tadeusz Haska
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781633939233
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
"When I was arrested my whole world crumbled. I knew that leaders of political parties had been arrested, and never heard from again. My only chance at survival was to find a way to escape from the jail." Orphaned in Poland at the age of thirteen, Tadeusz "Tad" Haska survived World War II on the run, narrowly evading the Nazis every step of the way. After the war, he daringly escaped jail by the Soviet Secret Police, fled to Sweden and launched an elaborate plan to smuggle his wife in a coffin on an all-male naval ship. Discover how Tad's knowledge of nine languages helped him survive in the face of unspeakable adversity.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781633939233
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
"When I was arrested my whole world crumbled. I knew that leaders of political parties had been arrested, and never heard from again. My only chance at survival was to find a way to escape from the jail." Orphaned in Poland at the age of thirteen, Tadeusz "Tad" Haska survived World War II on the run, narrowly evading the Nazis every step of the way. After the war, he daringly escaped jail by the Soviet Secret Police, fled to Sweden and launched an elaborate plan to smuggle his wife in a coffin on an all-male naval ship. Discover how Tad's knowledge of nine languages helped him survive in the face of unspeakable adversity.
Lasting Yankee Stadium Memories
Author: Alex Belth
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1602399794
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In Lasting Yankee Stadium Memories, editor Alex Belth of BronxBanterBlog.com collects personal essays by some of the most well-known and respected voices in sportswriting and entertainment today. In these revealing, sometimes hilarious, oft-touching essays, the contributors recount their favorite moments inside the most famed of all American stadiums. The book also includes a special chapter on the new Yankee Stadium. Contributors include: Bob Costas (NBC, HBO) • Richard Ben Cramer • Pete Hamill • Tony Kornheiser (ESPN) • Tom Boswell (Washington Post) • Dave Kindred (Washington Post) • Leigh Montville (Sports Illustrated) • William Nack (Sports Illustrated) • Joe Posnanski (Sports Illustrated) • Jane Leavy • Pat Jordan • Maury Allen (New York Post) • Bob Klapisch (Bergen Record) • Tyler Kepner (New York Times) • Allen Barra (Wall Street Journal) • Marty Appel • Jeff Pearlman • Alan Schwarz (New York Times) • Charles Pierce (Boston Globe) • Steve Rushin (Sports Illustrated) • Nathan Ward • Mike Vaccaro (New York Post) • Rob Neyer (ESPN.com) • Ken Rosenthal (ESPN) • Scott Raab (Esquire) • Luis Guzman
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1602399794
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In Lasting Yankee Stadium Memories, editor Alex Belth of BronxBanterBlog.com collects personal essays by some of the most well-known and respected voices in sportswriting and entertainment today. In these revealing, sometimes hilarious, oft-touching essays, the contributors recount their favorite moments inside the most famed of all American stadiums. The book also includes a special chapter on the new Yankee Stadium. Contributors include: Bob Costas (NBC, HBO) • Richard Ben Cramer • Pete Hamill • Tony Kornheiser (ESPN) • Tom Boswell (Washington Post) • Dave Kindred (Washington Post) • Leigh Montville (Sports Illustrated) • William Nack (Sports Illustrated) • Joe Posnanski (Sports Illustrated) • Jane Leavy • Pat Jordan • Maury Allen (New York Post) • Bob Klapisch (Bergen Record) • Tyler Kepner (New York Times) • Allen Barra (Wall Street Journal) • Marty Appel • Jeff Pearlman • Alan Schwarz (New York Times) • Charles Pierce (Boston Globe) • Steve Rushin (Sports Illustrated) • Nathan Ward • Mike Vaccaro (New York Post) • Rob Neyer (ESPN.com) • Ken Rosenthal (ESPN) • Scott Raab (Esquire) • Luis Guzman
Beyond the Law
Author: Emmett Dalton
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455601141
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Train robbers, horse thieves, murderers. These are only a few of the accusations leveled against the Dalton Gang, the fraternal band of Western lawmen turned outlaws in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Daring in their exploits, the gang members turned their backs on laws they found to be criminally flawed and stole horses, bootlegged whiskey into Indian Territory, and committed the first American train robbery. A rare firsthand account originally published in 1918, this volume details the time when sheriffs were paid for each man they hanged, law enforcement rode under the banner of "Smith & Wesson" rather than "To Serve and Protect," and outlaws ruled the rails.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455601141
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Train robbers, horse thieves, murderers. These are only a few of the accusations leveled against the Dalton Gang, the fraternal band of Western lawmen turned outlaws in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Daring in their exploits, the gang members turned their backs on laws they found to be criminally flawed and stole horses, bootlegged whiskey into Indian Territory, and committed the first American train robbery. A rare firsthand account originally published in 1918, this volume details the time when sheriffs were paid for each man they hanged, law enforcement rode under the banner of "Smith & Wesson" rather than "To Serve and Protect," and outlaws ruled the rails.
The Willow's Bend
Author: David Trawinski
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 9781478773504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
"Beware he who wrestles with monsters, lest he become a monster himself" - Nietzsche ... The suspicious death of an Aerospace Executive, Ted Barber, rocks the Defense giant, Global Defense Analytics. In an attempt to quickly investigate, the firm calls on retired CIA operative, Stanley Wisniewski. Time is of the essence, as the firm is days away from naming Langston Powell, the last person seen with Barber, as their next CEO. Stanley Wisniewski, with demons of his own, is haunted by the three deathbed promises he made some forty years ago to his father, a survivor of the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp. Activating his old European network, he reunites with the mysterious Jean Paul. Together they begin to unravel this complex story of Good vs. Evil, and the weak suffering at the hands of the strong. Set in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., California, London, Amsterdam and Poland, two stories of Stanley and his father intertwine, creating the incendiary fuse to the climatic events in Warsaw.
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 9781478773504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
"Beware he who wrestles with monsters, lest he become a monster himself" - Nietzsche ... The suspicious death of an Aerospace Executive, Ted Barber, rocks the Defense giant, Global Defense Analytics. In an attempt to quickly investigate, the firm calls on retired CIA operative, Stanley Wisniewski. Time is of the essence, as the firm is days away from naming Langston Powell, the last person seen with Barber, as their next CEO. Stanley Wisniewski, with demons of his own, is haunted by the three deathbed promises he made some forty years ago to his father, a survivor of the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp. Activating his old European network, he reunites with the mysterious Jean Paul. Together they begin to unravel this complex story of Good vs. Evil, and the weak suffering at the hands of the strong. Set in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., California, London, Amsterdam and Poland, two stories of Stanley and his father intertwine, creating the incendiary fuse to the climatic events in Warsaw.
The Road Back to Paris
Author: Abbott Joseph Liebling
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780679602484
Category : War correspondents
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published in 1944, The Road Back to Paris comprises dispatches from France, England, and North Africa that A. J. Liebling filed with The New Yorker during the Second World War. The magazine sent Liebling to Paris in 1939, hoping that he could replicate in wartime France his brilliant reporting of New York life. Liebling succeeded triumphantly, concentrating on writing the individual soldier's story to illuminate the larger picture of the European theater of the war and the fight for what Liebling felt was the first priority of business: the liberation of his beloved France. The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torch-bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. For a complete list of titles, see the inside of the jacket. Despite his ill health and bad eyesight, Liebling went on patrol, interviewed soldiers, fled Paris and returned after D-Day, was shot at in North Africa and bombed in the blitz in London. Into this chaos, ashis biographer Raymond Sokolov comments, "he brought himself, a fiercely committed Francophile with a novelist's skill for crystallizing his day-to-day experiences into a profound chronicle of a 'world knocked down.'"
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780679602484
Category : War correspondents
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published in 1944, The Road Back to Paris comprises dispatches from France, England, and North Africa that A. J. Liebling filed with The New Yorker during the Second World War. The magazine sent Liebling to Paris in 1939, hoping that he could replicate in wartime France his brilliant reporting of New York life. Liebling succeeded triumphantly, concentrating on writing the individual soldier's story to illuminate the larger picture of the European theater of the war and the fight for what Liebling felt was the first priority of business: the liberation of his beloved France. The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torch-bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. For a complete list of titles, see the inside of the jacket. Despite his ill health and bad eyesight, Liebling went on patrol, interviewed soldiers, fled Paris and returned after D-Day, was shot at in North Africa and bombed in the blitz in London. Into this chaos, ashis biographer Raymond Sokolov comments, "he brought himself, a fiercely committed Francophile with a novelist's skill for crystallizing his day-to-day experiences into a profound chronicle of a 'world knocked down.'"