Author: Ken W. Purdy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780090882601
Category : Automobile racing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The New Matadors
Author: Ken W. Purdy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780090882601
Category : Automobile racing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780090882601
Category : Automobile racing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Man Who Never Missed
Author: Steve Perry
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Meet Emile Antoon Khadaji -- The man who sparked a revolution. A classic Matador space opera, and the the book that started it all.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Meet Emile Antoon Khadaji -- The man who sparked a revolution. A classic Matador space opera, and the the book that started it all.
Maria the Matador
Author: Anne Lambelet
Publisher: Page Street Kids
ISBN: 9781624146565
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Maria loves tea parties and dancing and wearing her hair in pigtails, but more than anything in the world...Maria loves churros. She’ll do anything to get her hands on more of them, even enter a bullfight. To win, she must outsmart the other matadors who don’t think she’s big enough, fast enough, or strong enough. With determination and creativity, spunky Maria will dance her way to victory—and into readers’ hearts. Complemented by distinct, expressive illustrations, this charming story shows that you don’t have to fight to win, and you might even end up with more than you were hoping for.
Publisher: Page Street Kids
ISBN: 9781624146565
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Maria loves tea parties and dancing and wearing her hair in pigtails, but more than anything in the world...Maria loves churros. She’ll do anything to get her hands on more of them, even enter a bullfight. To win, she must outsmart the other matadors who don’t think she’s big enough, fast enough, or strong enough. With determination and creativity, spunky Maria will dance her way to victory—and into readers’ hearts. Complemented by distinct, expressive illustrations, this charming story shows that you don’t have to fight to win, and you might even end up with more than you were hoping for.
Death and the Sun
Author: Edward Lewine
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544364279
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Part sports writing, part travelogue, this is a portrait of Spain, its people, and their passion for a beautiful yet deadly spectacle. A brilliant observer in the tradition of Adam Gopnik and Paul Theroux, Edward Lewine reveals a Spain few outsiders have seen. There's nothing more Spanish than bullfighting, and nothing less like its stereotype. For matadors and aficionados, it is not a blood sport but an art, an ancient subculture steeped in ritual, machismo, and the feverish attentions of fans and the press. Lewine explains Spain and the art of the bulls by spending a bullfighting season traveling Spanish highways with the celebrated matador Francisco Rivera Ordónez, following Fran, as he’s known, through every region and social stratum. Fran’s great-grandfather was a famous bullfighter and the inspiration for Hemingway’s matador in The Sun Also Rises. Fran’s father was also a star matador, until a bull took his life shortly before Fran’s eleventh birthday. Fran is blessed and haunted by his family history. Formerly a top performer himself, Fran’s reputation has slipped, and as the season opens he feels intense pressure to live up to his legacy amid tabloid scrutiny in the wake of his separation from his wife, a duchess. But Fran perseveres through an eventful season of early triumph, serious injury, and an unlikely return to glory. A New York Times Editor’s Choice Praise for Death and the Sun “May be the most in-depth, incisively written guide to bullfighting available in English. Every drunken sophomore riding the rails to Pamplona this summer ought to keep a volume in his backpack.” —New York Times Book Review “Lewine demonstrates knowledge of and respect for the matador’s dangerous profession. E also explores the history of Spaine and the charms and contradictions evident within the country’s exceptionally varied cultures and people.” —Boston Globe
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544364279
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Part sports writing, part travelogue, this is a portrait of Spain, its people, and their passion for a beautiful yet deadly spectacle. A brilliant observer in the tradition of Adam Gopnik and Paul Theroux, Edward Lewine reveals a Spain few outsiders have seen. There's nothing more Spanish than bullfighting, and nothing less like its stereotype. For matadors and aficionados, it is not a blood sport but an art, an ancient subculture steeped in ritual, machismo, and the feverish attentions of fans and the press. Lewine explains Spain and the art of the bulls by spending a bullfighting season traveling Spanish highways with the celebrated matador Francisco Rivera Ordónez, following Fran, as he’s known, through every region and social stratum. Fran’s great-grandfather was a famous bullfighter and the inspiration for Hemingway’s matador in The Sun Also Rises. Fran’s father was also a star matador, until a bull took his life shortly before Fran’s eleventh birthday. Fran is blessed and haunted by his family history. Formerly a top performer himself, Fran’s reputation has slipped, and as the season opens he feels intense pressure to live up to his legacy amid tabloid scrutiny in the wake of his separation from his wife, a duchess. But Fran perseveres through an eventful season of early triumph, serious injury, and an unlikely return to glory. A New York Times Editor’s Choice Praise for Death and the Sun “May be the most in-depth, incisively written guide to bullfighting available in English. Every drunken sophomore riding the rails to Pamplona this summer ought to keep a volume in his backpack.” —New York Times Book Review “Lewine demonstrates knowledge of and respect for the matador’s dangerous profession. E also explores the history of Spaine and the charms and contradictions evident within the country’s exceptionally varied cultures and people.” —Boston Globe
Greasepaint Matadors
Author: Jeanne Joy Hartnagle-Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780931866562
Category : Rodeo clowns
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Share in the excitement! Broken bones and horn wounds are a part of the job. It takes a special breed of cowboy to put on clown makeup, don baggy pants, and go match wits with a 2,000 lb bull while the bull rider scrambles to safety. The crowd, meanwhile, expects all the entertainment associated with a clown. A tribute to the unsung heroes of rodeo!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780931866562
Category : Rodeo clowns
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Share in the excitement! Broken bones and horn wounds are a part of the job. It takes a special breed of cowboy to put on clown makeup, don baggy pants, and go match wits with a 2,000 lb bull while the bull rider scrambles to safety. The crowd, meanwhile, expects all the entertainment associated with a clown. A tribute to the unsung heroes of rodeo!
The Black Matador, "Sugar"
Author: Odie Hawkins
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481706624
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Matador Negro Azucar (Black Matador, Sugar), is the story of a young African-American man, born and raised on the Southside of Chicago, who is obsessed by the idea of becoming a matador. Chester Simmons is opposed by his parents. Bullfighting!? Get serious about yourself, Chester! Dondisha Phillips, the kindergarten teacher who loves him, Chester, you could get hurt messin around with those bulls. Chester trips to Mexico City. He spends time in the projects called Tlaltelolco before he does an espontaneo/jumps into the bullring during a fight in the Plaza Mexico. He does four suicidal passes and is taken under the wing of an unscrupulous promoter, -- re-named Matador, Juan Negro, Azucar. Seor Flores holds him as an indentured servant/bullfighter until Maya de las Reyes, the great Mexican artist, bails him out. He returns to Chicago to work under his father in Gelmans Electronic Affairs. He uses his knowledge of the bullfight to create a bullfighting video game (funded by Mr. Gelman) that makes him a wealthy twenty some year old. Whenever he is asked about his year as a Matador, he answers, I lit my fire, I greased my skillet and I cooked.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481706624
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Matador Negro Azucar (Black Matador, Sugar), is the story of a young African-American man, born and raised on the Southside of Chicago, who is obsessed by the idea of becoming a matador. Chester Simmons is opposed by his parents. Bullfighting!? Get serious about yourself, Chester! Dondisha Phillips, the kindergarten teacher who loves him, Chester, you could get hurt messin around with those bulls. Chester trips to Mexico City. He spends time in the projects called Tlaltelolco before he does an espontaneo/jumps into the bullring during a fight in the Plaza Mexico. He does four suicidal passes and is taken under the wing of an unscrupulous promoter, -- re-named Matador, Juan Negro, Azucar. Seor Flores holds him as an indentured servant/bullfighter until Maya de las Reyes, the great Mexican artist, bails him out. He returns to Chicago to work under his father in Gelmans Electronic Affairs. He uses his knowledge of the bullfight to create a bullfighting video game (funded by Mr. Gelman) that makes him a wealthy twenty some year old. Whenever he is asked about his year as a Matador, he answers, I lit my fire, I greased my skillet and I cooked.
The Lady Matador's Hotel
Author: Cristina Garcia
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439181756
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a hotel in an unnamed Latin American country in the midst of political turmoil.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439181756
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a hotel in an unnamed Latin American country in the midst of political turmoil.
Matadora
Author: Steve Perry
Publisher: Ace Books
ISBN: 9780441522071
Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Now back in print, Perry's cult-classic Matador series picks up where "The Man Who Never Missed" left off. At Matador Villa, the training center for the best fighters in the galaxy, a dangerous drifter, a dark-skinned beauty named Dirisha Zuri, draws attention. The school wants her talents--and the galaxy desperately needs her deadly skills. Reissue.
Publisher: Ace Books
ISBN: 9780441522071
Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Now back in print, Perry's cult-classic Matador series picks up where "The Man Who Never Missed" left off. At Matador Villa, the training center for the best fighters in the galaxy, a dangerous drifter, a dark-skinned beauty named Dirisha Zuri, draws attention. The school wants her talents--and the galaxy desperately needs her deadly skills. Reissue.
Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors
Author:
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847861104
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Curated by noted Picasso biographer John Richardson, this exhibition catalogue examines the intersection of Picasso's bullfighting imagery with the mythological (and biographical) compositions of the 1930's. Including works dating from 1897 to 1972, this fully illustrated catalogue presents a career-long survey of Picasso's engagement with ancient bullfighting and mythological narratives and includes essays by noted Picasso scholars Michael FitzGerald and Gertje Utley.
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847861104
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Curated by noted Picasso biographer John Richardson, this exhibition catalogue examines the intersection of Picasso's bullfighting imagery with the mythological (and biographical) compositions of the 1930's. Including works dating from 1897 to 1972, this fully illustrated catalogue presents a career-long survey of Picasso's engagement with ancient bullfighting and mythological narratives and includes essays by noted Picasso scholars Michael FitzGerald and Gertje Utley.
The Matador's Cape
Author: Stephen Holmes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113946504X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The Matador's Cape delves into the causes of the catastrophic turn in American policy at home and abroad since 9/11. In a collection of searing essays, the author explores Washington's inability to bring 'the enemy' into focus, detailing the ideological, bureaucratic, electoral and (not least) emotional forces that severely distorted the American understanding of, and response to, the terrorist threat. He also shows how the gratuitous and disastrous shift of attention from al Qaeda to Iraq was shaped by a series of misleading theoretical perspectives on the end of deterrence, the clash of civilizations, humanitarian intervention, unilateralism, democratization, torture, intelligence gathering and wartime expansions of presidential power. The author's breadth of knowledge about the War on Terror leads to conclusions about present-day America that are at once sobering in their depth of reference and inspiring in their global perspective.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113946504X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The Matador's Cape delves into the causes of the catastrophic turn in American policy at home and abroad since 9/11. In a collection of searing essays, the author explores Washington's inability to bring 'the enemy' into focus, detailing the ideological, bureaucratic, electoral and (not least) emotional forces that severely distorted the American understanding of, and response to, the terrorist threat. He also shows how the gratuitous and disastrous shift of attention from al Qaeda to Iraq was shaped by a series of misleading theoretical perspectives on the end of deterrence, the clash of civilizations, humanitarian intervention, unilateralism, democratization, torture, intelligence gathering and wartime expansions of presidential power. The author's breadth of knowledge about the War on Terror leads to conclusions about present-day America that are at once sobering in their depth of reference and inspiring in their global perspective.