Author: Brian Stableford
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434438694
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-utopian worlds like New Alexandria to the vermin-infested slums of Old Earth, the Star-Pilots are the great heroes of the day, and Grainger has become a legend in his own time. Pharos is paradise--or so it appears. But the champions of commerce want to package and sell the planet, and the conservationists want to stop them. Grainger's employer, Titus Charlot, is enlisted to negotiate a settlement, but the game is rigged. Charlot needs the Star-Pilot's help, but there seems to be nothing he can do--until the planet's ecosystem takes a hand, and "paradise" suddenly turns deadly! Hooded Swan, Book 4.
The Paradise Game
Author: Brian Stableford
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434438694
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-utopian worlds like New Alexandria to the vermin-infested slums of Old Earth, the Star-Pilots are the great heroes of the day, and Grainger has become a legend in his own time. Pharos is paradise--or so it appears. But the champions of commerce want to package and sell the planet, and the conservationists want to stop them. Grainger's employer, Titus Charlot, is enlisted to negotiate a settlement, but the game is rigged. Charlot needs the Star-Pilot's help, but there seems to be nothing he can do--until the planet's ecosystem takes a hand, and "paradise" suddenly turns deadly! Hooded Swan, Book 4.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434438694
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-utopian worlds like New Alexandria to the vermin-infested slums of Old Earth, the Star-Pilots are the great heroes of the day, and Grainger has become a legend in his own time. Pharos is paradise--or so it appears. But the champions of commerce want to package and sell the planet, and the conservationists want to stop them. Grainger's employer, Titus Charlot, is enlisted to negotiate a settlement, but the game is rigged. Charlot needs the Star-Pilot's help, but there seems to be nothing he can do--until the planet's ecosystem takes a hand, and "paradise" suddenly turns deadly! Hooded Swan, Book 4.
Great Game Paradise
Author: Jason P. Theriot
Publisher: University of Louisiana
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"A history of one of the largest land management companies and hunting clubs on the Gulf Coast"--
Publisher: University of Louisiana
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"A history of one of the largest land management companies and hunting clubs on the Gulf Coast"--
The End of the Game
Author: Peter Hill Beard
Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Revised from 1965 edition black and white photo history of African wildlife. Little text. No index. No bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Revised from 1965 edition black and white photo history of African wildlife. Little text. No index. No bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Take Time for Paradise
Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608194418
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A philosophical musing on sports and play, this wholly inspiring and utterly charming reissue of Bart Giamatti's long-out-of-print final book, Take Time for Paradise, puts baseball in the context of American life and leisure. Giamatti begins with the conviction that our use of free time tells us something about who we are. He explores the concepts of leisure, American-style. And in baseball, the quintessential American game, he finds its ultimate expression. "Sports and leisure are our reiteration of the hunger for paradise- for freedom untrammeled." Filled with pithy truths about such resonant subjects as ritual, self-betterment, faith, home, and community, Take Time for Paradise gives us much more than just baseball. These final, eloquent thoughts of "the philosopher king of baseball" (Seattle Weekly) are a joyful, reverent celebration of the sport Giamatti loved and the country that created it.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608194418
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A philosophical musing on sports and play, this wholly inspiring and utterly charming reissue of Bart Giamatti's long-out-of-print final book, Take Time for Paradise, puts baseball in the context of American life and leisure. Giamatti begins with the conviction that our use of free time tells us something about who we are. He explores the concepts of leisure, American-style. And in baseball, the quintessential American game, he finds its ultimate expression. "Sports and leisure are our reiteration of the hunger for paradise- for freedom untrammeled." Filled with pithy truths about such resonant subjects as ritual, self-betterment, faith, home, and community, Take Time for Paradise gives us much more than just baseball. These final, eloquent thoughts of "the philosopher king of baseball" (Seattle Weekly) are a joyful, reverent celebration of the sport Giamatti loved and the country that created it.
This Is Paradise
Author: Kristiana Kahakauwila
Publisher: Hogarth
ISBN: 0770436250
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Elegant, brutal, and profound—this magnificent debut captures the grit and glory of modern Hawai'i with breathtaking force and accuracy. In a stunning collection that announces the arrival of an incredible talent, Kristiana Kahakauwila travels the islands of Hawai'i, making the fabled place her own. Exploring the deep tensions between local and tourist, tradition and expectation, façade and authentic self, This Is Paradise provides an unforgettable portrait of life as it’s truly being lived on Maui, Oahu, Kaua'i and the Big Island. In the gut-punch of “Wanle,” a beautiful and tough young woman wants nothing more than to follow in her father’s footsteps as a legendary cockfighter. With striking versatility, the title story employs a chorus of voices—the women of Waikiki—to tell the tale of a young tourist drawn to the darker side of the city’s nightlife. “The Old Paniolo Way” limns the difficult nature of legacy and inheritance when a patriarch tries to settle the affairs of his farm before his death. Exquisitely written and bursting with sharply observed detail, Kahakauwila’s stories remind us of the powerful desire to belong, to put down roots, and to have a place to call home.
Publisher: Hogarth
ISBN: 0770436250
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Elegant, brutal, and profound—this magnificent debut captures the grit and glory of modern Hawai'i with breathtaking force and accuracy. In a stunning collection that announces the arrival of an incredible talent, Kristiana Kahakauwila travels the islands of Hawai'i, making the fabled place her own. Exploring the deep tensions between local and tourist, tradition and expectation, façade and authentic self, This Is Paradise provides an unforgettable portrait of life as it’s truly being lived on Maui, Oahu, Kaua'i and the Big Island. In the gut-punch of “Wanle,” a beautiful and tough young woman wants nothing more than to follow in her father’s footsteps as a legendary cockfighter. With striking versatility, the title story employs a chorus of voices—the women of Waikiki—to tell the tale of a young tourist drawn to the darker side of the city’s nightlife. “The Old Paniolo Way” limns the difficult nature of legacy and inheritance when a patriarch tries to settle the affairs of his farm before his death. Exquisitely written and bursting with sharply observed detail, Kahakauwila’s stories remind us of the powerful desire to belong, to put down roots, and to have a place to call home.
Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise
Author: Bryan Stratton
Publisher: Prima Games
ISBN: 9780761560029
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Grow every plant, raise every piñata, tinker every item, and find every secret. Learn each piñata's favorite foods so you can fill any candiosity meter in a flash. This book reveals more than 250 piñata tricks and tells you how to make your piñata execute them anytime you want!
Publisher: Prima Games
ISBN: 9780761560029
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Grow every plant, raise every piñata, tinker every item, and find every secret. Learn each piñata's favorite foods so you can fill any candiosity meter in a flash. This book reveals more than 250 piñata tricks and tells you how to make your piñata execute them anytime you want!
The end of the game
Author: Peter Hill Beard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Paradise, Nevada
Author: Dario Diofebi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635576210
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
“Diofebi is an irreverent and audacious new voice.”- Susan Choi, National Book Award-Winning author of TRUST EXERCISE "Vegas has been right there forever, waiting for a great novelist, and Dario Diofebi has come dealing nothing but aces."--Darin Strauss, NBCC Award-Winning author of HALF A LIFE From an exhilarating new literary voice--the story of four transplants braving the explosive political tensions behind the deceptive, spectacular, endlessly self-reinventing city of Las Vegas. On Friday, May 1st, 2015 a bomb detonates in the infamous Positano Luxury Resort and Casino, a mammoth hotel (and exact replica of the Amalfi coast) on the Las Vegas Strip. Six months prior, a crop of strivers converge on the desert city, attempting to make a home amidst the dizzying lights: Ray, a mathematically-minded high stakes professional poker player; Mary Ann, a clinically depressed cocktail waitress; Tom, a tourist from the working class suburbs of Rome, Italy; and Lindsay, a Mormon journalist for the Las Vegas Sun who dreams of a literary career. By chance and by design, they find themselves caught up in backroom schemes for personal and political power, and are thrown into the deep end of an even bigger fight for the soul of the paradoxical town. A furiously rowdy and ricocheting saga about poker, happiness, class, and selflessness, Paradise, Nevada is a panoramic tour of America in miniature, a vertiginously beautiful systems novel where the bloody battles of neo-liberalism, immigration, labor, and family rage underneath Las Vegas' beguiling and strangely benevolent light. This exuberant debut marks the beginning of a significant career.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635576210
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
“Diofebi is an irreverent and audacious new voice.”- Susan Choi, National Book Award-Winning author of TRUST EXERCISE "Vegas has been right there forever, waiting for a great novelist, and Dario Diofebi has come dealing nothing but aces."--Darin Strauss, NBCC Award-Winning author of HALF A LIFE From an exhilarating new literary voice--the story of four transplants braving the explosive political tensions behind the deceptive, spectacular, endlessly self-reinventing city of Las Vegas. On Friday, May 1st, 2015 a bomb detonates in the infamous Positano Luxury Resort and Casino, a mammoth hotel (and exact replica of the Amalfi coast) on the Las Vegas Strip. Six months prior, a crop of strivers converge on the desert city, attempting to make a home amidst the dizzying lights: Ray, a mathematically-minded high stakes professional poker player; Mary Ann, a clinically depressed cocktail waitress; Tom, a tourist from the working class suburbs of Rome, Italy; and Lindsay, a Mormon journalist for the Las Vegas Sun who dreams of a literary career. By chance and by design, they find themselves caught up in backroom schemes for personal and political power, and are thrown into the deep end of an even bigger fight for the soul of the paradoxical town. A furiously rowdy and ricocheting saga about poker, happiness, class, and selflessness, Paradise, Nevada is a panoramic tour of America in miniature, a vertiginously beautiful systems novel where the bloody battles of neo-liberalism, immigration, labor, and family rage underneath Las Vegas' beguiling and strangely benevolent light. This exuberant debut marks the beginning of a significant career.
A Paradise Built in Hell
Author: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101459018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disaster Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She examines how disaster throws people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis. This is a timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work consistently locates unseen patterns and meanings in broad cultural histories.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101459018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disaster Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She examines how disaster throws people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis. This is a timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work consistently locates unseen patterns and meanings in broad cultural histories.
The Galaxy Game Trilogy
Author: William J. Bly
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462814352
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
“Take a journey in Time present with Trans-17, a travel device invented by Gordon Paradise and Ross Red Jacket of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Journey the Milky Way Galaxy in the present moment and enjoy the experiences and hardships Gordon Paradise faces in his solo quest for life forms and living beings in the Galaxy we call home. Meanwhile Ross Red Jacket stays on earth to manage the Time device, and life changes on earth as well as on other planets."Only change is constant, “so says the world, and it comprises a reality of its own, as life takes on the turns and tumbles much like a river. The novel is an enjoyable, humorous, and challenging book, one full of surprises with clear, precise, and poetic descriptions. This novel is Part 1 of a Trilogy, and the second book is currently being written, Entitled, VOYAGER MARS, it will be another book dealing with space travel and the ultimate challenge of the first landing on planet Mars. So begin with THE GALAXY GAME TRILOGY: Paradise Lost: One Found, and enjoy the fine writing and character development read in the finest novels. Don’t settle for anything less than great fiction. Written for the intelligent reader in mind, THE GALAXY GAME TRILOGY IS not the vapid vampire books being written at Third grade reading levels. Challenge yourself, and invite friends to purchase this book. Join the search for adventure, love, and exploration, in a novel that will thrill discerning readers."
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462814352
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
“Take a journey in Time present with Trans-17, a travel device invented by Gordon Paradise and Ross Red Jacket of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Journey the Milky Way Galaxy in the present moment and enjoy the experiences and hardships Gordon Paradise faces in his solo quest for life forms and living beings in the Galaxy we call home. Meanwhile Ross Red Jacket stays on earth to manage the Time device, and life changes on earth as well as on other planets."Only change is constant, “so says the world, and it comprises a reality of its own, as life takes on the turns and tumbles much like a river. The novel is an enjoyable, humorous, and challenging book, one full of surprises with clear, precise, and poetic descriptions. This novel is Part 1 of a Trilogy, and the second book is currently being written, Entitled, VOYAGER MARS, it will be another book dealing with space travel and the ultimate challenge of the first landing on planet Mars. So begin with THE GALAXY GAME TRILOGY: Paradise Lost: One Found, and enjoy the fine writing and character development read in the finest novels. Don’t settle for anything less than great fiction. Written for the intelligent reader in mind, THE GALAXY GAME TRILOGY IS not the vapid vampire books being written at Third grade reading levels. Challenge yourself, and invite friends to purchase this book. Join the search for adventure, love, and exploration, in a novel that will thrill discerning readers."