Across The Line

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307366528

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Step Across This Line by Salman Rushdie Pdf

From one of the great novelists of our day, a vital, brilliant new book of essays, speeches and articles essential for our times. Step Across This Line showcases the other side of one of fiction’s most astonishing conjurors. On display is Salman Rushdie’s incisive, thoughtful and generous mind, in prose that is as entertaining as it is topical. The world is here, captured in pieces on a dazzling array of subjects: from New York’s Amadou Diallo case to the Wizard of Oz, from U2 to fifty years of Indian writing, from a tribute to Angela Carter to the struggle to film Midnight’s Children. The title essay was originally delivered at Yale as the 2002 Tanner lecture on human values, and examines the changing meaning of frontiers in the modern world -- moral and metaphorical frontiers as well as physical ones. The collection chronicles Rushdie’s intellectual journeys, but it is also an intimate invitation into his life: he explores his relationship to India through a moving diary of his first visit there in over a decade, “A Dream of Glorious Return.” Step Across This Line also includes “Messages From the Plague Years,” a historic set of letters, articles and reflections on life under the fatwa. Gathered together for the first time, this is Rushdie’s humane, intelligent and angry response to a grotesque threat, aimed not just at him but at free expression itself. Step Across This Line, Salman Rushdie’s first collection of non-fiction in a decade, has the same energy, imagination and erudition as his astounding novels -- along with some very strong opinions.

Author : Nayanika Mahtani
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789353057145

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Across the Line by Nayanika Mahtani Pdf

A tale of borders and beliefs shaped by the games people play 1947 New Delhi. Cyril Radcliffe's hands are clammy, partly from the heat but mostly from the enormity of the task assigned. Mopping the sweat off his brow, he picks up his pen, draws a deep breath–and a dark line. Rawalpindi. A barbaric frenzy of rioters fills the streets, disrupting a game of pithoo between Toshi and her brother, Tarlok, shattering their lives unimaginably. 2008 Rawalpindi. Cricket-crazy Inaya is sneaking out behind her father's back for net practice when she discovers that she is not the only one in her family keeping a secret. New Delhi. Jai accidentally stumbles upon an old, hidden away diary in his kitchen. The date of its last entry: 17 August 1947. As Jai and Inaya's unlikely worlds collide, another story unfolds. A story that started with the drawing of a line. A story that shifts the truth in their lives.

Author : Viv Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1782817336

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Hitting Across the Line by Viv Richards Pdf

Author : Richard Karl
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 159213193X

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Across The Red Line by Richard Karl Pdf

Richard Karl, a doctor and teacher, takes the reader closer than any writer before into the corridors of the hospital, on the surgical table, and into the world of medicine. In these pages we see the tragedies and triumphs of modern medicine: the beauty of surgery done well, and the aftermath of operations that fail to deliver on the hopes of the doctor and patient. We witness the "M&M"—the morbidity and mortality meeting—where doctors scrutinize their own work and mistakes, and the often inevitable outcomes of treatment. Suffused throughout are Karl’s keen observations on the workings of the human body and its immense capacity for healing. "...I celebrate the rich privilege accorded the practicing surgeon. The surgical life is really about bearing witness to the human condition and about respecting the many almost whimsical variations of biology and about the intersection of the two. It is remarkable, really, the way I get to know people so intimately so quickly, and to observe the brave and often noble behavior in them, while I witness the relentless push of biology, the aging and decay, the growth and development, but most especially the healing, both physical and emotional. It is this natural drive of our bodies to repair themselves from all injuries (including the surgeon's wounds) that is the centerpiece of medicine. Without it no surgeon could cut." Written with economy and subtlety, Across the Red Line offers a vivid picture of disease and the miracle of life. It will interest anyone who's ever been on either side of the surgical table.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Florida Ship Canal
ISBN : LOC:00160541763

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Construction and Operation of Pipe Line and Navigable Barge Channel Across Florida by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce Pdf

Also considers legislation to authorize Intracoastal Waterway enlargement and extension to Mexican border and additional pipeline construction from Ya.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Rivers and Harbors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Intracoastal waterways
ISBN : MINN:31951D021564383

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Construction and Operation of Pipe Line and Navigable Barge Channel Across Florida by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Rivers and Harbors Pdf

Also considers legislation to authorize Intracoastal Waterway enlargement and extension to Mexican border and additional pipeline construction from Yazoo, Miss., to Charleston, S.C., or Savannah, Ga.

Author : Benjamin Hoy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197528716

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A Line of Blood and Dirt by Benjamin Hoy Pdf

The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States. Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-US border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined a future for each of their nations that stretched across a continent. They signed treaties with one another dividing lands neither country could map, much less control. A century and a half later, Canada and the United States had largely fulfilled those earlier ambitions. Both countries had built nations that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific and had made an expansive international border that restricted movement. The vision that seemed so clear in the minds of diplomats and politicians never behaved as such on the ground. Both countries built their border across Indigenous lands using hunger, violence, and coercion to displace existing communities and to disrupt their ideas of territory and belonging. The border's length undermined each nation's attempts at control. Unable to prevent movement at the border's physical location for over a century, Canada and the United States instead found ways to project fear across international lines They aimed to stop journeys before they even began.

Author : Luv Puri
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849041737

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Across the Line of Control by Luv Puri Pdf

Kashmir has been a contested territory ever since the subcontinent was partitioned in 1947. Despite international attention focused on Kashmir, little is known about the Pakistan-administered Jammu & Kashmir (PAJK), which is at the centre of this study. The author is a winner of the European Commission Award for Human Rights and Democracy.

Author : Kareem Rosser
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250270870

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Crossing the Line by Kareem Rosser Pdf

"A marvelous addition to the literature of inspirational sports stories." - Booklist (Starred Review) "This remarkable and inspiring story shines." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Crossing the Line will not just leave you with hope, but also ideas on how to make that hope transferable” - New York Times bestselling author Wes Moore An inspiring memoir of defying the odds from Kareem Rosser, captain of the first all-black squad to win the National Interscholastic Polo championship. Born and raised in West Philadelphia, Kareem thought he and his siblings would always be stuck in “The Bottom”, a community and neighborhood devastated by poverty and violence. Riding their bicycles through Philly’s Fairmount Park, Kareem’s brothers discover a barn full of horses. Noticing the brothers’ fascination with her misfit animals, Lezlie Hiner, founder of The Work to Ride stables, offers them their escape: an after school job in exchange for riding lessons. What starts as an accidental discovery turns into a love for horseback riding that leads the Rossers to discovering their passion for polo. Pursuing the sport with determination and discipline, Kareem earns his place among the typically exclusive players in college, becoming part of the first all-Black national interscholastic polo championship team—all while struggling to keep his family together. Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever is the story of bonds of brotherhood, family loyalty, the transformative connection between man and horse, and forging a better future that comes from overcoming impossible odds.

Author : Barry Jacobs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493071296

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Across the Line by Barry Jacobs Pdf

In the 1960s, college sports required more than athletic prowess from its African American players. For many pioneering basketball players on 18 teams in the Atlantic and Southeastern conference, playing ball meant braving sometimes menacing crowds during the tumultuous era of civil rights. Perry Wallace feared he would be shot when he first stepped onto a court in his Vanderbilt uniform. During one road game, Georgia's Ronnie Hogue fended off a hostile crowd with a chair. Craig Mobley had to flee the Clemson campus, along with other black students. C.B. Claiborne couldn't attend the Duke team banquet when it was held at an all-white country club. Wendell Hudson's mother cried with heartache when her son decided to play at the University of Alabama, and Al Heartley locked himself in a campus dorm at North Carolina State for safety the night Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. Grounded in the civil rights struggles on campuses throughout the south, the voices of players, coaches, opponents and fans reveal the long-neglected story of race, sports and social history. Barry Jacobs has covered college basketball as well as news and other sports since 1976 for numerous publications, among them the New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, People, Oceans, the Saturday Evening Post and the Sporting News. He is the author of four books, including Coach K's Little Blue Book, The World According to Dean, and Three Paths to Glory. For 14 years he wrote the Fan’s Guide to ACC Basketball. He also served as an elected county commissioner for 20 years and supervises Moorefields, an historic site near Hillsborough, NC.

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1342 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Patents
ISBN : WISC:89052951720

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Sharon Rush
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0847699129

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Loving Across the Color Line by Sharon Rush Pdf

In this memoir, the author relates how her loving,maternal relationship opened her eyes to the harsh realities of the Americal racial divide.

Author : Mark Gevisser
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780374713447

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The Pink Line by Mark Gevisser Pdf

One of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020. Longlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize. "[Mark] Gevisser is clear-eyed and wise enough to have a sharp sense of how tough the struggle has been, and how hard it will be now for those who have not succeeded in finding shelter from prejudice." --Colm Tóibín, The Guardian A groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world today More than seven years in the making, Mark Gevisser’s The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers is an exploration of how the conversation around sexual orientation and gender identity has come to divide—and describe—the world in an entirely new way over the first two decades of the twenty-first century. No social movement has brought change so quickly and with such dramatically mixed results. While same-sex marriage and gender transition are celebrated in some parts of the world, laws are being strengthened to criminalize homosexuality and gender nonconformity in others. As new globalized queer identities are adopted by people across the world—thanks to the digital revolution—fresh culture wars have emerged. A new Pink Line, Gevisser argues, has been drawn across the globe, and he takes readers to its frontiers. Between sensitive and sometimes startling profiles of the queer folk he’s encountered along the Pink Line, Gevisser offers sharp analytical chapters exploring identity politics, religion, gender ideology, capitalism, human rights, moral panics, geopolitics, and what he calls “the new transgender culture wars.” His subjects include a Ugandan refugee in flight to Canada, a trans woman fighting for custody of her child in Moscow, a lesbian couple campaigning for marriage equality in Mexico, genderqueer high schoolers coming of age in Michigan, a gay Israeli-Palestinian couple searching for common ground, and a community of kothis—“women’s hearts in men’s bodies”—who run a temple in an Indian fishing village. What results is a moving and multifaceted picture of the world today, and the queer people defining it. Eye-opening, heartfelt, expertly researched, and compellingly narrated, The Pink Line is a monumental—and urgent—journey of unprecedented scope into twenty-first-century identity, seen through the border posts along the world’s new LGBTQ+ frontiers.

Author : Mick Martin,Marsha Porter
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : DVD-Video discs
ISBN : 0345449940

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DVD and Video Guide 2004 by Mick Martin,Marsha Porter Pdf

Reviews thousands of movies and rates each film according to a five-star rating system, and features cross-indexing by title, director, and cast.

Author : Nell Irvin Painter
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0807853607

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Southern History Across the Color Line by Nell Irvin Painter Pdf

This work reaches across the colour line to examine how race, gender, class and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women in the 19th- and 20th-century American South.