Dancing Bears

Author : Witold Szabłowski
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925603361

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Dancing Bears by Witold Szabłowski Pdf

• 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.

Author : Michael Morpurgo
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Bears
ISBN : 9780006745112

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The Dancing Bear by Michael Morpurgo Pdf

Nothing disturbs the peace of a French village until the arrival of a bear cub. Adopted by the orphaned Roxanne, he quickly becomes part of village life, and the village grows to be famous for its honey. Then a film company arrives to make a video starring Niki, the pop singer, as the Pied Piper.

Author : Elizabeth Stanley
Publisher : Uwa Pub
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1875560378

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The Deliverance of Dancing Bears by Elizabeth Stanley Pdf

A contemporary fable about a dancing bear, whose dreams of freedom keep her spirit alive despite the pain and degradation of her existence.

Author : Fred Saberhagen
Publisher : JSS Literary Productions, LLC
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937422264

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Dancing Bears by Fred Saberhagen Pdf

 The 20th century is new and Russia is on the cusp of revolutionary change. In London, Gregori Lohmatski, an ardent big game hunter and son of a Russian estate owner, is suddenly and urgently summoned home. On the estate two men have been killed by a man-eating bear. Gregori invites John Sherwood, his American hunting companion, to join him in pursuit of the man eating bear. Sherwood is unaware that the Lohmatski men have been rumored to have the ability to change into bears. Events in Russia become more than a bear hunt, as Sherwood and Gregori’s revolutionary minded sister flee across Russia pursued by the police and the attacking were-bear.

Author : Gladys Scheffrin-Falk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1930900503

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Another Celebrated Dancing Bear by Gladys Scheffrin-Falk Pdf

Max, a dancing bear with the Moscow Circus, teaches his friend Boris how to dance.

Author : Carly Simon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Bears
ISBN : 0440847575

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Amy, the Dancing Bear by Carly Simon Pdf

Mother Bear tries to persuade her young daughter Amy to stop dancing and go to bed with unexpected results.

Author : Witold Szablowski
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101993385

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Dancing Bears by Witold Szablowski Pdf

*As heard on NPR’s All Things Considered* “Utterly original.” —The New York Times Book Review “Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr. Szabłowski teaches us with witty persistence that we must desire freedom rather than simply expect it.” —Timothy Snyder, New York Times bestselling author of On Tyranny and The Road to Unfreedom An incisive, humorous, and heartbreaking account of people in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives, by the acclaimed author of How to Feed a Dictator For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, with the fall of Communism, they were forced to release the bears into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance. In the tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, award-winning Polish journalist Witold Szabłowski uncovers remarkable stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and in Cuba who, like Bulgaria’s dancing bears, are now free but who seem nostalgic for the time when they were not. His on-the-ground reporting—of smuggling a car into Ukraine, hitchhiking through Kosovo as it declares independence, arguing with Stalin-adoring tour guides at the Stalin Museum, sleeping in London’s Victoria Station alongside a homeless woman from Poland, and giving taxi rides to Cubans fearing for the life of Fidel Castro—provides a fascinating portrait of social and economic upheaval and a lesson in the challenges of freedom and the seductions of authoritarian rule. From the Introduction: “Guys with wacky hair who promise a great deal have been springing up in our part of the world like mushrooms after rain. And people go running after them, like bears after their keepers. . . . Fear of a changing world, and longing for someone . . . who will promise that life will be the same as it was in the past, are not confined to Regime-Change Land. In half the West, empty promises are made, wrapped in shiny paper like candy. And for this candy, people are happy to get up on their hind legs and dance.”

Author : William Jackson
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781685628673

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Dancing Bears by William Jackson Pdf

America is at a crossroads, and it may take a street-smart misfit to sort it all out. In this hilarious political satire, vignettes burlesquing the absurd and grotesque contortions of male chauvinism alternate with postmodern Lady Godivas parading alluringly and dreaming of retirement. Exponents of sexism and exploitation confront each other and slap each other’s resting bitch-faces. Exotic dancers in a strip club speak their minds. Tales of a wayward wienermobile, perils of aging and youthful blunders, spilling the beans, leaving gossipy stink scattered like broken winds. Tragicomic pratfalls of American ideals in an age of authoritarianism and rampant materialism take center stage, and a man who dreams of wearing a grizzly bear costume to go berserk in gives us the bird. The vixen narrator, lil Vireo, can tell no lies. She sees all and wears no disguise. A romp through life’s Strip-Club of pretenders and deniers fooling themselves while slapped in the rump. Politician dudes using parade costumes as messages, and strippers taking off symbolic garb redolent with our times—revealing our naked carnival of phantasmagorical human desires and fears.

Author : Witold Szablowski
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101993392

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How to Feed a Dictator by Witold Szablowski Pdf

“Amazing stories . . . Intimate portraits of how [these five ruthless leaders] were at home and at the table.” —Lulu Garcia-Navarro, NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday Anthony Bourdain meets Kapuściński in this chilling look from within the kitchen at the appetites of five of the twentieth century's most infamous dictators, by the acclaimed author of Dancing Bears and What’s Cooking in the Kremlin What was Pol Pot eating while two million Cambodians were dying of hunger? Did Idi Amin really eat human flesh? And why was Fidel Castro obsessed with one particular cow? Traveling across four continents, from the ruins of Iraq to the savannahs of Kenya, Witold Szabłowski tracked down the personal chefs of five dictators known for the oppression and massacre of their own citizens—Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, Uganda’s Idi Amin, Albania’s Enver Hoxha, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, and Cambodia’s Pol Pot—and listened to their stories over sweet-and-sour soup, goat-meat pilaf, bottles of rum, and games of gin rummy. Dishy, deliciously readable, and dead serious, How to Feed a Dictator provides a knife’s-edge view of life under tyranny.

Author : Andy Stanton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Eccentrics and eccentricities
ISBN : 140529373X

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Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear by Andy Stanton Pdf

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, THE TRUTH IS A LEMON MERINGUE.

Author : Manasi Subramaniam
Publisher : Karadi Tales Picturebooks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Animal welfare
ISBN : 8181902009

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Dancing Bear by Manasi Subramaniam Pdf

Somu is a dancing bear who longs to be free, just like his friend Altaf.

Author : Hilary Burkard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1905174365

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Fast Track by Hilary Burkard Pdf

Author : James Crumley
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101973561

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Dancing Bear by James Crumley Pdf

Detective Milo Dragovitch spends too much time boozing until he gets caught up in a case involving two-bit criminals and an old lady on the run. His friends call him Milo. No one has ever called him Bud except his father, long dead, and now Sarah Weddington, stirring painful memoires and offering him his first case since he abandoned his private practice and took a job marking time on the night shift for Haliburton Security. The case seems almost too easy, hardly worth the large fee, just to satisfy this old woman's curiosity. But things are soon exploding all over the place and Milo is turning up grenades, machine guns, a kilo of marijuana and a bag of coke . . . and suddenly Milo is on the run.

Author : Ron McDole,Rob Morris
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781496212610

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The Dancing Bear by Ron McDole,Rob Morris Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Dickinson
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01
Category : Bears
ISBN : 0613125916

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Dancing Bear by Peter Dickinson Pdf

Following a raid by the Huns, the slave Silvester, his dancing bear, Bubba, and Holy John attempt to find Lady Ariadne.