Lessons In Taxidermy A Compendium Of Safety And Danger Punk Planet Books

Author : Bee Lavender
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617750526

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Lessons in Taxidermy: A Compendium of Safety and Danger (Punk Planet Books) by Bee Lavender Pdf

A riveting tale of sickness and survival from the first female author on the Punk Planet Books imprint that brought you the indie hit Hairstyles of the Damned. “[One of] the reigning mother superiors of the crowd [is] Bee Lavender.” —Time Magazine Diagnosed with cancer at age twelve and perilously pregnant at eighteen, surviving surgeries and violent accidents: sometimes you can’t believe Bee Lavender is still alive; sometimes you think nothing could kill her. Lessons in Taxidermy is Lavender’s fierce and expressive search for truth and an elusive sense of safety. This autobiographical tale is stark and resolved, but strangely euphoric, tying together moments and memories into a frantic, delicate, and often transcendently funny account of anguish and confusion, pain and poverty, isolation and illusion. While staying conscious of the particulars of her circumstances, Lavender frames her life in the context of history, traveling, landscape, and freak show culture. Lessons in Taxidermy is apocryphal, troubling, cathartic, and important.

Author : Bee Lavender
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1417693916

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Lessons in Taxidermy by Bee Lavender Pdf

Lavender retells the events of her tumultuous life--from battling a rare genetic disorder and childhood cancer to young motherhood--in fearless, unapologetic prose and gut-wrenching, yet darkly comic detail.

Author : Bee Lavender
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : OCLC:1200481539

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Lessons in Taxidermy by Bee Lavender Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Children's libraries
ISBN : UOM:49015003222172

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School Library Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lavender Bee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Cancer in children
ISBN : OCLC:626948951

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Lessons in Taxidermy by Lavender Bee Pdf

This zine is the fourth issue of the literary zine A Beautiful Final Tribute. Lessons in Taxidermy tells the story of the HipMama editor and childhood cancer survivor as she and her partner traverse the hallways of La Specola, a zoological museum in Italy. Sprinkled between the musings on children and perseverance, are images and descriptions of novelty taxidermy (the process of posing animals in unrealistic positions for artistic effect). The zine has a yellow cardstock cover and is bound with staples.

Author : Joe Meno
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936070497

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The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno Pdf

In this “charming” and melancholic novel, a former child sleuth “investigates the hard-to-crack case of Lost Innocence” (Entertainment Weekly). A Chicago Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist Book of the Year In the twilight of a mysterious childhood full of wonder, Billy Argo, boy detective, is brokenhearted to find that his younger sister and crime-solving partner, Caroline, has committed suicide. Ten years later, Billy, age thirty, returns from an extended stay at St. Vitus’ Hospital for the Mentally Ill to discover the world full of unimaginable strangeness: office buildings vanish without reason, small animals turn up without their heads, and cruel villains ride city buses to complete their evil schemes. Lost within this unwelcoming place, Billy befriends two lonely, extraordinary children—one a science fair genius, the other a charming, silent bully. With a nearly forgotten bravery, he experiences the unendurable boredom of a telemarketing job; encounters a beautiful, desperate pickpocket; and confronts the nearly impossible solution to his sister’s case. Along a path laden with hidden clues and codes, the boy detective may learn the greatest secret of all: the necessity of the unknown. “Haunted by the mystery of his sister’s death and feeling that a lapse in his sleuthing may be to blame, Billy is determined to find out the reason for her suicide and to punish those responsible . . . The story of Billy’s search for truth, love and redemption is surprising and absorbing. Swaddled in melancholy and gentle humor, it builds in power as the clues pile up.” —Publishers Weekly “The author gives Billy a gallery of rogues to combat and even sends him to investigate the Convocation of Evil at a local hotel (‘Featured Panel: To Wear a Mask?’). Meno sets himself a complicated task, marooning his straight-arrow, pulp-fiction protagonist in a world uglier than the Bobbsey Twins ever faced but refusing to go for satire. Instead, the author takes his compulsive investigator at face value.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Comedic, imaginative, empathic . . . investigates the precincts of grief [and] our longing to combat chaos with reason.” —Booklist

Author : Mark Twight,James Martin
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781594853838

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Extreme Alpinism by Mark Twight,James Martin Pdf

* The book that launched a renaissance in climbing technique and remains relevant today * Techniques and mental skills needed to climb at a more challenging level * Illustrated with full-color photos throughout Big, high routes at the edge of a climber's ability are not the places for inventing technique or relying on old habits. Complacency can lead to fatal errors. So where does the hard-core aspirant or dreamer turn? The only master class in print, Extreme Alpinism delivers an expert dose of reality and practical techniques for advanced climbers. Focusing on how top alpine climbers approach the world's most difficult routes, Twight centers his instruction on the ethos of climbing the hardest routes with the least amount of gear and the most speed. Throughout, Twight makes it clear that the two things he refuses to compromise are safety and his climbing ethics. In addition to the extensive chapters on advanced techniques and skills, Twight also discusses mental preparedness and attitude; strength and cardiovascular training; good nutrition; and tips on equipment and clothing.

Author : Rick Riordan
Publisher : Disney-Hyperion
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131292158

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The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Three: Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan Pdf

In this third book of the acclaimed series, Percy and his friends are escorting two new half-bloods safely to camp when they are intercepted by a manticore and learn that the goddess Artemis has been kidnapped.

Author : Adam Steltzner,William Patrick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780698144750

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The Right Kind of Crazy by Adam Steltzner,William Patrick Pdf

From Adam Steltzner, who led the Entry, Descent, and Landing team in landing the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars, comes a profound book about breakthrough innovation in the face of the impossible The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is home to some of history’s most jaw-dropping feats of engineering. When NASA needed to land Curiosity—a 2,000-pound, $2.5 billion rover—on the surface of Mars, 140 million miles away, they turned to JPL. Steltzner’s team couldn’t test their kooky solution, the Sky Crane. They were on an unmissable deadline, and the world would be watching when they succeeded—or failed. At the helm of this effort was an unlikely rocket scientist and accidental leader, Adam Steltzner. After barely graduating from high school, he followed his curiosity to the local community college to find out why the stars moved. Soon he discovered an astonishing gift for math and physics. After getting his Ph.D. he ensconced himself within JPL, NASA’s decidedly unbureaucratic cousin, where success in a mission is the only metric that matters. The Right Kind of Crazy is a first-person account of innovation that is relevant to any­one working in science, art, or technology. For instance, Steltzner describes: ·How his team learned to switch from fear-based to curiosity-based decision making ·How to escape “The Dark Room”—the creative block caused by fear, uncertainty, and the lack of a clear path forward ·How to tell when we’re too in love with our own ideas to be objective about them—and, conversely, when to fight for them ·How to foster mutual respect within teams while still bashing bad ideas The Right Kind of Crazy is a book for anyone who wants to channel their craziness into creativity, balance discord and harmony, and find a signal in a flood of noise.

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1584 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594667

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Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year Spanning the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it’s their lives that pursue them.

Author : Luca Rastello
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cocaine industry
ISBN : 9781847081544

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I Am the Market by Luca Rastello Pdf

This is the story of ordinary, respectable men, who behind the scenes have managed to rise to the peak of the international narcotics trade. It is not the story of those who swallow capsules or transport drugs in suitcases with false bottoms, but those who smuggle cocaine in cargo shipments, in containers, in vast quantities at a time. I Am the Market is told in the form of five frank lessons in mass smuggling by a convicted smuggler. On an ironic level these five lessons are presented as a complete course in how to become a consummate cocaine trafficker; on a more serious level they provide an account of the phenomenon and a deep analysis of developments in the cocaine economy over the last thirty years or so.

Author : Dylan A. T. Miner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 1570272298

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Punkademics by Dylan A. T. Miner Pdf

"In the thirty years since Dick Hebdige published Subculture: The Meaning of Style, the seemingly antithetical worlds of punk rock and academia have converged in some rather interesting, if not peculiar, ways. A once marginal subculture documented in homemade 'zines and three chord songs has become fodder for dozens of scholarly articles, books, PhD dissertations, and conversations amongst well-mannered conference panelists. At the same time, the academic ranks have been increasingly infiltrated by professors and graduate students whose educations began not in the classroom, but in the lyric sheets of 7" records and the cramped confines of all-ages shows. Punkademics explores these varied intersections by giving voice to some of the people who arguably best understand the odd bedfellows of punk and academia. In addition to being one of the first edited collections of scholarly work on punk, it is a timely book that features original essays, interviews, and select reprints from notable writers, musicians, visual artists, and emerging talents who actively cut & paste the boundaries between punk culture, politics, and higher education"--Publisher's description

Author : Mick Farren
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429973706

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More Than Mortal by Mick Farren Pdf

Victor Renquist, centuries-old nosferatu leader, is called to England. Some archaeologists are excavating a burial mound, but what they will uncover is no Saxon warrior but the being once known as the Merlin. And he's not the kindly old duffer of The Sword in the Stone. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Rose Arny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1306 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015054037059

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Forthcoming Books by Rose Arny Pdf