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Author : Richard Paul Russo
Publisher : Ace
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Interplanetary voyages
ISBN : UOM:39015049990735
A science fiction novel about a spaceship that has wandering in space for many years.
Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504003537
This “dazzling” National Book Award finalist set aboard an ocean liner in 1931 reflects the passions and prejudices that sparked World War II (San Francisco Chronicle). August 1931. An ocean liner bound for Germany sets out from the Mexican port city of Veracruz. The ship’s first-class passengers include an idealistic young American painter and her lover; a Spanish dance troupe with a sideline in larceny; an elderly German couple and their fat, seasick bulldog; and a boisterous band of Cuban medical students. As the Vera journeys across the Atlantic, the incidents and intrigues of several dozen passengers and crew members come into razor-sharp focus. The result is a richly drawn portrait of the human condition in all its complexity and a mesmerizing snapshot of a world drifting toward disaster. Written over a span of twenty years and based on the diary Katherine Anne Porter kept during a similar ocean voyage, Ship of Fools was the bestselling novel of 1962 and the inspiration for an Academy Award–winning film starring Vivien Leigh. It is a masterpiece of American literature as captivating today as when it was first published more than a half century ago. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Katherine Anne Porter, including rare photos from the University of Maryland Libraries.
Author : Tucker Carlson
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501183676
The #1 New York Times bestseller from FOX News star of Tucker Carlson Tonight offers “a targeted snipe at the Democrats and Republicans and their elite enablers” (New York Journal of Books) in a funny political commentary on how America’s ruling class has failed everyday Americans. “Informal and often humorous…an entertainingly told narrative of elite malfeasance” (Publishers Weekly), Tucker Carlson’s Ship of Fools tells the truth about the new American elites, a group whose power and wealth has grown beyond imagination even as the rest of the country has withered. The people who run America now barely interact with it. They fly on their own planes, ski on their own mountains, watch sporting events far from the stands in sky boxes. They have total contempt for you. In Ship of Fools, Tucker Carlson offers a blistering critique of our new overlords and answers the all-important question: How do we put the country back on course? Traditional liberals are gone, he writes. The patchouli-scented hand-wringers who worried about whales and defended free speech have been replaced by globalists who hide their hard-edged economic agenda behind the smokescreen of identity politics. They’ll outsource your job while lecturing you about transgender bathrooms. Left and right, Carlson says, are no longer meaningful categories in America. “The rift is between those who benefit from the status quo, and those who don’t.” Our leaders are fools, Carlson concludes, “unaware that they are captains of a sinking ship.” But in the signature and witty style that viewers of Tucker Carlson Tonight enjoy so much, Ship of Fools is “bulging with big and interesting ideas, presented succinctly with wit and precision, each chapter a potential book in itself” (The Washington Times).
Author : Charles Wilkins
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781553658788
Chronicles the author's experiences aboard an experimental rowboat on its way from Morocco to Barbados, a journey by sixteen misadventurers that had no support vessel, no stored water, and no means of power other than rowing.
Author : Gregory Norminton
Publisher : Sceptre
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444781809
The characters on Norminton's purgatorial 'Ship of Fools' - a ship that's going nowhere fast - bicker and struggle for attention; telling tales that bounce off one another to form a compendium of interralated stories, running from lyrical romance to scabrous satire, by way of fairy-tale and black comedy. Often wickedly funny, always stunningly written and displaying an astonishing range of voices (the prudish nun, the bawdy old woman, the penitent drunkard, and the glutton whose stomach does all the talking - to name a few) 'The Ship of Fools' is truly a treasure chest of a novel, and an example of story-telling at its very best.
Author : Fintan O'Toole
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781586488826
The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever really existed. The "Irish Economic miracle" was built on good old-fashioned subsidies (from the European Union) and the simple fact that until the 1980s Ireland was by the standards of the developed world so economically backward that the only way was up. And as it began to catch up to European and American averages, the Irish economy could boast some seemingly remarkable statistics. These lured in investors, the Irish deregulated and all but abandoned financial oversight, and a great Irish financial ceilidh began. It would last for a decade. When the global financial crash of 2008 arrived it struck Ireland harder than anywhere - even Iceland looked like a model of rectitude compared to the fiasco that stretched from Cork to Dublin. There was an avalanche of statistics as toxic as the property-based assets that lay beneath many of them And under all this rubble lay the corpse of the Celtic Tiger. How Ireland managed to achieve such a spectacular implosion is a stunning story of corruption, carelessness and venality, told with passion and fury by one of Ireland's most respected journalists and commentators.
Author : Cristina Peri Rossi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015018633225
Author : Ignacio Noe
Publisher : Eurotica
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Erotic comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1561632309
A few engineers, men and women, bored on a spaceship filled with sex offenders put to deep sleep. Until one devises a way of occasionally waking up good-looking pervs for a quickie then putting 'em back to beddie-by. Once the technique gets around, though, things get slightly out of hand!
Author : Sebastian Brant
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486143125
Definitive English language edition of influential (1494) allegorical classic. Sweeping satire of weaknesses, vices, grotesqueries of the day. Includes 114 royalty-free illustrations.
Author : C. R. Hallpike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9527065550
Since Man's ancestors used to live in a primitive manner, understanding primitive societies is essential to understanding the human race itself. Unfortunately a variety of journalists, social scientists, biologists, and evolutionary psychologists erroneously believe they are qualified to write about these societies without knowing much about them.
Author : Robin Hobb
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553900255
The first book in a seafaring fantasy trilogy that George R. R. Martin has described as “even better than the Farseer Trilogy—I didn’t think that was possible.” Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships—rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. Now the fortunes of one of Bingtown’s oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy. For Althea’s young nephew, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard the Vivacia, the ship is a life sentence. But the fate of the ship—and the Vestrits—may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider: the ruthless buccaneer captain Kennit, who plans to seize power over the Pirate Isles by capturing a liveship and bending it to his will. Don’t miss the magic of the Liveship Traders Trilogy: SHIP OF MAGIC • MAD SHIP • SHIP OF DESTINY
Author : Thomas Austenfeld
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781574415933
Containing pieces by distinguished scholars including Darlene Harbour Unrue and Robert Brinkmeyer, this book is the first full investigation of the links between Porter's only novel and European intellectual history. Beginning with Sebastian Brant, author of the late medieval Narrenschiff, whom she acknowledges in her Preface to Ship of Fools, Porter's image of Europe emerges as more complex, more knowledgeable, and more politically nuanced than previous critics of her novel have acknowledged. Ship of Fools is in conversation with Europe's humanistic tradition as well as with the political moments of 1931 and 1962; i.e., the years that elapsed from the novel's conception to its completion. The novel and the 1965 film based upon it intervene into the history of film, the assessment of Weimar Germany, and Porter's clear-eyed judgment of her own times through the lens of her art.
Author : Hilde Van Gelder
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789462700055
Sekula's final work dedicated to labor solidarity in and around the docks Ship of Fools / The Dockers’ Museum is the project on which the US artist and writer Allan Sekula worked during the last three years of his life (2010–2013). The work consists, first, of a corpus of thirty-three framed photographs and two slide projections of in total over one hundred images, all made by the artist (Ship of Fools); second, it contains a gigantic collection of various objects, graphic images, postcards, and prints which the artist purchased, mostly online (The Dockers’ Museum). Sekula dedicated this work to both historical and contemporary labor solidarity in and around the docks. At the time of his sad passing in the Summer of 2013, Allan Sekula was in the midst of collaborating on this publication with all four contributing authors: Gail Day, Steve Edwards, Alberto Toscano, and Hilde Van Gelder, each of whom he had asked to write essays. This volume, which includes a representative ensemble of images and objects that are part of Ship of Fools / The Dockers’ Museum, follows as closely as possible the instructions given by the artist and is the first substantial scholarly analysis of this impressive project. It contains a preface by Jürgen Bock and Bart De Baere, who both curated exhibited installations of the work during the artist's lifetime. The volume also includes draft text materials written by the artist himself, as well as selections from the multitude of unpublished interviews, public debates, and lectures that Allan Sekula delivered between 2010 and 2012. Finally, this publication includes a moving essay on the project by the artist's widow, Sally Stein.
Author : Brian Williams
Publisher : Llewellyn Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0738701610
The Fool on a journey riddled with fools Here is a classic, traditional Tarot that's undeniably unique in its execution, created by one of America's most prominent and prolific tarot artists. It is the Fool's Journey spelled out in images that are fun and funny, strange and elegant. Every card is closely inspired by the much-loved classic of German culture, Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools), by Sebastian Brant. The Fool card has emerged in recent decades as a pivotal figure of the Tarot. He is the human personality in its most innocent, most courageous state: the inner child. His journey is the path of lessons, obstacles, and pleasures he encounters on life's adventure as represented in the Tarot. Selling Features ·By one of America's most prominent and prolific Tarot artists ·A classic and traditional Tarot uniquely based on images of freedom and foolishness ·For beginning and advanced Tarot readers and Tarot collectors ·Furthers the concept of the Fool card as the pivotal figure of the Tarot
Author : William Henry Ireland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:AA0000817585