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Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003954224
Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015012419472
Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9939582536
Author : Joel D. Howell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780472033300
A guide for anyone--newcomer to experienced--who wants to go bike riding on the roads of Washtenaw County
Author : Jon Day
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781910749302
Cyclogeography is about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and also a portrait of London as seen from the saddle. In the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Jon Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of the city. Informed by several grinding years spent as a bicycle courier, he lifts the lid on the solitary life of the courier. Traveling the unmapped byways, shortcuts, and urban edgelands, couriers are the declining, invisible workforce of the city. The parcels they deliver keep things running. For those who survive the crushing toughness of the job, the bicycle can become what holds them together.
Author : Bruce Bennett
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781906897994
A unique exploration of the history of the bicycle in cinema, from Hollywood blockbusters and slapstick comedies to documentaries, realist dramas, and experimental films. Cycling and Cinema explores the history of the bicycle in cinema from the late nineteenth century through to the present day. In this new book from Goldsmiths Press, Bruce Bennett examines a wide variety of films from around the world, ranging from Hollywood blockbusters and slapstick comedies to documentaries, realist dramas, and experimental films, to consider the complex, shifting cultural significance of the bicycle. The bicycle is an everyday technology, but in examining the ways in which bicycles are used in films, Bennett reveals the rich social and cultural importance of this apparently unremarkable machine. The cinematic bicycles discussed in this book have various functions. They are the source of absurd comedy in silent films, and the vehicles that allow their owners to work in sports films and social realist cinema. They are a means of independence and escape for children in melodramas and kids' films, and the tools that offer political agency and freedom to women, as depicted in films from around the world. In recounting the cinematic history of the bicycle, Bennett reminds us that this machine is not just a practical means of transport or a child's toy, but the vehicle for a wide range of meanings concerning individual identity, social class, nationhood and belonging, family, gender, and sexuality and pleasure. As this book shows, two hundred years on from its invention, the bicycle is a revolutionary technology that retains the power to transform the world.
Author : Jet McDonald
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781783526925
When Jet McDonald cycled four thousand miles to India and back, he didn’t want to write a straightforward account. He wanted to go on an imaginative journey. The age of the travelogue is over: today we need to travel inwardly to see the world with fresh eyes. Mind is the Ride is that journey, a pedal-powered antidote to the petrol-driven philosophies of the past. The book takes the reader on a physical and intellectual adventure from West to East using the components of the bike as a metaphor for philosophy, which is woven into the cyclist's experience. Each chapter is based around a single component, and as Jet travels he adds new parts and new philosophies until the bike is 'built'; the ride to India is completed; and the relationship between mind, body and bicycle made apparent.
Author : Lowell B. Komie
Publisher : Swordfish Chicago Publisher
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 0964195763
Author : Glen Norcliffe,Una Brogan,Peter Cox,Boyang Gao,Tony Hadland,Sheila Hanlon,Tim Jones,Nicholas Oddy,Luis Vivanco
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000575408
Routledge Companion to Cycling presents a comprehensive overview of an artefact that throughout the modern era has been a bellwether indicator of the major social, economic and environmental trends that have permeated society The volume synthesizes a rapidly growing body of research on the bicycle, its past and present uses, its technological evolution, its use in diverse geographical settings, its aesthetics and its deployment in art and literature. From its origins in early modern carriage technology in Germany, it has generated what is now a vast, multi-disciplinary literature encompassing a wide range of issues in countries throughout the world.
Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788184754506
The making of a writer Ruskin Bond's first full-fledged autobiographical book covers his -formative years,' till the age of twenty-one. The world of Anglo-India, with all its conflicting pulls, comes alive as he tells his story. His earliest memoirs are bitter-sweet, and relate to Jamnager where he lives till he is six. The happy hours spent in exploring the Ram Vilas Palace grounds and playing with his younger sister Ellen and the palace children are overshadowed by the acrimonious relation between his parents. Their estrangement while he is still a child leaves him with a life-long sense of insecurity. His unhappiness is exacerbated by the untimely death of his father " his emotional anchor when the author is just ten. Forced to stay with his mother and his stepfather, both of whom are absorbed in their own worlds, he tries to fend off his loneliness through books and the company of a few friends. Left for the most part to himself, the gentle dreamer realizes very early as -a pimply adolescent' his calling as a writer. His first book, The Room on the Roof, materializes in England, the land of his forefathers, where he is sent to make a career for himself. Despite the unexpected success of his novel, which wins a major British literary prize, the author's yearning for India is too powerful to let him remain abroad for long. He returns and begins a writing career which has spanned four decades, and earned him a place in the pantheon of great Indian writers.
Author : Duncan R. Jamieson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781442253711
Before the last quarter of the nineteenth century, people who wanted to travel independently either walked or rode horses. Then a newly invented machine changed forever the nature of personal transportation. The cycle—self-propelled bicycles, tricycles, and tandems—allowed almost anyone to travel around town, around their region, and around the world. While dramatic developments in equipment, clothing, road surfaces, and amenities make the physicality of cycling much different from the earlier era, the experience of cycling has seen little change. The Self-Propelled Voyager: How the Cycle Revolutionized Travel recounts how a transportation innovation opened the world for not only those who made the journey but also for the armchair travelers who read with interest the cyclists’ accounts of faraway places. Following a brief history of the development of the cycle, this book describes the exploits of long-distance riders who wrote of their experiences, their triumphs, and their tragedies. Duncan R. Jamieson chronicles their journeys, their personal stories, and the times in which they lived, revealing that, despite the continuing rise and fall of cycling interest, people continue to enjoy traveling in the slow lane. Drawing on books and articles by the women and men who rode and wrote of their travels, The Self-Propelled Voyager also features photographs from the 1880s up to the modern day, illustrating the development of the cycle through history. Accessibly written yet comprehensive in its coverage, this book will interest not only the cycling enthusiast but historians focusing on sport and sport tourism as well.
Author : Diane Ackerman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780307763334
The national bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses tackles the realm of creativity, by exploring one of the most essential aspects of our characters: the ability to play. "Deep play" is that more intensified form of play that puts us in a rapturous mood and awakens the most creative, sentient, and joyful aspects of our inner selves. As Diane Ackerman ranges over a panoply of artistic, spiritual, and athletic activities, from spiritual rapture through extreme sports, we gain a greater sense of what it means to be "in the moment" and totally, transcendentally human. Keenly perceived and written with poetic exuberance, Deep Play enlightens us by revealing the manifold ways we can enhance our lives.
Author : John Forester
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780262300711
An updated edition of a classic handbook for cyclists from beginner to expert. Effective Cycling is an essential handbook for cyclists from beginner to expert, whether daily commuters or weekend pleasure trippers. This thoroughly updated seventh edition offers cyclists the information they need for riding a bicycle under all conditions: on congested city streets or winding mountain roads, day or night, rain or shine. It describes the sheer physical joy of cycling and provides the nuts-and-bolts details of how to choose a bicycle, maintain it, and use it in the most efficient manner. Effective Cycling covers the bicycle itself, repairs and maintenance, basic and advanced cycling skills, and how traffic is organized. It describes cycling with friends, bicycle tours, increasing physical endurance, racing, and even finding a cyclist as marriage partner. Throughout, author John Forester emphasizes that cyclists should consider themselves drivers of vehicles in traffic. That means obeying the rules of the road, because when all drivers obey the same rules, they don't have collisions. Forester explains why cyclists should not be afraid to cycle in traffic, and he urges them to resist being shunted off into government-sponsored bike paths as if they were incompetent children. Cyclists fare best, he says, when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles. Effective Cycling will help owners of bicycles dusty from disuse become active cyclists and veteran cyclists improve their techniques and achieve their cycling goals. Each section moves from basic to advanced topics; readers are encouraged get on a bicycle and practice each activity after reading about it.
Author : Alfred F. Rosa
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0838619541
Dr. Rosa, a former student of Charles Angoff, has collected herein 15 essays that are as diverse as his mentor's own career and interests. Literary compeers, personal friends and associates, and former students have contributed to this volume to pay tribute to this influential novelist, essayist, poet, and professor.
Author : Richard B. Armstrong,Mary Willems Armstrong
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476612300
The first editon was called “the most valuable film reference in several years” by Library Journal. The new edition published in hardcover in 2001 includes more than 670 entries. The current work is a paperback reprint of that edition. Each entry contains a mini-essay that defines the topic, followed by a chronological list of representative films. From the Abominable Snowman to Zorro, this encyclopedia provides film scholars and fans with an easy-to-use reference for researching film themes or tracking down obscure movies on subjects such as suspended animation, viral epidemics, robots, submarines, reincarnation, ventriloquists and the Olympics (“Excellent” said Cult Movies). The volume also contains an extensive list of film characters and series, including B-movie detectives, Western heroes, made-for-television film series, and foreign film heroes and villains.
