The Man Game

Author : Lee Henderson
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143177807

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The Man Game by Lee Henderson Pdf

On a recent Sunday afternoon in Vancouver, a young man stumbles upon a secret sport invented more than a century before, at the birth of his city. Thus begins The Man Game, Lee Henderson's epic tale of love, requited and not, that crosses the contemporary and historical in an extravagant, anarchistic retelling of the early days of a pioneer town on the edge of the known world. In 1886, out of the smouldering ashes of the great fire that destroyed much of the city, Molly Erwagen—former vaudeville performer—arrives from Toronto with her beloved husband, Samuel, to start a new life. Meanwhile, Litz and Pisk, two lumberjacks exiled after the fire and blamed for having started it, are trying to clear their names. Before long, they've teamed up with Molly to invent a new sport that will change the course of that fledgling city's history.

Author : Andy Weinberger
Publisher : Prospect Park Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945551659

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An Old Man's Game by Andy Weinberger Pdf

"Andy Weinberger has done something extraordinary with his first novel: he’s written a truly great detective novel that is fresh and original, but already feels like it’s a classic. In the tradition of Walter Mosley, Raymond Chandler, and Sue Grafton, semi-retired private eye Amos Parisman roams LA’s seedy and not-so-seedy neighborhoods in pursuit of justice. I don’t want another Amos Parisman novel—I want a dozen more!” — Amy Stewart When a controversial celebrity rabbi drops dead over his matzoh ball soup at the famed Canter's Deli in Los Angeles, retired private eye Amos Parisman— a sixtyish, no-nonsense Jewish detective who lives with his addled wife in Park La Brea—is hired by the temple's board to make sure everything is kosher. As he looks into what seems to be a simple, tragic accident, the ante is raised when more people start to die or disappear, and Amos uncovers a world of treachery and hurt that shakes a large L.A. Jewish community to its core.

Author : Stephanie Hanes
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780805097177

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White Man's Game by Stephanie Hanes Pdf

A probing examination of Western conservation efforts in Africa, where our feel-good stories belie a troubling reality The stunningly beautiful Gorongosa National Park, once the crown jewel of Mozambique, was nearly destroyed by decades of civil war. It looked like a perfect place for Western philanthropy: revive the park and tourists would return, a win-win outcome for the environment and the impoverished villagers living in the area. So why did some researchers find the local communities actually getting hungrier, sicker, and poorer as the project went on? And why did efforts to bring back wildlife become far more difficult than expected? In pursuit of answers, Stephanie Hanes takes readers on a vivid safari across southern Africa, from the shark-filled waters off Cape Agulhas to a reserve trying to save endangered wild dogs. She traces the tangled history of Western missionaries, explorers, and do-gooders in Africa, from Stanley and Livingstone to Teddy Roosevelt, from Bono and the Live Aid festivals to Greg Carr, the American benefactor of Gorongosa. And she examines the larger problems that arise when Westerners try to “fix” complex, messy situations in the developing world, acting with best intentions yet potentially overlooking the wishes of the people who live there. Beneath the uplifting stories we tell ourselves about helping Africans, she shows, often lies a dramatic misunderstanding of what the locals actually need and want. A gripping narrative of environmentalists and insurgents, poachers and tycoons, elephants and angry spirits, White Man’s Game profoundly challenges the way we think about philanthropy and conservation.

Author : Angel Perales
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438947044

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A Woman's Open Door 2a Man's Game by Angel Perales Pdf

This book is a poetic tribute to a beautiful woman. The poems tell the story of the effect that Karen, the beautiful woman, has had on the poet's life. The poems offer a chronological look at the bitter-sweet make-up of love. They express the elation, the sadness, the pain, the depression, the joy, the hope that a great love can evoke. The poems proclaim to Karen and to the world the poet's eternal love! If you have ever been in love-- or if you plan to be-- your heart and mind will understand these poems.

Author : Newton Thornburg
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312859236

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A Man's Game by Newton Thornburg Pdf

Jack Baird takes matters into his own hands when Jimbo Slade, a brutal, coarse killer who has outwitted the police and justice system before, begins to terrorize Jack's teenage daughter Kathy with his threats of sexual violence. By the author of Cutter and Bone.

Author : John Dudley
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817313470

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A Man's Game by John Dudley Pdf

Demonstrates how concepts of masculinity shaped the aesthetic foundations of literary naturalism A Man’s Game explores the development of American literary naturalism as it relates to definitions of manhood in many of the movement’s key texts and the aesthetic goals of writers such as Stephen Crane, Jack London, Frank Norris, Edith Wharton, Charles Chestnutt, and James Weldon Johnson. John Dudley argues that in the climate of the late 19th century, when these authors were penning their major works, literary endeavors were widely viewed as frivolous, the work of ladies for ladies, who comprised the vast majority of the dependable reading public. Male writers such as Crane and Norris defined themselves and their work in contrast to this perception of literature. Women like Wharton, on the other hand, wrote out of a skeptical or hostile reaction to the expectations of them as woman writers. Dudley explores a number of social, historical, and cultural developments that catalyzed the masculine impulse underlying literary naturalism: the rise of spectator sports and masculine athleticism; the professional role of the journalist, adopted by many male writers, allowing them to camouflage their primary role as artist; and post-Darwinian interest in the sexual component of natural selection. A Man’s Game also explores the surprising adoption of a masculine literary naturalism by African American writers at the beginning of the 20th century, a strategy, despite naturalism's emphasis on heredity and genetic determinism, that helped define the black struggle for racial equality

Author : Joy K. King,Mary DeForest
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0865162581

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Woman's Power, Man's Game by Joy K. King,Mary DeForest Pdf

Woman's Power, Man's Game is a revealing and thoughtful analysis of women in antiquity, as portrayed in classical literature. The book features essays by 12 classicists who provide provocative examinations of significant aspects of female situations in antiquity.

Author : M J Tilbrook
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326538606

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A Tale Of Grudge And Gods: A Dead Man's Game by M J Tilbrook Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1850*
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:61396449

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Man's Game by Anonim Pdf

Author : Austin Peterson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595142545

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Television is a Young Man's Game? I'm 94. Why Didn't Somebody Tell Me? by Austin Peterson Pdf

This book is a chronicle of Petserson’s life in radio and television and the people he met along the way; John Steinbeck, Maxwell Anderson, Ralph Edwards, Meredith Wilson, Fred Astaire, Jesse Oppenheimer, Charlie Butterworth, Loretta Young, Fred and Portland Allen, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Frank Sinatra, Jeff Chandler, Bing Crosby, Kay Kyser, Dennis Day, Martin and Lewis, Placido Domingo, Johnny Carson, Steve Allen, Princess Grace etc. It also contains an in-depth description of his experiences writing South Pacific travel guides for Pan Am. (Tahiti, American and Western Samoa, Manu’a Islands of Coming of Age in Samoa fame, Fiji and New Caledonia.)

Author : Roger Caillois
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 025207033X

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Man, Play, and Games by Roger Caillois Pdf

According to Roger Caillois, play is an occasion of pure waste. In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this study, the author defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from the rest of life.

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501143861

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Gerald's Game by Stephen King Pdf

Now a Netflix movie directed by Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Hush) and starring Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood. Master storyteller Stephen King presents this classic, terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller. When a game of seduction between a husband and wife ends in death, the nightmare has only begun… “And now the voice which spoke belonged to no one but herself. Oh my God, it said. Oh my God, I am all alone out here. I am all alone.” Once again, Jessie Burlingame has been talked into submitting to her husband Gerald’s kinky sex games—something that she’s frankly had enough of, and they never held much charm for her to begin with. So much for a “romantic getaway” at their secluded summer home. After Jessie is handcuffed to the bedposts—and Gerald crosses a line with his wife—the day ends with deadly consequences. Now Jessie is utterly trapped in an isolated lakeside house that has become her prison—and comes face-to-face with her deepest, darkest fears and memories. Her only company is that of the various voices filling her mind…as well as the shadows of nightfall that may conceal an imagined or very real threat right there with her…

Author : Iain M. Banks
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748110063

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The Player Of Games by Iain M. Banks Pdf

The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre. 'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson The Culture - a utopian human-machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many expert Game Players, and one of the greatest is Jernau Morat Gurgeh. He is Master of every board, computer and strategy - he is The Player of Games. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the cruel and incredibly wealthy Empire of Azad to try their infamous game . . . a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh plays the game, and faces the challenge of his life - and very possibly his death. Praise for the Culture series: 'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday 'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian 'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman 'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The Culture series: Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata The State of the Art Other books by Iain M. Banks: Against a Dark Background Feersum Endjinn The Algebraist Also now available: The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.

Author : Mike Knowles
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770902091

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Never Play Another Man's Game by Mike Knowles Pdf

Following the first three installments in the mafia enforcer's adventures, this whodunit finds Wilson taking up with his old partner, Ruby. The pair set out to take down an armored car carrying a huge payday, but there's one problem--Ruby's kid Rick is the one who scouted the job, and he wants in on the deal. Despite his misgivings about Rick, Wilson signs on with the condition that he runs the job. The heist is a success, but the antihero soon finds himself at the heart of a double cross, learning the hard way that honor among thieves is a myth. Packed with suspense and surprising twists, this novel adds yet another ruthless chapter to the celebrated Wilson Mystery series.

Author : Paul Davies
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781785657962

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Marvel's Spider-Man: The Art of the Game by Paul Davies Pdf

An exclusive look at the art and creation of the PS4 exclusive videogame Marvel's Spider-Man. An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Marvel's Spider-Man. The worlds of Peter Parker and Spider-Man collide in the action-packed Marvel's Spider-Man videogame exclusively on the PS4. Marvel's Spider-Man: The Art of the Game is packed with hundreds of exclusive full-colour images of Spider-Man, his suit and equipment, the allies he relies on like MJ Watson and Aunt May, and the deadly villains he battles. This wealth of material is accompanied by exclusive insight into the creative process from the talented developers, artists, and designers responsible for bringing Spider-Man's world to vivid life.