Author: Edwin K. Niles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781642340839
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Adventures in Ferrari-Land Set contains: 1 X Adventures in Ferrari-Land Vol 1 9781642340822 1 X Adventures in Ferrari-Land Vol. 2 9781642340846
Adventures in Ferrari-Land Set
Author: Edwin K. Niles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781642340839
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Adventures in Ferrari-Land Set contains: 1 X Adventures in Ferrari-Land Vol 1 9781642340822 1 X Adventures in Ferrari-Land Vol. 2 9781642340846
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781642340839
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Adventures in Ferrari-Land Set contains: 1 X Adventures in Ferrari-Land Vol 1 9781642340822 1 X Adventures in Ferrari-Land Vol. 2 9781642340846
Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China
Author: Haun Saussy
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684173728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"China" and "the West," "us" and "them," the "subject" and the "non-subject"--these and other dualisms furnish China watchers, both inside and outside China, with a pervasive, ready-made set of definitions immune to empirical disproof. But what does this language of essential difference accomplish? The essays in this book are an attempt to cut short the recitation of differences and to answer this question. In six interpretive studies of China, the author examines the ways in which the networks of assumption and consensus that make communication possible within a discipline affect collective thinking about the object of study. Among other subjects, these essays offer a historical and historiographical introduction to the problem of comparison and deal with translation, religious proselytization, semiotics, linguistics, cultural bilingualism, writing systems, the career of postmodernism in China, and the role of China as an imaginary model for postmodernity in the West. Against the reigning simplifications, these essays seek to restore the interpretation of China to the complexity and impurity of the historical situations in which it is always caught. The chief goal of the essays in this book is not to expose errors in interpreting China but to use these misunderstandings as a basis for devising better methodologies for comparative studies.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684173728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"China" and "the West," "us" and "them," the "subject" and the "non-subject"--these and other dualisms furnish China watchers, both inside and outside China, with a pervasive, ready-made set of definitions immune to empirical disproof. But what does this language of essential difference accomplish? The essays in this book are an attempt to cut short the recitation of differences and to answer this question. In six interpretive studies of China, the author examines the ways in which the networks of assumption and consensus that make communication possible within a discipline affect collective thinking about the object of study. Among other subjects, these essays offer a historical and historiographical introduction to the problem of comparison and deal with translation, religious proselytization, semiotics, linguistics, cultural bilingualism, writing systems, the career of postmodernism in China, and the role of China as an imaginary model for postmodernity in the West. Against the reigning simplifications, these essays seek to restore the interpretation of China to the complexity and impurity of the historical situations in which it is always caught. The chief goal of the essays in this book is not to expose errors in interpreting China but to use these misunderstandings as a basis for devising better methodologies for comparative studies.
Ice Cream Adventures
Author: Stef Ferrari
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 1623366720
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
If Willy Wonka made ice cream instead of chocolate, it would look a lot like the concoctions pastry chef and craft-beer maven Stef Ferrari dreams up--twisted, curious, fun, and radically unique. With inspired flavors like Sage Chocolate Chip, Sriracha Popcorn, and Indian Pale Ale, Ferrari's theory is that almost everything can be turned into ice cream. She has taken the flavors of her favorite ales, cocktails, and meals, and used them to inspire new ice creams, as well as cakes, cookies, shakes, and more. This is not the dessert of your childhood. Featuring more than 70 recipes for ice cream, toppings, and other pairings, Ice Cream Adventures is the essential cookbook for ice cream lovers, adventurous home cooks, and foodies. Each recipe starts with an easy to make base, and Ferrari teaches you how to layer the flavors to create something deliciously different and totally unique.
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 1623366720
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
If Willy Wonka made ice cream instead of chocolate, it would look a lot like the concoctions pastry chef and craft-beer maven Stef Ferrari dreams up--twisted, curious, fun, and radically unique. With inspired flavors like Sage Chocolate Chip, Sriracha Popcorn, and Indian Pale Ale, Ferrari's theory is that almost everything can be turned into ice cream. She has taken the flavors of her favorite ales, cocktails, and meals, and used them to inspire new ice creams, as well as cakes, cookies, shakes, and more. This is not the dessert of your childhood. Featuring more than 70 recipes for ice cream, toppings, and other pairings, Ice Cream Adventures is the essential cookbook for ice cream lovers, adventurous home cooks, and foodies. Each recipe starts with an easy to make base, and Ferrari teaches you how to layer the flavors to create something deliciously different and totally unique.
Funworld
The Adventures of a Hard-up, Diabetic Traveller with a Corn Flake Problem
The Jane Barnaby Adventures Box Set
Author: DiBenedetto J.J. (author)
Publisher: Writing Dreams
ISBN: 1370282923
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 621
Book Description
All archaeology student Jane Barnaby had to do was deliver a box of pottery shards to her professor at his dig site, along with his new car. Yes, his office was in Oxfordshire, and his dig site was in Spain, a trip of 1,400 miles across three countries and two bodies of water. Still, it should have been simple. That is, until everything went wrong.... And it kept on going wrong, all through the first three books of the Jane Barnaby Adventures. Follow Jane in this three-novel box set as she outwits international art thieves, solves a fifty-year-old mystery and chases across Europe in pursuit of a Russian spy.. You'll find action, adventure, intrigue, humor and a little romance, too! This set includes FINDERS KEEPERS, LOSERS WEEPERS and HER BROTHER'S KEEPER.
Publisher: Writing Dreams
ISBN: 1370282923
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 621
Book Description
All archaeology student Jane Barnaby had to do was deliver a box of pottery shards to her professor at his dig site, along with his new car. Yes, his office was in Oxfordshire, and his dig site was in Spain, a trip of 1,400 miles across three countries and two bodies of water. Still, it should have been simple. That is, until everything went wrong.... And it kept on going wrong, all through the first three books of the Jane Barnaby Adventures. Follow Jane in this three-novel box set as she outwits international art thieves, solves a fifty-year-old mystery and chases across Europe in pursuit of a Russian spy.. You'll find action, adventure, intrigue, humor and a little romance, too! This set includes FINDERS KEEPERS, LOSERS WEEPERS and HER BROTHER'S KEEPER.
Stuntman!
Author: Hal Needham
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316122858
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The classic no-holds-barred memoir from Hollywood's most legendary stuntman -- an inspiration for Brad Pitt's character Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood -- is "full of incredible stories as told by a real man of action" (Arnold Schwarzenegger). Yep that's me, Hal Needham, on the cover doing a fire stunt. When you're on fire you don't dare breathe because if you do, you'll suck those flames right down your throat. I was Hollywood's highest paid stuntman so I should know. I wrecked hundreds of cars, fell from tall buildings, got blown up, was dragged by horses, and along the way broke 56 bones, my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth...I hung upside down by my ankles under a bi-plane in The Spirit of St. Louis, jumped between galloping horses in Little Big Man, set a world record for a boat stunt on Gator, jumped a rocket powered pick-up truck across a canal for a GM commercial, was the first human to test the car airbag-and taught John Wayne how to really throw a movie punch. Life also got exciting outside of the movie business. I had my Ferrari stolen right from under my nose, flew in a twin-engine Cessna with a passed out pilot, rescued the cast and crew from a Russian invasion in Czechoslovakia, and once took six flight attendants on a date. I owned the Skoal-Bandit NASCAR race team, the sound-barrier breaking Budweiser Rocket Car and drove a souped-up, fake ambulance in a "little" cross-country race called The Cannonball Run, which became the movie I directed by the same name. Oh yeah, I also directed Smokey and the Bandit, Hooper and several other action/comedy movies that I liked a bunch. I was a sharecropper's son from the hills of Arkansas who became a Hollywood stuntman. That journey was a tough row to hoe. I continually risked my life but that was the career I chose. I was never late to the set and did whatever I had to do to get the job done. Hollywood's not all sunglasses and autographs. Let me tell you a few stories...
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316122858
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The classic no-holds-barred memoir from Hollywood's most legendary stuntman -- an inspiration for Brad Pitt's character Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood -- is "full of incredible stories as told by a real man of action" (Arnold Schwarzenegger). Yep that's me, Hal Needham, on the cover doing a fire stunt. When you're on fire you don't dare breathe because if you do, you'll suck those flames right down your throat. I was Hollywood's highest paid stuntman so I should know. I wrecked hundreds of cars, fell from tall buildings, got blown up, was dragged by horses, and along the way broke 56 bones, my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth...I hung upside down by my ankles under a bi-plane in The Spirit of St. Louis, jumped between galloping horses in Little Big Man, set a world record for a boat stunt on Gator, jumped a rocket powered pick-up truck across a canal for a GM commercial, was the first human to test the car airbag-and taught John Wayne how to really throw a movie punch. Life also got exciting outside of the movie business. I had my Ferrari stolen right from under my nose, flew in a twin-engine Cessna with a passed out pilot, rescued the cast and crew from a Russian invasion in Czechoslovakia, and once took six flight attendants on a date. I owned the Skoal-Bandit NASCAR race team, the sound-barrier breaking Budweiser Rocket Car and drove a souped-up, fake ambulance in a "little" cross-country race called The Cannonball Run, which became the movie I directed by the same name. Oh yeah, I also directed Smokey and the Bandit, Hooper and several other action/comedy movies that I liked a bunch. I was a sharecropper's son from the hills of Arkansas who became a Hollywood stuntman. That journey was a tough row to hoe. I continually risked my life but that was the career I chose. I was never late to the set and did whatever I had to do to get the job done. Hollywood's not all sunglasses and autographs. Let me tell you a few stories...
The Night Of The Mi'raj
Author: Zoe Ferraris
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1405522275
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
When Nouf ash-Shrawi, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy Saudi dynasty, disappears from her home in Jeddah just days before her arranged marriage, desert guide Nayir is asked to bring her home. But when her battered body is found, Nayir feels compelled to uncover the disturbing truth, travelling away from the endless desert to the vast city of Jeddah, where, most troubling of all, Nayir finds himself having to work closely with Katya Hijazi, a forensic scientist. The further into the investigation he goes, the more Nayir finds himself questioning his loyalties: to his friends, faith and culture.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1405522275
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
When Nouf ash-Shrawi, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy Saudi dynasty, disappears from her home in Jeddah just days before her arranged marriage, desert guide Nayir is asked to bring her home. But when her battered body is found, Nayir feels compelled to uncover the disturbing truth, travelling away from the endless desert to the vast city of Jeddah, where, most troubling of all, Nayir finds himself having to work closely with Katya Hijazi, a forensic scientist. The further into the investigation he goes, the more Nayir finds himself questioning his loyalties: to his friends, faith and culture.
The World and London According to Nick Ferrari
Author: Nick Ferrari
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
ISBN: 1857826191
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Nick Ferrari began his media career as a news reporter on the Sunday Mirror before working on a range of newspaper posts including his position as Editor of the News of the World's Sunday magazine and Assistant Editor of The Daily Mirror. He was instrumental in the launch of the Sky News channel. Over the years he has interviewed everyone in the spotlight from Elton John to Arthur Scargill, David Bowie to Gordon Brown. He is currently the host of Nick Ferrari at Breakfast, LBC's award-winning primetime show.
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
ISBN: 1857826191
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Nick Ferrari began his media career as a news reporter on the Sunday Mirror before working on a range of newspaper posts including his position as Editor of the News of the World's Sunday magazine and Assistant Editor of The Daily Mirror. He was instrumental in the launch of the Sky News channel. Over the years he has interviewed everyone in the spotlight from Elton John to Arthur Scargill, David Bowie to Gordon Brown. He is currently the host of Nick Ferrari at Breakfast, LBC's award-winning primetime show.
Rogue Revolutionaries
Author: Vanessa Mongey
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812252551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In 1822, the Mary departed Philadelphia and sailed in the direction of the Spanish colony of Puerto Rico. Like most vessels that navigated the Caribbean, the Mary brought together men who had served under a dozen different flags over the years. Unlike most crews, those aboard the Mary were in a different line of commerce: they exported revolution. In addition to rifles and pistols, the Mary transported a box filled with proclamations announcing the creation of the "Republic of Boricua." This imagined republic rested on one principle: equal rights for all, regardless of birthplace, race, or religion. The leaders of the expedition had never set foot in Puerto Rico. And they never would. When we think of the Age of Revolutions, George Washington, Robespierre, Toussaint Louverture, or Simón Bolívar might come to mind. But Rogue Revolutionaries recovers the interconnected stories of now-forgotten "foreigners of desperate fortune" who dreamt of overthrowing colonial monarchy and creating their own countries. They were not members of the political and economic elite; rather, they were ship captains, military veterans, and enslaved soldiers. As a history of ideas and geopolitics grounded in the narratives of extraordinary lives, Rogue Revolutionaries shows how these men of different nationalities and ethnicities claimed revolution as a universal right and reimagined notions of sovereignty, liberty, and decolonization. In the midst of wars and upheavals, the question of who had the legitimacy to launch a revolution and to start a new country was open to debate. Behind the growing power of nation-states, Mongey uncovers a lost world of radical cosmopolitanism grounded in the pursuit of material interests and personal prestige. In demonstrating that these would-be revolutionaries and their fleeting republics were critical to the creation of a new international order, Mongey reminds us of the importance of attending to failures, dead ends, and the unpredictable nature of history.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812252551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In 1822, the Mary departed Philadelphia and sailed in the direction of the Spanish colony of Puerto Rico. Like most vessels that navigated the Caribbean, the Mary brought together men who had served under a dozen different flags over the years. Unlike most crews, those aboard the Mary were in a different line of commerce: they exported revolution. In addition to rifles and pistols, the Mary transported a box filled with proclamations announcing the creation of the "Republic of Boricua." This imagined republic rested on one principle: equal rights for all, regardless of birthplace, race, or religion. The leaders of the expedition had never set foot in Puerto Rico. And they never would. When we think of the Age of Revolutions, George Washington, Robespierre, Toussaint Louverture, or Simón Bolívar might come to mind. But Rogue Revolutionaries recovers the interconnected stories of now-forgotten "foreigners of desperate fortune" who dreamt of overthrowing colonial monarchy and creating their own countries. They were not members of the political and economic elite; rather, they were ship captains, military veterans, and enslaved soldiers. As a history of ideas and geopolitics grounded in the narratives of extraordinary lives, Rogue Revolutionaries shows how these men of different nationalities and ethnicities claimed revolution as a universal right and reimagined notions of sovereignty, liberty, and decolonization. In the midst of wars and upheavals, the question of who had the legitimacy to launch a revolution and to start a new country was open to debate. Behind the growing power of nation-states, Mongey uncovers a lost world of radical cosmopolitanism grounded in the pursuit of material interests and personal prestige. In demonstrating that these would-be revolutionaries and their fleeting republics were critical to the creation of a new international order, Mongey reminds us of the importance of attending to failures, dead ends, and the unpredictable nature of history.