Strange People In Miami
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Strange People In Miami
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Author : Fiorentina Giannotta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Strange People In Miami written by Fiorentina Giannotta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Art categories.
We Embrace The World
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Author : Elena Kalugina
language : en
Publisher: Litres
Release Date : 2022-05-15
We Embrace The World written by Elena Kalugina and has been published by Litres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-15 with Travel categories.
This book was born out of a diary we kept during a thirty-six-day trip around the world. To get to all the places that we dreamed of, we had to get on 19 flights, passing 65 thousand kilometers, 7 thousand kilometers driven by car and 360 kilometers travelled on foot.
I Am Sorry To Think I Have Raised A Timid Son
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Author : Kent Russell
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2015-03-10
I Am Sorry To Think I Have Raised A Timid Son written by Kent Russell and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-10 with Literary Collections categories.
From one of the most ferociously brilliant and distinctive young voices in literary nonfiction: a debut shot through with violence, comedy, and feverish intensity that takes us on an odyssey into an American netherworld, exposing a raw personal journey along the way. Locked in battle with both his adult appetites and his most private childhood demons, Kent Russell hungers for immersive experience and revelation, and his essays take us to society’s ragged edges, the junctures between savagery and civilization. He pitches a tent at an annual four-day music festival in Illinois, among the misunderstood, thick-as-thieves fans who self-identify as Juggalos. He treks to the end of the continent to visit a legendary hockey enforcer, the granddaddy of all tough guys, to see how he’s preparing for his last foe: obsolescence. He spends a long weekend getting drunk with a self-immunizer who is willing to prove he has conditioned his body to withstand the bites of the most venomous snakes. He insinuates himself with a modern-day Robinson Crusoe on a tiny atoll off the coast of Australia. He explores the Amish obsession with baseball, and his own obsession with horror, blood, and guts. And in the piercing interstitial meditations between these essays, Russell introduces us to his own raging and inimitable forebears. I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son, blistering and deeply personal, records Russell’s quest to understand, through his journalistic subjects, his own appetites and urges, his persistent alienation, and, above all, his knotty, volatile, vital relationship with his father. In a narrative that can be read as both a magnificent act of literary mythmaking and a howl of filial despair, Russell gives us a haunting and unforgettable portrait of an America—and a paradigm of American malehood—we have never before seen.
Miami
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Author : T. D. Allman
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2013-09-03
Miami written by T. D. Allman and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-03 with History categories.
With trenchant observations and witty prose, T. D. Allman takes readers on a tour of Miami's people, cultures, politics, and neighborhoods. In doing so he lays out a portrait of the profound changes overtaking American life everywhere. This twenty-fifth-anniversary edition remains a classic guide to a city teeming with money, exotic cargo, illegal drugs, and immigrants from all corners of the globe. As readers of this long-time bestseller have always appreciated, this also is a prophetic book--describing an emerging new America that, today, is all around us, whatever city or suburb or gated community we call home.
Langston Hughes And The Chicago Defender
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Author : Langston Hughes
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2022-10-17
Langston Hughes And The Chicago Defender written by Langston Hughes and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-17 with Social Science categories.
Langston Hughes is well known as a poet, playwright, novelist, social activist, communist sympathizer, and brilliant member of the Harlem Renaissance. He has been referred to as the "Dean of Black Letters" and the "poet low-rate of Harlem." But it was as a columnist for the famous African-American newspaper the Chicago Defender that Hughes chronicled the hopes and despair of his people. For twenty years, he wrote forcefully about international race relations, Jim Crow, the South, white supremacy, imperialism and fascism, segregation in the armed forces, the Soviet Union and communism, and African-American art and culture. None of the racial hypocrisies of American life escaped his searing, ironic prose. This is the first collection of Hughes's nonfiction journalistic writings. For readers new to Hughes, it is an excellent introduction; for those familiar with him, it gives new insights into his poems and fiction.
Miami S Criminal Past
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Author : Sergio Bustos
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2007-11-01
Miami S Criminal Past written by Sergio Bustos and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with Photography categories.
From Scarface to Miami Vice, Hollywood has created indelible images of Miamis criminal underworld. Yet beyond the lurid depictions exists a fascinating history of dramatic true-life crimestales of vigilante justice, family tragedies, politically motivated homicides and rampageous cross-country killers. And of course, the inevitable stories of celebrities behaving badlyas when Jim Morrison allegedly exposed himself during a 1969 Doors concertalong with accounts of celebrity murders, such as the shocking 1997 slaying of fashion designer Gianni Versace. Edgy and compulsively readable, Miamis Criminal Past presents the dark acts that have marred Floridas most alluring metropolis.
Paraffin Chronicles
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Author : Herb Torrens
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2003
Paraffin Chronicles written by Herb Torrens and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Did you ever wonder what it was like to be a surfer in the 1960s? Would you like to experience a magical ride through a decade when surfing grew from an idyllic past-time to a world-wide phenomenon? Experience what it was like to ride the waves of California and Hawaii at a time when surfing reinvented itself on an almost daily basis. Take a journey through time with Paraffin Chronicles and find out how movies, magazines, competition and innovation changed forever the ancient rite of surfing. Paraffin Chronicles is a first-hand account of one the most exciting and dynamic decades in surfing history. Told by noted surfer "Herbie" Torrens, the story chronicles the dramatic changes in surfing and surfing culture between 1960 and 1970. Growing up in Newport Beach, California, Torrens shares his experience of battling through the ranks of surfdom, from scrawny wanna-be gremmie to the cover of Surfer Magazine. Along the way we meet many of the legends of the day, and experience the dawning of an age. From the introduction of wetsuits to the pure expression of short-board surfing, Paraffin Chronicles gives us a water-level glimpse of a surfer's journey through life. You can contact the author at [email protected]
Ordinary Girls
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Author : Jaquira Díaz
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-10-29
Ordinary Girls written by Jaquira Díaz and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
One of the Must-Read Books of 2019 According to O: The Oprah Magazine * Time * Bustle * Electric Literature * Publishers Weekly * The Millions * The Week * Good Housekeeping “There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Julia Alvarez In this searing memoir, Jaquira Díaz writes fiercely and eloquently of her challenging girlhood and triumphant coming of age. While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, Díaz found herself caught between extremes. As her family split apart and her mother battled schizophrenia, she was supported by the love of her friends. As she longed for a family and home, her life was upended by violence. As she celebrated her Puerto Rican culture, she couldn’t find support for her burgeoning sexual identity. From her own struggles with depression and sexual assault to Puerto Rico’s history of colonialism, every page of Ordinary Girls vibrates with music and lyricism. Díaz writes with raw and refreshing honesty, triumphantly mapping a way out of despair toward love and hope to become her version of the girl she always wanted to be. Reminiscent of Tara Westover’s Educated, Kiese Laymon’s Heavy, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club, and Terese Marie Mailhot’s Heart Berries, Jaquira Díaz’s memoir provides a vivid portrait of a life lived in (and beyond) the borders of Puerto Rico and its complicated history—and reads as electrically as a novel.
Global Language Justice
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Author : Lydia H. Liu
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2023-11-21
Global Language Justice written by Lydia H. Liu and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
More than 40 percent of the world’s estimated 7,100+ languages are in danger of disappearing by the end of this century. As with the decline of biodiversity, language loss has been attributed to environmental degradation, developmentalism, and the destruction of Indigenous communities. This book brings together leading experts and younger scholars across the humanities and social sciences to investigate what global language justice looks like in a time of climate crisis. Examining the worldwide loss of linguistic diversity, they develop a new conception of justice to safeguard marginalized languages. Global Language Justice explores the socioeconomic transformations that both accelerate the decline of minoritized languages and give rise to new possibilities through population movement, unexpected encounters, and technological change. It also critically examines the concepts that are typically deployed to defend linguistic diversity, including human rights, inclusiveness, and equality. Contributors take up topics such as mapping language communities in New York City or how Indigenous innovation challenges notions of linguistic purity. They demonstrate the need to reckon with linguistic diversity in order to achieve a sustainable global economic system and show how the concept of digital vitality can push language justice in new directions. Interspersed with their essays are multilingual works by world-renowned poets and artists that engage with and deepen the book’s themes. Integrating ambitious theoretical exploration with concrete solutions, Global Language Justice offers vital new perspectives on the place of linguistic diversity in ongoing ecological crises.
Chronicles Of The Strange And Uncanny In Florida
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Author : Greg Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
Release Date : 2010-10-15
Chronicles Of The Strange And Uncanny In Florida written by Greg Jenkins and has been published by Pineapple Press Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-15 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Chronicles of the Strange and Uncanny in Florida explores the unknown for those who wish to look beyond the confines of everyday life to discover the truly unusual. It explores Florida's darker avenues for evidence of the extraordinary and the fantastic. Investigate sightings of flying saucers, extraterrestrials, and strange aerial phenomena. Meet skunk apes, chupacabras, and other creatures of the night. And in Florida's lakes and seas, meet aquatic abnormalities like sea monsters, the Everglades water serpent, and the three-toed beast of Clearwater Beach.