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Taxi English Edition
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Author : Khaled Al Khamissi
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-03-15
Taxi English Edition written by Khaled Al Khamissi and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-15 with categories.
A best-selling modern masterpiece in the author's home country of Egypt, Taxi consists of fifty-eight fictional monologues with Cairo taxi drivers that have been recreated from the author's own experience, taking the reader on a roller-coaster of emotions as bumpy and noisy as the city's potholed and chaotic streets. Described as an urban sociology, an ethnography, a classic of oral history - and a work of poetry in motion - it tells Herculean tales of the struggle for survival and dignity among Greater Cairo's 80,000 cab drivers.
Taxi Driver
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Author : Amy Taubin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-07-25
Taxi Driver written by Amy Taubin and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-25 with Art categories.
Paul Schrader was in meltdown in 1972. Drinking heavily, living in his car, he was hospitalised with a gastric ulcer. There he read about Arthur Bremer's attempt to assassinate Alabama Governor George Wallace: the story was the germ of his screenplay for Taxi Driver (1976). Executives at Columbia hated the script, but when Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, who were flying high after the triumphs of Mean Streets (1973) and The Godfather Part II (1974), signed up, Taxi Driver became too good a package to refuse. Scorsese transformed the script into what is now considered one of the two or three definitive films of the 1970s. De Niro is mesmerising as Travis Bickle – pent-up, bigoted, steadily slipping into psychosis, the personification of American masculinity post-Vietnam. Cybill Shepherd and Jodie Foster give fine support and Scorsese brought in Bernard Herrmann, the greatest of film composers, to write what turned out to be his last score. Crucially, Scorsese rooted Taxi Driver in its New York locations, tuning the film's violence into the hard reality of the city. Technically thrilling though it is, Taxi Driver is profoundly disturbing – finding, as Amy Taubin shows, racism, misogyny and gun fetishism at the heart of American culture. In her foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Amy Taubin considers Taxi Driver anew in the context of contemporary politics of race and masculinity in the US, and draws on an exclusive interview with Robert De Niro about his memories of making the film.
Taxi Driver Wisdom
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Author : Risa Mickenberg
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2016-07-19
Taxi Driver Wisdom written by Risa Mickenberg and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-19 with Humor categories.
“Insights on love, pleasure, fate, and other topics” collected from conversations with New York City cabbies (AM New York). The worse a town’s economy is, the better looking the guys who work at the local gas station are. I see more of what is going on around me because I am not concerned with finding a parking place. There is no chivalry. For that you have to go upstate. Real taxi drivers know more than how to get you there without a GPS—often, they know how to get you there in life. This twentieth anniversary edition of the wise and hilarious classic, as true now as ever, is a celebration of the witty, philosophical perspective on human nature culled from real quotations from real cab drivers who’ve been around the block.
Taxi Spanish Edition
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Author : Carlos Zanon
language : es
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2020-05-19
Taxi Spanish Edition written by Carlos Zanon and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-19 with Fiction categories.
Un taxista melancólico y mujeriego hará lo posible por no regresar a casa ante el temor a que su mujer quiera dejarlo. «Tenemos que hablar», le dice Lola a su marido durante el desayuno. Él le responde que lo harán por la noche, cuando acabe su jornada en el taxi. Sandino es un hombre melancólico, que duda en regresar a casa porque teme que Lola, harta de sus infidelidades, lo deje. No está muy seguro de si desea que eso suceda, como tampoco sabe si le gusta ser taxista, si es capaz de querer a alguien o si todo consiste en seguir rodando y chocando, como una bola en una mesa de billar llamada Barcelona. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A melancholy and womanizing taxi driver will do anything not to go back home out of fear that his wife wants to leave him. "We have to talk," Lola tells her husband at breakfast. He responds that they will tonight, when his driving shift is over. Sandino is a melancholy man who hesitates going home because he's afraid that Lola, sick of his infidelities, will leave him. He's not so sure he wants that to happen, like he also isn't sure if he likes being a taxi driver, if he's capable of loving someone or if everything consists in rolling around and colliding, like a ball on a pool table called Barcelona.
Streetwise
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Author : Diego Gambetta
language : en
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Release Date : 2005-06-30
Streetwise written by Diego Gambetta and has been published by Russell Sage Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-30 with Political Science categories.
A taxi driver's life is dangerous work. Picking up a bad customer can leave the driver in a vulnerable position, and erring even once can prove fatal. To protect themselves, taxi drivers must quickly and accurately assess the trustworthiness of complete strangers. In Streetwise, Diego Gambetta and Heather Hamill take this predicament as a prototypical example of many trust decisions, where people must act on limited information and judge another person's trustworthiness based on signs that may or may not be honest indicators of that person's character or intent. Gambetta and Hamill analyze the behavior of cabbies in two cities where driving a taxi is especially perilous: New York City, where drivers have been the targets of frequent and violent robberies, and Belfast, Northern Ireland, a divided metropolis where drivers have been swept up in the region's sectarian violence. Based on in-depth ethnographic research, Streetwise lets drivers describe in their own words how they seek to determine the threat posed by each potential passenger. The drivers' decisions about whom to trust are treated in conjunction with the "sign-management" strategies of their prospective passengers—both genuine passengers who try to persuade drivers of their trustworthiness and the villains who mimic them. As the theory that guides this research suggests, drivers look for signs that correlate closely with trustworthiness but are difficult for an impostor to mimic. A smile, a business suit, or a skullcap alone do not reassure drivers, as any criminal could easily wear them. Only if attached to other signs—a middle-aged woman, a business address, or a synagogue—are they persuasive. Drivers are adept at deciphering deceitful signals, but trickery is occasionally undetectable, so they must adopt defensive strategies to minimize their exposure to harm. In Belfast, where drivers are locals and often have histories of paramilitary involvement, "macho" posturing often serves to deter would-be criminals, while New York cabbies, mostly immigrants who view themselves as outsiders, try simply to minimize the damage from attacks by appeasing robbers and carrying only small amounts of cash. For most people, erring in a trust decision leads to a broken heart or a few dollars lost. For cab drivers, such an error could mean losing their lives. The way drivers negotiate these high stakes offers us vivid insight into how to determine another person's trustworthiness. Written with clarity and color, Streetwise invites the reader to ride shotgun with cabbies as they grapple with a question of relevance to us all: which signs of trustworthiness can we really trust? A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust
Financial Accounting English Edition
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Author : Dr. Divya Agrawal
language : en
Publisher: Thakur Publication Private Limited
Release Date : 2022-01-06
Financial Accounting English Edition written by Dr. Divya Agrawal and has been published by Thakur Publication Private Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-06 with Education categories.
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The Caretaker
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Author : A. X. Ahmad
language : en
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Release Date : 2013-05-21
The Caretaker written by A. X. Ahmad and has been published by Minotaur Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-21 with Fiction categories.
Who is the caretaker hiding in the shadows of the Martha's Vineyard mansions he tends? Back in India, Ranjit Singh commanded an elite army squad. But that was years ago, before his Army career ended in dishonor, shattering his reputation. Driven from his homeland, he is now a caretaker on the exclusive resort island of Martha's Vineyard, looking after the vacation homes of the rich and powerful. One harsh winter, faced with no other choice, he secretly moves his family into the house of one of his clients, an African-American Senator. Here, his wife and daughter are happy, and he feels safe for the first time in ages. But Ranjit's idyll is shattered when mysterious men break into the house. Pursued and hunted, Ranjit is forced to enter the Senator's shadowy world, and his only ally is Anna, the Senator's beautiful wife, who has secrets of her own. Together, they uncover a trail of deception that leads from the calm shores of the Vineyard to countries half a world away. And when his investigation stirs up long forgotten events, the caretaker must finally face the one careless decision that ruined his life- and forced him to leave India. A gripping tale of hidden histories, political intrigue and dangerous attractions, A. X. Ahmad's The Caretaker introduces a new hero for our times: an immigrant caught between two worlds and a man caught between two loves.
Taxi
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Author : Graham Russell Gao Hodges
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2020-03-17
Taxi written by Graham Russell Gao Hodges and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with History categories.
Why the cabdriver is the real victim of the false promises of Uber and the gig economy. 2007 Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Princeton University Industrial Relations Section Hailed in its first edition as a classic study of New York City's history and people, Graham Russell Gao Hodges's Taxi! is a remarkable evocation of the forgotten history of the taxi driver. This deftly woven narrative captures the spirit of New York City cabdrivers and their hardscrabble struggle to capture a piece of the American dream. From labor unrest and racial strife to ruthless competition and political machinations, Hodges recounts this history through contemporary news accounts, Hollywood films, and the words of the cabbies themselves. A new preface recalls the author's five years of hacking in New York City in the early 1970s, and a new concluding chapter explores the rise of app-based ridesharing services with the arrival of companies like Uber and Lyft. Sharply criticizing the use of the independent contractor model that is the cornerstone of Uber and the gig economy, Hodges argues that the explosion of for-hire vehicles in Manhattan reversed decades of environmental anti-congestion efforts. He calls for a return to the careful regulations that governed taxicabs for decades and provided a modest yet secure living for cabbies. Whether or not you've ever hailed a cab on Broadway, Taxi! provides a fascinating perspective on New York's most colorful emissaries.
English Fragments
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Author : Martin Corless-Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
English Fragments written by Martin Corless-Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Poetry categories.
The final volume in a trilogy of alternate selves and alternate literary histories
Noddy And The New Taxi
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Author : Enid Blyton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-06
Noddy And The New Taxi written by Enid Blyton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06 with Noddy (Fictitious character) categories.
Those naughty goblins have started a rival taxi firm - and it's free! Not only that, but they have some nasty tricks to put poor Noddy out of business. But, luckily, Big-Ears has an idea to keep Noddy on the road.