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Author | : Gunnar Olsson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 569 |
Release | : 2010-03-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226629325 |
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People rely on reason to think about and navigate the abstract world of human relations in much the same way they rely on maps to study and traverse the physical world. Starting from that simple observation, renowned geographer Gunnar Olsson offers in Abysmal an astonishingly erudite critique of the way human thought and action have become deeply immersed in the rhetoric of cartography and how this cartographic reasoning allows the powerful to map out other people’s lives. A spectacular reading of Western philosophy, religion, and mythology that draws on early maps and atlases, Plato, Kant, and Wittgenstein, Thomas Pynchon, Gilgamesh, and Marcel Duchamp, Abysmal is itself a minimalist guide to the terrain of Western culture. Olsson roams widely but always returns to the problems inherent in reason, to question the outdated assumptions and fixed ideas that thinking cartographically entails. A work of ambition, scope, and sharp wit, Abysmal will appeal to an eclectic audience—to geographers and cartographers, but also to anyone interested in the history of ideas, culture, and art.
Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Boxers (Sports) |
ISBN | : |
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Tale of the corruption of prize fighting -- and the one young fighter who dared to stand up against it!
Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780803279940 |
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Before anyone knew there was such a thing, Jack London gave us the natural: Young Pat Glendon has never drunk alcohol nor tasted tobacco. He loves nature, is afraid of cities, and is shy of women. And he is a perfect fighter. Summoned from the city to consider such a prospect, cynical Sam Stubener, manager of prize-fighters, is struck by the boy?s extraordinary athletic grace?and soon man and boy are off to San Francisco to take on the heavyweight world. The Abysmal Brute is the story of natural grace pitted against worldly brutishness. A subtle social drama played out in the arena of sport?in a day long before sport moved to the center of American culture?it is also a rousing romantic tale in the tradition of one of our great storytellers. As Pat hones his skill?and his curious style?on one champion fighter after another, he contends for the heart of a lovely admirer and for the soul of professional boxing, whose rampant corruption his blows expose.
Author | : Angela B. Moorjani |
Publisher | : Unc Department of Romance Studies |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Volume 219 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.
Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : Lindhardt og Ringhof |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2022-03-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8726564084 |
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Pat Glendon Jr. is a promising boxer who has spent his entire life quietly away from much of society, spending his time hunting, reading poetry and hiking. When Sam Steubner a boxing promoter takes him on he quickly rises through the ranks, knocking opponents out at will. However the world of boxing is not as honest as it shows itself to be and soon Pat must reckon with this corruption himself. He begins to distance himself from society seeing it as a corrupt, that is until the ‘Abysmal Brute’ falls in love. It is a fantastic novel, emblematic of London’s amazing descriptive talents and world building that would make a perfect read for anyone who loved ‘Rocky’ or Michael B. Jordan’s ‘Creed’. Jack London (1876–1916) was a pioneer, novelist, journalist and social activist. London was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity thanks to his pioneering work in commercial fiction and magazines. Additionally he is accredited as a major innovator in the genre we now know as science fiction. Growing up in a working class background and spending several years homeless, he was a passionate fighter for workers’ rights, socialism, unionisation and animal rights. He would go on to be one of the highest paid authors in America thanks to his classics such as ‘Call of the Wild’, ‘White fang’ and ‘Sea Wolf’.
Author | : Lindsey McDivitt |
Publisher | : Sleeping Bear Press |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2018-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1534126457 |
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2019 Green Earth Book Awards - Long List The art and writing of Gwen Frostic are well known in her home state of Michigan and around the world, but this picture book biography tells the story behind Gwen's famous work. After a debilitating illness as a child, Gwen sought solace in art and nature. She learned to be persistent and independent--never taking no for an answer or letting her disabilities define her. After creating artwork for famous Detroiters and for display at the World's Fair and helping to build WWII bombers, Gwen moved her printmaking business to northern Michigan. She dedicated her work and her life to reminding people of the wonder and beauty in nature.
Author | : Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 794 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Electronic journals |
ISBN | : |
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Vols. for 1893-1923 includes section: "Reviews."
Author | : Ernest Cline |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2015-07-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0804137269 |
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From the author of Ready Player One, a rollicking alien invasion thriller that embraces and subverts science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could. Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. And too often, he catches himself wishing that some fantastic, impossible, world-altering event could arrive to whisk him off on a grand spacefaring adventure. So when he sees the flying saucer, he's sure his years of escapism have finally tipped over into madness. Especially because the alien ship he's staring at is straight out of his favorite videogame, a flight simulator callled Armada--in which gamers just happen to be protecting Earth from alien invaders. As impossible as it seems, what Zack's seeing is all too real. And it's just the first in a blur of revlations that will force him to question everything he thought he knew about Earth's history, its future, even his own life--and to play the hero for real, with humanity's life in the balance. But even through the terror and exhilaration, he can't help thinking: Doesn't something about this scenario feel a little bit like...well...fiction? At once reinventing and paying homage to science-fiction classics as only Ernest Cline can, Armada is a rollicking, surprising thriller, a coming-of-age adventure, and an alien invasion tale like nothing you've ever read before.
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Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Social problems |
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Author | : Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : |
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