Автор: Silverberg Robert Название: Downward to the Earth ISBN: 1473211921 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781473211926 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 11120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: One man alone in an alien landscape - SF`s HEART OF DARKNESS by one of the field`s acknowledged greats.
Автор: Vilga, Edward Название: Downward dog ISBN: 162681323X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781626813236 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 13790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
"What Karl Lagerfeld is to fashion, Edward Vilga is to yoga. He has poured his years of experience into this sexy, charming and well-written escapade." -Simon Doonan, author of BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
A study in love, loss, and sexual misadventures in New York City, DOWNWARD DOG tells the tale of a handsome Bad Boy who becomes a yoga instructor while trying to redeem his womanizing ways and win the forgiveness of the only woman he's ever really loved.
Down on his luck thanks to a failed nightlife venture which fell apart because of his womanizing, our hero's stuck with massive debt and broken dreams.
His only safe haven is the yoga world, and when his well-connected best buddy launches his yoga career among NYC's elite, our working class hero becomes a guru to society's top 1%, a wolf let loose amongst a flock of comely sheep.
"DOWNWARD DOG is the book you can't put down. It's liKe Bukowski meets THE NANNY DIARIES. Filled with humor, seduction, love and humanity, I highly, joyfully recommend it." -Amy Ahlers, author of BIG FAT LIES WOMEN TELL THEMSELVES
"DOWNWARD DOG is not only a sexy/funny page turner, it also shares the emotional journey of one Bad Boy's transformation and romantic redemption." -Chip Conley, founder of Joie de Vivre Hotels and bestselling author of PEAK
"I love this luscious book! It made me want to fall madly in love while also doing more yoga!"-SARK, bestselling author of SUCCULENT WILD WOMAN
Автор: Binhammer, Katherine, Название: Downward mobility : ISBN: 1421437619 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781421437613 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 40260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
How do the stories we tell about money shape our economies?
Beginning in the late eighteenth century, as constant growth became the economic norm throughout Europe, fictional stories involving money were overwhelmingly about loss. Novel after novel tells the tale of bankruptcy and financial failure, of people losing everything and ending up in debtor's prison, of inheritances lost and daughters left orphaned and poor. In Downward Mobility, Katherine Binhammer argues that these stories of ruin are not simple tales about the losers of capitalism but narratives that help manage speculation of capital's inevitable collapse.
Bringing together contemporary critical finance studies with eighteenth-century literary history, Binhammer demonstrates the centrality of the myth of downward mobility to the cultural history of capitalism--and to the emergence of the novel in Britain. Deftly weaving economic history and formal analysis, Binhammer reveals how capitalism requires the novel's complex techniques to render infinite economic growth imaginable. She also explains why the novel's signature formal developments owe their narrative dynamics to the contradictions within capital's form.
Combining new archival research on the history of debt with original readings of sentimental novels, including Frances Burney's Cecilia and Camilla, Sarah Fielding's David Simple, and Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield, Downward Mobility registers the value of literary narrative in interpreting the complex sequences behind financial capitalism, especially the belief in infinite growth that has led to current environmental crises. An audacious epilogue arms humanists with the argument that, in order to save the planet from unsustainable growth, we need to read more novels.
Автор: Judge MD John R. Название: Downward Descent: Further Musings on a Misspent Youth ISBN: 1977200931 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781977200938 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 12700.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Dr. Judge served as a combat military physician during the Vietnam war. He subsequently was an N.I.H. fellow for two years, researching Viral Oncology and then embarked on a 40 plus year career as a practicing anatomic and clinical pathologist and department head, while also acquiring a law degree because of his interest in forensics. Most of the essays in this book were the result of his career-long, sporadic engagements with the federal government in attempting to obtain approval and care for military service veterans for illnesses connected with their service and the frustration and difficulties this often entailed. He also fought for bureaucratic recognition of what pathologists contribute to their medical colleagues' practices and their patients.
Автор: Harding Warren, Knauth Beryl Название: Downward Bound: A Mad! Guide to Rock Climbing ISBN: 1940777410 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781940777412 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 39170.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
Downward Bound is Warren Harding's offbeat and inventive climbing classic. Harding gives readers an introduction to climbing and recounts his first ascents of the Nose and the Wall of the Early Morning Light on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley. The introduction to rock climbing and big walls is farcical. The tales of his ascents are vivid. And throughout he strives to return some of the fun to climbing through humorous story telling of the climbing culture of the 60s and 70s. Downward Bound is a testament to the rebellious and magnetic Batso. Excpert: Why do people climb? How the hell do I know? Answers to this perennial question range from Mallory's rather facetious (I think) "Because it's there" to (again) Mallory's enigmatic "If you ask the question, there can be no answer." Personally, I dig another version of Mallory's statement. Like, "We climb because it's there and we're mad " How else could you explain freezing your ass off, battling heat and thirst, scaring yourself to death just to get up some rock face or mountain peak. Rock climbing is especially questionable in this respect. In basic mountain climbing the object is to reach the summit by any or the easiest route possible. In rock climbing it's not really necessary to reach a summit; the game seems to amount to finding the most difficult ways of getting nowhere.
Автор: White Bethan Название: Downward ISBN: 0995452105 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780995452107 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 16080.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE 2016 There is nothing extraordinary about Chris Rowan. Each day he wakes to the same faces, has the same breakfast, the same commute, the same sort of homes he tries to rent out to unsuspecting tenants. There is nothing extraordinary about Chris Rowan. That is apart from the black dog that haunts his nightmares and an unexpected encounter with a long forgotten demon from his past. A nudge that will send Chris on his own downward spiral, from which there may be no escape. There is nothing extraordinary about Chris Rowan...
Автор: O`Connell Tom Название: Upward & Downward Mobility: A Work Memoir ISBN: 0982776616 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780982776612 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 18930.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In a candid, informal style, writer Tom O'Connell traces his work life from his early days in the 1930s and 1940s as an orphan in a Catholic Charities group home upward to top leadership roles in Massachusetts. He recalls challenging careers as CEO, educator, writer, columnist, host of public affairs show "It's Your Life" on Boston's Channel 25. People known nationally and locally emerge in this book: Entertainer Victor Borge, Gov. John Volpe, Gov. Mike Dukakis, TV Newsman Dick Flavin, Boston Globe Cartoonist Paul Szep, Gov. Frank Sargent, Mayor Kevin White, City Councilor Dapper O'Neil. The memoir takes the reader on a roller coaster ride of job searches and major achievements as he moves upward from Granny's house next to the railroad tracks to appointment to the Governor's Highway Safety Committee, CEO of Massachusetts Safety Council, inclusion in Who's Who in the East, and selection in Cape Cod Life's 25th Anniversary Issue as "one of the top 100 influential people" on Cape Cod. From heights of upward mobility and success, O'Connell also reveals periods when he plummeted from those heights into times of downward mobility when faced with divorce, illness, bankruptcy and other challenges. "Tom re-creates the 'Anything is Possible' myth of American culture after World War II." -W.A. Cole, Book Reviewer "It's the lone wolf story of a soul who will not sacrifice his values." -Dr. Finbarr Corr, Author, Therapist, Professor
Автор: Lord Dan Название: By the Downward Way: Book One of the Von Koppersmith Saga ISBN: 0692318216 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692318218 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 18330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The 3rd and final edition of the original. Leo Von Koppersmith is determined to face down the family curse that for centuries has driven his male ancestors to madness. To do it, he will have to travel to a hidden island inhabited by a strange and wonderful cast of human and humanoid characters, help protect a tribe of children who have mysteriously fallen out of the sky, and evade the monstrous beings that hunt them. Above all, he will have to be the one thing that has been missing from his family since the beginning long ago: a loyal father.
