We Could Be Heroes, Finnegan Margaret

Автор: Finnegan William
Название: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
ISBN: 0143109391 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143109396
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: **Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography**

"Reading this guy on the subject of waves and water is like reading Hemingway on bullfighting; William Burroughs on controlled substances; Updike on adultery. . . . a coming-of-age story, seen through the gloss resin coat of a surfboard."--Sports Illustrated

Included in President Obama's 2016 Summer Reading List

Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life.

Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses--off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships forged in challenging waves.

Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly--he drops LSD while riding huge Honolua Bay, on Maui--is served up with rueful humor. As Finnegan's travels take him ever farther afield, he discovers the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissects the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, and navigates the Indonesian black market while nearly succumbing to malaria. Throughout, he surfs, carrying readers with him on rides of harrowing, unprecedented lucidity.

Barbarian Days is an old-school adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, a social history, a literary road movie, and an extraordinary exploration of the gradual mastering of an exacting, little-understood art.

Praise for Barbarian Days

"Without a doubt, the finest surf book I've ever read . . . But on a more fundamental level, Barbarian Days offers a clear-eyed vision of American boyhood. Like Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, it is a sympathetic examination of what happens when literary ideas of freedom and purity take hold of a young mind and fling his body out into the far reaches of the world."--The New York Times Magazine

"Incandescent . . . I'd sooner press this book upon on a nonsurfer, in part because nothing I've read so accurately describes the feeling of being stoked or the despair of being held under. . . . But] it's also about a writer's life and, even more generally, a quester's life, more carefully observed and precisely rendered than any I've read in a long time."--Los Angeles Times

Автор: Finnegan, Ivy
Название: Best Ever Wordsearch for Kids
ISBN: 1398816590 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398816596
Издательство: Arcturus
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Описание: There is a crisis at the farm! Some bales of wool from the sheep shearing have been stolen during the night, and the bad-tempered farmer is threatening to withhold food from all the animals until the theft has been solved.At the request of the Wild Wood Constabulary, the woolly Master Sleuth, Sheared-Locks Holmes, discovers that the caper was an inside job, though his first suspect is subsequently cleared.In a brilliant piece of detective work, and a masterful cross-examination, Sheared-Locks reveals the criminal conspiracy, the animal (and human) culprits are identified, and the case is resolved in poetic style.

Автор: Finnegan William
Название: Barbarian Days
ISBN: 1472151410 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472151414
Издательство: Little Brown
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Цена: 13150.00 T
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Описание: A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer

Автор: Finnegan Terrence J
Название: Shooting the Front
ISBN: 0752499548 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780752499543
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 16630.00 T
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Описание: The First World War demanded revolutionary technology to break the vicious stalemate in which the armies of Europe found themselves as soon as static warfare became established. In the critical world of military intelligence, aviation assumed a vital role through aerial reconnaissance in reinforcing successful decision-making. The demands of warfare not only spurred aviation's development, it led to technological advances in aerial photography, radio intercepts, acoustics and optics that became the foundation for intelligence throughout the twentieth century and to the present day.

Colonel Terry Finnegan's Shooting the Front reviews the entire evolution of Allied aerial photography and photographic interpretation during the Great War, in a text packed with data and based upon meticulous research in archives worldwide. The photographs included are both informative and spectacular, charting perforce the early years of aviation itself. Shooting the Front shows not only how important aerial reconnaissance was to the war effort, but also how it became the foundation for modern-day exploitation of imagery and geospatial intelligence used to guide today's decision makers on global issues, and shaped intelligence work for generations to come.

Автор: Finnegan Delphine
Название: Nazboo`s Kazoo! (Shimmer and Shine)
ISBN: 0525648275 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780525648277
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 3670.00 T
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.

Автор: Finnegan Ivy
Название: Best Ever Wordsearch for Kids
ISBN: 1839406569 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781839406560
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 5510.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание:

This delightful activity book features a wide variety of themed wordsearches. Featuring cute and funny cartoon illustrations, this collection provides a fun way for young readers to build their vocabulary and general knowledge.

Puzzle themes include:
- Polar Animals
- Countries of the World
- Famous Places
- Sports

Presented in an affordable, compact format using high-quality paper, this puzzle book is perfect for vacations, rainy days, and long journeys. Suitable for readers aged 7+.

Автор: Margaret Orbell, Ruth Hilary Finnegan
Название: South Pacific Oral Traditions
ISBN: 0253209587 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253209580
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание: "This collection of articles touches upon some important issues in humanistic anthropology. . . . Folklorists, students of comparative literature, and anthropologists can all find something of interest in these essays." —American Anthropologist
"Superbly edited, impeccably researched, and discriminatingly tied together as a coherent gathering of insight, the volume is a welcome addition to a significant field of study that is only now beginning to appreciate the finer achievements of the South Pacific's unique contribution." —Rongorongo Studies
" . . . the defining collection on contemporary verbal arts in Oceania. . . . of real value to scholars concerned with the relationships between verbal art, social change, gender, power, [and] social organization." —Don Brenneis
". . . it will be welcome to historians of the South Pacific and useful to others grappling with problems of oral tradition." —Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"The volume abundantly illustrates the continuing vitality of oral traditions in the South Pacific, as well as the continuing wealth these traditions provide for researchers." —Pacific Affairs

Автор: Finnegan Margaret
Название: We Could Be Heroes
ISBN: 1534445250 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781534445253
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 17460.00 T
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Описание: Shiloh meets Raymie Nightingale in this funny and heartwarming debut novel about a ten-year-old that finds himself in a whole mess of trouble when his new friend Maisie recruits him to save the dog next door.

Hank Hudson is in a bit of trouble. After an incident involving the boy's bathroom and a terribly sad book his teacher is forcing them to read, Hank is left with a week's suspension and a slightly charred hardcover--and, it turns out, the attention of new girl Maisie Huang.

Maisie has been on the lookout for a kid with the meatballs to help her with a very important mission: Saving her neighbor's dog, Booler. Booler has seizures, and his owner, Mr. Jorgensen, keeps him tied to a tree all day and night because of them. It's enough to make Hank even sadder than that book does--he has autism, and he knows what it's like to be treated poorly because of something that makes you different.

But different is not less. And Hank is willing to get into even more trouble to prove it. Soon he and Maisie are lying, brown-nosing, baking, and cow milking all in the name of saving Booler--but not everything is as it seems. Booler might not be the only one who needs saving. And being a hero can look a lot like being a friend.

Автор: Finnegan Margaret
Название: Susie B. Won`t Back Down
ISBN: 153449636X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781534496361
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 16550.00 T
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Roll with It meets Absolutely Normal Chaos in this funny, big-hearted novel about a young girl "reminiscent of...Junie B. Jones" (School Library Connection) and her campaign for student council president, told through letters to her hero Susan B. Anthony.

Susie B. has a lot to say. Like how it's not fair that she has to be called Susie B. instead of plain Susie. Or about how polar bears are endangered. Or how the Usual Geniuses are always getting picked for cool stuff over the kids like her with butterflies in their brain. And it's because Susie B. has a lot to say about these very important things that she's running for student council president!

If she's president, she can advocate for the underdogs just like her hero and fellow Susie B., Susan B. Anthony. (And, okay, maybe the chance to give big speeches to the whole school with a microphone is another perk.) But when the most usual of Usual Geniuses also enters the student council race, Susie realizes this may be a harder won fight than she thought. Even worse, Susie discovers that Susan B. Anthony wasn't as great as history makes it seem, and she did some pretty terrible things to try to help her own cause. Soon, Susie has her own tough decisions to make. But one thing is for sure--no matter what, Susie B. won't back down.

Автор: Finnegan Margaret
Название: The Goddess Lounge
ISBN: 0984915478 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780984915477
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 11490.00 T
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Автор: Finnegan, Ivy
Название: Best Ever Knock Knock Jokes for Kids
ISBN: 1398816566 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398816565
Издательство: Arcturus
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Описание: Neither government programs nor massive charitable efforts responded adequately to the human crisis that was Hurricane Katrina. Using extensive interviews with Katrina evacuees and reports from service providers, Community Lost identifies what helped or hindered the reestablishment of the lives of hurricane survivors who relocated to Austin, Texas.

Автор: Finnegan, Ivy
Название: Kids` book of wordsearch
ISBN: 1398811084 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398811089
Издательство: Arcturus
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Описание: Proposes that the difficulty of bridging the gap between intellectuals and the public is not a failure of ideas; rather, it is an issue of rhetorical strategy. By laying a rhetorical foundation and presenting analytical case studies of contemporary "public intellectuals", Anna Young creates a training manual for intellectuals who seek to connect with a public audience and effect change writ large.