Author: Norman DaviesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780231053532
Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 725
Book Description
God's Playground A History of Poland
Author: Norman DaviesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199253401
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century. The writing of Polish history, like Poland itself, has frequently fallen prey to interested parties. Professor Norman Davies adopts a sceptical stance towards all existing interpretations and attempts to bring a strong dose of common sense to his theme. He presents the most comprehensive survey in English of this frequently maligned and usually misunderstood country.
God's Playground A History of Poland
Author: Norman DaviesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199253395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century. The writing of Polish history, like Poland itself, has frequently fallen prey to interested parties. Professor Norman Davies adopts a sceptical stance towards all existing interpretations and attempts to bring a strong dose of common sense to his theme. He presents the most comprehensive survey in English of this frequently maligned and usually misunderstood country.
From the Playground of the Gods
Author: Chisato O. DubreuilPublisher: Smithsonian Inst/Motoko Ikeda Spiegel
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
"Bikky Sunazawa's art was unknown in North America and relatively little-known outside Hokkaido, Japan, when the Smithsonian opened its special Ainu exhibition [in 1999]. Conceived to explore the relationship of history, culture, and art of the Ainu people with other North Pacific native groups, the exhibition included a large section of contemporary Ainu sculpture, painting, graphic arts, and textile arts. The largest body of work was sculptures created by Bikky Sunazawa. . . . This is the first English-language book devoted to Bikky's life and the most complete presentation of his principal artworks. . . . [It] is the most comprehensive treatment of the artist who became the pivot point in the development of modern Ainu fine art." --from the Preface by William W. Fitzhugh
The Playground of the Gods
Author: Cathy Cash SpellmanPublisher: Grand Central Pub
ISBN: 9780446603478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Six rich and powerful men take six beautiful, accomplished women to a tropical island playground for a fun, no-strings-attached vacation, but when one man goes too far, the women band together in the jungle to teach the men a lesson they will never forget. Reprint.
Asphalt Gods
Author: Vincent M. MallozziPublisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 0385506767
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The real basketball deal–the inside story of Harlem’s legendary tournament and the pros and playground legends who have made it world famous. Earl “The Goat” Manigault. Herman “Helicopter” Knowings. Joe “The Destroyer” Hammond. Richard “Pee Wee” Kirkland. These and dozens of other colorfully nicknamed men are the “Asphalt Gods,” whose astounding exploits in the Rucker Tournament, often against multimillionaire NBA superstars, have made them playground divinity. First established in the 1950s by Holcombe Rucker, a New York City Parks Department employee, the tournament has grown to become a Harlem institution, an annual summer event of major proportions. On that fabled patch of concrete, unknown players have been lighting it up for decades as they express basketball as a freestyle art among their peers and against such pro immortals as Julius Erving and Wilt Chamberlain. X’s and O’s are exchanged for oohs and aahs in one of the great examples of street theater to be found in urban America. Asphalt Gods is a streetwise, supremely entertaining oral history of a tournament that has influenced everything from NBA playing style to hip-hop culture. Now, legends transmitted by word of mouth find a home and the achievements of basketball’s greatest unknowns a permanent place in the game’s record.
God's Playground
Author: Norman DaviesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
This edition of Norman Davies' study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the 20th century. The writing of Polish history, like Poland itself, has frequently fallen prey to interested parties. Professor Norman Davies adopts a sceptical stance towards all existing interpretations and attempts to bring a strong dose of common sense to his theme. He consequently presents a comprehensive survey of this frequently maligned and usually misunderstood country.
God of Carnage
Author: Yasmina RezaPublisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822223993
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
THE STORY: A playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first, diplomatic niceties are observed, but as the meeting progresses, and the rum flows, tension
Vicious Gods
Author: Jesse DarklingPublisher: Jesse Darkling
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Three Sexy Demi-Gods. A Sassy Female They'll Never Let Go. After my first boyfriend Nelos vanished off the face of the earth, leaving me shattered and questioning even my own sanity, I sort of lost my way. And just as I started to find footing again, to come back from the pain, a chance encounter with a god ripped it all away. The last thing I expect is to meet three dangerous men who are too broken for repair--who need me and want me for reasons none of us can explain. But this desire, this fate, it's dangerous. It threatens everything I am and everything I might be. Because these men have dark secrets. Secrets that will destroy me. I cannot stay. I'm determined to find a way out and escape with my heart and my soul intact. And absolutely no strings attached...even if one of those threads once shattered me when it broke before.
Author: Swami Bhakti Caitanya