Juan Martin Del Potro

Author: Sebastian Torok
Publisher: New Chapter Press
ISBN: 9781937559922
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book tells the story of one of Argentina's greatest tennis players, the most important of his generation. After winning the 2009 U.S. Open, defeating Roger Federer in a glorious five-set final, del Potro was poised to take over the tennis world. However, wrist problems developed and del Potro endured three surgeries over fifteen months. One of the world's most popular players, del Potro's fan base grew as he made his comeback--watching him win his second Olympic medal in Rio in 2016, where he once lost to Andy Murray, but won the hearts of millions around the world. He followed up by leading Argentina to victory in the Davis Cup. Described as the "Gentle Giant," del Potro has the sensitivity to comfort a ball girl hit during a match, to stop in the middle of the game to gaze at a butterfly, and to accompany a young fan in the last days of his life. However, when he grips the racket, he becomes one of the most destructive strikers of a tennis ball.

World Tennis Magazine

Author: Randy Walker
Publisher: New Chapter Press
ISBN: 9781937559328
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
World Tennis Magazine brings readers through the 2012 Grand Slam tennis season through recaps of the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, including full results, reports and the award-winning photography of Cynthia Lum, that make for excellent frameable photos or keep-sake posters.

Working North from Patagonia

Author: Harry Alverson Franck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South America
Languages : en
Pages : 680

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Use of Weapons

Author: Iain M. Banks
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316068799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a lost cause. But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past. Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, Use of Weapons is a masterpiece of science fiction. The Culture Series Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata

Flip-Side

Author: James Franco
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781576877999
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Best-selling author David Shields, and multi-talented writer, actor and director James Franco team up to transform a conversation into a highly original study of celebrity. Flip-Side is a work of dialogue that explores the relationship between performance and persona, on the one hand, and underlying pain and trauma, on the other. The text is complimented by dozens of selfies of James and Lana.

A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs

Author: Henry George Bohn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Proverbs
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Needlework as Art

Author: M. Alford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783741195167
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616

Book Description
Needlework as art is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Vicars of Christ

Author: Peter De Rosa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781842230008
Category : Papacy
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Life of Rossini

Author: Stendhal Stendhal
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021217547
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Stendhal's Life of Rossini is a captivating biography of the famous Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. Through extensive research and firsthand accounts, Stendhal paints a vivid picture of Rossini's life, career, and artistic output. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in music history or classical music. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Volcano-Tectonic Processes

Author: Valerio Acocella
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030659682
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 568

Book Description
Volcanoes have terrified and, at the same time, fascinated civilizations for thousands of years. Many aspects of volcanoes, most notably the eruptive processes and the compositional variations of magma, have been widely investigated for several decades and today constitute the core of any volcanology textbook. Nevertheless, in the last two decades, boosted by the availability of volcano monitoring data, there has been an increasing interest in the pre-eruptive processes related to the shallow accumulation and to the transfer of magma approaching the surface, as well as in the resulting structure of volcanoes. These are innovative and essential aspects of modern volcanology and, as driving volcanic unrest, their understanding also improves hazard assessment and eruption forecasting. So far, the significant progress made in unravelling these volcano-tectonic processes has not been supported by a comprehensive overview. This monograph aims at filling this gap, describing the pre-eruptive processes related to the structure, deformation and tectonics of volcanoes, at the local and regional scale, in any tectonic setting. The monograph is organized into three sections (“Fundamentals”, “Magma migration towards the surface” and “The regional perspective”), consisting of thirteen chapters that are lavishly illustrated. The reader is accompanied in a journey within the volcano factory, discovering the processes associated with the shallow accumulation of magma and its transfer towards the surface, how these control the structure of volcanoes and their activity and, ultimately, improve our ability to estimate hazard and forecast eruption. The potential readership includes any academic, researcher and upper undergraduate student interested in volcanology, magma intrusions, structural geology, tectonics, geodesy, as well as geology and geophysics in general.