Dumb Luck
Title | Dumb Luck PDF eBook |
Author | Trọng Phụng Vũ |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780472068043 |
This once banned book is the first colonial-era Vietnamese novel to be translated into English and published in the West
Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers
Title | Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers PDF eBook |
Author | John Gierach |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2021-06-08 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1501168606 |
Witty, shrewd, and always a joy to read, John Gierach, “America’s best fishing writer” (Houston Chronicle) and favorite streamside philosopher, has earned the following of “legions of readers who may not even fish but are drawn to his musings on community, culture, the natural world, and the seasons of life” (Kirkus Reviews). “After five decades, twenty books, and countless columns, [John Gierach] is still a master” (Forbes). Now, in his latest original collection, Gierach shows us why fly-fishing is the perfect antidote to everything that is wrong with the world. “Gierach’s deceptively laconic prose masks an accomplished storyteller…His alert and slightly off-kilter observations place him in the general neighborhood of Mark Twain and James Thurber” (Publishers Weekly). In Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers, Gierach looks back to the long-ago day when he bought his first resident fishing license in Colorado, where the fishing season never ends, and just knew he was in the right place. And he succinctly sums up part of the appeal of his sport when he writes that it is “an acquired taste that reintroduces the chaos of uncertainty back into our well-regulated lives.” Lifelong fisherman though he is, Gierach can write with self-deprecating humor about his own fishing misadventures, confessing that despite all his experience, he is still capable of blowing a strike by a fish “in the usual amateur way.” “Arguably the best fishing writer working” (The Wall Street Journal), Gierach offers witty, trenchant observations not just about fly-fishing itself but also about how one’s love of fly-fishing shapes the world that we choose to make for ourselves.
Dumb Luck
Title | Dumb Luck PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Hamill |
Publisher | BOA Editions, Ltd. |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781929918256 |
Influenced by the Chinese and Japanese masters, Hamill's Dumb Luck affirms his ability to give us back the world and all its vicissitudes. Here you will find Zen fables, elegies and haiku, bluesy riffs, and poems that celebrate births, marriages, the liberating exile of the poet, as well as verses that present the dumb luck that has peppered the poet's life. Sam Hamill is the author of a dozen volumes of original poetry, as well as three collections of essays. He is the Founding Editor of Copper Canyon Press, director of the Port Townsend Writers' Conference, and contributing editor at The American Poetry Review.
Dumb Luck
Title | Dumb Luck PDF eBook |
Author | Lesley Choyce |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780889954656 |
After 17-year-old Brandon falls out of a tree onto his head--and survives--his doctor suggests he's had such luck he should buy a lottery ticket. So Brandon does, and he wins three million dollars--and that's last happy moment he has for some time.
Dumb Luck
Title | Dumb Luck PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Baseman |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 628 |
Release | 2004-04 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780811844239 |
Presents a collection of the artist's paintings, illustrations, photographs, and artwork from his animated television program.
Dumb Luck
Title | Dumb Luck PDF eBook |
Author | Bryan Patrick Harnetiaux |
Publisher | Dramatic Publishing |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Award winners |
ISBN | 9781583424445 |
Why Did Europe Conquer the World?
Title | Why Did Europe Conquer the World? PDF eBook |
Author | Philip T. Hoffman |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2017-01-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691175845 |
The startling economic and political answers behind Europe's historical dominance Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations—such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution—fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if certain variables had been different, Europe would have been eclipsed, and another power could have become master of the world. Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development, military rivalry, and war. This resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe's military sector, and produced an insurmountable lead in gunpowder technology. The consequences determined which states established colonial empires or ran the slave trade, and even which economies were the first to industrialize. Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe's historic global supremacy.