Man of Contrasts
Title | Man of Contrasts PDF eBook |
Author | Hee Il Cho |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1977-01-01 |
Genre | Karate |
ISBN | 9780865680395 |
This book draws on the vast knowledge and skill of one of the foremost tae kwon do masters in the world. Hee Il Cho presents step-by-step instructions with illustrations of fighting techniques, counterattacks, bag and target training, hand-conditioning exercises and other exercises, including breaking techniques.
A Man of Contrasts
Title | A Man of Contrasts PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia Jameson |
Publisher | Harlequin Books |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780373028573 |
A Man Of Contrasts by Claudia Jameson released on Jul 24, 1987 is available now for purchase.
The Contrast
Title | The Contrast PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia A. Kierner |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2007-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0814783430 |
“The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City's John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play performed in public by a professional theater company. The play, written by New England-born, Harvard-educated, Royall Tyler was timely, funny, and extremely popular. When the play appeared in print in 1790, George Washington himself appeared at the head of its list of hundreds of subscribers. Reprinted here with annotated footnotes by historian Cynthia A. Kierner, Tyler’s play explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. Did the American colonists' rejection of monarchy in 1776 mean they should abolish all European social traditions and hierarchies? What sorts of etiquette, amusements, and fashions were appropriate and beneficial? Most important, to be a nation, did Americans need to distinguish themselves from Europeans—and, if so, how? Tyler was not the only American pondering these questions, and Kierner situates the play in its broader historical and cultural contexts. An extensive introduction provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building. The book also features a section with selections from contemporary letters, essays, novels, conduct books, and public documents, which debate issues of the era.
A Single Man
Title | A Single Man PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2013-11-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466853344 |
When Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man first appeared, it shocked many with its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in maturity. Isherwood's favorite of his own novels, it now stands as a classic lyric meditation on life as an outsider. Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist in the routines of his former life. A Single Man follows him over the course of an ordinary twenty-four hours. Behind his British reserve, tides of grief, rage, and loneliness surge—but what is revealed is a man who loves being alive despite all the everyday injustices.
The American Catholic Quarterly Review ...
Title | The American Catholic Quarterly Review ... PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Life of Contrasts the Autobiography
Title | Life of Contrasts the Autobiography PDF eBook |
Author | Diana Mosley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2007-10 |
Genre | Upper class |
ISBN | 9781903933886 |
This is the autobiography of Diana Mosley, the Mitford sister who grew up with the Churchills and married the British Fascist leader, Sir Oswald Mosley.
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
Title | Thomas Paine's Rights of Man PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Hitchens |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2008-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780802143839 |
Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man" has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted, but Hitchens marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. In this book, he demonstrates how Paine's book forms the philosophical cornerstone of the U.S.