Unruly Places

Unruly Places
Title Unruly Places PDF eBook
Author Alastair Bonnett
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 293
Release 2014
Genre History
ISBN 054410157X

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Alastair Bonnett explores extraordinary, off-grid, offbeat places including micro-nations, moving villages, secret cities, and no man's lands. Consider Sealand, an abandoned gun platform off the English coast that a British citizen claimed as his own sovereign nation, issuing passports and making his wife a princess. Or Baarle, a patchwork city of Dutch and Flemish enclaves where crossing the street can involve traversing national borders. Or Sandy Island, which appeared on maps well into 2012 despite the fact it never existed.

Cats in Space and Other Places

Cats in Space and Other Places
Title Cats in Space and Other Places PDF eBook
Author BIll Fawcett
Publisher Baen Books
Pages 426
Release 2016-11-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1625795394

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Space. The Feline Frontier. It has been said (by Mark Twain) that “If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.” In this volume we explore the many and manifest reasons why humans should voluntarily accord first place in space to their feline brethren. From Robert A. Heinlein’s “Ordeal in Space” in which the merest kitten confers the gift of courage on his human, to Cordwainer Smith’s “Ballad of Lost C’mell,” which answers the very question of what would be the outcome of the melding of human and cat, we offer here sixteen reasons why cats are Number One in our book. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Haunted Places

Haunted Places
Title Haunted Places PDF eBook
Author Dennis William Hauck
Publisher Penguin
Pages 500
Release 2002-08-27
Genre Reference
ISBN 1440673225

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In almost every town in America there are places where strange things happen. The perfect companion to The International Directory of Haunted Places, this revised and updated edition of Haunted Places is both a fascinating and unusual travel guide as well as an indispensable casebook for those interested in the paranormal. From buildings and parks believed to have resident ghosts and poltergeists to areas where Bigfoot or UFO sightings are most frequently reported, Haunted Places will lead you to more than 2,000 sites of paranormal activity across the United States. Organized alphabetically by state, each entry is referenced to an extensive bibliography of sources-with descriptions, addresses, phone numbers, Web sites, and travel directions provided for all locations.

Sacred Spaces and Other Places

Sacred Spaces and Other Places
Title Sacred Spaces and Other Places PDF eBook
Author Lisa Stone
Publisher
Pages 196
Release 1993
Genre Art brut
ISBN

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This book was created to accompany the exhibition, Sacred Spaces and Other Places: the Artist in the Landscape of the Upper Midwest, at the Betty Rymer Gallery at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (28 August-13 October, 1993).

Cities of Others

Cities of Others
Title Cities of Others PDF eBook
Author Xiaojing Zhou
Publisher University of Washington Press
Pages 345
Release 2014-12-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0295805420

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Asian American literature abounds with complex depictions of American cities as spaces that reinforce racial segregation and prevent interactions across boundaries of race, culture, class, and gender. However, in Cities of Others, Xiaojing Zhou uncovers a much different narrative, providing the most comprehensive examination to date of how Asian American writers - both celebrated and overlooked - depict urban settings. Zhou goes beyond examining popular portrayals of Chinatowns by paying equal attention to life in other parts of the city. Her innovative and wide-ranging approach sheds new light on the works of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese American writers who bear witness to a variety of urban experiences and reimagine the American city as other than a segregated nation-space. Drawing on critical theories on space from urban geography, ecocriticism, and postcolonial studies, Zhou shows how spatial organization shapes identity in the works of Sui Sin Far, Bienvenido Santos, Meena Alexander, Frank Chin, Chang-rae Lee, Karen Tei Yamashita, and others. She also shows how the everyday practices of Asian American communities challenge racial segregation, reshape urban spaces, and redefine the identity of the American city. From a reimagining of the nineteenth-century flaneur figure in an Asian American context to providing a framework that allows readers to see ethnic enclaves and American cities as mutually constitutive and transformative, Zhou gives us a provocative new way to understand some of the most important works of Asian American literature.

The World and Other Places

The World and Other Places
Title The World and Other Places PDF eBook
Author Jeanette Winterson
Publisher Random House
Pages 242
Release 2013-04-26
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1448180252

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In this, her first collection of short stories, Winterson reveals all the facets of her extraordinary imagination. In prose that is full of imagery and word-play, she creates physical and psychological worlds that are at once familiar and yet shockingly strange.

From the Other Side of the World

From the Other Side of the World
Title From the Other Side of the World PDF eBook
Author Elmira Bayrasli
Publisher HarperCollins
Pages 328
Release 2017-11-25
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9352770218

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Elmira Bayrasli's colourful narrative takes readers through the world of high-growth entrepreneurs as they overcome vexing obstacles to build businesses that create jobs and economic growth and, perhaps most important, shift mindsets. Here are the people who personify the transformative force of entrepreneurship from parts of the world that will be the source of the overwhelming amount of economic growth over the next twenty-five years.Bayrasli takes us on an extraordinary journey, with fascinating eyewitness accounts of courage, endurance and ingenuity, as people in some of the world's most challenging societies build globally competitive products and services that garner international praise and investment.