Автор: Finnegan William Название: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life ISBN: 0143109391 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143109396 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1747.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: **Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** "Reading this guy on the subject of waves and water is like reading Hemingway on bullfighting; William Burroughs on controlled substances; Updike on adultery. . . . a coming-of-age story, seen through the gloss resin coat of a surfboard."--Sports Illustrated Included in President Obama's 2016 Summer Reading List Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses--off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships forged in challenging waves. Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly--he drops LSD while riding huge Honolua Bay, on Maui--is served up with rueful humor. As Finnegan's travels take him ever farther afield, he discovers the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissects the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, and navigates the Indonesian black market while nearly succumbing to malaria. Throughout, he surfs, carrying readers with him on rides of harrowing, unprecedented lucidity. Barbarian Days is an old-school adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, a social history, a literary road movie, and an extraordinary exploration of the gradual mastering of an exacting, little-understood art. Praise for Barbarian Days "Without a doubt, the finest surf book I've ever read . . . But on a more fundamental level, Barbarian Days offers a clear-eyed vision of American boyhood. Like Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, it is a sympathetic examination of what happens when literary ideas of freedom and purity take hold of a young mind and fling his body out into the far reaches of the world."--The New York Times Magazine "Incandescent . . . I'd sooner press this book upon on a nonsurfer, in part because nothing I've read so accurately describes the feeling of being stoked or the despair of being held under. . . . But] it's also about a writer's life and, even more generally, a quester's life, more carefully observed and precisely rendered than any I've read in a long time."--Los Angeles Times
Автор: Finnegan William Название: Barbarian Days ISBN: 1472151410 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472151414 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 1972.00 р. Наличие на складе: Заказано в издательстве.
Описание: A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer
Автор: Finnegan Terrence J Название: Shooting the Front ISBN: 0752499548 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780752499543 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2494.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: The First World War demanded revolutionary technology to break the vicious stalemate in which the armies of Europe found themselves as soon as static warfare became established. In the critical world of military intelligence, aviation assumed a vital role through aerial reconnaissance in reinforcing successful decision-making. The demands of warfare not only spurred aviation's development, it led to technological advances in aerial photography, radio intercepts, acoustics and optics that became the foundation for intelligence throughout the twentieth century and to the present day.
Colonel Terry Finnegan's Shooting the Front reviews the entire evolution of Allied aerial photography and photographic interpretation during the Great War, in a text packed with data and based upon meticulous research in archives worldwide. The photographs included are both informative and spectacular, charting perforce the early years of aviation itself. Shooting the Front shows not only how important aerial reconnaissance was to the war effort, but also how it became the foundation for modern-day exploitation of imagery and geospatial intelligence used to guide today's decision makers on global issues, and shaped intelligence work for generations to come.
Автор: Finnegan, Ivy Название: Brain Twisters: Smart Puzzles ISBN: 1398816647 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398816640 Издательство: Arcturus Рейтинг: Цена: 527.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Geography Mastery includes all the lesson planning, resources and subject knowledge support needed to deliver every KS1 and KS2 geography lesson in your school. Offering an exciting well-sequenced curriculum, Geography Mastery delivers core knowledge, enables progression and develops key skills that children need for life within and beyond school.
Автор: Finnegan Ivy Название: Absolutely Epic Sudoku ISBN: 1398809268 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398809260 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Цена: 1240.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Finnegan Ivy Название: Absolutely Epic Crosswords ISBN: 1398809381 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398809383 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Цена: 1240.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Finnegan, Ivy Название: Brain Twisters: Word Search ISBN: 1398816663 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398816664 Издательство: Arcturus Рейтинг: Цена: 527.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: An American Crime and the Birth of the FBI. From the bestselling author of `The Lost City of Z`, now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller and Robert Pattison, comes a true-life murder story which became one of the newly-created FBI`s first major homicide investigations. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case...
Автор: Finnegan, Ivy Название: Brain Twisters: True Or False ISBN: 1398816655 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398816657 Издательство: Arcturus Рейтинг: Цена: 527.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An American Crime and the Birth of the FBI. From the bestselling author of `The Lost City of Z`, now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller and Robert Pattison, comes a true-life murder story which became one of the newly-created FBI`s first major homicide investigations. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case...
Автор: Finnegan Delphine Название: Nazboo`s Kazoo! (Shimmer and Shine) ISBN: 0525648275 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780525648277 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 551.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Clark, Aaron Philip Название: Blue like me ISBN: 154203969X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781542039697 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1258.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Undertaking research in special and inclusive education is an important area that holds its own challenges due to the difficulties in eliciting the views of children with SEND. This book will give students the confidence to be creative, flexible, and innovative when it comes to planning research with children and young people within special and inclusive education.
Автор: Karen Finnegan Название: Jolene, the Disability Awareness Chicken ISBN: 166784640X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781667846408 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 4717.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Jolene was one of six chicks who hatched in the spring of 2021. Jolenes egg was blue while all the others were either brown or white. Her egg was also unusually thick, and ultimately she required assistance hatching. The hatch was successful, and her tiny wet body was placed immediately in the incubator. Within a few hours her brothers and sisters were up and about, but Jolene was still crouched over in a tiny fluffy ball. Jolene was born with a birth defect known as perosis, where the tendon on her left leg slowly pulled her foot to the side as she grew. With daily physical therapy and other tools, Jolene was eventually able to hop around using one leg, and was a sweet and happy bird all her life. We are grateful to Jolene for teaching us how to speak to children about disability, and for inspiring this book about how each of us is different, unique, and beautiful.
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