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The Last Bohemia

Scenes from the Life of Williamsburg, Brooklyn

By: Robert Anasi

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The Last Bohemia

Scenes from the Life of Williamsburg, Brooklyn

By: Robert Anasi

A former resident describes the transformation of Williamsburg, Brooklyn which went from a gritty industrial district, to an artist's colony, to housing members of the dot-com boom, to an area now known for hipster culture and real-estate development.

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Macmillan

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0374533318

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9780374533311

The Gloves

A Boxing Chronicle

By: Robert Anasi

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The Gloves

A Boxing Chronicle

By: Robert Anasi

Robert Anasi's The Gloves offers a gritty, spirited inside look at the world of amateur boxing today. The Golden Gloves tournament is center stage in amateur boxing-a single-elimination contest in which young hopefuls square off in steamy gyms with the boxing elite looking on. Anasi took up boxing in his twenties to keep in shape, attract women, and sharpen his knuckles for the odd bar fight. He thought of entering "the Gloves," but put it off. Finally, at age thirty-two-his last year of eligibility-he vowed to fight, although he was an old man in a sport of teenagers and a light man who had to be even lighter (125 pounds) to fight others his size. So begins Anasi's obsessive preparation for the Golden Gloves. He finds Milton, a wily and abusive trainer, and joins Milton's "Supreme Team": a black teenager who used to deal guns in Harlem, a bus driver with five kids, a hard-hitting woman champion who becomes his sparring partner. Meanwhile, he observes the changing world of amateur boxing, in which investment bankers spar with ex-convicts and everyone dreads a fatal blow to the head. With the Supreme Team, he goes to the tournament, whose outcome, it seems, is rigged, like so much in boxing life today. Robert Anasi tells his story not as a journalist on assignment but as a man in the midst of one of the great adventures of his life. The Gloves, his first book, has the feel of a contemporary classic.

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North Point Press

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146680047X

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The Last Bohemia

Scenes from the Life of Williamsburg, Brooklyn

By: Robert Anasi

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The Last Bohemia

Scenes from the Life of Williamsburg, Brooklyn

By: Robert Anasi

A firsthand account of the swift transformation of Williamsburg, from factory backwater to artists' district to trendy hub and high-rise colony Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is now so synonymous with hipster culture and the very idea of urban revitalization—so well-known from Chicago to Cambodia as the playground for the game of ironized status-seeking and lifestyle one-upmanship—that it's easy to forget how just a few years ago it was a very different neighborhood: a spread of factories, mean streets and ratty apartments that the rest of New York City feared and everyone but artists with nowhere else to go left alone. Robert Anasi hasn't forgotten. He moved to a $300-a-month apartment in Williamsburg in 1994, and watched as the area went through a series of surreal transformations: the warehouses became lofts, secret cocaine bars became sylized absinthe parlors, barrooms became stage sets for inde-rock careers and rents rose and rose—until the local artists found that their ideal of personal creativity had served the aims of global commerce, and that their neighborhood now belonged to someone else. Tight, passionate, and provocative, The Last Bohemia is at once a celebration of the fever dream of bohemia, a lament for what Williamsburg has become and a cautionary tale about the lurching transformations of city neighborhoods throughout the United States.

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FSG Originals

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1466802553

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The Gloves

A Boxing Chronicle

By: Robert Anasi

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A Boxing Chronicle

By: Robert Anasi

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The Dragon Corsairs

Spymaster, Privateer, Kingmaker

By: Margaret Weis,Robert Krammes

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The Dragon Corsairs

Spymaster, Privateer, Kingmaker

By: Margaret Weis,Robert Krammes

This discounted ebundle includes: Spymaster, Privateer, Kingmaker The Dragon Corsairs is a swashbuckling adventure trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Weis and Robert Krammes, set in the world of the Dragon Brigade series. Captain Kate Fitzmaurice was born to sail. She has made a life of her own as a privateer and smuggler. But soon Kate’s checkered past will catch up to her. It will take more than just quick wits and her considerable luck if she hopes to bring herself — and her crew — through intact. Spymaster: Hired by the notorious Henry Wallace, spymaster for the queen of Freya, to find a young man who claims to be the true heir to the Freyan, Kate begins to believe that her ship has finally come in. But no fair wind lasts forever. Privateer: Captain Kate escapes the hangman's noose with the help of Prince Thomas, only to discover to her dismay that her dragon friend, Dalgren, has gone back to his homeland to face trial for desertion. A dangerous mission to the dark world of the Bottom Dwellers leads Kate to the discovery of a dark plot that threatens the lives of her friends and places the fate of a nation in her hands. Kingmaker: In this thrilling conclusion, Kate and Sophia and their dragon Dalgren form a desperate plan to free Phillip from prison. Thomas is crowned king and discovers a plot by King Ullr to invade Freya. And Henry is forced to flee to the Aligoes where he makes a discovery that could change the fortunes of his beleaguered nation. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Tor Books

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1250800773

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9781250800770

The Privateer

By: Margaret Weis,Robert Krammes

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The Privateer

By: Margaret Weis,Robert Krammes

The swashbuckling adventures of Captain Kate Fitzmaurice continues in this thrilling continuation of the epic tale of the Dragon Corsairs. Captain Kate escapes the hangman's noose with the help of Prince Thomas, only to discover to her dismay that her dragon friend, Dalgren, has gone back to his homeland to face trial for desertion. Spymaster Henry Wallace plots to stop Prince Thomas from gaining the Freyan throne as the prince makes a daring move to prove his claim. A dangerous mission to the dark world of the Bottom Dwellers leads Kate to the discovery of a dark plot that threatens the lives of her friends and places the fate of a nation in her hands. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466877960

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9781466877962

Kingmaker

By: Margaret Weis,Robert Krammes

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Kingmaker

By: Margaret Weis,Robert Krammes

From New York Times bestselling author and leading fantasists Margaret Weis and Robert Krammes comes Kingmaker, the thrilling conclusion to the swashbuckling Dragon Corsairs series. In this exciting adventure, Kate and Sophia and their dragon Dalgren form a desperate plan to free Phillip from prison. Thomas is crowned king and discovers a plot by King Ullr to invade Freya. And Henry is forced to flee to the Aligoes where he makes a discovery that could change the fortunes of his beleaguered nation. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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1466877979

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Privateer

By: Margaret Weis,Robert Krammes

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Privateer

By: Margaret Weis,Robert Krammes

Rescuing herself and her crew with the help of Prince Tom, Captain Kate is drawn into the high-risk intrigues of doing business with the kingdom.

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Tor Books

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0765381095

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Modern Indian Interpreters of the Bhagavad Gita

By: Robert N. Minor

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Modern Indian Interpreters of the Bhagavad Gita

By: Robert N. Minor

This is a collection of careful, objective, historically sensitive studies of modern commentators on the Bhagavadgita, one of the basic scriptures of Hinduism, and one which has been widely read in the modern West. Experts on modern Indian religious thought show how Ghandi, Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan, Bhaktivedanta, Aurobindo, Tilak, Bhave, Sivananda, the Theosophists, and Bhankim read, used and interpreted the Gita. Collectively, the essays display the different backgrounds and orientations of the major Indian thinkers of our time. An Introduction and a Conclusion provide a perspective on the thinkers and identify common themes which are part of modern emphases.

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State University of New York Press

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1438413254

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9781438413259

Post-Realism

The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations

By: Robert Hariman

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Post-Realism

The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations

By: Robert Hariman

Beer and Hariman provide a coherent set of essays that trace and challenge the tradition of realism which has dominated the thinking of academics and practitioners alike. These timely essays set out a systematic investigation of the major realist writers of the Post- War era, the foundational concepts of international politics, and representative case studies of political discourse.

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MSU Press

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087013891X

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9780870138911

The Matter of High Words

Naturalism, Normativity, and the Postwar Sage

By: Robert Chodat

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The Matter of High Words

Naturalism, Normativity, and the Postwar Sage

By: Robert Chodat

In a world of matter, how can we express what matters? When the explanations of the natural sciences become powerfully precise and authoritative, what is the status of our highest words, the languages that articulate our norms and orient our lives? The Matter of High Words examines a constellation of American writers who in the decades since World War II have posed these questions in distinctive ways. Walker Percy, Marilynne Robinson, Ralph Ellison, Stanley Cavell, and David Foster Wallace are all self-consciously post-WWII authors, attuned to the fragmentation and skepticism that have defined so much of the literary and critical culture of the last century and more. Yet they also attempt to reach back to older forms of thought and writing that are often thought to have dried up-the traditions of prophecy, of wisdom literature, of the sage. Working within this dual inheritance, these authors are drawn equally to both art and argument, “showing” and “telling,” shifting continually between narrative and discursive genres. In their essays they act as moralists, promoting the broad, abstract concepts that might inspire action in the face of naturalistic reduction: community, family, courage, fraternity, marriage, friendship, temperance, judgment. In their narratives, they offer particular lives in particular settings, thick descriptions that give flesh to such high words. Rarely do these movements between genres generate a tidy equilibrium; where their essays speak of cooperation and redemption, their narratives display alienation, loss, and failure. But in pursuing such risky, unorthodox strategies, these postwar sages are not only able to challenge some of the dominant naturalistic theories of the last several decades: cognitive science, neo-Darwinian theory, social science, the fact-value divide in analytic philosophy. Through five chapters of detailed analysis and close reading, Chodat explores the question of whether vocabularies of ought and ought-not can still emerge today, and how these concepts might be embodied, and whether such ideas might be found in things.

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Oxford University Press

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0190682175

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9780190682170

The Gallipoli Campaign

The Turkish Perspective

By: Metin Gürcan,Robert Johnson

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The Gallipoli Campaign

The Turkish Perspective

By: Metin Gürcan,Robert Johnson

The war against the Ottomans, on Gallipoli, in Palestine and in Mesopotamia was a major enterprise for the Allies with important long-term geo-political consequences. The absence of a Turkish perspective, written in English, represents a huge gap in the historiography of the First World War. This timely collection of wide-ranging essays on the campaign, drawing on Turkish sources and written by experts in the field, addresses this gap. Scholars employ archival documents from the Turkish General Staff, diaries and letters of Turkish soldiers, Ottoman journals and newspapers published during the campaign, and recent academic literature by Turkish scholars to reveal a different perspective on the campaign, which should breathe new life into English-language historiography on this crucial series of events.

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268

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Routledge

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1317030842

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9781317030843

Tractatus de Globis Et Eorum Usu

A Treatise Descriptive of the Globes Constructed by Emery Molyneux and Published in 1592

By: Robert Hues

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Tractatus de Globis Et Eorum Usu

A Treatise Descriptive of the Globes Constructed by Emery Molyneux and Published in 1592

By: Robert Hues

This volume of the publications of the Hakluyt Society (1889) contains directions for using Molyneux's globes in calculating navigational points.

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Cambridge University Press

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110801349X

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9781108013499

Writer's Harbrace Handbook Brief Edition with Apa Update Card

By: Robert Keith Miller,Suzanne S. Webb,Winifred Bryan Horner

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Writer's Harbrace Handbook Brief Edition with Apa Update Card

By: Robert Keith Miller,Suzanne S. Webb,Winifred Bryan Horner

Emphasizing writing-first, The Writer's Harbrace Handbook, Brief Edition, is ideally suited for writers who want an easy reference to key principles in a compact, comb-bound and tabbed format.

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0838408346

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9780838408346

Lights Out

The James Toney Story

By: Robert Anasi

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Lights Out

The James Toney Story

By: Robert Anasi

In 1994, James 'Lights Out' Toney had battled to the top of the boxing world. A stunning knockout of undefeated 20-1 favorite Michael Nunn had brought Toney the middleweight title and crossover celebrity. Heralded as 'throwback', Toney's dazzling skills and constant activity recalled the Golden Age fighters who had been his role models. Brash, volatile and fearless, Toney also personified the 90s hiphop culture that America both feared and admired, a role he embraced with lavish spending, press conference brawls and strip-club escapes. Still only 24, this 'nigga you love to hate' seemed unstoppable Then in one night he lost everything, his humiliating defeat to Roy Jones, Jr. casting him into the boxing wilderness, and the police blotter. For nine years, Toney wandered the margins of the sport, taking losses and gaining weight, a cautionary tale for any fighters who didn't value their gifts and succumbed to their demons. But James Toney wasn't finished yet. In 2003, Toney was given a second chance, the opportunity to push back into the championship picture and regain his lost kingdom. All he had to do was defeat a monster, Vassily 'The Tiger' Jirov, a real-life Drago from the Iron Curtain who had destroyed every man put in front of him. In the fight of the year, James Toney would reveal exactly who he was. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with James Toney and his inner circle, Lights Out portrays the rise and fall, and rise, of a fighter who never faced a tougher opponent than himself. Award-winning author Robert Edward Anasi searches for the clues to Toney's identity in the tragedies of Black America and the boxing mecca of Detroit. Forged by the savagery of his criminal father and the tenacious willpower of his indomitable mother, James 'Lights Out' Toney overcame impossible odds to become a boxing legend.

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Hamilcar Publications

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1949590321

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9781949590326

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Writer's Harbrace Handbook Brief Edition with Apa Update Card

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