An original journey through political history, Photographic Presidents reveals the intertwined evolution of an American institution and a medium that continues to define it.
Автор: Finnegan WilliamНазвание: Barbarian Days: A Surfing LifeISBN: 0143109391 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143109396 Издательство: Random House (USA)Рейтинг: Цена: 1839.00 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: Ennis Garth, Sudzuka GoranНазвание: Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal: Volume 1ISBN: 195316529X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781953165299 Издательство: Simon & SchusterРейтинг: Цена: 1723.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: With easy-to-understand tips, real-world examples and over 100hand-drawn illustrations, this book helps you to create happier places -from individual homes and workplaces to landscaping and urban design. Itexplores how factors, such as lighting, comfort, control over our environmentsand access to nature, exercise and social interaction, can impact how we feel.
Автор: Finnegan WilliamНазвание: Barbarian DaysISBN: 1472151410 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472151414 Издательство: Little BrownРейтинг: Цена: 1972.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer
Автор: Adamski/FinneganНазвание: Video Companion for Adamski/Finnegan`s New Perspectives on Microsoft® Access 2013, ComprehensiveISBN: 1285161424 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781285161426 Издательство: Cengage LearningРейтинг: Цена: 6551.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Finnegan Terrence JНазвание: Shooting the FrontISBN: 0752499548 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780752499543 Издательство: НеизвестноРейтинг: Цена: 1746.00 р. 2494.00 -30% 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 DelphineНазвание: 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: Cara A. FinneganНазвание: Photographic Presidents: Making History from Daguerreotype to DigitalISBN: 0252043790 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252043796 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)Рейтинг: Цена: 13794.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticksLincoln’s somber portraits. Lyndon Johnson’s swearing in. George W. Bush’s reaction to learning about the 9/11 attacks. Photography plays an indelible role in how we remember and define American presidents. Throughout history, presidents have actively participated in all aspects of photography, not only by sitting for photos but by taking and consuming them. Cara A. Finnegan ventures from a newly-discovered daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams to Barack Obama’s selfies to tell the stories of how presidents have participated in the medium’s transformative moments. As she shows, technological developments not only changed photography, but introduced new visual values that influence how we judge an image. At the same time, presidential photographs—as representations of leaders who symbolized the nation—sparked public debate on these values and their implications.An original journey through political history, Photographic Presidents reveals the intertwined evolution of an American institution and a medium that continues to define it.
Автор: , Finnegan IvyНазвание: Crosswords for Kids: Over 80 Puzzles for Hours of Fun!ISBN: 1398802689 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398802681 Издательство: НеизвестноЦена: 1378.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: This vibrant, full-color activity book is packed with over 80 crosswords for young puzzlers to solve, accompanied by wonderful illustrations. This collection includes a variety of fun and educational themes, from dinosaurs to Ancient Egypt. Children build their vocabulary, spelling and general knowledge as they find the word to fit the clue. Instructions at the front of the book explain the rules so beginners can learn pick up this classic puzzle type. Themes include: - Underwater creatures- Brilliant buildings- Fourth of July- Prowling predators - Instruments Perfect for children aged 7+.
This vibrant, full-color activity book is packed with over 80 crosswords for young puzzlers to solve, accompanied by wonderful illustrations.
Автор: Finnegan, IvyНазвание: Absolutely Epic MazesISBN: 1398807583 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398807587 Издательство: ArcturusРейтинг: Цена: 738.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: The book provides a major reassessment of the global origins and impact of Tricontinentalism. As Cold War interventions revealed the limits of decolonization, socialist revolutions in Asia, Africa, and Latin America used armed revolts and confrontational diplomacy to challenge the United States and the inequitable international system it supported.
Автор: Finnegan, IvyНазвание: Super Fun Knock Knock Joke BookISBN: 1839408448 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781839408441 Издательство: ArcturusРейтинг: Цена: 844.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: Jack Leywood joins the Canadian Navy and quickly makes a name for himself as a crack student being the first in his class. His luck changes when he discovers the joys of racing sail with one of his ships officers. His temper flares when he and his pal discover a young girl dead of an overdose and the germ of an idea forms he would take on the drug lords of the Union Corse sending heroin ashore in New Brunswick. Then using his racing ketch as a base, his friends join him to begin taking down the yachts dropping off the white death and finally attracts the attention of Charles DeGaulle who decorates him for bravery and the dragons are born.
