The Oxygen Barons
Author | : Gregory Feeley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780441645718 |
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Author | : Gregory Feeley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780441645718 |
Author | : Gregory Feeley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780976466000 |
Venice, 1609. Matteo Benveneto, younger son of a merchant family, has plans to revive the waning fortunes of the great trading city by introducing Venetians and Europeans to an exotic drink from the highlands of Arabia and the cities of the East: caofa, or coffee. His friend Gaspare Treviso has ideas for steam-powered engines that offer the prospect of military advantage against the Turks and immediate practical benefits in pumping the leaky cellars of government buildings. A novel of coffee, ideas, and ambition, Arabian Wine offers a lush, erudite, and sensual glimpse of a culture bound by tradition and poised on the edge of explosive cultural and technological change.Published in an edition of 300 copies, signed by the author
Author | : Julia Flynn Siler |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2012-01-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802194885 |
The New York Times–bestselling author delivers “a riveting saga about Big Sugar flexing its imperialist muscle in Hawaii . . . A real gem of a book” (Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot). Deftly weaving together a memorable cast of characters, Lost Kingdom brings to life the clash between a vulnerable Polynesian people and relentlessly expanding capitalist powers. Portraits of royalty and rogues, sugar barons, and missionaries combine into a sweeping tale of the Hawaiian Kingdom’s rise and fall. At the center of the story is Lili‘uokalani, the last queen of Hawai‘i. Born in 1838, she lived through the nearly complete economic transformation of the islands. Lucrative sugar plantations gradually subsumed the majority of the land, owned almost exclusively by white planters, dubbed the “Sugar Kings.” Hawai‘i became a prize in the contest between America, Britain, and France, each seeking to expand their military and commercial influence in the Pacific. The monarchy had become a figurehead, victim to manipulation from the wealthy sugar plantation owners. Lili‘u was determined to enact a constitution to reinstate the monarchy’s power but was outmaneuvered by the United States. The annexation of Hawai‘i had begun, ushering in a new century of American imperialism. “An important chapter in our national history, one that most Americans don’t know but should.” —The New York Times Book Review “Siler gives us a riveting and intimate look at the rise and tragic fall of Hawaii’s royal family . . . A reminder that Hawaii remains one of the most breathtaking places in the world. Even if the kingdom is lost.” —Fortune “[A] well-researched, nicely contextualized history . . . [Indeed] ‘one of the most audacious land grabs of the Gilded Age.’” —Los Angeles Times
Author | : Francis Tapon |
Publisher | : SonicTrek, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0976581221 |
For many Westerners, Eastern Europe is about as appealing as a deodorant-free French armpit. That didn't scare Francis Tapon because not only did he learn how to rough it by walking across America four times, but he is also half French, so he kind of smells too. Francis spent nearly 3 years travelling and backpacking in 25 Eastern European countries. It started with a 5-month trip in 2004. He returned in 2008 to spend 3 years exploring all the countries again. The Hidden Europe is Book Two of the WanderLearn Series.
Author | : Gregory Feeley |
Publisher | : New Haven Publishing |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Centaurs |
ISBN | : 9780982900826 |
Part novel, part essay, and part poetry, Kentarous, by Gregory Feeley, is at once a wry reexamination of the myth of the origin of centaurs and a tragic story about loneliness and the possibility of connection. Ranging from ancient Greece and the Romantics to Super Bowl beer commercials, Feeley's novel is heady and heartbreaking.
Author | : Josh Tickell |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2017-11-14 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1501170252 |
Pre-publication subtitle: A food revolutionary's guide to reversing climate change.
Author | : Clive Cussler |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2008-06-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 144063419X |
Chairman Juan Cabrillo and the rest of the Corporation's mercenaries fight to stop a corrupt activist group from unleashing a viral attack in this #1 New York Times-bestselling adventure from the Oregon Files. Captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo and manned by a crew of former military and spy personnel, the Oregon is a private enterprise, available for any government agency that can afford it. They've just completed a top secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf when they come across a cruise ship adrift at sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and, as Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the ship. Barely able to escape with his own life and that of the liner’s sole survivor, Cabrillo finds himself plunged into a mystery as intricate – and as perilous – as any he has ever known and pitted against a cult with monstrously lethal plans for the human race . . . plans he may already be too late to stop
Author | : John Clute |
Publisher | : Gateway |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2016-11-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1473219825 |
For more than 50 years John Clute has been reviewing science fiction and fantasy. Look at the Evidence is a collection of reviews from a wide variety of sources - including Interzone, the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Weekly - about the most significant literatures of the twenty-first century: science fiction, fantasy and horror: the literatures Clute argues should be recognized as the central modes of fantastika in our times. It covers the period between 1987 and 1992.
Author | : Elspeth Probyn |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2016-10-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0822373793 |
In Eating the Ocean Elspeth Probyn investigates the profound importance of the ocean and the future of fish and human entanglement. On her ethnographic journey around the world's oceans and fisheries, she finds that the ocean is being simplified in a food politics that is overwhelmingly land based and preoccupied with buzzwords like "local" and "sustainable." Developing a conceptual tack that combines critical analysis and embodied ethnography, she dives into the lucrative and endangered bluefin tuna market, the gendered politics of "sustainability," the ghoulish business of producing fish meal and fish oil for animals and humans, and the long history of encounters between humans and oysters. Seeing the ocean as the site of the entanglement of multiple species—which are all implicated in the interactions of technology, culture, politics, and the market—enables us to think about ways to develop a reflexive ethics of taste and place based in the realization that we cannot escape the food politics of the human-fish relationship.
Author | : Jo Walton |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 2018-08-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1466865733 |
Engaged, passionate, and consistently entertaining, An Informal History of the Hugos is a book about the renowned science fiction award for the many who enjoyed Jo Walton's previous collection of writing from Tor.com, the Locus Award-winning What Makes This Book So Great. The Hugo Awards, named after pioneer science-fiction publisher Hugo Gernsback, and voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Society, have been presented since 1953. They are widely considered the most prestigious awards in science fiction. Between 2010 and 2013, Jo Walton wrote a series of posts for Tor.com, surveying the Hugo finalists and winners from the award's inception up to the year 2000. Her contention was that each year's full set of finalists generally tells a meaningful story about the state of science fiction at that time. Walton's cheerfully opinionated and vastly well-informed posts provoked valuable conversation among the field's historians. Now these posts, lightly revised, have been gathered into this book, along with a small selection of the comments posted by SF luminaries such as Rich Horton, Gardner Dozois, and David G. Hartwell. "A remarkable guided tour through the field—a kind of nonfiction companion to Among Others. It's very good. It's great."—New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing on What Makes This Book So Great At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.