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Surf, Sweat and Tears
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 229

Surf, Sweat and Tears

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-03
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  • Publisher: OR Books

“I don’t normally read books about surfers, but this is like Truman Capote, with shorts.” —Lee Child “Andy Martin, to his immense credit, knows that surfers are misfits and accidental comics, as well as great athletes.” —Matt Warshaw “A sublime mixing of stoke and sorrow, hedonism and the macabre—skillfully and deftly penned by someone who had, and still has, intimate access to many of the key players." —Tom Anderson, author of Riding the Magic Carpet: A Surfer's Odyssey to Find the Perfect Wave This is the true story of Ted, Viscount Deerhurst, the son of the Earl of Coventry and an American ballerina who dedicated his life to becoming a professional surfer. Surfing was ...

Edward and George Herbert in the European Republic of Letters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Edward and George Herbert in the European Republic of Letters

George Herbert (1593-1633), the celebrated devotional poet, and his brother Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648), often described as the father of English deism, are rarely considered together. This collection explores connections between the full range of the brothers’ writings and activities, despite the apparent differences both in what they wrote and in how they lived their lives. More specifically, the volume demonstrates that despite these differences, each conceived of their extended republic of letters as militating against a violent and exclusive catholicity; theirs was a communion in which contention (or disputation) served to develop more dynamic forms of comprehensiveness. The ...

Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-04-27
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

How black electronic dance music makes it possible to reorganize life within the contemporary city. Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski argues that Black electronic dance music produces sonic ecologies of Blackness that expose and reorder the contemporary racialization of the urban--ecologies that can never simply be reduced to their geographical and racial context. Dhanveer Singh Brar makes the case for Black electronic dance music as the cutting-edge aesthetic project of the diaspora, which due to the music's class character makes it possible to reorganize life within the contemporary city. Closely analysing the Footwork scene in South and West Chicago, the Grime scene in East London, and the outpu...

A Waiter in Paris
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

A Waiter in Paris

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-05-05
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

*** 'This astonishing book describes a cruel, feral existence and is worthy of standing on the shelf next to George Orwell's Down And Out In Paris And London (1933) as another classic about human exploitation.' - Daily Mail 'Chisholm's story is immersive and often thrilling ... He's a fine writer.' - WSJ 'Kitchen Confidential for Generation Z' - Fortune 'An English waiters riveting account of working in Paris' - Daily Mail 'Visceral and unbelievably compelling' - Emerald Fennell 'Vividly written and merciless in its detail' - Edward Stourton 'An excellent book' - Strong Words magazine 'A Dickensian tale of a young man's trial by fire in a French bistro gives rise to biting commentary on Pari...

A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Corps of Royal Marines
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 658

A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Corps of Royal Marines

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1842
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Public and Private Life of His Late...Majesty, George the Third
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 746

The Public and Private Life of His Late...Majesty, George the Third

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1821
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Navy List
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 902

The Navy List

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1855
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Hart's Annual Army List, Special Reserve List, and Territorial Force List
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 576

Hart's Annual Army List, Special Reserve List, and Territorial Force List

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1842
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Rugby School Register
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Rugby School Register

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1867
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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