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Golf Ball
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Harry Brown explores the composition, history, kinetic life, and the long deterioration of golf balls, which as it turns out may outlive their hitters by a thousand years, in places far beyond our reach. Golf balls embody our efforts to impose our will on the land, whether the local golf course or the Moon, but their unpredictable spin, bounce, and roll often defy our control. Despite their considerable technical refinements, golf balls reveal the futility of control. They inevitably disappear in plain sight and find their way into hazards. Golf balls play with people. Harry Brown's short treatise on the golf ball serves up surprising lessons about the human desire to tame and control the landscape through technology. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Harry Brown's Radio
An amateur scientist and radio operator made a discovery of another civilizationon another planet. He learns of their predicament and does as best he can to get help to them. The survivors escape their contaminated planet and travel to a new location in the universe. They maintain communications with Harry to this day. Summary Outline Chapter 1 ! Harry Brown’s Radio Chapter 2 Harry Brown Contacts Another Planet Chapter 3 Some of the Survivors Chapter 4 The Survivors Bypass the Sensors Chapter 5 The Survivors Explore Surface Chapter 6 City 137, Station 13.7 Chapter 7 Mano and the Survivors Evacuate Chapter 8 In the Hands of Providenc
Boskoop Giant
Childhood and teenage years can be of course wonderful. They can also be bewildering and stressful especially the relationship with parents and family. This book, entirely true in every respect, is a true reflection on childhood, exploring this interesting juxtaposition of the wonderful and downright absurd as a boy struggles his way to manhood and independence. All of this set in the highly contrasting settings of rural Devon and Industrialised Leicester. This book explores in detail a love for both places and a deeper love of a boy for his father. However sometimes love is not enough... and so the narrative unfolds and is not without a good measure of that essential ingredient in life - the humour!
The Second Watch
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A Walk in the Sun
A reprint of a 1944 novel on World War II which was made into a movie. It is the story of a platoon whose lieutenant is killed and the men must decide what to do. A realistic, understated tale of war by a screenwriter of some twenty movies.
The Frontman
Celebrity philanthropy comes in many guises, but no single figure better encapsulates its delusions, pretensions and wrongheadedness than U2's iconic frontman, Bono-a fact neither sunglasses nor leather pants can hide. More than a mere philanthropist-indeed, he lags behind many of his peers when it comes to parting with his own money-Bono is better described as an advocate, one who has become an unwitting symbol of a complacent wealthy Western elite. The Frontman reveals how Bono moved his investments to Amsterdam to evade Irish taxes; his paternalistic and often bullying advocacy of neoliberal solutions in Africa; his multinational business interests; and his hobnobbing with Paul Wolfowitz and shock-doctrine economist Jeffrey Sachs. Carefully dissecting the rhetoric and actions of Bono the political operator, The Frontman shows him to be an ambassador for imperial exploitation, a man who has turned his attention to a world of savage injustice, inequality and exploitation-and helped make it worse.
Videogames and Education
Video games challenge our notions of identity, creativity, and moral value, and provide a powerful new avenue for teaching and learning. This book is a rich and provocative guide to the role of interactive media in cultural learning. It searches for specific ways to interpret video games in the context of human experience and in the field of humanities research. The author shows how video games have become a powerful form of political, ethical, and religious discourse, and how they have already influenced the way we teach, learn, and create. He discusses the major trends in game design, the public controversies surrounding video games, and the predominant critical positions in game criticism. The book speaks to all educators, scholars, and thinking persons who seek a fuller understanding of this significant and video games cultural phenomenon.
