Floating City

Floating City
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Publisher : Penguin Press HC
Total Pages : 287
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ISBN-10 : 1594204160
ISBN-13 : 9781594204166
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Floating City by : Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Download or read book Floating City written by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh and published by Penguin Press HC. This book was released on 2013 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling author of Gang Leader for a Day takes his next sociological study to Manhattan, where he travels through the underground economy utilized by prostitutes, madams, drug dealers, immigrants, hedge fund traders, hipster artists and nannies.

Floating City

Floating City
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Publisher : LSU Press
Total Pages : 74
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ISBN-10 : 9780807132357
ISBN-13 : 0807132357
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Floating City by : Anne Pierson Wiese

Download or read book Floating City written by Anne Pierson Wiese and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Pierson Wiese's first collection of poems illuminates the everyday and the lessons to be learned amid life's routines. The poems in Floating City might be called poetry of place. Many are set in New York City, but they simultaneously inhabit a realm in which a mundane physical location or daily exchange can be seen to have human significance beyond the immediate. When one dismisses from one's mind the idea that going to the park, doing the laundry, buying a sandwich, and riding the subway are familiar experiences, one makes room for the actual to ally with the hypothetical by means of the emotions. The result, Wiese eloquently shows, is a form of truth that is silently generated whenever human beings earnestly endeavor to absorb the world.

Floating City

Floating City
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Publisher : Vintage Canada
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9780345809902
ISBN-13 : 0345809904
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Floating City by : Kerri Sakamoto

Download or read book Floating City written by Kerri Sakamoto and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the prize-winning author of The Electrical Field comes Citizen Kane reimagined: a novel about ambition and the relentless desire to belong. Shortlisted for the Toronto Book Awards. Frankie Hanesaka isn't afraid of a little hard work. An industrious boy, if haunted by the mysterious figures of his mother's past in Japan, he grows up in a floating house in the harbour of Port Alberni, BC. With all the Japanese bachelors passing through town to work in the logging camps and lumber mills, maybe he could build a hotel on the water, too. Make a few dollars. But then the war comes, and Frankie finds himself in a mountai n internment camp, his small dreams of success dashed by the great tides of history. After the war, Frankie tries his luck in Toronto, where possibility awaits in the form of a patron who teaches him how to turn effort into money, and a starry-eyed architect who teaches Frankie something harder to come by: the ability to dream big. Buckminster Fuller's role as Frankie's outsized spiritual mentor is one of just many real-life touchstones and extraordinary points of colour in this fairytale-like story about family, ambition and the costs of turning our backs on history and home.

Floating City

Floating City
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 480
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ISBN-10 : 9781476778693
ISBN-13 : 1476778698
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Floating City by : Eric Van Lustbader

Download or read book Floating City written by Eric Van Lustbader and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking to destroy the Torch, an evil tool used for wanton destruction by the bloodthirsty leader of Vietnam's Floating City, Nicholas Linnear must confront his own personal demons in order to reach his target.

Death in the Floating City

Death in the Floating City
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Publisher : Minotaur Books
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9781250011039
ISBN-13 : 1250011035
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Death in the Floating City by : Tasha Alexander

Download or read book Death in the Floating City written by Tasha Alexander and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Huffington Post calls Tears of Pearl author Tasha Alexander "one to watch—and read" and her new Lady Emily mystery set in Venice proves it! Years ago, Emily's childhood nemesis, Emma Callum, scandalized polite society when she eloped to Venice with an Italian count. But now her father-in-law lies murdered, and her husband has vanished. There's no one Emma can turn to for help but Emily, who leaves at once with her husband, the dashing Colin Hargreaves, for Venice. There, her investigations take her from opulent palazzi to slums, libraries, and bordellos. Emily soon realizes that to solve the present day crime, she must first unravel a centuries old puzzle. But the past does not give up its secrets easily, especially when these revelations might threaten the interests of some very powerful people.

The Floating City

The Floating City
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Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages : 389
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ISBN-10 : 9780857664259
ISBN-13 : 0857664255
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Floating City by : Craig Cormick

Download or read book The Floating City written by Craig Cormick and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a land riven with plague, inside the infamous Walled City, two families vie for control: the Medicis with their genius inventor Leonardo; the Lorraines with Galileo, the most brilliant alchemist of his generation. And when two star-crossed lovers, one from either house, threaten the status quo, a third, shadowy power – one that forever seems a step ahead of all of the familial warring – plots and schemes, and bides its time, ready for the moment to attack... Assassination; ancient, impossible machines; torture and infamy – just another typical day in paradise. File Under: Fantasy

Trouble in the Floating City

Trouble in the Floating City
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Publisher : Zoboros Series
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0578811375
ISBN-13 : 9780578811376
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Trouble in the Floating City by : Michael Ciccarelli-Walsh

Download or read book Trouble in the Floating City written by Michael Ciccarelli-Walsh and published by Zoboros Series. This book was released on 2020-12-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kano spent his entire life keeping his powers a secret, but when a terrorist holds his city hostage, he must risk everything to protect it. As he soon discovers, though, the powers which he kept hidden for so long may be the very thing that this terrorist is searching for...