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Jockey
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

Jockey

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-12-06
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  • Publisher: McFarland

Being a jockey is more than a career, it's a way of life. The glitz and glamour of the show may belie all the time and effort that goes into it, but the life of a jockey entails a great deal of risk, personal sacrifice and hardship. Often viewed as second-rate athletes, partly because of their small size, these riders are in actuality some of the toughest men in the athletic world. Pound for pound, they are unmatched in physical prowess. Controlling and guiding large thoroughbreds requires a great deal of strength and skill. In addition, there is little room for error during the close-run, high-speed races where the necessity of implementing a winning strategy makes the sport mentally as wel...

Divided Island
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 94

Divided Island

From the winner of the 2022 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize: a fractal exploration of a woman's grief as she moves through disjointed segments of time. Divided Island is the story of a woman with a neurological disorder. The day she goes in for the encephalogram that will lead to her diagnosis, she finds herself splitting in two. One of the two women she becomes decides to travel to an island to take her own life; the other remains behind. Scenes and images real and imagined gradually coalesce into the story of a life told from a singular location: a way of perceiving and describing the world, guided by cerebral dysrhythmia. Written in scraps and fragmented chapters, Divided Island is a nonlinear narrative best read as a poetic experience, in which the protagonist's memories and dreams recompose the world and, in doing so, trouble the very notion of the self. This slim volume makes it abundantly clear why Daniela Tarazona belongs in the company of other Sor Juana winners like Valeria Luiselli, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Almudena Grandes.

Pilot Impostor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 161

Pilot Impostor

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-11-30
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  • Publisher: Catapult

A startling, shape-shifting book of prose and images that draws on an unexpected pair of inspirations—the poetry of Fernando Pessoa and the history of air disasters—to investigate con men, identity politics, failures of leadership, the privilege of ineptitude, the slave trade, and the nature of consciousness. Early in 2017, on a plane from Cape Verde to Lisbon, author and visual artist James Hannaham started reading Pessoa & Co., Richard Zenith's English translation of Fernando Pessoa's selected poetry. This was two months after Trump's presidential election; like many people, ideas about unfitness for service and failures of leadership were on his mind. Imagine his consternation upon di...

Small Track Betting
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

Small Track Betting

This authoritative guide will make horseplayers a lot of money. Respected racing author C.N. Richardson takes would-be winners through his eight-point system for betting. Most important, by working his strategy at small tracks (including Finger Lakes Racetrack, Great Lakes Downs, Lone Star Park, and Turf Paradise) rather than their larger counterparts, Richardson shows the fantastic results of his system in real situations. His keys rules for doing a top-notch analysis of the odds include having knowledge of the trainers, limiting betting to no more than five races at any given track, and choosing exotic betting options, like trifectas, to maximize the investment’s return. He also includes and explains personal idiosyncrasies like never betting on a race he can’t see!

The Puerto Rico Constitution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

The Puerto Rico Constitution

  • Categories: Law

The only book of its kind in the English language, this is the first volume of the Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States to explore the constitution of a U.S. territory: Puerto Rico. The first half of the volume unearths the island's constitutional history from the days of Spanish colonization in the 16th century, through to Congress' enactment in 2016 of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA). Professor Cox Alomar offers a careful analysis of the most recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court implicating Puerto Rico, Sánchez Valle (2016), Franklin Trust (2016), Aurelius (2020) and Vaello Madero (2022). The second half of th...

Leonora: A novel inspired by the life of Leonora Carrington
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 542

Leonora: A novel inspired by the life of Leonora Carrington

Born in Lancashire as the wealthy heiress to her British father's textiles empire, Leonora Carrington was destined to live the kind of life only known by the moneyed classes. But even from a young age she rebelled against the strict rules of her social class, against her parents and against the hegemony of religion and conservative thought, and broke free to artistic and personal freedom. Today Carrington is recognised as the key female Surrealist painter, and Poniatowska's fiction charms this exceptional character back to life more truthfully than any biography could. For a time Max Ernst's lover in Paris, Carrington rubbed elbows with Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miró, André Breton and Pablo Picasso. When Ernst fled Paris at the outbreak of the Second World War, Carrington had a breakdown and was locked away in a Spanish asylum before escaping to Mexico, where she would work on the paintings which made her name. In the hands of legendary Mexican novelist Elena Poniatowska, Carrington's life becomes a whirlwind tribute to creative struggle and artistic revolution. Translated by Amanda Hopkinson.

Food Lovers' Guide to® Raleigh, Durham & Chapel Hill
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Food Lovers' Guide to® Raleigh, Durham & Chapel Hill

Food Lovers' Guides Indispensable handbooks to local gastronomic delights The ultimate guides to the food scene in their respective states or regions, these books provide the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Engagingly written by local authorities, they are a one-stop for residents and visitors alike to find producers and purveyors of tasty local specialties, as well as a rich array of other, indispensable food-related information including: • Food festivals and culinary events • Farmers markets and farm stands • Specialty food shops • Places to pick your own produce • One-of-a-kind restaurants and landmark eateries • Recipes using local ingredients and traditions • The best wineries and brewpubs

Colección oficial de leyes, decretos, órdenes y resoluciones vigentes
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 2148

Colección oficial de leyes, decretos, órdenes y resoluciones vigentes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1927
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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70 años de conversaciones con escritores de paso
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 201

70 años de conversaciones con escritores de paso

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-10-08
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  • Publisher: Cyngular

70 años de conversaciones con escritores de paso: Diversos puntos de vista, múltiples posturas ideológicas y testimonios de vida componen estas 199 páginas. Francisco Suniaga, a manera de prólogo, resalta: una nueva entrega de la serie 70 años… reitera la pretensión de sus editores de mostrarles a los venezolanos, desde diversos ángulos periodísticos, su verdadera condición de pueblo noble, cuál ha sido el camino recorrido, cuál su lugar en el mundo y cuáles sus grandezas. Además, en 70 años de conversaciones con escritores de paso conviven entrevistas, convergen conversaciones y crónicas publicadas en periódicos, suplementos literarios, revistas especializadas. Un libro g...

West's New York Supplement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1148

West's New York Supplement

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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