[PDF] What Is In A Rim eBook

Author : Arif Dirlik
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780847684694

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In evaluating the idea of "Asia Pacific," the book shifts our focus from abstract relationships between capital and commodities to the human interactions that have played a formative part in the region's constitution. The contributors agree that it is these interactions that constitute the region, rather than the physical boundaries of the Pacific.

Author : Thomas McGuane
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 140007522X

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The unforgettable story of a housepainter turned doctor in Big Sky country who finds himself on a darkly funny journey to salvation in this “irrepressibly comic and optimistic” novel (The New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts Berl Pickett is living in the small town of Livingston, Montana. The son of Pentecostal rug-shampooers, Pickett has never been the social toast of the town, but when he is accused of negligent homicide in the death of his former lover, he finds himself ostracized by his colleagues and realizes just how small his little village truly is. But fortunately for Berl, the very thing that sets him apart—his inability to follow the pack—proves to be his saving grace. With this inglorious hero, McGuane has created an unforgettable voyager.

Author : Jen Bryant
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1647001617

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The story of Elgin Baylor, basketball icon and civil rights advocate, from an all-star team Hall-of-famer Elgin Baylor was one of basketball’s all-time-greatest players—an innovative athlete, team player, and quiet force for change. One of the first professional African-American players, he inspired others on and off the court. But when traveling for away games, many hotels and restaurants turned Elgin away because he was black. One night, Elgin had enough and staged a one-man protest that captured the attention of the press, the public, and the NBA. Above the Rim is a poetic, exquisitely illustrated telling of the life of an underrecognized athlete and a celebration of standing up for what is right.

Author : Sonya Spreen Bates
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,57 MB
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1459808908

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Dylan’s wish comes true when Coach Scott names him to the starting lineup for the Mountview High Hunters’ first game of the playoffs. But just when he should be concentrating on basketball, Dylan becomes the target of some off-court aggression. As he’s driving his girlfriend, Jenna, home one night, a black pickup truck tries to run them off the road. The police call it an accident. But even as Dylan tries to put it behind him, he has a sense of impending danger that he can’t shake. When Jenna starts receiving threats from an anonymous cyberbully telling her to “keep quiet,” Dylan becomes seriously concerned about her safety. Jenna has no idea what the cyberbully thinks she knows. But Dylan will have to help her figure it out fast if they’re ever going to feel safe again.

Author : Chip Ward
Publisher : Verso
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 2001-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781859843215

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A quest to understand the secret history of ecocide in Utah.

Author : Sterling Seagrave
Publisher : Corgi
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 17,70 MB
Release : 2012-05
Category : China
ISBN : 9780552168120

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"Be so subtle that you are invisible. Be so mysterious that you are intangible. Then you will control your rivals's fate' un Tzu, from The Art of War A community of fifty five million expatriates. Up to two trillion dollars in assets. A highly integrated interconnected network of influence and favour. A firm base on the Pacific Rim. Ambitions to influence the West. Imagine the potential power of such an organisation. You don't have to. This is the Overseas Chinese. Sterling Seagrave's brilliant new book, Lords of the Rim, uncovers a complex web of operations which already dominates the Far East and which is already making inroads into the West. It is a superbly researched and spectacularly told account of an extraordinary phenomenon, telling just who the Overseas Chinese are and how they became so powerful. Spanning thousands of years it encompasses stories of murder and betrayal, bravery and corruption; of triads, syndicates, kingmakers, merchants, emperors, generals, spies and pirates. In telling this masterful and entertaining history, Seagrave provides the reader with a cautionary tale- that Chinese strategies so effective for centuries are just as succesful today."

Author : Seth Muller
Publisher : Grand Canyon Association
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1934656135

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"There's the Grand Canyon as seen from one of the rims. Spectacular. Awe-inspiring. Dramatic. And there's the Grand Canyon below the rims, a very different place steeped in wilderness, bus-sized boulders, tumbling streams, knee-shredding switchbacks, solitude, and the cataract-punctuated Colorado River. The trails in Grand Canyon National Park attract more than 80,000 permitted overnight backpackers annually, as well as an untold number of day hikers and mule riders. Join author Seth Muller on a grand adventure, searching for the Grand Canyon's soul along miles of canyon trails. Muller profiles rangers, artists, volunteers, hikers, ultra-marathoners, mule skinners, and others who regularly experience the inner canyon, presenting the Corridor Trails in intimate, creative prose that will carry the reader into the depths of the canyon and back out again"--P. 4 of cover.

Author : Klaus W. Wiendieck
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Slopes (Physical geography).
ISBN :

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A new semiempirical approach was attempted to predict the slope-climbing capability of wheels. The approach consisted of determining the pull performance of flexible wheels on yielding slopes by two extrapolations: one starting from the theoretically known pull performance of flexible wheels on unyielding slopes, and the other from experimentally determined performance of rigid wheels on yielding, level ground. The result is a prediction equation for the available pull of elastic-rim wheels (as a particularly simple case of pneumatic tires) on deformable, inclined soils in terms of soil deformability, cohesion, and internal friction; wheel flexibility and load; and slope angle. (Author).