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Author |
: Hamid Ismailov |
Publisher |
: Restless Books |
Total Pages |
: 318 |
Release |
: 2014-01-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780989983242 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0989983242 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Underground by : Hamid Ismailov
“I am Moscow’s underground son, the result of one too many nights on the town,” says Mbobo, the precocious twelve-year-old narrator of Hamid Ismailov’s The Underground. Born from a Siberian woman and an African athlete competing in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Mbobo navigates the complexities of being a fatherless, mixed-raced boy in the Soviet Union in the years before its collapse, guided only by the Moscow subway system. Named one of the "ten best Russian novels of the 21st Century" (Continent Magazine), The Underground is Ismailov’s haunting tour of the Soviet capital, on the surface and beneath. Though deeply engaged with great Russian authors of the past—Dostoyevsky, Nabokov, and, above all, Pushkin—Ismailov is an emerging master of Russian writing that reflects the country’s diversity today. Reviews "Hamid Ismailov has the capacity of Salman Rushdie at his best to show the grotesque realization of history on the ground." —Literary Review "The dream of grandeur is more than justified by the artfulness of The Underground, which...create[s] the motifs of blackness, subterranean movement, and isolation that are the novel’s strongest effects." —Transitions Online Hamid Ismailov is an Uzbek journalist, writer, and translator who was forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 for the United Kingdom, where he now works for the BBC World Service. His works are still banned in Uzbekistan. His writing has been published in Uzbek, Russian, French, English, and other languages. He is the author of novels including Sobranie Utonchyonnyh, Le Vagabond Flamboyant, Two Lost to Life, The Railway, The Underground, A Poet and Bin-Laden and The Dead Lake; poetry collections including Sad (Garden) and Pustynya (Desert); and books of visual poetry Post Faustum and Kniga Otsutstvi. Carol Ermakova studied German and Russian language and literature and holds an MA in translation from Bath University. She first visited Russia in 1991. More recently, Ermakova spent two years in Moscow working as a teacher and translator. Carol currently lives in the North Pennines and works as a freelance translator.
Author |
: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 460 |
Release |
: 2009-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674044649 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674044647 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Off the Books by : Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate and remarkable ways in which a community survives. The result is a dramatic narrative of individuals at work, and a rich portrait of a community. But while excavating the efforts of men and women to generate a basic livelihood for themselves and their families, Off the Books offers a devastating critique of the entrenched poverty that we so often ignore in America, and reveals how the underground economy is an inevitable response to the ghetto's appalling isolation from the rest of the country.
Author |
: Joyce Jones |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2013-10-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0989575500 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780989575508 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond the Underground by : Joyce Jones
The legacy lives. Descendants of the famed abolitionist, Harriet Tubman, deliver a work reminiscent of family lore, memoir, and historical fact about the Moses of Her People. The story of Aunt Harriet is embedded within the family history of the Green Ross Tubman Stewart Elliot Gaskin Stokes lineage. The story arises from a young black girl who lived in Auburn, new York during the 1930's and finds out that she is related to the old woman whose portrait hung in the Booker T. Washington Community Center.
Author |
: Suelette Dreyfus |
Publisher |
: Canongate Books |
Total Pages |
: 517 |
Release |
: 2012-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857862600 |
ISBN-13 |
: 085786260X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Underground by : Suelette Dreyfus
Suelette Dreyfus and her co-author, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, tell the extraordinary true story of the computer underground, and the bizarre lives and crimes of an elite ring of international hackers who took on the establishment. Spanning three continents and a decade of high level infiltration, they created chaos amongst some of the world's biggest and most powerful organisations, including NASA and the US military. Brilliant and obsessed, many of them found themselves addicted to hacking and phreaking. Some descended into drugs and madness, others ended up in jail. As riveting as the finest detective novel and meticulously researched, Underground follows the hackers through their crimes, their betrayals, the hunt, raids and investigations. It is a gripping tale of the digital underground.
Author |
: Stephen Graham |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2016-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780472119752 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0472119753 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sounds of the Underground by : Stephen Graham
The first scholarly examination of underground music in the digital age
Author |
: Will Hunt |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812996746 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812996747 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Underground by : Will Hunt
Descend -- Across Paris -- The intraterrestrials -- The ochre miners -- The burrowers -- Lost -- The hidden bison -- The dark zone -- Humberto.
Author |
: Colson Whitehead |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2018-01-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780345804327 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0345804325 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Underground Railroad by : Colson Whitehead
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!
Author |
: Millie De Chirico |
Publisher |
: Running Press Adult |
Total Pages |
: 462 |
Release |
: 2022-10-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780762480012 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0762480017 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis TCM Underground by : Millie De Chirico
Based on the Turner Classic Movies series, TCM Underground is the movie-lover's guide to 50 of the most campy, kitschy, shocking, and weirdly wonderful cult films you need to see. In the pages of this book, you'll explore this unique order of films—primarily from the 1960s, '70s, and '80s—with insightful reviews, behind-the-scenes stories, subgenre sidebars, and full-color and black-and-white photography throughout. Go along for the ride with new takes on crime films, including The Honeymoon Killers and The Harder They Come. Witness one-of-a-kind horror in Bill Gunn's landmark vampire film Ganja and Hess and Nobuhiko Obayashi’s infamous and indescribable Hausu. Absorb the boundary-pushing documentary-style trilogy The Decline of Western Civilization, which throws you into indelible moments in the punk and metal music scenes. And marvel at pure '80s oddities like Mac and Me and The Garbage Pail Kids. From Possession to Polyester and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls to Xanadu, no two films are alike in this compendium. Just sit back and prepare to be surprised, amused, and entertained by this celebration of the stars, filmmakers, and stories behind fifty of the most beguiling and unforgettable movies ever to hit the screen.
Author |
: Maaza Mengiste |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2011-01-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393076776 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393076776 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel by : Maaza Mengiste
"An important novel, rich in compassion for its anguished characters." —The New York Times Book Review This memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother’s prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to report to jail after helping a victim of state-sanctioned torture to die. And Dawit, Hailu’s youngest son, has joined an underground resistance movement—a choice that will lead to more upheaval and bloodshed across a ravaged Ethiopia. Beneath the Lion’s Gaze tells a gripping story of family, of the bonds of love and friendship set in a time and place that has rarely been explored in fiction. It is a story about the lengths human beings will go in pursuit of freedom and the human price of a national revolution. Emotionally gripping, poetic, and indelibly tragic, Beneath The Lion’s Gaze is a transcendent and powerful debut.
Author |
: David Wolfe |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2009-04-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786730933 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786730935 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tales From The Underground by : David Wolfe
There are over one billion organisms in a pinch of soil, yet we know much more about deep space than about the universe below. In Tales from the Underground, Cornell ecologist David Wolfe takes us on a tour through current scientific knowledge of the subterranean world. We follow the progress of discovery from Charles Darwin's experiments with earthworms, to Lewis and Clark's first encounter with prairie dogs, to the use of new genetic tools that are revealing an astonishingly rich ecosystem beneath our feet. Wolfe plunges us deep into the earth's rocky crust, where life may have begun-a world devoid of oxygen and light but safe from asteroid bombardment. Primitive microbes found there are turning our notion of the evolutionary tree of life on its head: amazingly, they represent perhaps a full third of earth's genetic diversity. As Wolfe explains, creatures of the soil can work for us, by providing important pharmaceuticals and recycling the essential elements of life, or against us, by spreading disease and contributing to global climate change. The future of our species may well depend on how we manage our living soil resources. Tales from the Underground will forever alter our appreciation of the natural world around-and beneath-us.