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  Summary of Robert Pirsig’s Zen...

  Falcon Press

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  Summary of Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a heavily autobiographical novel about the author’s cross-country motorcycle ride with his 11-year-old son, Chris. Haunted by his own history of mental illness, and worried about Chris, who recently received a similar diagnosis, the unnamed narrator plots a route from Minnesota to California…

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  The World of Yesterday - Memoirs...

  Stefan Zweig

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  Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars. Zweig's passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the brink of extinction. It is an unusually humane account of Europe from the closing years of the 19th century through to World War II, seen through the eyes of one of the most famous writers of his era. Zweig's books (novels, biographies, essays) were translated into numerous languages, and he moved in the highest literary circles; he also encountered many leading political and social figures of his day.The World of Yesterday is a remarkable, totally engrossing history. This translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell captures the spirit of Zweig's writing in arguably his most important work, completed shortly before his tragic death in 1942. It is read with sympathy and understanding by David Horovitch.

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  Three Milongas - One Metamorphosis

  Tanguera Writer

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  Tanguera, an experienced tango dancer, thought she knew what tango was until three milongas,tango dance events, permanently changed her pale and egocentric life to what she had deeply longed for but never imagined to be possible. 
  An emotional, sensual, and spiritual recollection of real events and of the transformative power of tango. 
  “Three Milongas” is the fiction-infused recollection of the events, based on a true story, that led to my metamorphosis. 
  "It makes me want to tango!" 
  -Susan Edwards

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  Last Train to Texas - My...

  Fred W. Frailey

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  A veteran railroad columnist takes readers on a wild ride through the American train industry with remembrances that crisscross the country and the world. 
   
  In Last Train to Texas, author Fred W. Frailey examines the workings behind the railroad industry and captures incredible true stories along the way. He vividly portrays the industries larger-than-life characters, such as William “Pisser Bill” F. Thompson, who weathered financial ruin, bad merger deals, and cutthroat competition, all while racking up enough notoriety to inspire a poem titled “Ode to a Jerk.” 
   
  Whether he’s riding the Canadian Pacific Railway through a blizzard, witnessing a container train burglary in the Abo Canyon, or commemorating a poem to Limerick Junction in Dublin, Frailey’s journeys are rife with excitement, incident, and the spirit of the rails. Filled with humorous anecdotes and thoughtful insights into the railroading industry, Last Train to Texas is a grand adventure for the railroad connoisseur.

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  IMPORTANCE OF GOING ECO-FRIENDLY...

  Parshwika Bhandari

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  Based on my own experience and knowledge, I am sharing the importance of going Eco friendly, and why it is important, and what we could do as normal human beings in our day to day routine to protect our environment and nature, hopefully you find it useful and enjoyful, and together we can protect and safe our environment

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  Tony Ryan - Ireland's Aviator

  Richard Aldous

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  In this authorised biography of one of the most remarkable Irishmen of the twentieth century, Richard Aldous is independent in his judgements and frank in his examination of his subject's shortcomings and eccentricities. But most of all, he writes with verve and pace.
  Tony Ryan was born in a railwayman's cottage and rose to enormous success, overseeing the spectacular making of two business fortunes and the dramatic loss of one.
  After an early spell in Aer Lingus, he set up an airline leasing company, Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA), which had its headquarters in Shannon and quickly became the largest such enterprise in the world. Ryan was a hard taskmaster and the company reflected his ferocious work ethic. Yet, despite a stellar board of directors, a botched and poorly timed Initial Public Offering in the 1990s saw GPA crash and burn.
  Ryan lost almost everything. All that remained was a little airline running massive deficits. Ryan set about turning Ryanair around, putting in one of his assistants, Michael O'Leary, to help knock it into shape. The rest is history.
  Ryan remade his fortune, lived lavishly and elegantly, was a generous patron of the arts, and in every respect larger than life. His spirit is one that Ireland needs more than ever today. As the nation strives for its own recovery, it can find inspiration in the story of how one of its most famous sons rose and fell, and then rose again. Not one to stand still or lament mistakes, Tony Ryan's determination never to give up is the real lesson of this story. He was in so many ways Ireland's Aviator.

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