Amateur
Amateur

Author: Thomas Page McBee

Publisher: Scribner

Published: 2019-05-14

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1501168754

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*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction *Shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award *Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize One of The Times UK’s Best Memoirs of 2018, BuzzFeed’s Best Nonfiction of 2018, Autostraddle’s Best LGBT Books of 2018, and 52 Insight’s Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2018 A “no-holds-barred examination of masculinity” (BuzzFeed) and violence from award-winning author Thomas Page McBee. In this “refreshing and radical” (The Guardian) narrative, Thomas McBee, a trans man, sets out to uncover what makes a man—and what being a “good” man even means—through his experience training for and fighting in a charity boxing match at Madison Square Garden. A self-described “amateur” at masculinity, McBee embarks on a wide-ranging exploration of gender in society, examining sexism, toxic masculinity, and privilege. As he questions the limitations of gender roles and the roots of masculine aggression, he finds intimacy, hope, and even love in the experience of boxing and in his role as a man in the world. Despite personal history and cultural expectations, “Amateur is a reminder that the individual can still come forward and fight” (The A.V. Club). “Sharp and precise, open and honest,” (Women’s Review of Books), McBee’s writing asks questions “relevant to all people, trans or not” (New York Newsday). Through interviews with experts in neuroscience, sociology, and critical race theory, he constructs a deft and thoughtful examination of the role of men in contemporary society. Amateur is a graceful and uncompromising look at gender by a fearless, fiercely honest writer.

The Amateur Cracksman
The Amateur Cracksman

Author: Ernest William Hornung

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-08-06

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1387148559

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Arthur J. Raffles is a character created in the 1890s by E. W. Hornung, brother-in-law to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Raffles is, in many ways, a deliberate inversion of Holmes - he is a ""gentleman thief,"" living at the Albany, a prestigious address in London, playing cricket for the Gentlemen of England and supporting himself by carrying out ingenious burglaries. He is called the ""Amateur Cracksman,"" and often, at first, differentiates between himself and the ""professors"" - professional criminals from the lower classes. As Holmes has Dr. Watson to chronicle his adventures, Raffles has Harry ""Bunny"" Manders - a former schoolmate saved from disgrace and suicide by Raffles, whom Raffles persuaded to accompany him on a burglary. While Raffles often takes advantage of Manders' relative innocence, and sometimes treats him with a certain amount of contempt, he knows that Manders' bravery and loyalty are to be relied on utterly.

The Amateur
The Amateur

Author: Edward Klein

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-06-03

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1621571653

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It’s amateur hour at the White House. So says New York Times bestselling author Edward Klein in his new political exposé The Amateur. Tapping into the public’s growing sentiment that President Obama is in over his head, The Amateur argues that Obama’s toxic combination of incompetence and arrogance have run our nation and his presidency off the rails. “Obama was both completely inexperienced and ideologically far to the left of Americans when he entered the White House,” says Klein. “And he was so arrogant that he didn’t even know what he didn’t know.” Klein, who is known for getting the inside scoop on everyone from the Kennedys to the Clintons, reveals never-before-published details about the Obama administration’s political inner workings and about Barack and Michelle’s personal lives, including: The inordinate influence Michelle wields over Barack and her feud with a high-profile celebrity The real reason Rahm Emmanuel left the White House (it wasn’t for family reasons) Why Valerie Jarrett’s role is closer to that of Rasputin than impartial senior advisor Obama’s problems with American Jews How Obama has purposefully forgotten and ignored those that put him in power, including the Kennedys, and the Jewish and African American communities in Chicago From Obama’s conceited and detached demeanor, to his detrimental reliance on Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett’s advice, to the Obamas' extravagant and out-of-touch lifestyle, The Amateur reveals a president whose blatant ignorance and incompetence is sabotaging himself, his presidency, and America.

Man Alive
Man Alive

Author: Thomas Page McBee

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2017-05-25

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1786890895

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If he is to become a man, what sort of man should Thomas Page McBee be? To find out, McBee must confront the suffering he has endured at the hands of men: the abuse he endured as a child from his father, and the violent mugging which almost killed him as an adult. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, McBee seeks to understand these examples of flawed manhood, and reclaim his body on his own terms. Powerful, uplifting and profound, Man Alive is a story about transformation; about freedom, and love, and finding the strength to rebuild ourselves as the people we are meant to be.

The Amateur Marriage
The Amateur Marriage

Author: Anne Tyler

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2004-01-06

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1400042984

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author—a rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriage and its consequences, spanning three generations They seemed like the perfect couple—young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment Pauline, a stranger to the Polish Eastern Avenue neighborhood of Baltimore (though she lived only twenty minutes away), walked into his mother’s grocery store, Michael was smitten. And in the heat of World War II fervor, they are propelled into a hasty wedding. But they never should have married. Pauline, impulsive, impractical, tumbles hit-or-miss through life; Michael, plodding, cautious, judgmental, proceeds deliberately. While other young marrieds, equally ignorant at the start, seemed to grow more seasoned, Pauline and Michael remain amateurs. In time their foolish quarrels take their toll. Even when they find themselves, almost thirty years later, loving, instant parents to a little grandson named Pagan, whom they rescue from Haight-Ashbury, they still cannot bridge their deep-rooted differences. Flighty Pauline clings to the notion that the rifts can always be patched. To the unyielding Michael, they become unbearable. From the sound of the cash register in the old grocery to the counterculture jargon of the sixties, from the miniskirts to the multilayered apparel of later years, Anne Tyler captures the evocative nuances of everyday life during these decades with such telling precision that every page brings smiles of recognition. Throughout, as each of the competing voices bears witness, we are drawn ever more fully into the complex entanglements of family life in this wise, embracing, and deeply perceptive novel.

The Amateurs
The Amateurs

Author: Sara Shepard

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2016-11-04

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1484747356

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Five years ago, high school senior Helena Kelly disappeared from her backyard in Dexby, Connecticut, never to be heard from again. Her family was left without any answers -- without any idea who killed Helena, or why. So when eighteen-year-old Seneca Frazier sees a desperate post on the Case Not Closed message board, she knows it's time to change that. Helena's high-profile disappearance is the one that originally got Seneca addicted to true crime. It's the reason she's a member of the site in the first place. Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, she agrees to spend spring break in Connecticut working on the case with Maddy Wright, her friend from Case Not Closed. However, the moment she steps off the train, things start to go wrong. Maddy's nothing like she expected, and Helena's sister, Aerin, doesn't seem to want any help after all. Plus, Seneca has a secret of her own, one that could derail the investigation if she's not careful. Alongside Brett, another super-user from the site, they slowly begin to unravel the secrets Helena kept in the weeks before her disappearance. But the killer is watching . . . and determined to make sure the case stays cold. #1 New York Times best-selling author Sara Shepard is back with The Amateurs, first in a gripping new series packed with scandalous twists, shocking betrayals, and sizzling romance. "Shepard . . . unravels the truth, the author lulls readers into a false sense of security before expertly pulling the rug out from underneath them. This is a delicious start to the Amateurs series." -Publishers Weekly, starred review "A twisty and ultimately satisfying romantic whodunit." -Kirkus Reviews "[L]ikely to reach best-seller status." -Booklist "A delicious and suspenseful page-turner. I want more!" -I. Marlene King, Executive Producer, Pretty Little Liars "Chilling and romantic and full of surprises." -Cecily von Ziegesar, New York Times best-selling author of the Gossip Girl series "Long live the queen of secrets! The Amateurs is a dark and twisty thriller which might just fill the Pretty Little Liars shaped hole in my heart!" -Danielle Paige, New York Times best-selling author of Dorothy Must Die "Deceitful and delicious!" -- Kami Garcia, #1 New York Times best-selling coauthor of Beautiful Creatures and author of The Lovely Reckless "It's clear that Sara Shepard is no amateur; her devious and thrilling twists will leave you frantically turning pages until the very last moment." -- Kass Morgan, New York Times best-selling author of The 100 series

The Cult of the Amateur
The Cult of the Amateur

Author: Andrew Keen

Publisher: Currency

Published: 2008-08-12

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0385520816

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Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement. Our most valued cultural institutions, Keen warns—our professional newspapers, magazines, music, and movies—are being overtaken by an avalanche of amateur, user-generated free content. Advertising revenue is being siphoned off by free classified ads on sites like Craigslist; television networks are under attack from free user-generated programming on YouTube and the like; file-sharing and digital piracy have devastated the multibillion-dollar music business and threaten to undermine our movie industry. Worse, Keen claims, our “cut-and-paste” online culture—in which intellectual property is freely swapped, downloaded, remashed, and aggregated—threatens over 200 years of copyright protection and intellectual property rights, robbing artists, authors, journalists, musicians, editors, and producers of the fruits of their creative labors. In today’s self-broadcasting culture, where amateurism is celebrated and anyone with an opinion, however ill-informed, can publish a blog, post a video on YouTube, or change an entry on Wikipedia, the distinction between trained expert and uninformed amateur becomes dangerously blurred. When anonymous bloggers and videographers, unconstrained by professional standards or editorial filters, can alter the public debate and manipulate public opinion, truth becomes a commodity to be bought, sold, packaged, and reinvented. The very anonymity that the Web 2.0 offers calls into question the reliability of the information we receive and creates an environment in which sexual predators and identity thieves can roam free. While no Luddite—Keen pioneered several Internet startups himself—he urges us to consider the consequences of blindly supporting a culture that endorses plagiarism and piracy and that fundamentally weakens traditional media and creative institutions. Offering concrete solutions on how we can reign in the free-wheeling, narcissistic atmosphere that pervades the Web, THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR is a wake-up call to each and every one of us.

Ip Man Wing Chun
Ip Man Wing Chun

Author: Alessandro Sivo

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-01-21

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9781523636815

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ALESSANDRO SIVO PRACTICE WING CHUN FOR OVER 10 YEARS . And ' AUTHOR OF PREVIOUS THREE BOOKS ON THE THEME AND YEARS OF DEDICATION TO THE STUDY AND TEACHING OF THIS DISCIPLINE WITH HUMILITY ' . HIS RESEARCH HAS LED TO ATTEND COURSES AND SEVERAL DIFFERENT SCHOOLS OF WING CHUN AND THEN TO KNOW EVEN IN THE CORPORATE WORLD CLASS OF WING CHUN KUNG FU . TALK ABOUT THIS WORK SAYING THIS :TALKING ABOUT THIS BOOK, HE SAYS: ALTHOUGH TODAY STILL JUST A O YOUNG TEACHER STUDENT BUT ALSO THE INTENT OF THIS WORK, NOT 'PRETENTIOUS BUT IT' IS TO GIVE AID TO PRACTICE IP MAN WING CHUN AND NOT LIMITED TO, THE PROVIDING THAT IMPORTANT TECHNICAL DETAILS SOMETIMES UNFORTUNATELY IN SCHOOLS OF WING CHUN ARE NOT TRANSMITTED OR OTHERWISE IN BOOKS IS HARD TO FIND. THIS WORK AND 'FIRST BORN AND' STILL FOR ME STILL, ALSO A WAY OF ALL STAFF, FOR EVEN BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT 'MY STYLE AND EVERYTHING' WHEEL BACK TO IT, BUT ESPECIALLY FOR NON FORGET ANY KEY STEPS THAT ARE AT THE BASE OF THE SYSTEM AND THAT WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME WE HAVE LOOSE IT. SO COULD NOT TALK IN THE BOOK 'AND TECHNICAL POSITIONS ONLY BUT ALSO THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE PRINCIPLES OF THE SAME BODY OF WHICH THE SYSTEM WING CHUN CORRECTLY THE SAME CAN NOT 'WORK. THIS BOOK IS ALSO A WAY THEN TO HAVE A CODING OF A CERTAIN STYLE THAT FOR YEARS FOR A SPEECH BY TRADITION DRAWS SENT ONLY BY MOUTH, RESULTING IN LOSS OF TECHNICAL INFORMATION IMPORTANT. AND 'THAT SHOULD BE CARRIED OUT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTENTION OF THIS BOOK; SAY IS TO MAKE LIGHT RESEARCH WING CHUN AND EXPECIALLY IN THE IP MAN'S SYSTEM, BUT ALSO TO BE ABLE TO SEND THIS KNOWLEDGE IN A MANNER NOT TOO SEGMENTED AND PRACTICE TO READERS AS THE ASPECTS COVERED OR LESS UNKNOWN, SOME OF THESE CONSIDERATIONS, INFORMATION MAY BE A CASE INSTEAD OF HIS-TORY, AND VOICES OF HALL PARTLY TRUE THAT MAY PROVE INACCURATE OR ENTIRELY. SURELY I MADE FROM MY PART IN MY LITTLE AS POSSIBLE TO KEEP IN ONLY THOSE CONSIDERATIONS THAT I APPEAR THROUGH PROCESS COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT READING MATERIAL, THE MOST REALISTIC AND ESPECIALLY WITH A GLIMMER OF DOCUMENTATION. IF THERE ARE ANY ERRORS OR ANY ERROR CALL ALL READERS TELL ME IN ORDER TO CORRECT THIS JOB AND TO BE ABLE TO IMPROVE.

The Amateur American
The Amateur American

Author: Joel Saunders Elmore

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2009-08-04

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0307452883

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Sometimes the hardest boundaries to see . . .are the ones you’ve already crossed. Twenty-nine-year-old Jeffrey Delanne is teaching English in France but having a tough time stretching his measly paycheck one month to the next. When he’s not worrying about his bar tab, he’s struggling with the language, trying to justify his country’s “imperialist” actions to every French person in sight, and wondering just what the hell he’s doing abroad. Desperate for a few quick euros, Jeffrey takes on some translating work for an eccentric Arab businessman. But the job turns ugly, and Jeffrey is forced to do things he never thought himself capable of, torn among guilt, a host of criminal impulses, and a haunting paranoia he’d never known back home. But maybe it’s not just paranoia. Soon Jeffrey’s colleagues, his students, and even the women in his life begin hinting at dark secrets, and Jeffrey starts to suspect that he’s been lured into a brutal game whose implications go far beyond this unassuming corner of the world. Now his life may depend on his willingness to transform himself into something–someone–who’ll stop at nothing to survive.

The Amateur
The Amateur

Author: Richard Harding Davis

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-10

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13:

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'The Amateur' is a novel written by Richard Harding Davis, a man best remembered today for being the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish–American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. It is thus no wonder that the main character of this novel shares the same occupation as he; Austin Ford, a man currently working as the London correspondent of the New York Republic. For three years on that most sensational of the New York dailies he had been the star man, the chief muckraker, the chief sleuth.