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Paper Tiger by Tom Coyne is a captivating memoir that follows the author's quest to become a professional golfer. Despite being a mediocre player, Coyne sets out on a year-long journey to train like a pro and compete in a qualifying tournament.
Jan 17, 2017 · In Paper Tiger: Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India, Nayanika Mathur details the everyday absurdities of bureaucracy in the Himalayan borderlands, showing the frequent gulf between ‘real life’ and the abstract workings of the law.
Jun 1, 2006 · Paper Tiger takes you on a rollicking ride into the beer-gutted underbelly of semipro golf, into a world of crash diets, punishing workout regimens, high-flying sports shrinks, cutting-edge club technology, and obscure tournaments.
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Oct 5, 2015 · Summary. The title of this book is drawn from a fieldwork episode during which the Indian state was adjudged, loudly and angrily, to be nothing but a paper tiger ( kaghaz ka bagh ). The episode was the arrival of a human-eating big cat in Gopeshwar resulting in multiple deaths and injuries and the commencement of what was popularly described as ...
Apr 20, 2018 · Paper Tiger is an ethnographic study of the developmental Indian state with a focus on quotidian bureaucracy. It reads and presents several, much-debated issues – poverty, unemployment, time, space, neoliberalism, welfare, wildlife conservationism – through an ethnography of law and bureaucracy.
Paper Tiger is the first English translation of acclaimed French novelist Rolin. The past becomes present over a night when a survivor of the 1968 Paris uprising takes his friend’s (known as “Thirteen”) now 24-year-old daughter on an odyssey of the heart, mind and spirit of “The Cause,” the radical group to which they both belonged.
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Charting his journey, which included hiring top golf gurus such as Dr. Jim Suttie—Paper Tiger takes readers from the Michelob tournament (a win for Tom) to the Australian Tour—where...
