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Author : Marghanita Laski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Victorian Chaise Longue written by Marghanita Laski and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Baxter Dury
Publisher : Corsair
ISBN 13 : 9781472155122
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (551 download)
Download or read book Chaise Longue written by Baxter Dury and published by Corsair. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When punk rock star Ian Dury disappeared to make films in the late 80s, he left his teenage son in the care of his roadie, in a rundown flat in Hammersmith. But this was no ordinary roadie; this was the Sulphate Strangler. The Strangler, having taken a lot of LSD in the 60s, was prone to depression, anger and hallucinations. He was also, as the name suggests, a drug dealer. What could possibly go wrong? In a period that we can now only imagine, a young Baxter ricocheted from one adventure to another, narrowly swerving one disaster only immediately to collide with another. At times, his situation was perilous in the extreme - the world is lucky to have him at all. Chaise Longue is an intimate account of those escapades, evocatively illuminating a bohemian west London populated with feverishly grubby characters.
Author : Charles Harrington Elster
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618423156
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (231 download)
Download or read book The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations written by Charles Harrington Elster and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive pronouncement on more than 1,500 of our most commonly mispronounced words. From the language maven Charles Harrington Elster comes an authoritative and unapologetically opinionated look at American speech. As Elster points out, there is no sewer in connoisseur, no dip in diphthong, and no pronoun in pronunciation. The culmination of twenty years of observation and study, The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations is more than just a pronunciation guide. Elster discusses past and present usage, alternatives, analogies, and tendencies and offers plenty of advice, none of it objective. Whether you are adamant or ambivalent about the spoken word, Elster arms you with the information you need to decide what is acceptable for you. The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations has now been expanded and revised and features nearly 200 new words, including: al-Qaeda bruschetta commensurate coup de grace curriculum vita exacerbate gigabyte hara-kiri machismo Muslim Niger Pinochet Pulitzer sorbet tinnitus w (as in www-dot) and many, many more. Charles Harrington Elster is the pronunciation editor of Black's Law Dictionary and the author of various books about language, including Verbal Advantage, There's a Word for It, and What in the Word? He has been a guest columnist on language for the Boston Globe and the New York Times Magazine and a commentator on NPR and hundreds of radio shows around the country.
Author : Kenneth G. Wilson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0585041482
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (85 download)
Download or read book The Columbia Guide to Standard American English written by Kenneth G. Wilson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-30 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the most reliable and readable guide to effective writing for the Americans of today, Wilson answers questions of meaning, grammar, pronunciation, punctuation, and spelling in thousands of clear, concise entries. His guide is unique in presenting a systematic, comprehensive view of language as determined by context. Wilson provides a simple chart of contexts—from oratorical speech to intimate, from formal writing to informal—and explains in which contexts a particular usage is appropriate, and in which it is not. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English provides the answers to questions about American English the way no other guide can with: * an A–Z format for quick reference; * over five thousand entries, more than any other usage book; * sensible and useful advice based on the most current linguistic research; * a convenient chart of levels of speech and writing geared to context; * both descriptive and prescriptive entries for guidance; * guidelines for nonsexist usage; * individual entries for all language terms. A vibrant description of how our language is being spoken and written at the end of the twentieth century—and how we ourselves can use it most effectively—The Columbia Guide to Standard American English is the ideal handbook to language etiquette: friendly, sensible, and reliable.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Furniture World written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cherry Dobson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312383275
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Upholstery written by Cherry Dobson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides instructions, photographs, and diagrams for completing upholstery jobs that range from stripping and reupholstering to fixing a simple tear.
Author : Gustav Stickley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Craftsman written by Gustav Stickley and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated monthly magazine in the interest of better art, better work and a better more reasonable way of living.
Author : Niki Brantmark
Publisher : CICO Books
ISBN 13 : 9781782494119
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (941 download)
Download or read book The Scandinavian Home written by Niki Brantmark and published by CICO Books. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover classic and contemporary Scandinavian style with specially commissioned photography of homes in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Discover classic and contemporary Scandinavian style with specially commissioned photography of homes in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Scandinavia is famous for its distinctive style: homes are pared-back and simple, and form and function are combined to create aesthetically pleasing and practical interiors. Scandinavians are inspired by light, having an abundance of it in summer but so little of it in winter, and house designs tend to maximize the amount of natural light that enters the home, and allow the inhabitants to make the most of outdoor life during the summer. Similarly, nature and the weather are major influences: homes are made warm and cozy for the freezing winter months—not just literally with log burners, but also through incorporating wood and natural materials. Here Niki Brantmark, owner of the interior design blog My Scandinavian Home, presents a wide-ranging collection of these beautiful homes and explores how the Scandinavian lifestyle is reflected in them all. The first chapter, Urban Living, features styles ranging from minimalist to bohemian, and pale palettes to dramatic dark colors. By contrast, the Country Homes tend to have a softer, calmer feel, through color and textiles, in line with a slower pace of life. Finally, the spectacular Rural Retreats include a mountain cabin, beach house, and rustic summer cottage, and demonstrate how having somewhere to escape to is so important to many Scandinavians. This collection of stunning interiors will put Scandi style within every reader’s reach.
Author : Saul H. Rosenthal
Publisher : Saul Rosenthal
ISBN 13 : 1604945052
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)
Download or read book All the French You Use Without Knowing It written by Saul H. Rosenthal and published by Saul Rosenthal. This book was released on 2010 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book isn't anything you have to memorize. As Catherine Ostrower, who teaches French at Wesleyan and was proofreading the book, wrote to the author: "THIS BOOK IS JUST SO MUCH FUN TO READ " It gives you the fascinating stories of English words that came from French, often words you would never have dreamt were French (like important, relay, stereotype, surrender, stranger, similar, and delicious). It tells you how these words evolved, how they arrived in English, and how they changed once in English. Think of these fascinating stories as a little treat for when you just feel like reading something interesting. Books in this Series by Saul H. Rosenthal The Rules for the Gender of French Nouns (3rd revised edition) Speaking Better French: Faux Amis Speaking Better French: More Faux Amis Speaking Better French: Still More Faux Amis French Faux Amis: The Combined Book Speaking Better French: The Key Words and Expressions Speaking Better French: More Key Words and Expressions French Key Words and Expressions: The Combined Book All the French You Use Without Knowing It
Author : Dominic Lutyens
Publisher : OH
ISBN 13 : 1838612068
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)
Download or read book Design Monograph: Perriand written by Dominic Lutyens and published by OH. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay discussing the life and work of the subject, followed by an illustrated appreciation of groundbreaking work. French architect and designer Charlotte Perriand not only created buildings such as the League of Nations in Geneva and ski resorts but was responsible for iconic furniture pieces in tubular steel, such as the Nuage bookshelf, Grand Confort chair (while working for Le Corbusier), B301 recliner and the ponyskin Chaise Longue.
Author : Armando Iannucci
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 0748114777
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Audacity Of Hype written by Armando Iannucci and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In THE AUDACITY OF HYPE, Armando Iannucci cuts straight to the heart of the insanity and sherbet-headed nonsense of modern life. THE AUDACITY OF HYPE brings together his views on diverse subjects, ranging from wickedly funny pen portraits of the sometimes loveable, usually despicable chumps who like to think of themselves as our political elite, and their bonkers schemes to save the world that are in fact likely to do us more harm than a pile of witches, to WMD, disaster movies, the pitfalls of 'I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here' and the high and mighty rhetoric of Obama, this is an absurdly entertaining and utterly indispensable collection from one of Britain's most brilliant satirists.
Author : Lauri Kubuitsile
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1920397779
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Bed Book of Short Stories written by Lauri Kubuitsile and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bed, dressed in hand sewn quilt or threadbare blanket, may in and of itself be memorable, but it is what happens in the bed the sex and lovemaking, the dreams, the reading, the nightmares, the rest, giving birth and dying which give bed special meaning. Whether a bed is shared with a book, a child, a pet or a partner, whether lovers lie in ecstasy or indifference, whether bed relates to intimacy or betrayal, it is memories and recollections of bed, in whatever form, which have triggered the writing of these thirty stories by women from southern Africa. Well known writers Joanne Fedler, Sarah Lotz, Arja Salafranca, Rosemund Handler and Liesl Jobson will delight, but you will discover here new writers from Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia and Zambia, each with a unique voice as they cast light on the intimate lives of women living in this part of the world and the possibilities that are both available to and denied them. The BED BOOK of short stories some quirky and tender, others traumatic or macabre is the perfect companion to take to bed with you, to keep you reading long into the night.
Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 1516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Celina Grace
Publisher : Isaro Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Kate Redman Mysteries Volume 5 written by Celina Grace and published by Isaro Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-12-03 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the boxed set of the 13th, 14th and 15th in the Kate Redman Mysteries series by bestselling crime writer Celina Grace. Performance (A Kate Redman Mystery: Book 13) The strangled body of a young woman is discovered in a park in the West Country town of Abbeyford, clad in a leopard skin coat but with no identification, no phone, no handbag. DI Kate Redman and her team take on the case and manage to identify the victim through her role in a local theatre production. But the questions keep coming: why was the victim estranged from her family? Who was the shadowy boyfriend she was hiding from her friends? And as Kate and her colleagues know from experience, plenty of people could be hiding many secrets… Hunt (A Kate Redman Mystery: Book 14) Detective Inspector Mark Olbeck and his partner have their day rudely interrupted when they witness a group of men attacking another in the street. Arrests are made but DI Kate Redman and the other officers of the Abbeyford police force are intrigued by their motive. The dark side of vigilantism is revealed when a body is found, and the laptop of the victim reveals some true horror. But is this a simple case of a paedophile hunter’s quest gone wrong? Or is there something more to this murder? Who is the real victim here? Kate, already struggling with a life-changing decision, has to draw on all her experience, wisdom and courage as she and her colleagues hunt a ruthless killer… Muse (A Kate Redman Mystery: Book 15) Abbeyford, in the West Country of England, is supposed to be a safe and pleasant place to live. But no fewer than four young women have gone missing in the past few years and now another, nineteen-year-old art student Mae Denton, has disappeared. DI Kate Redman is eager to tie up any loose ends before she goes on maternity leave. But as the case unfolds, a straightforward disappearance becomes more complicated. Who was the mysterious man whom Mae was apparently seeing, and do her friends know more than they are telling? Has she vanished for her own reasons? And who, if anyone, can Kate and her team trust?
Author : Jennifer Anne Boittin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226822249
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Undesirable written by Jennifer Anne Boittin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archival research into policing and surveillance of migrant women illuminates pressing contemporary issues. Examining little-known policing archives in France, Senegal, and Cambodia, Jennifer Anne Boittin unearths the stories of hundreds of women labeled “undesirable” by the French colonial police and society in the early twentieth century. These “undesirables” were often women traveling alone, women who were poor or ill, women of color, or women whose intimate lives were deemed unruly. To refute the label and be able to move freely, they spoke out or wrote impassioned letters: some emphasized their “undesirable” qualities to suggest that they needed the care and protection of the state to support their movements, while others used the empire’s own laws around Frenchness and mobility to challenge state or societal interference. Tacking between advocacy and supplication, these women summoned intimate details to move beyond, contest, or confound surveillance efforts, bringing to life a practice that Boittin terms “passionate mobility.” In considering how ordinary women pursued autonomy, security, companionship, or simply a better existence in the face of surveillance and control, Undesirable illuminates pressing contemporary issues of migration and violence.
Author : J. Lorand Matory
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478002433
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Fetish Revisited written by J. Lorand Matory and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, European social critics have invoked African gods as metaphors for misplaced value and agency, using the term “fetishism” chiefly to assert the irrationality of their fellow Europeans. Yet, as J. Lorand Matory demonstrates in The Fetish Revisited, Afro-Atlantic gods have a materially embodied social logic of their own, which is no less rational than the social theories of Marx and Freud. Drawing on thirty-six years of fieldwork in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, Matory casts an Afro-Atlantic eye on European theory to show how Marx’s and Freud’s conceptions of the fetish both illuminate and misrepresent Africa’s human-made gods. Through this analysis, the priests, practices, and spirited things of four major Afro-Atlantic religions simultaneously call attention to the culture-specific, materially conditioned, physically embodied, and indeed fetishistic nature of Marx’s and Freud’s theories themselves. Challenging long-held assumptions about the nature of gods and theories, Matory offers a novel perspective on the social roots of these tandem African and European understandings of collective action, while illuminating the relationship of European social theory to the racism suffered by Africans and assimilated Jews alike.
Author : Michael Quinion
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141909048
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Port Out, Starboard Home written by Michael Quinion and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can it really be true that 'golf' stands for 'Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden'? Or that 'rule of thumb' comes from an archaic legal principle that a man may chastise his wife, but only with a rod no thicker than his thumb? These and hundreds of other stories are commonly told and retold whenever people meet. They grow up in part because expressions are often genuinely mysterious. Why, for example, are satisfying meals 'square' rather than any other shape? And how did anyone ever come up with the idea that if you're competent at something you can 'cut the mustard'? Michael Quinion here retells many of the more bizarre tales, and explains their real origins where they're known. This is a fascinating treasure-trove of fiction and fact for anyone interested in language.
