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Book Synopsis Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear by : Ed McBain
Download or read book Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear written by Ed McBain and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lainie Commins, a freelance designer of children's toys, hires attorney Matthew Hope for a lawsuit against her old employers, Brett and Etta Toland. At stake are the lucrative rights to Gladly, a teddy bear with crossed eyes and corrective lenses. It's a straightforward case--until Brett Toland is shot in the throat aboard his luxury yacht and Lainie becomes the chief suspect.
Book Synopsis Laughter at the Foot of the Cross by : Michael A. Screech
Download or read book Laughter at the Foot of the Cross written by Michael A. Screech and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. A. Screech, best known for his translations of Montaigne and Rabelais, has collected a series of brilliant essays on the question of when laughter was acceptable to the Western Church. During a time of reform and concerns about heresy, laugher becomes a subtle measure of when and how one can risk rule-breaking. While it could be cruel to mock those who fell into error, it wasas Screech points out so much better than burning them. Professor Screech explores what inspired laughter in the Renaissance, and whether it could be innocent."
Book Synopsis And the Angels Laughed by : Barbara Eubanks
Download or read book And the Angels Laughed written by Barbara Eubanks and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laughter, joy, and inspiration awaits the reader of Barbara Eubanks' second book, "And the Angels Laughed". Barbara finds humor in unusual places. As a pastor's wife, she spends much time in church-related events. Eubanks blends humor beautifully with devotions, drawing readers closer to the Lord.
Book Synopsis Revivalistics by : Ghil'ad Zuckermann
Download or read book Revivalistics written by Ghil'ad Zuckermann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Ghil'ad Zuckermann introduces revivalistics, a new trans-disciplinary field of enquiry surrounding language reclamation, revitalization, and reinvigoration. Applying lessons from the Hebrew revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to contemporary endangered languages, Zuckermann takes readers along a fascinating and multifaceted journey into language revival and provides new insights into language genesis. Beginning with a critical analysis of Israeli-the language resulting from the Hebrew revival-Zuckermann's radical theory contradicts conventional accounts of the Hebrew revival and challenges the family tree model of historical linguistics. Revivalistics demonstrates how grammatical cross-fertilization with the revivalists' mother tongues is inevitable in the case of successful "revival languages." The second part of the book then applies these lessons from the Israeli language to revival movements in Australia and globally, describing the "why" and "how" of revivalistics. With examples from the Barngarla Aboriginal language of South Australia, Zuckermann proposes ethical, aesthetic, and utilitarian reasons for language revival and offers practical methods for reviving languages. Based on years of the author's research, fieldwork, and personal experience with language revivals all over the globe, Revivalistics offers ground-breaking theoretical and pragmatic contributions to the field of language reclamation, revitalization, and reinvigoration.
Book Synopsis Love Is in This Room by : Laurel Lorraine Lancer, PhD
Download or read book Love Is in This Room written by Laurel Lorraine Lancer, PhD and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Laurel Lorraine Lancer, PhD, taught in the public school system for forty-five years, working with special education students of all ages. In Love Is in This Room, Dr. Lancer invites readers into her life and her classroom as she shares intimate stories from her career. She built special relationships with both her students and her colleagues and is a vocal advocate for the merits of this level of personal and professional investment. Many close relationships that she gained in teaching and counseling her students have endured for many years. She describes the changes in education over her years in the public school system, and she decries the "robotic" transformation of teachers by current education methods. She has taught students who were emotionally disturbed, learning disabled, autistic, intellectually disabled, and gifted. She chronicles the development of special education in her district and gives poignant stories about her many individual students. This book relates Dr. Lancer's teaching approach with many memorable students. It is her hope that her love for her students and for teaching shines through her words.
Book Synopsis THE COLLECTED WORKS OF LEONARD WANNABE by : LEONARD GREENBERG
Download or read book THE COLLECTED WORKS OF LEONARD WANNABE written by LEONARD GREENBERG and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Collected Works of Leonard Wannabe” tells of the professional trials and tribulations experienced by one of today’s most-talented, least-published author/songwriters, Leonard Greenberg. The first section, Remembrances of Encounters Past, recounts the author’s dealings with three icons of modern American culture: Isaac Asimov, Stephen Sondheim, and Beverly Sills. The second section, Short Stories, describes three episodes of a strictly fictional nature, each with a memorable, somewhat shocking ending. The third and last section, Poems and Songs, contains the lyrics to some forty of the over 200 musical compositions that Mr. Wannabe (oops, Greenberg) has produced in the past number of years.
Book Synopsis The Australian Book of Atheism by : Warren Bonett
Download or read book The Australian Book of Atheism written by Warren Bonett and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the Anzac ethos have roots in atheism? Does prayer have a place in Parliament? Should 'creation science' be taught in Australian schools? The Australian Book of Atheism is the first collection to explore atheism from an Australian viewpoint. Bringing together essays from 33 of the nation's pre-eminent atheist, rationalist, humanist, and sceptical thinkers, it canvasses a range of opinions on religion and secularism in Australia.
Book Synopsis Structural Ambiguity in English by : Dallin D. Oaks
Download or read book Structural Ambiguity in English written by Dallin D. Oaks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structural Ambiguity in English is a major new scholarly work that provides an innovative and accessible linguistic description of those features of the language that can be exploited to generate structural ambiguities. Most ambiguity scholarship is concerned with disambiguation-the process of making what is ambiguous clear. This book takes the opposite approach as it focuses on describing the features in the English language that may contribute towards the creation of structural ambiguities, which form the core of some of the best word-plays found in advertising, comedy and marketing. Oaks utilizes a systematic and comprehensive inventory approach that identifies individual elements in the language and their distinctive behaviors that can be manipulated in the deliberate creation of structural ambiguities. In doing so he also provides authentic examples to illustrate the concepts he presents. This book will appeal to researchers and academics interested in the structure of the English language, usage, pragmatics, communication, natural language processing, editing, and humor studies as well as those in marketing, advertising, or humor writing.
Book Synopsis Tales From the Word Guy by : Jonathan Berkowitz
Download or read book Tales From the Word Guy written by Jonathan Berkowitz and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from the Word Guy is a collection of essays adapted from the author’s segments on CBC Radio One’s North by Northwest. Jonathan Berkowitz takes the reader on a delightful journey through the history, idiosyncrasies, and sheer pleasures of the English language. He covers how English evolved and expanded over the centuries. And he reminds us of long-forgotten aspects of how to use the language properly. You will chuckle at how it is used improperly, often with amusing results. With enthusiasm, humour, and plenty of infectious fun, Berkowitz offers up a deep appreciation for the beauty of our language. If you love our language, you’ll love this look at it.
Book Synopsis Understanding Context in Language Use and Teaching by : Éva Illés
Download or read book Understanding Context in Language Use and Teaching written by Éva Illés and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guide to understanding and applying the essential, heretofore elusive, notion of context in language study and pedagogy. Éva Illés offers a new, critical, systematic theoretical framework, then applies that framework to practical interactions and issues in communicative language teaching rooted in English as a Lingua Franca. By linking theory and practice for research and teaching around the world, this book brings a new awareness of how context can be conceptualised and related to language pedagogy to advanced students, teachers, teacher educators and researchers of language teaching, applied linguistics and pragmatics.
Book Synopsis Don't Ask the Admiral by : John Higgins
Download or read book Don't Ask the Admiral written by John Higgins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A light-hearted tour of minimal pairs in English and some of the problems they may create for those who speak English or are trying to learn it.
Book Synopsis The Certainty of Uncertainty by : Mark Schaefer
Download or read book The Certainty of Uncertainty written by Mark Schaefer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is full of people who are very certain—in politics, in religion, in all manner of things. In addition, political, religious, and social organizations are marketing certainty as a cure all to all life’s problems. But is such certainty possible? Or even good? The Certainty of Uncertainty explores the question of certainty by looking at the reasons human beings crave certainty and the religious responses we frequently fashion to help meet that need. The book takes an in-depth view of religion, language, our senses, our science, and our world to explore the inescapable uncertainties they reveal. We find that the certainty we crave does not exist. As we reflect on the unavoidable uncertainties in our world, we come to understand that letting go of certainty is not only necessary, it’s beneficial. For, in embracing doubt and uncertainty, we find a more meaningful and courageous religious faith, a deeper encounter with mystery, and a way to build strong relationships across religious and philosophical lines. In The Certainty of Uncertainty, we see that embracing our belief systems with humility and uncertainty can be transformative for ourselves and for our world.
Book Synopsis Sociological Constitutionalism by : Paul Blokker
Download or read book Sociological Constitutionalism written by Paul Blokker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book provides the first systematic overview of key research in the sociology of constitutions.
Download or read book The Joker written by Andrew Hudgins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since Andrew Hudgins was a child, he was a compulsive joke teller, so when he sat down to write about jokes, he found that he was writing about himself--what jokes taught him and mistaught him, how they often delighted him but occasionally made him nervous with their delight in chaos and sometimes anger. Because Hudgins's father, a West Point graduate, served in the US Air Force, his family moved frequently; he learned to relate to other kids by telling jokes and watching how his classmates responded. And jokes opened him up to the serious, taboo subjects that his family didn't talk about openly--religion, race, sex, and death. Hudgins tells and analyzes the jokes that explore the contradictions in the Baptist religion he was brought up in, the jokes that told him what his parents would not tell him about sex, and the racist jokes that his uncle loved, his father hated, and his mother, caught in the middle, was ambivalent about. This book is both a memoir and a meditation on jokes and how they educated, delighted, and occasionally horrified him as he grew"--
Book Synopsis Poems for the Pilgrim Pathway, Volume Three: Count Your Blessings by : Ken Lievers
Download or read book Poems for the Pilgrim Pathway, Volume Three: Count Your Blessings written by Ken Lievers and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian pathway is a personal one and a pilgrim’s journey. Those who are committed to Jesus Christ will develop a set of values, face challenges in their choices, and eventually develop Christlikeness in their character. These poems are for followers of Jesus Christ who love Him as Saviour and Lord, who want to live a life that pleases Him, and are facing challenges counter to the flow of current society. The poems can be used as a devotional and a source of meditation to encourage faithful following of our Lord. This collection, written over a twenty-five-year period, offers the honest reflection of one follower's angst, turmoil, devotion, and hope as he travelled on his journey. Count Your Blessings is the third in the Poems for the Pilgrim Pathway series.
Download or read book Grace for Amateurs written by Lily Burana and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I had tried everything: therapy, medication, meditation. Everything except God. Lily Burana was in crisis. Desperate for rescue from her depression and anxiety, the punk-rock-girl-turned-writer feared she would die. She was down to her remedy of last resort: faith. A lapsed believer who had drifted away from the church and into a life on the margins during her young adult years, Lily had long believed that Christianity had nothing to offer her. Then an unmistakable sign from above led to her unexpected decision to let God in—just a little bit. But how could she come to terms with a religion she had dismissed as hostile and intolerant? In this collection of linked essays that chronicle her spiritual recovery, Lily explores what it means to embrace “a faith of surprisingly Jesus-y shape.” Lily navigates her own unique path toward a trusting relationship with God as she addresses topics as diverse as coming out as Christian to your non-Christian friends, the intersection of faith and motherhood, and what it means to confront your history of mental illness and trauma. Whether recounting her history as a “baby Goth,” extolling the healing power of glitter, or wrestling with God for control over her life, Lily proves that you don’t need to have a flawless faith in order to experience God’s grace in action. “Grace for Amateurs is that rare Christian book packed with humor, depth, kindness, intelligence, and inclusion. If you yearn to return to the heart of faith—boundless, agenda-less love—sit down with Burana. She’ll make you laugh and restore your hope.” —Glennon Doyle, New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior
Book Synopsis Yellow Rose Bride by : Lori Copeland
Download or read book Yellow Rose Bride written by Lori Copeland and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven years ago, seamstress Vonnie Taylor's husband of one day, Adam Baldwin, annulled their marriage. Now she faces the ultimate indignity: sewing his new intended's wedding dress! Vonnie hasn't forgotten the handsome rancher, despite the family feud that doomed their love. Now, as the past is uncovered and danger is unleashed, Vonnie finds herself again by Adam's side. Time for this Yellow Rose of Texas to learn that love is worth the wait.
