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Author : Yorkshire Art Circus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781898311201
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (112 download)
Download or read book S. W. A. L. K. Sealed with a Loving Kiss - Writing of Love written by Yorkshire Art Circus and published by . This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vic Mayhew
Publisher : How To Books
ISBN 13 : 1845285387
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (452 download)
Download or read book Choose The Right Word written by Vic Mayhew and published by How To Books. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether applying for a job, writing a letter of complaint or simply talking with colleagues or friends, the people who get listened to are those with a confident command of language. Choose the Right Word is a fun guide to using English effectively and to avoiding common mistakes. It is both a valuable work of reference and an enjoyable read. While plotting a path through a minefield of rules and conventions, the book acknowledges that English is an ever-changing language and points out those rules that can at times be broken. 70 light-hearted quizzes show you how to use words that will make your point powerfully, and usage tips set you right on contextual issues. Curio Corners tell the fascinating stories behind dozens of everyday words and phrases. What's the difference between affect and effect; abjure and adjure? Does AD for Anno Domino come before or after the year - and the century? Should you write all right or alright; adviser or advisor? How did the word alcohol come into our language? Just how sure are you about your apostrophes?
Author : Sally Holloway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019882307X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book The Game of Love in Georgian England written by Sally Holloway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courtship in Georgian England was a decisive moment in the life cycle, imagined as a tactical game, an invigorating sport, and a perilous journey across a turbulent sea. This volume brings to life the emotional experience of courtship using the words and objects selected by men and women to navigate this potentially fraught process. It provides new insights into the making and breaking of relationships, beginning with the formation of courtships using the language of love, the development of intimacy through the exchange of love letters, and sensory engagement with love tokens such as flowers, portrait miniatures, and locks of hair. It also charts the increasing modernization of romantic customs over the Georgian era - most notably with the arrival of the printed valentine's card - revealing how love developed into a commercial industry. The book concludes with the rituals of disintegration when engagements went awry, and pursuit of damages for breach of promise in the civil courts. The Game of Love in Georgian England brings together love letters, diaries, valentines, and proposals of marriage from sixty courtships sourced from thirty archives and museum collections, alongside an extensive range of sources including ballads, conduct literature, court cases, material objects, newspaper reports, novels, periodicals, philosophical discourses, plays, poems, and prints, to create a vivid social and cultural history of romantic emotions. The book demonstrates the importance of courtship to studies of marriage, relationships, and emotions in history, and how we write histories of emotions using objects. Love emerges as something that we do in practice, enacted by couples through particular socially and historically determined rituals.
Author : Aidan Chambers
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407077759
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Postcards from No Man's Land written by Aidan Chambers and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob, aged 17, is abroad on his own for the time, visiting his grandfather's grave at the commemoration of the Second World War Battle of Arnhem in Holland. Jacob's life-changing experiences are interwoven with the extraordinary wartime story of passion and treachery that he learns from Geertrui, whose family is linked to Jacob's in a way he never suspected. The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths. The collection includes: The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton, I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith, Postcards from No Man's Land - Aidan Chambers, After the First Death - Robert Cormier, Dear Nobody - Berlie Doherty, The Endless Steppe - Esther Hautzig, Buddy - Nigel Hinton, Across the Barricades - Joan Lingard, The Twelfth Day of July - Joan Lingard, No Turning Back - Beverley Naidoo, Z for Zachariah - Richard C. O'Brien, The Wave - Morton Rhue, The Red Pony - John Steinbeck, The Pearl - John Steinbeck, Stone Cold - Robert Swindells.
Author : Bruce Clark
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1415204640
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Love, Sex, Fleas, God written by Bruce Clark and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Clark is the world’s best dad. Born and raised as a Scientologist, the religion-cult’s practices were his only reference points. At age 16, disillusionment had set in, and he was spewed out onto the streets uneducated and livid. Deep into adulthood he remained pretty much like that, until the love of a good woman grounded him. They got married and, at age 47, he was a father. His story begins there. Love, Sex, Fleas, God is Clark’s terrifically sad and funny account of life and parenthood seen through the eyes of one who knows about vulnerability. A father who would do anything to protect his children and rear them well, and a man who feels a stab every day as his wife leaves for work. Tending to infants, gently nudging their ascendency, becoming barely more than their launch pad into life, Clark’s story is What Women Want turned on its feet.This book makes you laugh and cry. It grips your heart and shows both the adult and child in you how frail and glorious a human life is.
Author : Anna Dee
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 190844780X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (84 download)
Download or read book When the Valley's White with Snow written by Anna Dee and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title is from the song 'Danny Boy' which runs throughout the book. It is an autobiographical novel depicting life in an Orphanage as a child, leaving at eight years, and growing up in the 50s to 60s eras. It involves explicit sex, violence, abuse, attempted murder, and adultery resulting in falling in love. My violent husband caused us to hide our feelings for each other, until Ken unable to hold back his emotions any longer courageously stood up and sang 'Danny Boy' in public, using the words, to declare his love openly for me. (My husband Kevin was a few feet away).
Author : Jim Pipe
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1908759801
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)
Download or read book World War Two, A Very Peculiar History written by Jim Pipe and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War Two, A Very Peculiar History' explores the most destructive event of the twentieth century, a war that defined and shaped the world we live in today. Jim Pipe introduces the nations, as well as individuals, that participated and the politics that drove them, alongside the Peculiar History-style fascinating trivia and quirky facts. In this book you can learn about mad British schemes and the atomic bomb, Nazi hunters and wartime songs, as well as comprehensive chapters about the origins and causes of World War Two, the rise of Hitler and the Third Reich, how the war was handled at home and much, much more. 'World War Two, A Very Peculiar History' is also packed with captivating anecdotes and interesting panels of mind-boggling information about World War II.
Author : Gary Buchanan
Publisher : BalboaPress
ISBN 13 : 1452511128
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (525 download)
Download or read book Come Fly with Me written by Gary Buchanan and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come join me in the thrill of a lifetime; jumping from a balloon at eight hundred feet as the command of Stand in door, go! is given. Feel the thrill and see the beauty as you descend, ending with a perfect landing. Picture yourself on the mountainside of beautiful South Wales as a racing pigeon swoops from a great height, entering the safety of its loft after a nine hundred kilometer flight. Be part of the real-life experience of greyhound racing ups and downs. The coal mines of South Wales have many untold stories. Join me as I tell of a life changing experience that affected me. If you have a great sense of humour, and are ready for a belly laugh, read some of my poems.
Author : Vivian J Cook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 144411901X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (441 download)
Download or read book The English Writing System written by Vivian J Cook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English is increasingly becoming the world's lingua franca. If we are not native speakers of one of the many varieties of English, then we may be students of English, or use English regularly for academic or business purposes. The English Language series, which is international in focus, aims to synthesize the wealth of existing linguistic research both on and in English. Each volume in the series is designed to present these findings in an accessible, enlightening and entertaining way not only to students of English linguistics but to learners and users of English across the globe. The English Writing System describes how writing is not simply ancillary to other aspects of language but vitally important to almost everything we do, from signing our wills to sending a text message. This book discusses the mechanics of the writing systems of English; the different ways people process words on a page and the mistakes they can make; how children and second language learners acquire these systems; the historical development of the language and the progress of writing technology: in short, the effectiveness of the writing systems of English. Combining an academic perspective from linguistics and psychology with insights into everyday spelling mistakes, The English Writing System will interest students and teachers of linguistics, literature, the English language, psychology and education.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004292128
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dedicated to the study of Chinese epistolary literature and culture from the early empire to the twentieth century, the twenty-five essays of A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture discuss a wealth of epistolary topics and provide numerous translations.
Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199763313
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Wartime written by Paul Fussell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-25 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Frank Kermode, in The New York Times Book Review, hailed it as "an important contribution to our understanding of how we came to make World War I part of our minds," and Lionel Trilling called it simply "one of the most deeply moving books I have read in a long time." In its panaramic scope and poetic intensity, it illuminated a war that changed a generation and revolutionized the way we see the world. Now, in Wartime, Fussell turns to the Second World War, the conflict he himself fought in, to weave a narrative that is both more intensely personal and more wide-ranging. Whereas his former book focused primarily on literary figures, on the image of the Great War in literature, here Fussell examines the immediate impact of the war on common soldiers and civilians. He describes the psychological and emotional atmosphere of World War II. He analyzes the euphemisms people needed to deal with unacceptable reality (the early belief, for instance, that the war could be won by "precision bombing," that is, by long distance); he describes the abnormally intense frustration of desire and some of the means by which desire was satisfied; and, most important, he emphasizes the damage the war did to intellect, discrimination, honesty, individuality, complexity, ambiguity and wit. Of course, no Fussell book would be complete without some serious discussion of the literature of the time. He examines, for instance, how the great privations of wartime (when oranges would be raffled off as valued prizes) resulted in roccoco prose styles that dwelt longingly on lavish dinners, and how the "high-mindedness" of the era and the almost pathological need to "accentuate the positive" led to the downfall of the acerbic H.L. Mencken and the ascent of E.B. White. He also offers astute commentary on Edmund Wilson's argument with Archibald MacLeish, Cyril Connolly's Horizon magazine, the war poetry of Randall Jarrell and Louis Simpson, and many other aspects of the wartime literary world. Fussell conveys the essence of that wartime as no other writer before him. For the past fifty years, the Allied War has been sanitized and romanticized almost beyond recognition by "the sentimental, the loony patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty." Americans, he says, have never understood what the Second World War was really like. In this stunning volume, he offers such an understanding.
Author : Alan Watkins-Groves
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326257528
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Shouting Horseman written by Alan Watkins-Groves and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nina is serious trainee teacher, a science expert and a socialist. Her biggest hate is all forms of warfare. She takes her political views onto the streets in demonstrations during the late 1960s. Alex is a professional soldier, a sniper and believes everyone should stand on their own two feet. He thinks people who aren't satisfied with the world the way it is a lazy Bolshie. When you put them together the unexpected happens. They fall in love. But just as Alex gradually comes around to Nina's point of view and begins to question his chosen profession, she becomes frustrated with the tactics of the infamous Special Patrol Group and decides to fight back. What happens next is strange and unexpected as we are led through covert military operations, international terrorist attacks and shadowy back room deals with powerful people whose real identities are never known. Can their love survive?
Author : Kate Moore
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1843178532
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Roses Are Red written by Kate Moore and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roses Are Red . . . is a delightfully informative celebration of romantic love - a wonderful book for lovers everywhere. For people who shy away from writing poetry, love-letters, or composing love songs, Roses Are Red . . . is the perfect way to show that special someone in your life just how much you care. This book is a beautiful celebration of the joys of being in love, containing everything from tips on how to be the perfect partner, to fascinating facts and trivia on romance and relationships. Includes: - Fascinating stories of famous lovers throughout history - The ten most romantic movies to snuggle up together with - How to make the perfect breakfast in bed for your partner - Quotes from literature to melt the heart - Secrets of successful long-term relationships - The most passionate cities in the world for a weekend getaway
Author : Claire Langhamer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191664049
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The English in Love written by Claire Langhamer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes. This book tells the story of love at a crucial point, a moment when the emotional landscape changed dramatically for large numbers of people. It is a story based in England, but informed by America, and covers the period from the end of the First World War until the break-up of The Beatles. To the casual observer, this era was a golden age of marriage. More people married than ever before. They did so at increasingly younger ages. And there was a revolution in our idea of what marriage meant. Pragmatic notions of marriage as institution were superseded by the more romantic ideal of a relationship based upon individual emotional commitment, love, sex, and personal fulfilment. And yet, this new idea of marriage, based on a belief in the transformative power of love and emotion, carried within it the seeds of its own destruction. Romantic love, particularly when tied to sexual satisfaction, ultimately proved an unreliable foundation upon which to build marriages: fatally, it had the potential to evaporate over time and under pressure. Scratching beneath the surface of the apparent 'golden age' of marriage, Claire Langhamer uncovers the real story of love in the twentieth century, via the recollections of ordinary people who lived through the period. It is a tale of quiet emotional instability, persistent subversion, and unsettling change. At its end, the idea of life-long marriage was in serious decline. And, as Langhamer shows, this was a decline directly rooted in the contradictions and tensions that lay at the heart of the emotional revolution itself.
Author : Solly Martin Solly
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748691715
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Stylistics of Professional Discourse written by Solly Martin Solly and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are doctors' prescriptions illegible and why is the language of the law considered impenetrable to outsiders? Need they be so? Is it more difficult for non-native speakers of English than native speakers to access the discourse of professions such as law and medicine? These are some of the questions covered by this book which uses the lens of stylistics to shed light on how the discourse of professional communities is used not just to convey meanings, but also to construct identity and demark membership. The volume focuses on the three domains of healthcare, law and education, as well as on the language of the new technologies, with the aim of showing how a knowledge of stylistics can provide the key for appropriate and acceptable language use, enabling successful communication and potential membership of professional communities.
Author : Chris West
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250035503
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A History of Britain in Thirty-six Postage Stamps written by Chris West and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history of England through 36 of its fascinating, often beautiful, and sometimes eccentric postage stamps, emphasizing how stamps have always mirrored the events, attitudes, and styles of their time.
Author : Eileen Kearney
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815652925
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Irish Women Dramatists written by Eileen Kearney and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish women dramatists have long faced an uphill challenge in getting the recognition and audience of their male counterparts. There are more female playwrights now than ever before, but they are often ignored by mainstream theatres. Kearney and Headrick strive to shift the spotlight with Irish Women Dramatists. The plays collected in this volume represent a cross-section of the excellent dramatic output of Irish women writing in the twentieth century. In addition to the scripts and biographical introductions, the anthology includes a detailed, critical, annotated essay addressing the development of the Irish theatre throughout this time period, and the place women have artistically carved out for themselves in a traditionally male-dominated theatre industry and dramatic canon. One of the few collections of plays by Irish women, this volume contextualizes the political and sociological climate in which these playwrights developed. As theatre practitioners—actors and directors—as well as scholars, Kearney and Headrick have devoted years of research to discovering and rediscovering the contributions these women have made—and continue to make—in the Irish and world theatre scenes.
