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Author : John Winton
Publisher : Michael Joseph
ISBN 13 : 9780718124588
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (245 download)
Download or read book The Good Ship Venus, Or, The Lass who Loved a Sailor written by John Winton and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1984 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John WINTON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Good Ship Venus written by John WINTON and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John de St. Jorre
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571249060
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Good Ship Venus written by John de St. Jorre and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Maurice Girodias and the Olympia Press is one of the most bizarre and flamboyant in publishing history. At a time when dirty books (and great ones) were being banned in Britain and America, Girodias launched on a career as an English language publisher in 1950s Paris. A man of great inventive energy, literary taste and charm, Girodias created an eclectic list which combined works of real literary distinction, like Lolita, The Ginger Man and Naked Lunch with outright pornography. During his heyday Girodias defied the censors and published some of the bell-wether titles of the twentieth century. John de St Jorre tells the story with fitting panache.
Author : Nicholas Enright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (215 download)
Download or read book The Good Ship Venus written by Nicholas Enright and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ramboro Books
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787215998308
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (983 download)
Download or read book Good Ship Venus written by Ramboro Books and published by . This book was released on 1997-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John De St. Jorre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Good Ship Venus written by John De St. Jorre and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ed Cray
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067891
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (678 download)
Download or read book The Erotic Muse written by Ed Cray and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've ever wanted to know the "correct" words to "Roll Me Over," or wondered where the melody of "Sweet Betsy from Pike" came from, this book can answer your questions. Extensively revised and including forty more songs than its predecessor, this new edition of The Erotic Muse is a unique scholarly collection of bawdy or forbidden American folksongs. Ed Cray presents the full texts of some 125 songs, with melodies for most of them and detailed annotations for all. His lively commentary places the songs in historical, social, and, where appropriate, psychological context.
Author : John De St Jorre
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780712659444
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (594 download)
Download or read book The Good Ship Venus written by John De St Jorre and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans Bak
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042016118
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Uneasy Alliance written by Hans Bak and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uneasy Alliance illuminates the recent search in literary studies for a new interface between textual and contextual readings. Written in tribute to G.A.M. Janssens, the twenty-one essays in the volume exemplify a renewed awareness of the paradoxical nature of literary texts both as works of literary art and as documents embedded in and functioning within a writer's life and culture. Together they offer fresh and often interdisciplinary perspectives on twentieth-century American writers of more or less established status (Henry James, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, Michael Ondaatje, Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros) as well as on those who, for reasons of fashion, politics, ideology, or gender, have been unduly neglected (Booth Tarkington, Julia Peterkin, Robert Coates, Martha Gellhorn, Isabella Gardner, Karl Shapiro, the young Jewish-American writers, Julia Alvarez, and writers of popular crime and detective fiction). Exploring the fruitful interactions and uneasy alliance between literature and ethics, film, biography, gender studies, popular culture, avant-garde art, urban studies, anthropology and multicultural studies, together these essays testify to the ongoing pertinence of an approach to literature that is undogmatic, sensitive and sophisticated and that seeks to do justice to the complex interweavings of literature, culture and biography in twentieth-century American writing.
Download or read book MotorBoating written by and published by . This book was released on 1970-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John H. Rappole
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421442396
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Bird Migration written by John H. Rappole and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and nuanced exploration of why, how, and which birds migrate. Bird migration captivates the human imagination, yet for most of us, key aspects of the phenomenon remain a mystery. How do birds sense the ideal moment to take wing, and once the epic journey has begun, how do they find their distant destinations? Fresh insights about avian movements are still constantly emerging, powered by new tools like molecular genetics and transmitter miniaturization. In this book, renowned ornithologist and author John H. Rappole reveals intriguing results of recent scientific studies on migration, explaining their importance for birders, nature lovers, and researchers alike. Debunking misconceptions about the lives of birds that have persisted for thousands of years, Rappole explores unexpected causes and previously misunderstood aspects of the annual migration cycle. From the role of migrating birds in zoonotic disease transmission to climate change's impact on migration patterns, Rappole tackles crucial questions and ensures that readers come away with a new understanding of why and how birds migrate.
Author : Campbell Muirhead
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844684229
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Bomb Aimer written by Campbell Muirhead and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Campbell Muirhead kept a meticulous diary of his wartime RAF service from the day that he set forth to train as a pilot in Canada and the USA in 1942 to the end of his wartime service with 12 Squadron Bomber Command. He was unable to pass the flying course and decided to retrain as a bomber because he wished to become operational as soon as possible. The book is particularly emotive as he wrote in the common parlance of those wartime days and truly reflects the emotions, fears and feelings of those caught up in that mighty conflict. His diligent observations of life in the RAF from joining-up, crossing the Atlantic, training in the New World bring back wartime life as it really was. His descriptions of the perils of flying on bombing raids deep into the heart of Germany truly reflect the many different aspects of life in a front-line squadron in a way that can only be told by one who was there.
Author : Ruby Wax
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448176484
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book How Do You Want Me? written by Ruby Wax and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunday Times Bestseller With a brand new introduction for 2020. How Do You Want Me? is critically acclaimed as brutally honest, vivid and gripping. Ruby Wax's unflinching revelation of a childhood poisoned, and a youth spoiled, culminates in a moving account of her breakdown and recovery. But How Do You Want Me? is also funny, rude and irreverent. It's unusually honest about fame and celebrity and happy to burst ego-balloons and golden myths. A brilliantly fast, furious and surprising read from the inimitable Ruby Wax.
Author : Sarah Tirri
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456601261
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Is this the Best God Could Do? written by Sarah Tirri and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is This the Best God Could Do? (nonfiction, approximately 115.000 words) was born of a crisis of faith of the most cruel kind, the loss of my mother who lingered on the brink death for five weeks, and that is where the book begins. I was living the American dream, a happy wife and mother, and by most measures, charmed, and then she died, suffering terribly in the process in spite of my ardent prayers. Like many in this position, I felt that God had let me down, but once my grief passed, I realized that the God of traditional Christianity keeps us in thrall by fear and guilt, by insisting we are small when we are really quite "big" beings. When the World Trade Center collapsed, I also realized that the end of the world might well be upon us because it is a self-fulfilling prophecy brought about by the zealot believers in the Abrahamic religions, fear carried to an illogical extreme. This epiphany made me angry. Is This the Best God Could Do? is also the result of that anger.However, although the topic is obviously deadly serious, I debunk the warped monotheism of the "Big Three" with humor and wit as well as reasonable, albeit edgy, argument. What follows the section in which I recount the loss of my mother (and the realization that the Abrahamic version of God has been messing with us for a couple thousand years) is part dialogue with that big guy (picture Groucho Marx as interlocutor: "Hi, God of Christianity, Sarah here. I can appreciate your dilemma, I really can. But the next time one of your angels gets out of hand, please try to take care of the problem instead of making it one of ours..."), part personal history, and part reasoned deconstruction.But the conclusion I reach about religion does not amount to an advocacy of atheism. Although the monotheistic God is discounted as a manmade thing, one used to control us, I also argue against the godless scientism of Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), Sam Harris (Letter to a Christian Nation), and Christopher Hitchens (God is Not Great). In fact, I argue against this limited perception of human being as a random function of extraneous forces in favor of a more profound participation of humans in reality leading to a profound spiritual transformation on the part of individuals and eventually all of humanity.I also argue for a kind of pandemic version of the dramatic "wake up" effect (Eckart Tolle's concept from A New Earth) I experienced when my mother died. The human race, indeed the very planet, is going through extraordinary changes - all cause for great alarm among the monotheists as the beginning of the end. I insist in Is This the Best God Could Do? that, on the contrary, our situation is karmically inevitable and the dire straits in which we find ourselves an invitation to spiritual growth and thereby a renewal of civilization. I also call for those born to relative wealth, the American populace in general but also most of the Western world, to accept responsibility for charting the way forward because it is easier to evolve beyond the traditional notions of religion when one's belly is full and one is warm and dry.But Is This the Best God Could Do? is not just a polemic about the medieval grip of fundamentalism that holds humans back from the self awareness necessary to find a way forward through the difficulties of history to an enlightened way of life - the book also charts the path. I offer guidance to the reader for achieving the kind of awareness that allows them to hear "God's voice" and to participate in the world as an active agent instead of being just a passive believer, to understand the "magnitude of our spiritual reality." Although my book is utterly unique in its mixture of elements (the strident debunking of monotheism, the hopeful recognition of the "bigness" of humans as spiritual beings to stand in opposition to the "smallness" of fear and guilt, a hope-filled recipe for saving us from ourselves, and memoir...
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Publisher : Delta Gamma Fraternity
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Anchora written by and published by Delta Gamma Fraternity. This book was released on with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Spain
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1474618464
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Why I'm Not A Millionaire written by Nancy Spain and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author - a woman very much ahead of her time. 'She was bold, she was brave, she was funny, she was feisty. I owe her a great deal in leading the way' Sandi Toksvig Nancy Spain was one of the most celebrated - and notorious - writers and broadcasters of the 40s, 50s and 60s. Hilarious, controversial and brilliant, she lived openly as a lesbian (sharing a household with her two lovers and their various children) and was frequently litigated against for her newspaper columns - Evelyn Waugh successfully sued her for libel... twice. She was also a fantastic crime novelist (and according to the Guardian, one of the 50 best female crime thriller writers of all time) writing with a unique style that marries the acid wit of Dorothy Parker with the intricacy of plotting worthy of Agatha Christie. WHY I AM NOT A MILLIONAIRE, has the same wit, style and fascinating detail - first published in 1956, with an introductory note from Noel Coward. After her death in a plane crash in 1964, Noel Coward commented: 'It is cruel that all that gaiety, intelligence and vitality should be snuffed out, when so many bores and horrors are left living.'
Author : Lillian M. Henry
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1449057713
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)
Download or read book In Bristol Fashion written by Lillian M. Henry and published by Author House. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bristol Fashion is the first of a two-volume fictionalized biography of the Lewis, the Hoopers and their extended families. Set in Glamorgan,Wales and Bristol, England, the sharp scent of the Celtic Sea seeps into the saga of smugglers, sailors and high sea adventures during the tumultuous years of Victorias reign. Faced with situations very similar to those of our current times: ill-conceived foreign wars, economic depressions, radical changes in life styles, the man in the street and how he copes, is a theme that runs throughout the book.
