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Book Synopsis The Weir Family, 1820-1920 by : Marian Wardle
Download or read book The Weir Family, 1820-1920 written by Marian Wardle and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2011 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major study to examine the artistic output of Robert Walter Weir and his two sons, John Ferguson Weir and Julian Alden Weir
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology by : Michael Newton
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology written by Michael Newton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On every continent and in every nation, animals unrecognized by modern science are reported on a daily basis. People passionately pursue these creatures--the name given to their field of study is cryptozoology. Coined in the 1950s, the term literally means the science of hidden animals. When the International Society of Cryptozoology (ISC) was formed in 1982, the founders declared that the branch of science is also concerned with "the possible existence of known animals in areas where they are not supposed to occur (either now or in the past) as well as the unknown persistence of presumed extinct animals to the present time or to the recent past...what makes an animal of interest to cryptology is that it is unexpected." This reference work presents a "flesh and blood" view of cryptozoology. Here, 2,744 entries are listed, the majority of which each describe one specific creature or type of creature. Other entries cover 742 places where unnamed cryptids are said to appear; profiles of 77 groups and 112 individuals who have contributed to the field; descriptions of objects and events important to the subject; and essays on cryptotourism and hoaxes, for example. Appendices offer a timeline of zoological discoveries, annotated lists of movies and television series with cryptozoological themes, a list of crypto-fiction titles and a list of Internet websites devoted to cryptozoology.
Book Synopsis The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by : Tom Dalzell
Download or read book The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 15065 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.
Book Synopsis Suffering Sappho! by : Barbara Jane Brickman
Download or read book Suffering Sappho! written by Barbara Jane Brickman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ever-expanding and panicked Wonder Woman lurches through a city skyline begging Steve to stop her. A twisted queen of sorority row crashes her convertible trying to escape her queer shame. A suave butch emcee introduces the sequined and feathered stars of the era’s most celebrated drag revue. For an unsettled and retrenching postwar America, these startling figures betrayed the failure of promised consensus and appeasing conformity. They could also be cruel, painful, and disciplinary jokes. It turns out that an obsession with managing gender and female sexuality after the war would hardly contain them. On the contrary, it spread their campy manifestations throughout mainstream culture. Offering the first major consideration of lesbian camp in American popular culture, Suffering Sappho! traces a larger-than-life lesbian menace across midcentury media forms to propose five prototypical queer icons—the sicko, the monster, the spinster, the Amazon, and the rebel. On the pages of comics and sensational pulp fiction and the dramas of television and drive-in movies, Barbara Jane Brickman discovers evidence not just of campy sexual deviants but of troubling female performers, whose failures could be epic but whose subversive potential could inspire. Supplemental images of interest related to this title: George and Lomas; Connie Minerva; Cat On Hot Tin; and Beulah and Oriole.
Download or read book Halloween written by Mark Bernard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Halloween need not be the first nor the most influential youth slasher film for it to hold a special place in the history of youth cinema. John Carpenter’s 1978 horror hit was once considered the be-all, end-all of teen slasher cinema and was regarded as the first, the best, and the most influential American slasher film. Recent revisions in film history, however, have challenged Halloween’s comfortable place in the canon of youth horror cinema. However, this book argues that the film, like no other, draws from the themes, imagery, and obsessions that fueled youth horror cinema since the 1950s—Gothic atmosphere, atomic dread, twisted psychology, and alienated teenage monsters—and ties them together in the deceptively simple story of a masked killer on Halloween night. Along the way, the film delivers a savage critique of social institutions and their failure to protect young people. Halloween also depicts a cadre of compelling and complicated youth characters: teenage babysitters watching over preadolescents as a killer, who is viciously avoiding the responsibilities of young adulthood, stalks them through the shadows. This book explores all these aspects of Halloween, including the franchise it spawned, providing an invaluable insight into this iconic film for students and researchers alike.
Book Synopsis A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary by : R. W. Burchfield
Download or read book A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary written by R. W. Burchfield and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 1490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes replace the 1933 Supplement to the OED. The vocabulary treated is that which came into use during the publication of the successive sections of the main Dictionary -- that is, between 1884, when the first fascicle of the letter A was published, and 1928, when the final section of the Dictionary appeared -- together with accessions to the English language in Britain and abroad from 1928 to the present day. Nearly all the material in the 1933 Supplement has been retained here, though in revised form (Preface).
Book Synopsis The Linguistic Atlas of Scotland by : J. Y. Mather
Download or read book The Linguistic Atlas of Scotland written by J. Y. Mather and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These first two volumes of "The Linguistic Atlas of Scotland" cover the Scots dialect, devoted to word-geographical material. The data is presented cartographically because no other method makes as powerful and effective an impact, and the maps are an analysis of a kind which dialectologists can carry out. These investigations will hopefully remain ongoing, as much remains to be done. The data presented belong to the hundreds of people all over Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northumberland, Cumberland, and the Isle of Man who gave of their unique knowledge freely, with real sensitivity and interest. A language belongs to the people who use it.
Download or read book Creepy Creations written by KEN. REID and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spine-tingling humour horror comics from Ken Reid, the British comics master behind Faceache! BEWARE ALL YE WHO OPEN THIS BOOK! The creatures contained within, are some of the most bizarre, hilarious and hideous ever to haunt the pages of a comic! For the first time ever, marvel at The Many-Headed Monster from Monmouth! Tremble at the sight of Terry the Tellible! Recoil in horror from The Fork-Eating Spaghetti Spook! And much more besides! A testament to Ken Reid's artistic genius and his hugely creative imagination, these illustrations have been collected and lovingly restored in all their (creepy) glory.
Book Synopsis Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor - Volume 4 by : Si Spurrier
Download or read book Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor - Volume 4 written by Si Spurrier and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eleventh Doctor is accused of terrible war crimes - crimes that he can't remember committing! Tracked by temporal bounty hunters, both chainsword-wielding and monstrous, the Doctor goes on the run with his companion Alice Obiefune. Only by digging deep into the history of the Time War - and the past of the War Doctor - can they hope to clear the Doctor's name. Thrilling writers Si Spurrier (X-Men Legacy, Cry Havoc, The Spire) and Rob Williams (Unfollow, Ordinary, The Royals: Masters of War) join with magnificent artists Simon Fraser (Nikolai Dante) and Warren Pleece (Hellblazer) to continue the all-new epic adventures of the Eleventh Doctor!
Book Synopsis The Supernatural Revamped by : Barbara Brodman
Download or read book The Supernatural Revamped written by Barbara Brodman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic. (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) focused on the vampire legend. The essays in this collection expand that scope to include a multicultural and multigeneric discussion of a pantheon of supernatural creatures who interact and cross species-specific boundaries with ease. Angels and demons are discussed from the perspective of supernatural allegory, angelic ethics and supernatural heredity and genetics. Fairies, sorcerers, witches and werewolves are viewed from the perspectives of popular nightmare tales, depictions of race and ethnicity, popular public discourse and cinematic imagery. Discussions of the “undead and still dead” include images of death messengers and draugar, zombies and vampires in literature, popular media and Japanese anime.
Download or read book Daily Graphic written by Henry Ofori and published by Graphic Communications Group. This book was released on 1969-05-17 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fairy-Tale Detectives (Sisters Grimm #1) by : Michael Buckley
Download or read book The Fairy-Tale Detectives (Sisters Grimm #1) written by Michael Buckley and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2011-04-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter a world of fractured fairy tales and magical mysteries in this first installment of the beloved New York Times bestselling Sisters Grimm series Orphaned sisters Sabrina and Daphne are sent to live with their newly discovered grandmother, Relda Grimm, in the strange town of Ferryport Landing. The girls soon learn a family secret: that they are descendants of the famous Brothers Grimm, whose book of fairy tales is actually a history book. When a terrorizing giant goes on a rampage through the town, it’s up to the Sisters Grimm to stop him and to solve the mystery of who set the giant loose in the first place. Was it Mayor Charming, formerly Prince Charming, who desperately wants his kingdom back? The Three Not-So-Little Pigs, the shifty town cops? Or one of the many other fairy-tale characters who seem to have it out for the Grimms? Repackaged in paperback with new cover art, these anniversary editions of the beloved Sisters Grimm series are the perfect opportunity for existing fans to revisit the adventures of the Grimm family and for new readers to discover the magic of the series for the first time.
Download or read book Charles Keeping written by Douglas Martin and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1993 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Keeping, born in 1924, was a Londoner and his childhood in Lambeth provided him with a source to draw on. In this study of his life and work his stature and contribution can be assessed in full, not just as a picture-book artist, but also as an illustrator of Dickens for the Folio Society.
Book Synopsis Kel Gilligan's Daredevil Stunt Show by : Michael Buckley
Download or read book Kel Gilligan's Daredevil Stunt Show written by Michael Buckley and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Michael Buckley, the bestselling author of the Sisters Grimm and NERDS series, and Dan Santat, author-illustrator of Sidekicks, comes this hilarious picture book starring Kel Gilligan (a.k.a. “The Boy Without Fear”) that encourages kids to laugh at their fears and celebrates the bravery it takes to try new things no matter how ordinary. Narrated by Kel himself as he attempts his “stunts” with Evel Knievel–like flair, the story unfolds as a performance in which readers themselves become part of the audience, encouraging Kel to get dressed all by himself (without a net!), eat new foods like broccoli (eww!), and take a bath (gasp!). Bold, interactive, and downright silly, this is a book to make kids cheer and attempt some “stunts” of their own.
Book Synopsis Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor #2.5 by : Si Spurrier
Download or read book Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor #2.5 written by Si Spurrier and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time to take the fight back to those who have accused the Doctor of horrible war crimes! The TARDIS team needs to break into a remote prison to get the tech that will allow them to pull off an incredible heist... Sounds like they'll need some expert help!
Download or read book QST. written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 2122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Council of Mirrors (Sisters Grimm #9) by : Michael Buckley
Download or read book The Council of Mirrors (Sisters Grimm #9) written by Michael Buckley and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling conclusion to the beloved New York Times bestselling Sisters Grimm series! Grany Relda’s body has been hijacked by the Master, and it’s up to Sabrina, Daphne, and the rest of the Grimms to fight for her freedom and that of Ferryport Landing in the series’s grand finale. As war rips the town apart, Sabrina consults a team of magic mirrors, who prophesize that the only way the good guys will win is if she leads the army herself. Now, Sabrina controls the fate of all the Everafters, the very people who have made her life so difficult since she and Daphne arrived in Ferryport Landing. Will they listen to a Grimm? And can she really save them? Repackaged in paperback with new cover art, these anniversary editions of the beloved Sisters Grimm series are the perfect opportunity for existing fans to revisit the adventures of the Grimm family and for new readers to discover the magic of the series for the first time.
