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Download or read book Preposterous Papa written by Lewis Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the author's father, Max Meyer, from 1906 when he settled in the Oklahoma Territory where "everything he touched turned to something else."
Book Synopsis Word Lover's Dictionary by : Josefa Heifetz
Download or read book Word Lover's Dictionary written by Josefa Heifetz and published by . This book was released on 2002-07-31 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Preposterous Virgil by : Juan Christian Pellicer
Download or read book Preposterous Virgil written by Juan Christian Pellicer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study in reception develops close readings of English literature as means of interrogating Virgil's texts. Through four case studies, bookended by wide-ranging introductory and concluding chapters, this book shows how interpreting the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid through modern responses can serve to focus on aspects of Virgil that would otherwise be differently perceived or else escape notice altogether. Juan Christian Pellicer probes our perceptions of the three Virgilian genres (pastoral, georgic, and epic) and analyzes the ways in which modern reconfigurations of these genres can inform our readings of Virgil's works, as well as help us realize how our own ideas about Virgil reflect the literary receptions through which we approach his texts. This book offers a practical demonstration of classical reception and its value as a critical procedure. By testing the value of modern responses to Virgil as means by which to read his texts, Pellicer critically examines a central tenet of reception studies of classical authors, namely that our understanding of their work can benefit from the receptions through which we perceive them. The reader will find Virgil's texts reconfigured in challenging new ways and will find new appreciations of the classical traditions that inform key texts in the English canon.
Book Synopsis Our Preposterous Use of Literature by : Tracy Scott McMillin
Download or read book Our Preposterous Use of Literature written by Tracy Scott McMillin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He examines the ways in which Emerson's texts have been read in the United States, the myriad methods by which those texts have been pillaged, picked over, and repackaged - in a word, consumed - by biographers, political apologists, self-help proponents, entrepreneurs, and academicians alike.".
Book Synopsis Uncle Knuckle's Preposterous Narrations by : Chad Woody
Download or read book Uncle Knuckle's Preposterous Narrations written by Chad Woody and published by Chad Woody. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange and laughable adventures for all ages. A pirate crew is hijacked by a haunted bowling alley. A robot disastrously attends Mardi Gras. Armed only with honesty, a trout saves lives on the Mississippi. The Easter Bunny gets worn out. George Washington eats a breakfast fit for champions. A cyclops outwits a sinister sheep-eating monster. A dog bites a vacuum cleaner hose. Bigfoot gets a dog that lays eggs. A bear gets hungry enough to eat a vampire, but eats a car battery instead. A relative of Humpty Dumpty armors up for the end of the world. Nothing about zombies or vampires. Practically zero romance.
Book Synopsis Eight Preposterous Propositions by : Robert Ehrlich
Download or read book Eight Preposterous Propositions written by Robert Ehrlich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placebo cures. Global warming. Extraterrestrial life. Psychokinesis. In a time when scientific claims can sound as strange as science fiction--and can have a profound effect on individual life or public policy--assessing the merits of a far-out, supposedly scientific idea can be as difficult as it is urgent. Into the breach between helpless gullibility and unyielding skepticism steps physicist Robert Ehrlich, with an indispensable guide to making sense of "scientific" claims. A series of case studies of some of the most controversial (and for the judging public, deeply vexing) topics in the natural and social sciences, Ehrlich's book serves as a primer for evaluating the evidence for the sort of strange-sounding ideas that can shape our lives. A much-anticipated follow-up to his popular Nine Crazy Ideas in Science, this book takes up issues close to readers' everyday reality--issues such as global warming, the dangers of cholesterol, and the effectiveness of placebos--as well as questions that resonate through (and beyond) civic life: Is intelligent design a scientific alternative to evolution? Is homosexuality primarily innate? Are people getting smarter or dumber? In each case, Ehrlich shows readers how to use the tools of science to judge the accuracy of strange ideas and the trustworthiness of ubiquitous "experts." As entertaining as it is instructive, his book will make the work of living wisely a bit easier and more reliable for scientists and nonscientists alike.
Book Synopsis The Preposterous Adventures of Swimmer by : Alexander Key
Download or read book The Preposterous Adventures of Swimmer written by Alexander Key and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years in captivity, a brilliant otter escapes into the wild Growing up in the high country, Swimmer bathed in clean water and dined on fresh crawfish. Then the trapper came, killing Swimmer’s mother and imprisoning him and his sister, who did not survive. After years of being poked and prodded by the Professor, he has had enough. He slips out of the townhouse and into the park across the street but is forced to return home when the city water proves too filthy to swim in. Unable to proceed on his own, he does something he vowed never to do: He asks the caretaker, Clarence, for help. Convinced that Swimmer would die in the wild, Clarence refuses to help the otter break free. And so, when the Professor is on a trip to Nashville for a lecture, Swimmer takes his chance, escaping back into the high country. It’s a wild world out there, and this clever otter intends to conquer it all.
Book Synopsis Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People: Color Edition (Captain Underpants #8) by : Dav Pilkey
Download or read book Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People: Color Edition (Captain Underpants #8) written by Dav Pilkey and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George and Harold's time-traveling Purple Potty lands them in a crazy place in the eighth book in this #1 New York Times bestselling series by Dav Pilkey, the author and illustrator of Dog Man! The teachers are nice, the cafeteria serves delicious food, and the school principal, Mr. Krupp, thinks George and Harold are hilarious. Something is very, very wrong -- and it gets even wronger when the boys' pet pterodactyl, Crackers, and Sulu the Bionic Hamster are captured by George and Harold's evil-twin look-alikes. Now George and Harold must face their greatest foes yet: THEMSELVES! Can they handle this mess on their own, or will they need Captain Underpants to swoop in and save the day?
Book Synopsis Don't Be Preposterous, Mr. Rhinoceros! by : Gloria Fligg
Download or read book Don't Be Preposterous, Mr. Rhinoceros! written by Gloria Fligg and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Rhinoceros, the friendly florist, loves his flower shop. He enjoys planting seeds and growing beautiful flowers. Even more, Mr. Rhinoceros loves his customers and friends. But one day, he hears about some big and terrible weeds that are beginning to grow all over town, forcing everyone to stay inside for a very long time! Mr. Rhinoceros misses his flower shop and friends very much, but he finds a way to help those he cares about during this strange and unusual time. Mr. Rhinoceros learns that when things are hard, sometimes the best way to help yourself is to help those around you.
Book Synopsis Preposterous Rhinoceros by : Tracy Gunaratnam
Download or read book Preposterous Rhinoceros written by Tracy Gunaratnam and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disaster! King Lion has lost his voice and cannot read the animals their bedtime story. Luckily, Preposterous Rhinoceros wants to give it a try . . . but how exactly do you read a book? Rhinoceros and his animal friends help young children learn to read with colorful illustrations and leveled text.
Book Synopsis Preposterous Poetics by : Simon Goldhill
Download or read book Preposterous Poetics written by Simon Goldhill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does literary form change as Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape? What is the impact of literary tradition and the new pressures of religious thinking? Tracing a journey over the first millennium that includes works in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, this book changes our understanding of late antiquity and how its literary productions make a significant contribution to the cultural changes that have shaped western Europe.
Book Synopsis Preposterous Rhinoceros by : Tracy Gunaratnam
Download or read book Preposterous Rhinoceros written by Tracy Gunaratnam and published by Lerner Publications (Tm). This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disaster! King Lion has lost his voice and cannot read the animals their bedtime story. Luckily, Preposterous Rhinoceros wants to give it a try . . . but how exactly do you read a book? Rhinoceros and his animal friends help young children learn to read with colorful illustrations and leveled text.
Download or read book Quoting Caravaggio written by Mieke Bal and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rigorous, rewarding work, "Quoting Caravaggio" is at once a meditation on history as a creative, nonlinear process; a study of the work of Caravaggio and the Baroque; and a brilliant critical exposition of contemporary artistic expression. 62 color plates. 25 halftones.
Download or read book Preposterous written by Paul B. Janeczko and published by Orchard Books (NY). This book was released on 1991 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of poetry about being a teenager and adolescent problems and concerns.
Book Synopsis Preposterous Proverbs by : Max Cryer
Download or read book Preposterous Proverbs written by Max Cryer and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From our earliest years we have heard proverbs, and many of them are repeated without much thought. Yes, ‘birds of a feather flock together’ and ‘absence makes the heart grow fonder’, but these sayings are so familiar that we are scarcely aware they are proverbs. It has been so for thousands of years, in every culture. It is only when someone like Max Cryer takes the time to look at them that we can see how these ‘pearls of wisdom’ have played such a key role in the moral guidance of every society. Sometimes the wisdom is distinctly odd, sometimes it has become outdated, and sometimes it is simply contradictory. After all, do ‘many hands make light work’ or do ‘too many cooks spoil the broth’? You can’t really have it both ways.In 'Preposterous Proverbs', Max Cryer looks at a vast array of proverbs from around the world. Proverbs on birth, food, women and love rub shoulders with others on money, animals, sin and death. He has chosen some of the most interesting and perplexing, and with his characteristic wry wit he analyses their meaning and truth. A great book to dip into, 'Preposterous Proverbs' will take you from Greece (‘A thousand men cannot undress a naked man’) and China (‘A dry finger cannot pick up salt’) to Japan (‘Fools and scissors must be carefully handled’) and India (‘A fat spouse is a quilt for the winter’).
Book Synopsis Preposterous Violence by : James B. Twitchell
Download or read book Preposterous Violence written by James B. Twitchell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twitchell begins the story in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the 'cheap thrills' available to mass audiences included bull-baiting and other blood sports, Punch-and-Judy shows, penny dreadfuls, and the illustrations of William Hogarth.
Book Synopsis Penelope and the Preposterous Birthday Party by : Sheri Radford
Download or read book Penelope and the Preposterous Birthday Party written by Sheri Radford and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The third book in the popular "Penelope" series is a comical birthday blast for young readers. Ring the bell and come on in, everyone's invited to the party (and we do mean EVERYONE!)."