Download or read book Doggy Bag written by Ronald Sukenick and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories that poke fun at what passes for culture, from obligatory books to obligatory museums. The moral: doing your own thing is more culturally enriching than doing the required thing.
Download or read book The New Etiquette written by Marjabelle Young Stewart and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-04-15 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From America's Most Widely Publshed Etiquette Expert, An Encyclopedia of Manners for Real People--Updated With a Special Bonus Section on Table Manners for Children This A-to-Z guide is an essential, readable reference for anyone who's ever been baffled by such modern-day situation as eating lobster in public, exchanging holiday gifts with a colleague or employeee, entertaining vegetarian guests, responding to the news of a divorce, sending out wedding invitation, or teaching a child how to behave at the dinner table. Manners bring families, friends, and colleagues closer together. With the help of this indispensable, practical book, knowing how to act wit grace and style has never been more accessible, up-to-the-minute, and fun.
Download or read book The Design and Engineering of Curiosity written by Emily Lakdawalla and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the most complex machine ever sent to another planet: Curiosity. It is a one-ton robot with two brains, seventeen cameras, six wheels, nuclear power, and a laser beam on its head. No one human understands how all of its systems and instruments work. This essential reference to the Curiosity mission explains the engineering behind every system on the rover, from its rocket-powered jetpack to its radioisotope thermoelectric generator to its fiendishly complex sample handling system. Its lavishly illustrated text explains how all the instruments work -- its cameras, spectrometers, sample-cooking oven, and weather station -- and describes the instruments' abilities and limitations. It tells you how the systems have functioned on Mars, and how scientists and engineers have worked around problems developed on a faraway planet: holey wheels and broken focus lasers. And it explains the grueling mission operations schedule that keeps the rover working day in and day out.
Download or read book Doggybags Death of a nation written by Run and published by ANKAMA. This book was released on 2019-02-21T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come one, come all to Patriot Park: a place where you can relive the great battles that forged America! But here, your enemies are no longer Mexicans or Indians: ever since the zombie epidemic of 2018, when the Romero Law revoked American citizenship to anyone infected by the virus, cannon fodder doesn’t cost much, so the entire family can come have fun, emptying their guns in the impressive historical reconstitutions in this extraordinary amusement park.
Download or read book 24 16 written by 文理編集部 and published by 文理. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Waste Food written by Andrew F. Smith and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About one-third of all food grown for human consumption is lost or discarded every year, despite financial, environmental, and ethical reasons not to waste food. We grow enough food to adequately feed everyone on the planet, yet hundreds of millions of people suffer from hunger, malnutrition, or food insecurity. Together, this food waste accounts for about eight percent of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions. So, if wasting food is such a patently bad idea, why do we discard so much? In Why Waste Food?, Andrew F. Smith investigates one of today’s most pressing topics, examining the causes of avoidable food waste across the supply chain and highlighting the ways in which everyone can do something to tackle this global concern.
Download or read book Metaphor Metonymy and Lexicogenesis written by Andrew Goatly and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-11-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the interaction between new English lexis and metaphor/metonymy – figures meticulously defined and contrasted in terms of similarity/contiguity. It advances three main hypotheses: (i) derived lexis is more likely to be figurative in meaning and usage than the bases from which it is derived; (ii) derivation obscures the figurative origins of this lexis to varying degrees depending on differing processing strategies; (iii) lexicalisation is determined by Relevance (in Sperber and Wilson’s sense) to the needs of a culture or its powerful interest groups, where culture, following Norman Fairclough, is characterised as an ensemble of recognised action/discourse genres. This volume is distinctive in exploring the relations between grammar and metonymy and providing numerous examples of metaphorical and metonymic lexis as it reflects society's changing needs and (contested) ideologies.
Download or read book The Pornographic Pizza written by Robert Geiser and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romping through his private and professional lives, a child psychologist culls funny, outrageous and sometimes sad vignettes in which he: is spooked by a lump of blue coal is involved in a nun's death orders up a pornographic pizza meets a beady-eyed snowman lends Betsy Ross a helping hand is outwitted by a raccoon treats Santa Claus for a seasonal depression conjures up a killer dog as a pet resolves a child's birthday dilemma is stumped by a locked room murder mystery confronts a Latino Santa Claus in a grocery store survives in the world of competitive bridge tournaments, and still has the energy to write more unique and off-beat stories, blending reality with fantasy, in a light-hearted and amusing style.
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.
Download or read book The Tricky Art of Co Existing written by Sandi Toksvig and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you do it right, being a grown-up is just like being a kid . . . but without people telling you off.” No one learns “etiquette” anymore (except by embarrassing trial and error). But manners are more than a dusty tradition: Done right, they make life easier—for everyone! That’s why Sandi Toksvig highlights decency rather than convention in this entertaining guide, with: Spot-On Advice: “Remember—you don’t have to answer the phone, so don’t do it if you don’t have time to be polite.” Fascinating Trivia: “It is very rude to clear the plate of someone who hasn’t finished. In fact, the Romans believed doing so would bring about the diner’s sudden death.” And Her Characteristic Wit: “Focusing on the people you share a meal with is both a pleasure and a necessity. Get to know your family members; you might even like them.” Be the most decently behaved person in the room, and the most interesting: Master The Tricky Art of Co-Existing!
Download or read book Oh Brother written by Scott Badler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09-22 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott Badler on Brothering Why there isn't a Brother's Day? Because it would be a day dedicated to competition, bickering, and fighting. You'd go out to dinner and there'd be a rumble over the doggie bag. It could get ugly. Use your older brother as your guinea pig. "I've heard about this bad thing. I know you've tried it. I want a full report. Exactly when you started to feel sick. After the third or fourth? When did you heave your guts? The exact time. I need the report on my desk by Monday." Going anywhere with your older brother when he's a teenager isn't much fun. There's always uninvited guests wherever you go. You both could be using the urinal in the Greyhound Station and he's watching the doorway expecting some attractive woman to saunter in. Sibling Rivalry Forever When you're young, it's all about trying to get Mom and Dad's attention, competing for food and a dry diaper. Learning how to survive. But now that we're senior citizen brothers, what are we fighting for--the last drop of Maalox? The last Depends?
Download or read book Words written by Dale D. Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by respected authorities in the fields of education and literacy studies, Words: The Foundation of Literacy is a groundbreaking book for teachers, administrators, and education students. Dale and Bonnie Johnson present a fresh, inspiring reminder of why studying language (from word origins to word structure) is such a vital first step in the development of students' vocabulary, literacy, writing skills, and overall ability to learn. At a time when high-stakes testing has squeezed substance from many curricula, Johnson and Johnson provide ways to enhance students' understanding, interest, and appreciation of language and all its subtleties. Words explores how meaning in language is created by the use and interrelationships of words, phrases, and sentences, their denotations, connotations, implications, and ambiguities. From birth, most children exhibit a natural interest in language: its sounds, nuances, and unpredictable qualities. It is important to sustain, stimulate, and recapture that natural interest in the classroom, and Words provides a multitude of creative and practical techniques for doing so.
Download or read book With Strings written by Charles Bernstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a companion to the critically acclaimed 'My Way', Charles Bernstein's 1999 montage of essays, conversations, and poems. It is a compilation of 69 poems, with its fractured nursery rhymes and distressed mottoes.
Download or read book Dogopedia written by Justine Hankins and published by Headline. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DOGOPEDIA is a crucial compendium that educates and entertains with facts about everything from wolf ancestry and dog physiology to canine reindeer herders and magicians. It explains how dogs train their owners, and debunks the many myths about our four-legged friends - such as the belief that they see in black and white - while investigating the mysteries of canine psychology: what does that guilty face really mean and how come dogs seem to know when we're coming home? This wonderful collection of canine curiosities also explores the place of dogs in the human imagination, from cartoons and literary characters to ghosts and dog-headed saints. The clever dogs, the cute dogs, the bizarre dogs and the devoted, hard-working dogs are all put under scrutiny, giving us even more reasons to utterly adore our canine companions. Drawing on the vast body of knowledge belonging to the world's most famous dogs and cats home, DOGOPEDIA is the ideal present for every dog lover.
Download or read book The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English written by Terry Victor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 2232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews of the two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2005: The king is dead. Long live the king! The old Partridge is not really dead; it remains the best record of British slang antedating 1945 Now, however, the preferred source for information about English slang of the past 60 years is the New Partridge. James Rettig, Booklist, American Library Association Most slang dictionaries are no better than momgrams or a rub of the brush, put together by shmegegges looking to make some moola. The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, on the other hand, is the wee babes. Ian Sansom, The Guardian The Concise New Partridge presents, for the first time, all the slang terms from the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume. With over 60,000 entries from around the English-speaking world, the Concise gives you the language of beats, hipsters, Teddy Boys, mods and rockers, hippies, pimps, druggies, whores, punks, skinheads, ravers, surfers, Valley girls, dudes, pill-popping truck drivers, hackers, rappers and more. The Concise New Partridge is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning its rude, its delightful, and its a prize for anyone with a love of language.
Download or read book American Slang written by Joseph Melillo and published by Mottobene Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of American slang contains more than 5,000 common slang terms with easy-to-understand definitions and sample sentences. The book's unique classification of slang terms under key words makes it easy to search for and discover any term. By organising terms this way, slang terms that share a common key word can be classified together for easy reference. For example, under the key word 'Chip,' the following terms are alphabetically listed: bargaining chip, blue chip, cash in one's chips, chip in, chip off the old block, chip on one's shoulder, in the chips, let the chips fall where they may, and when the chips are down. Slang terms with more than one key word are also cross-referenced, and sample sentences lend meaning to the slang terms by showing their applications in writing and in conversation.
Download or read book The Great Dictionary English Dutch written by Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer and published by Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer. This book was released on with total page 4664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary contains around 60,000 English terms with their Dutch translations, making it one of the most comprehensive books of its kind. It offers a wide vocabulary from all areas as well as numerous idioms. The terms are translated from English to Dutch. If you need translations from Dutch to English, then the companion volume The Great Dictionary Dutch - English is recommended.
