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Book Famous Last Words  Fond Farewells  Deathbed Diatribes  and Exclamations Upon Expiration

Download or read book Famous Last Words Fond Farewells Deathbed Diatribes and Exclamations Upon Expiration written by Ray Robinson and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles farewell utterances from such notables as Douglas Fairbanks, Thomas Edison, John Maynard Keynes, Eugene O'Neill, Huey Long, Malcolm X, Indira Gandhi, and Conrad Hilton.

Book Translation in Context

Download or read book Translation in Context written by Andrew Chesterman and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-12-04 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation in Context is a collection of contributions from the 1998 Congress arranged by EST, the European Society for Translation Studies, in Granada, Spain. It illustrates some of the latest research interests and achievements in Translation Studies at the turn of the millennium. The contributions show how the context of Translation Studies has expanded to cover new documentation techniques, cultural and psychological factors, the latest computer tools, ideological issues, media translation, and new methodologies. A total of 32 papers deal with: (I) Conceptual analysis in Translation Studies, (II) Situational, sociological and political factors, (III) Psychological and cognitive aspects, (IV) Translation effects, (V) Computer aids, (VI) Text-type studies, (VII) Culture-bound concepts, and (VIII) Translation history. The languages of the papers and abstracts are English, French, German and Spanish.

Book Fond Farewells

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rebecca Trowbridge
  • Publisher : Fond Farewell Books
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9780987398215
  • Pages : 46 pages

Download or read book Fond Farewells written by Rebecca Trowbridge and published by Fond Farewell Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ease the heartbreak when saying farewell.Fond Farewells is an award-winning collection of four illustrated poem stories that explore different moods of goodbye: Leaving and hoping for the best, Leaving on a trip then returning, Moving away and keeping in touch, and Saying a very final goodbye.Every story, however, has a positive thought to help give perspective for the reader.This book makes an ideal gift for anyone close that you already miss.Fond Farewells has been recognized with the following book awards:Winner in the 'Children's Picture Book: Softcover Fiction' category of the 2013 International Book AwardsAward Winning Finalist in the 'Children's Mind/Body/Spirit' category of the 2013 International Book AwardsAward Winning Finalist in the 'Childrens-Inspirational/Motivational' category of the 2013 National Indie Excellence Awards

Book Memoires of Japan 1946

Download or read book Memoires of Japan 1946 written by Bernard T. Smith and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having served as a member of the Allied Forces' Occupation of Japan, Bernard Smith has produced a book about the time he spent in Japan in 1946 in the city of Iwakuni, near Hiroshima, both of which cities are located on the east coast of Japan alongside its beautiful Inland Sea. Except for his rather mystifying visit to Tokyo in the summer of 1946, his entire book is based almost entirely on his personal diary, and notes which he wrote while aboard his homeward bound ship at the end of his tour of duty at the end of that year, crucially when the events he describes were still very fresh in his mind. He writes about the utter devastation and despair under which people were living after the horrors of Hiroshima, about the Japanese peoples' response to the Allied Occupation, and the resilience and fortitude with which they faced up to their troubles. As opposed to formal and official documents, Bernard Smith writes about human suffering and the harsh conditions under which people were living. He tells us of his meetings with families, with whom he found relaxation from the gloom and with whom he became very friendly. He also describes how the people faithfully continued to follow their traditional Japanese customs and culture, the observance of which he believes sustained them and helped them begin their ultimate recovery.

Book In Fingal s Wake

    Book Details:
  • Author : Trevor Boult
  • Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
  • Release : 2016-07-15
  • ISBN : 1445648075
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book In Fingal s Wake written by Trevor Boult and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former Northern Lighthouse Board tender Fingal was in service for some 37 years and was party to many operational and technical changes in the provision of aids to navigation in Scottish waters.

Book State Fair

    Book Details:
  • Author : Phil Stong
  • Publisher : eNet Press
  • Release : 2015-01-15
  • ISBN : 1618867695
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book State Fair written by Phil Stong and published by eNet Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a year, a tent city springs up overnight around the exhibition halls in Des Moines as farmers and their families pour in from across Iowa to attend the State Fair. After months of hard and often lonely work, farm families are given the chance to step out of their rural routines — picnic and gossip, sing and dance, take a chance at the hoopla stands, and strut their stuff in stiff competition for ribbons and prizes. When the close-knit Frake family set out from Brunswick, Iowa, Abel's hog, Blue Boy rode proudly in the back of the truck — manicured, curried and rubbed to enameled perfection — ready to compete and win the sweepstakes, the highest honor which any hog could attain. Melissa, Abel's wife, had her hopes set on beating the competition with the prize-winning quality of her pickles. Their teenage children, Wayne and Margy, found themselves faced with a pickle of another kind. Although committed to sweethearts in their hometown, brother and sister are each seized by a new love that sweeps them along, secretly and illicitly, somewhere between the sweet taste of cotton candy and the breathtaking plunge of a roller coaster ride. State fairs were a subject that Phil Stong knew well. For several years his grandfather had been superintendent of the swine division at the Iowa State Fair and, as a reporter for the Des Moines Register, Stong was assigned to cover the evening stock shows at the fair. Iowa held its first state fair in 1854, and for some time fairs were held at various locations around the state before permanently settling in Des Moines. State Fair is very much an Iowa book, filled with incidents and details from the author's own life. Although State Fair suggests a deep satisfaction and fondness for rural life, it shocked some readers in 1932 and was banned in the city library of Keosauqua, Iowa (Stong's hometown) for twenty-five years after it was published. However, judging from the success of the book and the enthusiasm shown for the movies that followed, most readers were captivated by the Frakes' down-home talk and whimsical humor and commended the author's portrayal of rural America.

Book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dark Room

    Book Details:
  • Author : Minette Walters
  • Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • Release : 2009-03-12
  • ISBN : 030749473X
  • Pages : 451 pages

Download or read book The Dark Room written by Minette Walters and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed psychological mystery, Jinx Kingsley, a prominent photographer and millionaire’s daughter, wakes up in an exclusive hospital suffering from amnesia. Not only can she not remember the car accident that caused her memory loss, but she doesn’t remember that her impending wedding has been called off or that her former fiancé and his girlfriend have been brutally murdered in the same way her first husband had been ten years before. Now she must try to piece together her memories in order to determine her innocence. With deft psychological explorations and shocking twists, Walters brings the story to an awe-inspiring conclusion.

Book Goodbye William

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nell Johnson
  • Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
  • Release : 2023-03-31
  • ISBN : 1528930843
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Goodbye William written by Nell Johnson and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabelle is a young woman with a fierce spirit and unwavering determination. At 15, she realizes her dream of studying music in Paris, but her heart remains with the man she loves. Despite being celebrated as a virtuoso violinist, family conflict and societal expectations threaten to stifle her passion and creativity. Desperate for escape, Isabelle turns to the free-spirited community of Gypsies along the river, but tragedy strikes and she is forced to return to Paris. With the support of her beloved, Isabelle finds the courage to pursue her revolutionary ideals, but the path ahead is fraught with danger. A tale of love, courage, and the fight for one’s dreams, Isabelle’s journey will captivate and inspire readers.

Book The Goodbye Baby

Download or read book The Goodbye Baby written by Elaine Pinkerton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who was adopted or who has adopted a child will find The Goodbye Baby a comforting and inspiring read. It takes one on a journey through the thorny issues of adoption, a search for healing, and an inspiring finale.

Book Small Town Baltimore

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gilbert Sandler
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2002-10-10
  • ISBN : 9780801870699
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Small Town Baltimore written by Gilbert Sandler and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This "album of memories" introduces the reader to the people and places - neighborhoods, restaurants, department stores, parks, hotels, night clubs, racetracks, and theaters - that once put the charm in Charm City."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Maddy And Terri

Download or read book Maddy And Terri written by Phyllis Tamres and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maddy, a 90-year old Jewish woman is dying. There is something important she wants to tell her daughter but she cannot remember. She is reincarnated as gentile girl Terri and has another chance to get the info to her family. As she grows up, Terri speaks Yiddish and plays the piano. Terri's friend, Ron is sure he used to be a girl. His father is a homophobic bigot who makes his son's life miserable. The story follows the children through the first 22 years of their lives. Terri and her older sister, Roz have many humorous adventures. There are hard times too.

Book F  r Volk and F  hrer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Erwin Bartmann
  • Publisher : Helion and Company
  • Release : 2013-10-19
  • ISBN : 1909384534
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book F r Volk and F hrer written by Erwin Bartmann and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2013-10-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many Germans, Berlin schoolboy Erwin Bartmann fell under the spell of the Zeitgeist cultivated by the Nazis. Convinced he was growing up in the best country in the world, he dreamt of joining the Leibstandarte, Hitler's elite Waffen SS unit. Tall, blond, blue-eyed, and just seventeen-years-old, Erwin fulfilled his dream on Mayday 1941, when he gave up his apprenticeship at the Glaser bakery in Memeler Strasse and walked into the Lichterfelde barracks in Berlin as a raw, volunteer recruit. On arrival at the Eastern Front in late summer 1941, Erwin was assigned to a frontline communications squad attached to 4.Kompanie and soon discovered that survival was a matter of luck - or the protection of a guardian angel. Good fortune finally deserted Erwin on 11 July 1943 when shrapnel sizzled through his lung during the epic Battle of Kursk-Prokhorovka. Following a period of recovery, and promotion to Unterscharführer, Erwin took up a post as machine-gun instructor with the Ausbildung und Ersatz Bataillon, a training unit based close to the eastern section of the Berliner Ring Autobahn. When the Red Army launched its massive assault on the Seelow Heights, Erwin's unit, now incorporated into Regiment Falke, was deployed to the southern flank of the Berlin-Frankfurt Autobahn, close to the River Oder. The German defenses soon crumbled and with the end of the Reich inevitable, Erwin was forced to choose between a struggle for personal survival and the fulfillment of his SS oath of 'loyalty unto death’. From the war on the southern sector of the Eastern Front to a bomb-shattered Berlin populated largely by old men and demoralized lonely women, this candid eyewitness account offers a unique and sometimes surprising perspective on the life of a young Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler volunteer.

Book Super Bowl s Most WantedTM

Download or read book Super Bowl s Most WantedTM written by and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pro football's championship game gets the Most Wanted* treatment in this book of fascinating trivia covering four decades of Super Bowl history that relive the action of the games and highlights the successes, failures, and experiences of the teams. 10 photos.

Book Forgotten Reformer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frank Morn
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0761853006
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Forgotten Reformer written by Frank Morn and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2011 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forgotten Reformer traces criminal justice practice and reform developments in late nineteenth-century America through the life and career of Robert McClaughry, a leading reformer. As a warden of one of America's toughest prisons, as a chief of police of Chicago, as a superintendent of two different reformatories, and as one of the first wardens of the federal prison system, McClaughry developed and led a reform movement that resonates today. As a founding member of the reformatory movement that sought to "save" young first offenders, McClaughry advocated new sentencing structures, probation, parole, and rehabilitative regimes within new institutions for young first offenders called reformatories. McClaughry then successfully got these reformatory ideals placed into adult prisons. In addition, McClaughry became American's main advocate for a criminal identification method called the Bertillon system. He set up the first identification bureaus at the Illinois State Penitentiary, the Chicago police department, and the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas and these became models for others across the country. Finally, as a founding member of the National Association of Chiefs of Police (today the International Association of Chiefs of Police) and the National Prison Assocation (today American Corrections Association), McClaughry sought to professionalize police and prison administrators.

Book A Field Full of Butterflies

Download or read book A Field Full of Butterflies written by Rosemary Penfold and published by Orion. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gypsy tales from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author... Rosemary Penfold was born in 1938 in a traditional Gypsy wagon, and grew up in the fields of the English countryside. In this beautiful and evocative memoir, she recounts her life within a loving extended family and small but close-knit community. From early memories of her father bringing home oranges during the war, to the simple beauty of a field full of butterflies on a hot summer's day, Rosemary's stunningly elegant narrative captures the love and losses, hopes and struggles, traditions and prejudices that bound her to her family and helped her adapt to a fast-changing world. Rosemary's story is a moving testament to a forgotten world and a rapidly disappearing way of life.

Book Friends  Lovers  Co Workers  and Community

Download or read book Friends Lovers Co Workers and Community written by Kathleen M. Ryan and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes how television narratives form the first decade of the twenty-first century are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members, communities, and nations. This book is written by a diverse group of scholars who used a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches to interrogate the ways through which television molds our vision of ourselves as individuals, ourselves as in relationships with others, and ourselves as a part of the world. This book will appeal to scholars of communication studies, cultural studies, media studies, and popular culture studies.