Download or read book Garner s Modern American Usage written by Bryan Garner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 1007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since first appearing in 1998, Garner's Modern American Usage has established itself as the preeminent guide to the effective use of the English language. Brimming with witty, erudite essays on troublesome words and phrases, this book authoritatively shows how to avoid the countless pitfalls that await unwary writers and speakers whether the issues relate to grammar, punctuation, word choice, or pronunciation. Now in the third edition, readers will find the "Garner's Language-Change Index," which registers where each disputed usage in modern English falls on a five-stage continuum from nonacceptability (to the language community as a whole) to acceptability, giving the book a consistent standard throughout. Garner's Modern American Usage, 3e is the first usage guide ever to incorporate such a language-change index, and the judgments are based both on Garner's own original research in linguistic corpora and on his analysis of hundreds of earlier studies. Another first in this edition is the panel of critical readers: 120-plus commentators who have helped Garner reassess and update the text, so that every page has been improved.
Download or read book Accustomed to Her Face written by Axel Nissen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on historical documents and newspaper reports, this book provides a fascinating portrait of a diverse group of character actresses who left their stamp on Hollywood from the early sound era through the 1960s. The lives of 35 actresses are explored in detail. Some are familiar: Margaret Hamilton starred in dozens of films before and after her signature role as the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz; Una Merkel nearly died when her mother committed suicide in 1945. Others are nearly forgotten: Maude Eburne owed her career to a spectacular fall on the Broadway stage in 1914; Greta Meyer, who played the quintessential German maid, came to Hollywood after years in New York's Yiddish theater--though she wasn't Jewish.
Download or read book Cagney written by John McCabe and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John McCabe's participation in the writing of James Cagney's autobiography, the many years of friendship that followed, and an intense period of interview and discussion in preparation for a musical comedy based on Cagney's life--a show that never saw the light of day--make him Cagney's ideal biographer. And, indeed, he has written a searching chronicle of this major actor's life and career, packed with history and anecdote, and profusely illustrated. Cagney came from a poor Irish-American New York family but once he found his métier as an actor, it was not long before he was recognized as a brilliantly energetic and powerful phenomenon. After the tremendous impact of Public Enemy--in which he notoriously pushed half a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face--he was typecast as a gangster because of the terrifying violence that seemed to be pent up within him. Years of pitched battle with Warner Brothers finally liberated him from those roles, and he went on to star in such triumphs as the musicals Yankee Doodle Dandy (winning the 1942 Oscar for best actor) and Love Me or Leave Me. Even so, one of his greatest later roles involved a return to crime--as the psychopathic killer in the terrifying White Heat. He retired from films in 1961 after making Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three, only to return twenty years later for Ragtime. But however much Cagney personified violence and explosive energy on the screen, in life he was a quiet, introspective, and deeply private man, a poet, painter, and environmentalist, whose marriage to his early vaudeville partner was famously loyal and happy. His story is one of the few Hollywood biographies that reflect a fulfilled life as well as a spectacular career.
Download or read book The Inside Songs of Amiri Baraka written by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inside Songs of Amiri Baraka examines the full length of Baraka’s discography as a poet recording with musicians as well as his contributions to jazz and R & B, beginning with his earliest studio recordings in 1965 and continuing to the last year of his life, 2014. This recorded history traces his evolution from the era of Beat poetry and “projective verse,” through the period of the Black Arts Movement and cultural nationalism, and on to his commitments to “third world Marxism,” which characterized the last decades of his life. The music enfolding Baraka’s recitations ranges from traditional African drumming, to doo wop, rhythm and blues, soul and the avant garde jazz that was his great love and the subject of so much of his writing, and includes both in-studio sessions and live concert performances. This body of work offers a rare opportunity to think about not only jazz/poetry, but the poet in the recording studio and the relations of text to score.
Download or read book Part 3 pp 2495 3543 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The New Biographical Dictionary of Film written by David Thomson and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 1169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 100 new entries, from Amy Adams, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Cary Joji Fukunaga to Joaquin Phoenix, Mia Wasikowska, and Robin Wright, and completely updated, here from David Thomson—“The greatest living writer on the movies” (John Banville, New Statesman); “Our most argumentative and trustworthy historian of the screen” (Michael Ondaatje)—is the latest edition of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, which topped Sight & Sound’s poll of international critics and writers as THE BEST FILM BOOK EVER WRITTEN. 3/7
Download or read book The Shepherd s Crook written by Ted Bradshaw and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-11-17 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Westover faced an unlooked for and unwelcome ministry. He was not prepared by background, by education or by previous ministry experience. And yet Christ called him, confirmed Bill in a tough inner-city ministry. He was caught between two warring gangs, threatened, shot at and beaten seriously. Through it all the Holy Spirit empowered Bill. With the support of Elaine who feared for her husband, Bill he returned each day to the Bawdy District to seek to snatch souls from the jaws of Hell. Walk with Bill on the sidewalks, stepping over the stoned or drunk, smelling the sour fumes pouring out of the bars, past the porno ships and the X-rated theaters, dodging the street walkers on the corners and trying to bring the light of Christ into very dark lives.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Seeking a Revival Culture written by Allen M. Baker III and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great burden of Al Baker's life, that which drives him in Christian ministry more than anything else, is to see the church of the Lord Jesus Christ rise up and become mighty as she has been so often in past years. One thing has become very clear to Baker--the western church is in big trouble. Many pastors are terribly discouraged in their ministries. So are their people. Pastors have been told that they can model their ministries after whoever the latest and hottest preacher is, and all will be well with them, that they can expect exponential growth in their churches. With few exceptions, this has not been their experience. They have attended the seminars and read the latest books, but they have little to show for their efforts. As a pastor, Baker is heartbroken over the vastness of people's problems in today's church--everything from incest, child molestation, homosexuality, pornography, severe depression, suicide, divorce, wayward children, adultery, fornication, and more. The pastoral problems are epidemic. The Christian faith in American churches is woefully lacking. Church people are generally no different from those of the world. What are we to do? We need revival. We need a revival culture in the western church. We need, like Israel laboring under Egyptian bondage, to become intolerable of our circumstances. Israel cried out to the Lord when their slavery became intolerable to them. May God move us to divine discontent, to be dissatisfied with the status quo!
Download or read book Weeds written by Richard Mabey and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weeds survive, entombed in the soil, for centuries. They are as persistent and pervasive as myths. They ride out ice ages, agricultural revolutions, global wars. They mark the tracks of human movements across continents as indelibly as languages. Yet to humans they are the scourge of our gardens, saboteurs of our best-laid plans. They rob crops of nourishment, ruin the exquisite visions of garden designers, and make unpleasant and impenetrable hiding places for urban ne'er-do-wells. Weeds can be destructive and troubling, but they can also be beautiful, and they are the prototypes of most of the plants that keep us alive. Humans have grappled with their paradox for thousands of years, and with characteristic verve and lyricism, Richard Mabey uncovers some of the deeper cultural reasons behind the attitudes we have to such a huge section of the plant world.
Download or read book The Hick Arrives at the Tea Party written by Terry Dugan and published by Terry Dugan. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Profit, Ben Franklin, Momma Grizzly: Oh my!Tea Party fever is sweeping the nation, making Congressional candidates out of average Joes and spreading resentment between the people and the government that serves them. Wherever there's resentment and bitterness, there's Rufus.Join Rufus "Junior" Hickman, Jr., on the campaign trail as he trades in his grass smoking for grassroots barnstorming in the comedic political romp "The Hick Arrives at the Tea Party."Recruited to run as a Tea Party candidate for his uncanny ability to say incomprehensible things in plain English, Rufus hits the gravel to convince the folks of Nebraska's 3rd District that he's the right outlaw to serve their needs which may or may not include the preservation of personal liberty and the legalization of marijuana. But trouble lurks outside the 3rd's unguarded borders: a tearful endorsement from the coattail rider The Profit is threatening to sabotage Rufus' bandwagoning. Will truth prevail? Nope.
Download or read book The Virgin Islands Dictionary written by Kareem-Nelson Hull and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Virgin Islands Dictionary is a collection of words and phrases used frequently, naturally and enjoyably by the people who call the Virgin Islands home. Dont get it wrong; most Virgin Islanders speak English well. A growing majority speak English and Spanish making that set bilingual, while a super special set speak English and a well organized and brilliant dialect too and that makes them VIlingual! Through the collection of words and phrases captured here, you get a sense of many things about the people of the islands: that they are sometimes curt, very funny, and insolently mischievous at times. The words coupled with the way Virgin Islanders dramatically speak; make for a good time and hours of fun. This Dictionary will also do that, provide hours of fun and an easy tool for cultural exchange and pride and is THE BEST GUIDE for a newbie to learn the ins and outs of the Virgin Islands language.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Professional Career written by Peter Thomson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Shakespeare at work in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean social and professional life.
Download or read book Shakespeare written by E. A. J. Honigmann and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throws light on the problem of what Shakespeare was doing between leaving school and appearing as an actor and playwright in London.
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