Download or read book Rhubarb Rhubarb and Other Noises written by Keith Waterhouse and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1979 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rhubarb written by Clifford M. Foust and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Asian plant with mysterious cathartic powers, medicinal rhubarb spurred European trade expeditions and obsessive scientific inquiry from the Renaissance until the twentieth century. Rarely, however, had there been a plant that so thoroughly frustrated Europeans' efforts to acquire it and to master its special botanical and chemical properties. Here Clifford Foust presents the remarkable efforts of the explorers, traders, botanists, gardeners, physicians, and pharmacists who tried to adapt rhubarb for convenient use in Europe. His is an intriguing tale of how humans and their institutions have been affected by natural realities they do not entirely comprehend. Readers interested in the history of medicine, pharmaceutics, botany, or horticulture will be fascinated by this once-perplexing plant: highly valued by physicians for its cathartic properties, rhubarb resisted revealing its active chemical principles, had many widely varying species, and did not breed true by seed. This history includes sections on the geographic and economic importance of rhubarb--which explain how the plant became a major state monopoly for Russia and an important commodity for the East India companies--and a discussion of rhubarb's emergence as an international culinary craze during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Writers and their Works written by Christopher Riches and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 1431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.
Download or read book The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth Century Poetry written by William Fogarty and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton argues that local speech became a central facet of English-language poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. It is based on a key observation about four major poets from both sides of the Atlantic: Seamus Heaney, Gwendolyn Brooks, Tony Harrison, and Lucille Clifton all respond to societal crises by arranging, reproducing, and reconceiving their particular versions of local speech in poetic form. The book’s overarching claim is that “local tongues” in poetry have the capacity to bridge aesthetic and sociopolitical realms because nonstandard local speech declares its distinction from the status quo and binds people who have been subordinated by hierarchical social conditions, while harnessing those versions of speech into poetic structures can actively counter the very hierarchies that would degrade those languages. The diverse local tongues of these four poets marshaled into the forms of poetry situate them at once in literary tradition, in local contexts, and in prevailing social constructs.
Download or read book The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary written by Paul Dickson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still not sure what makes a sinker different from a curve? Can't remember when the M&M boys played with the Yankees? Want to know where the "seventh-inning stretch" comes from? Then you've done the right thing by picking up this book - the most complete collection of baseball terms and slang to be found between two covers. Impeccably researched, The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary covers all the bases.
Download or read book The Cervical Supremacy written by Mikey Clarke and published by Mikey Clarke. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN A WORLD where wars are fought with romance, and flirting, and delicious erotic TENSION, the illustrious and historic enmities twixt the globe’s Great Powers have become a BUTTLOAD more bubbly, with fewer hideous massacres of musket and cannon, and oodles more frisky cunnilingus contests. Continuing from Part Two, the SOVIET SLUTS SUPERB: mikeyclarke.co.nz/apocalypse/2-soviet-sluts-superb ... Ever enjoyed flirting so magnificent it whisks your mind, heart, soul, and nethers into gooey puddles of blissy-bliss-bliss? Ever hungered for pilgrimage to an entire Empire designed around little else? Yeah? Be careful what you wish for! The Sexyverse French Empire's glorious new seismoflirt hierarchy is resculpting civilisation. Anyone who's anyone is going nuts for it. Radiant rookie tongue-twirlers fuel their social and martial ascendance by slurping asunder their neighbours’ ’nads, who in turn become vacuumed into heavenly aural oblivion by oral athletes yet mightier, up and up to lustrous Imperial infinity. Just imagine the Mongol Hordes 96ing likewise. Go on. Picture it. They'd conquer halfway to Andromeda and you know it. France has never been mightier. A sweat-slick tornado of rad Imperial oomph throbs across Europe. France consumes all. France devours all. You? You're nothing. A billion bombastic Frogs will hump your screws loose and discard the husk. Our Royal Marines Sex Commando correspondent feels like he's died and gone to heaven. Yet Private Charlie gr0ks he's moonwalking across France far too friskily. Attention accretes. Thumbscrews turn. Vices clamp. Beautiful gangs of beautiful gangsters spurt penisly from every alley. Flirting with every ladybro Rambo in sight produces Rivals and Frenemies and Jilted Waifus galore, athirst for irresistible Sex Commando cock, France's finest socio-sexie rocket fuel. The dazzling Alsatian wonder-grrl Yasmine "Sweetling" Gautreaux sweeps aside the lot. She and Charlie have already spent SOVIET SLUTS SUPERB becoming ever so chummy. There is no rival they cannot together crush asunder. Yasmine schemes. Yasmine plots. If she could somehow liquefy and subsume this dreamy foreign volcano, then there is no Prussian fortress she could not cast down in ruin, no rival she could not trounce. Trounce perhaps even the Imperatrix? Can't a gal dream? Yasmine surely tightens her webs against Charlie, mapping his psyche, caressing his pain points, cloaking her smiling jaws of silken goddamn steel. Charlie's vigilance can only crumble further as his captured Sex Commando chums are not only paraded around France, but their handlers invite Charlie, this alleged foreign Louisiana Seminal Sorcerer, to publicly torture them for intel but mainly for lolz. And Paris's police have FOUND HIM. Torment within and without! How much hurt can this tank take, man? Find out! In Part Four! The PRAETORIAN PROSTITUTES: mikeyclarke.co.nz/apocalypse/4-praetorian-prostitutes (But read this Part Three first)
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Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang written by John Ayto and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering coverage of over 6,000 slang words and expressions from the Cockney 'abaht' to the American term 'zowie', this is the most authoritative dictionary of slang from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Download or read book Contemporary Dramatists written by D. L. Kirkpatrick and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Operationalizing Iconicity written by Pamela Perniss and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iconicity in Language and Literature series has long been dedicated to the recognition and understanding of the pervasiveness of iconicity in language in its many forms and functions. The present volume, divided into four sections, brings together and unifies different perspectives on iconicity. Chapters in the first section (Iconicity in language) provide linguistic analyses of systems of iconic forms in different languages, across both space (areally) and time (diachronically). The second section (Iconicity in literature) is concerned with stylistic analyses of iconicity in literature, in both poetry and prose and across a range of devices and genres. The third section (Iconicity in visual media) highlights the use and effects of iconicity in pictorial, photographic and cinematic media. The final section (Iconicity in semiotic analysis) offers a theoretical perspective, targeting an operationalisation of iconicity with respect to the relationship between types and subtypes of Peircean signs.
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Download or read book The Liar s Quartet written by Mark Thomas and published by September Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny, provocative and moving, The Liar's Quartet includes the scripts with brand new commentary from Mark Thomas' most acclaimed comic, political theatre. 'There is a battle of narratives. The working-class narrative is being erased. And as you erase that narrative, you erase truths with it.' Layered with political insight (and insult), and peppered with anecdote, The Liar's Quartet is a bravura performance in its own right. Each multi-award winning show examines Thomas' obsession with the bonds that bind us, those of family, friends and communities. Beginning with Bravo Figaro!, Mark puts on an opera in his dying father's living room (with the help of Royal Opera House singers) to explore their relationship. In Cuckooed, he unpicks the betrayal of a friend and a fellow activist who was in fact employed to spy for the UK's biggest arms company, BAE systems. And in The Red Shed, Mark returns to his political roots to harness the power of collective memory and celebrate the importance of working-class struggles and narratives in a story he describes as 'a topical tale about the miners' strike'. Laughter, anger and connection. Mark Thomas is more essential than ever ...
Download or read book Post Sound Design written by John Avarese and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post Sound Design provides a practical introduction to the fascinating craft of editing and replacing dialog, creating Foley and sound effects, editing music, and balancing these elements to a final mix. Based on years of experience and teaching this material to students at Drexel University, award-winning film composer John Avarese offers user-friendly knowledge and stimulating exercises to help compose story, develop characters and create emotion through skillful creation of the sound track. Starting each chapter with a real-life example, the textbook is structured in such a way to create a fundamental understanding of the physics and the biological foundation of hearing, and putting it into practice with suggested movie scenes demonstrating the discussed audio techniques. Post Sound Design engagingly demonstrates the individual areas essential to creating a soundtrack that will enhance any media production.
Download or read book Dictionary of Idioms written by Martin H. Manser and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary explains such idiomatic phrases used in typical English conversations. Modern spoken English contains many expressions that the average English speaker scarcely thinks about and foreign learners find difficult. This dictionary explains such expressions.
Download or read book The Professional Arranger Composer written by Russell Garcia and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1954 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for the musician who wants to become a professional arranger-composer. Includes a section of dance band harmony and voicing.
Download or read book 350 Idioms with Their Origin or The Idiomatic Cake You Can Eat and Have It Too 350 written by Лариса Шитова and published by Litres. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Книга цикла авторских фразеологических словарей содержит новый подход к изучению идиоматики. Структура книги поможет глубже понять значение идиомы, а история её происхождения останется в памяти, что позволит адекватно употребить это выражение в речи, делая её более богатой и красочной.
Download or read book Curious English Words and Phrases written by Max Cryer and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered where terms like 'end of your tether', 'gets my goat' or 'letting ones hair down' come from? Or why we call some people 'geezers', 'sugar daddies' or 'lounge lizards'? Or where the words 'eavesdropping', 'nickname' and 'D-Day' come from?They are just a few of the many words and phrases that language expert Max Cryer examines in this fact-filled and fun new book. Max explains where these curious expressions come from, what they mean and how they are used. Along the way he tells a host of colourful anecdotes and dispels quite a few myths Did Churchill originate the phrase 'black dog'? And if 'ivory tower' can be found in the Bible, why has its meaning changed so drastically?'Curious English Words and Phrases' is a treasure trove for lovers of language. Informative, amusing and value for money, this book is 'the real McCoy'. From 'couch potato' to 'Bob's your uncle', you'll find the explanation here!
