Download or read book Swan in the Evening B Special written by Lehmann and published by . This book was released on 1998-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minutes of Proceedings written by London (England). School Board and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Trumpet of the Swan written by E. B. White and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The much-loved children’s classic from the author of Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little, available in eBook for the very first time!
Download or read book The Bioscope written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book City Record written by Boston (Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Silver Swan written by Sallie Bingham and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Men who inherit great wealth are respected, but women who do the same are ridiculed. In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham rescues Doris Duke from this gendered prison and shows us just how brave, rebellious, and creative this unique woman really was, and how her generosity benefits us to this day.” —Gloria Steinem A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropist In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham chronicles one of the great underexplored lives of the twentieth century and the very archetype of the modern woman. “Don’t touch that girl, she’ll burn your fingers,” FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once said about Doris Duke, the inheritor of James Buchanan Duke’s billion-dollar tobacco fortune. During her lifetime, she would be blamed for scorching many, including her mother and various ex-lovers. She established her first foundation when she was twenty-one; cultivated friendships with the likes of Jackie Kennedy, Imelda Marcos, and Michael Jackson; flaunted interracial relationships; and adopted a thirty-two year-old woman she believed to be the reincarnation of her deceased daughter. This is also the story of the great houses she inhabited, including the classically proportioned limestone mansion on Fifth Avenue, the sprawling Duke Farms in New Jersey, the Gilded Age mansion Rough Point in Newport, Shangri La in Honolulu, and Falcon’s Lair overlooking Beverly Hills. Even though Duke was the subject of constant scrutiny, little beyond the tabloid accounts of her behavior has been publicly known. In 2012, when eight hundred linear feet of her personal papers were made available, Sallie Bingham set out to probe her identity. She found an alluring woman whose life was forged in the Jazz Age, who was not only an early war correspondent but also an environmentalist, a surfer, a collector of Islamic art, a savvy businesswoman who tripled her father’s fortune, and a major philanthropist with wide-ranging passions from dance to historic preservation to human rights. In The Silver Swan, Bingham is especially interested in dissecting the stereotypes that have defined Duke’s story while also confronting the disturbing questions that cleave to her legacy.
Download or read book St Andrew s Cross written by Hubert Carleton and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by Minneapolis Institute of Arts and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the School Committee of the City of Boston written by Boston (Mass.). School Committee and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oscar and the Amazing Gravity Repellent written by Tina L. Peterson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Schmidt is a klutz and gravity is his nemesis - until one day everything changes.
Download or read book Who s who written by Henry Robert Addison and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time."
Download or read book Bridging and Relevance written by Tomoko Matsui and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-09-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it has long been taken for granted that context or background information plays a crucial role in reference assignment, there have been very few serious attempts to investigate exactly how they are used. This study provides an answer to the question through an extensive analysis of cases of bridging. The book demonstrates that when encountering a referring expression, the hearer is able to choose a set of contextual assumptions intended by the speaker in a principled way, out of all the assumptions possibly available to him. It claims more specifically that the use of context, as well as the assignment of referent, is governed by a single pragmatic principle, namely, the principle of relevance (Sperber & Wilson 1986/1995), which is also a single principle governing overall utterance interpretation. The explanatory power of the criterion based on the principle of relevance is tested against the two major, current alternatives — truth-based criteria and coherence-based criteria — using data elicited in a battery of referent assignment questionnaires. The results show clearly that the relevance-based criterion has more predictive power to handle a wider range of examples than any other existing criterion. As such, this work adds to the growing body of evidence supporting the insights of relevance theory. The work has been awarded the 2001 Ichikawa Award for the best achievement in English Linguistics by a young scholar in Japan.
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Download or read book The Swan In The Evening written by Rosamond Lehmann and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 'Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen' ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD 'Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes' ENGLISH PEN 'Combines something of the earthiness of Colette with the imaginative insight of Virginia Woolf' CYRIL CONNOLLY Rosamond Lehmann, one of the most distinguished British writers of this century, published eight acclaimed works of fiction. Her only autobiographical work, The Swan in the Evening, recreated first the child she was and the experiences that made her the woman she became, moving on to tell the story of her beloved daughter Sally and the tragedy of her early death at the age of twenty-four. Then, tentatively and persuasively, Rosamond Lehmann relates the totally unexpected, overwhelming and scrupulously recorded psychic and mystical experiences she underwent following that terrible loss. The meaning of such events, their messages of hope and comfort to others she then, through a letter to her grandaughter, passes to us.
