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Book Getting Married

Download or read book Getting Married written by Andrea Rotondo Hospidor and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's a guide to making the most of the time between today and the wedding by dividing it into manageable components. As you plan, consider things your mother probably hasn't told you, like Jack and Jill parties and registering online. Fill in checklists to help you find your wedding style, whether traditional, ethnic, special theme, your own production (or eloping). Charts and tips help you establish costs and budgeting. Then come planning the ceremony, with common-sense etiquette on whom to invite, selecting the wedding party, and resolving family tensions. Where to honeymoon? Look over the great list of suggestions together. You really can manage the announcements, engagement parties, rehearsal dinner, and the reception. Finally: plan a peaceful, lovely wedding day, hour by hou

Book Wild Geese

Download or read book Wild Geese written by Nan Shepherd and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It will come as a very pleasant surprise to Nan Shepherd's growing following that there is a body of her work which has never been published in book form, and indeed will be entirely unknown outside a very small circle. The editor of this volume, Charlotte Peacock, found many of these gems when researching for the Nan Shepherd biography Into the Mountain, published by Galileo in 2017. The pieces that Peacock found include a brilliant and moving 10,000 word short story, "Descent from the Cross"; a series of 'field writings' which were written at the same time, and in the same style as, The Living Mountain; 15 poems, never seen before; a highly entertaining piece on the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid and, from where the title of this collection arises, a haunting description of "Wild Geese in Glen Callater" a version of which also went into The Living Mountain.

Book Journey of the Wild Geese

Download or read book Journey of the Wild Geese written by Jayson Lee and published by Jayson Lee. This book was released on 2006 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korean immigrants and their experiences in the United States from 1903-1941.

Book The Flavor of Wisconsin

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  • Author : Harva Hachten
  • Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
  • Release : 2013-09-03
  • ISBN : 0870205536
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book The Flavor of Wisconsin written by Harva Hachten and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wisconsin Historical Society published Harva Hachten's The Flavor of Wisconsin in 1981. It immediately became an invaluable resource on Wisconsin foods and foodways. This updated and expanded edition explores the multitude of changes in the food culture since the 1980s. It will find new audiences while continuing to delight the book’s many fans. And it will stand as a legacy to author Harva Hachten, who was at work on the revised edition at the time of her death in April 2006. While in many ways the first edition of The Flavor of Wisconsin has stood the test of time very well, food-related culture and business have changed immensely in the twenty-five years since its publication. Well-known regional food expert and author Terese Allen examines aspects of food, cooking, and eating that have changed or emerged since the first edition, including the explosion of farmers' markets; organic farming and sustainability; the "slow food" movement; artisanal breads, dairy, herb growers, and the like; and how relatively recent immigrants have contributed to Wisconsin's remarkably rich food scene.

Book Wild Geese

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  • Author : Mary Oliver
  • Publisher : Gardners Books
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781852246280
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Wild Geese written by Mary Oliver and published by Gardners Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Oliver is one of America's best-loved poets, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her luminous poetry celebrates nature and beauty, love and the spirit, silence and wonder, extending the visionary American tradition of Whitman, Emerson, Frost and Emily Dickinson. Her extraordinary poetry is nourished by her intimate knowledge and minute daily observation of the New England coast, its woods and ponds, its birds and animals, plants and trees.

Book Where the Wildgeese Roam  a Coyne Family History

Download or read book Where the Wildgeese Roam a Coyne Family History written by Steve Coyne and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish family history is not easy to pursue. This book took the author many years researching the journey of his family from County Roscommon at the time of the Great Famine in the 1840s. They settled in Lancashire, became part of the Irish in Britain, while working as plasterers, house painters, and cotton weavers. We discover where they lived, how much they earnt, and how much rent they paid. As they assimilated into British society in the last century family members contributed in both world wars. In the Second World War we follow the fortunes of three cousins in each of the three services. The family name - O'Cadhain in Irish - translates as 'wildgoose'. Their roaming continued after 1945 with further migrations to Canada. As we discover from what happened to this one family of famine migrants there are plenty of surprises along the way.

Book Savage Son

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  • Author : Jack Carr
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2020-04-14
  • ISBN : 1982123729
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Savage Son written by Jack Carr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Take my word for it, James Reece is one rowdy motherf***er. Get ready!”—Chris Pratt, star of the #1 Amazon Prime series The Terminal List “A rare gut-punch writer, full of grit and insight, who we will be happily reading for years to come.” —Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author of the Orphan X series? In this third high-octane thriller in the “seriously good” (Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Terminal List series, former Navy SEAL James Reece must infiltrate the Russian mafia and turn the hunters into the hunted. Deep in the wilds of Siberia, a woman is on the run, pursued by a man harboring secrets—a man intent on killing her. A traitorous CIA officer has found refuge with the Russian mafia with designs on ensuring a certain former Navy SEAL sniper is put in the ground. Half a world away, James Reece is recovering from brain surgery in the Montana wilderness, slowly putting his life back together with the help of investigative journalist Katie Buranek and his longtime friend and SEAL teammate Raife Hastings. Unbeknownst to them, the Russian mafia has set their sights on Reece in a deadly game of cat and mouse. As Jack Carr’s most visceral and heart-pounding thriller yet, Savage Son explores the darkest instincts of humanity through the eyes of a man who has seen both the best and the worst of it.

Book Spectacular Accumulation

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  • Author : Morgan Pitelka
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2015-12-15
  • ISBN : 0824857348
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book Spectacular Accumulation written by Morgan Pitelka and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spectacular Accumulation, Morgan Pitelka investigates the significance of material culture and sociability in late sixteenth-century Japan, focusing in particular on the career and afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616), the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. The story of Ieyasu illustrates the close ties between people, things, and politics and offers us insight into the role of material culture in the shift from medieval to early modern Japan and in shaping our knowledge of history. This innovative and eloquent history of a transitional age in Japan reframes the relationship between culture and politics. Like the collection of meibutsu, or "famous objects," exchanging hostages, collecting heads, and commanding massive armies were part of a strategy Pitelka calls "spectacular accumulation," which profoundly affected the creation and character of Japan's early modern polity. Pitelka uses the notion of spectacular accumulation to contextualize the acquisition of "art" within a larger complex of practices aimed at establishing governmental authority, demonstrating military dominance, reifying hierarchy, and advertising wealth. He avoids the artificial distinction between cultural history and political history, arguing that the famed cultural efflorescence of these years was not subsidiary to the landscape of political conflict, but constitutive of it. Employing a wide range of thoroughly researched visual and material evidence, including letters, diaries, historical chronicles, and art, Pitelka links the increasing violence of civil and international war to the increasing importance of samurai social rituals and cultural practices. Moving from the Ashikaga palaces of Kyoto to the tea utensil collections of Ieyasu, from the exchange of military hostages to the gift-giving rituals of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Spectacular Accumulation traces Japanese military rulers' power plays over famous artworks as well as objectified human bodies.

Book Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Download or read book Wild Ducks Flying Backward written by Tom Robbins and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2006-08-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for his meaty seriocomic novels–expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow–Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His travel articles, essays, and tributes to actors, musicians, sex kittens, and thinkers have appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy to the New York Times, High Times, and Life. A generous sampling, collected here for the first time and including works as diverse as scholarly art criticism and some decidedly untypical country- music lyrics, Wild Ducks Flying Backward offers a rare sweeping overview of the eclectic sensibility of an American original. Whether he is rocking with the Doors, depoliticizing Picasso’s Guernica, lamenting the angst-ridden state of contemporary literature, or drooling over tomato sandwiches and a species of womanhood he calls “the genius waitress,” Robbins’s briefer writings often exhibit the same five traits that perhaps best characterize his novels: an imaginative wit, a cheerfully brash disregard for convention, a sweetly nasty eroticism, a mystical but keenly observant eye, and an irrepressible love of language. Embedded in this primarily journalistic compilation are a couple of short stories, a sheaf of largely unpublished poems, and an off-beat assessment of our divided nation. And wherever we open Wild Ducks Flying Backward, we’re apt to encounter examples of the intently serious playfulness that percolates from the mind of a self-described “romantic Zen hedonist” and “stray dog in the banquet halls of culture.”

Book Fresh Eggs Daily

Download or read book Fresh Eggs Daily written by Lisa Steele and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than ever, Americans care about the quality and safety of the food they eat. They're bringing back an American tradition: raising their own backyard chickens for eggs and companionship. And they care about the quality of life of their chickens. Fresh Eggs Daily is an authoritative, accessible guide to coops, nesting boxes, runs, breeding, feed, and natural health care with time-tested remedies. The author promotes the benefits of keeping chickens happy and well-occupied, and in optimal health, free of chemicals and antibiotics. She emphasizes the therapeutic value of herbs and natural supplements to maintaining a healthy environment for your chickens. Includes many "recipes" and 8 easy DIY projects for the coop and run. Full color photos throughout. The USDA's new study of urban chicken raising sees a 400% increase in backyard chickens over the next 5 years, driven by younger adults.

Book Chinese Tea

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  • Author : Tong Liu
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2012-03-09
  • ISBN : 0521186803
  • Pages : 167 pages

Download or read book Chinese Tea written by Tong Liu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated introduction to the ancient culture of tea in China and its popularisation around the world.

Book From Unicorns To Wild Geese

Download or read book From Unicorns To Wild Geese written by Louise James and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1914 - 18 War is over. Tom Penry listed as missing presumed dead returns to Blackberry Cottage in the woods at Indian Queens. His grieving sisters Janet and Amy hear that a stranger has moved into their old home and hurry to see. Friend Joe Treggorran is sure it's Tom but the man insists that he is Jack Travers and locks himself away when they come. Nineteen year old Rowan Berryman who was sure she saw a unicorn when she was twelve, wanders the woods rescuing sick or injured animals and birds, comes upon Tom fishing. He finds that he can relate to her as she is shy and quiet. When she tells him about the unicorn he admits he has seen a very strange looking deer too. Rowan is under pressure from her father to marry Bill Wilkins a local widower whom she dislikes. Bill attacks her in the woods and Tom comes to her aid. She later realizes she is in love with him. Tom has forgotten that he married before the war and doesn't know he is a father. When Ruth his wife comes looking for him bringing his little son Peter, there is a terrible storm and Ruth is killed beneath falling masonry. Tom is shaken out of his mental state and later is able to explain to his sisters, Rowan and the Treggorran family about the dreadful time at the battle of Passchendaele; the cause of his breakdown. Later he goes to stay with Janet, taking care of his son while Rowan heart-broken and under pressure from her father and Bill runs away to Meg Thornton the woman who took care of the Penry's when they were on the run. Will Tom fully recover? Is he in love with Rowan? Will he come back when the wild geese fly home?

Book Once a Week

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  • Author : Eneas Sweetland Dallas
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1863
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 736 pages

Download or read book Once a Week written by Eneas Sweetland Dallas and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Pursuit of Wild Geese

Download or read book In Pursuit of Wild Geese written by Alan Reid Gartenhaus and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Disaffected

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  • Author : Aaron Sullivan
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2019-02-14
  • ISBN : 0812296168
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Disaffected written by Aaron Sullivan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth and Henry Drinker of Philadelphia were no friends of the American Revolution. Yet neither were they its enemies. The Drinkers were a merchant family who, being Quakers and pacifists, shunned commitments to both the Revolutionaries and the British. They strove to endure the war uninvolved and unscathed. They failed. In 1777, the war came to Philadelphia when the city was taken and occupied by the British army. Aaron Sullivan explores the British occupation of Philadelphia, chronicling the experiences of a group of people who were pursued, pressured, and at times persecuted, not because they chose the wrong side of the Revolution but because they tried not to choose a side at all. For these people, the war was neither a glorious cause to be won nor an unnatural rebellion to be suppressed, but a dangerous and costly calamity to be navigated with care. Both the Patriots and the British referred to this group as "the disaffected," perceiving correctly that their defining feature was less loyalty to than a lack of support for either side in the dispute, and denounced them as opportunistic, apathetic, or even treasonous. Sullivan shows how Revolutionary authorities embraced desperate measures in their quest to secure their own legitimacy, suppressing speech, controlling commerce, and mandating military service. In 1778, without the Patriots firing a shot, the king's army abandoned Philadelphia and the perceived threat from neutrals began to decline—as did the coercive and intolerant practices of the Revolutionary regime. By highlighting the perspectives of those wearied by and withdrawn from the conflict, The Disaffected reveals the consequences of a Revolutionary ideology that assumed the nation's people to be a united and homogenous front.

Book The Irish Book Lover

Download or read book The Irish Book Lover written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Superstitions

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Carroll
  • Publisher : Coda Publications
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780910390569
  • Pages : 620 pages

Download or read book Superstitions written by William Carroll and published by Coda Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: