Download or read book Gallimaufry Farrago written by Kathleen Balma and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Abraham Lincoln build the log cabin he was born in? What happens at an invisible gun show? Are aliens really controlling a Chicago musician's ears? Where can you go for a meal of angel testicles? For twenty years Kathleen Balma has been crafting her answers to these and other metaphysical questions with a humor and style all her own. Known for her deadpan and lack of pretense, Balma is a master at creating poems that are easy to enter and hard to put down. Informed by a childhood spent in four Midwestern states and an adult life spent on three continents, Gallimaufry & Farrago is a musical mix of verse and prose by a worldly and imaginative thinker.
Download or read book Cupboard Love 2 written by Mark Morton and published by Insomniac Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cupboard Love explores the fascinating stories behind familiar and no-so-familiar gastronomic terms. Who knew that the word pomegranate is related to the word grenade? Light-hearted and thoroughly researched, packed with linguistic lore and cultural trivia.
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Download or read book Roman Satire written by J. Wight Duff and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1936.
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Download or read book The Oxford Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus written by Elizabeth Jewell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This convenient all-around dictionary and thesaurus for writers, students andbusinesses has more than 150,000 entries.
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Download or read book A new and complete critical dictionary of the English and German languages written by Friedrich Wilhelm Thieme and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book RSM Simplified written by Mark J. Anderson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book continues where DOE Simplified leaves off in Chapter 8 with an introduction to "Response Surface Methods [RSM] for Optimization." It presents this advanced tool for design of experiments (DOE) in a way that anyone with a minimum of technical training can understand and appreciate. Unlike any other book of its kind, RSM Simplified keeps formulas to a minimum—making liberal use of figures, charts, graphs and checklists. It also offers many relevant examples, amusing and fun do-it-yourself exercises.
Download or read book The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus written by Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Weird Word Origins written by Paul McFedries and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to 'chew the fat'? Why do we put things in 'apple-pie order'? And what on earth is a 'hat trick'? Readers will learn all this and more in this fun and engaging new addition to the Complete Idiot's Guide® series, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins. This humorous book provides entertaining insight on the often metaphorical, always taken-for-granted phrases and expressions used every day. In it, language expert Paul McFedries takes readers through the sometimes surprising, always amusing world of weird words and expressions, and the fascinating stories that surround them. Presented in a fun, easy-to-read style, this book takes readers on a journey through the bizarre and eccentric origins that make up our everyday speech.
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