Download or read book Mr Phillips written by John Lanchester and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city - but this is no ordinary Wednesday. It is a day on which Mr Phillips will chat with a pornographer, stalk a tv mini-celebrity, have lunch with an aspiring record mogul, and get caught up in a bank robbery. It is, as Mr Phillips comes to realise, the first day of the rest of his life - whether he wants it to be or not. All this is both better and worse than being at work. So why is Mr Phillips, a cautious middle-aged accountant, not behind his desk calculating the financial consequences of redundancies or recommending the savings to be made from more responsible use of yellow sticky note pads?
Download or read book Mr Tuba written by Harvey Phillips and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With warmth and humor, tuba virtuoso Harvey Phillips tells the story of his amazing life and career from his Missouri childhood through his days as a performer with the King Brothers and the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circuses, his training at the Juilliard School, a stint with the US Army Field Band, and his freelance days with the New York City Opera and Ballet. A founder of the New York Brass Quintet, Phillips served as vice president of the New England Conservatory of Music and became Distinguished Professor of Music at Indiana University. The creator of an industry of TubaChristmases, Octubafests, and TubaSantas, he crusaded for recognition of the tuba as a serious musical instrument, commissioning more than 200 works. Enhanced by an extensive gallery of photographs, Mr. Tuba conveys Phillips's playful zest for life while documenting his important musical legacy.
Download or read book Impossible Owls written by Brian Phillips and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. SEMI-FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR ART OF THE ESSAY. One of Amazon, Buzzfeed, ELLE, Electric Literature and Pop Sugar's Best Books of 2018. Named one of the Best Books of October and Fall by Amazon, Buzzfeed, TIME, Vulture, The Millions and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. “Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating.” —Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad A globe-spanning, ambitious book of essays from one of the most enthralling storytellers in narrative nonfiction In his highly anticipated debut essay collection, Impossible Owls, Brian Phillips demonstrates why he’s one of the most iconoclastic journalists of the digital age, beloved for his ambitious, off-kilter, meticulously reported essays that read like novels. The eight essays assembled here—five from Phillips’s Grantland and MTV days, and three new pieces—go beyond simply chronicling some of the modern world’s most uncanny, unbelievable, and spectacular oddities (though they do that, too). Researched for months and even years on end, they explore the interconnectedness of the globalized world, the consequences of history, the power of myth, and the ways people attempt to find meaning. He searches for tigers in India, and uncovers a multigenerational mystery involving an oil tycoon and his niece turned stepdaughter turned wife in the Oklahoma town where he grew up. Through each adventure, Phillips’s remarkable voice becomes a character itself—full of verve, rich with offhanded humor, and revealing unexpected vulnerability. Dogged, self-aware, and radiating a contagious enthusiasm for his subjects, Phillips is an exhilarating guide to the confusion and wonder of the world today. If John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead was the last great collection of New Journalism from the print era, Impossible Owls is the first of the digital age.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 2602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mr Touchdown written by Lyda Phillips and published by iUniverse Star. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eddie Russell, a black football star, anticipates enjoying his junior season at Douglass High School south of Memphis, Tennessee, in 1965, but complies with his father Reverend Henry Russell's wishes when local civil rights leaders select Eddie to integrate all-white Forrest High School. Epitomizing resiliency, Eddie; his studious sister, Lakeesha; and two other African-American girls, Lethe and Rochelle; stoically attend classes, experiencing passive racism at first and confronting academic inequities of segregated education when they discover better books and facilities in the white school. Most students either ignore or taunt the black pupils; a teacher washes her hands after touching them, and Eddie's football coach benches him for most of the season. Eddie strives to perceive good in his tormentors. Although the black children's perspectives predominate, reactions of popular white cheerleader, Nancy Martin, depict her tolerance for her new classmates. She befriends the black students, invites them to her home, and attends their church despite her friends' disapproval and rejection. The racism escalates when classmates assault Lakeesha ... testing Eddie's commitment to nonviolence and forgiveness. Based on the author's experiences as a teenager, this complex story explores young adults' experiences on school desegregation's front lines." Children's Literature
Download or read book To Sir Phillip With Love written by Julia Quinn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he'd proposed, figuring that she'd be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. Except . . . she wasn't. The beautiful woman on his doorstep was anything but quiet, and when she stopped talking long enough to close her mouth, all he wanted to do was kiss her . . . and more. Did he think she was mad? Eloise Bridgerton couldn't marry a man she had never met! But then she started thinking . . . and wondering . . . and before she knew it, she was in a hired carriage in the middle of the night, on her way to meet the man she hoped might be her perfect match. Except . . . he wasn't. Her perfect husband wouldn't be so moody and ill-mannered, and while Phillip was certainly handsome, he was a large brute of a man, rough and rugged, and totally unlike the London gentlemen vying for her hand. But when he smiled . . . and when he kissed her . . . the rest of the world simply fell away, and she couldn't help but wonder . . . could this imperfect man be perfect for her?
Download or read book The Beast and the Bethany written by Jack Meggitt-Phillips and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handsome Ebenezer Tweezer has lived comfortably for nearly 512 years by feeding the magical beast in his mansion's attic whatever it wants, but when the beast demands a child, they are not prepared for Bethany.--
Download or read book National Labor Relations Act written by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee to Investigate the National Labor Relations Board and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 2268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of Organized Criminal Activity on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Hearings Before 92 1 on Effects of Organized Criminal Activity on Interstate and Foreign Commerce October 5 6 7 8 and 15 1971 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Independent Offices Appropriations for 1955 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Works Appropriations for 1956 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Independent Offices Appropriations for 1952 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Independent Offices Appropriation Bill for 1950 written by United States. Congress. House. Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 2760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resumption of Specie Payments written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Second Supplemental Appropriation Bill 1953 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Departments of State Justice the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriations 1962 Hearings Before the Subcommittee of 87 1 on H R 7371 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
