Download or read book It Always Rains on Monday written by Major Mayo and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-29 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an autobiography of my life that begins with growing up in a small town in Ohio and continues to the present. I'm wrote this for my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Download or read book Rain written by Cynthia Barnett and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it.
Download or read book It Always Rains on Sundays written by Roger Johnson and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-03-28 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyn. Cyn, where have you bin? I’ve been trying to call you all day. Expect you’re in bed with Kevin the Red, Where the skies are not cloudy all day. Life is happy for 40-year-old poetry buff and senior librarian Colin Quirke, happily married to Cynthia for thirteen years with two great kids. Not so for Cynthia. Cyn is bored. This all changes when a new, younger couple moves in next door. Eddie and ditsy blonde Avril’s motto is ‘Life is for living!’. Wild parties with loud music are soon followed by girls’ nights out, and life will never be the same on the De Lacey Street cul-de-sac. In the meantime, Eddie is killed in a tragic micro-light plane accident. Cyn consoles Avril by taking her to Miami. Next thing you know, she’s met up with some red-haired American guy called Kevin Ranker (aka 'the home-wrecker'). Is divorce on the cards for Cyn and Colin? Consolations, at least. Still, there’s always the lovely Alison at the Poetry Society. Or the new assistant librarian at work, she could be interesting… It Always Rains on Sundays is a laugh-out-loud new novel from BBC prize-winner Roger Johnson. Full of intelligent humour, it is an entertaining read for fans of funny and original fiction.
Download or read book It Always Rains in November written by Richard Hoffman and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Always Rains in November follows the story of a dysfunctional family, hiding a dark, disturbing secret.
Download or read book The Gospel According to Peanuts written by Robert L. Short and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, and the rest of the Peanuts gang have enjoyed the kind of success most cartoon characters can only dream about--becoming pop culture icons of the highest order and entering the global consciousness practically as family members--Robert Short's The Gospel According to Peanuts also has found a place in the hearts of many readers, with sales now totaling more than ten million copies. This anniversary edition features a new cover, a new interior design, and a new foreword by Martin E. Marty. Whether coming to the book for the first time or taking a second look, a delightful experience awaits in this modern-day guide to the Christian faith, fully illustrated with Peanuts.
Download or read book Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from North Carolina written by Wayland D. Hand and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Bird s Nest written by Sierra Kish and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Bird’s Nest” is a collection of poems written in the teenage and pre-teen years of a woman. About love, hate, family, friends etc. When writing the poetry is simple and peaceful. This is what birds are to the world which is where the literature meaning of birds comes into play. There are a few poems written in the spirit of being a bird and the chapters are based on the journey of a bird. We all should live as free as a bird flying in the wind.
Download or read book The Impossible written by Mark Jago and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author presents a philosophical account of meaningful thought: in particular, how it is meaningful to think about things that are impossible.--Publisher's description.
Download or read book The Illustrated Man written by Ray Bradbury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen science fiction stories deal with love, madness, and death on Mars, Venus, and in space.
Download or read book The City When It Rains written by Thomas H. Cook and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVA photographer struggles to understand a stranger’s suicide/divDIV /divDIVThere’s nothing special about the woman’s death. It comes over the police radio like any other sad story: a woman found on the sidewalk, killed after plunging from her apartment. But something about the gruesome scene grabs David Corman’s attention. A freelance photographer with a defunct marriage and a career on the skids, he fixates on this mysterious death. Though near starvation, the woman had been buying formula to feed to a baby doll. Before she leapt, she tossed the plastic child out the window. /divDIV /divDIVDavid photographs the dead woman and her pretend child; although he’s jaded, the strange scene stirs his compassion, and he begins researching her past. He’s convinced that his job has shown him the worst the city has to offer. But learning the truth behind this futile suicide will teach David that New York is even uglier than he imagined./div/div
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Film Noir written by Geoff Mayer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When viewers think of film noir, they often picture actors like Humphrey Bogart playing characters like Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, the film based on the book by Dashiell Hammett. Yet film noir is a genre much richer. The authors first examine the debate surrounding the parameters of the genre and the many different ways it is defined. They discuss the Noir City, its setting and backdrop, and also the cultural (WWII) and institutional (the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, and the Production Code Administration) influences on the subgenres. An analysis of the low budget and series film noirs provides information on those cult classics. With over 200 entries on films, directors, and actors, the Encyclopedia of Film Noir is the most complete resource for film fans, students, and scholars.
Download or read book Rain Rain come again written by Papri Rudra and published by Papri Rudra. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple gathering of friends ,in a secluded, but comfortable house , nestled among the hills, takes on a life of its own, when they realize that there is more to the house and its back story, than any them could ever have guessed. As they give free rein to their imagination, the house slowly reveals its own tale. And what a tale it is! A story, not just of an old house but also of storytelling itself.
Download or read book Human and Artificial Rationalities written by Jean Baratgin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Through the Buffer State written by John MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book London in Cinema written by Charlotte Brunsdon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Brunsdon's illuminating study explores the variety of cinematic 'Londons' that appear in films made since 1945. Brunsdon traces the familiar ways that film-makers establish that a film is set in London, by use of recognisable landmarks and the city's shorthand iconography of red buses and black taxis, as well as the ways in which these icons are avoided. She looks at London weather – fog and rain – and everyday locations like the pub and the housing estate, while also examining the recurring patterns of representation associated with films set in the East and West Ends of London, from Spring in Park Lane (1948) to Mona Lisa (1986), and from Night and the City (1950) to From Hell (2001). Brunsdon provides a detailed analysis of a selection of films, exploring their contribution to the cinematic geography of London, and showing the ways in which feature films have responded to, and created, changing views of the city. She traces London's transformation from imperial capital to global city through the different ways in which the local is imagined in films ranging from Ealing comedies to Pressure (1974), as well as through the shifting imagery of the River Thames and the Docks. She addresses the role of cinematic genres such as horror and film noir in the constitution of the cinematic city, as well as the recurrence of figures such as the cockney, the gangster and the housewife. Challenging the view that London is not a particularly cinematic city, Brunsdon demonstrates that many London-set films offer their own meditation on the complex relationships between the cinema and the city.
Download or read book Umbrellas In The Rain written by Sandy Galiano and published by Sandy Galiano. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine all your secrets and bad choices written down and passed around to be read. Would you be worried about being judged or permanently labeled by a mistake you made? Is it easier to pretend it didn't happen, smile, and walk away as a fresh new you? I have revealed the darkest days of my life combining real journals, raw memories, and edgy fictionalized threads that tie it all together. Read with an understanding that this creative piece is unlike anything you may have read due to the simple fact that there has been no editing by anyone other than myself. I chose to expose my written thoughts in a poetically subtle manner and allowing the book's own evolution dictate how fast or slow this decade passes. The message of this book is the power of love and continued strength to move forward, little by little if necessary. If you had to tell the truth, nothing but the dirty truth, would you do it? Adult Content Disclaimer! Please be advised, the subject matter found in this book may include sexual content.
Download or read book Style Shifting in Japanese written by Kimberly Jones and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative and interdisciplinary book on style shifting in Japanese brings together a wide range of perspectives and methodologiesincluding discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and functional linguisticsto look at a variety of types of style shifting in both spoken and written Japanese discourse. Though diverse in approach, the contributions all reflect the belief that language use is inextricably linked to both context and language structure in mutually constitutive relationships. Topics covered include shifting between "polite" and "plain" styles, the emergence of a "semi-polite" style, speakers' strategic use of gendered styles or regional dialects, shifting between different deictic expressions, and prosodic shifting. This careful and detailed examination advances our understanding of the complex phenomenon of style shifting not only in Japanese, but also more generally, and will be of interest to researchers and students in fields such as linguistics, linguistic anthropology, communication studies, and second language acquisition and teaching.
