Nakky's the Lost Diary


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Nakkys : The Lost Diary; an outcome of the thought Humans Are The Aliens (HATA) is a first volume among the series. The protagonist Mr. Deigo who is blessed with precognition runs into nightmares every night which usually come true in the following day, but leaving him in vulnerable situation though he dreams what is about to ensue in the day. When he was left with no one to share about his dreams, he decides to inscribe them in a diary. After a series of nightmares, he on one day in his dream is heeded by a voice which leaves him the message Two lives, 10 days, Dont meet, Rejo dies bounding him between the four walls of his house for ten days. What did he dream these ten days, who are the two lives and what happens if he meets them is the main plot of story. After ten days are complete he gets the wings to fly off the house during which he lose the diary. The Lost diary is then found by four university students. How will the nightmares in the diary make the students believe in Deigo and how do they react, plays a crucial role in the story. The two lives are a prostitute lady and a blind man who are trodden at heart with great miseries in their life. How did their relation build, what are their miseries, dreams in life and the love that crept between them would be inspiring and hooking part of the plot. They are something to do with the aliens getting into power as said by smoke man presuming him as alien front-runner. To know if the smoke man gets the aliens into power or not one should definitely read Nakkys The Lost Diary.




Photobooth


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For almost a century chemical photobooths have occupied public spaces; giving people the opportunity to quickly take inexpensive, quality photos. In the last decade these machines have started to rapidly disappear, causing an eclectic group of individuals from around the world to come together and respond. Illustrator, writer and long-time photobooth lover, Meags Fitzgerald has chronicled this movement and the photobooth's fortuitous history in a graphic novel. Having traveled in North America, Europe and Australia, she's constructed a biography of the booth through the eyes of technicians, owners, collectors, artists and fanatics. Fitzgerald explores her own struggle with her relationship to these fleeting machines, while looking to the future.







Language and Slavery


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This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context in which they developed. Drawing on a wealth of sources including little known historical texts, the author points out the relevance of European settlements prior to colonization by the English in 1651 and concludes that the formation of the Surinamese creoles goes back further than generally assumed. He provides an all-encompassing sociolinguistic overview of the colony up to the mid-19th century and shows how ethnicity, language attitude, religion and location had an effect on which languages were spoken by whom. The author discusses creole data gleaned from the earliest sources and interprets the attested variation. The book is completed by annotated textual data, both oral and written and representing different genres and stages of the Surinamese creoles. It will be of interest to linguists, historians, anthropologists, literary scholars and anyone interested in Suriname.




American Photobooth


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A fascinating history of an American institution that includes an extraordinary collection of photobooth images. “That a perceptive, dedicated, and sensitive artist like Näkki Goranin has rescued from oblivion so many amazing self-portraits created by amateurs confronting themselves in the fleeting privacy of humble photobooths is yet another miracle for which we can be grateful.”—from the foreword by David Haberstich Generally relegated to the realm of kitsch, the history and cultural importance of the photobooth has long been overlooked. Here, Näkki Goranin documents the invention, technological evolution, and commercial history of the photobooth with extensive illustrations culled from twenty-five years of collecting. Complementing this history is a powerful collection of heartbreaking, funny, and absolutely beautiful photobooth images. These often solitary figures—seeking freedom, confession, a thrill—are evocative of a lost time and place. Haberstich writes, “For anyone who assumes that photobooth pictures are perfunctory, utilitarian records at best, the range of emotions and moods portrayed by the subjects of [this] collection is a revelation.”













Ketamine


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A Grammar of the Hittite Language


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Since its publication in 2008, A Grammar of the Hittite Language has been the definitive Hittite reference and teaching tool. This new edition brings Hoffner and Melchert’s essential work up to date, incorporating the dramatic progress achieved in the field over the past fifteen years. Heavily revised and expanded, the second edition recasts the discussion of topics to better serve the linguistically informed reader. A reorganized presentation of the synchronic facts makes them accessible to both Hittitologists and linguists interested in Hittite for historical or typological purposes. Part 1 provides a thorough overview of Hittite grammar that is grounded in abundant textual examples. Part 2 is a tutorial that guides students through a series of graded lessons with illustrative sentences for translation. The tutorial is keyed to the reference grammar and includes extensive updated notes. Taken together with Part 2: Tutorial, which guides students through a series of graded lessons keyed to this reference grammar, the work remains the most comprehensive and detailed Hittite grammar ever produced.