Author : Cecile Cyrul Spector
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Ambiguity
ISBN : 9781888222104
"...Designed to teach comprehension of ambiguous language by making use of a cognitive strategies approach" -- from Preface.
Author : Jon Wright
Publisher : Heinle & Heinle Pub
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 33,1 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781899396061
IDIOMS ORGANISER is the most comprehensive idioms practice book for intermediate and advanced students. It is ideal for all students preparing for the FCE, CAE, Proficiency, and TOEFL exams. IDIOMS ORGANISER takes this difficult area for students and organises it in such a way that students at last can make sense of it.
Author : Jonathan Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2017-03-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1783197463
'Do you sometimes think that you might wish that you were a national treasure, like Alan Bennett?' 'I'm rather glad I'm not. I'm quite pleased to be what I think I am, which is a sort of national liability.' Over the course of seven decades, Jonathan Miller has been at the forefront of developments in theatre, opera, comedy, philosophy and scientific debate. This new collection brings together the very best of his acerbic writing. In keeping with Miller's grasshopper mind, One Thing and Another leaps from discussions of human behaviour, atheism, satire, cinema and television, to analysis of the work of M. R. James, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens and Truman Capote, by way of reflections on directing Shakespeare, Chekhov, Olivier and opera. A celebrated conversationalist, the book also features a selection of key interviews focusing on his working method. Jonathan Miller is internationally celebrated as one of the last great public intellectuals. Read One Thing and Another to find out why.
Author : Jodi Taylor
Publisher : Headline
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1472264274
'One of my favourite books of all time' CHARLAINE HARRIS 'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time. Her books are a swashbuckling joyride through History' C. K. MCDONNELL 'A great mix of British properness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun' ⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐⭐ Meet St Mary's - a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets who hurtle their way around History. - If the whole of History lay before you, where would you go? When Dr Madeleine Maxwell is recruited by the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research, she discovers the historians there don't just study the past - they revisit it. But one wrong move and History will fight back - to the death. And Max soon discovers it's not just History she's fighting... BOOK 1 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIES For fans of Jasper Fforde, Doctor Who, Genevieve Cogman and Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club Readers love Jodi Taylor: 'Once in a while, I discover an author who changes everything... Jodi Taylor and her protagonista Madeleine "Max" Maxwell have seduced me' 'Addictive. I wish St Mary's was real and I was a part of it' 'Science fiction, historical fantasy, love story and more all wrapped up in a fast-paced comedy of errors. Please don't wait to read it, you don't know what you are missing' 'Jodi Taylor has an imagination that gets me completely hooked' 'A tour de force'
Author : Neil D. Isaacs
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1480848433
Ever since he moved out of the house, Wednesday has become Simons favorite day of the week. It is the day he picks up his fourteen-year-old daughter, Leni, from school, drives her to her piano lessons, and enjoys a post-lesson weekly dinner ritual with her. But one Wednesday after he drops Leni at home, Simon suddenly has a foreboding feeling that something is wrong and is subsequently led down a path he never could have imagined. In thirteen poignant and compelling stories filled with a varied cast of characters including Billie Holiday and a thinly disguised Paul Newman, Neil Isaacs shares a glimpse into the high and low points in the lives of lovers and loners, siblings and spouses, and families and neighbors. From Marthas Vineyard to Aruba and the Caymans and from Boston to New York and San Antonio, his characters face life-changing moments and learn valuable lessons while dealing with lifes unpredictable challenges. One Thing and Another and Other Stories shares short tales that reveal the quirks and flaws of human nature and prove that we are all more alike than different.
Author : Dan Stiles
Publisher : Powerhouse Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Graphic arts
ISBN : 9781576877401
Internationally acclaimed designer and illustrator Dan Stiles offers a collection of over 200 concert posters for many of today's leading acts including Arctic Monkeys, The XX, Sonic Youth, Girl Talk, and hundreds more. From Indie Rock to Dance Punk, these lovingly screen-printed posters provide a visual narrative of the music that shaped the last decade. Including extensive writing by Stiles and a foreword by famed rock poster historian Paul Grushkin, One Thing Leads to Another is a glorious celebration of both music and design.
Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 34,42 MB
Release : 2006-05-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1466806834
Are there any "laws of nature" that influence the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves? In the seventeenth century, tired of the civil war ravaging England, Thomas Hobbes decided that he would work out what kind of government was needed for a stable society. His approach was based not on utopian wishful thinking but rather on Galileo's mechanics to construct a theory of government from first principles. His solution is unappealing to today's society, yet Hobbes had sparked a new way of thinking about human behavior in looking for the "scientific" rules of society. Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Auguste Comte, and John Stuart Mill pursued this idea from different political perspectives. Little by little, however, social and political philosophy abandoned a "scientific" approach. Today, physics is enjoying a revival in the social, political and economic sciences. Ball shows how much we can understand of human behavior when we cease to try to predict and analyze the behavior of individuals and instead look to the impact of individual decisions-whether in circumstances of cooperation or conflict-can have on our laws, institutions and customs. Lively and compelling, Critical Mass is the first book to bring these new ideas together and to show how they fit within the broader historical context of a rational search for better ways to live.
Author : Joey Comeau
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 2010-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1554909899
Jackie's mother is a ghosht that only Jackie can see, while Ann's mother and sister have turned into violent creatures that must be kept in the basement. Up the road, Charlie and his blind dog live in a building haunted by a headless ghost.
Author : Katy Regan
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007277377
Tess Jarvis's rules for life have always been somewhat relaxed; she tends to wing it. But she's fast realising that her bank of blag is running out of funds. At twenty eight, is it time to grow up? Maybe having a baby with your best friend isn't the best way to start...At the height of her career as the office roving reporter singleton, Katy Regan fell accidently pregnant by her best mate (who just remained a friend). Seeing the creative possibilities in this unconventional situation, her editor commissioned her to write a column 'And Then There Were Three', which proved so successful it ran for two years and inspired many a reader to write intot Katy with his or her life story.
Author : Robin MacNaughton
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780671002077
From the author of Power Astrology comes the first relationship book to give women the astrological key to deciphering men's hidden feelings. With this invaluable sign-by-sign guide women will discover surprising questions and startling insights that can steer the course of their relationships with their mates into a more fulfilling love.
