You Are My Boro: The Unlikely Adventures of a Small Town in Europe
Author : Christopher Combe
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
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ISBN : 1471006646
Author : Christopher Combe
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
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ISBN : 1471006646
Author : David Byrne
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1101464399
"...an engaging book: part diary, part manifesto." The Guardian A round-the-world bicycle tour with one of the most original artists of our day. Urban bicycling has become more popular than ever as recession-strapped, climate-conscious city dwellers reinvent basic transportation. In this wide-ranging memoir, artist/musician and co-founder of Talking Heads David Byrne--who has relied on a bike to get around New York City since the early 1980s--relates his adventures as he pedals through and engages with some of the world's major cities. From Buenos Aires to Berlin, he meets a range of people both famous and ordinary, shares his thoughts on art, fashion, music, globalization, and the ways that many places are becoming more bike-friendly. Bicycle Diaries is an adventure on two wheels conveyed with humor, curiosity, and humanity.
Author : George Elliott
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 14,21 MB
Release : 2009-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1425040527
An extraordinary masterpiece written from personal experience, Middlemarch is a deep psychological observation of human nature that revolves around the issues of love, jealousy, and obligation. Eliot's feminist views are apparent through the novel: she stresses the fact that women should control their own lives.
Author : General William Booth
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3734081750
Reproduction of the original: In Darkest England and the Way out by General William Booth
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 1847
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"Following the commercial and critical success of his first book, Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Seas adventure-romances with Omoo. Melville's second book chronicles the narrator's involvement in a mutiny aboard a South Seas whaling vessel, his incarceration in a Tahitian jail, and then his wanderings as an omoo, or rover, on the island of Eimeo (Moorea). Based on Melville's personal experience as a sailor on a South Pacific whaleship, Omoo is a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century, filled with colorful characters and detailed descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Miklukho-Maklaĭ
Publisher : Madang, P.N.G. : Kristen Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 24,6 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Anthropologists
ISBN :
Non Aboriginal material.
Author : Larry Wolff
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804727020
Wolff explores how Western thinkers contributed to defining and characterizing Eastern Europe as half-civilized and barbaric.
Author : John Berendt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 1994-01-13
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0679429220
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.
Author : Richard Piers Rayner
Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 2008-08
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ISBN : 9781859836392
Presents an insight into the hidden workings and forgotten incidents of a leading football club in Middlesbrough.
Author : Guy Deutscher
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1429970111
A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how—and whether—culture shapes language and language, culture Linguistics has long shied away from claiming any link between a language and the culture of its speakers: too much simplistic (even bigoted) chatter about the romance of Italian and the goose-stepping orderliness of German has made serious thinkers wary of the entire subject. But now, acclaimed linguist Guy Deutscher has dared to reopen the issue. Can culture influence language—and vice versa? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? Could our experience of the world depend on whether our language has a word for "blue"? Challenging the consensus that the fundaments of language are hard-wired in our genes and thus universal, Deutscher argues that the answer to all these questions is—yes. In thrilling fashion, he takes us from Homer to Darwin, from Yale to the Amazon, from how to name the rainbow to why Russian water—a "she"—becomes a "he" once you dip a tea bag into her, demonstrating that language does in fact reflect culture in ways that are anything but trivial. Audacious, delightful, and field-changing, Through the Language Glass is a classic of intellectual discovery.