Biting The Dust

Author : Dirk Johnson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803276249

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To the fan, the rodeo cowboy is the distinctly American embodiment of the romantic Old West. But to the young men who live the profession, the realities are modest pay, continuous travel, and the constant threat of injury. While he was the Denver bureau chief of the New York Times, Dirk Johnson spent a year on the professional rodeo circuit with cowboys, watching them try to hang on to bucking horses and Brahma bulls?and to wives and livelihoods that seemed only one fall away from disappearing. Biting the Dust covers the circuit?s biggest events in Denver, the capital of the New West, to small towns on the Great Plains like McCook, Nebraska, where rodeo continues to thrive even as the population shrinks. Johnson takes the reader beyond sentimental visions of the rodeo cowboy and the American West and provides an unforgettable and authentic story of the rodeo today.

Author : Jennifer Rardin
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316023979

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Another One Bites the Dust by Jennifer Rardin Pdf

I'm Jaz Parks. CIA assassin. Black belt. Belly dancer at the Corpus Christi Winter Festival. The last is cover for my latest mission: retrieve a vital piece of biotechnology by killing the maniac who stole it. He's Chien-Lung, an obsessive vamp who's invulnerable while wearing his armor - which is constantly. Then there are the reavers, ancient fiends who murder innocents and eat their souls. Only I can sense them. So it's not long before they'll want me dead, dead, dead.

Author : Warren L. Naab
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1403335710

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Author : Margaret Horsfield
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0312220839

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Biting the Dust by Margaret Horsfield Pdf

In this witty look at our obsession with cleaning, Margaret Horsfield confronts her own dirt demons and scours the social, historical, literary and psychological nooks and crannies of the world of household chores. Through historical research, countless interviews with people and an analysis of characters from novels and advertising, Horsfield presents such memorable personalities as the woman who sends her small daughter to walk around other people's houses in white tights to check for dirt and the mother who, upon her son's suicide, sheds not a tear but stays up all night frantically polishing her already gleaming hardwood floors. From demented television housewives to the redoubtable Mrs. Beeton, Biting the Dust runs the gamut of ideas and emotions.

Author : Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer
Publisher : Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer
Page : 4664 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Great Dictionary English - Dutch by Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer Pdf

This dictionary contains around 60,000 English terms with their Dutch translations, making it one of the most comprehensive books of its kind. It offers a wide vocabulary from all areas as well as numerous idioms. The terms are translated from English to Dutch. If you need translations from Dutch to English, then the companion volume The Great Dictionary Dutch - English is recommended.

Author : Jennifer Rardin
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316022750

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Once Bitten, Twice Shy by Jennifer Rardin Pdf

I'm Jaz Parks. My boss is Vayl, born in Romania in 1744. Died there too, at the hand of his vampire wife, Liliana. But that's ancient history. For the moment Vayl works for the C.I.A. doing what he does best -- assassination. And I help. You could say I'm an Assistant Assassin. But then I'd have to kick your ass. Our current assignment seemed easy. Get close to a Miami plastic surgeon named Assan, a charmer with ties to terrorism that run deeper than a buried body. Find out what he's meeting with that can help him and his comrades bring America to her knees. And then close his beady little eyes forever. Why is it that nothing's ever as easy as it seems?

Author : Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer
Publisher : Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer
Page : 4480 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Great Dictionary English - Polish by Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer Pdf

This dictionary contains around 60,000 English terms with their Polish translations, making it one of the most comprehensive books of its kind. It offers a wide vocabulary from all areas as well as numerous idioms. The terms are translated from English to Polish. If you need translations from Polish to English, then the companion volume The Great Dictionary Polish - English is recommended.

Author : Jennifer Rardin
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316121736

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Bitten in Two by Jennifer Rardin Pdf

Jaz Parks here. I. Am. Pissed. Just as Vayl and I arrive in Morocco to secure an ancient artifact, he wakes up calling me by another woman's name. And it's not even a good one. But since any form of argument transforms him into an unholy terror, I'm forced to play along until the gang and I can figure out what kind of power has so vastly altered his perceptions. So it's time for me to do what any well-trained assassin in my position might do. I attack. What follows is a hair-raising, breath-taking bullet train ride to the finish as the crew battles on multiple fronts. I now know what I have to do -- I must return to hell one last time.

Author : Caroline Taggart
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781789293470

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Humble Pie and Cold Turkey by Caroline Taggart Pdf

An entertaining and informative look at thousands of years of history to shed light on the words and phrases we use most often - and where they came from.

Author : David A. Bell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547525297

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The First Total War by David A. Bell Pdf

“A mesmerizing account that illuminates not just the Napoleonic wars but all of modern history . . . It reads like a novel” (Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of modern European history, UCLA). The twentieth century is usually seen as “the century of total war.” But as the historian David A. Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons, and sailing ships—in the age of Napoleon. In a sweeping, evocative narrative, Bell takes us from campaigns of “extermination” in the blood-soaked fields of western France to savage street fighting in ruined Spanish cities to central European battlefields where tens of thousands died in a single day. Between 1792 and 1815, Europe plunged into an abyss of destruction. It was during this time, Bell argues, that our modern attitudes toward war were born. Ever since, the dream of perpetual peace and the nightmare of total war have been bound tightly together in the Western world—right down to the present day, in which the hopes for an “end to history” after the cold war quickly gave way to renewed fears of full-scale slaughter. With a historian’s keen insight and a journalist’s flair for detail, Bell exposes the surprising parallels between Napoleon’s day and our own—including the way that ambitious “wars of liberation,” such as the one in Iraq, can degenerate into a gruesome guerrilla conflict. The result is a book that is as timely and important as it is unforgettable. “Thoughtful and original . . . Bell has mapped what is a virtually new field of inquiry: the culture of war.” —Steven L. Kaplan, Goldwin Smith Professor of European history, Cornell University

Author : Jennifer Rardin
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316029063

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Biting the Bullet by Jennifer Rardin Pdf

I'm Lucille Robinson (aka Jaz Parks). This is a mission unlike anything my vampire boss, Vayl, and I have ever been on. It's not our usual take them out and run; it's an undercover mission that needs the whole gang: a psychic, an interpreter, and a weapons specialist. We're joining a Special Ops team to nail the Wizard, a major terrorist thorn in the military's side. We've never gone in with such heavy artillery before, but the more the merrier, right? Um . . . nope. At least not since Vayl and I learned part of our job is to ferret out a mole concealed in our unit. To add to our problems, we're being harried by a pack of reavers bent on revenge, and targeted by a Seer who wants to share Vayl's power -- at any cost. Oh yeah, and let's not forget the army of demonic, soul-sucking parasites either. This is going to be a blast.

Author : Barbara Beyer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004686199

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Determined by Christ: The Pauline Metaphor ‘Being in Christ’ by Barbara Beyer Pdf

What does it mean that the believers are ‘in Christ’ (Rom 8:1; 2 Cor 5:17 etc.)? The phrase has become so common to Christian discourse that it obscures the original meaning. By analysing key passages and stripping back the interpretive layers, this book portrays ‘in Christ’ in the light of Greek language usage. Insights from metaphor theory, onomastics, and ritual theory further the investigation. The book also addresses prepositional phrases like ‘with Christ’ and how ‘in Christ’ developed in the deutero-Pauline letters. This comprehensive perspective illuminates a crucial early-Christian phrase and how believers viewed their relationship to Christ.

Author : Stefan Müller
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 877 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102020

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Grammatical theory by Stefan Müller Pdf

This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Head-​Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Construction Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how the respective theory treats arguments and adjuncts, the active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement, and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are explained with German as the object language. The second part of the book compares these approaches with respect to their predictions regarding language acquisition and psycholinguistic plausibility. The nativism hypothesis, which assumes that humans posses genetically determined innate language-specific knowledge, is critically examined and alternative models of language acquisition are discussed. The second part then addresses controversial issues of current theory building such as the question of flat or binary branching structures being more appropriate, the question whether constructions should be treated on the phrasal or the lexical level, and the question whether abstract, non-visible entities should play a role in syntactic analyses. It is shown that the analyses suggested in the respective frameworks are often translatable into each other. The book closes with a chapter showing how properties common to all languages or to certain classes of languages can be captured. This book is a new edition of http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/25 and http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/195.

Author : Vijaya Kumar
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : English
ISBN : 8173590672

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Sterling Dictionary of Idioms by Vijaya Kumar Pdf

Meaning and appropriate usage of idioms, provides carefully written examples, relying on simplicity and clarity.

Author : Jennifer Rardin
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316032919

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Bitten to Death by Jennifer Rardin Pdf

Jaz Parks here. My latest mission has taken me to the ancient Greek city of Patras; but instead of soaking up its splendor, I'm here to infiltrate a Vampere Trust. Only two vamps have ever escaped the tightly bound communities and lived to tell the tale: Edward "The Raptor" Samos, the most reviled criminal mastermind in recent memory, and Vayl, the CIA's number one assassin who also happens to be my boss. The Raptor is trying to take over Vayl's former Trust. Unfortunately the Trust's new leader has her own plans. This job is going to be the death of me.