Stone Mad

Author : Elizabeth Bear
Publisher : Tor.com
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250163820

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Stone Mad by Elizabeth Bear Pdf

Readers met the irrepressible Karen Memory in Elizabeth Bear’s 2015 novel Karen Memory, and fell in love with her steampunk Victorian Pacific Northwest city, and her down-to-earth story-telling voice. iO9--28 New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Well Worth Checking Out in March Unbound Worlds--20 Best New Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books--March 2018 The Verge--15 new science fiction and fantasy books--March 2018 Kirkus--18 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in March 2018 NerdMuch--20 Best New Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books--March 2018 Now Karen is back with Stone Mad, a new story about spiritualists, magicians, con-men, and an angry lost tommy-knocker—a magical creature who generally lives in the deep gold mines of Alaska, but has been kidnapped and brought to Rapid City. Karen and Priya are out for a night on the town, celebrating the purchase of their own little ranch and Karen’s retirement from the Hotel Ma Cherie, when they meet the Arcadia Sisters, spiritualists who unexpectedly stir up the tommy-knocker in the basement. The ensuing show could bring down the house, if Karen didn’t rush in to rescue everyone she can. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Kathryn A. Conrad
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 029919650X

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Locked in the Family Cell by Kathryn A. Conrad Pdf

Locked in the Family Cell is the first book on Ireland to provide a sustained and interdisciplinary analysis of gender, sexuality, nationalism, the public and private spheres, and the relationship between these categories of analysis and action. Kathryn Conrad examines the writers and activists who are resistant to simplistic nationalist constructions of Ireland and its subjects. She exposes the assumptions and the effects of national discourses in Ireland and their reliance on a limited and limiting vision of the family: the heterosexual family cell. By actively situating theoretical readings and concerns in practice, Conrad follows the lead of scholars such as Lauren Berlant, Gloria Anzaldua, Ailbhe Smyth, and others who have encouraged dialogue not only among scholars in different academic disciplines but between scholars and activists. In doing so she provides not only a critique of interest to scholars in a variety of fields but also a productive political intervention.

Author : Kevin C. Kearns
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780717162734

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Dublin Voices by Kevin C. Kearns Pdf

For nearly thirty years, Kevin C. Kearns collected the memories and recollections of Dubliners on tape. These interviews have formed the basis of an extraordinary body of work, one whose subjects have included the life of the Dublin pub and the tenement house. In this ambitious book, he considers their contributions in aggregate, drawing on the voices of ordinary Dubliners to build an oral folk history of the city in the twentieth century. Firemen, engine drivers, bell ringers, gatekeepers, cinema ushers, gravediggers, dockers, factory workers, butchers, hatters, booksellers and many more: all contribute their own words to this epic portrait of Dublin city life in the turbulent decades separating the Victorian and modern eras. In Dublin Voices, the words of ordinary Dubliners can be heard as they recall their lives and times. Lucid, witty and compelling, these oral narratives bring the city to life in a manner that conventional histories simply cannot match.

Author : James Gray
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9798885313216

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Walking on Top of the Ground by James Gray Pdf

This book is the product of the author telling and hearing stories over a period of 80 plus years. Many of these stories are funny, some are sad and some are true. Many of these stories are amusing and will take you back to a time when life was difficult yet not complicated. The purpose of the book is strictly to entertain the reader, not to convey facts or give instructions.

Author : Seamus Murphy
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781788410229

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Stone Mad by Seamus Murphy Pdf

First published in 1966, this acclaimed Irish classic is an account of time as an apprentice stonecarver by a craftsman who was one of Ireland’s most respected sculptors. The young Seamus Murphy, studying modelling at the Crawford School of Art in Cork in the 1920s, took the unusual step of apprenticing himself to a master stone carver to learn the ancient craft of the mason. ‘Stone Mad’ tells the story of his seven years of growing knowledge of the challenges and joys of stone – and of the men who worked it. His artistic feeling for quality responded to his workmates’ reverence for the ‘well made thing’. The result is a book of surpassing beauty, full of warmth, humour and profound perception.

Author : Austin T. Hildman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493102563

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Shayna by Austin T. Hildman Pdf

After an unexpected enemy tragically outcasts her into the wild, young 7-year-old Shayna must find her way through ice, blood, and tears in order to fight for her survival and discover the truth behind the disappearance of her father and the secrets to the wealthy estate of the city of Hemisturn.

Author : John A. Hudson,John W. Cosgrove
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351585347

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Understanding Building Stones and Stone Buildings by John A. Hudson,John W. Cosgrove Pdf

This book covers the wide spectrum of subjects relating to obtaining and using building stones, starting with their geological origin and then describing the nature of granites, volcanics, limestones, sandstones, flint, metamorphic stones, breccias and conglomerates, with emphasis being placed on how to recognise the different stones via the many illustrated examples from Great Britain and other countries. The life of a building stone is explained from its origin in the quarry, through its exposure to the elements when used for a building, to its eventual deterioration. The structure of stone buildings is then discussed, with explanations of the mechanics of pillars, lighthouses and walls, arches, bridges, buttresses and roof vaults, plus castles and cathedrals. The sequence of the historical architectural styles of stone buildings is explained—from the early days through to postmodern buildings. Special attention is paid to two famous architects: the Roman Vitruvius and the English Sir Christopher Wren who designed and supervised the construction of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. To demonstrate many of the concepts presented, two exemplary stone buildings are described in detail: the Albert Memorial in London and Durham Cathedral in northern England. The former building is interesting because it is comprised of a cornucopia of different building stones and the latter building because of its architecture and sandstone decay mechanisms. In the final Chapter, ruined stone buildings are discussed—the many reasons for their decay and the possibility of their ‘rebirth’ via digital recording of their geometry. The book has over 350 pages and is illustrated with more than 450 diagrams and colour photographs of both the various stones and the associated stone buildings. Readers’ knowledge of the subject will be greatly enhanced by these images and the related explanatory text. A wide-ranging references and bibliography section is also included.

Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2733 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317431589

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The Selected Works of Eric Partridge by Eric Partridge Pdf

This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968. Together, the books look at many and diverse aspects of language, focusing in particular on English. Included in the collection are a variety of insightful dictionaries and reference works that showcase some of Partridge’s best work. The books are creative, as well as practical, and will provide enjoyable reading for both scholars and the more general reader, who has an interest in language and linguistics.

Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317426448

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Words, Words Words! by Eric Partridge Pdf

First published in 1933 (this edition in 1939), this book sees Partridge introducing the reader to the eccentric lexicographers Wesley and Captain Grose. In an entertaining way, the book jovially explores and discusses various words and phrases such as "bloody", euphemisms, the Devil’s nicknames, various versions of slang, and familiar terms of address. He does so with light-worn learning making the book of interest to a whole variety of readers.

Author : James A. Duke
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 893 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-27
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781420040463

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Handbook of Medicinal Herbs by James A. Duke Pdf

Still considered the definitive work on medicinal herbs and their uses after two decades, the Handbook of Medicinal Herbs has undergone a long-anticipated revision. In the second edition, world-renowned ethnobotanist James A. Duke provides up-to-date data on over 800 of the world's most important medicinal plant species. The book contains mo

Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1118 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2979931

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Annual Report of the Secretary of War by United States. War Department Pdf

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Harbors
ISBN : UCAL:B3077166

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Report of the Chief of Engineers by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers Pdf

Author : John S. Vissage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Pulpwood
ISBN : MINN:31951D02996419Z

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Southern Pulpwood Production, 1990 by John S. Vissage Pdf

Author : Keith Laufenberg
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780615161884

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Semper Fi Do-Or-Die by Keith Laufenberg Pdf

Follow a group of young men as they go through Marine Corps boot camp in 1962, at Parris Island, and then to their duty stations and Vietnam. If you want to know what the Corps was really like in the 1960's and those that served during this tumultuous time in history this is the book for you!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Phrenology
ISBN : HARVARD:HXNYMT

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The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health by Anonim Pdf