Stroppy

Author : Marc Bell
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770465824

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Stroppy by Marc Bell Pdf

The first full length graphic novel from the author of Shrimpy and Paul Enter the strange and wordplay-loving world of cartoonist and fine artist Marc Bell (Shrimpy and Paul, Hot Potatoe), where the All-Star Schnauzer Band runs things and tiny beings hold signs saying “It’s under control.” Our hapless hero Stroppy is minding his business, working a menial job in one of Monsieur Moustache’s factories, when a muscular fellah named Sean blocks up the assembly line. Sean’s there to promote an All-Star Schnauzer Band-organized songwriting contest, which he does enthusiastically, and at the expense of Stroppy’s livelihood, home, and face. In hopes for a cash prize, Stroppy submits a work by his friend Clancy The Poet to the contest. Mishaps and hilarity ensue and Stroppy is forced to go deep into the heart of Schnauzer territory to rescue his poet friend. Stroppy is Marc Bell’s triumphant return to comics; it’s also his first full-length graphic novella, one that thrums with jokes, hashtags, and made-up song lyrics. Densely detailed not-so-secret underground societies, little robots, and heavy weight humdingers leap off the page in full color. With Stroppy, Bell continues to explode the divide between fine art, doodling, and comics.

Author : David Lee Tucker
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936198283

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Stone Wall Freedom by David Lee Tucker Pdf

In 1749, pirate captain Giddy Gilcox and the crew of the Rogue Flattery commandeer a Spanish galley, intent on plundering its cargo, killing all aboard, and scuttling the ship.Gilcox discovers, however, that the ship's hold is filled with human cargo—African tribal people, enslaved workers bound for Spanish America. Gilcox's crew bristles--they've heard stories of Black Sam Bellamy meeting his death after overtaking a slave ship.Later, Gilcox captures not only a fortune in gold but also Helen Tanner and her young son. Upon reaching Block Island, the pirates anchor the Rogue Flattery and bury their treasure, but the feeling of dread from the Spanish slave ship haunts Gilcox.Could the spirit of the slave ship be responsible for the nor'easter that blows in as they prepare to leave the island? Building on Block Island's history of pirate legend and lore, Tucker has created a story at once thrilling and poignant, full of evocative language, as mystical and magical as Block Island itself.

Author : Andreas Trotzke,Josef Bayer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614517900

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Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces by Andreas Trotzke,Josef Bayer Pdf

Syntactic complexity has always been a matter of intense investigation in formal linguistics. Since complex syntax is clearly evidenced by sentential embedding and since embedding of one clause/phrase in another is taken to signal recursivity of the grammar, the capacity of computing syntactic complexity is of central interest to the recent hypothesis that syntactic recursion is the defining property of natural language. In the light of more recent claims according to which complex syntax is not a universal property of all living languages, the issue of how to detect and define syntactic complexity has been revived with a combination of classical and new arguments. This volume contains contributions about the formal complexity of natural language, about specific issues of clausal embedding, and about syntactic complexity in terms of grammar-external interfaces in the domain of language acquisition.

Author : Penny Tassoni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781472952691

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Understanding Children's Behaviour by Penny Tassoni Pdf

Many Early Years settings are taking in children for longer periods and at a younger age. However, their day-to-day practice has not necessarily changed and instead leads to the 'management' of behaviour, rather than investigating why the behaviour is taking place. Through a combination of practice, theory and reflection, leading Early Years education consultant Penny Tassoni explores children's behaviour from a child-centred point of view. In doing so, she shows how, over time, children learn to be with others and the strategies that adults can use to positively support this development. Understanding Children's Behaviour is a practical handbook that is accessible and adaptable for Early Years practitioners looking to support children's behaviour by focusing on their personal and social skills. It includes a useful A-Z problem-solving section about dealing with unwanted behaviours for analysis and to guide practice.

Author : George Same
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781467019309

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From Brain to Toe and Beyond by George Same Pdf

This book is a collection of three scripts. The first is the Brain Game. This concerns the efforts of a short-sighted, freelance, charlatan surgeon, to bring his method of brain transplantation to the Worlds' attention. The trouble is nobody takes him seriously. Therefore he has to work surreptiously and take funds from dodgy financial wheeler-dealers. Then there is the story of a depressed, unemployed actor. This man is desperate to go out with his attractive flatmate. In his desire to impress her, heperforms a ventriloquist act with his big toe. She loves it. Unfortunately her love only extends to his toe and not beyond. She persuades him to go on stage with his act, which is a great success. In the meantime shemakes plans, along with others,to run off with the actor's toe, and break up the showbiz partnership of miserable,sulky personand bodily part.But events do not quite pan out as expected. Finally, there is the story of three upwardly mobile friends. They believe they have finally acheived their goal of middle class, respectablilty when they are invited to a wine and cheese party in Hampstead. Unfortunately the household turns out to be a den of vampires.Two escape, butthe sporty oneis kidnapped. They go to enlist the help of a fearless vampire hunter. But end up with a drunken old reprobate to guide them. They eventually kill the vampires and retrieve their friend, by luck rather than judgement. Along the way they learn some shocking truths about Nineteenth Century Liberals, the class sytem, history, and why gardeners tend to be werewolves.

Author : Evana Belich
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143776666

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How to get Fired by Evana Belich Pdf

Core Life Endeavours? Connie thinks. What are Core Life Endeavours? Is changing into elasticised pants a Core Life Endeavour? Wry, real and astute, these linked stories are from an exciting new talent. Mel’s ‘failing at a stupid, screwed-up sales job, selling stupid plastic shelving’. Her days at Pacific Wave Plastics are numbered. Vic bikes through Christchurch collecting mementoes from the houses she has lived in, while her ex-partner Emma makes the decision to move to Auckland to work at . . . a plastics factory. And so the chain continues: characters connect obliquely or walk from one story to the next, often oblivious to each other yet united by their daily struggle to negotiate relationships while they try to survive employment, or avoid it, or face getting fired. ‘An utterly absorbing experience that reminded me of Elizabeth Strout’s wonderful Olive Kitteridge. I kept catching my breath as I came across familiar detail presented with a fresh and loving eye. This is simply a must read.’ — Fiona Kidman

Author : Dorothy L. Cheney,Robert M. Seyfarth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226102443

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Baboon Metaphysics by Dorothy L. Cheney,Robert M. Seyfarth Pdf

Animals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8186062149

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Chambers Universal Learners' Dictionary by Anonim Pdf

Author : Louise Rennison
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 1367 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780007526888

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The Complete Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicolson: Books 1-10 (The Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicolson) by Louise Rennison Pdf

Uniquely funny teenage diaries of the irresistibly hilarious Georgia – available as a ten-book set for the very first time. Gadzooks!

Author : 'Rock Rampant'
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291957174

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ROUGE BLUSH by 'Rock Rampant' Pdf

Author : Alex Shearer
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780435131357

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Tins by Alex Shearer Pdf

Covering such themes as forced child labour, friendship and evil adults, tis title is suitable for teaching. It helps you explore the genre, study the craft of suspense, and analyse writing styles that suit different purposes.

Author : Norman W. Schur
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781626364677

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British English from A to Zed by Norman W. Schur Pdf

Whether you are traveling to Great Britain or just want to understand British popular culture, this unique dictionary will answer your questions. British English from A to Zed contains more than 5,500 British terms and their American equivalents, each with a short explanation of the term’s history and an example of its use. The appendixes provide valuable supplemental material with differences between British and American pronunciation, grammar, and spelling as well as terms grouped in specific areas such as currency, weight, and numbers. This dictionary will help you unravel the meanings of: • Berk (idiot) • Bevvied up (drunk) • Crisps (potato chips) • Erk (rookie) • To judder (to shake) • Noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) • And more! George Bernard Shaw famously said that the British and Americans were “two peoples separated by a common language.” This book bridges that gap.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Dick Farr
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780957052864

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The Runes Of Avildon by Anonim Pdf

Mark Thorsen professor of ancient Runes arrives in the sleepy college town of Avildon in the remote English Cotswolds and finds himself, his ill son and his new found love in extreme danger. He must battle ancient runic magic which threatens the entire world.

Author : Marc Lin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783756886173

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The house in Tuscany by Marc Lin Pdf

Outrageously wealthy, very successful and dazzling in appearance, this is Leander Brand. He lives a life that others do not even dare to dream of, let alone live! Until one day a letter destroys everything so far! In his search for the truth, suddenly nothing shall be as it seems until now and a deep secret reveals itself to him. There are doors in life that we open, that we can never close again! And this forever!

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407018980

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Deaf Sentence by David Lodge Pdf

When the university merged his Department of Linguistics with English, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. He misses the purposeful routine of the academic year, and has lost his appetite for research. His wife Winifred's late-flowering career goes from strength to strength, reducing his role to that of escort and househusband, while the rejuvenation of her appearance makes him uneasily conscious of the age gap between them. The monotony of his days is relieved only by wearisome journeys to London to check on the welfare of his eighty-nine-year-old father, an ex dance musician who stubbornly refuses to move from the house he is patently unable to live in with safety. But these discontents are nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss, which is a constant source of domestic friction and social embarrassment. In the popular imagination, he observes, deafness is comic, as blindness is tragic, but for the deaf person himself it is no joke. It is through his deafness that Desmond inadvertently gets involved with a young woman whose wayward and unpredictable behaviour threatens to destabilise his life completely. Funny and moving by turns, Deaf Sentence is a brilliant account of one man's effort to come to terms with deafness and death, ageing and mortality, the comedy and tragedy of human lives.