Tell Tales

Author : Jeffrey Archer
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466874794

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Tell Tale by Jeffrey Archer Pdf

Nearly a decade after his last volume of short stories was published, Jeffrey Archer returns with his eagerly-awaited, brand-new collection TELL TALE, giving us a fascinating, exciting and sometimes poignant insight into the people he has met, the stories he has come across and the countries he has visited during the past ten years. Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father’s wealth changes his life in the most profound way. Revel in the stories of the 1930’s woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A Gentleman and A Scholar while another young woman who thumbs a lift gets more than she bargained for in A Wasted Hour. These wonderfully engaging and always refreshingly original tales prove not only why Archer has been compared by the critics to Dahl and Maugham, but why he was described by The Times as probably the greatest storyteller of our age.

Author : Bill Mooney
Publisher : august house
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0874833817

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Ready-to-tell Tales by Bill Mooney Pdf

A multicultural collection of traditional tales contributed by more than forty of America's most experienced storytellers, with tips for telling the stories.

Author : Maria Cecilia Lozada,Barra O'Donnabhain
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781938770494

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The Dead Tell Tales by Maria Cecilia Lozada,Barra O'Donnabhain Pdf

Honoring Jane Buikstra's pioneering work in the development of bioarchaeological research, the essays in this volume stem from a symposium held at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Multiple generations of Buikstra's former doctoral students and other colleagues gathered to discuss the impact of her mentorship. The essays are remarkable for their breadth, in terms of both the topics discussed and the geographical range they cover. The contributions highlight the dynamism of bioarchaeology, which owes so much to the strong foundations laid down over the last few decades. The volume documents the degree to which bioarchaeological approaches have become normalized and integrated into anthropological research: bioarchaeology has moved out of the appendix and into the interpretation of archaeological data. New perspectives have emerged, partly in response to theoretical changes within anthropology, but also as a result of the engagement of the broader discipline with bioarchaeology.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : SAMPI Books
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786561331159

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The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", the narrator tries to prove his sanity after murdering an elderly man because of his "vulture eye". His growing guilt leads him to hear the old man's heart beating under the floorboards, which drives him to confess the crime to the police.

Author : Dr B. Umadathan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789354224300

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Dead Men Tell Tales by Dr B. Umadathan Pdf

Can the dead tell their stories? In the hands of a good forensic surgeon, they certainly can. First published in 2010 in Malayalam as Oru Police Surgeonte Ormakkurippukal, this is the bestselling memoir of Kerala's most famous forensic surgeon, Dr B. Umadathan. Popularly known as the 'Sherlock Holmes of Kerala', Dr Umadathan revisits some of his strangest and most interesting cases, like the Chacko murder masterminded by Sukumara Kurup; the sensational Polakkulam case; and the baffling Panoor Soman case. Chilling, shocking and, at times, downright bizarre, Dead Men Tell Tales is unputdownable.

Author : Steven Heller,Gail Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Graphic arts
ISBN : 0500420572

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Type Tells Tales by Steven Heller,Gail Anderson Pdf

Type Tells Tales focuses on typography that is integral to the message or story it is expressing. This is type that speaks - that is literally the voice of the narrator. And the narrator is the typographer. This can be quite literal, for example when letters come from the mouth of a person or thing, as in a comics balloon. It can be hand lettering, drawn with its own distinctive peculiarities that convey personality and mood. Precedents for contemporary work might be in Apollinaire's calligram 'Il pleut' or Kurt Schwitters' children's picture book The Scarecrow, or in Concrete Poetry, Futurist 'Words in Freedom' or Dadaist collage. Seeking out examples in the furthest reaches of graphic design, Steven Heller and Gail Anderson uncover work that reveals how type can be used to render a particular voice or multiple conversations, how letters can be used in various shapes and sizes to create a kind of typographic pantomime, and how type can become both content and illustration as in, for example Paul Rand's 'ROARRRRR'. Letters take the shape and form of other things, such as people, faces, animals, cars or planes. There are examples of how typographic blocks, paragraphs, sentences and blurbs can be used to guide the eye through dense information.

Author : Tanya M. Smith
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262348935

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The Tales Teeth Tell by Tanya M. Smith Pdf

What teeth can tell us about human evolution, development, and behavior. Our teeth have intriguing stories to tell. These sophisticated time machines record growth, diet, and evolutionary history as clearly as tree rings map a redwood's lifespan. Each day of childhood is etched into tooth crowns and roots—capturing birth, nursing history, environmental clues, and illnesses. The study of ancient, fossilized teeth sheds light on how our ancestors grew up, how we evolved, and how prehistoric cultural transitions continue to affect humans today. In The Tales Teeth Tell, biological anthropologist Tanya Smith offers an engaging and surprising look at what teeth tell us about the evolution of primates—including our own uniqueness. Humans' impressive set of varied teeth provides a multipurpose toolkit honed by the diet choices of our mammalian ancestors. Fossil teeth, highly resilient because of their substantial mineral content, are all that is left of some long-extinct species. Smith explains how researchers employ painstaking techniques to coax microscopic secrets from these enigmatic remains. Counting tiny daily lines provides a way to estimate age that is more powerful than any other forensic technique. Dental plaque—so carefully removed by dental hygienists today—records our ancestors' behavior and health in the form of fossilized food particles and bacteria, including their DNA. Smith also traces the grisly origins of dentistry, reveals that the urge to pick one's teeth is not unique to humans, and illuminates the age-old pursuit of “dental art.” The book is generously illustrated with original photographs, many in color.

Author : Rachel Bennett
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008333294

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Little Girls Tell Tales by Rachel Bennett Pdf

Some of the boggy ponds were so deep that if a girl stepped into one it would swallow her forever...

Author : William R. Maples,Michael Browning
Publisher : Crown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307763907

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Dead Men Do Tell Tales by William R. Maples,Michael Browning Pdf

From a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, prominent forensic anthropologist Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was dispatched, and, ultimately, the identity of the killer. In Dead Men Do Tell Tales, Dr. Maples revisits his strangest, most interesting, and most horrific investigations, from the baffling cases of conquistador Francisco Pizarro and Vietnam MIAs to the mysterious deaths of President Zachary Taylor and the family of Czar Nicholas II.

Author : Dorsey Armstrong,Shaun F D Hughes,Alexander L Kaufman
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580442299

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Telling Tales and Crafting Books by Dorsey Armstrong,Shaun F D Hughes,Alexander L Kaufman Pdf

The great corpus that is medieval literature contains, at its very center, the tale. These verse and prose fictional narratives, as well as stories that are grounded in some degree of historical truth, are the foundation of what readers, scholars, and enthusiasts often point to as signifiers of the medieval age. These tales - from the skillfully crafted to the more rudimentary and plain - often make familiar to modern readers what seems so distant and foreign about the Middle Ages. This volume of essays focuses on the tale and its ability to create "mirth," what modern audiences would often define as "happiness" or "joy," and the significance that the book has had on the transference of this mirth to audiences. This volume also celebrates the scholarship of Thomas H. Ohlgren, a medievalist whose work encompasses a number of different areas, but at its center lives the power of the tale and its ability to create a lasting impression on readers, both medieval and modern.

Author : Sara Forsdyke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691140056

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Slaves Tell Tales by Sara Forsdyke Pdf

The author argues that various forms of popular culture in ancient Greece--including festival revelry, oral storytelling, and popular forms of justice--were a vital medium for political expression and played an important role in the negotiation of relations between elites and masses, as well as masters and slaves, in the Greek city-states. Although these forms of social life are only poorly attested in the sources, she suggests that Greek literature reveals traces of popular culture that can be further illuminated by comparison with later historical periods. By looking beyond institutional contexts, she recovers the ways that groups that were excluded from the formal political sphere--especially women and slaves--participated in the process by which society was ordered.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Historical fiction, American
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3L1A

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Twice-told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne Pdf

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435021402755

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Twice-told tales (1876) by Nathaniel Hawthorne Pdf

Author : Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307982599

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American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne Pdf

The perfect addition to every family’s home library and just right for sharing aloud, American Tall Tales introduces readers to America’s first folk heroes in nine wildly exaggerated and downright funny stories. Here are Paul Bunyan, that king-sized lumberjack who could fell “ten white pines with a single swing”; John Henry, with his mighty hammer; Mose, old New York’s biggest, bravest fireman; Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, who could “outgrin, outsnort, outrun, outlift, outsneeze, outsleep, outlie any varmint”; and other uniquely American characters, together in one superb collection. In the tradition of the original nineteenth-century storytellers, Mary Pope Osborne compiles, edits, and adds her own two cents’ worth—and also supplies fascinating historical headnotes. Michael McCurdy’s robust colored wood engravings recall an earlier time, perfectly capturing all the vitality of the men and women who carved a new country out of the North American wilderness.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : American literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101075374759

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The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Twice-told tales. c1882 by Nathaniel Hawthorne Pdf