Author : Lynne Truss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1322732000
Lynne Truss Treasury
Lynne Truss
The Lynne Truss Treasury
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The Lynne Truss Treasury
Lynne Truss
Author : Lynne Truss
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-23
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781101218266
The Lynne Truss Treasury by Lynne Truss Pdf
Lynne Truss debuted in America as a guffaw-inducing grammarian, but her British audience has known her for years as a critically acclaimed novelist and columnist. Her previous works are now available stateside in one volume, complete with a new preface. With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed, a raucous comedy of errors, follows the exploits of Osborne Lonsdale, who writes a weekly column called "Me and My Shed" for a floundering gardening magazine. When the publication is taken over by a gung-ho management team, Lonsdale must learn to cope with his new coworkers. In Tennyson's Gift and Going Loco, Truss turns a fiendishly clever eye to the literary world. Tennyson's Gift is an imaginative cocktail of Victorian seriousness and farce that re-imagines the world of the nineteenth-century English poet laureate, placing him in the midst of eccentric company that includes dodgy Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll). Going Loco features a critic trying to write a definitive account of the doppelgänger in gothic fiction, amidst the chaos of her domestic life, including paranoia that her cleaning lady is taking over her life. Making the Cat Laugh is a riotous collection of columns about single life. Truss comments on dating, secondhand smoking, shopping, holidays, and people who ask, "How's the novel going?" All the while, she continues an eighteen-year quest to make her cat laugh. Reportedly, the feline remains unimpressed. A feast of wit, The Lynne Truss Treasury will delight fans of Eats, Shoots & Leaves.
Talk to the Hand
Lynne Truss
Author : Lynne Truss
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-08
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781101216729
Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss Pdf
"Talk to the hand, ’cause the face ain’t listening," the saying goes. When did the world stop wanting to hear? When did society become so thoughtless? It’s a topic that has been simmering for years, and Lynne Truss says it’s now reached the boiling point. Taking on the boorish behavior that for some has become a point of pride, Talk to the Hand is a rallying cry for courtesy. Like Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Talk to the Hand is not a stuffy guidebook, and is sure to inspire spirited conversation. Why hasn’t your nephew ever thanked you for your carefully selected gift? What makes your contractor think it’s fine to snub you in the midst of a major renovation? Why do crowds spawn selfishness? What accounts for the appalling treatment you receive in stores (if you’re lucky enough to get a clerk’s attention at all)? Most important, what will it take to roll back a culture that applauds those who are disrespectful? In a recent U.S. survey, 79 percent of adults said that lack of courtesy was a serious problem. For anyone who’s fed up with the brutality inflicted by modern manners (or lack thereof), Talk to the Hand is a colorful call to arms—from the wittiest defender of the civilized world.
Carlos Slim
Diego Osorno
Author : Diego Osorno
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786634368
Carlos Slim by Diego Osorno Pdf
Can one of the richest men in the world be a good person? The rich are not like us. Great wealth brings both power and immunity, a pairing that opens a yawning moral abyss at the feet of the world’s billionaires. Carlos Slim is one of eight people whose combined wealth equals that of the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity. A businessman who dominates telecoms and global real estate, and a major shareholder of the New York Times, Slim exerts a degree of power in Mexico unmatched by any politician. The biography of Carlos Slim, one of the richest people of all time, is a case study in the ethical and psychological effects of extraordinary wealth. Not just the tale of the first man from a developing country ever to reach the top of the Forbes list of billionaires, it presents a living embodiment of the financial mentality of our time, a man who mistrusts politicians and believes the market to be the answer to everything—even corruption. In short, Slim’s story is that of Latin America’s last half century and indeed the wider world. After years of thorough investigation, Diego Osorno has produced an extraordinary portrait detailing the effects of great wealth. His time with Slim forces Osorno to pose an age-old question: What does it profit a man if he gains the world and loses his own soul?
The New Yorker
Harold Wallace Ross,Katharine Sergeant Angell White
Author : Harold Wallace Ross,Katharine Sergeant Angell White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07
Category : Literature
ISBN : NWU:35556035775923
The New Yorker by Harold Wallace Ross,Katharine Sergeant Angell White Pdf
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Lynne Truss
Author : Lynne Truss
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781101218297
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss Pdf
We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.
Current Biography Yearbook
H.W. Wilson Company
Author : H.W. Wilson Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography 20th century Periodicals
ISBN : 00849499
Current Biography Yearbook by H.W. Wilson Company Pdf
The Lunar Cats
Lynne Truss
Author : Lynne Truss
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473538764
The Lunar Cats by Lynne Truss Pdf
By the bestselling author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Cat Out of Hell, a nail-biting tale of good versus evil involving one man, his dog and a group of 18th-century amateur scientific pioneers who just happen to be cats. When you are an inoffensive retired librarian with bitter personal experience of Evil Talking Cats, do you rescue a kitten from the cold on a December night? Do you follow up news items about cats digging in graveyards? Do you inquire into long-ago cats who voyaged around the world with Captain Cook? Well, yes. If you are Alec Charlesworth that is precisely what you do - with unexpected and terrifying consequences ...
Carl Larsson
Ann J. Topjon
Author : Ann J. Topjon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124191094
Carl Larsson by Ann J. Topjon Pdf
"Carl Larsson (1853-1919) is perhaps the most renowned Swedish artist, in his own country and beyond. He rose from an impoverished childhood and youth to find the perfect expression for his artistic talent in watercolors, winning medals in France at the Salons." "This is the first comprehensive bibliography on Larsson and, with approximately 5900 entries, encompasses all known works by him, including albums, book illustrations and any articles he wrote and/or illustrated in all languages and countries. The bibliography also documents and annotates the plethora of materials about him in all languages, including monographs, incidental books, encyclopedia articles and exhibition catalogs, as well as the numerous journal and newspaper articles written about him during his lifetime and up to the present."--BOOK JACKET.
Tennyson’s Gift
Lynne Truss
Author : Lynne Truss
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007437573
Tennyson’s Gift by Lynne Truss Pdf
From the bestselling author of ‘Eats Shoots & Leaves’, an unexpectedly moving, luminously wise and brilliantly funny novel about a Victorian Poet Laureate.
Sweet Summer
Bebe Moore Campbell
Author : Bebe Moore Campbell
Publisher : Berkley Publishing Group
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0425174743
Sweet Summer by Bebe Moore Campbell Pdf
The author of Brothers and Sisters recounts her relationship with her father, one that took place largely during the summer when they vacationed together, discussing how this shaped her as an adult and as a woman. Reprint.
Where the Lightning Strikes
Peter Nabokov
Author : Peter Nabokov
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440628597
Where the Lightning Strikes by Peter Nabokov Pdf
From the author of How the World Moves: A revelatory new look at the hallowed, diverse, and threatened landscapes of the American Indian For thousands of years , Native Americans have told stories about the powers of revered landscapes and sought spiritual direction at mysterious places in their homelands. In this important book, respected scholar and anthropologist Peter Nabokov writes of a wide range of sacred places in Native America. From the “high country” of California to Tennessee’s Tellico Valley, from the Black Hills of South Dakota to Rainbow Canyon in Arizona, each chapter delves into the relationship between Indian cultures and their environments and describes the myths and legends, practices, and rituals that sustained them.
English for the Natives
Harry Ritchie
Author : Harry Ritchie
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781848548381
English for the Natives by Harry Ritchie Pdf
'My first English lesson was grammar with the terrifying Mrs Petrie. She spent the entire time marching up and down the classroom, thwacking various items of school furniture with a ruler while she banged on about the ING part of the verb. I sat there, vibrating with fear, desperately trying to figure out what on earth she could mean. Irregular Negative Gerund? Intransitive Nominative Genitive? It was only years later, when I was teaching English to foreign students, that I realised that English grammar wasn't obscure and wilfully difficult but a fascinating subject which I was already brilliant at - and this book will prove that you are too.' Forget the little you think you know about English grammar and start afresh with this highly entertaining and accessible guide. English for the Natives outlines the rules and structures of our language as they are taught to foreign students - and have never before been explained to us. Harry Ritchie also examines the grammar of dialects as well as standard English and shows how non-standard forms are just as valid. With examples from a wide variety of sources, from Ali G to John Betjeman, Margaret Thatcher to Match of the Day, this essential book reveals some surprising truths about our language and teaches you all the things you didn't know you knew about grammar.
The Place of Dead Roads
William S. Burroughs
Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141976068
The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs Pdf
This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and The Nihilistic Kid himself, Kim Carson, a homosexual gunslinger who, with a succession of beautiful sidekicks, sets out to challenge the morality of small-town America and fight for intergalactic freedom. Fantastical and humorous, The Place of Dead Roads continues William Burroughs' exploration of society's controlling forces - the State, the Church, women, literature, drugs - with a style that is utterly unique in twentieth-century literature.
After the Coalition
Kwasi Kwarteng
Author : Kwasi Kwarteng
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849542128
After the Coalition by Kwasi Kwarteng Pdf
In After the Coalition five new Conservative Members of Parliament tackle the challenges of contemporary Britain. They argue that Conservative principles adapted to the modern world are essential for national success. For Britain to prosper in today's global economy, we need a new era of responsibility, for governments as well as individuals. The Conservative Party last won a general election in 1992. The formation of the coalition in 2010 ushered in a politics of compromise for the important task of bringing the deficit under control. At the next election, the Conservative Party may well fight for its own mandate. What that will be and the ideas supporting it need to be defined now. After the Coalition is an attempt to do precisely this.