Two Wheels On My Wagon

Author : Jordan D. Finkin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271078144

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A Rhetorical Conversation by Jordan D. Finkin Pdf

This book is about Jewish language. The fact that Jews speak and write in distinctive ways is well known. (The journalist Mike Royko called it “Hebonics.”) These forms of expression actually draw from many sources and have been employed in popular culture from Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep to the novels of Saul Bellow to contemporary television. What has received less attention is what allowed these modern forms to flow from a rich body of Yiddish literature. This book fills that gap by exploring the language of modern Yiddish literature, addressing emblematically why Jews answer a question with a question. Through a series of case studies, A Rhetorical Conversation explores various distinctive aspects of Yiddish literature to explain the nature and importance of Jewish discourse: the way of speaking, writing, arguing, and thinking developed by Yiddish culture based on prolonged and intimate contact with traditional texts.

Author : Leonard J. Greenspoon
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781612491554

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Jews and Humor by Leonard J. Greenspoon Pdf

Jews and humor is, for most people, a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of, or perhaps because of, a history of crises and living on the edge, Jews have often created or resorted to humor. But what is humor? And what makes certain types, instances, or performances of humor "Jewish"? These are among the myriad queries addressed by the fourteen authors whose essays are collected in this volume. And, thankfully, their observations, always apt and often witty, are expressed with a lightness of style and a depth of analysis that are appropriate to the many topics they cover. The scholars who contributed to this collection allow readers both to discern the common features that make up "Jewish humor" and to delight in the individualism and eccentricities of the many figures whose lives and accomplishments are narrated here. Because these essays are written in a clear, jargon-free style, they will appeal to everyone—even those who don't usually crack a smile!

Author : Paul Howard
Publisher : Random House
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781780570631

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Two Wheels on my Wagon by Paul Howard Pdf

As bicycle races go, the attractions of the Tour Divide are not immediately apparent. For a start, it is the longest mountain-bike race in the world, running nearly 3,000 miles down the Rockies from Canada to Mexico. But the distance is not the only challenge - the total ascent of 200,000 ft is the equivalent of scaling Mount Everest nearly seven times. Then there are the dangerous animals likely to be encountered on the route: grizzly bears, mountain lions and wolves, not to mention rattlesnakes and tarantulas. Worse, the rewards for all this effort are strictly limited. Unlike in the Tour de France, there is no fabled yellow jersey and no prize money. Yet, undaunted, and in spite of never having owned a mountain bike, Paul Howard signed up. Battling the worst weather for generations, drinking whiskey with a cowboy and singing karaoke with the locals, Howard's journey turned into more than just a race - it became the adventure of a lifetime.

Author : Ali Smith
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780593687598

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Artful by Ali Smith Pdf

Ali Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of stories in our lives In February 2012, the novelist Ali Smith delivered the Weidenfeld lectures on European comparative literature at St. Anne’s College, Oxford. Her lectures took the shape of this set of discursive stories. Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted—literally—by a former lover, the writer of a series of lectures about art and literature. A hypnotic dialogue unfolds, a duet between and a meditation on art and storytelling, a book about love, grief, memory, and revitalization. Smith’s heady powers as a fiction writer harmonize with her keen perceptions as a reader and critic to form a living thing that reminds us that life and art are never separate. Artful is a book about the things art can do, the things art is full of, and the quicksilver nature of all artfulness. It glances off artists and writers from Michelangelo through Dickens, then all the way past postmodernity, exploring every form, from ancient cave painting to 1960s cinema musicals. This kaleidoscope opens up new, inventive, elastic insights—on the relation of aesthetic form to the human mind, the ways we build our minds from stories, the bridges art builds between us. Artful is a celebration of literature’s worth in and to the world and a meaningful contribution to that worth in itself. There has never been a book quite like it.

Author : Z. N. Morrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Baptists
ISBN : HARVARD:HX2PI9

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Flowers and Fruits in the Wilderness by Z. N. Morrell Pdf

Author : Z. N. Morrell
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : History
ISBN : UOMDLP:aaw3495:0001.001

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Flowers and Fruits from the Wilderness by Z. N. Morrell Pdf

Author : Kate Rawles
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781927330784

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The Carbon Cycle by Kate Rawles Pdf

In 2006 “outdoor philosopher” Kate Rawles cycled 4553 miles from Texas to Alaska, following the spine of the Rocky Mountains as closely as possible. Cycling across unforgiving but starkly beautiful landscapes in both the United States and Canada – deserts, high mountain passes, glaciers and eventually down to the sea – she encountered bears, wolves, moose, cliff-swallows, aspens and a single, astonishing lynx. Along the way, she talked to North Americans about climate change – from truck drivers to politicians – to find out what they knew about it, whether they cared, and if they did, what they thought they could do. Kate tells the story of a trip in which she has to deal with the rigours of cycling for ten hours a day in temperatures often in excess of 100° F, fighting punctures, endless repairs and inescapable, grinding fatigue. But in recounting the physical struggle of such a journey, she also does constant battle with her own ideas and assumptions, helping us to cross the great divide between where we are on climate change and where we need to be. Can we tackle climate change while still keeping our modern Western lifestyles intact? Should we put biofuel in our camper vans and RVs? Or do we need much deeper shifts in lifestyles, values and worldviews?

Author : New York (State). Court of Appeals.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Law
ISBN : LLMC:NYAH7NY8950G

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New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs. by New York (State). Court of Appeals. Pdf

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Author : Hildy Gard
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781642148824

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My Other Life by Hildy Gard Pdf

My younger siblings often wanted to know about the house they were born to and the homeland's traditions and rituals. I, the oldest of five, related to them the experiences we encountered among the Gottscheers, who worked, toiled, and survived in this little known native land surrounded by Slovenia and bordered by Croatia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:HL014P

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Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kathy Etringer
Publisher : Teaching and Learning Company
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780787745158

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Alphabet Activities for Letters W & X by Kathy Etringer Pdf

Filled with stimulating and creative ways to teach the individual letters of the alphabet, this packet is an ideal resource for both experienced preschool and kindergarten teachers as well as those beginning a career teaching your learners. With multiple literature-based lessons, the well-organized format makes it easy to plan and fun to teach. Each lesson is divided into five sections—Before the Lesson, Have on Hand, Read Aloud, Talk About and Kids Create.

Author : Kathy Etringer
Publisher : Lorenz Educational Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780787786458

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Mrs. E's Extraordinary Alphabet Activities (eBook) by Kathy Etringer Pdf

Filled with more than 80 stimulating and creative ways to teach the individual letters of the alphabet, Extraordinary Alphabet Activities is an ideal resource for both experienced preschool and kindergarten teachers as well as those beginning a career teaching your learners. With multiple literature-based lessons for each letter, the well-organized format makes it easy to plan and fun to teach. Each lesson is divided into five sections—Before the Lesson, Have on Hand, Read Aloud, Talk About and Kids Create.

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1588 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2539689

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Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Warren Johnson
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781429004794

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From the Pacific to the Atlantic by Warren Johnson Pdf

An American veteran recalls his journey from California back to his native East Coast, a journey achieved mostly on foot.

Author : Ivor Whitall
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781912158676

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The Silk Road and Beyond by Ivor Whitall Pdf

True accounts of one man’s long-distance trucking career that began in the late 1960s, these adventurous anecdotes are told by one of the first pioneers in long-distance trucking to the Middle East, Ivor Whittall. From traveling overseas to Kuwait, driving the desert trek between Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and surviving the infamously dangerous (and sometimes deadly) Tahir Pass in Eastern Turkey that has claimed the lives of truckers with its haphazard landslides and avalanches and tricky mountainous terrain, readers get a driver’s seat perspective to Whittall’s daring career. With 72 contemporary color photos of trucks, drivers, passports, visas, and custom forms, readers will be thrust into what it was like being a long-distance trucker in the 1970s. Full of disastrous near misses, border control mishaps, intense home sickness, mechanical failures, cultural misunderstandings, and so much more, this book will urge you to buckle up.