The Art Of Flying Crooked

Author : Robin Liston
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781848761964
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Flying Crooked written by Robin Liston and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel writer Robin Liston and publisher and amateur pilot Rory McAuliffe conceived the idea of visiting twenty six outback places beginning with the letters A to Z. This book tells of their exciting journey.

Author : Robin Malan
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864860798
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explorings written by Robin Malan and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital, exciting collection of poetry for middle senior school level.

Author : Jan Michael
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1553651308
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Crooked written by Jan Michael and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many books about the processes people go through when they discover they have cancer. What makes Flying Crooked different is the author's acceptance of the disease and its consequences. She continues to enjoy life, refuses radiotherapy, and rejects the idea of wearing a prosthesis after a mastectomy. The choices she makes are in sharp contrast to those made by her ex-lover, Simon, who shortly after her operation is diagnosed with prostate cancer. Their different ways of coping form a well-balanced diptych: on her part, acceptance and the peace that this brings; on his, fighting and anger at the cost of precious energy and enjoyment. Flying Crooked describes the process of a search for balance. The open, direct, and unsentimental manner in which Michael describes her decisions as well as her experiences in and out of the hospital take this from an account of coping with disease to an inspirational story of love, friendship, and faith.

Author : Fredrik Sjöberg
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141980303
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Flight written by Fredrik Sjöberg and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accidental Journeys with the Bestselling Author of The Fly Trap Stories just begin. We rarely know where and almost never why. It doesn't matter. Nothing is certain any longer. I just want to shut my eyes, point at random and say, as a sort of experiment, that once, when I was sixteen years old, I spent a whole night singing romantic songs in the top of a pine tree. That's where it may have started. Fredrik Sjöberg continues his exploration of the pleasures and trials of those who spend their time tracing the smallest details of the natural world in these two tales of ambition, fear and hapless romance. Calling on his childhood memories and experience as a hoverfly collector, and following the trail of long forgotten entomologists before him who left their native Sweden for the national parks of the United States, Sjöberg contemplates the richness of life and the strange paths it leads us on.

Author : Frank L. Kersnowski
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292743434
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Early Poetry of Robert Graves written by Frank L. Kersnowski and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2002-07-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many men of his generation, poet Robert Graves was indelibly marked by his experience of trench warfare in World War I. The horrific battles in which he fought and his guilt over surviving when so many perished left Graves shell-shocked and disoriented, desperately seeking a way to bridge the rupture between his conventional upbringing and the uncertainties of post-war British society. In this study of Graves's early poetry, Frank Kersnowski explores how his war neurosis opened a door into the unconscious for Graves and led him to reject the essential components of the Western idea of reality-reason and predictability. In particular, Kersnowski traces the emergence in Graves's early poems of a figure he later called The White Goddess, a being at once terrifying and glorious, who sustains life and inspires poetry. Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven by the purpose of celebrating and explaining this deity and her matriarchy.

Author : Jonathan Culpeper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350308080
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Language written by Jonathan Culpeper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this hugely successful textbook provides comprehensive coverage of a wide range of topics in theoretical and applied linguistics. Written by leading academics in the field, this text offers a firm grounding in linguistics and includes engaging insights into current research. It covers all the key areas of linguistic analysis, including phonetics, morphology, semantics and pragmatics, and core domains of study, comprising the history of the English language, regional and social variation, style and communication and interaction. Fresh material on research methods outlines key areas for consideration when carrying out a research project, and provides students with the framework they need to investigate linguistic phenomena for themselves. This is an invaluable resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students on English language and linguistics degree programmes. New to this Edition: - Seven new chapters covering topics such as second language acquisition, corpus linguistics and research methods - A number of chapters have been substantially revised, including those on World Englishes, Literacies in Cyberspace and TEFL, TESOL and Linguistics - Fully updated throughout to reflect the latest advances in the field

Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762799811
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dangerous World of Butterflies written by Peter Laufer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely praised book chronicles Peter Laufer's adventures within the butterfly industry and the butterfly underground. Laufer begins by examining the allure of butterflies throughout history, but his research soon veers into the high-stake realms of organized crime, ecological devastation, museum collections, and chaos theory. His ever-expanding journey of discovery throughout the Americas and beyond offers a rare look into a theater of intrigue, peopled with quirky and nefarious characters—all in pursuit of these delicate, beautiful creatures. Read this book, and your garden—and the world—will never quite look the same.

Author : R. P. Hewett
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
ISBN 13 : 9780174441120
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Choice of Poets written by R. P. Hewett and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 1985-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. G. Widdowson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780194371841
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Stylistics written by H. G. Widdowson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-09-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a particular perspective on the nature of poetry and follows this through to proposals for teaching. It focuses attention on how the use of language in short poems can set up conditions for individual interpretation and the representation of reality in ways other than those which are established by normal social convention. This view of poetry, it is argued, leads to a recognition of its essential role in education, and provides a set of principles for an approach to teaching it which integrates the study of language and literature.

Author : Mr David Whitley
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409479382
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation written by Mr David Whitley and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second edition of The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation, David Whitley updates his 2008 book to reflect recent developments in Disney and Disney-Pixar animation such as the apocalyptic tale of earth's failed ecosystem, WALL-E. As Whitley has shown, and Disney's newest films continue to demonstrate, the messages animated films convey about the natural world are of crucial importance to their child viewers. Beginning with Snow White, Whitley examines a wide range of Disney's feature animations, in which images of wild nature are central to the narrative. He challenges the notion that the sentimentality of the Disney aesthetic, an oft-criticized aspect of such films as Bambi, The Jungle Book, Pocahontas, Beauty and the Beast, and Finding Nemo, necessarily prevents audiences from developing a critical awareness of contested environmental issues. On the contrary, even as the films communicate the central ideologies of the times in which they were produced, they also express the ambiguities and tensions that underlie these dominant values. In distinguishing among the effects produced by each film and revealing the diverse ways in which images of nature are mediated, Whitley urges us towards a more complex interpretation of the classic Disney canon and makes an important contribution to our understanding of the role popular art plays in shaping the emotions and ideas that are central to contemporary experience.