Author: Frank Conroy
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0544115201
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
A “superb blend of personal essays and journalistic articles” on everything from fatherhood to writing workshops to jazz musicians (Chicago Sun-Times). “At once subtle and dazzling,” these pieces—collected from such publications as Esquire, Harper’s Magazine, and GQ—serve as both a wide-ranging journey through topics like art and music and an autobiographical look into the life of one of our most acclaimed literary figures, the author of such books as Stop-Time and Body & Soul and a director of the renowned Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa (Publishers Weekly). “[An] interesting and well-done anthology. Conroy takes on such topics as learning to play pool, fatherhood, the value of now-disappearing small towns in instilling family values, the enthusiasms of jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, and, of course, the Writers’ Workshop.” —Library Journal “Highly enjoyable and illuminating . . . Dogs Bark is simply one of the best books published in a long, long time.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Rolls On
Author: Frank Conroy
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0544115201
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
A “superb blend of personal essays and journalistic articles” on everything from fatherhood to writing workshops to jazz musicians (Chicago Sun-Times). “At once subtle and dazzling,” these pieces—collected from such publications as Esquire, Harper’s Magazine, and GQ—serve as both a wide-ranging journey through topics like art and music and an autobiographical look into the life of one of our most acclaimed literary figures, the author of such books as Stop-Time and Body & Soul and a director of the renowned Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa (Publishers Weekly). “[An] interesting and well-done anthology. Conroy takes on such topics as learning to play pool, fatherhood, the value of now-disappearing small towns in instilling family values, the enthusiasms of jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, and, of course, the Writers’ Workshop.” —Library Journal “Highly enjoyable and illuminating . . . Dogs Bark is simply one of the best books published in a long, long time.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0544115201
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
A “superb blend of personal essays and journalistic articles” on everything from fatherhood to writing workshops to jazz musicians (Chicago Sun-Times). “At once subtle and dazzling,” these pieces—collected from such publications as Esquire, Harper’s Magazine, and GQ—serve as both a wide-ranging journey through topics like art and music and an autobiographical look into the life of one of our most acclaimed literary figures, the author of such books as Stop-Time and Body & Soul and a director of the renowned Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa (Publishers Weekly). “[An] interesting and well-done anthology. Conroy takes on such topics as learning to play pool, fatherhood, the value of now-disappearing small towns in instilling family values, the enthusiasms of jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, and, of course, the Writers’ Workshop.” —Library Journal “Highly enjoyable and illuminating . . . Dogs Bark is simply one of the best books published in a long, long time.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The Dogs May Bark
Author: Gertrude Morse
Publisher: College Press Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780899006710
Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
This is the real life story of a missionary family. J. Russell and Gertrude Morse dedicated themselves to God's calling to serve in China. Read of God's provision and faithfulness toward His willing servants. The reader will be inspired to see how God blessed this mission work among hurting people in a desolate land.
Publisher: College Press Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780899006710
Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
This is the real life story of a missionary family. J. Russell and Gertrude Morse dedicated themselves to God's calling to serve in China. Read of God's provision and faithfulness toward His willing servants. The reader will be inspired to see how God blessed this mission work among hurting people in a desolate land.
The Dogs Bark, the Caravan Moves on
Author: Bryan Sell
Publisher: Bright Pen
ISBN: 9780755211920
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Bryan Sell's absorbing account of his army experiences in the Second World War and afterwards takes him from his first somewhat unglamorous year as an 'other rank' Lance Corporal cook, to the status of a senior Major in the Royal Corps of Signals, Second in Command of a Regiment. On the way he describes his extensive travels, including service in the North African campaign under Field Marshal Montgomery, with vivid detail, sombre but lit up with humour and personal anecdotes, and illustrated with many of his own photographs. Bryan Sell acknowledges the assistance provided by Susan Farrow, who has taken his dictated notes of his memories of his exciting army years and has turned them into a book which is not only a readable record of one man's varied experiences as a soldier, but is also a portrait of a very humane man with strong convictions. The cover design is by Patrick Blower, artist and cartoonist, who has created a striking visualisation of the meaning of the book's title. The author's profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Army Benevolent Fund.
Publisher: Bright Pen
ISBN: 9780755211920
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Bryan Sell's absorbing account of his army experiences in the Second World War and afterwards takes him from his first somewhat unglamorous year as an 'other rank' Lance Corporal cook, to the status of a senior Major in the Royal Corps of Signals, Second in Command of a Regiment. On the way he describes his extensive travels, including service in the North African campaign under Field Marshal Montgomery, with vivid detail, sombre but lit up with humour and personal anecdotes, and illustrated with many of his own photographs. Bryan Sell acknowledges the assistance provided by Susan Farrow, who has taken his dictated notes of his memories of his exciting army years and has turned them into a book which is not only a readable record of one man's varied experiences as a soldier, but is also a portrait of a very humane man with strong convictions. The cover design is by Patrick Blower, artist and cartoonist, who has created a striking visualisation of the meaning of the book's title. The author's profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Army Benevolent Fund.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
Author: John Simpson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192800022
Category : Proverbs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Lists recorded usages and meaning for hundreds of proverbs arranged by key word, from "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" to "Youth must be served."
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192800022
Category : Proverbs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Lists recorded usages and meaning for hundreds of proverbs arranged by key word, from "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" to "Youth must be served."
The dogs bark
Random House Dictionary of America's Popular Proverbs and Sayings
Author: Gregory Titelman
Publisher: Random House Reference
ISBN:
Category : Proverbs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Arranged in an A to Z format for ease of use, this collection of proverbs and everyday expressions is newly revised with new entries and updated citations. Comprehensive and entertaining, it includes both biblical proverbs and everyday expressions used in America today, with historical usage and up-to-the-minute examples from the media. This treasure trove of language includes sayings from "Let sleeping dogs lie" (Chaucer's Troilus and Chriseyde, c. 1374) to "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing" (Vanderbilt University football coach Red Sanders, 1953), and many others that have enjoyed popular use in America over the centuries. Over 1,500 proverbs and 10,000 illustrative citations--including 200 sayings new to this edition Cross-referencing to all relative proverbs and sayings Extensive subject index for easy reference Thorough bibliography of proverb collections and works cited in the book Cross-referencing to all relative proverbs and sayings Extensive subject index for easy reference Thorough bibliography of proverb collections and works cited in the book
Publisher: Random House Reference
ISBN:
Category : Proverbs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Arranged in an A to Z format for ease of use, this collection of proverbs and everyday expressions is newly revised with new entries and updated citations. Comprehensive and entertaining, it includes both biblical proverbs and everyday expressions used in America today, with historical usage and up-to-the-minute examples from the media. This treasure trove of language includes sayings from "Let sleeping dogs lie" (Chaucer's Troilus and Chriseyde, c. 1374) to "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing" (Vanderbilt University football coach Red Sanders, 1953), and many others that have enjoyed popular use in America over the centuries. Over 1,500 proverbs and 10,000 illustrative citations--including 200 sayings new to this edition Cross-referencing to all relative proverbs and sayings Extensive subject index for easy reference Thorough bibliography of proverb collections and works cited in the book Cross-referencing to all relative proverbs and sayings Extensive subject index for easy reference Thorough bibliography of proverb collections and works cited in the book
The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style
Author: Houghton Mifflin Company
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618604999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Survey of English usage, grammar, and style offering guidance on almost any writing problem imaginable.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618604999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Survey of English usage, grammar, and style offering guidance on almost any writing problem imaginable.
Life Stories
Author: Maureen O'Connor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610691466
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Memoirs, autobiographies, and diaries represent the most personal and most intimate of genres, as well as one of the most abundant and popular. Gain new understanding and better serve your readers with this detailed genre guide to nearly 700 titles that also includes notes on more than 2,800 read-alike and other related titles. The popularity of this body of literature has grown in recent years, and it has also diversified in terms of the types of stories being told—and persons telling them. In the past, readers' advisors have depended on access by names or Dewey classifications and subjects to help readers find autobiographies they will enjoy. This guide offers an alternative, organizing the literature according to popular genres, subgenres, and themes that reflect common reading interests. Describing titles that range from travel and adventure classics and celebrity autobiographies to foodie memoirs and environmental reads, Life Stories: A Guide to Reading Interests in Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Diaries presents a unique overview of the genre that specifically addresses the needs of readers' advisors and others who work with readers in finding books.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610691466
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Memoirs, autobiographies, and diaries represent the most personal and most intimate of genres, as well as one of the most abundant and popular. Gain new understanding and better serve your readers with this detailed genre guide to nearly 700 titles that also includes notes on more than 2,800 read-alike and other related titles. The popularity of this body of literature has grown in recent years, and it has also diversified in terms of the types of stories being told—and persons telling them. In the past, readers' advisors have depended on access by names or Dewey classifications and subjects to help readers find autobiographies they will enjoy. This guide offers an alternative, organizing the literature according to popular genres, subgenres, and themes that reflect common reading interests. Describing titles that range from travel and adventure classics and celebrity autobiographies to foodie memoirs and environmental reads, Life Stories: A Guide to Reading Interests in Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Diaries presents a unique overview of the genre that specifically addresses the needs of readers' advisors and others who work with readers in finding books.
Lexical and Semantic Aspects of Proverbs
Author: Čermák, František
Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
ISBN: 8024643588
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The field of paremiology is traditionally an interdisciplinary one starting with folklore, paremiology, language, literature, history, and other fields, their mutual influence being a peculiar and highly valued feature for all. This book is linguistic in nature, offering a number of aspects of contemporary languages and their proverbs studied, though mostly on lexical, semantic and pragmatic aspects, based on language corpora findings, subsequently leading to proverb minima. Apart from selected proverb data excerpted from tens of languages, there is an effort to arrive at a system of proverbs having a wider orientation based on the goal set to map proverbs in a language in a systematic and reliable way, showing proverbs and their use in large, multimilion language corpora. Next to its academic goals covering proverb theory of use and system, the book may be used by lexicocographers, monolingual and comparative, and language teachers in their textbook compilation.
Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
ISBN: 8024643588
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The field of paremiology is traditionally an interdisciplinary one starting with folklore, paremiology, language, literature, history, and other fields, their mutual influence being a peculiar and highly valued feature for all. This book is linguistic in nature, offering a number of aspects of contemporary languages and their proverbs studied, though mostly on lexical, semantic and pragmatic aspects, based on language corpora findings, subsequently leading to proverb minima. Apart from selected proverb data excerpted from tens of languages, there is an effort to arrive at a system of proverbs having a wider orientation based on the goal set to map proverbs in a language in a systematic and reliable way, showing proverbs and their use in large, multimilion language corpora. Next to its academic goals covering proverb theory of use and system, the book may be used by lexicocographers, monolingual and comparative, and language teachers in their textbook compilation.
A Dictionary of Proverbs
Author: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191580015
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This unique and authoritative dictionary contains over 1,100 of the most widely used proverbs in English and uses research from the Oxford English Corpus, the world's largest language databank. This edition has been revised and fully updated and includes numerous entirely new entries. It also features expanded coverage of foreign language proverbs currently in use in English. With an emphasis on examples of usage, including the earliest written evidence of its use, this A-Z guide provides a thorough - and fascinating - history for every entry. Arranged in A-Z format and with a useful thematic index, A Dictionary of Proverbs is ideal for browsing and perfectly suited for quick reference. Look up your old favourites, learn punchy new expressions to get your point across, and find the answer to that crossword clue. Seeing is believing: find proverbs relevant to every aspect of life in this entertaining and informative collection.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191580015
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This unique and authoritative dictionary contains over 1,100 of the most widely used proverbs in English and uses research from the Oxford English Corpus, the world's largest language databank. This edition has been revised and fully updated and includes numerous entirely new entries. It also features expanded coverage of foreign language proverbs currently in use in English. With an emphasis on examples of usage, including the earliest written evidence of its use, this A-Z guide provides a thorough - and fascinating - history for every entry. Arranged in A-Z format and with a useful thematic index, A Dictionary of Proverbs is ideal for browsing and perfectly suited for quick reference. Look up your old favourites, learn punchy new expressions to get your point across, and find the answer to that crossword clue. Seeing is believing: find proverbs relevant to every aspect of life in this entertaining and informative collection.