Author: Jesse Miller
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573627231
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Get Book Here
Book Description
This soulful play takes a raw, poetic look at the plight of onion farmers on the edge in the 1935 Oklahoma Dust Bowl. The Tidwell brothers and the Bumpinmeyer sisters explore young love, hard times and loss of family as the sky turns black and the onions die. When the sisters leave for Californee, a shocking truth hits the Tidwell farm and the boys are left with the relentless dust. Devastated, they follow the girls to the "land of milk an' honey" where, months later in a migrant camp in the grip of the Great Depression, they find the sisters buried in poverty and prostitution. The black secret of the Bumpinmeyer family is discovered. Skins are peeled in layers to reveal the sweet and the sour. Tragically, the dirt on these onion pickers never comes clean; the "land of plenty" grows nothing but the cries of dead hearts and broken Okies. Meanwhile, the devil sits in his shack, laughing. Winner of the 1999 American College Theatre Festival.
Author: Nancy Lee Jackson
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595479014
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Get Book Here
Book Description
Off The Top Onion Heads is a book of poems dedicated to all my friends especially Eunice and my children Rachael, Michele, Alvin Jr., and Judi Lynne that have been very inspirational to me through the years, the tears, joy, laughter, and pain. My cousin Phyllis gets a lot of credit for me writing this book because she used to eat onion sandwiches everyday and blow everybody away. I mean we would be running to get away from the kitchen, the house, anywhere she came with onion breath.
Author: Jenn Bennett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1665930322
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Get Book Here
Book Description
Budding sleuths Helena and her best friend Ben hire an insufferable ghostly guide named Grumbones to track down her recently deceased grandmother in the underworld.
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780304366361
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1600
Get Book Here
Book Description
With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
Author: Pat Cadigan
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575120266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Get Book Here
Book Description
Warning: Personalities for Sale. All the World's a role. In a world of brainsuckers and bodysnatchers, you can't take anything for granted. Not even your own identity. When Marva, a struggling Method actress, wakes up in a hologram pool in an exclusive priv club with fancy new clothes and plenty of money, she knows something is strange. When a memory of a murder starts tugging at her, she knows something is very strange, and that she'd better find out whose life she's living. Fast. Pursued by assassins from a mysterious Escort Service and renegade mind-pirates of every description, Marva must venture into the seamy Downs to find out who wrote the script of the most difficult role of her career. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best novel, 1995
Author: Ben Tish
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472982746
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Get Book Here
Book Description
Sicily is both at once a frugal peasant land with a simple robust cuisine, but also full of ornate glamour and extravagance. A most beautiful and complex contradiction in terms, Ben Tish unlocks the secrets of Sicily's culture and food within these pages, diving into its diverse tapestry of cultural influences. Sitting at the heart of the Mediterranean, between east and west, Europe and North Africa, the food of Sicily is full of citrus, almonds and a plethora of spices, mixing harmoniously with the simple indigenous olives, vines and wheat. You'll find the most delicious, fresh seafood on the coast and mouth-watering meat in land; but the two rarely mix. Packed full of vibrant flavours, this beautiful collection brings the food of Sicily to your table, with recipes ranging from delicious morsels and fritters to big couscous, rice and pasta dishes and an abundance of granitas, ice creams and desserts, all stunningly photographed. Recipes include: Saffron arancini Smoky artichokes with lemon and garlic Whole roasted squid Sicilian octopus and chickpea stew Aubergines stuffed with pork Roasted pork belly with fennel and sticky quinces Bitter chocolate torte Limoncello semifredo Dive in and experience this unique culinary heritage for yourself, bring the sights and sounds and aromas of this beautiful food to your home.
Author: Tom Dalzell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317625129
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Get Book Here
Book Description
The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume. Containing over 60,000 entries, this concise new edition of the authoritative work details the slang and unconventional English of from around the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge’s own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning. New to this second edition: a new preface noting slang trends of the last eight years over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia, reflecting important developments in language and culture new terms from the language of social networking from a range of digital communities including texting, blogs, Facebook, Twitter and online forums many entries now revised to include new dating and new glosses, ensuring maximum accuracy of content. The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.
Author: Neal R. Bevans
Publisher: Aspen Publishing
ISBN: 1543820735
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Get Book Here
Book Description
Business Law: A Digital Textbook is a concise, engaging introduction to business law that covers not only the theory but also the practical aspects of the law. This text shows students how vital the "law" part of business law is to their everyday lives. In a concise, readable format, Bevans covers all the essential topics, from the organization and structure of the U.S. court system, through the formation of contracts, remedies of parties and then other major areas of law that touch on business law. Through thoughtful pedagogy in every chapter and excellent end-of-chapter activities, this text is the perfect choice for shorter Business Law courses that emphasize the connection between theory and practice. Professors and students will benefit from: Concise and logical organization, divided into 7 parts: Introduction to Law; Contracts; Commercial Law and Transactions; Business Organizations; Agency and Employment Law; Consumer Protection and Bankruptcy; and Property Excellent pedagogy in every chapter that includes: Learning objectives Key terms set out in bold in the body of the text and defined immediately for the ease of student comprehension Figures and tables to illustrate crucial points, designed to accommodate different learning styles among students Well-written text incorporating real world examples that bring legal principles to life Case excerpts to help students develop analytical skills Extensive end-of-chapter questions, activities and assignments to hone students’ understanding. The answers are provided in the appendix to help students check their own work. The author’s experience of teaching business law for well over ten years that helps the subject come alive for the students.
Author: Victor Hehn
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027208786
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Get Book Here
Book Description
New edition, prepared with a bio-bibliographical account of Hehn and a survay of the research into Indo-European prehistory by James P. Mallory. It was Hehn who for the first time combined the tools of comparative linguistics and the direct historical approach in order to discover the origins of domesticated animals and cultivated plants in the ancient world, tracing their diffusion from one culture to another. Hehn abandoned his contemporaries'often idealized and nationalistic image of the ancient Indo-Europeans, seeking instead to reconstruct early Indo-European society in agreement with the ethnological research of his day.
Author: Mercedes Vidrine
Publisher: Claitor's Law Books and Publishing
ISBN: 9780875111261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Get Book Here
Book Description
