Author: Ross H. Spencer
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595006566
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Lacy Lockington is “one thoroughly bewildered six-foot-one, 205-pound, 48-year-old ex-police detective with the damnedest case of snakebite he’d ever heard of.” He cruises the lower depths of Chicago in his weathered Pontiac, seeking some comfort from healthy dollops of Martell’s and from Edna Garson, the part-time cashier at Easheski’s Liquor Emporium. Lockington is entitled to a mild case of paranoia: he’s still trying to make sense of the knifing-murder of his true girlfriend, Julie Masters, when in the space of about a week, he tangles with four viscious miscreants and shoots them dead_pretty much in self defense. Stella Starbright, hard-hitting columnist for the Morning Sentinel, takes vigorous exception to Lockington’s action_in bold print. Then she walks into his life in person. “She was five-six or so, dark-haired, dark-eyed, and cuter than a termite’s night shirt...” Like that. Erika Elwood, nom de plume, Stella Starbright. Despite taking him to task, she presents the possibility of pleasant distraction for Lockington_until some of the other ladies who have written the column start turning up dead, and Lockington is quickly considered numero uno suspect... “Spencer’s Chicago crime novels [are] rather like Chandler filtered through Perelman.” —Booklist “Spencer delivers an earthy, hard-to-put-down yarn... combines humor and suspense until the last page.” —Sacramento Union Ross H. Spencer was born in Hughart, West Virginia and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. During World War II, he served with the 37th Infantry Division on New Georgia, on Bougainville, and in the Philippines. Following the war, he moved to Chicago to be near the Chicago Cubs, the ball club of his choice since 1932. He served again, this time with the Air Force during the Korean Emergency or “whatever it was.” Ross H. Spencer was the father of three wonderful daughters and the proud husband of Shirley, “the most beautiful lady on earth.” In 1987, he returned to Youngstown, Ohio, where he spent the remaining 11 years of his life.
The Fifth Script
Author: Ross H. Spencer
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595006566
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Lacy Lockington is “one thoroughly bewildered six-foot-one, 205-pound, 48-year-old ex-police detective with the damnedest case of snakebite he’d ever heard of.” He cruises the lower depths of Chicago in his weathered Pontiac, seeking some comfort from healthy dollops of Martell’s and from Edna Garson, the part-time cashier at Easheski’s Liquor Emporium. Lockington is entitled to a mild case of paranoia: he’s still trying to make sense of the knifing-murder of his true girlfriend, Julie Masters, when in the space of about a week, he tangles with four viscious miscreants and shoots them dead_pretty much in self defense. Stella Starbright, hard-hitting columnist for the Morning Sentinel, takes vigorous exception to Lockington’s action_in bold print. Then she walks into his life in person. “She was five-six or so, dark-haired, dark-eyed, and cuter than a termite’s night shirt...” Like that. Erika Elwood, nom de plume, Stella Starbright. Despite taking him to task, she presents the possibility of pleasant distraction for Lockington_until some of the other ladies who have written the column start turning up dead, and Lockington is quickly considered numero uno suspect... “Spencer’s Chicago crime novels [are] rather like Chandler filtered through Perelman.” —Booklist “Spencer delivers an earthy, hard-to-put-down yarn... combines humor and suspense until the last page.” —Sacramento Union Ross H. Spencer was born in Hughart, West Virginia and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. During World War II, he served with the 37th Infantry Division on New Georgia, on Bougainville, and in the Philippines. Following the war, he moved to Chicago to be near the Chicago Cubs, the ball club of his choice since 1932. He served again, this time with the Air Force during the Korean Emergency or “whatever it was.” Ross H. Spencer was the father of three wonderful daughters and the proud husband of Shirley, “the most beautiful lady on earth.” In 1987, he returned to Youngstown, Ohio, where he spent the remaining 11 years of his life.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595006566
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Lacy Lockington is “one thoroughly bewildered six-foot-one, 205-pound, 48-year-old ex-police detective with the damnedest case of snakebite he’d ever heard of.” He cruises the lower depths of Chicago in his weathered Pontiac, seeking some comfort from healthy dollops of Martell’s and from Edna Garson, the part-time cashier at Easheski’s Liquor Emporium. Lockington is entitled to a mild case of paranoia: he’s still trying to make sense of the knifing-murder of his true girlfriend, Julie Masters, when in the space of about a week, he tangles with four viscious miscreants and shoots them dead_pretty much in self defense. Stella Starbright, hard-hitting columnist for the Morning Sentinel, takes vigorous exception to Lockington’s action_in bold print. Then she walks into his life in person. “She was five-six or so, dark-haired, dark-eyed, and cuter than a termite’s night shirt...” Like that. Erika Elwood, nom de plume, Stella Starbright. Despite taking him to task, she presents the possibility of pleasant distraction for Lockington_until some of the other ladies who have written the column start turning up dead, and Lockington is quickly considered numero uno suspect... “Spencer’s Chicago crime novels [are] rather like Chandler filtered through Perelman.” —Booklist “Spencer delivers an earthy, hard-to-put-down yarn... combines humor and suspense until the last page.” —Sacramento Union Ross H. Spencer was born in Hughart, West Virginia and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. During World War II, he served with the 37th Infantry Division on New Georgia, on Bougainville, and in the Philippines. Following the war, he moved to Chicago to be near the Chicago Cubs, the ball club of his choice since 1932. He served again, this time with the Air Force during the Korean Emergency or “whatever it was.” Ross H. Spencer was the father of three wonderful daughters and the proud husband of Shirley, “the most beautiful lady on earth.” In 1987, he returned to Youngstown, Ohio, where he spent the remaining 11 years of his life.
The Development of the Late Phoenican Scripts
Author: Brian Peckham
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004385789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004385789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The Hebrew Scripts
Author: BIRNBAUM
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004677100
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004677100
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Henry V
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers
Author: James Thomas
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1136082050
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1136082050
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
TOAD Handbook, Portable Documents
Author: Bert Scalzo
Publisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0321649168
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
TOAD® Handbook, Second Edition, is the definitive, completely up-to-date guide to the newest version of TOAD, the world’s premier third-party Oracle utility. Packed with step-by-step recipes, screen snapshots, and hands-on exercises, this book brings together everything developers and DBAs need to maximize their productivity with TOAD in both administrative and development tasks. TOAD product architect Bert Scalzo and leading TOAD trainer Dan Hotka thoroughly cover every area of TOAD’s functionality, offering practical, proven solutions that can be applied immediately to leverage TOAD’s dramatically improved feature set. Comprehensive coverage includes TOAD setup and configuration Browsing databases and schemas Editing SQL and PL/SQL within TOAD Creating new databases Checking database health Performing common DBA tasks Reporting via standard and custom reports Optimizing database performance Throughout the text, the authors offer practical insights into each of TOAD’s most useful tools, from App Designer to Doc Generator, ER Diagrammer to Code Road Map. This book is the only current, comprehensive, and affordable guide to the latest version of TOAD–a must-have for any TOAD user.
Publisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0321649168
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
TOAD® Handbook, Second Edition, is the definitive, completely up-to-date guide to the newest version of TOAD, the world’s premier third-party Oracle utility. Packed with step-by-step recipes, screen snapshots, and hands-on exercises, this book brings together everything developers and DBAs need to maximize their productivity with TOAD in both administrative and development tasks. TOAD product architect Bert Scalzo and leading TOAD trainer Dan Hotka thoroughly cover every area of TOAD’s functionality, offering practical, proven solutions that can be applied immediately to leverage TOAD’s dramatically improved feature set. Comprehensive coverage includes TOAD setup and configuration Browsing databases and schemas Editing SQL and PL/SQL within TOAD Creating new databases Checking database health Performing common DBA tasks Reporting via standard and custom reports Optimizing database performance Throughout the text, the authors offer practical insights into each of TOAD’s most useful tools, from App Designer to Doc Generator, ER Diagrammer to Code Road Map. This book is the only current, comprehensive, and affordable guide to the latest version of TOAD–a must-have for any TOAD user.
Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books
Author: Pasquale Orsini
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110575590
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The volume contains a critical review of data, results and open problems concerning the principal Greek and Coptic majuscule bookhands, based on previous research of the author, revised and updated to offer an overview of the different graphic phenomena. Although the various chapters address the history of different types of scripts (i.e. biblical majuscule, sloping poitend majuscule, liturgical majuscule, epigraphic and monumental scripts), their juxtaposition allows us to identify common issues of the comparative method of palaeography. From an overall critical assessment of these aspects the impossibility of applying a unique historical paradigm to interpret the formal expressions and the history of the different bookhands comes up, due to the fact that each script follows different paths. Particular attention is also devoted to the use of Greek majuscules in the writing of ancient Christian books. A modern and critical awareness of palaeographic method may help to place the individual witnesses in the context of the main graphic trends, in the social and cultural environments in which they developed, and in a more accurate chronological framework.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110575590
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The volume contains a critical review of data, results and open problems concerning the principal Greek and Coptic majuscule bookhands, based on previous research of the author, revised and updated to offer an overview of the different graphic phenomena. Although the various chapters address the history of different types of scripts (i.e. biblical majuscule, sloping poitend majuscule, liturgical majuscule, epigraphic and monumental scripts), their juxtaposition allows us to identify common issues of the comparative method of palaeography. From an overall critical assessment of these aspects the impossibility of applying a unique historical paradigm to interpret the formal expressions and the history of the different bookhands comes up, due to the fact that each script follows different paths. Particular attention is also devoted to the use of Greek majuscules in the writing of ancient Christian books. A modern and critical awareness of palaeographic method may help to place the individual witnesses in the context of the main graphic trends, in the social and cultural environments in which they developed, and in a more accurate chronological framework.
Standard Languages and Multilingualism in European History
Author: Matthias Hüning
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027200556
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Explores the roots of Europe's struggle with multilingualism. This book argues that, over the centuries, the pursuit of linguistic homogeneity has become a central aspect of the mindset of Europeans. It offers an overview of the emergence of a standard language ideology and its relationship with ethnicity, territorial unity and social mobility
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027200556
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Explores the roots of Europe's struggle with multilingualism. This book argues that, over the centuries, the pursuit of linguistic homogeneity has become a central aspect of the mindset of Europeans. It offers an overview of the emergence of a standard language ideology and its relationship with ethnicity, territorial unity and social mobility
The Idea of Writing
Author: Alex de Voogt
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900421545X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This exploration of the versatility of writing systems highlights their complexity when used for more than one language. The approaches of authors from different academic traditions provide a varied and expert account.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900421545X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This exploration of the versatility of writing systems highlights their complexity when used for more than one language. The approaches of authors from different academic traditions provide a varied and expert account.
Before the God in this Place for Good Remembrance
Author: Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110301873
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This monograph is an investigation of Yahwistic votive practice during the Hellenistic period. The dedicatory inscriptions from the Yahweh temple on Mount Gerizim are analyzed in light of votive practice in Biblical literature and in general on the basis of a thorough terminological and theoretical discussion. A special focus is laid on remembrance formulae, which request the deity to remember the worshipper in return for a gift. These formulae cannot only be found at Gerizim, but also in other Semitic dedicatory inscriptions. Therefore these texts are interpreted in their broader cultural context, placed within a broad religious practice of dedicating gifts to the gods and leaving inscriptions in sanctuaries. Finally, the aspect of divine remembrance in the Hebrew Bible is explored and related to the materiality of the votive inscription. The research concludes that there is a perception of the divine behind this practice on Mount Gerizim that ties together the aspects of gift, remembrance and material presence. This ‘theology’ is echoed both in similar Semitic dedicatory inscriptions and in the Hebrew Bible.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110301873
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This monograph is an investigation of Yahwistic votive practice during the Hellenistic period. The dedicatory inscriptions from the Yahweh temple on Mount Gerizim are analyzed in light of votive practice in Biblical literature and in general on the basis of a thorough terminological and theoretical discussion. A special focus is laid on remembrance formulae, which request the deity to remember the worshipper in return for a gift. These formulae cannot only be found at Gerizim, but also in other Semitic dedicatory inscriptions. Therefore these texts are interpreted in their broader cultural context, placed within a broad religious practice of dedicating gifts to the gods and leaving inscriptions in sanctuaries. Finally, the aspect of divine remembrance in the Hebrew Bible is explored and related to the materiality of the votive inscription. The research concludes that there is a perception of the divine behind this practice on Mount Gerizim that ties together the aspects of gift, remembrance and material presence. This ‘theology’ is echoed both in similar Semitic dedicatory inscriptions and in the Hebrew Bible.