Author: Jay Khan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648963226
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Jay, the restless wanderer, rocks the lives of two strangers by introducing them to the strange world he has stumbled across-the streets of Melbourne. Rick, the bookworm, is torn away from his mundane academic life. Johnny, the paranoid poet, is released from his small-town worries. When they hit the streets together, twisted tales rise from the gutters. The bathing man. The cardboard preacher. The mute who isn't a mute. The trio cast aside everything they know, embarking on a journey to meet the city's neglected souls. There's a Tale to This City is an offbeat portrait of Melbourne that combines poetry, narrative prose and toilet paper diary entries, recollecting the strange experiences of three writers, who came together to learn the art of listening.
There's A Tale To This City
Author: Jay Khan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648963226
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Jay, the restless wanderer, rocks the lives of two strangers by introducing them to the strange world he has stumbled across-the streets of Melbourne. Rick, the bookworm, is torn away from his mundane academic life. Johnny, the paranoid poet, is released from his small-town worries. When they hit the streets together, twisted tales rise from the gutters. The bathing man. The cardboard preacher. The mute who isn't a mute. The trio cast aside everything they know, embarking on a journey to meet the city's neglected souls. There's a Tale to This City is an offbeat portrait of Melbourne that combines poetry, narrative prose and toilet paper diary entries, recollecting the strange experiences of three writers, who came together to learn the art of listening.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648963226
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Jay, the restless wanderer, rocks the lives of two strangers by introducing them to the strange world he has stumbled across-the streets of Melbourne. Rick, the bookworm, is torn away from his mundane academic life. Johnny, the paranoid poet, is released from his small-town worries. When they hit the streets together, twisted tales rise from the gutters. The bathing man. The cardboard preacher. The mute who isn't a mute. The trio cast aside everything they know, embarking on a journey to meet the city's neglected souls. There's a Tale to This City is an offbeat portrait of Melbourne that combines poetry, narrative prose and toilet paper diary entries, recollecting the strange experiences of three writers, who came together to learn the art of listening.
Printed Commonplace-books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought
Author: Ann Moss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The commonplace-book mapped and resourced Renaissance culture's moral thinking, its accepted strategies of argumentation, its rhetoric, and its deployment of knowledge. In this ground-breaking study Ann Moss investigates the commonplace-book's medieval antecedents, its methodology and use as promulgated by its humanist advocates, its varieties as exemplified in its printed manifestations, and the reasons for its gradual decline in the seventeenth century.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The commonplace-book mapped and resourced Renaissance culture's moral thinking, its accepted strategies of argumentation, its rhetoric, and its deployment of knowledge. In this ground-breaking study Ann Moss investigates the commonplace-book's medieval antecedents, its methodology and use as promulgated by its humanist advocates, its varieties as exemplified in its printed manifestations, and the reasons for its gradual decline in the seventeenth century.
The Raconteur's Commonplace Book
Author: Kate Milford
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 1328466906
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
"Nothing is what it seems and there's always more than one side to the story as a group of strangers trapped in an inn slowly reveal their secrets in this new standalone mystery set in the world of the best-selling Greenglass House. The rain hasn't stopped for a week, and the twelve guests of the Blue Vein Tavern are trapped by flooded roads and the rising Skidwrack River. Among them are a ship's captain, tattooed twins, a musician, and a young girl traveling on her own. To pass the time, they begin to tell stories--each a different type of folklore--that eventually reveal more about their own secrets than they intended. As the rain continues to pour down--an uncanny, unnatural amount of rain--the guests begin to realize that the entire city is in danger, and not just from the flood. But they have only their stories, and one another, to save them. Will it be enough?"--Jacket flap.
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 1328466906
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
"Nothing is what it seems and there's always more than one side to the story as a group of strangers trapped in an inn slowly reveal their secrets in this new standalone mystery set in the world of the best-selling Greenglass House. The rain hasn't stopped for a week, and the twelve guests of the Blue Vein Tavern are trapped by flooded roads and the rising Skidwrack River. Among them are a ship's captain, tattooed twins, a musician, and a young girl traveling on her own. To pass the time, they begin to tell stories--each a different type of folklore--that eventually reveal more about their own secrets than they intended. As the rain continues to pour down--an uncanny, unnatural amount of rain--the guests begin to realize that the entire city is in danger, and not just from the flood. But they have only their stories, and one another, to save them. Will it be enough?"--Jacket flap.
A Certain World
Author: Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571119400
Category : Commonplace-books
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Poesi og prosa - og meget andet - i udvalg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571119400
Category : Commonplace-books
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Poesi og prosa - og meget andet - i udvalg
The Rhetoric Companion
Author: Douglas Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781591280781
Category : Academic writing
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
The five teeny tiny children who live in a dollhouse--Poppy, who wears a crown, Fern, the twins Spike and Reed, and Baby Rose--and their wheeled guard dog, Burr, encounter a cat, a bat, and other creatures, and search for Baby Rose.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781591280781
Category : Academic writing
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
The five teeny tiny children who live in a dollhouse--Poppy, who wears a crown, Fern, the twins Spike and Reed, and Baby Rose--and their wheeled guard dog, Burr, encounter a cat, a bat, and other creatures, and search for Baby Rose.
The Accidental Creative
Author: Todd Henry
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1591846242
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Many of us assume that our creative process is beyond our ability to influence, and pay attention to it only when it isn't working properly. For the most part, we go about our daily tasks and everything just "works." Until it doesn't. Adding to this lack of understanding is the rapidly accelerating pace of work. Each day we are face escalating expectations and a continual squeeze to do more with less. We are asked to produce an ever-increasing amount of brilliance in an ever-shrinking amount of time. There is an unspoken (or spoken!) expectation that we'll be accessible 24/7, and as a result we frequently feel like we're "always on." Now business creativity expert Todd Henry explains how to unleash your creative potential. Whether you're a creative by trade or an "accidental creative," this book will help you quickly and effectively integrate new ideas into your daily life.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1591846242
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Many of us assume that our creative process is beyond our ability to influence, and pay attention to it only when it isn't working properly. For the most part, we go about our daily tasks and everything just "works." Until it doesn't. Adding to this lack of understanding is the rapidly accelerating pace of work. Each day we are face escalating expectations and a continual squeeze to do more with less. We are asked to produce an ever-increasing amount of brilliance in an ever-shrinking amount of time. There is an unspoken (or spoken!) expectation that we'll be accessible 24/7, and as a result we frequently feel like we're "always on." Now business creativity expert Todd Henry explains how to unleash your creative potential. Whether you're a creative by trade or an "accidental creative," this book will help you quickly and effectively integrate new ideas into your daily life.
Jefferson's Legal Commonplace Book
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691187894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
As a law student and young lawyer in the 1760s, Thomas Jefferson began writing abstracts of English common law reports. Even after abandoning his law practice, he continued to rely on his legal commonplace book to document the legal, historical, and philosophical reading that helped shape his new role as a statesman. Indeed, he made entries in the notebook in preparation for his mission to France, as president of the United States, and near the end of his life. This authoritative volume is the first to contain the complete text of Jefferson’s notebook. With more than 900 entries on such thinkers as Beccaria, Montesquieu, and Lord Kames, Jefferson’s Legal Commonplace Book is a fascinating chronicle of the evolution of Jefferson’s searching mind. Jefferson’s abstracts of common law reports, most published here for the first time, indicate his deepening commitment to whig principles and his incisive understanding of the political underpinnings of the law. As his intellectual interests and political aspirations evolved, so too did the content and composition of his notetaking. Unlike the only previous edition of Jefferson’s notebook, published in 1926, this edition features a verified text of Jefferson’s entries and full annotation, including essential information on the authors and books he documents. In addition, the volume includes a substantial introduction that places Jefferson’s text in legal, historical, and biographical context.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691187894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
As a law student and young lawyer in the 1760s, Thomas Jefferson began writing abstracts of English common law reports. Even after abandoning his law practice, he continued to rely on his legal commonplace book to document the legal, historical, and philosophical reading that helped shape his new role as a statesman. Indeed, he made entries in the notebook in preparation for his mission to France, as president of the United States, and near the end of his life. This authoritative volume is the first to contain the complete text of Jefferson’s notebook. With more than 900 entries on such thinkers as Beccaria, Montesquieu, and Lord Kames, Jefferson’s Legal Commonplace Book is a fascinating chronicle of the evolution of Jefferson’s searching mind. Jefferson’s abstracts of common law reports, most published here for the first time, indicate his deepening commitment to whig principles and his incisive understanding of the political underpinnings of the law. As his intellectual interests and political aspirations evolved, so too did the content and composition of his notetaking. Unlike the only previous edition of Jefferson’s notebook, published in 1926, this edition features a verified text of Jefferson’s entries and full annotation, including essential information on the authors and books he documents. In addition, the volume includes a substantial introduction that places Jefferson’s text in legal, historical, and biographical context.
The Literary Life Commonplace Book
Author: Cindy Rollins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944435103
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Literary Life Commonplace Book (Ivory) features the Literary Life Podcast commonplace book with an ivory fabric look on the cover and a beautiful coordinating interior design. In the book, podcast hosts and authors Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins, and Thomas Banks guide readers in creating a commonplace habit of their own. Also included: the podcast's annual reading challenges, archive episodes reading selections, commonplace quotations shared by the hosts, plus space for readers to track their own reading, make their own commonplace pages, keep track of books they would like to read, and to write book reviews. As an extra bonus, the podcast hosts offer their own suggestions for possible books to read for the annual Reading Challenge. The Literary Life Commonplace Books are available in a variety of designs: The Literary Life Commonplace Book (Mocha) ISBN: 978-1-944435-09-7 The Literary Life Commonplace Book (Fairy) ISBN: 978-1-944435-11-0 The Literary Life Commonplace Book (Succulent) ISBN: 978-1-944435-12-7 The Literary Life Commonplace Book (Ivory) ISBN: 978-1-944435-10-3 The Literary Life KIDS Commonplace Book (Dragon Fire) ISBN: 978-1-944435-13-4 The Literary Life KIDS Commonplace Book (Colored Pencils) ISBN: 978-1-944435-14-1
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944435103
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Literary Life Commonplace Book (Ivory) features the Literary Life Podcast commonplace book with an ivory fabric look on the cover and a beautiful coordinating interior design. In the book, podcast hosts and authors Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins, and Thomas Banks guide readers in creating a commonplace habit of their own. Also included: the podcast's annual reading challenges, archive episodes reading selections, commonplace quotations shared by the hosts, plus space for readers to track their own reading, make their own commonplace pages, keep track of books they would like to read, and to write book reviews. As an extra bonus, the podcast hosts offer their own suggestions for possible books to read for the annual Reading Challenge. The Literary Life Commonplace Books are available in a variety of designs: The Literary Life Commonplace Book (Mocha) ISBN: 978-1-944435-09-7 The Literary Life Commonplace Book (Fairy) ISBN: 978-1-944435-11-0 The Literary Life Commonplace Book (Succulent) ISBN: 978-1-944435-12-7 The Literary Life Commonplace Book (Ivory) ISBN: 978-1-944435-10-3 The Literary Life KIDS Commonplace Book (Dragon Fire) ISBN: 978-1-944435-13-4 The Literary Life KIDS Commonplace Book (Colored Pencils) ISBN: 978-1-944435-14-1
The Weird
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1466803193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2482
Book Description
From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won't find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. The Weird features 110 stories by an all-star cast, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners: including William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon. The Weird is the winner of the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1466803193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2482
Book Description
From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won't find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. The Weird features 110 stories by an all-star cast, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners: including William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon. The Weird is the winner of the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Commonplace Book
Author: E. M. Forster
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804714228
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A Stanford University Press classic.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804714228
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A Stanford University Press classic.