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Brolliology
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Author : Marion Rankine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Brolliology written by Marion Rankine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Umbrellas categories.
Humans have been making, using, perfecting, and decorating umbrellas for millennia - holding them over the heads of rulers, signalling class distinctions, and exploring their full imaginative potential in folk tales and novels. In the spirit of the best literary gift books, Brolliology is a beautifully designed and illustrated tour through literature and history.
Brolliology
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Author : Marion Rankine
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2017-11-07
Brolliology written by Marion Rankine and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
A fun, illustrated history of the umbrella's surprising place in life and literature Humans have been making, using, perfecting, and decorating umbrellas for millennia--holding them over the heads of rulers, signalling class distinctions, and exploring their full imaginative potential in folk tales and novels. In the spirit of the best literary gift books, Brolliology is a beautifully designed and illustrated tour through literature and history. It surprises us with the crucial role that the oft-overlooked umbrella has played over centuries--and not just in keeping us dry. Marion Rankine elevates umbrellas to their rightful place as an object worthy of philosophical inquiry. As Rankine points out, many others have tried. Derrida sought to find the meaning (or lack thereof) behind an umbrella mentioned in Nietzsche's notes, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote essays on the handy object, and Dickens used umbrellas as a narrative device for just about everything. She tackles the gender, class, and social connotations of carrying an umbrella and helps us realize our deep connection to this most forgettable everyday object--which we only think of when we don't have one.
The Dictionary Of Animal Languages
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Author : Heidi Sopinka
language : en
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Release Date : 2018-02-26
The Dictionary Of Animal Languages written by Heidi Sopinka and has been published by Scribe Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-26 with Fiction categories.
A thrillingly elegant yet raw evocation of a woman clawing her way to a creative life, inspired by the story of surrealist artist Leonora Carrington. We grant men a right to solitude. Why can’t we do the same for women? Born into a wealthy family in northern England and sent to boarding school to be educated by nuns, Ivory Frame rebels. She escapes to inter-war Paris, where she finds herself through art, and falls in with the most brilliantly bohemian set: the surrealists. Torn between an intense love affair with a married Russian painter and her soaring ambition to create, Ivory’s life is violently interrupted by the Second World War. She flees from Europe, leaving behind her friends, her art, and her love. Now over ninety, Ivory labours defiantly in the frozen north on her last, greatest work — a vast account of animal languages — alone except for her sharp research assistant, Skeet. And then unexpected news from the past arrives: this magnificently fervent, complex woman is told that she has a grandchild, despite never having had a child of her own …
Children Of Ash And Elm
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Author : Neil Price
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-08-25
Children Of Ash And Elm written by Neil Price and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-25 with History categories.
The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertise The Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology and religion, their material world. Known today for a stereotype of maritime violence, the Vikings exported new ideas, technologies, beliefs, and practices to the lands they discovered and the peoples they encountered, and in the process were themselves changed. From Eirík Bloodaxe, who fought his way to a kingdom, to Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, the most traveled woman in the world, Children of Ash and Elm is the definitive history of the Vikings and their time.
White Tears
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Author : Hari Kunzru
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2017-03-14
White Tears written by Hari Kunzru and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-14 with Fiction categories.
'Like Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch... A stunning novel of ideas that becomes a page-turning thriller... ' Stylist 'A fast-paced, ambitious, hallucinatory mystery' Publishers Weekly A dizzying, nail-biting ghost story about modern America from the bestselling author of The Impressionist Two twenty-something New Yorkers: Seth, awkward and shy, and Carter, the trust fund hipster. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Rising fast on the New York producing scene, they stumble across an old blues song long forgotten by history -- and everything starts to unravel. Carter is drawn far down a path that allows no return, and Seth has no choice but to follow his friend into the darkness. Electrifying, subversive and wildly original, White Tears is a ghost story and a love story, a story about lost innocence and historical guilt. This unmissable novel penetrates the heart of a nation's darkness, encountering a suppressed history of greed, envy, revenge and exploitation, and holding a mirror up to the true nature of America today.
You Had One Job
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Author : Beverly L. Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Release Date : 2016-07-12
You Had One Job written by Beverly L. Jenkins and has been published by Andrews McMeel Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-12 with Humor categories.
If someone hangs a stop sign upside down or paints crooked lines on a highway, count on someone else to snap a photo and post it online. You Had One Job! is a collection of hilarious pictures features job-related disasters and general ineptitudes. All of these new, never-before-seen images will be accompanied by witty captions.
The Errand
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Author : Leo LaFleur
language : en
Publisher: Errand
Release Date : 2019-08-19
The Errand written by Leo LaFleur and has been published by Errand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-19 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The second volume in this gorgeously illustrated graphic novel series that is set in a dark, Brothers' Grimm-style fairy-tale world.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Author : Jennifer S. Uglow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Elizabeth Gaskell written by Jennifer S. Uglow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Women authors, English categories.
Umbrellas And Their History
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Author : William Sangster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
Umbrellas And Their History written by William Sangster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with Parachutes categories.
Strange Beasts Of China
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Author : Yan Ge
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2021-07-13
Strange Beasts Of China written by Yan Ge and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-13 with Fiction categories.
A New York Times Editors' Choice and Notable Book of 2021 "Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror of 2021"—The Washington Post From one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Chinese literature, an uncanny and playful novel that blurs the line between human and beast… In the fictional Chinese city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness—save their greenish skin, serrated earlobes, and strange birthmarks. Aided by her elusive former professor and his enigmatic assistant, our narrator sets off to document each beast, and is slowly drawn deeper into a mystery that threatens her very sense of self. Part detective story, part metaphysical enquiry, Strange Beasts of China engages existential questions of identity, humanity, love and morality with whimsy and stylistic verve.