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| Author | : Tim Cahill |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 449 |
| Release | : 2011-03-09 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 030777841X |
In his latest tour of the earth's remote, exotic, and dismal places, the author of Road Fever and A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg sleeps with a grizzly bear, witnesses demonic possession in Bali, and survives a run-in with something called the Throne of Doom in Guatemala. Vivid and outrageously funny.
| Author | : Tim Cahill |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 371 |
| Release | : 2011-02-09 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 0307778398 |
The author of A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg and Pecked to Death by Ducks gives new meaning to the words "going to extremes" in this exhilarating--and frequently hilarious--collection of adventure travel writing. "Cahill . . . (writes) with the precision ofJohn McPhee and Joan Didion tempered by a Monty Pythonesque sense of the absurd."--San Diego Union-Tribune.
| Author | : Lorraine Adams |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2011-02-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307473376 |
A ridiculed night editor for a prestigious newspaper. An overburdened nuclear engineer. A female fighter pilot. A religiously impassioned young reporter. A sergeant major thrust into the responsibilities of a secretive command. Moving from a newsroom in the American capital to a cockpit over Afghanistan, from an Iranian cemetery to a military intelligence office in suburban Washington, The Room and The Chair by Lorraine Adams—award-winning author of Harbor—is an unforgettable, groundbreaking novel about the often overlooked actors in today’s dangerous world.
| Author | : J. Hayes Hurley |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 2017-02-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1483465888 |
A successful abstract painter now living in an artists' colony in upstate New York sits down with a short-story writer over a period of three days to discuss his life's work. During the talks, there emerges a joyful, jazzlike riff recalling the painter's fifty-year friendship with another abstract artist. The New York City art scene is featured along with tales of heartache and triumph.
| Author | : Luke Sullivan |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 499 |
| Release | : 2012-02-13 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1118237188 |
The classic (and irreverent) bestselling guide to creating great advertising Hey Whipple, Squeeze This has inspired a generation of ad students, copywriters, and young creatives to make their mark in the industry. But students need new guidance to ply their craft now in the digital world. This new fourth edition explains how to bring brand stories into interactive, dynamic places online, in addition to traditional television, radio, print, and outdoor ads. Creativity is still king, but this new edition contains: Important new chapters and updates that bring Whipple into the new digital world New content and examples for how to use social media and other emerging platforms Illustrate what's changing in the new world of advertising—and what isn't Hey Whipple, Squeeze This! will help sharpen your writing chops, unleash your creativity, and help raise the level of your work from hack to master craftsman.
| Author | : P.R. Wilkinson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 2991 |
| Release | : 2003-09-02 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1134474148 |
This fascinating collection of traditional metaphors and figures of speech, groups expressions according to theme. The second edition includes over 1,500 new entries, more information on first known usages, a new introduction and two expanded indexes. It will appeal to those interested in cultural history and the English language.
| Author | : Robert Campbell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 1987 |
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| Author | : K. Slama |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 971 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1461519071 |
Over 1,100 delegates from a hundred countries attended the 9th World Conference onTobaccoandHealth. Afterfivedaysofdebate, severalimportantresolutionswereadopted unanimously and will be landmarks in the fight against tobacco. This great success is due to three facts which emerged from the discussions: 1. Itappears clearlynowthattherisksassociated withtobaccoaremuchgreaterthan previously assumed. Out of two regular smokers, one will die from a tobacco related disease. 2. Reducing tobacco consumption can be achieved but the data collected in several countriesshowthatitrequiresaglobalstrategy. Thisstrategywasmuchdebatedduring theconference. Theresolutionsadoptedemphasizetheagreementofthedelegateson themainpoints. Actionto fight thegrowingepidemicoftobacco-attributabledisease and death involves convincing the general public, the medical community and decision-makers ofthe need to act for tobacco control. The most efficient tools for helping individuals never to start or successfully to stop using tobacco should be developed; effective tobacco control endeavors are required to counteractthe actions ofthe powerful and influential tobacco manufacturers. With the help and under the aegis ofWHO, DICC, IUATLD, ISFC, IOCD, and IUHPE, an international alliance for health and against tobacco shouldunite all those who are engaged in this fight.
| Author | : Dick Wilkinson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2013-01-11 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 113408529X |
This absorbing collection of metaphors includes a variety of expressions with figurative meanings, like similes, proverbs, slang and catchphrases. It is the result of a lifetime of work on dialect and metaphor and gives an overview of the folk wisdom expressed in figurative expressions. The author draws on his extensive contact with the rural cultures of Dorset, Cornwall, Yorkshire and Lancashire, but has also included a range of sayings from North America, Australia, Scotland and other English speaking countries. With revised contents and an improved index to make individual entries easier to find, the Concise can be used to check the meaning and the origin of an expression or to avoid mixed metaphors, anachronisms and incongruities. It is a joy to browse long after your original query has been answered.
| Author | : Peter Richard Wilkinson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 0415430844 |
This absorbing collection of metaphors includes a variety of expressions with figurative meanings, like similes, proverbs, slang and catchphrases. It is the result of a lifetime of work on dialect and metaphor and gives an overview of the folk wisdom expressed in figurative expressions. The author draws on his extensive contact with the rural cultures of Dorset, Cornwall, Yorkshire and Lancashire, but has also included a range of sayings from North America, Australia, Scotland and other English speaking countries. With revised contents and an improved index to make individual entries easier to find, the Concise can be used to check the meaning and the origin of an expression or to avoid mixed metaphors, anachronisms and incongruities. It is a joy to browse long after your original query has been answered.
