Full House

Full House

Author: Stephen Jay Gould

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011-10

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0674061616

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Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this “full house” of variation, and not as the progress or degeneration of an average value, or single thing.


House Full

House Full

Author: Lakshmi Srinivas

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-08-31

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 022636173X

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India is the largest producer and consumer of feature films in the world, far outstripping Hollywood in the number of movies released and tickets sold every year. Cinema quite simply dominates Indian popular culture, and has for many decades exerted an influence that extends from clothing trends to music tastes to everyday conversations, which are peppered with dialogue quotes. With House Full, Lakshmi Srinivas takes readers deep into the moviegoing experience in India, showing us what it’s actually like to line up for a hot ticket and see a movie in a jam-packed theater with more than a thousand seats. Building her account on countless trips to the cinema and hundreds of hours of conversation with film audiences, fans, and industry insiders, Srinivas brings the moviegoing experience to life, revealing a kind of audience that, far from passively consuming the images on the screen, is actively engaged with them. People talk, shout, whistle, cheer; others sing along, mimic, or dance; at times audiences even bring some of the ritual practices of Hindu worship into the cinema, propitiating the stars onscreen with incense and camphor. The picture Srinivas paints of Indian filmgoing is immersive, fascinating, and deeply empathetic, giving us an unprecedented understanding of the audience’s lived experience—an aspect of Indian film studies that has been largely overlooked.


The Full Moon at the Napping House

The Full Moon at the Napping House

Author: Audrey Wood

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 0544308328

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In this cumulative tale, a chirping cricket calms a worried mouse, a prowling cat, and other restless creatures, helping them to finally fall asleep.


Otto Tattercoat and the Forest of Lost Things

Otto Tattercoat and the Forest of Lost Things

Author: Matilda Woods

Publisher: Scholastic UK

Published: 2020-02-06

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1407185098

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An enchanting, wintry middle grade adventure for fans of Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Abi Elphinstone. Otto lives in the frozen city of Hodeldorf, where an eternal winter has fallen. When his mother goes missing one morning, he must join forces with the Tattercoats, a gang of brave orphans, to find her. They will journey into a dark forest where witches lurk and sun dragons lie sleeping, on a heart-racing adventure that will chill you to the bone.


A House Full of Daughters

A House Full of Daughters

Author: Juliet Nicolson

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2016-06-14

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0374715327

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A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita Sackville-West, her mother’s Tory-conventional background. But then Juliet, a distinguished historian, started to question. As she did so, she sifted fact from fiction, uncovering details and secrets long held just out of sight. A House Full of Daughters takes us through seven generations of women. In the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-siecle Washington D.C., an English boarding school during the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, the knife-edge that was New York City in the 1980s, these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right, but also as part of who she is and where she has come from. A House Full of Daughters is one woman’s investigation into the nature of family, memory, and the past. As Juliet finds uncomfortable patterns reflected in these distant and more recent versions of herself, she realizes her challenge is to embrace the good and reject the hazards that have trapped past generations.


A House Full of Fortunes!

A House Full of Fortunes!

Author: Judy Duarte

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2014-03-18

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0373658052

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A family-focused cowboy falls hard for the most single gal in town! USA TODAY bestselling author Judy Duarte returns with a new installment of The Fortunes of Texas: Welcome to Horseback Hollow! Toby Fortune Jones has no problem with commitment. He's committed to his ranch, to his family and to the three foster children he's taken in! Lately, though, he can't seem to stop thinking about making a little time for dating. Specifically, one very particular, blue-eyed single gal... Twenty-four years old and Angie Edwards still can't figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. She's tried her hand at everything--even helping Toby out with his adorable brood on occasion. Folks in Horseback Hollow have called her the Queen of First Dates, but now she thinks she might have met her match in the sexy cowboy! Is she ready for true love--and a full house?


A House Full of Females

A House Full of Females

Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 0307594904

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From the author of "A Midwife's Tale", "House Full of Females" is a revelatory, nuanced and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive and determination


A House Full of Hope

A House Full of Hope

Author: Missy Tippens

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2012-01-24

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0373877269

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Before becoming a Christian, Mark Ryker ran with a bad crowd and broke hearts. Including his father's. Now a successful businessman, Mark has come home to Corinthia, Georgia, to make amends. But no one will forgive him. So when the widowed mother of four renting his dad's run-down house needs help fixing up the place, Mark gets to work. Pretty Hannah Hughes and her sweet kids have him longing to be part of the clan, but Hannah isn't ready to let go of the past. Still, they are working together on a house full of hope--and that's all Mark needs.


Paul and the House Full of Donuts

Paul and the House Full of Donuts

Author: Starla Howard Davis

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2010-08

Total Pages: 29

ISBN-13: 1616632704

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His mother told him, 'The recipe makes a lot. Don't double the recipe!' After she left, he decided not just to double the recipe but to quadruple it! Paul and the House Full of Donuts is the true story of a boy whose love of donuts leads him on a mischievous yet innocent cooking adventure.