Stroppy

Stroppy

Author: Marc Bell

Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly

Published: 2021-06-29

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 1770465820

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The first full length graphic novel from the author of Shrimpy and Paul Enter the strange and wordplay-loving world of cartoonist and fine artist Marc Bell (Shrimpy and Paul, Hot Potatoe), where the All-Star Schnauzer Band runs things and tiny beings hold signs saying “It’s under control.” Our hapless hero Stroppy is minding his business, working a menial job in one of Monsieur Moustache’s factories, when a muscular fellah named Sean blocks up the assembly line. Sean’s there to promote an All-Star Schnauzer Band-organized songwriting contest, which he does enthusiastically, and at the expense of Stroppy’s livelihood, home, and face. In hopes for a cash prize, Stroppy submits a work by his friend Clancy The Poet to the contest. Mishaps and hilarity ensue and Stroppy is forced to go deep into the heart of Schnauzer territory to rescue his poet friend. Stroppy is Marc Bell’s triumphant return to comics; it’s also his first full-length graphic novella, one that thrums with jokes, hashtags, and made-up song lyrics. Densely detailed not-so-secret underground societies, little robots, and heavy weight humdingers leap off the page in full color. With Stroppy, Bell continues to explode the divide between fine art, doodling, and comics.


Stone Wall Freedom

Stone Wall Freedom

Author: David Lee Tucker

Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group

Published: 2010-10

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1936198282

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In 1749, pirate captain Giddy Gilcox and the crew of the Rogue Flattery commandeer a Spanish galley, intent on plundering its cargo, killing all aboard, and scuttling the ship.Gilcox discovers, however, that the ship's hold is filled with human cargo—African tribal people, enslaved workers bound for Spanish America. Gilcox's crew bristles--they've heard stories of Black Sam Bellamy meeting his death after overtaking a slave ship.Later, Gilcox captures not only a fortune in gold but also Helen Tanner and her young son. Upon reaching Block Island, the pirates anchor the Rogue Flattery and bury their treasure, but the feeling of dread from the Spanish slave ship haunts Gilcox.Could the spirit of the slave ship be responsible for the nor'easter that blows in as they prepare to leave the island? Building on Block Island's history of pirate legend and lore, Tucker has created a story at once thrilling and poignant, full of evocative language, as mystical and magical as Block Island itself.


The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure

The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure

Author: Misha Becker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-04-03

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1107007844

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This book explains how children's early ability to distinguish between animate and inanimate nouns helps them acquire complex sentence structure. The theoretical claims of the book expand the well-known hypotheses of syntactic and semantic bootstrapping, resulting in greater coverage of the core principles of language acquisition.


Disciple of a Dark God

Disciple of a Dark God

Author: Edmund Glasby

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2010-10-21

Total Pages: 617

ISBN-13: 1848763700

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Assassin, cultist, zealot; his sole aim in life is to serve the evil god who enabled him to exact his revenge. Satiated by this act, but forever bitter and cynical, Everus does whatever is required by the cult, and more importantly by Xethorn, who contacts him directly. As far as Everus is aware, he has already killed those responsible for his downfall and asks only to repay his deity. To this end, and with assistance from a grave- robbing thief with his own agenda, he seeks the wards which will allow Xethorn to gain supremacy over the world. Arrogant, charismatic and cold-hearted, Everus begins to realise that even his cynical view of people is not dark enough, as he eventually discovers the true extent to which he has been manipulated. Driven by the desire for vengeance, Everus stalks through his treacherous, unsavoury but sometimes blackly comical world in pursuit of the means to free his imprisoned god. Disciple of a Dark God is a dark fantasy novel that does not pit good against evil, love does not triumph and loyalty is not rewarded.


Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces

Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces

Author: Andreas Trotzke

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1614517908

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Syntactic complexity has always been a matter of intense investigation in formal linguistics. Since complex syntax is clearly evidenced by sentential embedding and since embedding of one clause/phrase in another is taken to signal recursivity of the grammar, the capacity of computing syntactic complexity is of central interest to the recent hypothesis that syntactic recursion is the defining property of natural language. In the light of more recent claims according to which complex syntax is not a universal property of all living languages, the issue of how to detect and define syntactic complexity has been revived with a combination of classical and new arguments. This volume contains contributions about the formal complexity of natural language, about specific issues of clausal embedding, and about syntactic complexity in terms of grammar-external interfaces in the domain of language acquisition.


Tales from the Sunshine State

Tales from the Sunshine State

Author: Borry Porter

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2015-08-12

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1514461935

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This is the fourth foray into the author's life experiences and this time the family unexpectedly fly across the Atlantic to spend a glorious time in Florida. It was unexpected because when they went to book the holiday their intended destination was Egypt! Florida was booked as a once-in-a-lifetime holiday but they all loved it so much that they returned every year for over twenty years, until Borry became too unwell to travel such a distance. Borry relates tales of the mountains of food, travel and getting lost, villas vs. hotels and of course the wonderful attractions. Welcome to the trans-Atlantic fun!


Stroppy Poppy

Stroppy Poppy

Author: Sue Graves

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 23

ISBN-13: 9780749668938

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Poppy is always cross. Everyone calls her Stroppy Poppy. Then, one day, she gets a surprise!


From Brain to Toe and Beyond

From Brain to Toe and Beyond

Author: George Same

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2008-10-30

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1467019305

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This book is a collection of three scripts. The first is the Brain Game. This concerns the efforts of a short-sighted, freelance, charlatan surgeon, to bring his method of brain transplantation to the Worlds' attention. The trouble is nobody takes him seriously. Therefore he has to work surreptiously and take funds from dodgy financial wheeler-dealers. Then there is the story of a depressed, unemployed actor. This man is desperate to go out with his attractive flatmate. In his desire to impress her, heperforms a ventriloquist act with his big toe. She loves it. Unfortunately her love only extends to his toe and not beyond. She persuades him to go on stage with his act, which is a great success. In the meantime shemakes plans, along with others,to run off with the actor's toe, and break up the showbiz partnership of miserable,sulky personand bodily part.But events do not quite pan out as expected. Finally, there is the story of three upwardly mobile friends. They believe they have finally acheived their goal of middle class, respectablilty when they are invited to a wine and cheese party in Hampstead. Unfortunately the household turns out to be a den of vampires.Two escape, butthe sporty oneis kidnapped. They go to enlist the help of a fearless vampire hunter. But end up with a drunken old reprobate to guide them. They eventually kill the vampires and retrieve their friend, by luck rather than judgement. Along the way they learn some shocking truths about Nineteenth Century Liberals, the class sytem, history, and why gardeners tend to be werewolves.


My Candle Burns

My Candle Burns

Author: Frederick Stephani

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2014-08-18

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1590774612

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This absorbing tale of adventure begins as the Great War draws to a close, and our young hero, accustomed to fighting for his life, must now seek direction and purpose for that life. Born to a high position and great wealth, having lived an idyllic childhood, he finds himself a disillusioned wreck after war and revolution have swept away the glittering advantages. He faces his plight without hope or ambition, and takes to living by his wits. Here is a vivid description if Europe during its maddest hour—the inflation. An erotic love affair, a romantic marriage with a tragic ending, political intrigue terminated by a firing squad; then Paris and the theatrical world, and the sadly ludicrous business of selling titles for the bankrupt nobility. From Paris, our hero sets his course to become a fortune hunter in South America; a stoker; a partner in the manufacture of a Central American revolution; a purser on a ship; the intimate guest of a queen. All the experiences of an aimless, restless drifter, living precariously and intensely but getting nowhere, lead finally to what he has been unconsciously looking for—something that revives his courage to live.