Ayresome Park Memories
Ayresome Park Memories

Author: Eric Paylor

Publisher:

Published: 2004-09

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781859834343

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Ayresome Park, home to Middlesbrough Football Club for most of the 20th century, will always have a special place in the hearts of followers of the club. It is now 10 years since the ground's closure, and it seems a fitting moment for the publication of this revised and updated edition of the best-selling Ayresome Park Memories, by Eric Paylor and John Wilson. As well as a new foreword by John Hendrie, the last player ever to score a goal at Ayresome Park, there is a new introduction and a photograph section showing what has happened to the site of the ground since the turnstiles were closed for ever back in 1995. An index has also been added for this new edition. In all the book is a comprehensive and fascinating look at Middlesbrough's history at Ayresome Park. The authors recreate great games from the club's past, tell the story of the stadium throughout its 92-year period as home to the heroes in red and white, and include the memories of legions of players and supporters who were the lifeblood of the club during the 20th century.A detailed statistical record of 'Boro's fortunes at Ayresome Park completes the picture - making this lovingly researched and written book a homage to a great club and a great stadium.

Middlemarch
Middlemarch

Author: George Elliott

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2009-03-09

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 1425040527

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An extraordinary masterpiece written from personal experience, Middlemarch is a deep psychological observation of human nature that revolves around the issues of love, jealousy, and obligation. Eliot's feminist views are apparent through the novel: she stresses the fact that women should control their own lives.

In Darkest England and the Way out
In Darkest England and the Way out

Author: General William Booth

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2019-09-25

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 3734081750

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Reproduction of the original: In Darkest England and the Way out by General William Booth

Bicycle Diaries
Bicycle Diaries

Author: David Byrne

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-09-28

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1101464399

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"...an engaging book: part diary, part manifesto." The Guardian A round-the-world bicycle tour with one of the most original artists of our day. Urban bicycling has become more popular than ever as recession-strapped, climate-conscious city dwellers reinvent basic transportation. In this wide-ranging memoir, artist/musician and co-founder of Talking Heads David Byrne--who has relied on a bike to get around New York City since the early 1980s--relates his adventures as he pedals through and engages with some of the world's major cities. From Buenos Aires to Berlin, he meets a range of people both famous and ordinary, shares his thoughts on art, fashion, music, globalization, and the ways that many places are becoming more bike-friendly. Bicycle Diaries is an adventure on two wheels conveyed with humor, curiosity, and humanity.

Through the Language Glass
Through the Language Glass

Author: Guy Deutscher

Publisher: Metropolitan Books

Published: 2010-08-31

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1429970111

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A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how—and whether—culture shapes language and language, culture Linguistics has long shied away from claiming any link between a language and the culture of its speakers: too much simplistic (even bigoted) chatter about the romance of Italian and the goose-stepping orderliness of German has made serious thinkers wary of the entire subject. But now, acclaimed linguist Guy Deutscher has dared to reopen the issue. Can culture influence language—and vice versa? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? Could our experience of the world depend on whether our language has a word for "blue"? Challenging the consensus that the fundaments of language are hard-wired in our genes and thus universal, Deutscher argues that the answer to all these questions is—yes. In thrilling fashion, he takes us from Homer to Darwin, from Yale to the Amazon, from how to name the rainbow to why Russian water—a "she"—becomes a "he" once you dip a tea bag into her, demonstrating that language does in fact reflect culture in ways that are anything but trivial. Audacious, delightful, and field-changing, Through the Language Glass is a classic of intellectual discovery.

Omoo
Omoo

Author: Herman Melville

Publisher:

Published: 1847

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13:

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"Following the commercial and critical success of his first book, Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Seas adventure-romances with Omoo. Melville's second book chronicles the narrator's involvement in a mutiny aboard a South Seas whaling vessel, his incarceration in a Tahitian jail, and then his wanderings as an omoo, or rover, on the island of Eimeo (Moorea). Based on Melville's personal experience as a sailor on a South Pacific whaleship, Omoo is a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century, filled with colorful characters and detailed descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia."--BOOK JACKET.