Between Two Worlds: The Account of a Jet-Setting Vagrant

Between Two Worlds: The Account of a Jet-Setting Vagrant

Author: Leo Anthony

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-12-05

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1291234470

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This is a personal, reflective and occasionally humorous recollection of the author's adventures and nomadic life, principally in the UK but with two forays to Southern Africa. Born in Britain to Rhodesian parents at the end of that country's tumultuous civil war he was raised in a fairly peaceful and prosperous Zimbabwe. The narrative journey encompasses not only the present but the past. He does his best to make an objective assessment of modern Britain whilst elaborating on just what Zimbabwe (and South Africa) means to him, and the conflicting senses of identity and purpose in the homeland of his heart of which he is no longer a citizen. In his quest for answers on his travels through the UK he surveys the cultural and political landscape of England today, revisits his birthplace in Ealing, and traverses the southwest of England in search of work. Circumstance draws him to his estranged uncle's abode in the coastal city of Plymouth where the past and present collide unexpectedly.


Oxford Thesaurus of English

Oxford Thesaurus of English

Author: Maurice Waite

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2009-08-13

Total Pages: 1074

ISBN-13: 0199560811

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"The leading single-volume English thesaurus explores the richness of the English language with hundreds of thousands of synonyms and antonyms, and thousands of example sentences drawn from the Oxford English Corpus; finds the word you need quickly with carefully chosen and arranged synonyms; broadens your vocabulary and finds solutions to word puzzles and crosswords with hundreds of thematic word lists; and helps express yourself more accurately with hundreds of 'Choose the Right Word' boxes exploring the difference between similar words." --Book Jacket.


Other Worlds Than These

Other Worlds Than These

Author: John Adams

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2012-06-26

Total Pages: 575

ISBN-13: 1597804339

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What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world? We can all imagine such “other worlds”—be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder—but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass to C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been collected in a single volume—until now.


Weekly World News

Weekly World News

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1989-12-19

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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Rooted in the creative success of over 30 years of supermarket tabloid publishing, the Weekly World News has been the world's only reliable news source since 1979. The online hub www.weeklyworldnews.com is a leading entertainment news site.


Repetition

Repetition

Author: Peter Handke

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 1988-06-01

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1466807016

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Set in 1960, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's Repetition tells of Filib Kobal's journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his missing brother, Gregor. He is armed only with two of Gregor's books: a copy book from agricultural school, and a Slovenian - German dictionary, in which Gregor has marked certain words. The resulting investigation of the laws of language and naming becomes a transformative investigation of himself and the world around him. "Handke's eminence, displayed in a substantial oeuvre of plays, novels and poems, is reaffirmed brilliantly by [Repetition]." - Publishers Weekly


The Unsettling of America

The Unsettling of America

Author: Wendell Berry

Publisher: Turtleback Books

Published: 1996-03-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9781417629510

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A critical inquiry into the ways Americans have exploited and continue to exploit the land that sustains them, tracing attitudes toward and methods of farming from the eighteenth century to the present


Time Out Film Guide

Time Out Film Guide

Author: John Pym

Publisher: Time Out Guides

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 1640

ISBN-13: 9780140294149

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This is an aphabetical critical guide to films, based on Time-Out reviews since the mid-1980s. It covers every area of world cinema, including: classic silents and 1930s comedies, documentaries and the avant garde, French or Japanese, the Hollywood mainstream and B-movie horrors. Features include cast lists and other key creative personnel, more than 110 obituary notes from 2001/2002 and indexes covering film by country, genre, subject, director and actor. This new edition includes a new Time Out readers' top 100 film poll, plus 2001/2002 Oscar and BAFTA awards, as well as prizes from the Berlin, Venice and Cannes festivals.