Author: Great Britain. Diplomatic Service Administration OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, British
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Diplomatic Service List
Author: Great Britain. Diplomatic Service Administration OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, British
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Thom Gunn
Author: Michael NottPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721378
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
A no-holds-barred biography of the great poet and sexual rebel, who could “give the dead a voice, make them sing” (Hilton Als, The New Yorker). Thom Gunn was not a confessional poet, and he withheld much, but inseparable from his rigorous, formal poetry was a ravenous, acute experience of life and death. Raised in Kent, England, and educated at Cambridge, Gunn found a home in San Francisco, where he documented the city’s queerness, the hippie mentality (and drug use) of the sixties, and the tragedy and catastrophic impact of the AIDS crisis in the eighties and beyond. As Jeremy Lybarger wrote in The New Republic, the author of Moly and The Man with Night Sweats was “an agile poet who renovated tradition to accommodate the rude litter of modernity.” Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life chronicles, for the first time, the largely undocumented life of this revolutionary poet. Michael Nott, a coeditor of The Letters of Thom Gunn, draws on letters, diaries, notebooks, interviews, and Gunn’s poetry to create a portrait as vital as the man himself. Nott writes with insight and intimacy about the great sweep of Gunn’s life: his traditional childhood in England; his mother’s suicide; the mind-opening education he received at Cambridge, reading Shakespeare and John Donne; his decades in San Francisco and with his life partner, Mike Kitay; and his visceral experience of sex, drugs, and loss. Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life is a long-awaited, landmark study of one of England and America’s most innovative poets.
Pulaski County Virginia Heritage 2003
Author: USS Antietam
Author: Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563116855
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Citadel Alumni Association
Author: Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563118777
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
King's Chinese, The: From Barber To Banker, The Story Of Yeap Chor Ee And The Straits Chinese
Author: Daryl YeapPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811286760
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
An informative and well-researched book, The King's Chinese provides a superb account of the Straits British Chinese, a distinct migrant society from various districts of South China in the late 19th Century. Daryl Yeap gives us a fascinating story of this hybrid community, taking us on tour through one man's journey, beginning with how he left a war-ravaged China to Penang, where he started life as an illiterate itinerant barber to becoming one of the most successful bankers in South East Asia. As she takes us through his story, Daryl brilliantly captures its unique society and wonderful mix of cultures explaining how Penang was once considered the Cinderella of the East; what the earliest forms of passports were; how a coconut scraper, so novel, was confused as 'one musical instrument' by the British eye; and exactly how a borrower's credit profile was assessed with just one glance of the face. A highly readable book with plenty of witty anecdotes and compelling analysis, it is undoubtedly a book that sheds light on a significant development in Malaysia's history.
The Guinness Book of Records
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Railroad Yardmaster
Author: Chess International Titleholders, 1950-2016
Author: Gino Di FelicePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476633614
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The International Chess Federation or FIDE (from the French Federation Internationale des Echecs) was founded in Paris in 1924 but only from 1950 began to award international titles. This book lists more than 18,000 players who received titles from 1950 through 2016. Entries include (where available) the player's full name, federation, date of birth, place of birth, date of death, place of death, title and year of award and peak rating (month and year), with references provided.
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