Author: Publisher:
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Category : Drinking water
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Non-transient, Non-community Water Systems
Author: How Shakespeare Changed Everything
Author: Stephen MarchePublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062079387
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Did you know the name Jessica was first used in The Merchant of Venice? Or that Freud's idea of a healthy sex life came from Shakespeake? Nearly four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare permeates our everyday lives: from the words we speak to the teenage heartthrobs we worship to the political rhetoric spewed by the twenty-four-hour news cycle. In the pages of this wickedly clever little book, Esquire columnist Stephen Marche uncovers the hidden influence of Shakespeare in our culture, including these fascinating tidbits: Shakespeare coined over 1,700 words, including hobnob, glow, lackluster, and dawn. Paul Robeson's 1943 performance as Othello on Broadway was a seminal moment in black history. Tolstoy wrote an entire book about Shakespeare's failures as a writer. In 1936, the Nazi Party tried to claim Shakespeare as a Germanic writer. Without Shakespeare, the book titles Infinite Jest, The Sound and the Fury, and Brave New World wouldn't exist. Stephen Marche has cherry-picked the sweetest and most savory historical footnotes from Shakespeare's work and life to create this unique celebration of the greatest writer of all time.
A Descriptive Grammar of Epigraphic South Arabian
Author: Alfred Felix Landon BeestonPublisher:
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Category : Arabic language
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Manual of Individual Water Supply Systems
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Water Supply DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Yvain
Author: Chretien de TroyesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300187580
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
The Old Country
Author: Alan BennettPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In what appears to be a very English scene, Hilary and Bron are sitting peacefully on a verandah, when Hilary's sister and her husband show up. But this is more than just a family visit, and it is soon revealed that all is not as it appears. Bennett deftly uses the backdrop of a Cold War spy story to explore questions of loyalty, betrayal and national identity in this suspenseful and entertaining play. 'The Old Country' premiered at the Queen's Theatre, London, in September 1977.
The Employment Acts
Author: Richard HemmingsPublisher: Stationery Office Books (TSO)
ISBN: 9780117023468
Category : Employees
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Presents the full text of each of the selections of the Act with a section-by-section explanation. There is a brief account of the background of the Act, together with an analysis of the key issues and procedures introduced by the Act.
Sabaean Inscriptions from Maḥram Bilqîs (Mârib)
Author: Albert JammePublisher:
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Category : Inscriptions
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Part I contains the texts of the inscriptions in transliteration, accompanied by translations and detailed notes ... Part II presents the results of Dr. Jamme's historical studies.
Libraries Abroad
Author: United States Information AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Overseas information libraries, American
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Humane Slaughter [kit].
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Author: United States. Agricultural Research ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slaughtering and slaughter-houses
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description