Author: Rebecca Jo Slayden-McMahan
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1638292507
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
We use social media to facilitate the process of communication. But how well do we concisely communicate our messages and feelings? There are certain drawbacks to new-age technologies, especially due to the need for conciseness. The written word has always carried the meaning and essence of thoughts and feelings that we strive to convey. Similes, metaphors, and sayings from regional areas and time periods specifically carry more meanings than the mere word itself. The 2,300 idioms or sayings in this book convey a meaning that connects generation to generation in the south of our country. Meet the family members that communicated daily and shared their stories using this unique language that is colorful and historical. My aunt, Arlie Wilder, used to say that she hated to see a woman grinning and laughing out loud with her mouth open like “Jenny eatin’ saw briars.” I hope you find yourself laughing like that as you read.
Grinnin’ Like a Jenny Eatin’ Saw Briars
Author: Rebecca Jo Slayden-McMahan
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1638292507
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
We use social media to facilitate the process of communication. But how well do we concisely communicate our messages and feelings? There are certain drawbacks to new-age technologies, especially due to the need for conciseness. The written word has always carried the meaning and essence of thoughts and feelings that we strive to convey. Similes, metaphors, and sayings from regional areas and time periods specifically carry more meanings than the mere word itself. The 2,300 idioms or sayings in this book convey a meaning that connects generation to generation in the south of our country. Meet the family members that communicated daily and shared their stories using this unique language that is colorful and historical. My aunt, Arlie Wilder, used to say that she hated to see a woman grinning and laughing out loud with her mouth open like “Jenny eatin’ saw briars.” I hope you find yourself laughing like that as you read.
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1638292507
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
We use social media to facilitate the process of communication. But how well do we concisely communicate our messages and feelings? There are certain drawbacks to new-age technologies, especially due to the need for conciseness. The written word has always carried the meaning and essence of thoughts and feelings that we strive to convey. Similes, metaphors, and sayings from regional areas and time periods specifically carry more meanings than the mere word itself. The 2,300 idioms or sayings in this book convey a meaning that connects generation to generation in the south of our country. Meet the family members that communicated daily and shared their stories using this unique language that is colorful and historical. My aunt, Arlie Wilder, used to say that she hated to see a woman grinning and laughing out loud with her mouth open like “Jenny eatin’ saw briars.” I hope you find yourself laughing like that as you read.
The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Author: Thornton W. Burgess
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486121631
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Downy the Woodpecker, Spooky the Screech Owl, and other winged creatures tell Peter Cottontail about their migration patterns, calls, nesting habits, and more in this blend of fact and fiction. 32 black-and-white illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486121631
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Downy the Woodpecker, Spooky the Screech Owl, and other winged creatures tell Peter Cottontail about their migration patterns, calls, nesting habits, and more in this blend of fact and fiction. 32 black-and-white illustrations.
The Other Face of God: When the Stranger Calls us Home
Author: Mary Jo Leddy
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608331059
Category : Church work with refugees
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608331059
Category : Church work with refugees
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Radical Gratitude
Author: Mary Jo Leddy
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608331040
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
"The guide to attaining the gratitude that frees our spirit helps us to appreciate more deeply, family, community, the earth and ourselves." -- Back cover.
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608331040
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
"The guide to attaining the gratitude that frees our spirit helps us to appreciate more deeply, family, community, the earth and ourselves." -- Back cover.
The Contrast
Author: Cynthia A. Kierner
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814783430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
“The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City's John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play performed in public by a professional theater company. The play, written by New England-born, Harvard-educated, Royall Tyler was timely, funny, and extremely popular. When the play appeared in print in 1790, George Washington himself appeared at the head of its list of hundreds of subscribers. Reprinted here with annotated footnotes by historian Cynthia A. Kierner, Tyler’s play explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. Did the American colonists' rejection of monarchy in 1776 mean they should abolish all European social traditions and hierarchies? What sorts of etiquette, amusements, and fashions were appropriate and beneficial? Most important, to be a nation, did Americans need to distinguish themselves from Europeans—and, if so, how? Tyler was not the only American pondering these questions, and Kierner situates the play in its broader historical and cultural contexts. An extensive introduction provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building. The book also features a section with selections from contemporary letters, essays, novels, conduct books, and public documents, which debate issues of the era.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814783430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
“The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City's John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play performed in public by a professional theater company. The play, written by New England-born, Harvard-educated, Royall Tyler was timely, funny, and extremely popular. When the play appeared in print in 1790, George Washington himself appeared at the head of its list of hundreds of subscribers. Reprinted here with annotated footnotes by historian Cynthia A. Kierner, Tyler’s play explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. Did the American colonists' rejection of monarchy in 1776 mean they should abolish all European social traditions and hierarchies? What sorts of etiquette, amusements, and fashions were appropriate and beneficial? Most important, to be a nation, did Americans need to distinguish themselves from Europeans—and, if so, how? Tyler was not the only American pondering these questions, and Kierner situates the play in its broader historical and cultural contexts. An extensive introduction provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building. The book also features a section with selections from contemporary letters, essays, novels, conduct books, and public documents, which debate issues of the era.
One of Ours
Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Claude has an intuitive faith in something splendid and feels at odds with his contemporaries. The war offers him the opportunity to forget his farm and his marriage of compromise; he enlists and discovers that he has lacked. But while war demands altruism, its essence is destructive
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Claude has an intuitive faith in something splendid and feels at odds with his contemporaries. The war offers him the opportunity to forget his farm and his marriage of compromise; he enlists and discovers that he has lacked. But while war demands altruism, its essence is destructive
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squireathough he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, "Tom Jones" is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squireathough he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, "Tom Jones" is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.
The Burgess Animal Book for Children
Author: Thornton Waldo Burgess
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Every Living Thing
Author: Cynthia Rylant
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439136165
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Here are twelve deeply moving short stories from the perceptive pen of Cynthia Rylant. Each captures the moment when someone's life changes -- when an animal causes a human being to see things in a different way, and, perhaps, changes his life.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439136165
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Here are twelve deeply moving short stories from the perceptive pen of Cynthia Rylant. Each captures the moment when someone's life changes -- when an animal causes a human being to see things in a different way, and, perhaps, changes his life.
Beautiful Joe
Author: Marshall Saunders
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
A dog describes being mistreated by a cruel master but then later being taken in by a kind family.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
A dog describes being mistreated by a cruel master but then later being taken in by a kind family.