Author: Andrew D 1899 Aird
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781013880384
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Glimpses of Old Glasgow
Author: Andrew D 1899 Aird
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781013880384
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781013880384
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Brus
Author: John Barbour
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The Goff
Author: Thomas Mathison
Publisher: Fogelman Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher: Fogelman Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Parodies of the works of English & American authors
Author: Walter Hamilton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parodies
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parodies
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Games & Sporting Goods
Author: Peck & Snyder, New York
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780878610945
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780878610945
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Yvain
Author: Chretien de Troyes
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Homestretch
Author: Velma Pollard
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
David and Edith are happy to return home to Jamaica, having spent several dreary years living in England. Laura, their niece and surrogate child, is delighted to see them again. But for Brenda, Laura's friend, arriving home from the USA and England to 'find herself', the adjustment is not so smooth... In Homestretch, Velma Pollard has shown great sensitivity in the unravelling of her characters' various life stories. Wistful notalgia and joyful homecoming are delicately interwoven with tangible descriptions of Jamaican life, both past and present.
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
David and Edith are happy to return home to Jamaica, having spent several dreary years living in England. Laura, their niece and surrogate child, is delighted to see them again. But for Brenda, Laura's friend, arriving home from the USA and England to 'find herself', the adjustment is not so smooth... In Homestretch, Velma Pollard has shown great sensitivity in the unravelling of her characters' various life stories. Wistful notalgia and joyful homecoming are delicately interwoven with tangible descriptions of Jamaican life, both past and present.
The History of Movie Photography
Author: Brian Coe
Publisher: HP Trade
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Story of the race to create a machine which would capture and display the very movement of life. Presents a vivid rendering of the creation and technical development of one of the modern world's most common forms of entertainment.
Publisher: HP Trade
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Story of the race to create a machine which would capture and display the very movement of life. Presents a vivid rendering of the creation and technical development of one of the modern world's most common forms of entertainment.
Information and Secrecy
Author: Colin B. Burke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Follows America's librarians, cryptanalysts and educators as they create information science, computerized codebreaking and the modern research university. ...This highly original work contains previously unpublished information on many subjects... --CRYPTOLOGIA
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Follows America's librarians, cryptanalysts and educators as they create information science, computerized codebreaking and the modern research university. ...This highly original work contains previously unpublished information on many subjects... --CRYPTOLOGIA
The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland: Enlightenment and expansion 1707-1800
Author: Bill Bell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780748619122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
The first thorough study of the book trade during the age of Fergusson and Burns. The eighteenth century saw Scotland become a global leader in publishing, both through landmark challenges to the early copyright legislation and through the development of intricate overseas markets that extended across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Scots in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Dublin and Philadelphia amassed fortunes while bringing to international markets classics in medicine and economics by Scottish authors, as well as such enduring works of reference as the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Entrepreneurship and a vigorous sense of nationalism brought Scotland from financial destitution at the time of the 1707 Union to extraordinary wealth by the 1790s. Publishing was one of the country's elite new industries. Over forty leading scholars come together in this volume to examine the development of Scotland's book trade from 1707 to 1800. Printing, binding, bookselling, libraries, textbooks, distribution and international trade, copyright, piracy, literacy, music publication, women readers, children's books and cookery books are among the many aspects of print culture that they scrutinize. Key Features* Discusses copyright and piracy with new data at a time when intellectual property laws are returning to eighteenth-century precedents* Provides new understandings of Scotland's early modern readerships, including women's libraries, music literacy, and the way in which Scots found in the growth of literacy an international marketplace for intellectual property* Original scholarship and previously unpublished source material on secular Gaelic print* 16 exclusive full colour images of rare Scottish bindings from private collections, 25 additional colour plates + 60 b & w illustrations.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780748619122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
The first thorough study of the book trade during the age of Fergusson and Burns. The eighteenth century saw Scotland become a global leader in publishing, both through landmark challenges to the early copyright legislation and through the development of intricate overseas markets that extended across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Scots in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Dublin and Philadelphia amassed fortunes while bringing to international markets classics in medicine and economics by Scottish authors, as well as such enduring works of reference as the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Entrepreneurship and a vigorous sense of nationalism brought Scotland from financial destitution at the time of the 1707 Union to extraordinary wealth by the 1790s. Publishing was one of the country's elite new industries. Over forty leading scholars come together in this volume to examine the development of Scotland's book trade from 1707 to 1800. Printing, binding, bookselling, libraries, textbooks, distribution and international trade, copyright, piracy, literacy, music publication, women readers, children's books and cookery books are among the many aspects of print culture that they scrutinize. Key Features* Discusses copyright and piracy with new data at a time when intellectual property laws are returning to eighteenth-century precedents* Provides new understandings of Scotland's early modern readerships, including women's libraries, music literacy, and the way in which Scots found in the growth of literacy an international marketplace for intellectual property* Original scholarship and previously unpublished source material on secular Gaelic print* 16 exclusive full colour images of rare Scottish bindings from private collections, 25 additional colour plates + 60 b & w illustrations.