Author: Drac Von Stoller
Publisher: Drac Von Stoller
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
The old Victorian house on the hill seemed to loom larger than ever in the fading twilight. Jeff Banks stared apprehensively up at its shadowy windows as he, Sarah, and their daughter Julie pulled into the long, overgrown driveway. "I've got a bad feeling about this place," Jeff muttered, more to himself than to his wife and child. But Sarah was too excited to pay him any mind. "Oh Jeff, don't be such a wet blanket!" she chided. "It's perfect - just like the house I dreamed of as a little girl. And at such a great price too! We'd be crazy not to snatch it up." Eight-year-old Julie bounced up and down in the backseat. "I can't wait to explore! Maybe I'll find secret passageways and haunted towers and everything!" Jeff forced a smile, not wanting to dampen their enthusiasm. But he couldn't shake his unease, perhaps stemming from the unsettling rumors about the home's previous occupants that had spread like wildfire through their new town... It took several days to get all their belongings unpacked and situated in the cavernous, dimly lit rooms of the house. On the final day of moving in, Jeff hefted the last boxed up in the attic, coughing at the musty smell and clouds of dust. As he slit open the box to deposit its contents, Sarah suddenly shrieked from somewhere below. "Jeff! Get down here, quickly!" Heart pounding, Jeff raced downstairs to the living room where Sarah stood, white-faced and trembling, a revolting porcelain doll clutched in her hands. It was a grotesque thing, with stringy white hair, a pale face, and glowing red eyes that seemed to stare in unblinking malice. Also, the dolls mouth had what looked like fresh blood on its mouth and on parts of her victorian dress and long finger nails. She just thought that it was paint but still sent shivers down her spine thinking what if? "Oh my god, Jeff, I found this in one of the boxes from the attic. It's horrifying! We have to get rid of it immediately." Jeff felt a prickle of fear snake down his spine as he looked at the doll. There was something...unnatural about it. Deeply unsettling, like a vial of poison dressed up as a child's plaything.
Nightmares In The Attic: Bella's Deadly Domain
Author: Drac Von Stoller
Publisher: Drac Von Stoller
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
The old Victorian house on the hill seemed to loom larger than ever in the fading twilight. Jeff Banks stared apprehensively up at its shadowy windows as he, Sarah, and their daughter Julie pulled into the long, overgrown driveway. "I've got a bad feeling about this place," Jeff muttered, more to himself than to his wife and child. But Sarah was too excited to pay him any mind. "Oh Jeff, don't be such a wet blanket!" she chided. "It's perfect - just like the house I dreamed of as a little girl. And at such a great price too! We'd be crazy not to snatch it up." Eight-year-old Julie bounced up and down in the backseat. "I can't wait to explore! Maybe I'll find secret passageways and haunted towers and everything!" Jeff forced a smile, not wanting to dampen their enthusiasm. But he couldn't shake his unease, perhaps stemming from the unsettling rumors about the home's previous occupants that had spread like wildfire through their new town... It took several days to get all their belongings unpacked and situated in the cavernous, dimly lit rooms of the house. On the final day of moving in, Jeff hefted the last boxed up in the attic, coughing at the musty smell and clouds of dust. As he slit open the box to deposit its contents, Sarah suddenly shrieked from somewhere below. "Jeff! Get down here, quickly!" Heart pounding, Jeff raced downstairs to the living room where Sarah stood, white-faced and trembling, a revolting porcelain doll clutched in her hands. It was a grotesque thing, with stringy white hair, a pale face, and glowing red eyes that seemed to stare in unblinking malice. Also, the dolls mouth had what looked like fresh blood on its mouth and on parts of her victorian dress and long finger nails. She just thought that it was paint but still sent shivers down her spine thinking what if? "Oh my god, Jeff, I found this in one of the boxes from the attic. It's horrifying! We have to get rid of it immediately." Jeff felt a prickle of fear snake down his spine as he looked at the doll. There was something...unnatural about it. Deeply unsettling, like a vial of poison dressed up as a child's plaything.
Publisher: Drac Von Stoller
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
The old Victorian house on the hill seemed to loom larger than ever in the fading twilight. Jeff Banks stared apprehensively up at its shadowy windows as he, Sarah, and their daughter Julie pulled into the long, overgrown driveway. "I've got a bad feeling about this place," Jeff muttered, more to himself than to his wife and child. But Sarah was too excited to pay him any mind. "Oh Jeff, don't be such a wet blanket!" she chided. "It's perfect - just like the house I dreamed of as a little girl. And at such a great price too! We'd be crazy not to snatch it up." Eight-year-old Julie bounced up and down in the backseat. "I can't wait to explore! Maybe I'll find secret passageways and haunted towers and everything!" Jeff forced a smile, not wanting to dampen their enthusiasm. But he couldn't shake his unease, perhaps stemming from the unsettling rumors about the home's previous occupants that had spread like wildfire through their new town... It took several days to get all their belongings unpacked and situated in the cavernous, dimly lit rooms of the house. On the final day of moving in, Jeff hefted the last boxed up in the attic, coughing at the musty smell and clouds of dust. As he slit open the box to deposit its contents, Sarah suddenly shrieked from somewhere below. "Jeff! Get down here, quickly!" Heart pounding, Jeff raced downstairs to the living room where Sarah stood, white-faced and trembling, a revolting porcelain doll clutched in her hands. It was a grotesque thing, with stringy white hair, a pale face, and glowing red eyes that seemed to stare in unblinking malice. Also, the dolls mouth had what looked like fresh blood on its mouth and on parts of her victorian dress and long finger nails. She just thought that it was paint but still sent shivers down her spine thinking what if? "Oh my god, Jeff, I found this in one of the boxes from the attic. It's horrifying! We have to get rid of it immediately." Jeff felt a prickle of fear snake down his spine as he looked at the doll. There was something...unnatural about it. Deeply unsettling, like a vial of poison dressed up as a child's plaything.
Historical Essays & Studies
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
All About Love
Author: bell hooks
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062862170
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. “The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062862170
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. “The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.
A Lateral Theory of Phonology
Author: Tobias Scheer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110178715
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110178715
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
Direct Interface and One-Channel Translation
Author: Tobias Scheer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 161451111X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Following up on the Guide to Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface Theories (2011), written from a theory-neutral point of view, this book lays out the author’s approach to the representational side of the interface. The book is thus about how information is transmitted to phonology when an object is inserted into phonological representations (as opposed to the derivational means, i.e. phase theory today). The idea of Direct Interface is that diacritics such as hash-marks in SPE or prosodic constituency since the early 80s, which mediate between morpho-syntax and phonology, are illegal in a modular environment where computational systems can only process domain-specific vocabulary. Direct Interface instead holds that only truly phonological vocabulary can carry morpho-syntactic information. It is shown that of all representational objects only syllabic space qualifies. Couched in CVCV (or strict CV), i.e. Government Phonology, this insight is then applied in detailed case studies of Belarusian, Corsican, Greek and the exhaustive lexical inventory of sonorant-obstruent-initial words in 13 Slavic languages,. In this sense, the book is the 2nd volume of A Lateral Theory of Phonology (2004).
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 161451111X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Following up on the Guide to Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface Theories (2011), written from a theory-neutral point of view, this book lays out the author’s approach to the representational side of the interface. The book is thus about how information is transmitted to phonology when an object is inserted into phonological representations (as opposed to the derivational means, i.e. phase theory today). The idea of Direct Interface is that diacritics such as hash-marks in SPE or prosodic constituency since the early 80s, which mediate between morpho-syntax and phonology, are illegal in a modular environment where computational systems can only process domain-specific vocabulary. Direct Interface instead holds that only truly phonological vocabulary can carry morpho-syntactic information. It is shown that of all representational objects only syllabic space qualifies. Couched in CVCV (or strict CV), i.e. Government Phonology, this insight is then applied in detailed case studies of Belarusian, Corsican, Greek and the exhaustive lexical inventory of sonorant-obstruent-initial words in 13 Slavic languages,. In this sense, the book is the 2nd volume of A Lateral Theory of Phonology (2004).
Ulysses
A Night in the Lonesome October
Author: Roger Zelazny
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781788424769
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"In the murky London gloom, a knife-wielding gentleman prowls the midnight streets with his faithful watchdog Snuff - gathering together the grisly ingredients they will need for an upcoming ancient and unearthly rite. And all manner of players, both human and undead, are preparing to participate."--Publisher.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781788424769
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"In the murky London gloom, a knife-wielding gentleman prowls the midnight streets with his faithful watchdog Snuff - gathering together the grisly ingredients they will need for an upcoming ancient and unearthly rite. And all manner of players, both human and undead, are preparing to participate."--Publisher.
Fatal Intent
Author: Tammy Euliano
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
ISBN: 1608094170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
End-of-life care—or assisted death When her elderly patients start dying at home days after minor surgery, anesthesiologist Dr. Kate Downey wants to know why. The surgeon, not so much. "Old people die, that's what they do," is his response. When Kate presses, surgeon Charles Ricken places the blame squarely on her shoulders. Kate is currently on probation, and the chief of staff sides with the surgeon, leaving Kate to prove her innocence and save her own career. With her husband in a prolonged coma, it's all she has left. Aided by her eccentric Great Aunt Irm, a precocious medical student, and the lawyer son of a victim, Kate launches her own unorthodox investigation of these unexpected deaths. As she comes closer to exposing the culprit's identity, she faces professional intimidation, threats to her life, a home invasion, and, tragically, the suspicious death of someone close to her. The stakes escalate to the breaking point when Kate, under violent duress, is forced to choose which of her loved ones to save—and which must be sacrificed. Perfect for fans of Kathy Reichs and Tess Gerritsen
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
ISBN: 1608094170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
End-of-life care—or assisted death When her elderly patients start dying at home days after minor surgery, anesthesiologist Dr. Kate Downey wants to know why. The surgeon, not so much. "Old people die, that's what they do," is his response. When Kate presses, surgeon Charles Ricken places the blame squarely on her shoulders. Kate is currently on probation, and the chief of staff sides with the surgeon, leaving Kate to prove her innocence and save her own career. With her husband in a prolonged coma, it's all she has left. Aided by her eccentric Great Aunt Irm, a precocious medical student, and the lawyer son of a victim, Kate launches her own unorthodox investigation of these unexpected deaths. As she comes closer to exposing the culprit's identity, she faces professional intimidation, threats to her life, a home invasion, and, tragically, the suspicious death of someone close to her. The stakes escalate to the breaking point when Kate, under violent duress, is forced to choose which of her loved ones to save—and which must be sacrificed. Perfect for fans of Kathy Reichs and Tess Gerritsen
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
Author: David Bellos
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0865478724
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbors' languages—as did many ordinary Europeans in times past (Christopher Columbus knew Italian, Portuguese, and Castilian Spanish as well as the classical languages). But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not much of a reading list in any subject at college, no repair manuals for cars or planes; we wouldn't even be able to put together flat-pack furniture. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? ranges across the whole of human experience, from foreign films to philosophy, to show why translation is at the heart of what we do and who we are. Among many other things, David Bellos asks: What's the difference between translating unprepared natural speech and translating Madame Bovary? How do you translate a joke? What's the difference between a native tongue and a learned one? Can you translate between any pair of languages, or only between some? What really goes on when world leaders speak at the UN? Can machines ever replace human translators, and if not, why? But the biggest question Bellos asks is this: How do we ever really know that we've understood what anybody else says—in our own language or in another? Surprising, witty, and written with great joie de vivre, this book is all about how we comprehend other people and shows us how, ultimately, translation is another name for the human condition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0865478724
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbors' languages—as did many ordinary Europeans in times past (Christopher Columbus knew Italian, Portuguese, and Castilian Spanish as well as the classical languages). But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not much of a reading list in any subject at college, no repair manuals for cars or planes; we wouldn't even be able to put together flat-pack furniture. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? ranges across the whole of human experience, from foreign films to philosophy, to show why translation is at the heart of what we do and who we are. Among many other things, David Bellos asks: What's the difference between translating unprepared natural speech and translating Madame Bovary? How do you translate a joke? What's the difference between a native tongue and a learned one? Can you translate between any pair of languages, or only between some? What really goes on when world leaders speak at the UN? Can machines ever replace human translators, and if not, why? But the biggest question Bellos asks is this: How do we ever really know that we've understood what anybody else says—in our own language or in another? Surprising, witty, and written with great joie de vivre, this book is all about how we comprehend other people and shows us how, ultimately, translation is another name for the human condition.
High & Low
Author: Kirk Varnedoe
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Readins in high & low
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Readins in high & low