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Author: Teodora Kostova Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 274
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"You hired my ex as my bodyguard?" When Alec left NYC - left me - I was a broken mess. All my days blurred into a continuous haze of alcohol, parties, and meaningless hook-ups. Until my sister nearly died in a car accident. Her recovery was the wake-up call I needed. Now, three years later, I've cleaned up my act, sobered up, and finally became the son my father always wished I was - the heir of Van Dorf Media Group. But being part of one of the most influential families in America has its disadvantages. Like fanatic supremacists trying to kill you. My father's solution? Hire Alec Bonovich to protect me. Doesn't matter that he's my ex. Doesn't matter that just seeing him makes my pulse quicken. Doesn't matter that he's the only man who's ever broken my heart. Because Alec is the best. And he's the only one I trust to protect me when my life is in danger. Stoking the Fire is the first book in the Salus Security series. This full length novel features a bodyguard who wants a second chance, a reluctant media empire heir who doesn't think he deserves a second chance, and a suspense sub-plot with a sprinkle of angst. All books in the series can be read as stand-alones, but reading them in order will offer a richer reading experience.
Author: Teodora Kostova Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 274
Book Description
"You hired my ex as my bodyguard?" When Alec left NYC - left me - I was a broken mess. All my days blurred into a continuous haze of alcohol, parties, and meaningless hook-ups. Until my sister nearly died in a car accident. Her recovery was the wake-up call I needed. Now, three years later, I've cleaned up my act, sobered up, and finally became the son my father always wished I was - the heir of Van Dorf Media Group. But being part of one of the most influential families in America has its disadvantages. Like fanatic supremacists trying to kill you. My father's solution? Hire Alec Bonovich to protect me. Doesn't matter that he's my ex. Doesn't matter that just seeing him makes my pulse quicken. Doesn't matter that he's the only man who's ever broken my heart. Because Alec is the best. And he's the only one I trust to protect me when my life is in danger. Stoking the Fire is the first book in the Salus Security series. This full length novel features a bodyguard who wants a second chance, a reluctant media empire heir who doesn't think he deserves a second chance, and a suspense sub-plot with a sprinkle of angst. All books in the series can be read as stand-alones, but reading them in order will offer a richer reading experience.
Author: Devoney Looser Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 0801887054 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 253
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This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
Author: Walter R. Tschinkel Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674022072 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 762
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In The Fire Ants, Walter Tschinkel provides not just an encyclopedic overview of Solenopsis invicta but a lively account of how research is done, how science establishes facts, and the pleasures and problems of a scientific career. The reader learns much about ants, the practice of science, and humans' role in the fire ant's North American success.
Author: Martin Haspelmath Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134645961 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 387
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This new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest research. It now includes 'big picture' questions to highlight central themes in morphology, as well as research exercises for each chapter. Understanding Morphology presents an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology on the part of the reader, the book presents a broad range of morphological phenomena from a wide variety of languages. Starting with the core areas of inflection and derivation, the book presents the interfaces between morphology and syntax and between morphology and phonology. The synchronic study of word structure is covered, as are the phenomena of diachronic change, such as analogy and grammaticalization. Theories are presented clearly in accessible language with the main purpose of shedding light on the data, rather than as a goal in themselves. The authors consistently draw on the best research available, thus utilizing and discussing both functionalist and generative theoretical approaches. Each chapter includes a summary, suggestions for further reading, and exercises. As such this is the ideal book for both beginning students of linguistics, or anyone in a related discipline looking for a first introduction to morphology.
Author: Erich Auerbach Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400847958 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 614
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The classic book that has taught generations how to read Western literature More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depict reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. A German Jew who was forced out of his professorship at the University of Marburg in 1935, Auerbach left for Turkey, where he taught in Istanbul. There he wrote Mimesis, publishing it in German after the war. Displaced as he was, Auerbach produced a work of great erudition that contains no footnotes, basing his arguments instead on searching, illuminating readings of key passages from his primary texts. His aim was to show how, from antiquity to modernity, literature progresses toward ever more naturalistic and democratic forms of representation. Ranging over works in Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and English, Auerbach uses his remarkable skills in philology and comparative literature to present an optimistic view of Western history and culture and to refute any narrow form of nationalism or chauvinism. This expanded Princeton Classics edition of Mimesis includes a substantial introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay in which Auerbach responds to his critics.
Author: Tom Hodgkinson Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 006231341X Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 178
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Yearning for a life of leisure? In 24 chapters representing each hour of a typical working day, this book will coax out the loafer in even the most diligent and schedule-obsessed worker. From the founding editor of the celebrated magazine about the freedom and fine art of doing nothing, The Idler, comes not simply a book, but an antidote to our work-obsessed culture. In How to Be Idle, Hodgkinson presents his learned yet whimsical argument for a new, universal standard of living: being happy doing nothing. He covers a whole spectrum of issues affecting the modern idler—sleep, work, pleasure, relationships—bemoaning the cultural skepticism of idleness while reflecting on the writing of such famous apologists for it as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Johnson, and Nietzsche—all of whom have admitted to doing their very best work in bed. It’s a well-known fact that Europeans spend fewer hours at work a week than Americans. So it’s only befitting that one of them—the very clever, extremely engaging, and quite hilarious Tom Hodgkinson—should have the wittiest and most useful insights into the fun and nature of being idle. Following on the quirky, call-to-arms heels of the bestselling Eat, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss, How to Be Idle rallies us to an equally just and no less worthy cause: reclaiming our right to be idle.
Author: Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139456164 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 488
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This work is a complete English translation of the Latin Etymologies of Isidore, Bishop of Seville (c.560–636). Isidore compiled the work between c.615 and the early 630s and it takes the form of an encyclopedia, arranged by subject matter. It contains much lore of the late classical world beginning with the Seven Liberal Arts, including Rhetoric, and touches on thousands of topics ranging from the names of God, the terminology of the Law, the technologies of fabrics, ships and agriculture to the names of cities and rivers, the theatrical arts, and cooking utensils. Isidore provides etymologies for most of the terms he explains, finding in the causes of words the underlying key to their meaning. This book offers a highly readable translation of the twenty books of the Etymologies, one of the most widely known texts for a thousand years from Isidore's time.
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