Gleason, the Christmas Giraffe

Gleason, the Christmas Giraffe
Author: Kay A. Eaton
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2009-05-20
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1481715798

Gleason's normal day turns into an adventure he will never forget!The young giraffe'sinnocent curiosity lands him at the North Pole where he must stayuntil next Christmas. When it is finally time to go home, he is called upon to make a very, verydifficult decision.

Investigating Spoken English

Investigating Spoken English
Author: Štefan Beňuš
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2021-04-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3030543498

Combining coverage of the key concepts and tools within phonetics and phonology with a systematic introduction to Praat, this textbook provides a lively and engaging 'way in' to the discipline. The author first covers the fundamentals of the articulatory and acoustic aspects of speech and introduces Praat as the main tool for examining and visualising speech. Next, the unit of analysis is gradually expanded (from syllables to words to turns and dialogues) and excerpts of real dialogues exemplify the core concepts for discovering how speech works. The final part of the book brings all the concepts and notions together with commentaries to the transcription of several short excerpts of dialogues. This book will be essential reading for students on undergraduate courses in phonetics and phonology.

Paper Girls Vol. 1

Paper Girls Vol. 1
Author: Brian K. Vaughan
Publisher: Image Comics
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2016-03-30
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1632158574

From BRIAN K. VAUGHAN, #1 New York Times bestselling writer of SAGA and THE PRIVATE EYE, and CLIFF CHIANG, legendary artist of Wonder Woman, comes the first volume of an all-new ongoing adventure. In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 2-yearold newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this smashhit series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood. Collects PAPER GIRLS #1-5.

Apocalypse Delayed

Apocalypse Delayed
Author: M. James Penton
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802079732

M. James Penton offers a comprehensive overview of a remarkable religious movement, from the Witnesses' inauspicious creation by a Pennsylvania preacher in the 1870s to its position as a religious sect with millions of followers world-wide. This second edition features an afterword by the author and an expanded bibliography.

Animal Liberation

Animal Liberation
Author: Peter Singer
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2015-10-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1473524423

How should we treat non-human animals? In this immensely powerful and influential book (now with a new introduction by Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari), the renowned moral philosopher Peter Singer addresses this simple question with trenchant, dispassionate reasoning. Accompanied by the disturbing evidence of factory farms and laboratories, his answers triggered the birth of the animal rights movement. 'An extraordinary book which has had extraordinary effects... Widely known as the bible of the animal liberation movement' Independent on Sunday In the decades since this landmark classic first appeared, some public attitudes to animals may have changed but our continued abuse of animals in factory farms and as tools for research shows that the underlying ideas Singer exposes as ethically indefensible are still dominating the way we treat animals. As Yuval Harari’s brilliantly argued introduction makes clear, this book is as relevant now as the day it was written.

Rochester

Rochester
Author: Jenny Marsh Parker
Publisher: Rochester, N.Y. : Scrantom, Wetmore
Total Pages: 538
Release: 1884
Genre: Art museums
ISBN:

The Sound Pattern of English

The Sound Pattern of English
Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Mit Press
Total Pages: 470
Release: 1991
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262530972

Since this classic work in phonology was published in 1968, there has been no other book that gives as broad a view of the subject, combining generally applicable theoretical contributions with analysis of the details of a single language. The theoretical issues raised in The Sound Pattern of English continue to be critical to current phonology, and in many instances the solutions proposed by Chomsky and Halle have yet to be improved upon.Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle are Institute Professors of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT.

Saga

Saga
Author: Brian K. Vaughan
Publisher: Saga DLX Ed Hc
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781632150783

A child born to parents from opposite sides of a never-ending space war, Hazel is taken on the run by her fugitive family as they risk everything to find a peaceful future in a harsh universe.

Working

Working
Author: Studs Terkel
Publisher: The New Press
Total Pages: 867
Release: 2011-07-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1595587667

A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: “Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking.” —The Boston Globe A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller Studs Terkel’s classic oral history Working is a compelling look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews with everyone from a gravedigger to a studio head, this book provides a “brilliant” and enduring portrait of people’s feelings about their working lives. This edition includes a new foreword by New York Times journalist Adam Cohen (Forbes). “Splendid . . . Important . . . Rich and fascinating . . . The people we meet are not digits in a poll but real people with real names who share their anecdotes, adventures, and aspirations with us.” —Business Week “The talk in Working is good talk—earthy, passionate, honest, sometimes tender, sometimes crisp, juicy as reality, seasoned with experience.” —The Washington Post

You're Here for a Reason

You're Here for a Reason
Author: Nancy Tillman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2015-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250056268

Every person matters. Here, national-bestselling and beloved author Nancy Tillman shows readers how each of us fits into life's big picture, and how the world would be incomplete without you in it. You're here for a reason. If you think you're not I would just say that perhaps you forgot . . . a piece of the world that is precious and dear would surely be missing if you weren't here.