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Bon Mots, Wisecracks, and Gags The Wit of Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, and the Algonquin Round Table

Bon Mots, Wisecracks, and Gags The Wit of Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, and the Algonquin Round Table
Robert E. Drennan, Heywood Hale Broun, "Bon Mots, Wisecracks, and Gags: The Wit of Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, and the Algonquin Round Table"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1616087137 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 1.3 mb
"Stop looking at the world through rose-colored bifocals." "His mind is so open, the wind whistles through it." "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." Ever wonder where these sayings came from? For decades, the dining room of New York's legendary Algonquin Hotel was a hub of letters and humor. Cocktails were swilled as writers, humorists, actors, and critics poked fun at culture, the arts, and one another. In this lively tribute, today's readers will come to understand why Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, and Dorothy Parker represent the epitome of quips and comebacks-wit that still packs a punch decades later.

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Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage

Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage
Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage By Iwona Kraska-Szlenk (editor)
2020 | 319 Pages | ISBN: 9027204802 | PDF | 4 MB
The volume focuses on body part terms as the vehicle of embodied cognition and conceptualization. It explores the relationship between universal embodiment, language-specific cultural models and linguistic usage practices. The chapters of the volume add to the previous research in a novel way. The presentation of original data from previously undescribed languages spoken by small communities in Africa and South America allows to discover unknown aspects of embodiment and to propose new interpretations. Well-known languages are analyzed from a new perspective relying on the benefits of linguistic corpora. Contrastive and theoretically oriented studies help to pinpoint similarities and differences among languages, as well as tendencies in conceptualization patterns and semantic development of the lexis of body part terms. The volume contributes to the field of linguistics, but also to cognitive science, anthropology and cultural studies.

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Body Grammar A Novel

Body Grammar A Novel
Jules Ohman, "Body Grammar: A Novel"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0593466691 | 320 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
A coming-of-age queer love story set in the glamorous but grueling world of international modeling-a "terrific debut ... roiling with deep questions of identity and art, love, and the irrepressible need for meaning in life" (Jess Walter, bestselling author of The Cold Millions)

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Blacks of the Land Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America

Blacks of the Land Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America
Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America (Cambridge Latin American Studies) by John M. Monteiro, edited and translated by Barbara Weinstein, James Woodard
English | October 25, 2018 | ISBN: 1107114675, 1107535182 | True EPUB | 290 pages | 2.5 MB
Originally published in Portuguese in 1994 as Negros da Terra, this field-defining work by the late historian John M. Monteiro has been translated into English by Professors Barbara Weinstein and James Woodard. Monteiro's work established ethnohistory as a field in colonial Brazilian studies and made indigenous history a vital part of how scholars understand Brazil's colonial past.

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Black-Hole Accretion Disks Towards a New Paradigm

Black-Hole Accretion Disks  Towards a New Paradigm
Black-Hole Accretion Disks : Towards a New Paradigm By Kato, Shoji; Fukue, Jun; and Mineshige, Shin
2008 | 549 Pages | ISBN: 4876987408 | DJVU | 6 MB
Since publication of the first edition, models of advection-dominated accretion flows and their comparison with observations have been much developed and deepened, including the cases of super-Eddington accretion. The launch of the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer led to the discovery of high-frequency oscillations, which opened a new field of discoseismology. In addition, development of observational techniques show that the time when we see a direct image or silhouette of black holes is in the near future. Considering these situations, we fully revised the first edition in order to meet the developments mentioned above.

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Black Panther and Philosophy What Can Wakanda Offer the World

Black Panther and Philosophy What Can Wakanda Offer the World
Black Panther and Philosophy: What Can Wakanda Offer the World?
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1119635845 | 283 Pages | EPUB (True) | 1 MB
In Black Panther and Philosophy: What Can Wakanda Offer The World, a diverse panel of experts delivers incisive critical reflections on the Oscar-winning 2018 film, Black Panther, and the comic book mythology that preceded it. The collection explores historical and contemporary issues-including colonialism, slavery, the Black Lives Matter movement, intersectionality, and identity-raised by the superhero tale.

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Beyond Subjectivism Heidegger on Language and the Human Being

Beyond Subjectivism Heidegger on Language and the Human Being
Beyond Subjectivism: Heidegger on Language and the Human Being By Abraham Mansbach
2002 | 158 Pages | ISBN: 0313311536 | PDF | 9 MB
This in-depth analysis of Heidegger's major works finds a fundamental thematic unity in the philosopher's effort to overcome the subjectivism of modern philosophy and to account for the ontological hierarchy that it alone constitutes a foundation for everything else. The author sees this challenge to the Cartesian tradition as the key to understanding Heidegger's views on human beings and language, as well as their influence in the issues of identity and representation in contemporary philosophy.

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