Author: LB Sedlacek
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435747607
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The sixth collection of poetry by award winning poet, LB Sedlacek. "Red Headed Eskimos" explores a variety of subjects often dark and surreal. A vast array of poems covering religious themes, science fiction, social commentary to light adventurous works. From "Prozac Pizza": "The deer come right on up to the / front door and spit and chew and drop / their cigarette butts on the ground / just to the right of the sycamore trees."// From "Burning Ice": "The meeting of velocity and humidity -- / won't be fodder for erasers or / chalkboards or for teachers with / apples. When the ruler touches / the skin, it is simmering."// Works tend to delve beneath the surface, exploring what you know is there but may not want to admit. Sedlacek's other poetry chapbooks include "Alexandra's Wreck" (Kitty Litter Press).
Red Headed Eskimos
Author: LB Sedlacek
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435747607
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The sixth collection of poetry by award winning poet, LB Sedlacek. "Red Headed Eskimos" explores a variety of subjects often dark and surreal. A vast array of poems covering religious themes, science fiction, social commentary to light adventurous works. From "Prozac Pizza": "The deer come right on up to the / front door and spit and chew and drop / their cigarette butts on the ground / just to the right of the sycamore trees."// From "Burning Ice": "The meeting of velocity and humidity -- / won't be fodder for erasers or / chalkboards or for teachers with / apples. When the ruler touches / the skin, it is simmering."// Works tend to delve beneath the surface, exploring what you know is there but may not want to admit. Sedlacek's other poetry chapbooks include "Alexandra's Wreck" (Kitty Litter Press).
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435747607
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The sixth collection of poetry by award winning poet, LB Sedlacek. "Red Headed Eskimos" explores a variety of subjects often dark and surreal. A vast array of poems covering religious themes, science fiction, social commentary to light adventurous works. From "Prozac Pizza": "The deer come right on up to the / front door and spit and chew and drop / their cigarette butts on the ground / just to the right of the sycamore trees."// From "Burning Ice": "The meeting of velocity and humidity -- / won't be fodder for erasers or / chalkboards or for teachers with / apples. When the ruler touches / the skin, it is simmering."// Works tend to delve beneath the surface, exploring what you know is there but may not want to admit. Sedlacek's other poetry chapbooks include "Alexandra's Wreck" (Kitty Litter Press).
Safire's Political Dictionary
Author: William Safire
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195343344
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Featuring more than one thousand new, rewritten, and updated entries, this reference on American politics explains current terms in politics, economics, and diplomacy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195343344
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Featuring more than one thousand new, rewritten, and updated entries, this reference on American politics explains current terms in politics, economics, and diplomacy.
The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang
Author: Grant Barrett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195304473
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers will find informative entries on slang terms such as Beltway bandit and boondoggle, angry white male and leg treasurer, juice bill and Joe Citizen, banana superpower and the Big Fix. We find not only the meaning and history of familiar terms such as gerrymander, but also of lesser-known terms such as cracking (splitting a bloc of like-minded voters by redistricting) and fair-fight district (which refers to areas redistricted to favor no political party). Each entry includes the definition of the word, its historical background, and illuminating citations, some going back more than 200 years. (We learn, for instance, that a term as seemingly current as political football actually dates back to before the Civil War.) Selected entries will have extended encyclopedic notes. The book also features sidebar essays on topics such as political words in Blogistan; a short history of "big cheese"; all about chads and the 2000 election; the suffix "-gate" and all the related Watergate terms; and the naming of legislation. Political junkies, policy wonks, journalists, and word lovers will find this book addictive reading as well as a reliable guide to one of the more colorful corners of American English.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195304473
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers will find informative entries on slang terms such as Beltway bandit and boondoggle, angry white male and leg treasurer, juice bill and Joe Citizen, banana superpower and the Big Fix. We find not only the meaning and history of familiar terms such as gerrymander, but also of lesser-known terms such as cracking (splitting a bloc of like-minded voters by redistricting) and fair-fight district (which refers to areas redistricted to favor no political party). Each entry includes the definition of the word, its historical background, and illuminating citations, some going back more than 200 years. (We learn, for instance, that a term as seemingly current as political football actually dates back to before the Civil War.) Selected entries will have extended encyclopedic notes. The book also features sidebar essays on topics such as political words in Blogistan; a short history of "big cheese"; all about chads and the 2000 election; the suffix "-gate" and all the related Watergate terms; and the naming of legislation. Political junkies, policy wonks, journalists, and word lovers will find this book addictive reading as well as a reliable guide to one of the more colorful corners of American English.
The Philistine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
My Life with the Eskimos
Author: Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Publisher: London : G.G. Harrap
ISBN:
Category : Arctic Regions
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher: London : G.G. Harrap
ISBN:
Category : Arctic Regions
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Bobby Blake in the Frozen North; Or, The Old Eskimo's Last Message
Author: Frank A. Warner
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
"Bobby Blake in the Frozen North; Or, The Old Eskimo's Last Message" by Frank A. Warner. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
"Bobby Blake in the Frozen North; Or, The Old Eskimo's Last Message" by Frank A. Warner. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
My Life with the Eskimo
Author: Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Empire of Ice and Stone
Author: Buddy Levy
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250274451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
National Outdoor Book Awards Winner The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world’s greatest living ice navigator. The expedition’s visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame.Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again.Twenty-two men and an Inuit woman with two small daughters now stood on a mile-square ice floe, their ship and their original leader gone. Under Bartlett’s leadership they built make-shift shelters, surviving the freezing darkness of Polar night. Captain Bartlett now made a difficult and courageous decision. He would take one of the young Inuit hunters and attempt a 1000-mile journey to save the shipwrecked survivors. It was their only hope. Set against the backdrop of the Titanic disaster and World War I, filled with heroism, tragedy, and scientific discovery, Buddy Levy's Empire of Ice and Stone tells the story of two men and two distinctively different brands of leadership—one selfless, one self-serving—and how they would forever be bound by one of the most audacious and disastrous expeditions in polar history, considered the last great voyage of the Heroic Age of Discovery.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250274451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
National Outdoor Book Awards Winner The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world’s greatest living ice navigator. The expedition’s visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame.Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again.Twenty-two men and an Inuit woman with two small daughters now stood on a mile-square ice floe, their ship and their original leader gone. Under Bartlett’s leadership they built make-shift shelters, surviving the freezing darkness of Polar night. Captain Bartlett now made a difficult and courageous decision. He would take one of the young Inuit hunters and attempt a 1000-mile journey to save the shipwrecked survivors. It was their only hope. Set against the backdrop of the Titanic disaster and World War I, filled with heroism, tragedy, and scientific discovery, Buddy Levy's Empire of Ice and Stone tells the story of two men and two distinctively different brands of leadership—one selfless, one self-serving—and how they would forever be bound by one of the most audacious and disastrous expeditions in polar history, considered the last great voyage of the Heroic Age of Discovery.
Among Unknown Eskimo
Author: Julian W. Bilby
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company
ISBN:
Category : Baffin Island (N.W.T.)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Narrative description of living conditions and culture of the Eskimo of Baffin Island in the early twentieth century.
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company
ISBN:
Category : Baffin Island (N.W.T.)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Narrative description of living conditions and culture of the Eskimo of Baffin Island in the early twentieth century.
Life After Wreck, A Memoir
Author: LB Sedlacek
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329916743
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
People don't drive cars through buildings - that's what I used to laugh and say when I would see it on TV or in the movies. But then, then it happened to me. I wasn't in the car. I was in the building. And I lived. My unborn son lived. My father lived. This is my story ... my life after the wreck.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329916743
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
People don't drive cars through buildings - that's what I used to laugh and say when I would see it on TV or in the movies. But then, then it happened to me. I wasn't in the car. I was in the building. And I lived. My unborn son lived. My father lived. This is my story ... my life after the wreck.