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Make Some Noise: The mind-blowing guide to all things music by the world’s funniest band
by The Horne Section*The funniest band in the world, The Horne Section (fronted by Taskmaster's Alex Horne), tell you everything you need to know to be a music genius - with bizarre tales, absurd history and unbelievable facts.*'An explosion of silliness . . the whole family will get something from it' Guardian on The Horne Section TV showWith FUNNY tales, ABSURD history and UNBELIEVABLE facts, this mind-blowing guide to music can help anyone become a sound-making sensation.In this book, you'll find answers to those all-important questions, such as:- Why is cabbage the key to musical genius?- Which is the fartiest of all the instruments?- Which song has the FUNNIEST lyrics of all time?Band leader Alex Horne has also added some special tasks throughout the book, so readers will be making their own music in no time at all - without even leaving the house!
Make Your Life Worthwhile
by Emmet FoxHere are brief, pointed, practical instructions in successful living to help achieve real health, happiness, prosperity, greater security, andpeace of mind. In clear, concise terms, Emmet Fox outlines the sevenmental laws that are the stepping stones to full realization of the inner, spiritual Power which ties within the reach of anyone who sincerely wants it and who is willing to apply the principles set forth. Make Your Life Worthwhile reveals how you can put these principles to immediate use to begin transforming your life.Dr. Fox explains the eleven key words in the Bible and discusses what the Bible has to say about successful living, showing how its wisdom can become a part of your everyday life.This is a lifetime plan for tapping into the great spiritual truths that underlie, everyday existence and applying them to: Reach through to true spiritual Power * Use your own inner resources more fully * Overcome difficulties * Become a dynamic person * Achieve what you really desire * Pray unselfishly * Get results with positive thinking * Make the most of the present moment * Enhance spiritual growth and material well-being * Build confidence in yourself * Understand your unique role in God's unfolding purpose * and much more.
Make Your Life Worthwhile
by Emmet FoxHere are brief, pointed, practical instructions in successful living to help achieve real health, happiness, prosperity, greater security, andpeace of mind. In clear, concise terms, Emmet Fox outlines the sevenmental laws that are the stepping stones to full realization of the inner, spiritual Power which ties within the reach of anyone who sincerely wants it and who is willing to apply the principles set forth. Make Your Life Worthwhile reveals how you can put these principles to immediate use to begin transforming your life.Dr. Fox explains the eleven key words in the Bible and discusses what the Bible has to say about successful living, showing how its wisdom can become a part of your everyday life.This is a lifetime plan for tapping into the great spiritual truths that underlie, everyday existence and applying them to: Reach through to true spiritual Power * Use your own inner resources more fully * Overcome difficulties * Become a dynamic person * Achieve what you really desire * Pray unselfishly * Get results with positive thinking * Make the most of the present moment * Enhance spiritual growth and material well-being * Build confidence in yourself * Understand your unique role in God's unfolding purpose * and much more.
Mankind, Nation and Individual
by Otto JespersenThis book was first published in 1947, Mankind, Nation and Individual is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.
Manual of Book Classification and Display: For Public Libraries (Library Manuals #9)
by Ernest A. SavageThis book, first published in 1946, lays out the tools a librarian has to organize books for use and to make them productive. The methods of classing, cataloguing, indexing, personal guidance, display and publicity are directed to one end, the making know of books and their contents.
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood: How I Grew, Intellectual Memoirs (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
by Mary McCarthyTracing her moral struggles to the day she accidentally took a sip of water before her Communion—a mortal sin—Mary McCarthy gives us eight funny and heartrending essays about the illusive and redemptive nature of memory&“During the course of writing this, I&’ve often wished that I were writing fiction.&”Originally published in large part as standalone essays in the New Yorker and Harper&’s Bazaar, Mary McCarthy&’s acclaimed memoir begins with her recollections of a happy childhood cut tragically short by the death of her parents during the influenza epidemic of 1918.Tempering memory with invention, McCarthy describes how, orphaned at six, she spent much of her childhood shuttled between two sets of grandparents and three religions—Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish. One of four children, she suffered abuse at the hands of her great-aunt and uncle until she moved to Seattle to be raised by her maternal grandparents. Early on, McCarthy lets the reader in on her secret: The chapter you just read may not be wholly reliable—facts have been distilled through the hazy lens of time and distance.In Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, McCarthy pays homage to the past and creates hope for the future. Reminiscent of Nabokov&’s Speak, Memory, this is a funny, honest, and unsparing account blessed with the holy sacraments of forgiveness, love, and redemption.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy including rare images from the author&’s estate.
Methods of Mathematical Physics
by Harold Jeffreys Bertha SwirlesThis well-known text and reference contains an account of those mathematical methods that have applications in at least two branches of physics. The authors give examples of the practical use of the methods taken from a wide range of physics, including dynamics, hydrodynamics, elasticity, electromagnetism, heat conduction, wave motion and quantum theory. They pay particular attention to the conditions under which theorems hold. Helpful exercises accompany each chapter.
Miniature Schnauzer
by Lee SheehanThe experts at Kennel Club Books present the world's largest series of breed-specific canine care books. Each critically acclaimed Comprehensive Owner's Guide covers everything from breed standards to behavior, from training to health and nutrition. With nearly 200 titles in print, this series is sure to please the fancier of even the rarest breed!
Mistress Masham's Repose
by T. H. White"She saw: first, a square opening, about eight inches wide, in the lowest step...finally she saw that there was a walnut shell, or half one, outside the nearest door...she went to look at the shell--but looked with the greatest astonishment. There was a baby in it."So ten-year-old Maria, orphaned mistress of Malplaquet, discovers the secret of her deteriorating estate: on a deserted island at its far corner, in the temple long ago nicknamed Mistress Masham's Repose, live an entire community of people--"The People," as they call themselves--all only inches tall. With the help of her only friend--the absurdly erudite Professor--Maria soon learns that this settlement is no less than the kingdom of Lilliput (first seen in Gulliver's Travels) in exile. Safely hidden for centuries, the Lilliputians are at first endangered by Maria's well-meaning but clumsy attempts to make their lives easier, but their situation grows truly ominous when they are discovered by Maria's greedy guardians, who look at The People and see only a bundle of money.
Mitos, leyendas y cuentos peruanos
by Francisco Izquierdo Ríos José María ArguedasUna amplia y cuidada recopilación de relatos tradicionales de todas las regiones del PerúEste libro está compuesto por narraciones populares recogidas por maestros y alumnos de las tres regiones geográficas del Perú: costa, sierra y selva, seleccionadas y anotadas por José María Arguedas y Francisco Izquierdo Ríos, ambos comprometidos con el rescate y la valoración de la literatura oral peruana.Reseña: «Este libro, publicado originalmente en 1947, es el germen de algo con lo que Arguedas soñó como etnólogo, escritor y artista hasta sus últimos días: una recopilación de literatura oral amplia, intensiva, nunca completa por abundante, y plena de la expresión del espíritu de los pueblos que componen el Perú». Sybila Arredondo de Arguedas
Mongolian Journey (Routledge Revivals)
by Henning HaslundOriginally published in 1946, Mongolian Journey follows Henning Haslund's trip across Mongolia, inspired by the 'desire to see what was hidden on the other side of the farthest of all known passes.' It includes chapters on the younger generation of Mongolia, robber life in Mongolia, and Jasaktu Land, among many others.
More Deadly than the Male
by James Hadley ChaseGeorge Fraser, a lonely, timid fellow, lives in a dream world of gangsters, gunfights and beautiful women. He begins to imagine himself as the toughest gangster of them all to bolster up his feeling of inferiority. But George boasts once too often - and to the wrong person.From that moment on, harmless George is caught up in a deadly net of intrigue, and finds himself committing the deadliest act of all ...'An intelligent and harshly revealing piece of work with not a little serious penetration and power' The Times
More Was Lost
by Eleanor Perenyi J. D. McClatchyBest known for her classic gardening book Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, Eleanor Perényi had quite a wordly life before settling down in Connecticut with her flowers. More Was Lost is a memoir of her youth abroad, written in the early days of World War II after her return to the United States. In 1937, at the age of nineteen, in the midst of a European tour with her mother, Perényi falls in love with a poor Hungarian baron and in short order acquires both a title and a struggling country estate at the edge of the Carpathians. She throws herself into this new agrarian life with zeal, learning Hungarian, and observing the invisible order of the Czech rule, the resentment of the native Ruthenians, and the haughtiness of the dispossessed Hungarians. In the midst of massive political upheaval and shifting allegiances, Perényi and her husband remain steadfast in their dedication to their new life together, an alliance that would soon be tested by the war. With old-fashioned ease, frankness, and wit, Perényi recounts this tragic tale of how much was gained and how much more was lost.
Mr. President
by Miguel Ángel AsturiasNobel Prize–winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias&’s masterpiece—the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism—in its first new English translation in more than half a century, featuring a foreword by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa A Penguin ClassicIn an unnamed country, an egomaniacal dictator schemes to dispose of a political adversary and maintain his grip on power. As tyranny takes hold, everyone is forced to choose between compromise and death. Inspired by life under the regime of President Manuel Estrada Cabrera of Guatemala, where it was banned for many years, and infused with exuberant lyricism, Mayan symbolism, and Guatemalan vernacular, Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias&’s magnum opus is at once a surrealist masterpiece, a blade-sharp satire of totalitarianism, and a gripping portrait of psychological terror.
Murder in Peking
by Vincent StarrettA house party in 1930s Peking is crashed by a killer in this cozy mystery by the author of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.Wealthy businesswoman Kate Webber has rented out an ancient Buddhist temple in the lonely hills west of the city for what looks to be an exciting party. A worldly woman like Kate has all sorts of friends. Among her guests are a museum curator, a painter, a local teacher, an old school friend from Kansas, a debonaire mystery novelist, a travel writer, and even a Hollywood film director. The evening begins easily with smiles, cocktails, and colorful conversations. But the frivolity vanishes instantly with one piercing scream . . .When the body of a guest is discovered in one of the bedrooms, infamous amateur detective Hope Johnson is on the scene to investigate. With his eye for detail, Johnson aims to uncover which of the other partygoers is a killer. And he better hurry before the night takes an even deadlier turn for the worse . . . Murder in Peking was originally published in 1937 as The Laughing Buddha.
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
by Joseph Campbell Heinrich Robert ZimmerThis book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legend, myth, and folklore, taken directly from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image-thinking and picture-reading in Indian art and thought, and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of life and death recognizable not merely as Oriental but as universal elements.
Nervous Disorders And Character: A Study in Pastoral Psychology and Psychotherapy (International Library Of Psychology Ser.)
by McKENZIE, John GFirst published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Nightmare Alley
by Nick Tosches William Lindsay GreshamNightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a freak-show geek--alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd's gleeful disgust and derision--going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There's no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him.And since Stan is clever and ambitious and not without a useful streak of ruthlessness, soon enough he's going places. Onstage he plays the mentalist with a cute bimbo (before long his harried wife), then he graduates to full-blown spiritualist, catering to the needs of the rich and gullible in their well-upholstered homes. It looks like the world is Stan's for the taking. At least for now.
Not My Will: How Much Will Surrender Cost
by Francena H. ArnoldEleanor's secret love for Chad could mean losing her inheritance and giving up a life-long dream. Will she follow her own will, or make the hard choice to submit her life to Christ's leadership? Now available with a contemporary new look, Not My Will is a classic story of love, loss, and surrender, with more than 500,000 copies sold.
Not My Will: How Much Will Surrender Cost
by Francena H. ArnoldEleanor's secret love for Chad could mean losing her inheritance and giving up a life-long dream. Will she follow her own will, or make the hard choice to submit her life to Christ's leadership? Now available with a contemporary new look, Not My Will is a classic story of love, loss, and surrender, with more than 500,000 copies sold.
Nothing But Murder
by William RougheadWithin lie twelve vintage tales of true crime by master essayist William Roughead. Henry James himself once urged Roughead: &“Keep on with them all please, and continue to beckon me along the gallery that I can&’t tread alone and where, by your leave, I link my arm fraternally in yours: the gallery of sinister perspective just stretches in this manner straight away.&”Here you will find such Roughead classics as My First Murder: Featuring Jessie King, the crime that fortuitously set Mr. Roughead&’s steps toward matters criminous, Locusta in Scotland, a familiar survey of poisoning as practiced in the realm. The Fatal Countess, a Jacobean royal flush of didoes in high places; Physic and Forgery: A Study in Confidence, and many more capital crimes old and new, but all revealed with that dry wit and mellow artistry that is the mark of fine wine or writing.Above all you must not miss Mr.Roughead&’s ensemble by the entire company entitled, An Academic Discussion wherein his best known murders sit in judgment on the qualities of their crimes and discuss the artistry of their chosen métier.
On Learning Golf: A Valuable Guide to Better Golf
by Percy BoomerThe War & Peace of golf. A quaint old classic from 1946, with an intro by the Duke of Windsor. It's good advice, and seriously, this game has hardly changed a whit in 50 years!From the Hardcover edition.
On Music and Musicians
by Robert SchumannEdited by Konraad WolffTranslated by Paul RosenfeldWith twenty black-and-white illustrationsSchumann&’s literary gifts and interests almost equaled his musical ones. From boyhood on he was drawn to literary expression, and his writings on music belong to the best among the romantic literature of the 19th century. The same fire, poetry, directness of expression, the same inventiveness we love in his compositions, also animated his prose.This edition for the first time groups his articles and observations according to subject matter and individual composers. It is complete as far as Schumann&’s writings on the great composers are concerned. All his reviews of the works by the masters, from Beethoven to Brahms, are included, some of them translated for the first time into English.
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief, 1946–1961
by Mary McCarthyMary McCarthy, one of our most brilliant and beloved authors, serves up wit, insight, and her unique worldview in this diverse collection of essaysIn provocatively titled pieces such as &“The Contagion of Ideas,&” &“Tyranny of the Orgasm,&” and &“No News, or,What Killed the Dog,&” Mary McCarthy expresses her frank, unflinching, often contrarian point of view.Nothing—and no one—is safe from her merciless writer&’s eye—from politics to the ever-changing social scene to the strengths and weaknesses of her native country, where she believes &“passivity and not aggressiveness is the dominant trait of the American character.&” On the Contrary also features a cast of memorable characters. In &“Naming Names,&” Arthur Miller&’s testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee results in an indictment for contempt of Congress. McCarthy reviews The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt&’s breakthrough book, and despairs of finding a &“really American place&” to take a visiting existentialist—a thinly disguised Simone de Beauvoir? From Dickens to Gandhi to the Kinsey Reports, with pithy and wide-ranging articles on everything from fashion to fiction, the human condition, religion, and sex, On the Contrary raises controversial questions to which, even today, there are no easy answers.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy including rare images from the author&’s estate.
Other Eyes Watching
by John Russell FearnFor is latest invention, physicist Mason Brooks needs financial backing. To this end, he invites his wealthy sister Vera and her fiancé, Dr Douglas Ashfield, to witness a demonstration. There is an explosion and the experiment goes horribly wrong, and Vera is not only blind but has lost her eyes entirely. Then, to restore her sight, Vera undergoes a dangerous surgical experiment which results in plunging all three of them into an astonishing web of mystery and intrigue...