The Tale of Captain Jack Two Sugars and the 'King's Malt'
Author: Steve Halsey
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published:
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 0244208018
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Steve Halsey
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published:
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 0244208018
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jasper Fforde
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2004-08-03
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 110115862X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The third installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England—from the author of The Constant Rabbit Jasper Fforde has done it again in this genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment. After two rollicking New York Times bestselling adventures through Western literature, resourceful BookWorld literary detective Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. And what better place for a respite than in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots, where all unpublished books reside? But peace and quiet remain elusive for Thursday, who soon discovers that the Well is a veritable linguistic free-for-all, where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the black market, and lousy books—like the one she has taken up residence in—are scrapped for salvage. To make matters worse, a murderer is stalking the personnel of Jurisfiction and it’s up to Thursday to save the day. A brilliant feat of literary showmanship filled with wit, fantasy, and effervescent originality, this Ffordian tour de force will appeal to fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse.
Author: Robert Beverley
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-05-13
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1469607956
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earliest printed English-language histories about North America by an author born there. Like his brother-in-law William Byrd II, Beverley was a scion of Virginia's planter elite, personally ambitious and at odds with royal governors in the colony. As a native-born American--most famously claiming "I am an Indian--he provided English readers with the first thoroughgoing account of the province's past, natural history, Indians, and current politics and society. In this new edition, Susan Scott Parrish situates Beverley and his History in the context of the metropolitan-provincial political and cultural issues of his day and explores the many contradictions embedded in his narrative. Parrish's introduction and the accompanying annotation, along with a fresh transcription of the 1705 publication and a more comprehensive comparison of emendations in the 1722 edition, will open Beverley's History to new, twenty-first-century readings by students of transatlantic history, colonialism, natural science, literature, and ethnohistory.
Author: Michael Moss
Publisher: Signal
Published: 2013-02-26
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 0771057091
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the troubling story of the rise of the processed food industry -- and how it used salt, sugar, and fat to addict us. Salt Sugar Fat is a journey into the highly secretive world of the processed food giants, and the story of how they have deployed these three essential ingredients, over the past five decades, to dominate the North American diet. This is an eye-opening book that demonstrates how the makers of these foods have chosen, time and again, to double down on their efforts to increase consumption and profits, gambling that consumers and regulators would never figure them out. With meticulous original reporting, access to confidential files and memos, and numerous sources from deep inside the industry, it shows how these companies have pushed ahead, despite their own misgivings (never aired publicly). Salt Sugar Fat is the story of how we got here, and it will hold the food giants accountable for the social costs that keep climbing even as some of the industry's own say, "Enough already."
Author: Leonard Maltin
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781595821195
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Portions of this book originally appeared in issues of Leonard Maltin's movie crazy"--T.p. verso.
Author: James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
Publisher:
Published: 1842
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Eric Schlosser
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0547750331
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.