Oliver: 3228 books

Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the new cataloguing standard that will replace the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR). The 2010 release of RDA is not the release of a revised standard; it represents a shift in the understanding of the cataloguing process. Author Chris Oliver, Cataloguing...

Zayn Malik shocked the world in 2015 when he left One Direction. When the biggest boy band on the planet formed in 2010, few could have expected the furor this would cause! Follow Zayn from his childhood to his stardom in One Direction-a group that put out a string of number-one hits-and see what...

Author's note: I'm in my mid-eighties, and I've just finished writing this collection of poems drawn from my boyhood years. They're not poems about my early life-they're poems from my early life. Each poem arose from a separate journey. I went back, became the boy I once was, then took a snapshot...

The book is the first ethnographic study of international retirement migration and offers a sometimes surprising picture of the potentials, seductions and limitations of the lifestyles. People envision retirement as freedom from responsibilities through shedding the restrictive shackles of their former...

Addressing a neglected dimension in postcolonial scholarship, Oliver Lovesey examines the figure of the postcolonial intellectual as repeatedly evoked by the fabled troika of Said, Spivak, and Bhabha and by members of the pan-African diaspora such as Cabral, Fanon, and James. Lovesey’s primary focus...

James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and first African American executive of the NAACP. Originally published anonymously in 1912, Johnson’s novel The Autobiography...

安妮（「故事：寫給所有人的歷史」網站「安妮的午茶八卦時間」專欄作家）：「這本書最有趣的地方在於，它讓我看見，文學作品其實片段地反映了歷史的發展，將這些片段串聯起來，就是一部大歷史。」 有卦快進！ 《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》的作者，其實是個不折不扣的數理宅男？ 王爾德的感情生活比他的作品還精彩千百倍？ 吳爾芙第一次出版的作品，是為家裡的狗兒寫訃聞？ 除了知名作家的八卦軼事，更能從中看見縱橫3000年的西方文明史 歡迎光臨祕密圖書館：專業講師導覽，探尋書籍背後鮮為人知的祕密，愛書人的歷史獵奇之旅 ●揭露知名作家的八卦趣聞，展示名著未曾見光的面向 ●藏在書架上塵封已久的作品，可能是穿越時間的珍寶 ●從中看見縱橫3000年的西方文明史 ●深入探究書的世界，發掘各式各樣新奇有趣的故事 你知道嗎？ 愛倫坡在世時賣得最好的作品，是一本探討貝類和蝸牛的書； 現存最古老的笑話集已有超過1500年歷史，而且笑話結構和現在大同小異； 文藝復興時代風靡全歐洲的暢銷書，是在教爸媽如何教養小孩； 《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》的作者，其實是個不折不扣的數理宅男； 安徒生曾經在狄更斯家當了三週米蟲，逼得狄更斯與他絕交！ 《愛書人的神奇旅行》，發掘許多鮮為人知的軼聞趣事，從文學作品中挑選最有意思的例證，重新認識造就西方文明的奇妙環節。 當被詢問到，如果被送到荒島上，想要帶什麼書去的時候，英國作家與文學評論家卻斯特頓（G....

Armed with speakers, turntables, light systems, and records, Filipino American mobile DJ crews, such as Ultimate Creations, Spintronix, and Images, Inc., rocked dance floors throughout the San Francisco Bay Area from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. In Legions of Boom noted music and pop culture...

An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by the Irish novelist,playwright and poet,Oliver Goldsmith.

Gute Dialoge zu schreiben ist für jeden Drehbuchautor eine Herausforderung und muss ständig aufs Neue trainiert werden: Der Dialog ist neben den visuellen Ausdrucksformen das ultimative Mittel, um Figuren Leben einzuhauchen und Szenen packend, rührend oder witzig zu gestalten. Der erfahrene Autor...

A delightful musical romp! A young woman discovers that she is actually a modern day Valkyrie, and that her Father and Mother are an ancient Norse God and Goddess. This is also a book about show business, love, hope, gangsters, and the efforts to make dreams come true. I call it a musical comedy,...

Wieder haben Deutschlands beste Krimiautoren zugeschlagen: Am Bahnhof Zoo, am Brandenburger Tor oder am Alex. Einfach überall. In der Hauptstadt türmen sich die Leichen. Die Bestsellerautoren Sebastian Fitzek und Michel Birbæk haben die Messer gewetzt, der Friedrich-Glauser-Preisträger Christoph...

She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith that was first performed in London in 1773. The play is a favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in Britain and the United States. It is one of the few plays from the 18th century to have an enduring appeal,...

The Deserted Village is a poem by Oliver Goldsmith published in 1770. It is a work of social commentary, and condemns rural depopulation and the pursuit of excessive wealth. The location of the poem's deserted village is unknown, but the description may have been influenced by Goldsmith's...