Full House
Title | Full House PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2011-10 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0674061616 |
Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this “full house” of variation, and not as the progress or degeneration of an average value, or single thing.
House Full
Title | House Full PDF eBook |
Author | Lakshmi Srinivas |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2016-08-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 022636173X |
India is the largest producer and consumer of feature films in the world, far outstripping Hollywood in the number of movies released and tickets sold every year. Cinema quite simply dominates Indian popular culture, and has for many decades exerted an influence that extends from clothing trends to music tastes to everyday conversations, which are peppered with dialogue quotes. With House Full, Lakshmi Srinivas takes readers deep into the moviegoing experience in India, showing us what it’s actually like to line up for a hot ticket and see a movie in a jam-packed theater with more than a thousand seats. Building her account on countless trips to the cinema and hundreds of hours of conversation with film audiences, fans, and industry insiders, Srinivas brings the moviegoing experience to life, revealing a kind of audience that, far from passively consuming the images on the screen, is actively engaged with them. People talk, shout, whistle, cheer; others sing along, mimic, or dance; at times audiences even bring some of the ritual practices of Hindu worship into the cinema, propitiating the stars onscreen with incense and camphor. The picture Srinivas paints of Indian filmgoing is immersive, fascinating, and deeply empathetic, giving us an unprecedented understanding of the audience’s lived experience—an aspect of Indian film studies that has been largely overlooked.
The Full House and the Empty House
Title | The Full House and the Empty House PDF eBook |
Author | L. K. James |
Publisher | Chicago Review Press-Ripple Grove Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780999024935 |
Despite their differences within, two houses are close friends.
The Full Moon at the Napping House
Title | The Full Moon at the Napping House PDF eBook |
Author | Audrey Wood |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 37 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0544308328 |
In this cumulative tale, a chirping cricket calms a worried mouse, a prowling cat, and other restless creatures, helping them to finally fall asleep.
Otto Tattercoat and the Forest of Lost Things
Title | Otto Tattercoat and the Forest of Lost Things PDF eBook |
Author | Matilda Woods |
Publisher | Scholastic UK |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2020-02-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1407185098 |
An enchanting, wintry middle grade adventure for fans of Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Abi Elphinstone. Otto lives in the frozen city of Hodeldorf, where an eternal winter has fallen. When his mother goes missing one morning, he must join forces with the Tattercoats, a gang of brave orphans, to find her. They will journey into a dark forest where witches lurk and sun dragons lie sleeping, on a heart-racing adventure that will chill you to the bone.
A House Full of Daughters
Title | A House Full of Daughters PDF eBook |
Author | Juliet Nicolson |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2016-06-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0374715327 |
A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita Sackville-West, her mother’s Tory-conventional background. But then Juliet, a distinguished historian, started to question. As she did so, she sifted fact from fiction, uncovering details and secrets long held just out of sight. A House Full of Daughters takes us through seven generations of women. In the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-siecle Washington D.C., an English boarding school during the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, the knife-edge that was New York City in the 1980s, these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right, but also as part of who she is and where she has come from. A House Full of Daughters is one woman’s investigation into the nature of family, memory, and the past. As Juliet finds uncomfortable patterns reflected in these distant and more recent versions of herself, she realizes her challenge is to embrace the good and reject the hazards that have trapped past generations.
A House Full of Fortunes!
Title | A House Full of Fortunes! PDF eBook |
Author | Judy Duarte |
Publisher | Harlequin |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2014-03-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0373658052 |
A family-focused cowboy falls hard for the most single gal in town! USA TODAY bestselling author Judy Duarte returns with a new installment of The Fortunes of Texas: Welcome to Horseback Hollow! Toby Fortune Jones has no problem with commitment. He's committed to his ranch, to his family and to the three foster children he's taken in! Lately, though, he can't seem to stop thinking about making a little time for dating. Specifically, one very particular, blue-eyed single gal... Twenty-four years old and Angie Edwards still can't figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. She's tried her hand at everything--even helping Toby out with his adorable brood on occasion. Folks in Horseback Hollow have called her the Queen of First Dates, but now she thinks she might have met her match in the sexy cowboy! Is she ready for true love--and a full house?