A global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with them. If something is important, we write it down. Yet 85 of the worlds writing systems are on the verg...Loe edasi...
A global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with them. If something is important, we write it down. Yet 85 of the worlds writing systems are on the verg...Loe edasi...
How did a small, humble folk instrument become an American icon? How did the guitar come to represent freedom, the open road, protest and rebellion, the blues, youth, lost love, and sexuality? In this intensely personal memoir and informative hist...Loe edasi...
Brookes, known for his mastery of the English language, turns an account of the death of his mother into a work hailed as literature by book critics, and as moving testimony of the value of hospice care by leaders of the hospice movement....Loe edasi...
When baggage handlers destroy Tim Brookess guitar, he discovers that a dream guitar is built, not bought, and sets out to find someone to make him the perfect guitar. His quest takes him across the country, talking to historians, curators, and guita...Loe edasi...
Leslie Nielsen, Tim O'Connor, George Kennedy, David Zucker, O J Simpson, Robert Goulet, Richard Griffiths, Jacqueline Brookes, Anthony James, Lloyd Bochner...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-May-2005, DVD video, Kirjastus: Paramount-Sds, ISBN-13: 9780792166498)
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From the brother of the director of Ghost comes the only film bold enough and funny enough to be the sequel to The Naked Gun. Leslie Nielsen is back as Lt. Frank Drebin, whos on everybodys case while foiling a plot to undermine pending environmenta...Loe edasi...
What was it about a small, humble folk instrument that allowed it to become an American icon? The guitar is wall-to-wall popular in the United States, says Brookes in this chronicle of the guitar and how it became entwined with the history of America...Loe edasi...
What was it about a small, humble folk instrument that allowed it to become an American icon? The guitar is wall-to-wall popular in the United States, says Brookes in this chronicle of the guitar and how it became entwined with the history of America...Loe edasi...
While working on a doomed book about commuting, Tim Brookes developed an odd affection for dirt roads. This led him to study his own driveway, a tiny dirt road, a masterpiece of inconvenience, a many-mooded borderlands in the balance of power...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Apr-2005, Hardback, Kirjastus: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. - Grove/Atlantic, Inc. - Grove Press, ISBN-13: 9780802117960)
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When the author wasnt breathing over a guitar makers shoulder, he was trying to unravel the symbolic associations a guitar holds for musicians and nonmusicians alike. His quest took him across the country talking to historians, curators, and...Loe edasi...
