The folk songs will conjure up old memories and create new ones for generations to come. The dust jacket has a few exterior tears, creases and bends, but overall very nice.Ī very collectible, vintage songbook with amazing illustrations. It is in excellent condition with a very sweet inscription by its former owner on the inside front cover. It measures 11.25" high and 8.25" wide with 323 pages. This is a very clean, hardcover copy and comes with its original dust jacket. Originally written in 1947, this is the 1974 edition…the "New Edition With Guitar Chords." This vintage songbook includes "147 of the great ballads and old favorites…sea shanties, cowboy songs and hymns, railroad songs, songs of valor, spirituals and Christmas carols." The songs were selected and edited by Margaret Bradford Boni, illustrated by Alie and Martin Provensen and arranged for the piano and the guitar by Norman Lloyd. Fireside Book of Folk Songs Hardcover Songbook w/ DJ Guitar Chords Edition ~ Excellent Condition. books in your cart Explore More FIRESIDE BOOK OF FOLK SONGS Selected and Edited by Margaret Bradford Boni.
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An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose 5/13/2023 0 Comments The flesh eaters la morseSexual cannibalism is common among species with prominent sexual size dimorphism (SSD) extreme SSD likely drives this trait of sexual cannibalism in spiders. There is also evidence of sexual cannibalism in gastropods and copepods. Sexual cannibalism is common among insects, arachnids and amphipods. Females of cannibalistic species are generally hostile and unwilling to mate thus many males of these species have developed adaptive behaviors to counteract female aggression. In many species that exhibit sexual cannibalism, the female consumes the male upon detection. This behavior is believed to have evolved as a manifestation of sexual conflict, occurring when the reproductive interests of males and females differ. 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The book tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, an 11-year-old Black girl, who prays to be blond and blue-eyed believing it will free her from the abuse in her life and that her family will love her. “Your book is so great, your perception so deep and clear and your poetry-ah your poetry while reading, no better, being in your book, I was entranced, hypnotized yet aware. “‘The Bluest Eye’ is just closed and while your magic is still living here around me, I’m obliged to write you,” stated scholar, poet, filmmaker, and writer Maya Angelou in a 1971 letter of Morrison. 5/13/2023 0 Comments The Idiot Brain by Dean BurnettThis is lucid, funny and smart: in short, the best kind of popular science. alcohol can sometimes improve your memory?ĭean Burnett’s unpredictable and entertaining first book explores the unexpected side of everyday life, highlighting where conventional thinking is wrong and how our brains trip us up at every turn.the way the brain’s processing works means that time really does fly if you’re having fun?.Expertly researched and entertainingly written, this. In The Idiot Brain neuroscientist Dean Burnett celebrates the imperfections of the human brain in all their glory, and the impact of these quirks on our daily lives. the brain’s limitations mean you really can miss something that’s right under your nose? For something supposedly so brilliant and evolutionarily advanced, the human brain is pretty messy, fallible and disorganised.conspiracy theories and superstitions stem from your brain’s insistence that the world isn’t random?.stress can actually increase your performance at a task?.In The Idiot Brain, Dean Burnett celebrates the downright laughable things our minds do to us, as well as exposing the fact that people are often way off in their thinking about how the brain works. It’s undeniably impressive, but it’s far from perfect, and these imperfections influence everything that humans say, do and experience. The brain may be the seat of consciousness and the engine of all human experience, but it’s also messy, fallible and disorganized. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Edgerton the shock of the oldShock of the Old forces us to reassess the significance of old inventions such as corrugated iron and sewing machines and rethink the relative importance we place on the invention of something new, its application, and its widespread adoption. More horses were used in the Second World War than any other war in history and propeller planes continue to take off from the same runways as jets. I Letters exist alongside emails and outlasted telegrams we still make physical books and magazines despite the rise of the Internet - a belated rise considering that the technologies that made it possible was invented in 1965, and bookshops thrive despite Amazon. Shock of the Old is not one of those histories. They split history into ages - electrification, motorisation, and computerisation - and rarely ask whether anyone bothered to use these inventions at the time. does exactly that on almost every page' GuardianStandard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual inventions, inventors, and dates, framing technology as the inevitable march of progress. 'It's rare for a book to make you see the world differently, but this. The month my mom recommended it but didn’t win the favor of the random integer generator, she commented saying, “I will have to send you a copy of MY book and then I can cut in line.”Īnd in delightful Mom fashion, she did just that. The next two months, Diana Banana did the same. The very first month that I did Tell Me What to Read, Emily suggested These is my Words. People, I had a copy of this book at home, and I still had to do this. And then the very same day I finished the book, I was at the library and I absolutely had to pick up their copy and reread my favorite bits. There are likely not enough gushing, rhapsodic words in my vocabulary to talk about this book, but oh, I intend to make a valiant effort.īefore I’d even finished the book, I was flipping back to reread my favorite sections. I almost cannot contain myself long enough to write this post. This is the book I’ll recommend for a long time when people ask me for a title. I haven’t put together my list of the top books I’ve read this year, but there is absolutely no question in my mind that These is my Words will be on it. |