White Bones Red Rot Black Snakes

White Bones Red Rot Black Snakes
Author: Bhikkhu Sujato
Publisher: Bhikkhu Sujato
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2011-01-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1921842032

Enchanting, powerful, horrific, beautiful, wise, deadly, compassionate, seductive. Women in Buddhist story and image are all these things and more. She takes the signs of the ancient goddess - the lotus, the sacred grove, the serpent, the sacrifice - and uses them in astonishing new ways. Her story is one of suffering and great trials, and through it all an unquenchable longing to be free. This beautifully illustrated work is as layered and subversive as mythology itself. Based directly on authentic Buddhist texts, and informed with insights from psychology and comparative mythology, it takes a fresh look at how Buddhist women have been depicted by men and how they have depicted themselves.

Cambridge International AS and A Level English Language Coursebook

Cambridge International AS and A Level English Language Coursebook
Author: Mike Gould
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2014-08-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1107662273

Comprehensive student-friendly resources designed for teaching Cambridge International AS and A Level English Language (syllabus 9093). The core aim of this Coursebook is to help students to develop and apply the key skills they need to achieve in AS and A Level English Language. They will build the skills needed for assessment through frequent activities. Divided into two distinct parts for AS and A Level studies, the book covers a wide range of reading skills, such as understanding aspects of style, voice and tone. It also addresses the conventions of key kinds of writing and spoken language, from scripted speeches to travel articles, and looks at how they can capture these conventions in their own work.

Violets Are Blue

Violets Are Blue
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2001-11-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0759526540

Detective Alex Cross must confront his most terrifying nemesis ever -- and his own deepest fears -- in this electrifying thriller from the world's #1 bestselling writer. D.C. Detective Alex Cross has seen a lot of crime scenes. But even he is appalled by the gruesome murders of two joggers in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park-killings that look more like the work of savage beasts than humans. Local police are horrified and even the FBI is baffled. Then, as Cross is called in to take on the case, the carnage takes off, leaving a trail of bodies across America and sweeping him to Savannah, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Los Angeles as his nemesis, the merciless criminal known as the Mastermind, stalks him, taunts him, and once again, threatens everything he holds dear...

Roses Are Red

Roses Are Red
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2000-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0759521484

Alex Cross races against time as a series of crimes stuns Washington, D. C.—and he might be facing his most brilliant enemy yet. In a series of terrifying crimes, bank robbers have been laying out precise demands when they enter the building-and then killing the bank employees and their families if those instructions are not followed to the letter. Detective Alex Cross takes on the case, certain that this is no ordinary bank robber at work; the pathological need for control and perfection is too great. Cross is in the midst of a personal crisis at home, but the case becomes all-consuming as he learns that the Mastermind is plotting one huge, last, perfect crime.

Stylistics

Stylistics
Author: Paul Simpson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780415281041

This is a comprehensive introduction to literary stylistics offering an accessible overview of stylistic, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings - all in the same volume.

May I Quote You on That?

May I Quote You on That?
Author: Stephen Spector
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0190215283

A guide to English grammar and usage for the twenty-first century, pairing grammar rules with interesting and humorous quotations from American popular culture.

News of the Weird

News of the Weird
Author: Chuck Shepherd
Publisher: Plume Books
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780452263116

For news junkies and fans of the bizarre-but-true, here is an outrageous collection of all-real, all-weird news stories culled from the nation's mainstream newspapers. Line art throughout.

Until the Letter Came

Until the Letter Came
Author: Patricia Mary St. John
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Salvation
ISBN: 9781932381146

Illustrated Story adapted from Patricia St John's "The Secret of Pheasant Cottage"