2012, ISBN: 9781236528506

London: Picador, 2009. UNCORRECTED BOOK PROOF. Book in FINE condition. Product Description Jean Clocker is conceived by her mother Wisteria only as a means to entrap a damaged First Wor… Más…

London: Picador, 2009. UNCORRECTED BOOK PROOF. Book in FINE condition. Product Description Jean Clocker is conceived by her mother Wisteria only as a means to entrap a damaged First World War veteran into marriage. Having achieved wedlock but failed in her plan to rid herself of the now-redundant snare, Wisteria visits maternal tyranny on Jean with enthusiasm and diabolical skill. Born of rage and envy, into a body as epic as the life she will live, Jean spends her early years avoiding her mother's blows and striving to make herself just a little less extraordinary. She is finally released from servitude in the opening days of the Second World War. Orphaned, she thrives in wartime, all the while fearing the return of normality and its accompanying and impossible condition of conformity. It is Denny, a tiny and impossibly charistmatic GI with a reverence for size, who facilitates her second liberation, as he takes her across the ocean as his bride. But in California, he disappears without warning, and Jean is required once more to negotiate the world on her own. "Little Gods" is dark, comic and deeply romantic. At times reminiscent of the work of John Irving and Michael Chabon, it is one of the most original, moving and inventive novels of recent years.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Galley/Proof., Picador, 2009, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...in the cruciform arrangement of their furrows. Each possesses a hypoconulid but displays advanced characters in certain respects. The transverse ridge between protoconid and metaconid is quite pronounced. The occlusal surface is narrower than the crown itself. The hypoconulid tends to be subdivided. In addition to these advanced features of individual teeth the purely human character of an angle between the antero-posterior axis of the first lower molar and that of the second is present. All the teeth are well rounded and are subequal in antero-posterior length. An interesting feature reminiscent of the Eocene Primates and found also as a small tubercle in the Gorilla molar is a small sixth cusp between the metaconid and the entoconid. Having drawn attention to the main distinctive marks of the Aurignacian and Neandertal dentitions it may be asked if the latter shows in reality any features not to be observed in some at least of modern crania. There is no doubt that every feature discussed can also be found in any fair-sized collection of recent skulls although perhaps the extent and blending of the features will not be the same. It might seem, therefore, that the Neandertal type is really ancestral to our own race as indeed has been and is the view of many anatomists; that all human races have passed at some period or other of their history through a Neandertal stage. This is a question difficult to settle in any case and quite impossible if we consider only the teeth. Stress has been laid upon the fact that there seems to be an unusually large number of specialized features, many lhem present to a pronounced degree, in the dentition of dertal Man. More than this we know that he could not be the direct ancestor at least of Aurignacian Man since both lived ... Weight:0.32 lbs, RareBooksClub.com, 5/14/2012 0:00:00, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893* edition. Excerpt: ...matches for years. The last time I saw him was when JI played at.Malton, in 1885, at which time he looked the picture of health, and I was much surprised to hear of his death a few years later. I have times and often said that the best fast The County of York. 137 bowler I ever either saw or played against was. George Freeman, and have often been laughed at for saying so by people who never in their lives knew the right end of a bat; but I am delighted to find that Dr. W. G. Grace is of the same opinion as myself. If ever one bowler troubled me more than another that bowler was Freeman, and I have many times had the inside of my right leg black and blue where he has hit me time after time when it has been impossible to follow his break with the bat, so quickly did each ball come from the pitch. It has been a matter of regret by the cricketloving public that business has caused the absence of this splendid bowler from the cricket field on many occasions. At one time Freeman was also a very useful batsman. Yorkshire was now rich in bowling, Allan Hill being a fast right hand, straight as a line; and who that knew him will ever forget the renowned Tom Emmett? Tom was undoubtedly one of the best allround men of his day, for as a bowler he was always well in the front rank, and has many times got large scores with the bat. The last time I had the pleasure of playing with him was against the Australians, at Skegness, in 1886. One of the best batsmen this county ever had was Ephraim Lockwood. With a most stubborn defence he could always hit hard, especially on the off-side, his cutting being simply perfection. He was also at one time a good slow round-arm bowler. Yorkshire was fortunate in possessing for so many years such a wicket-keeper as George... Weight:0.25 lbs, RareBooksClub.com, 6/27/2012 0:00:00<

2012, ISBN: 9781236528506

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Más…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...in the cruciform arrangement of their furrows. Each possesses a hypoconulid but displays advanced characters in certain respects. The transverse ridge between protoconid and metaconid is quite pronounced. The occlusal surface is narrower than the crown itself. The hypoconulid tends to be subdivided. In addition to these advanced features of individual teeth the purely human character of an angle between the antero-posterior axis of the first lower molar and that of the second is present. All the teeth are well rounded and are subequal in antero-posterior length. An interesting feature reminiscent of the Eocene Primates and found also as a small tubercle in the Gorilla molar is a small sixth cusp between the metaconid and the entoconid. Having drawn attention to the main distinctive marks of the Aurignacian and Neandertal dentitions it may be asked if the latter shows in reality any features not to be observed in some at least of modern crania. There is no doubt that every feature discussed can also be found in any fair-sized collection of recent skulls although perhaps the extent and blending of the features will not be the same. It might seem, therefore, that the Neandertal type is really ancestral to our own race as indeed has been and is the view of many anatomists; that all human races have passed at some period or other of their history through a Neandertal stage. This is a question difficult to settle in any case and quite impossible if we consider only the teeth. Stress has been laid upon the fact that there seems to be an unusually large number of specialized features, many lhem present to a pronounced degree, in the dentition of dertal Man. More than this we know that he could not be the direct ancestor at least of Aurignacian Man since both lived ... Weight:0.32 lbs, RareBooksClub.com, 5/14/2012 0:00:00, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893* edition. Excerpt: ...matches for years. The last time I saw him was when JI played at.Malton, in 1885, at which time he looked the picture of health, and I was much surprised to hear of his death a few years later. I have times and often said that the best fast The County of York. 137 bowler I ever either saw or played against was. George Freeman, and have often been laughed at for saying so by people who never in their lives knew the right end of a bat; but I am delighted to find that Dr. W. G. Grace is of the same opinion as myself. If ever one bowler troubled me more than another that bowler was Freeman, and I have many times had the inside of my right leg black and blue where he has hit me time after time when it has been impossible to follow his break with the bat, so quickly did each ball come from the pitch. It has been a matter of regret by the cricketloving public that business has caused the absence of this splendid bowler from the cricket field on many occasions. At one time Freeman was also a very useful batsman. Yorkshire was now rich in bowling, Allan Hill being a fast right hand, straight as a line; and who that knew him will ever forget the renowned Tom Emmett? Tom was undoubtedly one of the best allround men of his day, for as a bowler he was always well in the front rank, and has many times got large scores with the bat. The last time I had the pleasure of playing with him was against the Australians, at Skegness, in 1886. One of the best batsmen this county ever had was Ephraim Lockwood. With a most stubborn defence he could always hit hard, especially on the off-side, his cutting being simply perfection. He was also at one time a good slow round-arm bowler. Yorkshire was fortunate in possessing for so many years such a wicket-keeper as George... Weight:0.25 lbs, RareBooksClub.com, 6/27/2012 0:00:00<