Turned Out Nice Again

Author: Richard Mabey
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1847658954
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 55

Book Description
In his trademark style, Richard Mabey weaves together science, art and memoirs (including his own) to show the weather's impact on our culture and national psyche. He rambles through the myths of Golden Summers and our persistent state of denial about the winter; the Impressionists' love affair with London smog, seasonal affective disorder (SAD - do we all get it?) and the mysteries of storm migraines; herrings falling like hail in Norfolk and Saharan dust reddening south-coast cars; moonbows, dog-suns, fog-mirages and Constable's clouds; the fact that English has more words for rain than Inuit has for snow; the curious eccentricity of country clothing and the mathematical behaviour of umbrella sales. We should never apologise for our obsession with the weather. It is one of the most profound influences on the way we live, and something we all experience in common. No wonder it's the natural subject for a greeting between total strangers: 'Turned out nice again.'

Turned Out Nice Again

Author: Louis Barfe
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1848877579
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 505

Book Description
With a cast of thousands, including Peter Cook, Ken Dodd, Dusty Springfield, Spike Milligan, Rolf Harris, Bruce Forsyth, and Reeves and Mortimer, this book reveals a world of comedians and cavorters, dancing girls, and crooners. From the early days of vaudeville, via the golden age of radio, live television spectaculars, the rise of the chat show, and alternative comedy, Louis Barfe pulls back the curtain of variety to reveal the world of light entertainment in all its glory.

It's Turned Out Nice Again!

Author: Sue Smart
Publisher: Melrose Book Company
ISBN: 9781908645128
Category : Comedians
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
They were Music Hall aristocracy. George Formby senior was the first Northern comedian to gain a national reputation. The great Marie Lloyd maintained there were only two performers she would turn out to see - and he was one of them.

England’s Green

Author: David Matless
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789149711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 559

Book Description
A sweeping history of how ecological challenges have shaped English society over the last sixty years. England’s Green explores how environmental concerns have shaped and reflected English national identity since the 1960s. From agriculture to leisure, climate change, folklore, archaeology, and religion, David Matless shows how national environmental debates connect to the local, regional, global, and postcolonial worlds. Moving across a breadth of material including government policy, popular music, ecological polemic, and television comedy, England’s Green shows the richness and complexity of English environmental culture. Along the way, Matless tracks how today’s debates over climate and nature, land, and culture, have been molded by events over the past sixty years.

Hollywood Gold: Films of the Forties and Fifties

Author: John Howard Reid
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411635248
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Hollywood's Golden Era? I'd pick the period from 1939 through 1960. Here are 144 classic movies from this Golden Age of the Cinema, ranging (alphabetically) from "The Admiral Was a Lady" to "You Were Never Lovelier". Other films discussed in comprehensive detail (and with full background and release information) in this book include "The Adventures of Mark Twain", "The Chase", "Daisy Kenyon", "The Ghost of Frankenstein", "Humoresque", "In Old California", "Joan of Paris", "Letter from an Unknown Woman", "Magic Town", "Nightmare Alley", The Paradine Case", "Roughly Speaking", "The Scarlet Claw", "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and "You'll Never Get Rich".

In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works

Author: John Lennon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451625995
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
An omnibus edition of two works of John Lennon’s “fascinating…whimsy” (The Sunday Times, London) poetry, prose, and drawings that will “jolt [you] into gusts of laughter” (The Guardian). A humorous compilation of poetry, prose, and artwork from two of John Lennon’s classic works, In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works. Known as the Beatles’s Renaissance man, Lennon is widely regarded as one of the most impactful musicians in history. Originally published in 1964, this “quirky, funny collection of stories, poems, and drawings” (The New York Times) is a must-have for John Lennon and Beatles fans everywhere.

The Wood-worker

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Category : Woodwork
Languages : en
Pages : 808

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George Formby: Nazi Ghost Hunter

Author: Tupenny Longfeather
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326156446
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78

Book Description
George Formby was the cheeky chap from Lancashire who entertained the troops in WWII. He also had a secret life as an undercover agent battling the Nazis occult plots. Fighting everything from ghosts to vampires, this is the story of George Formby: Nazi Ghost Hunter.

Scientific American

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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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The Homestead

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Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1334

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