Neither Nowt Nor Summat

Author: Ian McMillan
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473503213
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
I’m going to define the essence of this sprawling place as best I can. I’m going to start here, in this village, and radiate out like a ripple in a pond. I don’t want to go to the obvious places, either; I want to be like a bus driver on my first morning on the job, getting gloriously lost, turning up where I shouldn’t. I’m going to confirm or deny the clichés, holding them up to see where the light gets in. Yorkshire people are tight. Yorkshire people are arrogant. Yorkshire people eat a Yorkshire pudding before every meal. Yorkshire people solder a t’ before every word they use... If there were such a thing as a professional Yorkshireman, Ian McMillan would be it. He’s regularly consulted as a home-grown expert, and southerners comment archly on his ‘fruity Yorkshire brogue’. But he has been keeping a secret. His dad was from Lanarkshire, Scotland, making him, as he puts it, only ‘half tyke’. So Ian is worried; is he Yorkshire enough? To try to understand what this means Ian embarks on a journey around the county, starting in the village has lived in his entire life. With contributions from the Cudworth Probus Club, a kazoo playing train guard, Mad Geoff the barber and four Saddleworth council workers looking for a mattress, Ian tries to discover what lies at the heart of Britain’s most distinct county and its people, as well as finding out whether the Yorkshire Pudding is worthy of becoming a UNESCO Intangible Heritage Site, if Harrogate is really, really, in Yorkshire and, of course, who knocks up the knocker up?

A Dictionary of North East Dialect

Author: Bill Griffiths
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458784843
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 602

Book Description
As entertaining as it is informative, this dictionary offers records and explanations of a northern English dialect. The research presents information about words that go back as far as the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings as well as those present in today's vernacular. Ideal for anyone interested in English etymology, this reference is thorough and essential.

Inferno

Author: Dante Alighieri
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446484483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Welcome to Hell. One evening, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan, where Dante witnesses the strange and gruesome sufferings of the damned. Written while Dante was in exile and under threat of being burned at the stake, this dramatic, frightening and, at times, sardonically humorous vision of Hell still has the power to shock and horrify

Naive Occasional Papers. Volume One

Author: Stanley Graham
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1446654060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
The first volume of my collected essays. Unashamedly self-centred but nevertheless considered comment on my world and society. They are intended to be used as future evidence for at least one man's view of life. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed the writing.400 pages with over 100 illustrations.

Primitive Piety: A Journey from Suburban Mediocrity to Passionate Christianity

Author: Ian Stackhouse
Publisher: Authentic Media Inc
ISBN: 1780780664
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
In Primitive Piety Ian Stackhouse takes us on a journey away from the safe world of suburban piety, with its stress on moderation and politeness, and into the extreme and paradoxical world of biblical faith. As someone who has pastored churches in suburbia for the last twenty years, the author is convinced that so much that passes off as Christian faith falls short of the radicalism or primitivism that we see in the pages of scripture: a primitivism that includes honest lament, dogged prayer, raw emotions and heart-felt desire. In a culture in which there is every danger that we all look the same and speak the same, Stackhouse argues for a more gritty kind of faith - one that celebrates the oddity of the gospel, the eccentricity of the saints, and the utter uniqueness of each and every church.

Hyacinth: A Costly Jamaican Slave

Author: John Charlton
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1785389602
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description
Hyacinth is the daughter of a Jamaican plantation owner and one of his slaves and is married to a sailor who deserted the British Navy and settled in Jamaica. The story is set in the early 19th century. Hyacinth incurs the hostility of her half-brothers who see her as a threat to their authority on her father's sugar plantation. Her life thus becomes one of great complexity with trials and triumphs amid travel and adventure. Lives and relationships unfold before the reader as lived by real people who either endured or benefitted from slavery. Historical context and descriptions of locations are real. Feisty Hyacinth and her faithful Albert await your pleasure.

The Divine Comedy

Author: Dante Alighieri
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473546575
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 479

Book Description
Discover this fresh, pacy, modern translation of an enduring literary classic. Halfway through life, you find yourself lost, unsure of the right path. Greed, deception and pride have led you away from the ideals and dreams you cherished in younger days. How do you go on? This is the starting point of one of the most extraordinary and important journeys in western literature, a stunningly ambitious flight of imagination and philosophy which has reverberated down the years since Dante Alighieri first wrote it down in the fourteenth century. The Divine Comedy is a vision of the afterlife, the three regions of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, through which the narrator must journey in order to better understand the workings of the universe, the love of God, and his place in the world. Poet and translator Steve Ellis translated the Inferno in 1994, and it was greeted with great acclaim. Now Ellis's translation of the entire poem is published here for the first time, and Dante's epic can be experienced afresh and in new glorious life and colour, the physicality and immediacy of Dante's verse rendered in English as never before. A NEW TRANSLATION BY STEVE ELLIS

Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry

Author: Kyra Piperides
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000910393
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
Delving into the landscapes and politics of twentieth- and twenty-first-century South, East, and West Yorkshire, Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry: Cultural Identities, Political Crises theorises Yorkshire as a distinct region of poetry in its own right. In outlining the commonalities and parameters of this branch of poetry, Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry engages the work with a selection of poets writing in and about the region since 1945, including Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Simon Armitage, Helen Mort, Zaffar Kunial, Kate Fox, and Vicky Foster. Charting the developments in Yorkshire poetry, this book explores several key contexts – including deindustrialisation, the Miners’ Strikes, and Brexit – in detail, evidencing the impacts of these sociopolitical events on the poetry of a region. Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry investigates 75 years of poetry to ask the question: what is Yorkshire poetry? In other words, what is it that connects poems by these writers, whilst setting them apart from poetry of other UK regions?

Tell Me Why

Author: Roger Smith
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789011469
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 592

Book Description
We only have one go at life. There is no second chance - this is all we get. 'Tell Me Why' is an exciting journey from the second world war to the 21st century.

Hazop & Hazan

Author: Trevor A. Kletz
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351441345
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
This revised edition provides the basics of applying hazard and operability study (Hazop) and hazard analysis (Hazan). Hazop is a creative but systematic method of identifying hazards in process plants. Hazard analysis is then used to quantify the risks from these hazards, and to assess how far to go in reducing them. This book is presented in easy-to-read style and explains: what a Hazop is, who carries it out, when, and how long it should take; points to watch during a Hazop; an example of a Hazop; Hazops on flowsheets; the stages of Hazard analysis; the Fatal Accident Rate; risks to the public; estimating how often an accident will occur, with examples; and pitfalls in Hazan.