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Songs of Degrees
Essays on Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Songs of Degrees brings together 19 related essays on contemporary American poetry and poetics, published as journal articles between 1975 and 1989, by poet and theorist John Taggart. Over the past two decades, Taggart has been a significant intellectual and artistic force for a number of major American...
Is Music
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
“John Taggart’s poetry is not like music, it is music.”—George OppenIs Music—a major retrospective of an American original—gathers the best poems from John Taggart’s fourteen volumes, ranging from early objectivist experiments and jazz-influenced improvisational pieces to longer...
The Bear and His Sons
Masculinity in Spanish and Mexican Folktales
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
All the world over, people tell stories to express their deepest feelings about such things as what makes a "real" man or woman; what true love, courage, or any other virtue is; what the proper relationships are between people. Often groups of people widely separated by space or time will...
Canadianity
Tales from the True North Strong and Freezing
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Sprung from their hugely successful podcast Canadianity, Taggart (that guy from that band) and Torrens (that guy from that show) share a collection of showbiz tales from the road and relatable everyday anecdotes, all wrapped up in a nostalgic fondness for this great country. Canadianity takes readers...
Queen of the Sun
What are the Bees Telling Us?
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
In Autumn 2006 an unnerving phenomenon hit the United States: honeybees were mysteriously disappearing from hives across the nation, with beekeepers reporting losses of between 30 and 90 per cent of their entire colonies. The problem soon spread to parts of Europe and even Asia, earning the name Colony...
The Accidental Apostrophe
... And Other Misadventures in Punctuation
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Sunday Times bestselling author Caroline Taggart brings her usual gently humorous approach to punctuation, pointing out what really matters and what doesn’t. In Roman times, blocks of text were commonly written just as blocks without even wordspacingnevermindpunctuation to help the reader to interpret...
Making Love Last
Divorce-Proofing Your Young Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
With thirty years of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist, Laura Taggart understands the unique struggles of newly married couples who find marriage much more difficult than they imagined. Failed expectations, unanticipated conflict, and disagreements about money, sex, children,...
Alex and the Hobo
A Chicano Life and Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
When a ten-year-old boy befriends a mysterious hobo in his southern Colorado hometown in the early 1940s, he learns about evil in his community and takes his first steps toward manhood by attempting to protect his new friend from corrupt officials. Though a fictional story, Alex and the Hobo is written...
by R. Taggart Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains one of the most remarkable stories in modern world history. Yet it has not been an easy path; military catastrophe, political atrophy, and economic upheavals...
by Hugh Taggart
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Kids love to watch the bin truck in action. Introducing Benito the Bin Truck, who takes pride in his appearance and loves his job. This book, beautifully illustrated by Dario Falzon, gets children thinking about clean recycling and provides valuable lessons about how fair play and a good work ethic win out over bad sportsmanship.
by Caroline Taggart
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Ever wondered if Cheapside really is cheap, what you do in Threadneedle Street, or who the knights of Knightsbridge were?
Did you know that Piccadilly is actually an insult? And that Euston Road was built because there were too many cows on Oxford Street? Or that the River Fleet was covered...
by James Taggart
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
This ebook presents several ideas to stimulate your reflection on what is happening to our world as the result of four major forces of change. At the heart of the book are implications for leadership.Baseball legend Yogi Berra may have said it best: “When you come to a fork in the road, take...
The Book of English Place Names
How Our Towns and Villages Got Their Names
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Take a journey down winding lanes and Roman roads in this witty and informative guide to the meanings behind the names of England's towns and villages. From Celtic farmers to Norman conquerors, right up to the Industrial Revolution, deciphering our place names reveals how generations of our ancestors...
Does a Bear Sh*t in the Woods?
Answers to Rhetorical Questions
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Serious answers to rhetorical questions--what's not to like?
For those of us who have long wondered where bears go to take care of their business, if the Pope is actually Catholic, or whether anyone is really made of money, Caroline Taggart provides the answers to these and a host of previously...