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Dante Alighieri's Collection (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-05-18
(обновлено 2011-05-18)

This book contain collection of 3 books

1. Hell
2. Purgatory
3. Paradise

About the Author
Dante Alighieri

Italian poet from Florence. His greatest work, the Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), is considered one of the greatest masterpieces of world literature.

The Divine Comedy describes Dante's journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso), guided first by the Roman epic poet Virgil and then by Beatrice, the subject of his love and another of his works, "La Vita Nuova." While the vision of Hell, the Inferno, is vivid for modern readers, the theological niceties presented in the other books require a certain amount of patience and scholarship to understand. Purgatorio, the most lyrical and human of the three, also has the most poets in it; Paradiso, the most heavily theological, has the most beautiful and ecstatic mystic passages in which Dante tries to describe what he confesses he is unable to convey (e.g., when Dante looks into the face of God: "all'alta fantasia qui mancò possa" - "at this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe," Paradiso, XXXIII, 142).

Cocktails and drinking games (v. 15.1)

MobileReference опубликовал приложение 2011-05-17
(обновлено 2011-05-17)

How to make Mojito? What wine goes with seafood? What is the proper way of drinking plum brandy? Find answers in this comprehensive guide. Over 500 cocktail recipes.

Audience

Weather you are a novice to cocktail mixing or an experienced bartender this collection of recipes will indulge your senses and make a lasting impression on your guests.

Features

Detailed explanations of each recipe
Alcoholic beverages history, culture, and drinking styles
Fully illustrated
Be prepared for your special guest
Over 100 drinking games and variations
Easy and fast viewing
Always have the book available for a new idea.
Search for words or phrases
Navigate from Table of Contents or read page by page
Table of Contents

Introduction: Cocktail | Bartending | History of alcohol | Basics | Utensils | Responsibilities | Ingredients: Mixers | Garnish | Drinkware: Overview | Glasses | Techniques | Drink styles: Highballs | Stirred cocktails | Shaken cocktails | Blended drinks

Cocktails WITH: Beer | Bourbon | Brandy or Cognac | Cachaça | Gin | Rum | Sake | Tequila | Vodka | Whisky/whiskey | Wine or Sparkling Wine | Cocktails: Shot/shooters | Flaming Cocktails
Cocktails A-Z: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | V | W | Y | Z

Fermented Beverages: Overview | Wine | Beer | Ale | Rye beer | Chicha | Wheat beer | Sake | Sonti | Makkoli | Tuak | Cider | Apfelwein | Perry | Pulque | Plum wine | Pomace wine | Mead | Kumis | Huangjiu
Liqueur | List of liqueurs

Distilled Beverages: Overview | Agave: Tequila | Mezcal | Almond: Amaretto | Anise-flavored: Absinthe | Arak | Ouzo | Rakı | Pastis | Sambuca | Apples: Cider | Apfelwein | Applejack | Calvados | Barley, potato or rice: Shōchū | Fruits: Brandy | Cognac | Gin | Kirschwasser | Pisco | Rakia | Schnapps | Plums: Slivovitz | Ţuică | Palinka | Pomace: Grappa | Orujo | Zivania | Tsikoudia | Tsipouro | Rakia | Potato: Vodka | Aquavit | Brennivin | Rice: Soju | Baijiu | Sugarcane/Molasses: Rum | Cachaca | Aguardiente | Falernum | Guaro | Wheat, corn & rye: Whisky | Corn whiskey | Rye whiskey

Drinking games: Introduction | Pong games | Table games | Word games | Card games | Binge drinking games

Danish-Finnish Dictionary TR (v. 3.2.94)

MobiSystems опубликовал приложение 2011-05-15
(обновлено 2012-11-05)

The Audio Collins Mini Gem Danish-Finnish & Finnish-Danish Dictionary is an up-to-date, easy-reference dictionary, ideal for learners of Finnish and Danish of all ages. The dictionary covers about 10,000 words from each language with Collins pre-recorded audio pronunciation for each word.
This is a fully functional trial!

Dictionary Features:

    * Get it right: all essential words and phrases you need in Danish and Finnish
    * Get there fast: the fast search takes you quickly to the words you want
    * Colour layout helps you find what you are looking for quickly and easily
    * Easily learn the correct pronunciation with the native speaker pre-recorded audio pronunciations (requires Internet connection)
The MSDict Dictionary Format

The Collins Mini Gem Danish-Finnish & Finnish-Danish Dictionary is here presented in MSDict electronic format. MSDict offers best experience in mobile reference and is available for any handheld platform.

    * Quick dynamic search of words while you type
    * Transcriptions facilitating pronunciation
    * Hyperlinks between different related words
    * History to see the last 50 words you have looked up
    * Support for memory cards
    * Filters to help you locate the word you are searching for:
          o Fuzzy filter- used when you are not sure of the correct spelling of a word
          o Keyword-used to locate the instances of a key word within other compound words
          o Wild card - "?" and "*" replace a letter and group of letters in words
    * Fast article scrolling
    * Ability to have dictionary Word of the day as a widget on the phone home screen
    * Ability to search words in the installed dictionaries through the standard phone search feature

Poems And Fragments (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-05-15
(обновлено 2011-05-15)

About the Book
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke was the first of CJ Dennis's "verse novels" and introduced the Sentimental Bloke, Doreen and Ginger Mick. Lavishly illustrated by Hal Gye (whose larrikin cherubs will be forever linked with The Bloke) it was first published in 1915 by Angus & Robertson of Sydney, with an introduction from Henry Lawson. A Pocket edition for the Trenches was issued in 1916, and an American edition titled Doreen and the Sentimental Bloke was published in the same year. Many further impressions of the book were printed over the years. The cover illustration above is from the 1985 printing of the 1981 edition.

I must admit to a bit of confusion with this book's title. My second edition of the book (which has no dustjacket unfortunately) list the title as The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke on the title page but as The Sentimental Bloke on the spine. I don't get too pedantic about this and feel that either title will suffice. Most people would refer to the book as The Sentimental Bloke anyway.

About the Author
C. J. Dennis, 1876-1938

Australian poet famous for his humorous poems, especially "The Sentimental Bloke".

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke tells the story of Bill, a larrikin of the Little Lonsdale Street Push, who is introduced to a young woman by the name of Doreen. The book chronicles their courtship and marriage, detailing Bill's transformation from a violence-prone gang member to a contented husband and father.

Lewis Carroll Collection Books (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-05-15
(обновлено 2011-05-15)

This book content collection of 5 books

1. A Tangled Tale
2. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland illustrated by Sir John Tenniel
3. The Hunting of the Snark
4. Through the Looking Glass
5. Phantasmagoria, and other poems [1869]

About the author
Lewis Carroll

Pseudonym of Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge. Mathematician and writer of books for children, son of a clergyman at Daresbury, Cheshire, was educated at Rugby and Oxford After taking orders he was appointed lecturer on mathematics, on which subject he published several valuable treatises. His fame rests, however, on his books for children, full of ingenuity and delightful humour, of which Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel, Through the Looking-glass, are the best.

Feng Shui Guide (v. 12.2)

MobileReference опубликовал приложение 2011-05-14
(обновлено 2011-05-14)

Plan your home, improve your relationships, and achieve career success with this easy to follow Feng Shui Guide.

Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement objects in space to achieve harmony with the environment. The practice is estimated to be more than 3,000 years old. Feng Shui literally means "wind and water" in Chinese. Feng Shui is based on the premise that people, places and things have energy. Positive energy is called chi and negative energy is called sha.

According to an ancient Chinese teaching every person is born with four favorable and four harmful directions. To fulfill his/her potential a person should utilize the auspicious directions and avoid "unlucky" ones. Each of the auspicious directions attracts a slightly different kind of good fortune. For example sleeping in your SHENG CHI direction will bring you money and career luck. It is also the direction that you should face when negotiating or giving an important presentation. If you want to get married or conceive a child you should focus on your NIEN YEN direction. Your auspicious direction can be calculated based on your gender and the year you were born. This software uses the Eight Mansions formula to identify your auspicious directions and explain the meaning of each direction.

Audience

Intended for everyone interested in Feng Shui.

Table of Contents

Home Planning: Landscape | Environment | Front Entrance

Inside the House: Entrance Door | Bedroom | Office | Chinese Traditional Methods to Enhance Chi Energy | Color Guide

Auspicious Directions: Auspicious Directions Calculator | Sleeping Directions | Doors | Office

Product Features:

Fully illustrated.
Optimized for a small screen.
Detailed description.
Reveal your auspicious directions and achieve career success, excellent health, happy marriage and harmonious relationships (based on gender and date of birth).
Navigate from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases
Access the guide anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway.
Multi-Platform device capability (PDA, smartphone, PC)
Add Bookmarks
Text annotation and mark-up
Always have the guide available for a quick reference.
Automatic synchronization between the handheld and the desktop PC. You could read half of the book on the handheld, then finish reading on the desktop. Annotations and drawings are also synchronized.

The Picture of Dorian Gray (v. 1.0)

tarzanapp опубликовал приложение 2011-05-13
(обновлено 2011-05-13)

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine  on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine.  Wilde later revised this edition, making several alterations, and adding new chapters; the amended version was published by Ward, Lock, and Company in April 1891.  The title is sometimes rendered incorrectly as The Portrait of Dorian Gray.

The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new hedonism, Lord Henry suggests the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfillment of the senses. Realizing that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian (whimsically) expresses a desire to sell his soul to ensure the portrait Basil has painted would age rather than himself. Dorian's wish is fulfilled, plunging him into debauched acts. The portrait serves as a reminder of the effect each act has upon his soul, with each sin displayed as a disfigurement of his form, or through a sign of aging.

Aubrey Beardsley's Collection (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-05-08
(обновлено 2011-05-08)

This Book contain collection of 3 Books


1. Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act / translated from the French of Oscar Wilde,
with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley [1894]
2. The Art of Aubrey Beardsley / Arthur Symons
3. Illustrations to Lysistrata

About the Author
Aubrey Beardsley

Beardsley was the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era, renowned for his dark and perverse images and the grotesque erotica, which were the main themes of his later work. His most famous work includes his illustrations for Aristophanes' Lysistrata and Oscar Wilde's play Salomé.

He produced extensive illustrations for books and magazines and was also a caricaturist and political cartoonist, mirroring Wilde's irreverent wit in art. Beardsley also wrote Under the Hill, an unfinished erotic tale based loosely on the legend of Tannhäuser.

Beardsley's work reflected the decadence of his era and his influence was enormous, clearly visible in the work of the French Symbolists, the Poster art Movement of the 1890s and the work of many later-period Art Nouveau artists.

Three Men in a Boat (v. 1.0)

tarzanapp опубликовал приложение 2011-05-06
(обновлено 2011-05-06)

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames  between Kingston and Oxford.

The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide,with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers — the jokes seem fresh and witty even today.

The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who went on to become a senior manager in Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom he often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog." The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff.This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity.

Because of the overwhelming success of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, entitled Three Men on the Bummel.

A similar book was published seven years before Jerome's work, entitled Three in Norway (by two of them) by J. A. Lees and W. J. Clutterbuck. It tells of three men on an expedition into the wild Jotunheimen in Norway.

Flatland By: Edwin A Abbott (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-05-05
(обновлено 2011-05-05)

About the Author
Edwin A. Abbott

English schoolmaster and theologian, best known as the author of the mathematical satire and religious allegory Flatland.

He was educated at the City of London School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the highest honors in classics, mathematics and theology, and became fellow of his college. He succeeded G. F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865 at the early age of twenty-six. He retired in 1889, and devoted himself to literary and theological pursuits. Dr. Abbott's liberal inclinations in theology were prominent both in his educational views and in his books. His Shakespearian Grammar (1870) is a permanent contribution to English philology. In 1885 he published a life of Francis Bacon. His theological writings include three anonymously published religious romances - Philochristus (1878), Onesimus (1882), and Sitanus (1906).

Written under the pseudonym "a square", Flatland offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions; in a foreword to one of the many publications of the novella, noted science writer Isaac Asimov described Flatland as "The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions." As such, the novella is still popular amongst mathematics, physics and computer science students.

About the Book-
Flatland: a romance of many dimensions

Unless you're a mathematician, the chances of you reading any novels about geometry are probably slender. But if you read only two in your life, these are the ones. Taken together, they form a couple of accessible and charming explanations of geometry and physics for the curious non-mathematician. Flatland, which is also available under separate cover, was published in 1880 and imagines a two-dimensional world inhabited by sentient geometric shapes who think their planar world is all there is. But one Flatlander, a Square, discovers the existence of a third dimension and the limits of his world's assumptions about reality and comes to understand the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. The further mathematical fantasy, Sphereland, published 60 years later, revisits the world of Flatland in time to explore the mind-bending theories created by Albert Einstein, whose work so completely altered the scientific understanding of space, time, and matter. Among Einstein's many challenges to common sense were the ideas of curved space, an expanding universe and the fact that light does not travel in a straight line. Without use of the mathematical formulae that bar most non-scientists from an understanding of Einstein's theories, Sphereland gives lay readers ways to start comprehending these confusing but fundamental questions of our reality.