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The hidden roof (野屋根, noyane) [note 1] is a type of roof widely used in Japan both at Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. It is composed of a true roof above and a second roof beneath, [ 1 ] permitting an outer roof of steep pitch to have eaves of shallow pitch, jutting widely from the walls but without overhanging them. [ 2 ]
Pointed Roofs, published in 1915, is the first work (she called it a "chapter") in Dorothy Richardson's (1873–1957) series of 13 semi-autobiographical novels titled Pilgrimage, [1] and the first complete stream of consciousness novel published in English.
Mendelssohn Is on the Roof is a novel by Jiří Weil written in 1959 and first translated into English by Marie Winn in 1991. The book took 15 years to write. It is an exploration of the many forms of corruption in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and embeds historical events, such as the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942, among fictional stories concerning the Holocaust, Nazi ...
The Room on the Roof is a novel written by Ruskin Bond. It was Bond's first literary venture. Bond wrote the novel when he was seventeen [ 2 ] and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1957.
Carleton H. Sheets (August 25, 1939 - January 25, 2020 [1]) was a prominent real estate investor and author who was notable for television infomercials which marketed real estate business learning materials. [2] Sheets appeared on numerous radio and television talk shows.
The House on the Roof is a murder mystery novel written by Mignon G. Eberhart. It was published in the United States by Doubleday, Doran & Co. in 1935. As with many of Eberhart's novels, it was most recently in print through the University of Nebraska Press .
The Hidden Window Mystery is the thirty-fourth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1956 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene . The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams .
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius is a 2009 biography of quantum physicist Paul Dirac written by British physicist and author, Graham Farmelo, and published by Faber and Faber. The book won the Biography Award at the 2009 Costa Book Awards, [1] and the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. [2]