doorstopper

My favorites are TOCI's beaded and leather tassel necklaces, colorful fabric bags and charms, and its uber cute animal doorstoppers. Aside from the local market, TOCI exports to Germany, France, and the US.

He concedes, or affects to concede, that the move to autobiography arose as a reply, a reaction to "a recently published account of my life"--Adam Sisman's John le Carre: The Biography, a six-hundred-page doorstopper that appeared in 2015.

Overall, though, this doorstopper lacks the stand-out delights of Bennett's two previous prose selections.

| Corsica doorstopper: This clever container features a slot for a patio door, to stop it slamming.

Leveson's report, a 2,000-page doorstopper, was published a year later.

This absorbing doorstopper from acclaimed biographer Adam Sisman promises to change that with a study informed by hundreds of hours' access to the man himself.

The editors of the collection suggest that recent years have seen "an explosion" of interest in the 1688 Revolution; this is probably an oblique reference to Harris's 2006 monograph (Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British monarchy, 1685-1720, London) and Steven Pincus's 2008 veritable doorstopper, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (New Haven).

"This isn't a doorstopper fantasy where you find yourself skipping whole paragraphs and pages," said a recent reader.

Martin Mobberley's doorstopper 'Fan's Biography of Sir Patrick Moore' was ten years in the making.

These have been scrupulously chosen by the editor from a mass of material (housed mainly in Edinburgh University Library and the National Library of Scotland) that runs to at least thirty times the bulk of the present doorstopper. The printed letters are accompanied by detailed and informative annotations, and the book is further enlivened by more than thirty period photographs and other reproductions.

For absent concrete, empirical applications a la Bourdieu (think Distinction, his doorstopper of a book), Wenger's all-encompassing definition goes a long way toward showing researchers interested in identifying, isolating, and interpreting practices of international law to what types of evidence to be attuned in times of practical immersion.

But then, the only fat people I normally see are in our doorstopper of a history textbook, and the picture of my dad, so maybe my impression is skewed.