Lists of note
2014
Book
Humans have been making lists for even longer than they've been writing letters. They are the shorthand for what really matters to us: our hopes and aspirations; likes and dislikes; rules for living and loving; records of our memories and reminders of the things we want to do before we die. Just as he did with Letters of Note, Shaun Usher has trawled the world's archives to produce a rich visual anthology that stretches from ancient times to present day. From a to-do list of Leonardo da Vinci's to Charles Darwin on the pros and cons of marriage or Julia Child's list of possible titles for what would later become an American cooking bible, Lists of Note is a constantly surprising A-Z of what makes us human.
Main title:
Lists of note / compiled by Shaun Usher.
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Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2014.
Collation:
xvi, 317 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits, facsimilies ; 29 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Kiss June / Johnny Cash -- 2.Termes Of A Kerver / Wynkyn de Worde -- 3.Attempt At An Inventory / Georges Perec -- 4.Who Killed JFK? / Evelyn Lincoln -- 5.The Armory Show / Pablo Picasso -- 6.Anti-Flirt Club / Alice Reighly -- 7.Boyle's Wish List / Robert Boyle -- 8.Shopping Trip To Dunhuang / Praketu -- 9.The Drinker's Dictionary / Benjamin Franklin -- 10.The Lexicon Of Prohibition / Edmund Wilson -- 11.Bill Of Mortality / E. Cotes -- 12.George Washington's Slaves / George Washington -- 13.The Cowboy Code / Gene Autry -- 14.Advice To Chick Rockers / Chrissie Hynde -- 15.Roget's Thesaurus / Peter Roget -- 16.Heinlein's Predictions / Robert Heinlein -- 17.The Dream Book / Author Unknown -- 18.Nick Cave's Handwritten Dictionary / Nick Cave -- 19.The 50 Dwarfs / Disney -- 20.Wartime Golf Rules -- Richmond Golf Club -- 21.Rules Of Parenting / Susan Sontag -- 22.Frankly, My Dear -- Selznick International Pictures --Contents note continued: 23.Don Saltero's Coffee House / Don Saltero -- 24.Nursery Rhyme Violence / Geoffrey Handley-Taylor -- 25.The Mafia Decalogue / The Mafia -- 26.Seven Little Men Help A Girl / Ed Gombert -- 27.For Characters Who Don't Dig Jive Talk / Harry Gibson -- 28.Einstein's Demands / Albert Einstein -- 29.Mastering The Art Of French Cooking / Julia Child -- 30.Roll Of Missing Men / Clara Barton -- 31.The Salem Witches / Author Unknown -- 32.J'Aime, Je N'Aime Pas / Rolande Barthes -- 33.Workmen's Absences / Author Unknown -- 34.Integrated Bus Suggestions / Martin Luther King -- 35.10 Commandments For Con Men / Victor Lustig -- 36.Gobblefunk / Roald Dahl -- 37.Topics To Be Investigated / Leonardo da Vinci -- 38.New Ver's Guiftes Giuen To The Quene's Maiestie / Queen Elizabeth I -- 39.Father's Objections / Charles Darwin -- 40.New Year's Rulin's / Woody Guthrie -- 41.Must Make Effort To Do / Marilyn Monroe -- 42.Rules Of Palship / Noel Coward --Contents note continued: 43.A Little Bill Of Fare / Mark Twain -- 44.Newton's Sins / Sir Isaac Newton -- 45.The Pillow Book / Sei Shonagon -- 46.Eloquent Silence / Walt Whitman -- 47.Advice To Young Ladies / The Ladies' Pocket Magazine -- 48.Ten Favorite American Novels / Norman Mailer -- 49.List Of The Sporting Ladies / Author Unknown -- 50.Reginald The Red-Nosed Reindeer / Robert May -- 51.Leondardo's To-Do List / Leonardo da Vinci -- 52.How My Life Has Changed / Hilary North -- 53.Outfit For An Excursion / Henry David Thoreau -- 54.Belief & Technique For Modern Prose / Jack Kerouac -- 55.Back To School Commandments / Sylvia Plath -- 56.When I Come To Be Old / Jonathan Swift -- 57.Houdini's Scene And Prop. List / Harry Houdini -- 58.Reasons For Admission -- West Virginia Hospital for the Insane -- 59.The Eight Kindes Of Drunkennes / Thomas Nashe -- 60.The Standard Beau Catcher -- Author Unknown -- 61.You've Got To Dig It To Dig It, You Dig? / Thelonious Monk --Contents note continued: 62.Galileo's Shopping List / Galileo Galilei -- 63.Immaculate Heart College Art Department Rules / Corita Kent -- 66.Harry S. Truman's Love List / Harry S. Truman -- 65.How To Write / David Ogilvy -- 66.Rejecting Wittgenstein's Mistress / David Markson -- 67.Lovecraft's Weird Ideas / H.P. Lovecraft -- 68.Fumblerules Of Grammar / William Safire -- 69.Christopher Hitchens' Commandments / Christopher Hitchens -- 70.Olympic Victor List / Author Unknown -- 71.How To Attain Smartness / Edna Woolman Chase -- 72.Contempt For / James Agee -- 73.The Bohemian Dinner / Charles Green Shaw -- 74.10 Composers I Like Best / Lucas Armory -- 75.Thurber's Rules / James Thurber -- 76.The Godfather / Francis Ford Coppola -- 77.Mysteries Of Opium Reveal'd / Dr. John Jones -- 78.Available Names / Charles Dickens -- 79.Live As Well As You Dare / Sydney Smith -- 80.A Love List / Eero Saarinen -- 81.Cocktail! / F. Scott Fitzgerald --Contents note continued: 82.Henry Miller's 11 Commandments / Henry Miller -- 83.Braines -- A.T. (Practitioner in phisicke and chirurgerie) -- 84.Simple Rules For Life In London / Rudyard Kipling -- 85.The Fake Books Of Charles Dickens / Charles Dickens -- 86.The Don'ts And Be Carefuls -- Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America -- 87.Marry/Not Marry / Charles Darwin -- 88.Vonnegut's Commitments / Kurt Vonnegut -- 89.A Decalogue Of Canons For Observation In Practical Life / Thomas Jefferson -- 90.Ten Commandments Of Guitar Playing / Captain Beefheart -- 91.Things Doing And To Be Done / Thomas Edison -- 92.11 Rules For Box-Office Appeal / Preston Sturges -- 93.Degrees Of Vagabond / Thomas Harman -- 94.Vertigo / Paramount -- 95.Seven Social Sins / Mohandas Gandhi -- 96.Body Parts For Which I Am Grateful / Tina Fey -- 97.Michelangelo's Shopping List / Michelangelo -- 98.Similes And Comparisons / Raymond Chandler -- 99.Scott's Turkey Recipes / F. Scott Fitzgerald --Contents note continued: 100.Elvis: Fat / John Lennon -- 101.Books You Ought To Read / Ernest Hemingway -- 102.Basket. Ball / James Naismith -- 103.Don'ts For Women Riders -- Unique Cycling Club of Chicago -- 104.Franklin's 10 Virtues / Benjamin Franklin -- 105.Rescue Etiquette / Mark Twain -- 106.My Favorite Books / Edith Wharton -- 107.Celestial Emporium Of Benevolent Knowledge / Jorge Luis Borges -- 108.A Liberal Decalogue / Bertrand Russell -- 109.Henslowe's Inventory / Philip Henslowe -- 110.Midwestern Isms / David Foster Wallace -- 111.Naming The Phonograph / Thomas Edison -- 112.Things To Worry About / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- 113.Marilyn Monroe's Dream Lovers / Marilyn Monroe -- 114.Qualities Of Civilised People / Anton Chekhov -- 115.President Roosevelt's List Of Birds / Theodore Roosevelt -- 116.Fellowship Assets / Frank Lloyd Wright -- 117.The Bookshop / Italo Calvino -- 118.Verb List Compilation: Actions To Relate To Oneself / Richard Serra --Contents note continued: 119.Utopian Turtle-Top / Marianne Moore -- 120.Billy Wilder's Tips For Screenwriters / Billy Wilder -- 121.What Makes Nancy So Great / Sid Vicious -- 122.'Smells Like Teen Spirit' / Kurt Cobain -- 123.Edmund Wilson Regrets / Edmund Wilson -- 126.Satchel's Rules For The Good Life / Satchel Paige -- 125.We're Cookin! / Richard Watts.
ISBN:
9781782114529 (hardback)
Dewey class:
808.883
Language:
English
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BRN:
167874
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Melbourne Library | -Literature | LITER 808.883 LIST | Available |
| Library at the Dock | -Literature | LITER 808.883 LIST | Available |