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Author | : Center for Inter-American Relations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
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Contains poems by twenty-three twentieth-century Puerto Rican authors, presented in English and Spanish.
Author | : Knock Knock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2015-09-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781601067616 |
Download The Made-Up Words Project Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Every family has random words they invent for things--like sticking cold feet under someone's butt ("nurdeling"). Author/illustrator Rinee Shah collected real-life phrases from families around the world, and then whimsically illustrated the results. * You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll eat some snufflins* (*sweet treats)* Knock Knock books are cool gifts that make you look cool, too* Hardcover; 5 x 6.5 inches; 208 pages; full-color illustrations
Author | : Paul Dickson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-04-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1620405407 |
Download Authorisms Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Sorting through the neologisms of such literary greats as Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott and William Shakespeare, this celebration of the English language presents the stories behind hundreds of words and phrases that have become part of our standard vocabulary today. 30,000 first printing.
Author | : John Koenig |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-11-16 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1501153668 |
Download The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human experience…An enchanting book. “ —The Washington Post A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express—until now. Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, realizing that everyone is the main character in their own story, each living a life as vivid and complex as your own? That feeling has a name: “sonder.” Or maybe you’ve watched a thunderstorm roll in and felt a primal hunger for disaster, hoping it would shake up your life. That’s called “lachesism.” Or you were looking through old photos and felt a pang of nostalgia for a time you’ve never actually experienced. That’s “anemoia.” If you’ve never heard of these terms before, that’s because they didn’t exist until John Koenig set out to fill the gaps in our language of emotion. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows “creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have,” says John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars. By turns poignant, relatable, and mind-bending, the definitions include whimsical etymologies drawn from languages around the world, interspersed with otherworldly collages and lyrical essays that explore forgotten corners of the human condition—from “astrophe,” the longing to explore beyond the planet Earth, to “zenosyne,” the sense that time keeps getting faster. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is for anyone who enjoys a shift in perspective, pondering the ineffable feelings that make up our lives. With a gorgeous package and beautiful illustrations throughout, this is the perfect gift for creatives, word nerds, and human beings everywhere.
Author | : Ben Crystal |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2004-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0141941529 |
Download Shakespeare's Words Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience. Displayed panels look at such areas of Shakespeare's language as greetings, swear-words and terms of address. Plot summaries are included for all Shakespeare's plays and on the facing page is a unique diagramatic representation of the relationships within each play.
Author | : John Camden Hotten |
Publisher | : London : Chatto and Windus |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Download The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jane Solomon |
Publisher | : Frances Lincoln Children's Books |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2019-05-02 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 1786038102 |
Download The Dictionary of Difficult Words Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...? Find out all this and more in The Dictionary of Difficult Words. Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze, confuse, and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured in this book are difficult to spell, hard to say, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! Written with simple, easy-to-understand definitions by lexicographer Jane Solomon, this dictionary celebrates the beauty of the English language for family trivia time spent around the printed page.
Author | : Simon Winchester |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780192805768 |
Download The Meaning of Everything Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium -- the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it -- and meet some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to W.C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and ultimate redemption. The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project -- a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the world's unrivaled uber-dictionary. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Author | : Julio Marzán |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838635810 |
Download The Numinous Site Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Luis Pales Matos, a white man who began the poesia negra movement in Latin America in 1925, is the subject of The Numinous Site, Julio Marzan's latest book. Unlike its English-language counterpart, poesia negra refers to its subject and not the poet's race, so white poets are credited with writing poesia negra." "Pales's poesia afroantillana popularized the "dark" forces (African roots and unprestigious language) that were the white society's antimatter, an antipoetic consciousness that, complemented and refined by other poesia negra, opened the Latin American poem." "Perhaps influenced by Heidegger, throughout his work Pales reiterated his obsession with the frontier where the mundane touches the spiritual or metaphysical. His poems take the reader on a passage to an encounter with the imagistic representation of that force informing the soul of the individual, the collectivity, and the physical world. All his poems take us on that passage, including his socially conscious Afro-Antillean poems, because they originate from Pales's sense that language, including "Boricua," is synonymous with time and our sense of being. For Luis Pales Matos, poesia was an altar, and style a liturgy that, whether performed in drumbeats or words, invoked the poetic essence that he called the "numen.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : John A. Simpson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2002-04-18 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780195218893 |
Download Oxford English Dictionary Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words, making it an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. This new upgrade version of The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work for the English language. The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 1993 and 1997, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material. System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended); 16-speed CD-ROM drive (32-speed recommended); Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 200, or XP (Local administrator rights are required to install and open the OED for the first time on a PC running Windows NT 4 and to install and run the OED on Windows 2000 and XP); 1.1 GB hard disk space to run the OED from the CD-ROM and 1.7 GB to install the CD-ROM to the hard disk: SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels: 16-bit (64k, high color) setting recommended. Please note: for the upgrade, installation requires the use of the OED CD-ROM v2.0.