Swan's Anglo-American Dictionary
Author | : George Ryley Scott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1526 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George Ryley Scott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1526 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : English language |
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Total Pages | : 710 |
Release | : 1904 |
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Author | : Robert K. Merton |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2011-11-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1400841526 |
From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity--that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident--is today ubiquitous. This book traces the word's eventful history from its 1754 coinage into the twentieth century--chronicling along the way much of what we now call the natural and social sciences. The book charts where the term went, with whom it resided, and how it fared. We cross oceans and academic specialties and meet those people, both famous and now obscure, who have used and abused serendipity. We encounter a linguistic sage, walk down the illustrious halls of the Harvard Medical School, attend the (serendipitous) birth of penicillin, and meet someone who "manages serendipity" for the U.S. Navy. The story of serendipity is fascinating; that of The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity, equally so. Written in the 1950s by already-eminent sociologist Robert Merton and Elinor Barber, the book--though occasionally and most tantalizingly cited--was intentionally never published. This is all the more curious because it so remarkably anticipated subsequent battles over research and funding--many of which centered on the role of serendipity in science. Finally, shortly after his ninety-first birthday, following Barber's death and preceding his own by but a little, Merton agreed to expand and publish this major work. Beautifully written, the book is permeated by the prodigious intellectual curiosity and generosity that characterized Merton's influential On the Shoulders of Giants. Absolutely entertaining as the history of a word, the book is also tremendously important to all who value the miracle of intellectual discovery. It represents Merton's lifelong protest against that rhetoric of science that defines discovery as anything other than a messy blend of inspiration, perspiration, error, and happy chance--anything other than serendipity.
Author | : Mario Pei |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 1954-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1442234059 |
Mario Pei and Frank Gaynor bring together essential terms and concepts in this extensive Dictionary of Linguistics. With a carefully crafted headword list and plenty of cross-references and accessible explanations, this dictionary will keep readers coming back again and again.
Author | : Frank Gaynor |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2018-06-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1504055071 |
More than 2,200 terms defined in an essential reference on religious mysticism, esoteric philosophy, occultism, and more. Dictionary of Mysticism provides concise definitions for more than 2,200 terms used in many philosophies, religions, and doctrines which relate to the influence of the superhuman and supernatural on man’s everyday life. Terms relating to esoteric philosophy, occultism, religious mysticism, spiritualism, alchemy, and psychical research are defined. Particular attention is given to the Eastern philosophies of Buddhism, Brahmanism, Sufism, Lamaism, Zoroastrianism, Theosophy, and Cabbalism. Also included are terms used in magic and demonology.
Author | : George B. Bryan |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 890 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820479477 |
A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a unique collection of proverbial language found in literary contexts. It includes proverbial materials from a multitude of plays, (auto)biographies of well-known actors like Britain's Laurence Olivier, songs by William S. Gilbert or Lorenz Hart, and American crime stories by Leslie Charteris. Other authors represented in the dictionary are Horatio Alger, Margery Allingham, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, Graham Greene, Thomas C. Haliburton, Bret Harte, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, George Orwell, Eden Phillpotts, John B. Priestley, Carl Sandburg, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jesse Stuart, Oscar Wilde, and more. Many lesser-known dramatists, songwriters, and novelists are included as well, making the contextualized texts to a considerable degree representative of the proverbial language of the past two centuries. While the collection contains a proverbial treasure trove for paremiographers and paremiologists alike, it also presents general readers interested in folkloric, linguistic, cultural, and historical phenomena with an accessible and enjoyable selection of proverbs and proverbial phrases.
Author | : United States. Army Map Service. Library. Book and Periodical Branch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 764 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Languages, Modern |
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Author | : Maryl Lynne Winningham |
Publisher | : Jones & Bartlett Learning |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Cancer |
ISBN | : 9780763706302 |
The study of fatigue as a major focus in clinical practice and research is relatively new, but the editors argue that much more is known about it than most texts admit. Here two dozen essays and interviews represent the perspectives of clinically oriented people, who often go beyond the established
Author | : Riccardo Campa |
Publisher | : D Editore |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 8894830209 |
Is Artificial Intelligence qualitatively different from other means of economizing the use of labor? Are we on the edge of a jobless society? If yes, are we ready for it? These are a few of the questions discussed in this collection of academic works. This book traces a brief history of the concept of technological unemployment; proposes a short-term scenario analysis concerning the relations between automation, education, and unemployment; analyzes the most recent literature on social robotics; examines the possible futures generated by the development of intelligent machines; shows the relation between automation and unemployment in an Italian case study; considers the impact if machines become effective pursuers of knowledge or even conscious; and addresses the role of serendipity in the development of science and technology.
Author | : Arthur Garfield Kennedy |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |