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Author : George R. Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Given Names written by George R. Stewart and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1979 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical account of the origins and use of over 800 given names.
Author : Patrick Hanks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191578541
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of First Names written by Patrick Hanks and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. The fascinating and informative Dictionary of First Names covers over 6,000 names in common use in English, including the very newest names as well as traditional names. From Alice to Zanna and Adam to Zola this book will answer all your questions: it will tell you the age, origin, and meaning of the name, as well as how it has fared in terms of popularity, and who the famous fictional or historical bearers for the name have been. It covers alternative spellings, short forms and pet forms, and masculine and feminine forms, as well as help with pronunciation. The book includes extensive appendices covering names from languages including Scottish, Irish, French, German, Italian, Arabic, and Chinese names. Tables of the most popular names by year and by region are also included. From the traditional to the rare and unconventional, this book will tell you everything you need to know about names.
Author : Emma Woo Louie
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786438770
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Chinese American Names written by Emma Woo Louie and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-07-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The naming practices of Chinese Americans are the focus of this work. Since Chinese immigration began in the mid-19th century, names of immigrants and their descendants have been influenced by both Chinese and American name customs. This detailed study first describes the naming traditions of China, providing a base for understanding how personal names may change in the interaction between cultures. One discovers that surnames are clues to Chinese dialect sounds, that many have been Americanized, that new surnames were created and that, in more recent decades as the Chinese American population has grown, new names practices developed and surnames have proliferated. Included are ideographs to surnames and an overview of their preservation by Americans of Chinese descent.
Author : Makoto Shinkai
Publisher : Yen On
ISBN 13 : 9780316471862
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (718 download)
Download or read book your name. (light novel) written by Makoto Shinkai and published by Yen On. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitsuha, a high school girl living in a small town in the mountains, has a dream that she's a boy living in Tokyo. Taki, a high school boy in Tokyo, dreams he's a girl living in a quaint little mountain town. Sharing bodies, relationships, and lives, the two become inextricably interwoven--but are any connections truly inseverable in the grand tapestry of fate? Written by director MAKOTO SHINKAI during the production of the film by the same title, your name. is in turns funny, heartwarming, and heart-wrenching as it follows the struggles of two young people determined to hold on to one another.
Author : Sherman Alexie
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316271063
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Thunder Boy Jr. written by Sherman Alexie and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Sherman Alexie and Caldecott Honor winning Yuyi Morales comes a striking and beautifully illustrated picture book celebrating the special relationship between father and son. Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as big Thunder, but little thunder doesn't want to share a name. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he's done like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder. But just when Little Thunder thinks all hope is lost, dad picks the best name...Lightning! Their love will be loud and bright, and together they will light up the sky.
Author : Zoltan Kovecses
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770484280
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book American English written by Zoltan Kovecses and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2000-09-26 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cultural-historical (rather than purely linguistic) introduction to American English. The first part consists of a general account of variation in American English. It offers concise but comprehensive coverage of such topics as the history of American English; regional, social and ethnic variation; variation in style (including slang); and British and American differences. The second part of the book puts forward an account of how American English has developed into a dominant variety of the English language. It focuses on the ways in which intellectual traditions such as puritanism and republicanism, in shaping the American world view, have also contributed to the distinctiveness of American English.
Author : Linda Rosenkrantz
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312267575
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Baby Names Now written by Linda Rosenkrantz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-08-16 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, illuminating guide to thousands of first names and their meanings.
Author : Lisa Tanya Brooks
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300196733
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Our Beloved Kin written by Lisa Tanya Brooks and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson. Through both a narrow focus on Weetamoo, Printer, and their network of relations, and a far broader scope that includes vast Indigenous geographies, Brooks leads us to a new understanding of the history of colonial New England and of American origins. In reading seventeenth-century sources alongside an analysis of the landscape and interpretations informed by tribal history, Brooks's pathbreaking scholarship is grounded not just in extensive archival research but also in the land and communities of Native New England."--Jacket flap.
Author : Lewis L. Gould
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113531148X
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book American First Ladies written by Lewis L. Gould and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents thirty-nine interpretive biographical essays on all first ladies, from Martha Washington to America's newest First Lady, Laura Bush. This new edition contains updated material on all the living First Ladies and updated bibliographies for each entry, as well as a portrait of the newest First Lady.
Author : George R. Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195040401
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book American Given Names written by George R. Stewart and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1979 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Places all the more common names in their historical and linguistic context, discussing each name's etymology and usage through history.
Author : Laura Wattenberg
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 077043648X
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Baby Name Wizard, 2019 Revised 4th Edition written by Laura Wattenberg and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully revised and updated version of the classic baby name guide, featuring updated trends, facts, ideas, and thousands of enchanting names! Your baby’s perfect name is out there. This book will help you find it. The right baby name will speak to your heart, give your child a great start in life—and maybe even satisfy your relatives. But there’s no shortage of names to choose from, and you can’t expect to just stumble upon a name like that in an A-to-Z dictionary. Enter the revised and updated fourth edition of The Baby Name Wizard. This ultimate baby-name guide uses groundbreaking research and computer-generated models to create a visual image for each name, examine its usage and popularity over the last one hundred years, and suggest other specific and promising name ideas. Each unique “name snapshot” includes a rundown of style categories the name belongs to, nickname options, variants, pronunciations, prominent examples, and names with a similar style and feeling. This new edition also contains expanded sections on popular names and style lists. A perfect, up-to-date guide to the modern world of names, The Baby Name Wizard will delight you from the first name you look up and keep you enchanted through your journey to finding the just-right name for your baby.
Author : Elsdon Coles Smith
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806311500
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (115 download)
Download or read book American Surnames written by Elsdon Coles Smith and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1986 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surnames. We all have them, but whose names were they originally? Whose are they? What do they mean and where do they come from? Elsdon Smith, America's leading authority on names, is the one man who definitely knows, and his book, American Surnames, is designed to answer these questions and more ...
Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816510467
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Names written by N. Scott Momaday and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1987-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist recalls the significant events and ventures of his own life, his own land, and his own people, recreating his experiences as an American Indian and those of his relatives
Author : Stanley Lieberson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300083859
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (838 download)
Download or read book A Matter of Taste written by Stanley Lieberson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What accounts for our tastes? Why and how do they change over time? Stanley Lieberson analyzes children's first names to develop an original theory of fashion. He disputes the commonly-held notion that tastes in names (and other fashions) simply reflect societal shifts.
Author : Mandy Merck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136007105
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book America First written by Mandy Merck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the expanded projection of US political, military, economic and cultural power draws intensified global concern, understanding how that country understands itself seems more important than ever. This collection of new critical essays tackles this old problem in a new way, by examining some of the hundreds of US films that announce themselves as titularly 'American'. From early travelogues to contemporary comedies, national nomination has been an abiding characteristic of American motion pictures, heading the work of Porter, Guy-Blaché, DeMille, Capra, Sternberg, Vidor, Minnelli and Mankiewicz. More recently, George Lucas, Paul Schrader, John Landis and Edward James Olmos have made their own contributions to Hollywood’s Americana. What does this national branding signify? Which versions of Americanism are valorized, and which marginalized or excluded? Out of which social and historical contexts do they emerge, and for and by whom are they constructed? Edited by Mandy Merck, the collection contains detailed analyses of such films as The Vanishing American, American Madness, An American in Paris, American Graffiti, American Gigolo, American Pie and many more.
Author : Stephen Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135368368
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book The Means Of Naming written by Stephen Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Lesley Bolton
Publisher : Sourcebooks
ISBN 13 : 9781402266706
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (667 download)
Download or read book The Complete Book of Baby Names written by Lesley Bolton and published by Sourcebooks. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the history of baby names, provides lists of names based on popular themes, and presents entries that include definitions and variations.
