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Author : Stuart Berg Flexner
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780671249946
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (499 download)
Download or read book I Hear America Talking written by Stuart Berg Flexner and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1979 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Berg Flexner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (868 download)
Download or read book I Hear America Talking written by Stuart Berg Flexner and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Thomas Flexner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9785550338605
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (386 download)
Download or read book I Hear America Talking written by James Thomas Flexner and published by . This book was released on 1979-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Murphy
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439919240
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Real Philly History, Real Fast written by Jim Murphy and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An alternative, history-focused guidebook to a selection of Philadelphia's heroes and notable places"--
Author : Geoffrey Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317476778
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book An Encyclopedia of Swearing written by Geoffrey Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only encyclopedia and social history of swearing and foul language in the English-speaking world. It covers the various social dynamics that generate swearing, foul language, and insults in the entire range of the English language. While the emphasis is on American and British English, the different major global varieties, such as Australian, Canadian, South African, and Caribbean English are also covered. A-Z entries cover the full range of swearing and foul language in English, including fascinating details on the history and origins of each term and the social context in which it found expression. Categories include blasphemy, obscenity, profanity, the categorization of women and races, and modal varieties, such as the ritual insults of Renaissance "flyting" and modern "sounding" or "playing the dozens." Entries cover the historical dimension of the language, from Anglo-Saxon heroic oaths and the surprising power of medieval profanity, to the strict censorship of the Renaissance and the vibrant, modern language of the streets. Social factors, such as stereotyping, xenophobia, and the dynamics of ethnic slurs, as well as age and gender differences in swearing are also addressed, along with the major taboo words and the complex and changing nature of religious, sexual, and racial taboos.
Author : Stuart Berg Flexner
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780671248956
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (489 download)
Download or read book Listening to America written by Stuart Berg Flexner and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1982 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated survey of the origins, evolutions, and meanings of thousands of phrases, and expressions unique to American English adds up to an entertaining, reliable history of modern American idioms and speech.
Author : Stuart Berg Flexner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Speaking Freely written by Stuart Berg Flexner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Berg's (1928-90) best selling I Hear America Talking (1976) and Listening to America, presents essays on such aspects of American speech as booze, communications from snail mail to email, fighting words, funerals, health, holidays, pop culture, sex, outer space, sports, transportation, and trash and garbage. The text is amply accompanied by black-and-white photographs and quotations. No bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Philomel
ISBN 13 : 9780399218088
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)
Download or read book I Hear America Singing written by Walt Whitman and published by Philomel. This book was released on 1991 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whitman's famous poem, accompanied by linoleum-cut illustrations, depicts people at work all over an earlier America.
Author : Ijeoma Oluo
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 1541619226
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book So You Want to Talk About Race written by Ijeoma Oluo and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in America Protests against racial injustice and white supremacy have galvanized millions around the world. The stakes for transformative conversations about race could not be higher. Still, the task ahead seems daunting, and it’s hard to know where to start. How do you tell your boss her jokes are racist? Why did your sister-in-law hang up on you when you had questions about police reform? How do you explain white privilege to your white, privileged friend? In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from police brutality and cultural appropriation to the model minority myth in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race, and about how racism infects every aspect of American life. "Simply put: Ijeoma Oluo is a necessary voice and intellectual for these times, and any time, truth be told." ―Phoebe Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of You Can't Touch My Hair
Author : Peter Wohlleben
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1771644354
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Can You Hear The Trees Talking? written by Peter Wohlleben and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE AAAS/SUBARU PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE BOOKS BASED ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES This interactive and illustrated book for kids aged 8-10 introduces the wonderful science of the forest through outdoor activities, quizzes, fun facts, photographs, and more! Discover the secret life of trees with this nature and science book for kids: Can You Hear the Trees Talking? shares the mysteries and magic of the forest with young readers, revealing what trees feel, how they communicate, and the ways trees take care of their families. The author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben, tells kids about the forest internet, aphids who keep ants as pets, nature’s water filters, and more fascinating things that happen under the canopy. Featuring simple activities kids can try on their own, along with quizzes, photographs, and more, Can You Hear the Trees Talking? covers a range of amazing topics including: How trees talk to each other (hint: through the wood wide web!) Why trees are important in the city How trees make us healthy and strong How trees get sick, and how we can help them get better This engaging and visually stunning book encourages learning and fun as kids discover the wonder of the natural world outside their windows. "Lush full-color photos and pictures create an immersive experience and the layout facilitates engaged, delighted learning. ...this book may prompt frequent family visits to, and a new appreciation for, neighborhood trees and local forests.” —Washington Parent
Author : Gabriel Grayson
Publisher : Square One Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780757000072
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Talking with Your Hands, Listening with Your Eyes written by Gabriel Grayson and published by Square One Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grayson makes sign language accessible, easy, and fun with this comprehensive primer to the techniques, words, and phrases of signing. 800 illustrative photos.
Author : Carmine Gallo
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466837276
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Talk Like TED written by Carmine Gallo and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas are the currency of the twenty-first century. In order to succeed, you need to be able to sell your ideas persuasively. This ability is the single greatest skill that will help you accomplish your dreams. Many people have a fear of public speaking or are insecure about their ability to give a successful presentation. Now public speaking coach and bestselling author Carmine Gallo explores what makes a great presentation by examining the widely acclaimed TED Talks, which have redefined the elements of a successful presentation and become the gold standard for public speaking. TED ? which stands for technology, entertainment, and design ? brings together the world's leading thinkers. These are the presentations that set the world on fire, and the techniques that top TED speakers use will make any presentation more dynamic, fire up any team, and give anyone the confidence to overcome their fear of public speaking. In his book, Carmine Gallo has broken down hundreds of TED talks and interviewed the most popular TED presenters, as well as the top researchers in the fields of psychology, communications, and neuroscience to reveal the nine secrets of all successful TED presentations. Gallo's step-by-step method makes it possible for anyone to deliver a presentation that is engaging, persuasive, and memorable. Carmine Gallo's top 10 Wall Street Journal Bestseller Talk Like TED will give anyone who is insecure about their public speaking abilities the tools to communicate the ideas that matter most to them, the skill to win over hearts and minds, and the confidence to deliver the talk of their lives. The opinions expressed by Carmine Gallo in TALK LIKE TED are his own. His book is not endorsed, sponsored or authorized by TED Conferences, LLC or its affiliates.
Author : Ralph Keyes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190466782
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Hidden History of Coined Words written by Ralph Keyes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful word-coinages--those that stay in currency for a good long time--tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and rarely when and where they were first minted. Engaging, illuminating, and authoritative, Ralph Keyes's The Hidden History of Coined Words explores the etymological underworld of terms and expressions and uncovers plenty of hidden gems. He also finds some fascinating patterns, such as that successful neologisms are as likely to be created by chance as by design. A remarkable number of new words were coined whimsically, originally intended to troll or taunt. Knickers, for example, resulted from a hoax; big bang from an insult. Casual wisecracking produced software, crowdsource, and blog. More than a few resulted from happy accidents, such as typos, mistranslations, and mishearing (bigly and buttonhole), or from being taken entirely out of context (robotics). Neologizers (a Thomas Jefferson coinage) include not just scholars and writers but cartoonists, columnists, children's book authors. Wimp originated with a book series, as did goop, and nerd from a book by Dr. Seuss. Coinages are often contested, controversy swirling around such terms as gonzo, mojo, and booty call. Keyes considers all contenders, while also leading us through the fray between new word partisans, and those who resist them strenuously. He concludes with advice about how to make your own successful coinage. The Hidden History of Coined Words will appeal not just to word mavens but history buffs, trivia contesters, and anyone who loves the immersive power of language.
Author : Timothy Jay
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027274053
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Cursing in America written by Timothy Jay and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first serious and extensive examination of American cursing from a psycholinguistic-contextual point of view. Several field studies and numerous laboratory-based experiments focus on the relationship between cursing and language acquisitions, anger expresssion, gender stereotypes, semantics, and offensiveness. Censorship, language content of motion pictures, First-Amendment fighting words, sexual harassment, obscene phone calls, and cursing at public schools are analyzed and related to sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic data. Many tables of word-by-word data provide empirical evidence of frequency of occurrence, degree of offensiveness, gender of speaker and age of speaker influences on obscene language usage in America. A "must" for language reference collections.
Author : Ralph Keyes
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9781429952477
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (524 download)
Download or read book I Love It When You Talk Retro written by Ralph Keyes and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and informative book about the fashion and fads of language Today's 18-year-olds may not know who Mrs. Robinson is, where the term "stuck in a groove" comes from, why 1984 was a year unlike any other, how big a bread box is, how to get to Peyton Place, or what the term Watergate refers to. I Love It When You Talk Retro discusses these verbal fossils that remain embedded in our national conversation long after the topic they refer to has galloped off into the sunset. That could be a person (Mrs. Robinson), product (Edsel), past bestseller (Catch-22), radio or TV show (Gangbusters), comic strip (Alphonse and Gaston), or advertisement (Where's the beef?) long forgotten. Such retroterms are words or phrases in current use whose origins lie in our past. Ralph Keyes takes us on an illuminating and engaging tour through the phenomenon that is Retrotalk—a journey, oftentimes along the timelines of American history and the faultlines of culture, that will add to the word-lover's store of trivia and obscure references. "The phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid" is a mystery to young people today, as is "45rpm." Even older folks don't know the origins of "raked over the coals" and "cut to the chase." Keyes (The Quote Verifier) uses his skill as a sleuth of sources to track what he calls "retrotalk": "a slippery slope of puzzling allusions to past phenomena." He surveys the origins of "verbal fossils" from commercials (Kodak moment), jurisprudence (Twinkie defense), movies (pod people), cartoons (Caspar Milquetoast) and literature (brave new world). Some pop permutations percolated over decades: Radio's Take It or Leave It spawned a catch phrase so popular the program was retitled The $64 Question and later returned as TV's The $64,000 Question. Keyes's own book Is There Life After High School? became both a Broadway musical and a catch phrase. Some entries are self-evident or have speculative origins, but Keyes's nonacademic style and probing research make this both an entertaining read and a valuable reference work." --Publishers Weekly
Author : Studs Terkel
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595587667
Total Pages : 867 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Working written by Studs Terkel and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: “Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking.” —The Boston Globe A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller Studs Terkel’s classic oral history Working is a compelling look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews with everyone from a gravedigger to a studio head, this book provides a “brilliant” and enduring portrait of people’s feelings about their working lives. This edition includes a new foreword by New York Times journalist Adam Cohen (Forbes). “Splendid . . . Important . . . Rich and fascinating . . . The people we meet are not digits in a poll but real people with real names who share their anecdotes, adventures, and aspirations with us.” —Business Week “The talk in Working is good talk—earthy, passionate, honest, sometimes tender, sometimes crisp, juicy as reality, seasoned with experience.” —The Washington Post
Author : Marie Arnold
Publisher : Versify
ISBN 13 : 0358272750
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (582 download)
Download or read book The Year I Flew Away written by Marie Arnold and published by Versify. This book was released on 2021 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After moving from her home in Haiti to her uncle's home in Brooklyn, ten-year-old Gabrielle, feeling bullied and out of place, makes a misguided deal with a witch.
