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Author : Leslie Dunkling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Facts on File Dictionary of First Names written by Leslie Dunkling and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Patrick Hanks
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198662594
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (625 download)
Download or read book A Concise Dictionary of First Names written by Patrick Hanks and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love or hate your name? Do you know what it really means? How do you choose the right name for someone? With well over 6,000 entries, this is the most comprehensive dictionary of first names available. In addition to a new introduction from the authors, it provides the answers to all your questions on the meanings and histories of names, how they have risen or fallen in popularity, and who are the famous bearers from history, fiction, and the screen. There is detailed appendixmaterial which includes European, Arabic, and Indian names, and this new edition now contains detailed coverage of Japanese and Chinese names. Over 150 brand new first names listed, including Aeronwen, Ardal, Calista, Gaia, Macy, Nirvana, and Xena
Author : Janet Schwegel
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN 13 : 0786731826
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Baby Name Countdown written by Janet Schwegel and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic, the baby name countdown (over 120,000 copies sold) is now fully revised and updated for the first time in a decade. Featuring more names than any other guide and based on more than 2.5 million birth records, the book includes brand-new data, a new introduction, a revised section on the most popular baby names of the past year and decade, and updated popularity ratings throughout. Discover at a glance the most popular given names from each decade of the 20th and 21st centuries, meanings and origins of the 3,000 top names, and thousands of rare and exotic monikers. Whether your taste in names is trendy, traditional, or international, The Baby Name Countdown is the ideal resource for every parent searching for the perfect name.
Author : Godfrey Cave Associates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781854717078
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of First Names written by Godfrey Cave Associates and published by . This book was released on 1995-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Osborn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671025554
Total Pages : 741 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)
Download or read book What's in a Name? written by Susan Osborn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For each name Osborn provides a history, number, astrological sign, color, stone, element, and herb.
Author : Robert Singerman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004121898
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Jewish Given Names and Family Names written by Robert Singerman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents over 3,000 bibliographic entries on the history and lore of Jewish family names and given names in all parts of the world from Biblical times to the present day. This work replaces the compiler's out-of-print JEWISH AND HEBREW ONOMASTICS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY (1977)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of First Names written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda Rosenkrantz
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312961060
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Last Word on First Names written by Linda Rosenkrantz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-06-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of Beyond Jennifer & Jason, the bestseller that revolutionized baby naming, offer the last word on the perfect first name. Hope is hot, Hortense is not-- at last, here's what parents really need to know before naming a baby. For years you knew what to expect from a baby-name book: a long, dull list of names with their dictionary definitions. All that changed with Beyond Jennifer & Jason-- the groundbreaking book on styles and trends in baby names that has been called "the best baby-naming book ever written" (The News Journal). Now Rosenkrantz and Satran return with an all-new baby-name guide that is destined to become a classic. Like other books, it's packed with entries on girls' and boys' names from A to Z, but no one else gives you the inside story on names: why the world has all the Ashleys it needs, why everyone loves Emily, and why you should or should not call your son Ishmael. Drawing on sources as diverse as ancient myths, current TV series, the Bible, and world literature, The Last Word on First Names is a readable, witty, and illuminating guide to the real-world meaning of Miranda, Max, and thousands of other names from Abigail to Zelig. No one should name a baby without this book.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of First Names written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda M. Reinfeld
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807116982
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Language Poetry written by Linda M. Reinfeld and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Linda Reinfeld explores the relationship between contemporary critical theory and the new form of poetic expression—visible in the work of Charles Bernstein, Michael Palmer, and Susan Howe—called Language poetry. She holds that the experimental work of the Language poets should not be dismissed as esoteric or inaccessible. Language poetry may be read as an American response to critical theory. It rejects both the Romantic and the Modernist aesthetic and refuses to account for diversity by the imposition of unifying schemes or rigid structures. The role of the Language poet merges with that of the critic, in recognition that reading cannot flourish apart from writing, nor poet apart from audience. According to Reinfeld, the new genre serves as an antidote to the “ills of mystification” by reminding us of the limits of ideology, and it offers a vision of writing as rescuing us from a abstractions that deny the openness of language. Although often viewed as a new trend in poetic expression, Language poetry comes out of a strong social and intellectual tradition. Reinfeld traces its interests and concerns to Gertrude Stein and Ludwig Wittgenstein, among others, and finds its poetic antecedents to extend through English and American literature. She explores the work of Bernstein, Palmer, and Howe in juxtaposition with modern critical theory as it appears in the writings of Jacques Derrida, Theodor Adorno, and Roland Barthes. Language Poetry is a timely book on an influential literary movement. Reinfeld’s analysis of this writing is sure to illuminate the study of American poetics and critical theory.
Author : William H. Roberson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786487100
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Walter M. Miller, Jr. written by William H. Roberson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter M. Miller, Jr., was one of the twentieth century's leading science fiction writers, a two-time Hugo Award winner and author of the classic novels A Canticle for Leibowitz and Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman. This comprehensive literary guide provides more than 1,500 alphabetically arranged entries on Miller's life and body of work. It includes summaries of his two novels and all of his shorter works, character descriptions, explanations of the literary, cultural, historical, and religious allusions found in the works, as well as translations of all foreign words and phrases. This guide is meant to inform both scholarly and popular readings of Miller's work.
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 : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307772985
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book A Midwife's Tale written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar to our own" (The New York Times Book Review). Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine. On the basis of that diary, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich gives us an intimate and densely imagined portrait, not only of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard but of her society. At once lively and impeccably scholarly, A Midwife's Tale is a triumph of history on a human scale.
Author : Obiagele Lake
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313058644
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Blue Veins and Kinky Hair written by Obiagele Lake and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explores how Africans in America internalized the negative images created of them by the European world, and how internalized racism has worked to fracture African American unity and thereby dilute inchoate efforts toward liberation. In the late 1960s, change began with the Black Is Beautiful slogan and new a consciousness, which went hand in hand with Black Power and pan-African movements. The author argues that for any people to succeed, they must first embrace their own identity, including physical characteristics. Naming, skin color, and hair have been topical issues in the African American community since the 18th century. These three areas are key to a sense of identity and self, and they were forcefully changed when Africans were taken out of Africa as slaves. The author discusses how group and personal names, including racial epithets, have had far-reaching and deep-seated effects on African American self perception. Most of her attention, however, is focused on issues of physical appearance which reflect a greater or lesser degree of racial blending. She tells us about exclusive African American organizations such as The Blue Vein Society, in which membership was extended to African Americans whose skin color and hair texture tended toward those of European Americans, although wealthy dark-skinned people were also eligible. Much of the book details the lengths to which African American women have gone to lighten their complexions and straighten their hair. These endeavors started many years ago, and still continue, although today there is also a large number of women who are adamantly going natural. Her historical look at the cultural background to African American issues of hair and skin is the first monograph of its kind.
Author : Leslie Dunkling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book First Names First written by Leslie Dunkling and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Autumn Stanley
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813521978
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Mothers and Daughters of Invention written by Autumn Stanley and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley traces women's inventions in five vital areas of technology worldwide--agriculture, medicine, reproduction, machines, and computers.
