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The Word Lover's Delight:

Author : From the Editors of the Captivate Network
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0806535733
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Word Lover's Delight: written by From the Editors of the Captivate Network and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Word Up! From amusia to xerophagy, from the ephemeral to the vituperative, The Word Lover's Delight is chockablock with words that are not only fascinating and unusual but that you can use in your everyday speech--to jaw-dropping effect. With a wide range of words, from the moderately difficult to the somewhat ostentatious, The Word Lover's Delight gives each word a phonetic pronunciation, a memorable example of its use in speech, and an easy-to-understand definition. FOURSQUARE (ADJ.) FAWR'-SKWAIR – straightforward, blunt, unwavering Lucy appreciated Tom's foursquare breakup style, but she still popped all his tires and smashed his windshield. Fun, educational, and erudite, The Word Lover's Delight is the ultimate book for word nerds--and anyone who's ever just wanted to find the perfect bon mot at the perfect time. CapitvateTM elevator television reaches 52 million people a month--and Captivate's most popular feature is "Word of the Day." Now, the CaptivateTM editors have put together a word-of-the-day book for everyone who wants to improve his or her vocabulary--or just loves learning new words.

The Liar's Dictionary

Author : Eley Williams
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385546785
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Liar's Dictionary written by Eley Williams and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.” —The New York Times Book Review An award-winning novel that chronicles the charming misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman put on his trail a century later to root out his misdeeds while confronting questions of her own sexuality and place in the world. Mountweazel n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby’s multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. But his disaffection with his colleagues compels him to assert some individual purpose and artistic freedom, and he begins inserting unauthorized, fictitious entries. In the present day, Mallory, the publisher’s young intern, starts to uncover these mountweazels in the process of digitization and through them senses their creator’s motivations, hopes, and desires. More pressingly, she’s also been contending with a threatening, anonymous caller who wants Swansby’s staff to “burn in hell.” As these two narratives coalesce, Winceworth and Mallory, separated by one hundred years, must discover how to negotiate the complexities of life’s often untrustworthy, hoax-strewn, and undefinable path. An exhilarating, laugh-out-loud debut, The Liar’s Dictionary celebrates the rigidity, fragility, absurdity, and joy of language while peering into questions of identity and finding one’s place in the world.

Wordcatcher

Author : Phil Cousineau
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1573445509
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book Wordcatcher written by Phil Cousineau and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who knew that the great country of Canada is named for a mistake? How about "bedswerver," the best Elizabethan insult to hurl at a cheating boyfriend? By exploring the delightful back stories of the 250 words in Wordcatcher, readers are lured by language and entangled in etymologies. Author Phil Cousineau takes us on a tour into the obscure territory of word origins with great erudition and endearing curiosity. The English poet W. H. Auden was once asked to teach a poetry class, and when 200 students applied to study with him, he only had room for 20 of them. When asked how he chose his students, he said he picked the ones who actually loved words. So too, with this book — it takes a special wordcatcher to create a treasure chest of remarkable words and their origins, and any word lover will relish the stories that Cousineau has discovered.

Words of Delight

Author : Leland Ryken
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1585580635
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Words of Delight written by Leland Ryken and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this introduction to Scripture, Leland Ryken organizes biblical passages into literary genres including narratives, poetry, proverbs, and drama, demonstrating that knowledge of a genre's characteristics enriches one's understanding of individual passages. Ryken offers a volume brimming over with wonderful insights into Old and New Testament books and passages--insights that have escaped most traditional commentators.

I, You, and the Word “God”

Author : Sarah Zhang
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575064766
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book I, You, and the Word “God” written by Sarah Zhang and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I, You, and the Word “God” introduces the approach of lyrical ethics, inspired by Emmanuel Levinas’s ethical-phenomenological philosophy. Through the optics of lyrical ethics, the reader discovers how the ancient erotic poems of the Song of Songs bear ethical and theological significance for contemporary readers. Levinas’s intertwined concepts—oneself qua sensibility, otherness perceived through responsibility, and transcendence embodied in one’s love for the other—reveal themselves as lyrical colors woven into the fabric of Song 4:1–7, 5:2–8, and 8:6. More importantly, Levinas’s understanding that poetic language breaks the tautology of logocentric discourse and gestures to the outside of consciousness provides the theoretical ground for the listener to solicit meaningfulness from the Song. Through this lyrical reading of the selected poetic units, the book demonstrates that the traditional interpretive methods of representative description, narrative paraphrase, and thematic distillation fail to encounter the otherness of poetry. In contrast, lyrical ethics pays attention to that which transcends consciousness: the awakening of the reader’s subjectivity, the saying underlying the said, the sound of the sense, and the invisibility of the visible. The Song so caressed reveals in human love the purposelessly purposive encounter with God.

Personal Prayer: A Guide for Receiving the Father’s Love

Author : Fr. Thomas Acklin, OSB
Publisher : Emmaus Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645850250
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Personal Prayer: A Guide for Receiving the Father’s Love written by Fr. Thomas Acklin, OSB and published by Emmaus Road Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prayer is at the heart of the Christian life. Given that we are weak and even sinful human beings, how can it be that God has anything to do with us? What does it mean to have a personal relationship with God? Why is God so silent and hidden? How do we grow in prayer? Personal Prayer: A Guide for Receiving the Father’s Love brings the depth of human experience together with the Catholic tradition of prayer to present the path to an intimate and vulnerable relationship with God. Experienced spiritual directors Fr. Thomas Acklin, OSB, and Fr. Boniface Hicks, OSB, explore the many forms of Catholic prayer and demonstrate that vulnerability is essential to growing in relationship with God. Rich with the wisdom of Scripture, Catholic teaching, and the writings of the saints, Personal Prayer is an exhaustive guide for priests, religious, and laity desiring to receive the Father’s love in a profoundly personal way.

Other-Wordly

Author : Yee-Lum Mak
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452163111
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Other-Wordly written by Yee-Lum Mak and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover words to surprise, delight, and enamor. Learn terms for the sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees, for dancing awkwardly but with relish, and for the look shared by two people who each wish the other would speak first. Other-Wordly is an irresistible ebook for lovers of words and those lost for words alike.

A Dictionary of the English and German, and the German and the English Language

Author : Joseph Leonhard Hilpert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1700 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of the English and German, and the German and the English Language written by Joseph Leonhard Hilpert and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 1700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Endangered Words

Author : Simon Hertnon
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 9781632204530
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Endangered Words written by Simon Hertnon and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afterwit, agathism, ambsace, anacampserote, antepenultimate, antimony, and more! “When a word perfectly captures a human truth, humans respond to it in the same way that they respond to a beautiful melody. They smile. They nod their heads. They tell others of their discovery.” So says Simon Hertnon in his introduction to Endangered Words, and after wrapping your tongue around the lexical rarities he offers up to his readers, you’ll have to agree! Hertnon provides one hundred hand-selected rarities, and, in a virtuoso display of concinnity, breathes life into them with his lucid descriptions of their meaning and engaging examples of their usage. Perhaps you are an arriviste enjoying a newfound sense of nikhedonia as you demonstrate your sprezzatura in a given subject. Or maybe you are a desipientplutomaniac destined to a life of poshlost. If this doesn’t describe you, then take your pick of the many wonderful words in this book: Omnistrain Trilemma Aporia Or maybe these are all schlimmbesserungs! Thanks to Endangered Words, you no longer have to be at a loss for words or reach for the clichéd and commonplace. The English language is brimming with ambrosial alternatives, and this compendium offers the cream of the crop. Filled with words to be treasured for their elegant precision, from apophenia to zemblanity, Endangered Words is the perfect handbook for writers, an excellent resource for communicators, and an entertaining read for anyone with an appetite for the very brightest gems of the English language.

Englisch-Deutsches und Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch

Author : Josef Leonhard Hilpert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Englisch-Deutsches und Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch written by Josef Leonhard Hilpert and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dictionary of the English and German, and the German and English Language: German and English

Author : Joseph Leonhard Hilpert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of the English and German, and the German and English Language: German and English written by Joseph Leonhard Hilpert and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dictionary of the English and German and the German and English Language

Author : Joseph Leonhard ilpert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1696 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of the English and German and the German and English Language written by Joseph Leonhard ilpert and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Norse Vitki A Book of Shadows

Author : Andrè RavenSkül Venås
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1794737448
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Norse Vitki A Book of Shadows written by Andrè RavenSkül Venås and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a Book of Shadows, an encyclopedia of things you want to know.

Signs and Seasons of Love

Author : F.M. Bonevento
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480808776
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Signs and Seasons of Love written by F.M. Bonevento and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Signs and Seasons of Love is a collection of verses inspired by a love that has flourished for more than half a century. The story begins when the author, F.M. Bonevento, is six and he meets Mary Ann who is seven. Over the years, they continue as friends sharing common interests, until one summer day in 1961, they discover that they have fallen in love. Their romance and long marriage is a treasure of shared joys. The idea of the collection of verses started years ago as a unique gift for Mary Ann, and it grew into this book full of verses that will touch your heart and bring you a glimpse of the joy of romance. Verse, unlike narrative prose, uses images painted with words to express the feelings that dwell deep within the human heart. From the endearing poem "The Perfect Kiss" to the passion of "Fire," the emotions are personal and heartfelt. The Signs and Seasons of Love Verses to paint images of love Verses, in a world that has so little time, for the sweetest images of the heart Lines giving but the faintest hint, of the love she gives so abundantly Phrases and couplets, crafted to touch her heart, as her love so often touches mine How meager the offerings, still they spring from the depths of my heart Oh, how I wish I had the art to truly tell, what lives within me...

Aistheterion

Author : Gary Maner
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 160477603X
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Aistheterion written by Gary Maner and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Scripture to provide insight, Maner reveals the biblical connection between the physical and spiritual senses. (Social Issues)

A dictionary of the English and German languages

Author : Josef Leonhard Hilpert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1026 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A dictionary of the English and German languages written by Josef Leonhard Hilpert and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women and the Word

Author : J. King
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230597351
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Women and the Word written by J. King and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-08-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and the Word examines why, in today's secular society, so many of the finest British and American women novelists seem preoccupied with Biblical themes and stories. It offers informed and challenging analysis of individual novels and stories for the literary critic and student. By analysing those texts in the context of myth and religion, however, it also makes an important and ground-breaking contribution to a number of the inter-disciplinary debates taking place within women's studies.