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Verbivore's Feast: Second Course

Author : Chrysti Mueller Smith
Publisher : Farcountry Press
ISBN 13 : 1560375302
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Verbivore's Feast: Second Course written by Chrysti Mueller Smith and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2015-09-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion edition to her popular Verbivore's Feast, Chrysti the Wordsmith, host of the much-loved radio show of the same name, once again examines the evolution and history of the English language, using the odd expressions and cliches that pepper it. Exploring words such as lollygag and quack, and phrases ranging from break a leg to shake a stick and from Adam's apple to trip the light fantastic, Chrysti the Wordsmith uncovers the fascinating stories about their origins.

Verbivore's Feast

Author : Chrysti Mueller Smith
Publisher : Farcountry Press
ISBN 13 : 1560375280
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Verbivore's Feast written by Chrysti Mueller Smith and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What led to the expression "let the cat out of the bag"? Why do we call blondes "towheads"? For Pete's sake, what is a fangle? In this humorous and engaging collection of word origins and histories, the famed host of the Chrysti the Wordsmith series (heard on Yellowstone Public Radio, Montana Public Radio, Montana State University's KGLT-FM, and Armed Forces Radio and Television Service) shares the stories behind the words. This irresistible medley is a must for word lovers everywhere.

The Remarkable Life of Albert Haskell, Jr

Author : Martin A. Sweeney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761873937
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Remarkable Life of Albert Haskell, Jr written by Martin A. Sweeney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a remarkable cache of scrapbooks kept by Albert Haskell, Jr. through his lifetime, Martin A. Sweeny narrates a fascinating story of unwavering dedication to the public good. As a lawyer, politician, civic organizer, and economic developer, Haskell never turned away from an opportunity to do something beneficial for others.

Exploring Idioms

Author : Valeri R. Helterbran
Publisher : Maupin House Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1934338141
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Idioms written by Valeri R. Helterbran and published by Maupin House Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idioms are everywhere whether you break a leg, make a mountain out of a molehill, or let the cat out of the bag and they spice up English in the most delightful way. Mastery of idioms promotes fluency and lively, colorful self-expression. And now, with Exploring Idioms, you can use them to develop your students¿ critical-thinking skills, too. In Exploring Idioms, Valeri Helterbran provides opportunities for middle-grade students to actively work with and connect to 120 common American idioms, as well as more than 300 related idiomatic phrases students can investigate on their own. The critical-thinking activities in Exploring Idioms give you an easy and effective way to begin or end the day, to prepare students to respond to questions about idioms on state assessments, and to help ELL students master this difficult English-language concept while having fun at the same time. Have your students put on their thinking caps and explore the creative world of idioms.

Focus On: 100 Most Popular American Autobiographers

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2555 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular American Autobiographers written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 2555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Another Word A Day

Author : Anu Garg
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470324759
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Another Word A Day written by Anu Garg and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smorgasbord of surprising, obscure, and exotic words In this delightful encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Anu Garg, the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (wordsmith.org), presents an all-new collection of unusual, intriguing words and real-life anecdotes that will thrill writers, scholars, and word buffs everywhere. Another Word A Day celebrates the English language in all its quirkiness, grandeur, and fun, and features new chapters ranging from "Words Formed Erroneously" and "Red-Herring Words" to "Kangaroo Words," "Discover the Theme," and "What Does That Company Name Mean?" In them, you'll find a treasure trove of curious and compelling words, including agelast, dragoman, mittimus, nyctalopia, quacksalver, scission, tattersall, and zugzwang. Each entry includes a concise definition, etymology, and usage example, interspersed with illuminating quotations. Praise for a word a day "Anu Garg's many readers await their A Word A Day rations hungrily. Now at last here's a feast for them and other verbivores. Eat up!" --Barbara Wallraff, Senior Editor at The Atlantic Monthly and author of Word Court "AWADies will be familiar with Anu Garg's refreshing approach to words: words are fun and they have fascinating histories." --John Simpson, Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary

The Conservationist

Author : Nadine Gordimer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101571063
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Conservationist written by Nadine Gordimer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1983-02-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a novel of enormous power' New Statesman 'Gordimer is a great writer ... It is Turgenev that she most brings to mind' -- New York Review of Books The Booker Prize winning political novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine Gordimer Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm.

American Book Publishing Record

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Faith, Film and Philosophy

Author : R. Douglas Geivett
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830875182
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Faith, Film and Philosophy written by R. Douglas Geivett and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-09-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Those who tell stories rule society." Plato So who today are our principal storytellers? Not philosophers, but filmmakers. For those who know both the enormous entertainment potential and the culture-shaping power of film, this book will stir mind and imagination. For great stories freight world-sized ideas, ideas worthy of contemplation and conversation. Great cinema inspires wonder. But another philosopher, Aristotle, reminds us that wonder is the true source of philosophy. So perhaps Plato or Aristotle might have a shot at ruling society, even today--if they took an interest in film. These fourteen essays consider classic and current films together with several major philosophical themes, all within the context of Christian faith: (1) the human condition, (2) the human mind and the nature of knowing, (3) the moral life, and (4) faith and religion. Citizen Kane, Big Fish and Pretty Woman contribute to an in-depth consideration of the human condition. The Truman Show, The Matrix, Being John Malkovich and It's a Wonderful Life, among others, illuminate reflection on the human mind and the nature of knowing. Looking at the moral life, contributors interact with such notable films as Pleasantville, Bowling for Columbine, Mystic River and The Silence of the Lambs. The final section pursues the theme of faith and religion traced through a number of Hong Kong martial arts films, Contact, 2001: A Space Odyssey and U2's music documentary Rattle and Hum. A veritable film festival for all those who want to nurture the wonder of philosophical inquiry and the love of Christian theology through an engagement with the big ideas on the big screen.

Crazy English

Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143913894X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Crazy English written by Richard Lederer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering the names for phobias you didn't know you could have, the longest words in our dictionaries, and the shortest sentence containing every letter in the alphabet. You'll take a bird's-eye view of our beastly language, feast on a banquet of mushrooming food metaphors, and meet the self-reflecting Doctor Rotcod, destined to speak only in palindromes.

Anguished English

Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9780941711814
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Anguished English written by Richard Lederer and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of humorous language bloopers including misspelled words, bungled translations, mangled modifiers, and much more.

Verbivore

Author : Christine Brooke-Rose
Publisher : Carcanet Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Verbivore written by Christine Brooke-Rose and published by Carcanet Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction featuring Hip and Zab, the heroes of X̀orandor'.

The Painted Word

Author : Phil Cousineau
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1936740257
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book The Painted Word written by Phil Cousineau and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To untangle the knot of interlocking meanings of these painted words, logophile and mythologist Phil Cousineau begins each fascinating word entry with his own brief definition. He then fills it in with a tint of etymology and a smattering of quotes that show how the word is used, ending with a list of companion words. The words themselves range from commonplace — like biscuit, a twice-baked cake for Roman soldiers — to loanwords including chaparral, from the Basque shepherds who came to the American West; words from myths, such as hector; metamorphosis words, like silly, which evolved holy to goofy in a mere thousand years; and words well worthy of revival, such as carrytale, a wandering storyteller. Whether old-fangled or brand new, all the words included in The Painted Word possess an ineffable quality that makes them luminous.

A Taste of Wyoming

Author : Pamela Sinclair
Publisher : Farcountry Press
ISBN 13 : 1560374586
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book A Taste of Wyoming written by Pamela Sinclair and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2008-03-19 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Taste of Wyoming: Favorite Recipes from the Cowboy State is a divine blend of Wyoming's rich culinary heritage and contemporary cuisine. This exquisite cookbook features sophisticated interpretations of Western dishes from Wyoming's finest restaurants, lodges, and bed-and-breakfasts, as well as classic Cowboy State favorites. Take a seat at the table for mouthwatering Western cuisine: Blue Ribbon Caramel Cinnamon Rolls, Pine Nut-Crusted Goat Cheese, Warm Green Bean Salad, New West Clam Chowder, Lamb Ossobucco, Brandied Apricot-Stuffed Pork Loin with Port Wine Glaze, Pan-Fried Rocky Mountain Trout with Hazelnut Butter, Sour Cream Cherry Pie, and Wild Huckleberry Muffins with Orange Glaze. Complementing the delectable recipes and gorgeous photographs are excerpts from the works of Wyoming writers and delightful historical images. Author Pamela Sinclair has struck a culinary chord with Wyomingites, according to Wyoming author Alyson Hagy, who writes in the foreword, "Sinclair has discovered a knotty little Western secret. She has toured our kitchens and our stubborn gardens and our memories. She has listened to the way our stomachs growl before we head off on a brisk hike or after we've spent a twilight hour shoveling snow. She knows our hearts are half-hitched to our dinner plates."

Hilarious Holiday Humor

Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher : Marion Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781936863518
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book Hilarious Holiday Humor written by Richard Lederer and published by Marion Street Press. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sidesplitting jokes, puns, and puzzles are unleashed in this festive collection of quips for all of the major U.S. holidays. Each celebrated day from New Year's to Christmas is afforded a separate chapter, organized in calendar order. Class clowns and junior high school comedians will uncover a bevy of vocabulary-enhancing humor and wholesome witticisms, such as Where was the Declaration of Independence signed? At the bottom. Enhanced by lively illustrations, each section also offers fun and fascinating origin stories and customs, making this a mirthful introduction to understanding modern-day celebrations.

By Hook Or By Crook: A Journey in Search of English

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007284063
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book By Hook Or By Crook: A Journey in Search of English written by David Crystal and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightfully discursive, Bill Bryson-esque and personal journey through the groves and the thickets of the English language, by our foremost scholar of the history and structure of the English language.

Eunoia

Author : Christian Bök
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1847672442
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Eunoia written by Christian Bök and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2009-06-11 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Eunoia', which means 'beautiful thinking', is the shortest English word to contain all five vowels. This book also contains them all, except that each one appears by itself in its own chapter. A unique personality for each vowel soon emerges: A is courtly, E is elegiac, I is lyrical, O is jocular, U is obscene. A triumphant feat, seven years in the making, Eunoia is as playful as it is awe-inspiring.