Lewis Theobald, His Contribution to English Scholarship

Lewis Theobald, His Contribution to English Scholarship
Author: Richard Foster Jones
Publisher: Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature
Total Pages: 382
Release: 1919
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

A biography of the 18th century British textual editor Lewis Theobold that asserts that the basic principles of critical editing in English were derived from Theobold's adaptation of the method employed by Bentley in the classics.

The Arabic Contributions to the English Language

The Arabic Contributions to the English Language
Author: Garland Hampton Cannon
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1994
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783447034913

The largest and most up-to-date collection of English words and multiword units borrowed from the Arabic, directly or indirectly, totalling 2338 items. All major dictionaries in English were surveyed, including new-word collections, and college dictionaries.Each dictionary entry gives the fi rst recorded date of the loan in English, the semantic field, variant forms, etymology, the English definitions, derivative forms, and sometimes grammatical comment. The major sources of each entry are noted, along with the approximate degree of assimilation in English. A substantial part of the book is devoted to nontechnical analytical essays, which treat the forty-six semantic areas so as to embrace all disciplines and throw light on the individual subject. Other essays treat the phonological and linguistic aspects of the data, so as to show how languages in contact interact and ultimately influence each other's culture. This is a wide-ranging, innovational book that advances the study of comprehensive borrowing within languages over the centuries.

Introduction To English Prose (According To NEP - 2020)

Introduction To English Prose (According To NEP - 2020)
Author: Amit Ganguli,
Publisher: SBPD Publications
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2022-12-20
Genre: Bibles
ISBN:

1. An Introduction to Indian Writing in English, 2. Elements of Short Story, 3. Types of Prose and Prose Style, 4. Prose Devices, 5. Short Stories, 6. Short Stories, 7.Prose, 8. Prose

Life's Great Question

Life's Great Question
Author: Tom Rath
Publisher: Tom Rath
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1939714184

Life is not what you get out of it . . . it’s what you put back in. Yet our current means for summarizing life’s work, from resumes to salaries, are devoid of what matters most. This is why the work we do is often bad for our wellbeing, when it should be making us happier and healthier. What are the most meaningful contributions we can make? This is Life’s Great Question. Life is about what you do that improves the world around you. It is about investing in the development of other people. And it is about efforts that will continue to grow when you are gone. Life’s Great Question will show you how to make your work and life more meaningful, and greatly boost your wellbeing. In this remarkably quick read, author Tom Rath describes how finding your greatest contribution is far more effective than following talent or passion alone. More than a book, each copy includes a code for an online program that identifies the most significant contributions you can make. This deeply practical book will alter how you look at your work and change the way you live each day.

Surnames in the United States Census of 1790

Surnames in the United States Census of 1790
Author: American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Linguistic and National Stocks in the Population of the United States
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1969
Genre: Aliens
ISBN: 0806300043

The source of surnames in the early United States.

A Book of Lands and Peoples

A Book of Lands and Peoples
Author:
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 634
Release: 2004
Genre: Travelers
ISBN: 0007149409

A sparkling anthology of several centuries worth of the world's best travel writing, assembled by the legendary Eric Newby, the author of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush and Love and War in the Apennines, and one of Britain's pre-eminent and best-loved travel-writers.In 1985 Eric Newby compiled an immensely successful anthology of travel-writing called Travellers Tales that was distinguished by its originality and the genuine affection with which each entry had been chosen and described. Newby's enthusiasm and love for the subject shone out on every page, and the book became a travel-writing classic.Now, nearly 20 years later, Newby returns with a collection even more far-ranging and delightfully entertaining. A virtually endless treasure-trove of the bizarre, the touching, the profound and the farcical, A Book of Lands and Peoples is a collection of staggering scope and range. From Herodotus to Wilfred Thesiger, from Christopher Columbus to Paul Theroux, from Nick Danziger to Marco Polo, Eric Newby has brought together the absolute cream of the travel-writing crop into one beautiful and fascinating volume. There is simply no other book like it.