Flappers 2 Rappers

Flappers 2 Rappers
Author: Tom Dalzell
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012-03-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0486121623

Entertaining, highly readable book pulses with the vernacular of young Americans from the end of the 19th century to the present. Alphabetical listings for each decade, plus fascinating sidebars about language and culture.

Language

Language
Author: Edward Sapir
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2004-09-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0486437442

An expert, accessible study, this book asks and answers fundamental questions about how language works, its regional variations, and its cultural and historical roles. The author relates linguistic issues to a broad spectrum of other areas, including the part played by language in the nature of thought and in artistic expression. No finer introduction to the subject exists, and this work's direct style and thought-provoking topics extend its appeal beyond the classroom.

When Music Mattered

When Music Mattered
Author: James Wierzbicki
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2022-04-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 3030966941

This book examines the American Sixties, and how that period’s socio-political essence was reflected and refracted in certain forms of the period’s music. Its five main chapters bear the names of familiar musical categories: ’Folk,’ ‘Rock,’ ‘Jazz,’ ‘Avant-Garde,’ ‘Classical.’ But the book’s real subject matter—treated at length in the Prologue and the Epilogue but spread throughout all that comes between—is the Sixties’ tangled mess of hopes and frustrations, of hungers as much for self-identity as for self-indulgence, of crises of conscience that bothered Americans of almost all ages and regardless of political persuasion.

Comprehensive Guide to IBPS Bank PO/ MT Preliminary & Main Exam (7th Edition)

Comprehensive Guide to IBPS Bank PO/ MT Preliminary & Main Exam (7th Edition)
Author: Disha Experts
Publisher: Disha Publications
Total Pages: 897
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 9387045358

• The thoroughly revised & updated 7th edition of "Comprehensive Guide to IBPS-CWE Bank PO Exam" has been designed specially for the CWE Bank PO stage 1 & 2 of the exam. • The book covers all the sections of the Preliminary & Main PO exam - English Language, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability, Computer Aptitude, and Banking Knowledge & General Awareness. • The book provides well illustrated theory with exhaustive fully solved examples for learning. This is followed with an exhaustive collection of solved questions in the form of Exercise. • The book incorporates fully solved 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017 IBPS PO question papers with solutions. • The Current Affairs section has been updated with the latest questions so as to provide an updated book to the aspirants.

Slam Dunks and No-Brainers

Slam Dunks and No-Brainers
Author: Leslie Savan
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2006-10-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0375702423

In this marvelously original book, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan offers fascinating insights into why we’re all talking the talk—Duh; Bring it on!; Bling; Whatever!—and what this reveals about America today. Savan traces the paths that phrases like these travel from obscure slang to pop stardom, selling everything from cars (ads for VWs, Mitsubishis, and Mercurys all pitch them as “no-brainer”s) to wars (finding WMD in Iraq was to be a “slam dunk”). Real people create these catchy phrases, but once media, politics, and businesses broadcast them, they burst out of our mouths as celebrity words, newly glamorous and powerful. Witty, fun, and full of thought-provoking stories about the origins of popular expressions, Slam Dunks and No-Brainers is for everyone who loves the mysteries of language.

Essential Modern Greek Grammar

Essential Modern Greek Grammar
Author: Douglas Q. Adams
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2011-09-12
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0486113434

This logical, developmental presentation of the major aspects of modern Greek grammar includes all the necessary tools for speech and comprehension. Designed for adults with limited learning time who wish to acquire the basics of everyday modern Greek, this grammar features numerous shortcuts and timesavers. Ideal as an introduction, supplement, or refresher.