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Author | : M. J. Cohen |
Publisher | : Orion |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780297844860 |
An exciting and original work of historical reference. From the Iraq of ancient Babylon to the Iraq war of 2003 - taking in the histories of Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia in a grand global sweep. It uses the innovative medium of some 9000 chronologically arranged quotations of more than 5000 years of recorded history.
Author | : Joslyn Pine |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2012-03-02 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0486112446 |
This original collection of quotations cites approximately 100 well-known African Americans from all walks of life, including Maya Angelou, Louis Armstrong, Muhammad Ali, Julian Bond, George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, and Ralph Ellison.
Author | : Ruth Finnegan |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1906924333 |
Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the near.Drawing from anthropology, cultural history, folklore, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, literary studies and the ethnography of speaking, Ruth Finnegan 's fascinating study sets our present conventions into crosscultural and historical perspective. She traces the curious history of quotation marks, examines the long tradition of quotation collections with their remarkable recycling across the centuries, and explores the uses of quotation in literary, visual and oral traditions. The book tracks the changing defi nitions and control of quoting over the millennia and in doing so throws new light on ideas such as imitation, allusion, authorship, originality and plagiarism .
Author | : Mark Julian Cohen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1008 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry Louis Mencken |
Publisher | : New York : A. A. Knopf |
Total Pages | : 1376 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : Quotations, English |
ISBN | : |
"This book is based upon a collection of quotations begun in 1918 or thereabout for my own use. Its purpose was to keep track of sayings that, for one reason or another, interested me and seemed worth remembering, but that, also for one reason or another, were not in the existing quotation-books. The collection grew steadily, helped by the contributions of friends who knew of it, and there arose inevitably the notion that it might be worth printing."--Preface written by H.L. Mencken.
Author | : Will Durant |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2012-08-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439170193 |
A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress, the Durants take us on a journey through history, exploring the possibilities and limitations of humanity over time. Juxtaposing the great lives, ideas, and accomplishments with cycles of war and conquest, the Durants reveal the towering themes of history and give meaning to our own.
Author | : Alan Bennett |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2008-09-04 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0571246885 |
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose. The History Boys premièred at the National in May 2004. 'Nothing could diminish the incendiary achievement of this subtle, deep-wrought and immensely funny play about the value and meaning of education .. In short, a superb, life-enhancing play.' Guardian
Author | : Henry Steele Commager |
Publisher | : ACLS History E-Book Project |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781628200898 |
An overview of the nature and methods of history as a field in social science, written for educators.
Author | : Bill Swainson |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 1360 |
Release | : 2000-09-30 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780312230005 |
Here are 25,000 quotations drawn from the history, politics, literature, religions, science, and popular culture of the world--ranging from the earliest Chinese sages through Shakespeare to the present day.
Author | : Peter Furtado |
Publisher | : Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 857 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857899279 |
Every day of the year carries the memory of great and terrible events. From the founding of Rome to the 21st century's war on terror, History's Daybook presents a vivid, day-by-day perspective on 2,500 years of human history through the medium of 366 quotations, each of which is tied to the anniversary of a celebrated historical event, capturing its essence with the immediacy of the eye-witness or the narrative flair of the chronicler. In History's Daybook, every day becomes a window on the past: on March 15, 44 BC, blood flows in the Roman Senate as Julius Caesar falls victim to the thrusting daggers of Brutus and his co-conspirators; May 1, 1851 brings a visit to London's Great Exhibition in the company of the novelist Charlotte Bront&ë; on June 28, 1919, in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles, brokenspirited, German delegates sign the Treaty that brings the Great War to its fateful conclusion; on August 16, 1665, we walk the silent streets of plague-ravaged London with the diarist Samuel Pepys; and on September 11, 2001 we watch in horror as the Twin Towers topple and the world changes forever. History's Daybook embraces a wide range of voices, moods, and registers, from the powerful to the impoverished, the revolutionary to the reactionary, the propagandist to the idealist, and the joyful to the grief-stricken. Both engrossing anthology and informative overview of world history, History's Daybook offers the reader entertainment and instruction in equal measure: it is the ideal gift book for the history buff.