The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963

The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-08-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0385382952

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of this Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about a hilarious family on a road-trip at one of the most important times in America's history. This special edition makes a perfect gift and includes bonus content! Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who's thirteen and an "official juvenile delinquent." When Byron gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they'll be in Birmingham during one of the darkest moments in America's history. "Every so often a book becomes a modern classic almost as soon as it arrives on bookshelves. That happened in the mid-'90s when Christopher Paul Curtis released his first book, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963." --NPR "One of the best novels EVER." --Jacqueline Woodson, Newbery Honor and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming

Tracing Your Birmingham Ancestors

Tracing Your Birmingham Ancestors
Author: Michael Sharpe
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2015-04-30
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1473856256

Birmingham, the cradle of the industrial revolution and the world's first manufacturing town, is an important focus for many family historians who will find that their trail leads through it. Rural migrants, Quakers, Jews, Irish, Italians, and more recently people from the Caribbean, South-Asia and China have all made Birmingham their home. This vibrant history is reflected in the city's rich collections of records, and Michael Sharpe's handbook is the ideal guide to them. He introduces readers to the wealth of information available, providing an essential guide for anyone researching the history of the city or the life of an individual ancestor. His work addresses novices and experienced researchers alike and offers a compendium of sources from legal and ecclesiastical archives, to the records of local government, employers, institutions, clubs, societies and schools. Accessible, informative and extensively referenced, it is the perfect companion for research in Britain's second city.

Birmingham Irish

Birmingham Irish
Author: Carl Chinn
Publisher: Birmingham City Council Department of Leisure & Company
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2003-03-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780709302414

Dictionary of Lexicography

Dictionary of Lexicography
Author: R. R. K. Hartmann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2002-01-04
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1134768281

Dictionaries are among the most frequently consulted books, yet we know remarkably little about them. Who makes them? Where do they come from? What do they offer? How can we evaluate them? The Dictionary of Lexicography provides answers to all these questions and addresses a wide range of issues: * the traditions of dictionary-making * the different types of dictionaries and other reference works (such as thesaurus, encyclopedia, atlas and telephone directory) * the principles and concerns of lexicographers and other reference professionals * the standards of dictionary criticism and dictionary use. It is both a professional handbook and an easy-to-use reference work. This is the first time that the subject has been covered in such a comprehensive manner in the form of a reference book. All articles are self-contained, cross-referenced and uniformly structured. The whole is an up-to-date and forward-looking survey of lexicography.

The Bookseller

The Bookseller
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1638
Release: 1883
Genre: Bibliography
ISBN:

Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.

Vocabulary

Vocabulary
Author: Michael McCarthy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1990-10-25
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780194371360

How are words and idioms organized in a language? How are they learnt and stored? Vocabulary explains the ways in which the various theories relating to these questions have been applied in both teaching and reference materials. A wide range of examples illustrate the text, and will help readers to evaluate and adapt the vocabulary materials they use in their own classrooms.

English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners

English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners
Author: Anthony Paul Cowie
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2002
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780199250844

This is the first history of dictionaries of English for foreign learners, from their beginnings in Japan and East Asia in the 1920s to the present day. Anthony Cowie describes the evolution of the major titles, and their fight for dominance of what soon became an enormous market. He shows how developments in lexical and grammatical theory crucially affected the content and structure of ELT dictionaries.

A Dictionary of African Politics

A Dictionary of African Politics
Author: Nicholas Cheeseman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2019-02-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0192524828

With over 400 A-Z entries, this new dictionary provides clear and authoritative definitions of terms within the fast-growing field of African Politics. It includes coverage on elections, parties and judiciaries, but also popular protest, gender-relations, the politics of development, and Africa's international relations. Entries comprise of major events and figures within African Politics, including the East African Community and independance, as well as covering key terms of particular relevance to Africa such as neopatrimonialism, queue voting, and post-conflict power sharing. Written by a world-leading political scientist working on the area of African politics, this dictionary is an essential guide for both undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academics, journalists, and researchers working on African politics alike.