Alive to Language

Alive to Language
Author: Valerie Arndt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2000-05-18
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0521560152

Areas examined in this book include the concepts of language-in-use and associated systems, language varieties, language change, and the interaction between language and power.

Words, Words, Words

Words, Words, Words
Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2007
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199210772

Words, Words, Words is all about the wonder of words. Drawing on a lifetime's experience, David Crystal explores language in all its rich varieties through words: the very building blocks of our communication. Language has no life of its own: it only exists in the mouths and ears, hands, eyes and brains of its users. As we are guided expertly and passionately through the mysteries and delights of word origins, histories, spellings, regional and social variations, taboo words, jargon, and wordplay, the contribution we all play in shaping the linguistic world around us becomes evident. Words, Words, Words is a celebration of what we say and how we say it. It invites us to engage linguistically with who we are: to understand what words tell us about where we come from and what we do. And as they continually shape our lives, it suggests ways that we can look at words anew and get involved with collecting and coining words ourselves.

Before and After the I-bomb

Before and After the I-bomb
Author: Tom Sherman
Publisher: Banff, Alta. : Banff Centre Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN:

"A collection of essays spanning three decades of thought and inquiry about art, culture and nature in the information era."--Cover.

Ethics and Religion

Ethics and Religion
Author: Joe Jenkins
Publisher: Heinemann
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2003
Genre: Religion and ethics
ISBN: 9780435303679

This revised and updated edition for Advanced Religious Studies contains practice exam questions to help succeed in exams and a new section which focuses on students' thinking skills.

Punch

Punch
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 830
Release: 1988-10
Genre: English wit and humor
ISBN:

A Bibliography of English Etymology

A Bibliography of English Etymology
Author: Anatoly Liberman
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 975
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0816667721

Distinguished linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman set out the frame for this volume in An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology. Here, Liberman's landmark scholarship lay the groundwork for his forthcoming multivolume analytic dictionary of the English language. A Bibliography of English Etymology is a broadly conceptualized reference tool that provides source materials for etymological research. For each word's etymology, there is a bibliographic entry that lists the word origin's primary sources, specifically, where it was first found in use. Featuring the history of more than 13,000 English words, their cognates, and their foreign antonyms, this is a full-fledged compendium of resources indispensable to any scholar of word origins.

Punch

Punch
Author: Mark Lemon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 826
Release: 1988-10
Genre: English wit and humor
ISBN:

What We Have

What We Have
Author: Amy Boesky
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2010-08-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1101458933

Read Amy Boesky's blogs and view other content on the Penguin Community. The stirring true story of a woman who chose fearlessness in the face of a fatal family legacy and discovered the pleasure of living each moment to its fullest At thirty-two, Amy Boesky thought she had it all figured out: a wonderful new man in her life, a great job, and the (nearly) perfect home. For once, she was almost able to shake the terrible fear that had gripped her for as long as she could remember. Women in her family had always died young-from cancer-and she and her sisters had grown up in time's shadow. It colored every choice they made and was beginning to come to a head now that each of them approached thirty-five-the deadline their doctors prescribed for having preventive surgery with the hope they could thwart their family's medical curse. But Amy didn't want to dwell on that now. She wanted to plan for a new baby, live her life. And with the appreciation for life's smallest pleasures, she did just that. In What We Have, Amy shares a deeply transformative year in her family's life and invites readers to join in their joy, laughter, and grief. In a true story as compelling as the best in women's fiction, written with the sagacity of Joan Didion and the elegance of Amy Bloom, Amy Boesky's journey celebrates the promise of a full life, even in the face of uncertainty.

Strength

Strength
Author: Dr. M.P. Washington
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2009-12-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1462841449

This will not be like any other Devotional you have read, for this is not a book that you read in your intellect. It is a Chapter in the book of Life YOUR LIFE. God is summoning you to a higher place of understanding. We have the blessing of the Word of God that was written by men who were under the Anointing. They did not know at the time of their writing that they were writing what would become known as the Holy Bible. The Apostle Paul simply wrote love letters to those of whom God assigned him to minister to. He did not know that his letters would be baptized with the fire of God and save thousands of generations. His life, all the triumphs as well as the failures of his life became an open book, and so is yours. Kings, Shepherds, Judges, Warriors, even Gods enemy has a page in the book of life. Your story is life as well and it is being written by the angels. In reality the Book of Life has three parts, and they are The Old Testament, The New Testament and the Book that Jesus spoke of in heaven called the Lambs Book. This Book, The Lambs Book is the Third Book, and you are among the number characters in that book. Mal 3:16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. Live Holy because the Angels are keeping notes. They are writing your every experience, your every failure, triumph, your every praise is being written at this very moment and one day your name will be called and the book will be opened and you will have to give an account for the things you have done. This devotional will be included in the Third Part. Read and Grow thereby. God is watching and the Angels are writing as the Saga of Holiness Continues.

Life Beyond Dictionaries

Life Beyond Dictionaries
Author: Olga M. Karpova
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2015-09-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443881473

This book brings together papers presented at the Tenth International School on Lexicography, titled “Life Beyond Dictionaries” and held in Ivanovo, Russia, and Florence, Italy, in September 2013. It continues the series of edited volumes dealing with the theoretical and practical aspects of lexicography, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2013. The book is divided into three sections, “Lexicography Worldwide: Historical and Modern Perspectives”, “Tourism and Heritage Dictionaries with Special Reference to Culture”, and “Projects of New Dictionaries”. The contributions to this volume investigate problems of world lexicography and its cultural contexts with special reference to projects of new dictionaries. As such, the book will be of interest to theoreticians, lexicographers, and students of linguistic faculties.