Author: Aulus Cornelius CelsusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine, Greek and Roman
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Of Medicine
Author: Aulus Cornelius CelsusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine, Greek and Roman
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Provisions
Author: Judith FetterleyPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253203496
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
"This valuable collection . . . should shift the ground of discourse on mid-19th-century American literature." —Publishers Weekly This unique collection has recovered for us the work of sixteen women who wrote during the years when American writers were developing their distinctive styles and voices.
The Dharma Bums
Author: Jack KerouacPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140042528
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Jack Kerouac’s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on two ebullient young Americans--mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder, and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer--whose quest for Truth leads them on a heroic odyssey, from marathon parties and poetry jam sessions in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude and mountain climbing in the High Sierras.
The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Volumes A & B: Beginnings to Reconstruction
Author: Derrick R. SpiresPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1039302270
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 2556
Book Description
This product contains both The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Volume A: Beginnings to 1820 and The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Volume B: 1820 to Reconstruction as a single purchase. Covering American literature from its pre-contact Indigenous beginnings through the Reconstruction period, the first two volumes of The Broadview Anthology of American Literature represent a substantial reconceiving of the canon of early American literature. Guided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and rigorous contextualization, the anthology balances representation of widely agreed-upon major works with an emphasis on American literature’s diversity, variety, breadth, and connections with the rest of the Americas. Highlights of Volumes A & B: Beginnings to Reconstruction • Complete texts of Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative, The Coquette, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave; and Benito Cereno • In-depth, Contexts sections on such topics as “Slavery and Resistance,” “Print Culture and Popular Literature,” “Expansion, Native American Expulsion, and Manifest Destiny,” and “Gender and Sexuality” • Broader and more extensive coverage of Indigenous oral and visual literature and African American oral literature than in competing anthologies • Full author sections in the anthology are devoted to authors such as Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Briton Hammon, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, José Maria Heredia, Black Hawk, and many others
The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases
Author: Charles August Maude FennellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
ElderSpeak
Author: James L. Reynolds, MDPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491705108
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
There are many words relating to old age, aging, and the elderly, and this compendium of words seeks to help you understand almost two thousand of them. Most of these words are unusual, rare, obsolete, archaic, wonderful, marvelous, arcane, and even preposterous. All of them apply to the aged, a group that makes up an increasing portion of the population-particularly in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Here are just a few of the interesting words you'll learn: - Cenotaph: a monument erected as a memorial to a dead person or dead people buried elsewhere, especially those killed fighting a war - Lethonomia: a tendency to forget, or inability to recall, names - Oligoria: disinterest in former friends or hobbies Listed alphabetically with pronunciation keys, the words are categorized under forty-eight headings. For example, in the "end-of-life" category, you'll find the word feuillemorte, which is the wan, yellow color of death. Under "retirement," you'll find ecesis, which is the acclimatization to retirement, and Opagefaengris, a prison for retired male criminals in Singen, Germany. Boost your vocabulary, indulge in a love of language, and improve the way you communicate with seniors and medical professionals. It starts with learning ElderSpeak.
Universal Manual of Ready Reference
Author: Henry Woldmar RuoffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
A Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases
Author: A J BlissPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504082605
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
A fascinating A-to-Z reference to foreign words and phrases that have become part of contemporary English usage. The English language has been greatly enriched by a vast array of words and phrases imported from other tongues, such as comrade, chateau, wunderkind, and vox populi. For the average English speaker, many are bound to be familiar. Some may even appear to be standard English, while others may seem, well,foreign. A Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases presents a comprehensive list of such terms, with entries that reveal their meanings and etymologies.
A Dictionary of Select and Popular Quotations, which are in Daily Use
Author: David Evans MacdonnelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quotations
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A Dictionary of Quotations, in Most Frequent Use
Author: David Evans MacdonnelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quotations, English
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description