Author: Robert Kay GordonPublisher:
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Category : Canadian boat song
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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John Galt, by R.K. Gordon
Author: Robert Kay GordonPublisher:
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Category : Canadian boat song
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Beginnings of the English Essay
Author: Wilbert Lorne MacDonaldPublisher:
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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The Catalogue of the Public Library of Victoria
Author: Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.)Publisher:
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
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A Universal and Critical Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Joseph Emerson WorcesterPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
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Applied Plant Virology
Author: D.G. WalkeyPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401130906
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
For the past twenty years I have worked as an applied plant virologist, attempting to identify and control virus diseases in field crops. During the last ten years it has been my privilege to present short courses in plant virology to final-year students studying plant pathology, micro biology and general botany. Throughout the period I have been lecturing, it has been possible to recommend several excellent 'library' books for further reading in plant virology, but there has been no publication covering applied plant virology that a student might consider purchasing. With teaching requirements in mind this book has been written to provide a concise introduction to applied plant virology based on the experiences I have gained working on virus diseases, both in an applied laboratory and in the field. The text concentrates on introducing the reader to aspects of plant virology that would be encountered every day by an applied virologist trying to identify viruses and develop control measures for virus diseases of crop plants. Although a brief introduction to virus structure and its terminology is given in the opening chapter of the book, no attempt is made to cover in detail the more fundamental aspects of virus structure, biochemistry and replication. Similarly, the symptoms caused by individual viruses are not described, although the various types of symptoms that plant viruses cause and which might be encountered by a student or research worker are described.
History and the Texture of Modern Life
Author: Lucy Maynard SalmonPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812235876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Almost a century ago Vassar professor Lucy Maynard Salmon (1853-1927) started down an intellectual path that made her one of the most innovative historians of all time. Her historical method relied on extensive use of the documents of everyday life. In class, for example, she surprised her students with laundry lists, grocery receipts, and newspapers, and asked them to interpret these "ephemera" as historical documents. What did the laundry receipts tell about those who used such services? About those who ran such establishments? About systems of domestic service? Business organization? In short, Salmon recentered history from narrative to methodology, from story to apparatus. By examining subjects that we associate with material culture she anticipated current practices by decades. Salmon was modern in her concerns and her methods, and a feminist in both her interests and her approach. The book contains a cross-section of her essays, including selections from her ground-breaking study "Domestic Service" and her well-known essays "History in a Back Yard" and "Main Street" in which she reads the everyday environment of garden and city in historical terms. Also included are her remarkable essay on the architectural organization of her kitchen and a hitherto unpublished essay on her former professor, Woodrow Wilson, that describes him in vivid terms as an "autophotographer." Salmon's modernism will startle those who have not read her before.
Fixing English
Author: Anne CurzanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139952285
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Over the past 300 years, attempts have been made to prescribe how we should and should not use the English language. The efforts have been institutionalized in places such as usage guides, dictionaries, and school curricula. Such authorities have aspired to 'fix' the language, sometimes by keeping English exactly where it is, but also by trying to improve the current state of the language. Anne Curzan demonstrates the important role prescriptivism plays in the history of the English language, as a sociolinguistic factor in language change and as a vital meta-discourse about language. Starting with a pioneering new definition of prescriptivism as a linguistic phenomenon, she highlights the significant role played by Microsoft's grammar checker, debates about 'real words', non-sexist language reform, and efforts to reappropriate stigmatized terms. Essential reading for anyone interested in the regulation of language, the book is a fascinating re-examination of how we tell language history.
Words in Dictionaries and History
Author: Olga TimofeevaPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027286906
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Bringing together fifteen articles by scholars in Europe and North America, this collection aims to represent and advance studies in historical lexis. It highlights the significance of the understanding of dictionary-making and language-making as important socio-cultural phenomena. With its general focus on England and English, the book investigates the reception and development of historical and modern English vocabulary and culture in different periods, social and professional strata, geographical varieties of English, and other national cultures. The volume is based on individual (meta)lexicographical, etymological, lexicosemantic and corpus studies, representing two large areas of research: the first part focuses on the history of dictionaries, analysing them in diachrony from the first professional dictionaries of the Baroque period via Enlightenment and Romanticism to exploring the possibilities of the new online lexicographical publications; and the second part looks at the interfaces between etymology, semantic development and word-formation on the one hand, and changes in society and culture on the other.
A Catalog of Dictionaries: English Language, American Indian, and Foreign Languages
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Department of Rare Books and Special CollectionsPublisher:
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Category : Dictionaries and encyclopedias
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Joseph E. WorcesterPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375101511
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.