Author: Susan Osborn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671025554
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 741
Book Description
For each name Osborn provides a history, number, astrological sign, color, stone, element, and herb.
What's in a Name?
Author: Susan Osborn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671025554
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 741
Book Description
For each name Osborn provides a history, number, astrological sign, color, stone, element, and herb.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671025554
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 741
Book Description
For each name Osborn provides a history, number, astrological sign, color, stone, element, and herb.
What's in a Name?
Author: Linda Francis
Publisher: Living Books
ISBN: 9780842379359
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A fascinating name dictionary that features the literal meaning of people's first names, the character quality implied by the name, and an applicable Scripture verse for each name listed.
Publisher: Living Books
ISBN: 9780842379359
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A fascinating name dictionary that features the literal meaning of people's first names, the character quality implied by the name, and an applicable Scripture verse for each name listed.
A Matter of Taste
Author: Stanley Lieberson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300083859
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
What accounts for our tastes? Why and how do they change over time? Stanley Lieberson analyzes children's first names to develop an original theory of fashion. He disputes the commonly-held notion that tastes in names (and other fashions) simply reflect societal shifts.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300083859
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
What accounts for our tastes? Why and how do they change over time? Stanley Lieberson analyzes children's first names to develop an original theory of fashion. He disputes the commonly-held notion that tastes in names (and other fashions) simply reflect societal shifts.
The Name Therapist
Author: Duana Taha
Publisher: Random House Canada
ISBN: 0345815300
Category : Identity (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
From a popular writer on the LaineyGossip.com blog comes a book about first names, what they really mean, and how learning to get comfortable with an awkward name can become a search for identity. In this book readers will find fascinating name stories that showcase tastes, perceived relationships between names and success and whether there really are such things as 'stripper names'.
Publisher: Random House Canada
ISBN: 0345815300
Category : Identity (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
From a popular writer on the LaineyGossip.com blog comes a book about first names, what they really mean, and how learning to get comfortable with an awkward name can become a search for identity. In this book readers will find fascinating name stories that showcase tastes, perceived relationships between names and success and whether there really are such things as 'stripper names'.
What is in a Name?
Author: Farhang Zabeeh
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401510946
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401510946
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
What's in a Name?
Author: Michelle Atkins
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9781869615055
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Designed to be used by children in their first six months of school PM Starters One and Two
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9781869615055
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Designed to be used by children in their first six months of school PM Starters One and Two
Unaitwaje?
Author: Sharifa Zawawi
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Personal names used by the Waswahili people and their meaning
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Personal names used by the Waswahili people and their meaning
The New Latino Studies Reader
Author: Ramon A. Gutierrez
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520284836
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
The New Latino Studies Reader is designed as a contemporary, updated, multifaceted collection of writings that bring to force the exciting, necessary scholarship of the last decades. Its aim is to introduce a new generation of students to a wide-ranging set of essays that helps them gain a truer understanding of what itÕs like to be a Latino in the United States. Ê With the reader, students explore the sociohistorical formation of Latinos as a distinct panethnic group in the United States, delving into issues of class formation; social stratification; racial, gender, and sexual identities; and politics and cultural production. And while other readers now in print may discuss Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Central Americans as distinct groups with unique experiences, this text explores both the commonalities and the differences that structure the experiences of Latino Americans. Timely, thorough, and thought-provoking, The New Latino Studies Reader provides a genuine view of the Latino experience as a whole. Ê
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520284836
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
The New Latino Studies Reader is designed as a contemporary, updated, multifaceted collection of writings that bring to force the exciting, necessary scholarship of the last decades. Its aim is to introduce a new generation of students to a wide-ranging set of essays that helps them gain a truer understanding of what itÕs like to be a Latino in the United States. Ê With the reader, students explore the sociohistorical formation of Latinos as a distinct panethnic group in the United States, delving into issues of class formation; social stratification; racial, gender, and sexual identities; and politics and cultural production. And while other readers now in print may discuss Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Central Americans as distinct groups with unique experiences, this text explores both the commonalities and the differences that structure the experiences of Latino Americans. Timely, thorough, and thought-provoking, The New Latino Studies Reader provides a genuine view of the Latino experience as a whole. Ê
The Word Made Flesh
Author: Eva Talmadge
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006204253X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
A beautifully packaged full-color collection of literary tattoos and short personal essays, The Word Made Flesh is an intimate but anonymous confessional book, in the vein of thought-provoking anthologies like PostSecret and Not Quite What I Was Planning. Gorgeous photographs and candid commentary are collected by authors Eva Talmadge—whose short story “The Cranes” was cited as Notable Nonrequired Reading of 2008 in Dave Eggers’ Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009—and Justin Taylor, author of Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever, and editor of the acclaimed short fiction anthology, The Apocalypse Reader.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006204253X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
A beautifully packaged full-color collection of literary tattoos and short personal essays, The Word Made Flesh is an intimate but anonymous confessional book, in the vein of thought-provoking anthologies like PostSecret and Not Quite What I Was Planning. Gorgeous photographs and candid commentary are collected by authors Eva Talmadge—whose short story “The Cranes” was cited as Notable Nonrequired Reading of 2008 in Dave Eggers’ Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009—and Justin Taylor, author of Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever, and editor of the acclaimed short fiction anthology, The Apocalypse Reader.
You Don't Have to Be Wrong for Me to Be Right
Author: Brad Hirschfield
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0307382982
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Conflict is an opportunity to learn and grow–and often to grow closer to one another. Brad Hirschfield knows what it means to be a fanatic; he was one. A former activist in the West Bank, he was committed to reconstructing the Jewish state within its biblical borders. Now he is devoted to teaching inclusiveness, celebrating diversity, and delivering a message of acceptance. In You Don’t Have to Be Wrong for Me to Be Right, Rabbi Hirschfield uses his own spiritual journey to help people of all faiths find acceptance and tolerance, as well as a path to peace, understanding, and hope that will appeal to the common wisdom of all religions.
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0307382982
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Conflict is an opportunity to learn and grow–and often to grow closer to one another. Brad Hirschfield knows what it means to be a fanatic; he was one. A former activist in the West Bank, he was committed to reconstructing the Jewish state within its biblical borders. Now he is devoted to teaching inclusiveness, celebrating diversity, and delivering a message of acceptance. In You Don’t Have to Be Wrong for Me to Be Right, Rabbi Hirschfield uses his own spiritual journey to help people of all faiths find acceptance and tolerance, as well as a path to peace, understanding, and hope that will appeal to the common wisdom of all religions.