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| synonym rediscover: Life after New Media Sarah Kember, Joanna Zylinska, 2014-12-05 An argument for a shift in understanding new media—from a fascination with devices to an examination of the complex processes of mediation. In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects—computers, smart phones, iPods, Kindles—to an examination of the interlocking technical, social, and biological processes of mediation. Doing so, they say, reveals that life itself can be understood as mediated—subject to the same processes of reproduction, transformation, flattening, and patenting undergone by other media forms. By Kember and Zylinska's account, the dispersal of media and technology into our biological and social lives intensifies our entanglement with nonhuman entities. Mediation—all-encompassing and indivisible—becomes for them a key trope for understanding our being in the technological world. Drawing on the work of Bergson and Derrida while displaying a rigorous playfulness toward philosophy, Kember and Zylinska examine the multiple flows of mediation. Importantly, they also consider the ethical necessity of making a “cut” to any media processes in order to contain them. Considering topics that range from media-enacted cosmic events to the intelligent home, they propose a new way of “doing” media studies that is simultaneously critical and creative, and that performs an encounter between theory and practice. |
| synonym rediscover: SAT Lexicon Enhancement Taylor Monroe, 2025-03-26 How can you enhance your SAT vocabulary and boost your score? This book offers a detailed guide to expanding and mastering the vocabulary needed for the SAT exam. It focuses on high-frequency words that are likely to appear on the test, providing definitions, usage examples, and strategies for memorization. The book introduces mnemonic techniques, root word analysis, and context clues to help students remember new vocabulary efficiently. It also includes quizzes and practice exercises to reinforce learning and ensure retention. By the end of the book, students will have developed a deep vocabulary base, enabling them to tackle the SAT reading, writing, and verbal sections with confidence. |
| synonym rediscover: Paths to Contemporary French Literature John Taylor, 2017-07-05 Praised for his independence, curiosity, intimate knowledge of French literature, and sharp reader's eye, John Taylor is a writer-critic who is naturally skeptical of literary fashions, overnight reputations, and readymade academic categories. Here he examines various genres of politically committed literature (such as Jean Hatzfeld's narratives about Rwanda or Tchicaya U Tam'si's verse), some overlooked fiction, and several provocative experiments with literary form (ranging from the poetry of Jean-Paul Michel and Marie etienne to the three-line novels of Felix Feneon).Taylor continues to reveal the remarkable resourcefulness of French writing. Besides drawing attention to authors (like Dai Sijie or Albert Cossery) who have come to French from other languages, he has added younger novelists to his critical panorama.Challenging persistent cliches and recovering deserving voices from unjust neglect, Taylor's vision of French literature conjures up the image of a vital nexus. Poetry crisscrosses with prose, writers from one generation meet up with those from the next or the previous one, while the philosophical ideas underlying French writing are scrutinized. This is an essential guide to the realities of French culture today. |
| synonym rediscover: When Babel Tower Is Falling Down Alexander Raju, 2014-09-16 When Babel Tower Is Falling Down is a domestic novel, from the author of the allegorical novels The Haunted Man (1997) and Upon This Bank and Shoal (2008), which makes us rethink about the beauty of natural human relationships, presently contaminated by the craze for individual freedom. We live in a world in which the voice of modern education has taught us to ignore the sanctity of social life in general and of conjugal life in particular, and compelled us to follow the animal instincts of mere survival. We failed to realize the significance of abstinence, self-control and sacrifice, misunderstood the blessings of rationality, considered sex as a mere biological need and sought the means of selfish opportunism to gain pleasure. We accepted our mental perversions as natural guidelines for a satisfied individual life; and forgot the value of disciplined freedom in the attainment of conjugal bliss and happiness. The conjugal life of Rajesh and his paranoid wife, Geetha, is the pivot around which more than three hundred real or fictitious persons create a social milieu, portraying the agony and misery faced by modern families. If the Tower of Babel was an attempt made by man to reach heaven, the builders had to face physical, emotional and intellectual impediments. Here, the Tower of Babel stands as a symbol of human efforts to attain heavenly conjugal bliss, and Language as the divine gift given to prudent couples, at times, leading individuals to equivocation, to reciprocal understanding or misunderstanding. We live in a world where every individual is aware of the limitations of language. We are confused and we misunderstand each other to ‘the instability of language and undecidability of meaning.’ We ignore the fact that our life and experiences are governed by certain ideologies which are built into our language and, thereby, language is no longer a reliable mode of communication. From the heart of every man and woman comes the deep sigh: “Oh, God! I’m helpless; I can’t communicate with my spouse!” When the partners in family life fail to understand each other’s language, this Babel Tower falls down! Through the nostalgic experiences of the narrator in between two flights from Ethiopia to India and back, the novel brings out certain tragic realities to remind the readers about the very delicate issues akin to successful family life. Alexander Raju’s novel When Babel Tower Is Falling Down is a valuable contribution to Indian English Diasporic Literature. |
| synonym rediscover: Theology of the Soul Martine C. L. Oldhoff, 2024-06-10 Theology of the Soul examines the possibility of a concept of the soul in modern theology. This study contains clear and carefully detailed overviews of concepts of the soul in Theology, Philosophy, and Biblical Studies and offers a constructive systematic theological proposal to speak of the soul in today’s theological and cultural contexts. |
| synonym rediscover: Hans Jonas Daniel M. Herskowitz, Elad Lapidot, Christian Wiese, 2024-11-28 This book offers new perspectives on the early and formative years of the German-Jewish philosopher Hans Jonas, through innovative studies of his German and Hebrew work in pre-war Germany and Palestine. Covering all facets of Jonas’s early work, the book brings together leading scholars to explore key conceptual, historical, genealogical, and biographical contexts. Some of the main topics examined include his deep intellectual history of Western thought and its origins in late antiquity through the category of Gnosis, the intellectual influence of Heidegger, Bultmann, Husserl, and Spengler, his relation to Christian theology, and his interest in Judaism and Zionism. Existing research on his early work is not only limited in size but also often methodologically deficient, for it is common to interpret the early in light of the late and as teleologically leading to it. By introducing new materials and addressing new questions, this book offers innovative perspectives on Jonas’s intellectual project as a whole and provides a historical and conceptual foundation for further scholarly explorations of his oeuvre. Providing fresh insights into the work of one of the twentieth century’s most influential philosophers, the book will appeal to students and researchers working in intellectual history, Jewish studies, and religion. |
| synonym rediscover: American Architect , 1891 |
| synonym rediscover: Word Studies Marion Minerva Lamb, 1971 |
| synonym rediscover: The American Architect and Building News , 1891 |
| synonym rediscover: Literature, Class, and Culture Paul Lauter, Ann Fitzgerald, 2001 Literature, Class, and Culture, the latest volume in the Literature and Culture Series, a series devoted to presenting thoughtful and diverse approaches to the presenting literature, is a thematic literature anthology that focuses solely on the consideration of class in class-less America. Through stories, poems, songs, and essays, these selections from Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Woody Guthrie, Toni Cade Bambara, Sholem Asch, Dorothy Allison, and others provoke readers to examine their own economic, political, and psychological circumstances. For anyone interested in the connection between literature, class, and culture. |
| synonym rediscover: Christian Animism Shawn Sanford Beck, 2015-05-29 Come follow the Cosmic Christ on the path of the green priesthood, deep into the heart of a living web of Divine Creation. Christian animism, for many, can suggest nothing more than crude syncretism, or a blasphemous oxymoron. In this book the author challenges that view, from his own experiences and reflections, and those of many who find themselves on the fringes of church and society. He also searches out the fertile places of his own Christian tradition, seeking to hear a Word of healing for our Earth, a Word of grace for the trees and the animals, and a Word of invitation back to the garden of Creation, our once and future home. |
| synonym rediscover: Illustrated Lexicon of Germanic Deities Gunivortus Goos, 2022-10-26 This lexicon of Germanic deities fills a gap in its branch. It introduces goddesses and gods of Germanic peoples in the form of a lexicon. These are names of deities in inscriptions from Roman times, as well as deities from mostly medieval literary works from Iceland and Scandinavia, and goddesses and gods that are mentioned only in sources of later times, where the gathered collection of folk tales from the Renaissance on plays an important role. The quality of these sources varies greatly, all have their shortcomings and leave many questions unanswered. Regardless, this lexicon tries to explain all this as good as possible ... unambiguously and critically. The longer introductory chapter plays a central role in classifying and evaluating the provided information. |
| synonym rediscover: American Architect and the Architectural Review , 1891 |
| synonym rediscover: Inward Being and Outward Identity: The Orthodox Churches in the 21st Century John A. Jillions, 2018-05-22 This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Inward Being and Outward Identity: The Orthodox Churches in the 21st Century that was published in Religions |
| synonym rediscover: Processual Sociology Andrew Abbott, 2016-03-07 For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing-making, remaking and unmaking itself, instant by instant. In 'Processual Sociology', Abbott first examines the endurance of individuals and social groups through time and then goes on to consider the question of what this means for human nature. |
| synonym rediscover: Pensions in Europe, European Pensions David Natali, 2008 This title gives scholars, students and policy-makers a comprehensive description of national retirement programmes as well as theoretical analysis of the reform politics, output and outcomes with a focus on national and European dynamics. |
| synonym rediscover: CBSE Most Likely Question Bank Chapterwise Class 10 (2022 Examination) - English Language & Literature with New Objective Questions, Reduced Syllabus Gurukul, 2021-06-15 Benefit from Chapter Wise & Section wise Question Bank Series for Class 10 CBSE Board Examinations (2022) with our Most Likely CBSE Question Bank for English (Language & Literature). Subject Wise books designed to prepare and practice effectively each subject at a time. Our Most Probable Question Bank highlights the knowledge based and skill based questions consisting of - having Section A - Reading , Section B - Writing & Grammar, and Section C - First Flight Prose, First Flight Poetry, and Footprints without Feet. Our handbook will help you study and practice well at home. How can you benefit from Gurukul Most Likely CBSE English Question Bank for 10th Class? Our handbook is strictly based on the latest syllabus prescribed by the council and is categorized chapterwise topicwise to provide in depth knowledge of different concept questions and their weightage to prepare you for Class 10th CBSE Board Examinations 2022. 1. Focussed on New Objective Paper Pattern Questions 2. Includes Solved Board Exam Paper 2020 for both Delhi and outside Delhi (Set 1-3) and Toppers Answers 2019 3. Previous Years Board Question Papers Incorporated 4. Visual Interpretation as per latest CBSE Syllabus 5. Exam Oriented Effective Study Material provided for Self Study 6. Chapter Summary for Easy & Quick Revision 7. Having frequently asked questions from Compartment Paper, Foreign Paper, and latest Board Paper 8. Follows the Standard Marking Scheme of CBSE Board Our question bank also consists of numerous tips and tools to improve study techniques for any exam paper. Students can create vision boards to establish study schedules, and maintain study logs to measure their progress. With the help of our handbook, students can also identify patterns in question types and structures, allowing them to cultivate more efficient answering methods. Our book can also help in providing a comprehensive overview of important topics in each subject, making it easier for students to solve for the exams. Why should you trust Gurukul Books? Gurukul Books, a unit of Oswal Publishers, has been in operation since 1985. Over the past 30 years, our publication has developed reliable content that aids students and teachers in achieving excellence. We create reference material that is extensively researched, meticulously articulated, and comprehensively edited ? catering to the various National and Regional Academic Boards in India. |
| synonym rediscover: Key Concepts in Social Research Methods Roger Gomm, 2009-04-30 An in-depth glossary, this accessible book successfully introduces students to the key concepts and terms used in social research. Terms are organised alphabetically and fully cross-referenced for use of ease. Suggestions for further reading help to consolidate knowledge and aids understanding. |
| synonym rediscover: God Beyond Gender Gail Ramshaw, 1995 The debate about God-language has two opposing extremes. One side maintains that biblical language and masculine pronouns must be retained. The other argues that female imagery for God is preferable. Now Gail Ramshaw presents a third position, urging the inclusion of many images for God, the correction of others, and the total avoidance of any pronouns. |
| synonym rediscover: Ethnicity, Inc. John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff, 2009-09-15 In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity? Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in venture capital by a group of traditional African chiefs. But their horizons are global: Native American casinos; Scotland’s efforts to brand itself; a Zulu ethno-theme park named Shakaland; a world religion declared to be intellectual property; a chiefdom made into a global business by means of its platinum holdings; San “Bushmen” with patent rights potentially worth millions of dollars; nations acting as commercial enterprises; and the rapid growth of marketing firms that target specific ethnic populations are just some of the diverse examples that fall under the Comaroffs’ incisive scrutiny. These phenomena range from the disturbing through the intriguing to the absurd. Through them, the Comaroffs trace the contradictory effects of neoliberalism as it transforms identities and social being across the globe. Ethnicity, Inc. is a penetrating account of the ways in which ethnic populations are remaking themselves in the image of the corporation—while corporations coopt ethnic practices to open up new markets and regimes of consumption. Intellectually rigorous but leavened with wit, this is a powerful, highly original portrayal of a new world being born in a tectonic collision of culture, capitalism, and identity. |
| synonym rediscover: The American Journal of Science , 1908 |
| synonym rediscover: American Social and Political Thought Andreas Hess, 2003-04 This concise, comprehensive primer on modern American social and political thought is the ideal introduction to the rich intellectual tradition of the United Sates. Andreas Hess helps the reader to understand of American culture and politics through careful exploration of key and theorists. In the first half of the book he focuses on the core traditions of American social and political thought American exceptionalism, Calvinist Protestantism, republicanism, liberalism and 20th century pragmatism. The second half of the book applies these traditions to a broad range of 20th century conditions and issues power and democracy, justice and injustice, multiculturalism and pluralism, civil society, social theory and the role of the intellectual. The works of some of the most influential figures in the field, such as De Tocqueville, Lipset, Arendt, Hartz, Pocock, Dewey, Moore, Rawls, Walzer, Rorty and Alexander, are drawn upon to illustrate the theories and issues being discussed. Accessibly written and jargon free, this treatment will be useful for students and scholars alike. |
| synonym rediscover: The Present Moment Louis-Marie Parent, 1991 |
| synonym rediscover: Green Pharmacy Barbara Griggs, Barbara Van der Zee, 1997-10 An eloquent and engaging account of the use of herbal medicine from prehistoric times to the present. Newly revised to include the latest developments in the field of herbal medicine, this classic bestseller presents a fascinating account of the ideas that have shaped the course of medicine and pharmacology in the Western world. |
| synonym rediscover: Your Jesus Is Too American Steve Bezner, 2024-10-08 An invigorating look at the current state of the American church and what might be done to move it forward.--Publishers Weekly The American church faces a discipleship crisis. Instead of following the values of Jesus, many Christians are chasing after what our culture prizes: power, money, and political influence. In Your Jesus Is Too American, Baptist pastor Steve Bezner invites Christians to rediscover what Jesus treasured and incorporate those kingdom values into the church's witness. With a pastoral voice, Bezner shares the lessons he has been teaching in his church community for 11 years--humble service rather than worldly success, healing relationships across religious and ethnic divides, repairing harm against marginalized groups, giving generously, and providing a political witness rooted in the local church. Bezner shows that Jesus's vision of discipleship points toward a different way of being in the world. The book offers a welcome perspective for church leaders and congregants alike who are frustrated with the way many churches pursue values that are not in line with Jesus's teachings and are worried about the American church's credibility crisis. It includes a foreword by Beth Moore. |
| synonym rediscover: Angels Marie-Ange Faugerolas, 2015-11-17 Angels appear in every major world religion—from Christianity to Judaism, Islam to the Native American Thunderbirds. This book is a celebration of all the world’s divine messengers and a definitive resource containing all of the knowledge collected about these awe-inspiring beings. Rigorously researched, Angels is packed with knowledge about these protectors and guides, including: • who (or what) angels are, their duties to the people of earth, their appearance, and their origins • prayers for invoking your guardian angel and chasing away negative emotions • the many rituals that will help you call on angels to help transform your life and guide, protect, and steer you toward love and success . . . and much more. This tome of ancient and modern angel wisdom offers a perspective on a world we could only have previously imagined, as well as practical tools to bring more love, light, and energy into our lives. |
| synonym rediscover: The Embers and the Stars Erazim Kohák, 1987-11-15 It is hard to put this profound book into a category. Despite the author's criticisms of Thoreau, it is more like Walden than any other book I have read. . . . The book makes great strides toward bringing the best insights from medieval philosophy and from contemporary environmental ethics together. Anyone interested in both of these areas must read this book.—Daniel A. Dombrowski, The Thomist Those who share Kohák's concern to understand nature as other than a mere resource or matter in motion will find his temporally oriented interpretation of nature instructive. It is here in particular that Kohák turns moments of experience to account philosophically, turning what we habitually overlook or avoid into an opportunity and basis for self-knowledge. This is an impassioned attempt to see the vital order of nature and the moral order of our humanity as one.—Ethics |
| synonym rediscover: Chapterwise Last Years Solved Papers: CBSE Class 10 for 2022 Examination Gurukul, 2021-07-05 Score and Perform Well for your Class 10 CBSE Board Examinations (2022) with the help of our Chapterwise Last Years Solved Papers consisting of 4 subjects including, English(Language & Literature), Mathematics, Science, and Social Science. Our handbook will help you study well at home. How can you benefit from Gurukul CBSE Chapterwise Last Years Solved Papers for 10th Class? Our Comprehensive Handbook Includes questions segregated chapter wise which enable Class 10 CBSE students’ to concentrate properly on one chapter at a time.It is strictly based on the latest syllabus prescribed by the Board for in-depth preparation of 2022 Board Examinations. 1. Solved Board Exam Paper 2020 2. Last Year's Board Questions Chapterwise 3. Toppers Sheets (2019- 2018) to understand the criteria of Boards Marking Scheme 4. Multiple Subject Papers in one book 5. Answers Provided in accordance with the Board Marking Scheme 6. Get accustomed with the question types and structures, which allows to cultivate more efficient answering methods 7. Consists of numerous tips and tools to improve study techniques for any exam paper Students can create vision boards to establish study schedules, and maintain study logs to measure their progress. Our Guidebook can also help in providing a comprehensive overview of important topics in each subject, making it easier for students to prepare for the exams. |
| synonym rediscover: Reflections on the Just Paul Ricœur, 2007-06-15 At the time of his death in 2005, French philosopher Paul Ricoeur was regarded as one of the great thinkers of his generation. In more than half a century of writing about the essential questions of human life, Ricoeur’s thought encompassed a vast range of wisdom and experience, and he made landmark contributions that would go on to influence later scholars in such areas as phenomenology, hermeneutics, structuralism, and theology. Toward the end of his life, Ricoeur began to focus directly on ethical questions that he feared had been overshadowed by his other work; the result was a two-volume collection of essays on justice and the law. The University of Chicago Press published the English translation of the first volume, The Just, to great acclaim in 2000. Now this translation of the second volume, Reflections on the Just, completes the set and makes available to readers the whole of Ricoeur’s meditations on the concept. Consisting of fifteen thematically organized essays, Reflections on the Just continues and expands on the work Ricoeur began in with his “little ethics” in Oneself as Another and The Just. In the preface, he considers what revisions he would make were he to start over and how that is reflected in these essays. The opening part brings phenomenology to bear on ethics; the second group of essays comprises shorter, occasional pieces considering the concept of justice in the works of other philosophers, including Max Weber and Charles Taylor. The final part turns to the specific domains of medicine and the law, examining how concepts of right and justice operate in those realms. Cogent, deeply considered, and fully engaged with the realities of the contemporary world, Reflections on the Just is an essential work for understanding the development of Ricoeur’s thought in his final years. |
| synonym rediscover: Computer Applications for Handling Legal Evidence, Police Investigation and Case Argumentation Ephraim Nissan, 2012-06-15 This book provides an overview of computer techniques and tools — especially from artificial intelligence (AI) — for handling legal evidence, police intelligence, crime analysis or detection, and forensic testing, with a sustained discussion of methods for the modelling of reasoning and forming an opinion about the evidence, methods for the modelling of argumentation, and computational approaches to dealing with legal, or any, narratives. By the 2000s, the modelling of reasoning on legal evidence has emerged as a significant area within the well-established field of AI & Law. An overview such as this one has never been attempted before. It offers a panoramic view of topics, techniques and tools. It is more than a survey, as topic after topic, the reader can get a closer view of approaches and techniques. One aim is to introduce practitioners of AI to the modelling legal evidence. Another aim is to introduce legal professionals, as well as the more technically oriented among law enforcement professionals, or researchers in police science, to information technology resources from which their own respective field stands to benefit. Computer scientists must not blunder into design choices resulting in tools objectionable for legal professionals, so it is important to be aware of ongoing controversies. A survey is provided of argumentation tools or methods for reasoning about the evidence. Another class of tools considered here is intended to assist in organisational aspects of managing of the evidence. Moreover, tools appropriate for crime detection, intelligence, and investigation include tools based on link analysis and data mining. Concepts and techniques are introduced, along with case studies. So are areas in the forensic sciences. Special chapters are devoted to VIRTOPSY (a procedure for legal medicine) and FLINTS (a tool for the police). This is both an introductory book (possibly a textbook), and a reference for specialists from various quarters. |
| synonym rediscover: Records of the Australian Museum Australian Museum, 1981 |
| synonym rediscover: The American Journal of Science Mrs. Gambold, 1908 |
| synonym rediscover: The War On Success Tommy Newberry, 2010-01-11 Higher Taxes…Nationalized Industries…Suffocating Regulation… President Obama Has Declared War Against You In The War on Success, New York Times bestselling author Tommy Newberry argues that the Obama administration is not only attacking entrepreneurs and small business owners, it’s launched a fundamental assault on the very concept of success. By denigrating all the qualities that make success possible—self-reliance, ambition, hard work, the pursuit of excellence—the administration is setting the stage for Big Government to step in and “guarantee” everyone’s success through socialist-style redistribution. Brash, direct, and unafraid, The War on Success tells you what’s at stake: nothing less than the survival of the American Dream. |
| synonym rediscover: An Energy Field More Intense Than War Michael True, 1995-11-01 American history abounds with a rich tradition of literature dealing with nonviolence. In a work that spans from the seventeenth century to the present, Michael True brings to light the strong but long-neglected strain in American culture: nonviolence as an active response to conflicts and divisiveness. In identifying writings about action for social change, he distinguishes literary works from peace advocacy and nonviolence and relates them to broad currents of United States history. The Quakers of the 1680s and abolitionists of the 1850s, the sanctuary Movement and Plowshares of the 1980s, novelists (from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Norman Mailer) and poets (from Walt Whitman to Denise Levertov) all have written powerful works on nonviolent action. Through this literature, the author explores the beauty of an important theme in American literature. At a time when people face widespread injustice, True reminds us that nonviolence holds a significant place in our country's history. |
| synonym rediscover: Artaud's Theatre Of Cruelty Albert Bermel, 2014-05-20 The definitive guide to the life and work of Antonin Artaud Antonin Artaud's theatre of cruelty is one of the most vital forces in world theatre, yet the concept is one of the most frequently misunderstood. In this incisive study, Albert Bermel looks closely at Artaud's work as a playwright, director, actor, designer, producer and critic, and provides a fresh insight into his ideas, innovations and, above all, his writings. Tracing the theatre of cruelty's origins in earlier dramatic conventions, tribal rituals of cleansing, transfiguration and exaltation, and in related arts such as film and dance, Bermel examines each of Artaud's six plays for form and meaning, as well as surveying the application of Artaud's theories and techniques to the international theatre of recent years. |
| synonym rediscover: Playboys and Killjoys Harry Levin, 1988-09-08 Harry Levin--one of America's major literary critics--offers a brilliant and original study of the whole world of comedy, concentrating on playwrights through the centuries, from Aristophanes and Plautus in classical times to Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht and their recent successors. Viewing the comic repertory as a richly varied yet broadly unified whole, Levin provides a synthesis of theories and practice. Isolating two fundamental aspects of comedy--the ludicrous and irreverent playboy, whom we laugh with, and the ridiculous and forbidding killjoy, whom we laugh at--he traces the dialectical interplay of these components throughout history and across various cultures and media. While mainly focusing on the plays and the stage, with discussions of such major dramatists as Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Molière, and William Congreve, Levin also includes essays on such related topics as humor, satire, and games. |
| synonym rediscover: Teutonic Mythology Viktor Rydberg, 1889 |
| synonym rediscover: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society American Philosophical Society, 1898 |
| synonym rediscover: The Life of Language Sol Steinmetz, Barbara Ann Kipfer, 2012-01-11 If time travelers from the nineteenth century dropped in on us, our strange vocabulary would shock them just as much as our TVs, cars, and computers. Society changes, and so does its word stock. The Life of Language reveals how pop culture, business, technology, and other forces of globalization expand and enrich the English language, forming thousands of new words every year. In this fascinating and jargon-free guide, lexicographers Kipfer and Steinmetz reconstruct the births of thousands of words, including infantries, poz, mobs, Soho, dinks, choo choos, frankenfoods, LOL, narcs and perps. · A word lover’s guide to etymology, written in a fun, informal, and accessible style · An excellent resource for vocabulary building; a word's root helps readers understand its meaning · Beautifully packaged paperback with French flaps From the Trade Paperback edition. |
| synonym rediscover: The Rise of Modern Physics Henry Crew, 1928 |
What do you call somebody who is unable to speak?
May 21, 2008 · Hello, I am wondering what you, native speakers, call people unable to speak. I have found the following, but it says it is old fashioned. Thank you!
Il y a (synonyms) - WordReference Forums
May 25, 2015 · Bonjour tout le monde, I'm looking for as many synonyms for 'il y a' as I can. In terms of context, I'm talking about 'there is/are' in a literal sense, i.e. 'there is a car on the …
synonym for "way of being" - WordReference Forums
Jan 16, 2008 · I'm sorry. I can't believe I didn't supply that. I'm out of practice at starting threads. The importance of an emotional connection and the complete understanding of the other …
The same to you vs you too | WordReference Forums
Apr 23, 2005 · Whodunit, you are wrong on one thing. "You betcha" was correct, it's an expression, a colloquial synonym of "definitely". Maybe it's not grammatical but it's the …
Word for allowing something to happen? - WordReference Forums
Oct 19, 2019 · I'm trying to find a good word with negative connotations that basically means someone is passively allowing things to happen. The word I'm looking for would be similar to …
What to call words like uh, um, uh-huh, hmm - WordReference …
Dec 5, 2006 · Hi everyone! Recently, I wrote a long paper on words such as those in the title and how their meanings change according to intonation. My professor advised me to refer to them …
deswegen vs. deshalb | WordReference Forums
Mar 19, 2014 · Hallo allerseits! deswegen ist ein Synonym von deshalb, - aber Synonyme sind nie hunderprozentig gleich. Meist sind die beiden austauschbar, und gefühlsmäßig entscheide ich …
Inconfident or Unconfident - WordReference Forums
Oct 28, 2010 · From synonym.com: Antonyms of adj confident 3 senses of confident Sense 1: confident (vs. diffident) diffident (vs. confident), shy, timid, unsure
difference between lame and cripple? | WordReference Forums
Nov 3, 2016 · Crippled is a synonym of lame. As adjectives the difference between crippled and lame is that crippled is having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full …
This is fine with/by/for me - WordReference Forums
Jun 30, 2006 · I hope you don't mind my mentioning your names: Gaer explained that he (or at least some people in his vicinity) uses "by me" in this thread. Timpaec used "for me" in this …
What do you call somebody who is unable to speak?
May 21, 2008 · Hello, I am wondering what you, native speakers, call people unable to speak. I have found the following, but it says it is old fashioned. Thank you!
Il y a (synonyms) - WordReference Forums
May 25, 2015 · Bonjour tout le monde, I'm looking for as many synonyms for 'il y a' as I can. In terms of context, I'm talking about 'there is/are' in a literal sense, i.e. 'there is a car on the …
synonym for "way of being" - WordReference Forums
Jan 16, 2008 · I'm sorry. I can't believe I didn't supply that. I'm out of practice at starting threads. The importance of an emotional connection and the complete understanding of the other …
The same to you vs you too | WordReference Forums
Apr 23, 2005 · Whodunit, you are wrong on one thing. "You betcha" was correct, it's an expression, a colloquial synonym of "definitely". Maybe it's not grammatical but it's the …
Word for allowing something to happen? - WordReference Forums
Oct 19, 2019 · I'm trying to find a good word with negative connotations that basically means someone is passively allowing things to happen. The word I'm looking for would be similar to …
What to call words like uh, um, uh-huh, hmm - WordReference …
Dec 5, 2006 · Hi everyone! Recently, I wrote a long paper on words such as those in the title and how their meanings change according to intonation. My professor advised me to refer to them …
deswegen vs. deshalb | WordReference Forums
Mar 19, 2014 · Hallo allerseits! deswegen ist ein Synonym von deshalb, - aber Synonyme sind nie hunderprozentig gleich. Meist sind die beiden austauschbar, und gefühlsmäßig entscheide ich …
Inconfident or Unconfident - WordReference Forums
Oct 28, 2010 · From synonym.com: Antonyms of adj confident 3 senses of confident Sense 1: confident (vs. diffident) diffident (vs. confident), shy, timid, unsure
difference between lame and cripple? | WordReference Forums
Nov 3, 2016 · Crippled is a synonym of lame. As adjectives the difference between crippled and lame is that crippled is having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full …
This is fine with/by/for me - WordReference Forums
Jun 30, 2006 · I hope you don't mind my mentioning your names: Gaer explained that he (or at least some people in his vicinity) uses "by me" in this thread. Timpaec used "for me" in this …
