Download or read book The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations written by Charles Harrington Elster and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive pronouncement on more than 1,500 of our most commonly mispronounced words. From the language maven Charles Harrington Elster comes an authoritative and unapologetically opinionated look at American speech. As Elster points out, there is no sewer in connoisseur, no dip in diphthong, and no pronoun in pronunciation. The culmination of twenty years of observation and study, The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations is more than just a pronunciation guide. Elster discusses past and present usage, alternatives, analogies, and tendencies and offers plenty of advice, none of it objective. Whether you are adamant or ambivalent about the spoken word, Elster arms you with the information you need to decide what is acceptable for you. The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations has now been expanded and revised and features nearly 200 new words, including: al-Qaeda bruschetta commensurate coup de grace curriculum vita exacerbate gigabyte hara-kiri machismo Muslim Niger Pinochet Pulitzer sorbet tinnitus w (as in www-dot) and many, many more. Charles Harrington Elster is the pronunciation editor of Black's Law Dictionary and the author of various books about language, including Verbal Advantage, There's a Word for It, and What in the Word? He has been a guest columnist on language for the Boston Globe and the New York Times Magazine and a commentator on NPR and hundreds of radio shows around the country.
Download or read book Seeking the Other Side written by Jane Olmsted and published by Louisville Review Corporation and Fleur-de-Lis Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is called "seeking the other side" as a way to reinvigorate what acquisitiveness and obsessive work habits deaden-the capacity to connect in some way with the Other, even when that turns out to be a part of ourselves. These poems attempt to reach through or across the boundaries that keep us ignorant of truths beyond the readily apparent. The "other side" is not just as what's across the line between life and death, between self and object of grief, but as what's across any other real or illusory line that stifles access to the fullness of life.
Download or read book Fleur de Lys written by Joy Law and published by New York : McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1976 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Royalty has always been the object of intense curiosity; and even the most trivial detail in the everyday life of any royal figure continues to fascinate posterity, century after century. Gathered here is a rich and extraordinarily varied collection of anecdotes which literally breathes life into reigns that are now sometimes forgotten, or sometimes remembered for infamy, but were also sometimes magnificent. Kings and queens are observed firsthand--by their contempoaries and by each other. Compassion, sarcasm, wit and perception are mingled in the accounts of the rulers' public and private lives. From the first Capet reign...to the Bourbons, ladies-in-waiting and soldiers, courtiers and poets, ambassadors and footmen have left a stunning record unlike any other, broughts together here in one of the most remarkable works ever created on royalty."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Fleur de lis written by Isolde Martyn and published by Momentum. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleur's life depends upon her outwitting the man she is drawn to above all others. France 1793. After the dispersal of her family in the bloody upheaval of the French Revolution, Fleur de Montbulliou, a beautiful young aristocrat, is forced into hiding. While she is living a hand-to-mouth existence in the countryside, her chance encounter with a mysterious stranger results in a marriage proposal. Determined to survive, Fleur weds a dying man she hardly knows and assumes a new identity as the widow of Matthieu Bosanquet, a prosperous merchant from the city. And so she is swept into the very heart of Paris, a place as treacherous as it is exciting. As the widow Bosanquet and in a further disguise as the provocative actress La Coquette, she is adored and feted by the deputies of the Revolution, and plays a hazardous game of double deception. However, to preserve her precious freedom, she must outwit one particular man - the cool, intelligent deputy Raoul de Villaret. As political unrest plunges Paris yet more deeply into chaos, Fleur will be forced to take ever greater risks. In a glittering, dangerous world where anything might happen, can love survive? Perfect for fans of Katherine McMahon and Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel. "This outstanding novel cements (Isolde Martyn's) reputation for exceptional romantic historical fiction." - Margaret Barr, The Historical Novels Review
Download or read book CALUMET FLEUR DE LYS written by WALTHALL JOHN A and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1992-08-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despite increased research interest in the interaction of native North American peoples and Europeans, little attention has been directed toward Indian-French interactions--even though for more than a century the French controlled an area of the interior more than twice the size of the combined North American territories of Britain and Spain." "Calumet and Fleur-de-Lys focuses on historic Native American sites and archaeological evidence of native interaction with the French from the landing of Jean Nicollet in Green Bay in 1634 to the surrender of French America to the British in 1765. It integrates, for the first time, historical documents of the French politicians, explorers, priests, and traders with the archaeological record of numerous midcontinental native and French colonial sites. The essays cover the full range of French America--from the mouth of the Mississippi to the Great Lakes region--and examine topics as diverse as the protohistoric native cultures of the Midwest, French traders among the Sioux of northern Minnesota, Indian-French military relations in Louisiana and on the Wabash, the Indian deerskin trade of the Southeast, Huron refugees in Michigan, and Illini hunting camps and villages in Illinois." "Most previous research into French America, including Francis Parkman's classic histories, has centered on "great men"--LaSalle, Marquette, Joliet, and Nicollet. Calumet and Fleur-de-Lys demonstrates the potential of the archaeological record to expand the history of native cultures and Indian-French relations in the contact era."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book La Fleur de Lis written by Morgan McCall Molthrop and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With colorful photos and lively text, this book shows how ubiquitous the fleur is in the Gulf region. It reveals the Egyptian and Mesoamerican ancestry of the symbol and traces the history of its use on the Gulf Coast as a symbol of post-Katrina resilience. It also addresses the controversy surrounding its use as a brand for enslaved Africans in French and Spanish "Bourbon" Louisiana. Is the fact that the fleur actually emerges from Africa a mitigating factor? You will have to decide. But with the current controversies surrounding the rebel flag, NOLA's Confederate statues and the fleur de lis, the timing of this book could not be better. It's a gorgeous little book with a dark side. (Kind of like New Orleans is a gorgeous city with a dark side, no?) The somewhat controversial aspects of the book lend an edgy aspect that provides for a sophisticated small gift title.
Download or read book Paracord Fusion Ties Volume 2 written by J. D. Lenzen and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paracord Fusion Ties - Volume 2 (PFT-V2) is the second installment in the paracord fusion ties book series and another stunning achievement by author J.D. Lenzen. Like Paracord Fusion Ties - Volume 1, PFT-V2 reveals innovative and stylish ways of storing paracord for later use. So once again you'll find crisp, clear, full-color photographs (over 1,000 in all!), coupled with succinctly written, easy to follow step-by-step instructions for bracelets, straps, and key fobs, as well as medallions and other storage ties that will keep your paracord on-hand and ready for deployment. Still PFT-V2 doesn't stop there! It also provides directions and techniques that represent the next level in paracording knowledge-the making of practical paracord objects. Primarily designed to provide survival and tactical advantages, practical paracord objects are in themselves useful. Providing benefits to those who tie them, in real time; as opposed to when they're unraveled and the cord within them used.
Download or read book The Medieval Crossbow written by ELLIS-GORMAN STUART and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crossbow is an iconic weapon of the Middle Ages and, alongside the longbow, one of the most effective ranged weapons of the pre-gunpowder era. Unfortunately, despite its general fame it has been decades since an in-depth history of the medieval crossbow has been published, which is why Stuart Ellis-Gorman's detailed, accessible, and highly illustrated study is so valuable. The Medieval Crossbow approaches the history of the crossbow from two directions. The first is a technical study of the design and construction of the medieval crossbow, the many different kinds of crossbows used during the Middle Ages, and finally a consideration of the relationship between crossbows and art. The second half of the book explores the history of the crossbow, from its origins in ancient China to its decline in sixteenth-century Europe. Along the way it explores the challenges in deciphering the crossbow's early medieval history as well as its prominence in warfare and sport shooting in the High and Later Middle Ages. This fascinating book brings together the work of a wide range of accomplished crossbow scholars and incorporates the author's own original research to create an account of the medieval crossbow that will appeal to anyone looking to gain an insight into one of the most important weapons of the Middle Ages.
Download or read book Syria and Bilad Al Sham Under Ottoman Rule written by Peter Sluglett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together some thirty essays in a Festschrift in honour of Abdul-Karim Rafeq, the leading historian of Ottoman Syria, touching on themes in socio-economic history which have been Rafeq's principal academic concerns.
Download or read book The Six Greatest Novels of Anatole France written by Anatole France and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When It Raynes written by C. D. Cain and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rayne Amber Storm finds her serenity on the waters of her Louisiana bayou, where she can let her thoughts be her own among the moss-covered cypress trees. Slowly, a gentle, insistent ripple of difference stirs within her. A ripple that leads her away from her mother's Southern Baptist values to thoughts that betray the very core of what she believes is right and wrong. She leaves the protection of the bayou for medical school and lets the ripple grow until she is knocked unsteady by a powerful wave in the charismatic Samantha LeJeune. But when tragedy strikes back home, the pull of cross currents traps Rayne in what seems an insurmountable struggle between her heart, which now knows the true meaning of happiness, and doing what she has been taught all her life. Is she strong enough to keep navigating through unfamiliar but thrilling waters or will she give in and paddle down the path of least resistance?
Download or read book Everyone Can Draw written by Shoo Rayner and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you can make a mark on a piece of paper you can draw! If you can write your name... you can draw! Millions of people watch Shoo Rayner's Drawing Tutorials on his award-winning YouTube channel - ShooRaynerDrawing. learn to draw with Shoo Rayner too! In this book, Shoo shows you how, with a little practice, you can learn the basic shapes and techniques of drawing and soon be creating your own, fabulous works of art. Everyone can draw. That means you too!
Download or read book Fleurdelicious written by Mary Beth Touzet and published by Ampersand, Incorporated. This book was released on 2010 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A counting book featuring the fleur-de-lis.
Download or read book Cakes by Design written by Scott Clark Wooley and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York City the authors teach a unique and easy technique for making stunning sugar-paste flowers and ornaments. Their craft has drawn raves from Tiffany, Cartier, Caroline Kennedy, and Martha Stewart among others. Now they have assembled their 15 years' expertise into a complete step-by-step how-to and idea book. 200 full-color photos. 100 b&w illus.
Download or read book The Legendary Estates of Beverly Hills written by Jeff Hyland and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume will showcase the 50 grandest estates in Southern California. Each estate will have its own chapter, with lavish colour illustrations of the house and grounds accompanied by a complete history from the home's original completion to the present day.
Download or read book The Hot for Pyrex Guide to Rare Hard to Find Vintage Pyrex written by Megan McGrady and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland written by John Woody Papworth and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
