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Book Jabberwocky

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lewis Carroll
  • Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
  • Release : 2008-02
  • ISBN : 1554532663
  • Pages : 42 pages

Download or read book Jabberwocky written by Lewis Carroll and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated version of the classic nonsense poem from "Through the Looking Glass."

Book Slithy Toves

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sally Haines
  • Publisher : Society for the Study of Amphibians & Reptiles
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Slithy Toves written by Sally Haines and published by Society for the Study of Amphibians & Reptiles. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book O Frabjous Day

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lewis Carroll
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2016-03-03
  • ISBN : 0241251958
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book O Frabjous Day written by Lewis Carroll and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I cried, "Come, tell me how you live!" And thumped him on the head.' Conjuring wily walruses, dancing lobsters, a Jabberwock and a Bandersnatch, Carroll's fantastical verse gave new words to the English language.

Book Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense

Download or read book Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense written by Lewis Carroll and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collected and annotated edition of Carroll's brilliant, witty poems, edited by Gillian Beer. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse, 'Jabberwocky'. This new edition collects together the marvellous range of Carroll's poetry, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, and more. Alongside the title piece are such enduringly wonderful pieces as 'The Walrus and the Carpenter', 'The Mock Turtle's Song', 'Father William' and many more. This edition also includes notes, a chronology and an introduction by Gillian Beer that discusses Carroll's love of puzzles and wordplay and the relationship of his poetry with the Alice books 'Opening at random Gillian Beer's new edition of Lewis Carroll's poems, Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense, guarantees a pleasurable experience - not all of it nonsensical' - Times Literary Supplement Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Born in 1832, he was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was appointed lecturer in mathematics in 1855, and where he spent the rest of his life. In 1861 he took deacon's orders, but shyness and a stammer prevented him from seeking the priesthood. His most famous works, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872), were originally written for Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of his college. Charles Dodgson died of bronchitis in 1898. Gillian Beer is King Edward VII Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Cambridge and past President of Clare Hall College. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. Among her works are Darwin's Plots (1983; third edition, 2009), George Eliot (1986), Arguing with the Past: Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney (1989), Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (1996) and Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground (1996).

Book Patterns in Language

Download or read book Patterns in Language written by Joanna Thornborrow and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patterns in Languageaddresses the real needs of students in modular systems who may not have a background either in traditional literature or in linguistic theory. This student-friendly textbook uses the principles of linguistic analysis to investigate the aesthetic use of language in literary (and non-literary) texts. Written in straightforward, accessible language with imaginative examples and humour, it shows how linguistic knowledge can enhance and enrich the analysis of texts. The authors borrow from traditional stylistics but focus primarily on the recurring linguistic patterns which are used by writers of poetry, fiction and drama. Textual examples include canonical literature and modern literary texts, as well as references to popular fiction, television and the language of advertising. Tasks, including textual analysis, are provided at every stage, and sample answers are also included.

Book Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming

Download or read book Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming written by Peter Norvig and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 975 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradigms of AI Programming is the first text to teach advanced Common Lisp techniques in the context of building major AI systems. By reconstructing authentic, complex AI programs using state-of-the-art Common Lisp, the book teaches students and professionals how to build and debug robust practical programs, while demonstrating superior programming style and important AI concepts. The author strongly emphasizes the practical performance issues involved in writing real working programs of significant size. Chapters on troubleshooting and efficiency are included, along with a discussion of the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and a description of the main CLOS functions. This volume is an excellent text for a course on AI programming, a useful supplement for general AI courses and an indispensable reference for the professional programmer.

Book Linguistics

    Book Details:
  • Author : H. G. Widdowson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1996-06-06
  • ISBN : 9780194372060
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Linguistics written by H. G. Widdowson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introduction to linguistics, the study of human language. The author provides a succinct but lucid outline of the ways in which language has been defined, described, and explored, and guides readers towards further exploration of their own.

Book The Teacher s Guide to Grammar

Download or read book The Teacher s Guide to Grammar written by Deborah Cameron and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide focuses directly on the aspects of grammar that teachers need to know. Assuming little or no formal linguistic training, this text provides the necessary background knowledge required in the classroom context, with chapters on words, phrases, verbs and clauses.

Book Jabberwocky

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jennifer Adams
  • Publisher : Gibbs Smith
  • Release : 2013-09
  • ISBN : 142363408X
  • Pages : 22 pages

Download or read book Jabberwocky written by Jennifer Adams and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated excerpt from the famous Lewis Carroll rhyme.

Book Poems to Live Your Life By

Download or read book Poems to Live Your Life By written by Chris Riddell and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeously illustrated collection of poems for every walk of life Curated by artist and writer Chris Riddell, Poems to Live Your Life By is a beautifully illustrated collection of poems for readers young and old to carry with them as they grow. The book includes favorites, both old and new—from selections of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets to original poems by Neil Gaiman to lyrics to an indie rock song by Phoebe Bridgers. It is divided into different subjects and includes poems about youth, love, imaginings, and endings. Brought to life by Chris Riddell’s striking artwork, Poems to Live Your Life By is the kind of book that readers can return to again and again at different moments in their life.

Book Under the Tumtum Tree

Download or read book Under the Tumtum Tree written by Marlene Dolitsky and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any informal discussion of a piece of nonsense literature produces highly varying interpretations which retain, however, a common core. It seemed, then, that nonsense would be a fertile base in the study of nonautomatic comprehension, i.e. comprehension where the word-meaning relations do not seem to be self-evident. And fertile it was! This monograph reports the results of a study into the nonautomatic functioning of the linguistic network which includes idiosyncratic as well as common, coded elements at all levels: semantic, syntactic, and phonetic as well as episodic. To carry it out, a number of adults and children were given nonsense texts to interpret. These interpretations were in turn analyzed as to the strategies applied toward the comprehension of those texts. Various examples of nonsense in mass media were also analyzed in the light of these findings.

Book The Return of the Jabberwock

Download or read book The Return of the Jabberwock written by Oakley Graham and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brave little boy sets off on an adventure to find the Jabberwock. But what creatures will he encounter in mysterious Tulgey Wood? 32pp

Book The Theory and Practice of Translation

Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Translation written by Eugene Albert Nida and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Theory and Practice of Translation," first published in 1982 and a companion work to "Toward a Science of Translating" (Brill, 1964), analyses and describes the set of processes involved in translating. Bible translating, the focus of this work, offers a unique subject for such a study, as it has an exceptionally long history, involves more than 2,000 languages, a vast range of cultures and a broader range of literary structures than any other type of translating. Not only of interest to Biblical scholars, therefore, this work explores issues of textual meanings and the procedures for communicating these meanings into other languages and cultures.

Book USA TODAY Jumbo Puzzle Book

Download or read book USA TODAY Jumbo Puzzle Book written by Usa Today and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can be sitting in the train working on a puzzle but it can take you far away from the everyday. Before you know it you're at your stop or about to pass it. It's not like you were even in the train. It's something different, something removed from the ordinary." --Maki Kaji, Japanese Times The Nation's No. 1 Newspaper offers puzzlesmiths the ultimate cranium compendium boasting five challenging mind teasers. USA TODAY is America's most recognized newspaper reaching more than 5 million people each day. Now, USA TODAY has collected five popular game formats into one book, including: Logic Puzzles, Crossword, Killer Sudoku, and Hitori. Complete with 400 puzzles (that's twice the size of comparable game books), USA TODAY Jumbo Puzzle Book includes an introductory chapter that offers solution tips as well as a concluding chapter that reveals all the answers. Pen and pencil puzzles are big business. According to a national poll by the American Society on Aging, 84 percent of people report that they spend time daily in activities that are good for brain health.

Book Computational Genetics

Download or read book Computational Genetics written by Rajiv Tyagi and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Word Fugitives

Download or read book Word Fugitives written by Barbara Wallraff and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the many thousands of dictionary words at our disposal, our language can be dismayingly inadequate. How many times have you searched for a word that means just what you want it to but failed to find anything suitable anywhere? Most of us, it turns out, lead lives rife with experiences, people, and things that have no names. At least, they lacked names until now. Word Fugitives comes to the rescue, supplying hundreds of inspired words coined or redefined to meet everyday needs. For instance, wouldn't it be handy to have a word for the momentary confusion people experience when they hear a cell phone ringing and wonder whether it's theirs? (How about fauxcellarm, phonundrum, or pandephonium?) Or what about a word for offspring who are adults? (Try unchildren or offsprung.) Or a word for the irrational fear when you're throwing a party that no one will show up? (That might be guestlessness, empty-fest syndrome, or fete-alism.) This mind- and vocabulary-expanding book grew out -- way out -- of Barbara Wallraff's popular column in The Atlantic Monthly. Brimming with irresistible diversions and pop quizzes; illuminated by contributions and commentary from authors, linguists, and leading language authorities; and enlivened by pleas for help from people whose words have yet to be found, Word Fugitives will captivate and inspire anyone who ever struggles to describe the world that he or she, or they, or thon (thon? see page 141) lives in.

Book Tools for Young Philosophers

Download or read book Tools for Young Philosophers written by Paul Timothy Jensen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are an aspiring young philosopher or just curious about philosophy, this book will give you a jump-start. In about three hours' reading time you will become familiar with the most basic building blocks of philosophy and will become acquainted with twelve of the most influential philosophers in Western history. To make the information as memorable as possible, many of the terms are arranged in pairs so that you get two for the price of one and can quickly grasp how they are related. Other disciplines in the humanities use many of the same terms, so by mastering them you will also obtain tools for understanding historians, sociologists, psychologists, economists, and political scientists.