Download or read book Around the World in 80 Words written by Paul Anthony Jones and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a place so memorable that it survives forever in a word? In this captivating round-the-world tour, Paul Anthony Jones acts as your guide through the intriguing stories of how eighty places became immortalized in the English language. You’ll discover why the origins of turkeys, limericks, Brazil nuts, and Panama hats aren’t quite as straightforward as you might presume. If you’ve never heard of the tiny Czech mining town of Jáchymov—or Joachimsthal, as it was known until the late 1800s—you’re not alone, which makes its claim to fame as the origin of the word “dollar” all the more extraordinary. The story of how the Great Dane isn’t all that Danish makes the list, as does the Jordanian mountain whose name has become a byword for a tantalizing glimpse. We’ll also find out what the Philippines has given to your office inbox, what Alaska has given to your liquor cabinet, and how a speech given by a bumbling North Carolinian gave us a word for impenetrable nonsense. Surprising, entertaining, and illuminating, this is essential reading for armchair travelers and word nerds. Our dictionaries are full of hidden histories, tales, and adventures from all over the world—if you know where to look.
Download or read book Words for the Journey written by Martin B. Copenhaver and published by The Pilgrim Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent supplemental confirmation resource, or meaningful confirmation or graduation gift, Words for the Journey: Letters to Our Teenagers About Life and Faith, first published in 2003, is an original collection of letters written by Martin Copenhaver and Anthony Robinson to their teenagers. They discuss a wide variety of topics - God, church, Bible, vocation, relationships, difficult matters, faith, doubt, prayer, sex, abortion, race, and homosexuality - and share what God and their faith means to them.
Download or read book Words for a Journey The Art of Being with Dementia written by Takashi Iba and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Journey of Words written by Brian Paone and published by Of Words. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this installation, the authors will lead the reader to destinations unknown; from the heartbreak of driving to visit a loved one for the last time, to the far-reaches of outer space, to mysterious islands inhabited by long-forgotten spirits.
Download or read book Journey Beyond Words written by Brent A. Haskell, Ph.D., D.O. and published by DeVorss & Company. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal 29 written by Dimitris Chassapakis and published by . This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journal 29 is a unique book game where you can solve riddles and puzzles and submit your answers online to get the keys and move forward.To solve the riddles, you need to think out of the box.You can write, draw, search, fold pages, combine different methods and try to get those riddles right.Journal 29 is a 148 pages book providing over 63 riddles you can solve.
Download or read book Saying Goodbye written by Ruth Burgess and published by Wild Goose Publications. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A resource book for anyone who is planning a funeral. You may be a family member or a friend of someone who has died. You may be planning your own funeral. You may arrange and conduct funerals professionally. Here you will find an abundance of words and ideas for celebrating a life in ways that are personal and honest.
Download or read book The Journey Home written by Edward Abbey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1991-01-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Journey Home ranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It is alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bugs, and mountain lions. In a voice edged with chagrin, Edward Abbey offers a portrait of the American West that we’ll not soon forget, offering us the observations of a man who left the urban world behind to think about the natural world and the myths buried therein. Abbey, our foremost “ecological philosopher,” has a voice like no other. He can be wildly funny, ferociously acerbic, and unexpectedly moving as he ardently champions our natural wilderness and castigates those who would ravish it for the perverse pleasure of profit.
Download or read book Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words written by Lynda Mugglestone and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular readings of Johnson as a dictionary-maker often see him as a writer who both laments and attempts to control the state of the language. Lynda Mugglestone looks at the range of Johnson's writings on, and the complexity of his thinking about, language and lexicography. She shows how these reveal him probing problems not just of meaning and use but what he considered the related issues of control, obedience, and justice, as well as the difficulties of power when exerted over the 'sea of words'. She examines his attitudes to language change, loan words, spelling, history, and authority, describing, too, the evolution of his ideas about the nature, purpose, and methods of lexicography, and shows how these reflect his own wider thinking about politics, culture, and society. The book offers a careful reassessment of Johnson's lexicographical practice, examining in detail his commitment to evidence, and the uses to which this might be put. Dictionary-making, for Johnson, came to be seen as a long and difficult voyage round the world of the English language. While such images play their own role in lexicographical tradition, Johnson would, as this volume explores, also make them very much his own in a range of distinctive, and illuminating, ways. Johnson's metaphors invite us to consider-and reconsider-the processes by which a dictionary might be made and the kind of destination it might seek, as well as the state of language that might be reached by such endeavours. For Johnson, where the dictionary-maker might go, and what should be accomplished along the way, can often seem to raise pertinent and perhaps troubling questions. Lynda Mugglestone's generous, wide-ranging account casts new light on Johnson's life in language and provides an engaging reassessment of his impact on English culture, the making of dictionaries, and their role in a nation's identity.
Download or read book Seven Words for the End of Your Journey written by Christian C. Spoor and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest challenge we ever face is how to deal with the end of life. It has been said that most people fear the process of dying more than death itself. Seven Words for the End of Your Journey helps us negotiate this unknown territory. It is a new way of looking at Jesuss seven words of the cross. Through these seven words, we discover how Jesus personally experienced all the challenges people face at the end of life. Many devotional and theological books have been written about the seven words. But few of them have unpacked how these words speak directly to people who are now face-to-face with the end of life. Just as Jesus teaches people how to live well in his Sermon on the Mount, so he teaches how to die well in his seven words from the cross. Out of his own dying experience, Jesus shows the way for others to traverse this difficult terrain and come through victorious. This book is a sensitive, practical guide for patients, their families, and their caregivers.
Download or read book Climbing The Fence A Journey Of Traveling Words written by Alicia Sanchez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You'd think fashion designing is an easy field to enter, right? Wrong. Read the struggles and hard work of a young woman who had goals that touched the sky. Travel with her through the journey called life, learning on every step, her determination escalating with every downfall and her aims never lowering; and you'll understand how a traditional Latina goes from juggling part time jobs to buying a sewing machine to being a talented designer and continuing to help others.
Download or read book The Angel Code Journey into the Words Whispered to Me written by Anayah Joi Holilly and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Angel Code is your safe harbour. Whatever may be occurring within you, your family, your relationships or in the world, The Angel Code is now in your life to support you, to safely guide and help you to flourish, to experience more clarity, peace, hope and trust. The angels love you, they know you inside out, they hear your requests for support, please trust you've been guided here on purpose, with purpose. The Angel Codeis overflowing with non-denominational, Divine Grace, Wisdom, and Support, all a perfect match for your life, your soul's purpose for being here at this time, your personal needs, and your earthly journey. Whether you choose to read cover-to-cover or individual messages, or pages, you will be magnetically drawn to what you need, at just the right time. Just as each piece of a puzzle has its perfect partners, so too, you have the perfect messages waiting for you within these pages. As you grow and change, their meaning will deepen, and expand for you, and with you. They will always be a perfect fit for you, wherever you are in your life, and experience. The Angel Code's magnificent energy has drawn you to it, to guide and lead you onward, and inward, into more peace, clarity, security, hope, trust, and into a calmer state of being. No matter where you are in your life or experience, you are not in a 'wrong' place, you are right where you need to be for your own spiritual growth. You are fully supported in every moment. You are fully capable, and your divine plan is unfolding in every moment, which will become more and more apparent to you.
Download or read book 5 Words to Overcome Writers Block A Journey for the Sick and Twisted Mind written by Alex Willis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two sides to every story, any good writer can tell you that. Well, we took this quite literally. Our writers were struggling with writers blocks on their individual books and needed to find a way to get past it. What they did was as unusual as this book. First, they took a scientific approach to understanding the reason for the block and identified methods to modify the causes. Second, they exercised their minds by free telling (stories without regard to decency, spelling or grammar). As our authors are humorists, the stories are intended to be funny. You can clearly see how the stories morph as the writers blocks decrease. Now, this book is split, in hard copy it makes more sense, on the left side of the book which is seen by the right and free thinking part of the brain are the crazy stories, on the other side of the book is the science of overcoming writers block. This book is not for the weak of heart and the content is intended strictly for a mature audience.
Download or read book Jacob at his journey s end or part of his last words uttered to his son Joseph a sermon preached at the interment of William lord Brereton by A B written by A. B. and published by . This book was released on 1665 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pilgrim in the Palace of Words written by Glenn Dixon and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pilgrim in the Palace of Words is about language, about the words that splash and chatter across our tongues. Some six thousand languages are still spoken on the planet, and author Glenn Dixon – an expert is socio-linguistics and a tireless adventurer – travels to the Earth's four corners to explore the way these languages create and mould societies. As one philosopher said, languages are Houses of Being. After doing graduate work in linguistics, Dixon wanted to visit these houses or "palaces" himself – to stroll along their sidewalks, knock on their doors, and peek in their windows. He wanted to see what they were hiding in their basements ... even if it meant a little bit of trouble. In some cases, a whole lot of trouble! Join him on his adventure as, with wit and humour, he works toward a real understanding of how and why we communicate the way we do in the Global Village.
Download or read book These Five Words Are Mine written by Jennifer Lynne Croneberger and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These Five Words are Mine" is a journey to awareness through the stories of every day life. It embraces the everyday conversations we have with ourselves. It captures the connections we see and those we live with others. It's an ordinary perspective with perhaps different eyes. It's a walk down that familiar road with all the lights on instead of the one we so often take surrounded by darkness. It's a jolt of fresh air when you can't breathe. It's days with a notebook, but not writing so you miss out on what you can't see when your head is down. The words are already so much a part of us, they don't even need to be written. Just felt. Have you ever felt a really deep connection to someone else? To a feeling? To words? Author Jen Croneberger brings awareness into our every day life by connecting us to all of it. Through every day stories, she takes us on a journey. One you will likely relate to as well. It's time to take that walk with eyes wide open. Let's begin" Review: "Far from an ordinary book. It is a friend. If read with an open heart, not only do we realize we are not alone, but we will never look at ourselves and those around us the same."--Daniel Matos, Spoken Word Artist.
Download or read book Blue Sky White Stars written by Sarvinder Naberhaus and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring and patriotic tribute to the beauty of the American flag, a symbol of America’s history, landscape, and people, illustrated by New York Times bestselling and Caldecott-honor winning artist Kadir Nelson Wonderfully spare, deceptively simple verses pair with richly evocative paintings to celebrate the iconic imagery of our nation, beginning with the American flag. Each spread, sumptuously illustrated by award-winning artist Kadir Nelson, depicts a stirring tableau, from the view of the Statue of Library at Ellis Island to civil rights marchers shoulder to shoulder, to a spacecraft at Cape Canaveral blasting off. This book is an ode to America then and now, from sea to shining sea.
