[PDF] A B C Et Cetera eBook

Author : Alexander Humez
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781567921007

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This is a book about the Roman alphabet and the people who used it as a medium for the transmission of their civilization. Primarily, this means the Romans and their Italic subjects, speakers of Latin who disseminated the language, and the culture of which it was an expression, throughout Europe and the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. As speakers, readers, and writers of English, we are greatly indebted to the long line of purveyors of Latin in its various forms. When words are borrowed, concepts come with them. So, if we have borrowed a wide variety of Latin words, it follows that we have also borrowed a great deal of the cultural stuff that they encase. This book takes a look at what the authors consider to be some of the more intriguing cultural/linguistic goodies that have crept willy-nilly into the English language over the ages from the Latin cornucopia. - Preamble.

Author : Grosset & Dunlap
Publisher :
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 38,96 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0448482150

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Learn the alphabet with the use of animals, toys, vehicles, and more.

Author : Kim Anne Bellefontaine
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 10,14 MB
Release : 2004-01-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1554539587

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An alphabet book of American places and things.

Author : Alexander Humez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2008-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0190295945

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Despite the humble origins of its name (Anglo Saxon for "the speck at the head of a boil"), the dot has been one of the most versatile players in the history of written communication, to the point that it has become virtually indispensable. Now, in On the Dot, Alexander and Nicholas Humez offer a wide ranging, entertaining account of this much overlooked and minuscule linguistic sign. The Humez brothers shed light on the dot in all its various forms. As a mark of punctuation, they show, it plays many roles--as sentence stopper, a constituent of the colon (a clause stopper), and the ellipsis (dot dot dot). In musical notation, it denotes "and a half." In computerese, it has several different functions (as in dot com, the marker between a file name and its extension, and in some slightly more arcane uses in programming languages). The dot also plays a number of roles in mathematics, including the notation of world currency (such as dollars dot cents), in Morse code (dots and dashes), and in the raised dots of Braille. And as the authors connect all these dots, they take readers on an engaging tour of the highways and byways of language, ranging from the history of the question mark and its lesser known offshoots the point d'ironie and the interrobang, to acronyms and backronyms, power point bullets and asterisks, emoticons and the "at-sign." Playful, wide-ranging, and delightfully informative, On the Dot reveals how thoroughly the dot is embedded in our everyday world of words and ideas, acquiring a power inversely proportional to its diminutive size.

Author : Rev. Gretchen A.L. Schork, OCL:AL
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 2019-07-04
Category :
ISBN : 0359768563

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For a long time, we have been dependent on other cultures to find alphabetic magic for our own lives. In this book, a system is presented that will accomodate every magical technique used with the other alphabets, but using the familiar American alphabet that we all know and use daily. This is a complete handbook for the system. All the parts are described and illustrated for those who wish to explore this new way of bringing magic into the magical practice. While a lot remains to be published in the specifics that are mentioned, this book will give you all the tools to work with the system. If you prefer to apply your own magical alphabet to the system, you can. Correspondences are provided in the Appendix. But here is a way to work with a language you know, with letters you are already acquainted with, in a variety of ways that are new.

Author : Elizabeth Allen Ashton
Publisher : Viking Juvenile
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780670830480

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An alphabet book celebrating the art of Jessie Willcox Smith, whose popular illustrations were featured on the covers of "Good Housekeeping" throughout the 1920s and 1930s.

Author : Tori Spelling
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416587004

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A memoir by the actress best known for her role on "Beverly Hills, 90210" challenges popular misconceptions about her privileged life while discussing such topics as her relationship with her late father, her marriages, and her parenting experiences.

Author : William Daniels
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 2017-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1612349021

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There I Go Again is a celebrity memoir like no other, revealing the life of a man whose acting career has been so rich that millions of Americans know his face even while they might not recognize his name. William Daniels is an enigma--a rare chameleon who has enjoyed massive success both in Hollywood and on Broadway and been embraced by fans of successive generations. Few of his peers inspire the fervor with which buffs celebrate his most iconic roles, among them George Feeny in Boy Meets World, KITT in Knight Rider, Dr. Mark Craig in St. Elsewhere, and John Adams in the play and film 1776. Daniels guides readers through some of Hollywood's most cherished productions, offering recollections of entertainment legends including Lauren Bacall, Warren Beatty, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Mike Nichols, Jason Robards, Barbra Streisand, and many more. Looking back on his seventy-five-plus-year career, Daniels realizes that although he never had the courage to say "no" to being an actor, he backed into stardom. With his wife, actress Bonnie Bartlett, by his side, he came to realize that he wound up exactly where he was supposed to be: on the screen and stage.