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Author: Arnold Ringstad
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781614732365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a collection of idioms, from "Bigger fish to fry" to "Throw the book at someone," giving meaning, origin, and example.
Author: Yuri Dolgopolov
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-02-01
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 0786459956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings, this dictionary presents a unique cross-section of the English language. Though it is designed specifically to assist readers in avoiding the use of inappropriate or erroneous phrases, the book can also be used as a regular phraseological dictionary providing definitions to individual idioms, cliches, and set expressions. Most phrases included in the dictionary are in active current use, making information about their meanings and usage essential to language learners at all levels of proficiency.
Author: Diane Goldstein
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2007-09-15
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0874216818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGhosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-01-05
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1416905863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the unthinkable happens to Ruth, Isabel realizes her loyalty is available to the bidder who can provide her with freedom. From acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling, impeccably researched novel that shows the lengths we can go to cast off our chains, both physical and spiritual.
Author: Felicity O'Dell
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9783125346055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollocations are combinations of words which frequently appear together. Using them makes your English sound more natural.
Author: Richard A. Spears
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Published: 2006-02-03
Total Pages: 1100
ISBN-13: 0071486852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn the language of Nebraska . . .and 49 other states With more entries than any other reference of its kind,McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs shows you how American English is spoken today. You will find commonly used phrasal verbs, idiomatic expressions, proverbial expressions, and clichés. The dictionary contains more than 24,000 entries, each defined and followed by one or two example sentences. It also includes a Phrase-Finder Index with more than 60,000 entries.
Author: James R. Hurford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1983-04-28
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521289498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces the major elements of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Sections of explanation and examples are followed by practice exercises with answers and comment provided.
Author: Margaret Ann Richek
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780395750513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dan Sperber
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1975-09-25
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780521099677
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists. He demonstrates that symbols enter all phases of social life: those which we tend to regard as strictly pragmatic, or based on concerns with material need or advantage, as well as those which we tend to view as purely symbolic, such as ideology, ritual, myth, moral codes, and the like. . . ."—Robert McKinley, Reviews in Anthropology
Author: Paul Brians
Publisher: Franklin, Beedle & Associates, Inc.
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1887902899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnline version of Common Errors in English Usage written by Paul Brians.
