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Author : Tom Dalzell,Terry Victor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 21043 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317372516

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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Tom Dalzell,Terry Victor Pdf

Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.

Author : William Safire
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 887 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195340617

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Safire's Political Dictionary by William Safire Pdf

Featuring more than one thousand new, rewritten, and updated entries, this reference on American politics explains current terms in politics, economics, and diplomacy.

Author : Peter Handrinos
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781612345611

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Errors and Fouls: Inside Baseball's Ninety-Nie Most Popular Myths by Peter Handrinos Pdf

Most baseball traditions are wonderful. But not all of them. The games most basic elements have often been misrepresented, misunderstood, and misremembered through the years. All along, fiction has coexisted with fact, hyperbole has mixed with history, and exaggeration has been mistaken for explanation. Meanwhile, baseballs yen for tradition has left many fans and even baseball commentators unduly attached to stale ways of thinking. Peter Handrinos breaks from the past and provides an entertaining antidote to its outmoded ideas and excessive nostalgia.

Author : Richard Mueller
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789094770

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Ghostbusters - The Original Movie Novelizations Omnibus by Richard Mueller Pdf

For the first time in a beautiful new edition, this omnibus will collect together the original official novelizations of both Ghostbusters 1 and 2. Relive the classic Ghostbusters stories with the original movie novelizations reprinted for the first time since 1980s. When Dr. Peter Venkman and his Columbia University colleagues are kicked out of their prestigious academic posts, they start a private practice as professional ghost-catchers. Although things do not start auspiciously for the three parascientists, their television advertisements finally pay off when beautiful Dana Barrett contracts them. It seems her apartment has become the entryway for ghastly ghosts and goofy ghouls hellbent on terrorising New York City. Soon they're not just going to her rescue, but trying to rid the whole city of the slimy creatures. After waging a war on slime that cost New York City millions, the Ghostbusters find themselves out of business until an ancient tyrant, preparing a return to the Earthly domain through his portrait at the Manhattan Museum of Modern Art, sets his sights on Dana Barrett's baby as the new home for his wicked soul!

Author : Tom Dalzell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 5135 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351765206

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The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English by Tom Dalzell Pdf

The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. In terms of content, the cultural transformations since 1945 are astounding. Television, computers, drugs, music, unpopular wars, youth movements, changing racial sensitivities and attitudes towards sex and sexuality are all substantial factors that have shaped culture and language. This new edition includes over 500 new headwords collected with citations from the last five years, a period of immense change in the English language, as well as revised existing entries with new dating and citations. No term is excluded on the grounds that it might be considered offensive as a racial, ethnic, religious, sexual or any kind of slur. This dictionary contains many entries and citations that will, and should, offend. Rich, scholarly and informative, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English is an indispensable resource for language researchers, lexicographers and translators.

Author : Thomas Adcock
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504060011

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Grief Street by Thomas Adcock Pdf

A rabbi is killed and a Catholic procession is sprayed with gunfire in this crime thriller in the “beautifully written” Edgar-winning series (The Washington Post). NYPD detective Neil Hockaday has acted on his conscience by reporting a fellow cop for bias and brutality—but there’s a killer on the Manhattan streets who seems to have little concern with morality. First a rabbi is murdered by a shadowy figure right in front of his shocked congregation. Then a group of Catholics is gunned down on Good Friday. Now, while coping with tensions within the force and an ugly act of retaliation, Hock’s also under pressure from a panicked mayor, searching for a suspect whose motives may be rooted in hatred, madness, or dark secrets from decades past . . . “Adcock fills the shell of the detective story to the bursting point with Catholic guilt, self-laceration, and spiritual crisis, with a magnificent starring role for Hell’s Kitchen.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Harold Wallace Ross,Katharine Sergeant Angell White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1987-08
Category : Literature
ISBN : NWU:35556018259077

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The New Yorker by Harold Wallace Ross,Katharine Sergeant Angell White Pdf

Author : Roger Higgins
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609521165

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Billy Gogan, American by Roger Higgins Pdf

The Billy Gogan story is a fictional memoir told by an old Army general of his adventures as a young man. Billy Gogan, American, opens with recently orphaned Billy Gogan fleeing Ireland on the eve of the Great Hunger — either because he is the son of a dangerous revolutionary, or because his cousin doesn't trust him around his daughter. Billy befriends a destitute Irish peasant named Máire and her young daughter Fíona, and together they endure a harsh passage to New York, America's greatest city. They get separated as they debark, and Billy searches tirelessly for them in the dangerous Five Points, ground zero in the collision of Americans, ex-slaves, and Irish refugees. Here, Billy completes his education. Already able to declaim Cicero and construe Aristotle, he learns voting fraud from Bill Tweed, the future head of Tammany Hall, and the numbers game from Charlie Backwell, Tammany's top bookie. Finally, Brannagh O’Marran, the beautiful mulatta daughter of the Irish madam of Gotham’s finest brothel, teaches him about love. Billy eventually finds Máire and Fíona, and the three of them plan their future together. But that future is taken in a cruel stroke, and nothing will ever be the same.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1460 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Bar associations
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061014325

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California Lawyer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business
ISBN : UCSD:31822022935399

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Business Week by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2684 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : MINN:31951D01047617J

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Merchant Vessels of the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : Denise Swanson
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781492648338

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Dead in the Water by Denise Swanson Pdf

The first book in a brand new series featuring New York Times bestselling author Denise Swanson's beloved Scumble River setting and characters, Dead in the Water is a gripping mystery that won't let you go until you've turned the last page. A twister, a kidnapping, and a murder—oh my! Scumble River may never be the same. For school psychologist Skye Denison, there's certainly no place like home. When a violent tornado devastates her small hometown of Scumble River, she can't see how the community will ever recover—especially since town councilman Zeke Lyons appears to have perished in the twister. But things get even worse for Skye when her police chief husband, Wally, disappears in the midst of investigating Zeke's death, and evidence arises pointing to foul play. Did Zeke really die in the storm, or was he murdered? And could Wally be next on the criminal's hit list?

Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416505518

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Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein Pdf

High school students enter a time gate to an unknown planet for a survival test, but something goes wrong and they have to learn to survive by their own resourcefulness.

Author : Andrea Camilleri
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525508298

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Riccardino by Andrea Camilleri Pdf

The long-awaited last novel in the transporting and beloved New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano series "At eighty, I foresaw Montalbano's departure from the scene, I got the idea and I didn't let it slip away. So I found myself writing this novel which is the final chapter; the last book in the series. And I sent it to my publisher saying to keep it in a drawer and to publish it only when I am gone." –Andrea Camilleri Montalbano receives an early-morning phone call, but this time it's not Catarella announcing a murder, but a man called Riccardino who's dialed a wrong number and asks him when he'll be arriving at the meeting. Montalbano, in irritation, says: "In ten minutes." Shortly after, he gets another call, this one announcing the customary murder. A man has been shot and killed outside a bar in front of his three friends. It turns out to be the same man who called him. Thus begins an intricate investigation further complicated by phone calls from "the Author" in tour de force of metafiction and Montalbano’s last case.

Author : Karen Dove Barr
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781666732870

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Burnt Pot Island by Karen Dove Barr Pdf

Catherine Williams earns her living shucking oysters in a filthy, mosquito-infested shed, like all Geechee women in Pin Point, Georgia, in 1904. Even though she graduates eighth grade and yearns to escape, none of the men whose children she bears can help her. Prohibition becomes law, and rum-running gangs invade the deserted sea islands, bribing the sheriff and the mayor of nearby Savannah, who promise unheard-of sums of money to the impoverished Geechees to do their dirty work, and who lure Catherine’s son Willie into the business. When the owner of the oyster cannery makes an unwanted sexual advance toward Catherine’s daughter Licia, Catherine is forced to hide Licia with her son on Skidaway Island, the epicenter of fine-liquor smuggling and manufacture of moonshine. She struggles to keep her job and home, both of which depend on pleasing her boss. The mayor entices Licia into sex and rum-running, building her a secret house on Burnt Pot Island, where even voodoo and Christian prayer aren’t enough to keep her safe. Federal agents close in for a raid, forcing Catherine to choose between abandoning everything she has worked for and saving her children.