Weird and Wonderful - Year 4 Term 2
Title | Weird and Wonderful - Year 4 Term 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Pearson Education |
Publisher | Rigby |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2004-03-25 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0433035145 |
The Last Lecture
Title | The Last Lecture PDF eBook |
Author | Randy Pausch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Cancer |
ISBN | 9780340978504 |
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Totally Weird and Wonderful Words
Title | Totally Weird and Wonderful Words PDF eBook |
Author | Erin McKean |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2006-10-23 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 0199886032 |
Do you know what a snollygoster is? Would you eat something called a muktuk? Do you know anyone who engages in onolatry? Impress your friends and pepper your dinner party conversations with such nuggets as gobemouche, mumpsimus, and cachinnate. You can learn about all of these bizarre and beautiful words and many more in Totally Weird and Wonderful Words. Offering a potpourri of colorful and fascinating words compiled by noted lexicographer Erin McKean, it contains hundreds of definitions, and has been updated to include two new essays, with over 150 words new to this edition. Written in a clear and conversational style, the book contains full-page cartoon illustrations by Roz Chast and Danny Shanahan. Featuring hundreds of words guaranteed to amuse and astonish, this is a book that will appeal to logophiles everywhere. It also features a bibliography of Oxford's dictionaries and a guide to creating your own unusual words correctly from Greek and Latin roots.
Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer
Title | Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Anne Jones |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | FICTION |
ISBN | 038575552X |
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
Wordcatcher
Title | Wordcatcher PDF eBook |
Author | Phil Cousineau |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2010-03-15 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1573445509 |
Who knew that the great country of Canada is named for a mistake? How about "bedswerver," the best Elizabethan insult to hurl at a cheating boyfriend? By exploring the delightful back stories of the 250 words in Wordcatcher, readers are lured by language and entangled in etymologies. Author Phil Cousineau takes us on a tour into the obscure territory of word origins with great erudition and endearing curiosity. The English poet W. H. Auden was once asked to teach a poetry class, and when 200 students applied to study with him, he only had room for 20 of them. When asked how he chose his students, he said he picked the ones who actually loved words. So too, with this book — it takes a special wordcatcher to create a treasure chest of remarkable words and their origins, and any word lover will relish the stories that Cousineau has discovered.
The Codes of California as Amended and in Force at the Close of the Thirty-sixth Session of the Legislature, 1905 ...: Penal code with forms
Title | The Codes of California as Amended and in Force at the Close of the Thirty-sixth Session of the Legislature, 1905 ...: Penal code with forms PDF eBook |
Author | California |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1584 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | California |
ISBN |
Unusual Applications of Number Theory
Title | Unusual Applications of Number Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Melvyn Bernard Nathanson |
Publisher | American Mathematical Soc. |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780821871065 |
This volume contains the proceedings of the workshop held at the DIMACS Center of Rutgers University (Piscataway, NJ) on Unusual Applications of Number Theory. Standard applications of number theory are to computer science and cryptology. In this volume, well-known number theorist, Melvyn B. Nathanson, gathers articles from the workshop on other, less standard applications in number theory, as well as topics in number theory with potential applications in science and engineering. The material is suitable for graduate students and researchers interested in number theory and its applications.