Author: Rosie Pattison
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426313780
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Presents a variety of jokes and facts, including knock-knocks, tongue twisters, riddles, and traditional question and answer jokes.
Just Joking 4
Author: Rosie Pattison
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426313780
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Presents a variety of jokes and facts, including knock-knocks, tongue twisters, riddles, and traditional question and answer jokes.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426313780
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Presents a variety of jokes and facts, including knock-knocks, tongue twisters, riddles, and traditional question and answer jokes.
Notes and Queries
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Nelson Thornes West African Readers
Author:
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9780748770328
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Nelson Thornes West African Readers have been specially written for children in junior schools throughout West Africa. The books cover a broad range of subject areas from the curriculum, especially science, social science, music, mathematics, poetry and drama and are interwoven with a variety of other stories.
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9780748770328
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Nelson Thornes West African Readers have been specially written for children in junior schools throughout West Africa. The books cover a broad range of subject areas from the curriculum, especially science, social science, music, mathematics, poetry and drama and are interwoven with a variety of other stories.
Elsevier's Dictionary of Mammals
Author: Murray Wrobel
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 008048882X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
This authoritative dictionary has been compiled with the aim of giving an overview of the English, German, French and Italian names of mammals. The Basic Table contains, in alphabetical order, the scientific names of families, genera, species and sub-species and synonyms with the identified names detailed in all four languages. These are given in the singular for species and sub-species and in the plural for other terms. The synonyms and subspecies are offered in detail. The editor offers numerous alternative spellings of vernacular names. This dictionary is an outstanding guide for every researcher in mammalogy.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 008048882X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
This authoritative dictionary has been compiled with the aim of giving an overview of the English, German, French and Italian names of mammals. The Basic Table contains, in alphabetical order, the scientific names of families, genera, species and sub-species and synonyms with the identified names detailed in all four languages. These are given in the singular for species and sub-species and in the plural for other terms. The synonyms and subspecies are offered in detail. The editor offers numerous alternative spellings of vernacular names. This dictionary is an outstanding guide for every researcher in mammalogy.
Explorations
Author: Lucille R. Clayton
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Introduces the unit plan of teaching and provides activities to support 11 different units.
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Introduces the unit plan of teaching and provides activities to support 11 different units.
An English-Greek Lexicon
Author: Charles Duke Yonge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Book of Humorous Quotations
Author: Connie Robertson
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853267598
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
From Oscar Wilde's witty observation in Lady Windermere's Fan that 'I can resist everything except temptation', to Zsa Zsa Gabor's admission that 'I know nothing about sex, because I was always married', and by way of Woody Allen's numerous bon mots to the anonymous definition of psychiatry as being 'the care of the id by the odd', Connie Robertson has woven together a hilarious, stimulating and thought-provoking collection of the best humorous quotations which will provide the reader with much to ponder over long after the book has been put aside.The Wordsworth Book of Humorous Quotations will delight the browser and the simply curious while also providing the student, journalist and after-dinner speaker with a wealth of valuable material.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853267598
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
From Oscar Wilde's witty observation in Lady Windermere's Fan that 'I can resist everything except temptation', to Zsa Zsa Gabor's admission that 'I know nothing about sex, because I was always married', and by way of Woody Allen's numerous bon mots to the anonymous definition of psychiatry as being 'the care of the id by the odd', Connie Robertson has woven together a hilarious, stimulating and thought-provoking collection of the best humorous quotations which will provide the reader with much to ponder over long after the book has been put aside.The Wordsworth Book of Humorous Quotations will delight the browser and the simply curious while also providing the student, journalist and after-dinner speaker with a wealth of valuable material.
The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Author: Tom Dalzell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317625129
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume. Containing over 60,000 entries, this concise new edition of the authoritative work details the slang and unconventional English of from around 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 dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning. New to this second edition: a new preface noting slang trends of the last eight years over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia, reflecting important developments in language and culture new terms from the language of social networking from a range of digital communities including texting, blogs, Facebook, Twitter and online forums many entries now revised to include new dating and new glosses, ensuring maximum accuracy of content. The Concise 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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317625129
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume. Containing over 60,000 entries, this concise new edition of the authoritative work details the slang and unconventional English of from around 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 dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning. New to this second edition: a new preface noting slang trends of the last eight years over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia, reflecting important developments in language and culture new terms from the language of social networking from a range of digital communities including texting, blogs, Facebook, Twitter and online forums many entries now revised to include new dating and new glosses, ensuring maximum accuracy of content. The Concise 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.
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134963653
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1426
Book Description
The definitive work on the subject, this Dictionary - available again in its eighth edition - gives a full account of slang and unconventional English over four centuries and will entertain and inform all language-lovers.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134963653
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1426
Book Description
The definitive work on the subject, this Dictionary - available again in its eighth edition - gives a full account of slang and unconventional English over four centuries and will entertain and inform all language-lovers.
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English
Author: Eugene Benson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134468482
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1950
Book Description
" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134468482
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1950
Book Description
" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.