Author: Nick Rennison
Publisher: No Exit Press
ISBN: 9781904048640
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Every day, thousands of people worldwide consult Roget's Thesaurus. How many stop to consider why that endlessly useful reference book is so called? How many know anything about the man behind it? Nick Rennison's biography reveals the full story of Roget's involvement with the great issues and the great personalities of the 19th century and recounts the forgotten life behind one of the most famous of all reference books.
Author: Donald Lewis Emblen
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Author: Donald Lewis Emblen
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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This volume is a biography of British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer, Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869). He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (Roget's Thesaurus), a classified collection of related words. As a young man, Roget compiled linguistic notes to improve the quality of his own lectures and writings. His life was marked by several incidents of sadness. His father and his wife died young. Roget's beloved uncle committed suicide in his presence. Roget struggled with depression for most of his life. His work on the thesaurus arose partly from an effort to battle depression. His catalog of words organized by their meanings, had been a vocation since his teens.
Author: Jen Bryant
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 1467447641
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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2015 Caldecott Honor Book 2015 Sibert Medal Winner For shy young Peter Mark Roget, books were the best companions -- and it wasn’t long before Peter began writing his own book. But he didn’t write stories; he wrote lists. Peter took his love for words and turned it to organizing ideas and finding exactly the right word to express just what he thought. His lists grew and grew, eventually turning into one of the most important reference books of all time. Readers of all ages will marvel at Roget’s life, depicted through lyrical text and brilliantly detailed illustrations. This elegant book celebrates the joy of learning and the power of words.
Author: Joshua C. Kendall
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780399154621
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Peter Mark Roget--polymath, eccentric, synonym aficionado--was a complicated man. He was a scholar obsessed with his work, yet he had an allure that endeared him to his contemporaries--not to mention a host of female admirers. But most notably, he made li
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Author: David Buxton
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Author: David K. C. Cooper
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611494672
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 495
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The medical profession is rich in those who have made names for themselves outside of medicine. The fields of literature, exploration, business, sport, entertainment, and beyond abound with doctors whose interests lie outside medicine. This book, largely written by members of the medical profession, examines the efforts of doctors in non-medical fields. The doctors discussed here are those who are, or were, well-known to the public for their contributions to their non-medical fields of choice. In many cases, the public may have been unaware that a subject was medically qualified. This book provides wide-ranging and comprehensive biographical sketches of forty-two doctors who are best known to the public for their contributions to fields outside of medicine.
Author: James Rettig
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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An examination of how and why certain books have become the most widely used reference works in American libraries. From Who's Who and World Book to Turabian's Manual, it explores the origins, influence and possible future for each of these works.
Author: Raphael S. Bloch, M.D.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469192489
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 791
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Summary of Healers and Achievers (ID No. 110473) by Raphael S. Bloch, M.D. It is not widely known that throughout history physicians have contributed more than just medical care to civilization. Healers and Achievers is a series of biographies of doctors from ancient Egypt to the twenty-first century who distinguished themselves with lasting non-medical accomplishments. They include the architect of the first Egyptian pyramid, a pope, the "Fathers" of astronomy, geology, magnetism, and taxonomy, American Founding Fathers, French Revolutionaries, a buccaneer, world-class athletes, a spy, and an astronaut. Their life stories are told in the context of the eras in which they lived, and their fields of medical and non-medical expertise are explained in terms comprehensible to both laymen and physicians.
Author: Lindsey Fitzharris
Publisher: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374117292
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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The gripping story of how Joseph Lister’s antiseptic method changed medicine forever
