Author: Joshua Glenn
Publisher: Biblioasis
ISBN: 1897231865
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 133
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For as long as mankind has had to work for a living, people who work have disparaged those who prefer not to. This glossary playfully explores the etymology and history of hundreds of idler-specific terms and phrases, while offering a foundation for a new mode of thinking about work and labor.
Author: Joshua Glenn
Publisher: Biblioasis
ISBN: 1926845560
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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When The Idler's Glossary was released in October 2008 the world was on the cusp of experiencing its greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression. Depending on your sense of irony, this was either foolhardy or prescient. The Wage Slave's Glossary, a second volume of anti-economic etymology, comes as we climb out of recession, and continues to explore and challenge the interconnected world of work and leisure and labor and how the language we use continues to keep us in chains.
Author: Joshua Glenn
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228009480
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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Adventure is always escapist and often utopian, yet we find solidarity with others and Kafkaesque existential rabbit holes within the words we use to celebrate high-flying escapades. Even when adventures are small in the cosmic scope, the terminology of thrilling exploits promotes a life lived at a high pitch. This go-to glossary for the philosophical explorer delves into these contradictions and insights through more than five hundred terms, from A-OK to zoom. Semiotician Joshua Glenn sourced terms from Shakespeare, military and biker jargon, hip hop and surfer slang, survivalist and gamer subcultures, comic books, extreme sports, and beyond to ask questions about meaning and selfhood. This diverting survey, paired with copious illustrations by the acclaimed cartoonist Seth, is introduced by Mark Kingwell in a thought-provoking essay. The Adventurer’s Glossary extends the entertaining and incisive critique found in the trio’s previous books, The Idler’s Glossary and The Wage Slave’s Glossary. This third instalment turns its lens to the language of risk, excitement, and journeying into the unknown, taking readers on their own semantic adventure.
Author: William Henry Emmett
Publisher:
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Category : Capital
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Author: John Russell Bartlett
Publisher:
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Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Author: Robert Nares
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752521805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1262
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Author: Diodorus (Siculus.)
Publisher:
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Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Author: John Russell Bartlett
Publisher:
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Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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