John Simpson Set
Author : John Simpson
Publisher :
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 2003
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ISBN : 9788023001693
Author : John Simpson
Publisher :
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 2003
Category :
ISBN : 9788023001693
Author : John Simpson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0465096522
Can you drink a glass of balderdash? What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? The answers to all of these questions -- and a great many more -- can be found in the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive record of the English language. And there is no better guide to the dictionary's many wonderments than the former chief editor of the OED, John Simpson. Simpson spent almost four decades of his life immersed in the intricacies of our language, and guides us through its history with charmingly laconic wit. In The Word Detective, an intensely personal memoir and a joyful celebration of English, he weaves a story of how words come into being (and sometimes disappear), how culture shapes the language we use, and how technology has transformed not only the way we speak and write but also how words are made. Throughout, he enlivens his narrative with lively excavations and investigations of individual words -- from deadline to online and back to 101 (yes, it's a word) -- all the while reminding us that the seemingly mundane words (can you name the four different meanings of ma?) are often the most interesting ones. But Simpson also reminds us of the limitations of language: spending his days in the OED's house of words, his family at home is forced to confront the challenges of wordlessness. A brilliant and deeply humane expedition through the world of words, The Word Detective will delight and inspire any lover of language.
Author : John Simpson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0330516434
On 13 November 2001, John Simpson and a BBC news crew walked into Kabul and the liberation of the Afghan capital was broadcast to a waiting world. It was the end of a sustained campaign against the Taliban, a campaign that Simpson had covered from the beginning, despite appalling difficulties and, often, great danger. In this, his third riveting volume of autobiography, John Simpson focuses on how journalists set about finding the stories that make the headlines. It is quintessential Simpson: vivid, utterly absorbing and written with all the care and lucidity of his reporting style. 'Great stories told with great gusto...an easy and rewarding read' Jon Snow, Daily Mail.
Author : John Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192142214
From the moment Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise, exile has been a part of the human experience. The circumstances in which individuals or entire peoples are compelled to leave their homeland are as various as they are numerous, and in this book John Simpson has brought together examples of exile from all over the world, and from all periods of history. The emphasis is on personal experience, with writers from Ovid to Solzhenitsyn describing their exile, their emotions, their struggle and their despair. For those who have chosen a life in exile, the response is more mixed: ambivalence about the country they have left and the country they have chosen suffuses the writing of intellectuals seeking freedom of speech, as of ex-pats living in India or Australia. Those persecuted for their faith or their politics rub shoulders with those fleeing from war, or from debt, or even from the weather. Castaways and spies, premiers and princes describe their departure, their reception and sometimes their return, in an anthology that is by turns inspiring, moving, and deeply thought-provoking. With sources ranging from police records, newspaper articles, interviews, letters and memoirs, as well as verse and fiction, and settings as remote as Iran and Russia, China and Palestine, The Oxford Book of Exile provides a fascinating insight into an experience that touches so many, and captures the imagination of us all.
Author : Clifford R. Caldwell
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0865347565
John Simpson Chisum left a trail across the American West so wide that a blind scout could follow it. His life story seems to have been defined by his association with Billy the Kid and a singular, epic cattle drive across the barren expanses of West Texas to New Mexico.
Author : John Warfield Simpson
Publisher : Random House of Canada
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375422317
A lively study of America's first environmental battle describes how, in 1913, Congress authorized the construction of the Hetch Hetchy Dam and Reservoir within the bondaries of Yosemite National Park, chronicling the intrigues that surrounded the project, profiling participants in the debate, and the implications of Hetch Hetchy for American attitudes toward environmental stewardship. 10,000 first printing.
Author : New York (State). Court of Chancery
Publisher :
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 24,75 MB
Release : 1846
Category : Equity
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1568 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Equity
ISBN :
Author : John Simpson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 38,43 MB
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473674557
Jon Swift is in trouble. His journalism career is in freefall. He's too old to be part of the new world order and he's never learned to suck up to those in charge. But experience has taught him to trust his instincts. When, for the first time in years, Jon runs into Lin Lifeng in a café in Oxford he wonders if the meeting is a coincidence. When Lin asks him to pass on a coded message, he knows it's not. Travelling to Beijing, Jon starts to follow a tangled web in which it is hard to know who he can trust. Under the watchful eyes of an international network of spies, double-agents and politicians, all with a ruthless desire for power, Jon is in a high-stakes race to expose the truth, before it's too late.
Author : Charles Augustus Hanna
Publisher :
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Harrison County (Ohio)
ISBN :