Doctor Johnson, and Others
Author : Sydney Castle Roberts
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 1958
Category : English literature
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Author : Sydney Castle Roberts
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 1958
Category : English literature
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Author : Helen Deutsch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 2005-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226143821
"Loving Dr. Johnson uses the enormous popularity of Johnson to understand a singular case of author love and to reflect upon what the love of authors has to do with the love of literature. Helen Deutsch's work is driven by several impulses, among them her affection for both Johnson's work and Boswell's biography of him, and her own distance from the largely male tradition of Johnsonian criticism - a tradition to which she remains indebted and to which Loving Dr. Johnson is ultimately an homage. Limning sharply Johnson's capacious oeuvre, Deutsch's study is also the first of its kind to examine the practices and rituals of Johnsonian societies around the world, wherein Johnson's literary work is now dwarfed by the figure of the writer himself."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Timothy Johnson
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2006-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830833471
An editor of ABC News describes his own spiritual journey that led him, as a man of science, to his own answers about God and Jesus, and encourages others to confront their own questions of faith to further the search for God.
Author : Henry Hitchings
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 2006-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312426200
Brilliantly entertaining and enlightening, this volume tells the story of Samuel Johnson's endeavor to create an authoritative English dictionary. Hitchings describes Johnson's adventure--his ambition and vision, his moments of despair, the mistakes he made along the way, and his ultimate triumph.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2013-02-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0486168131
Written virtually single-handedly over a seven-year period by a revered dean of English letters, Johnson’s Dictionary first appeared in 1755. A remarkable monument to the vigor and variety of our language and to the genius of its author, it served as the standard dictionary for more than 150 years and formed the basis for all subsequent English dictionaries. This modern version reduces the original 2,300 pages of definitions and literary examples to a more manageable length, retaining the verbal pleasure and historical curiosity of the original. It features many entries that can no longer be found in most modern dictionaries, with intriguing definitions and examples of usage in the literature of Johnson’s time.
Author : Liza Picard
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 2002-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312291532
The practical realities of everyday life are rarely described in history books. To remedy this, and to satisfy her own curiosity about the lives of our ancestors, Liza Picard immersed herself in contemporary sources - diaries and journals, almanacs and newspapers, government papers and reports, advice books and memoirs - to examine the substance of life in mid-18th century London. The fascinating result of her research, Dr. Johnson's London introduces the reader to every facet of that period: from houses and gardens to transport and traffic; from occupations and work to pleasure and amusements; from health and medicine to sex, food, and fashion. Stops along the way focus on education, etiquette, public executions as popular entertainment, and a melange of other historical curiosities. This book spans the period from 1740 to 1770-very much the city of Dr. Johnson, who published his great Dictionary in 1755. It starts when the gin craze was gaining ground and ends just before America ceased being a colony. In its enthralling review of an exhilarating era, Dr. Johnson's London brilliantly records the strangeness and individuality of the past--and continually reminds us of parallels with the present day.
Author : Dinah Johnson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 2010-01-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0805078339
Presents a poem celebrating the African-American experience and what it means to be part of a strong, proud, and free people.
Author : Richard Johnson
Publisher : BenBella Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1637740344
2022 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST — HEALTH: GENERAL “It is exceptionally well organized and presented, making it an ideal and highly recommended addition to personal, community, college, and university library Health/Medicine collections.” —Midwest Book Review Nature puts a “survival switch” in our bodies to protect us from starvation. Stuck in the “on” position, it’s the hidden source of weight gain, heart disease, and many other common health struggles. But you can turn it off. Dr. Richard Johnson has been on the cutting edge of research into the cause of obesity for more than a decade. His team’s discovery of the fructose-powered survival switch—a metabolic pathway that animals in nature turn on and off as needed, but that our modern diet has permanently fixed in the “on” position, where it becomes a fat switch—revolutionized the way we think about why we gain weight. In Nature Wants Us to Be Fat, he details the mounting evidence on how this switch is responsible both for excess fat storage and for many of the major diseases endemic to the Western world, including heart disease, cancer, and dementia. Dr. Johnson also reveals the surprising link between the survival switch and health conditions such as gout, kidney disease, liver disease, stroke—and even behavioral issues like addiction and ADHD. And, most important, he shares a science-based plan to help readers fight back against nature. Guided by ongoing clinical research—plus fascinating observations from the animal kingdom, evolution, and history—Dr. Johnson takes you along on an eye-opening investigation into: What you can do to turn off your survival switch What we have in common with hibernating bears, sperm whales, and the world’s fattest bird Why it’s fructose (not glucose) that drives insulin resistance and metabolic disease The foods we eat that trigger the body to make its own fructose The surprising role salt and dehydration play in fat accumulation The surprising link between the survival switch and health conditions such as gout and liver and kidney diseases, and even behavioral issues like addiction and ADHD Dr. Johnson not only provides new recommendations for how we can prevent or treat obesity, but also how we can use this information to reduce our risk of developing disease. Nature wants us to be fat, and when we understand why, we gain the tools we need to lose weight and optimize our health.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Reference
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Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 1850
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