The Synonym Finder


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Originally published in 1961 by the founder of Rodale Inc., The Synonym Finder continues to be a practical reference tool for every home and office. This thesaurus contains more than 1 million synonyms, arranged alphabetically, with separate subdivisions for the different parts of speech and meanings of the same word.




Marry Under Order, Hot Tempered Queen


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She was a 21st century music college genius, because a zither transmigrated, became the Shang Shu Mansion's unfavoured eldest miss.In search of the zither, she was very careful with the wolf. She had been caught up in a plot to seize power from the court and was unable to escape.In the eyes of the crowd, she was a b * tch who had been seduced to a higher position by a palace maid. However, in his eyes, she was his favorite, the treasure in his palm.Everyone said that he was possessed, which was why he was so fond of a lowly girl like her and didn't go offline. But she hoped that he would be able to stay away from her and not involve her in a conspiracy to peacefully search for the zither.One day, someone passionately confessed to her and threatened to take her out of the palace to live a carefree life. She nodded like she was pounding garlic.Thus, a certain man could not sit still and questioned him after the storm."Do you still dare to leave the palace with others?"Like a frightened bird, she shook her head like a rattle.




Fergal is Fuming!


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Shortlisted for the 2018 Waterstones Childrens Book Prize. A dragon with a short temper is not a good combination, as Fergal's family and friends soon find out. He burns the dinner (literally), reduces the football goal to ashes and absolutely cannot play a nice, quiet board game. It is only when he starts to notice other animals have clever tricks to calm down that Fergal begins to win back his friends, especially when he discovers dragons can cool off in a very handy way.




Units of Talk – Units of Action


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In this volume leading academics in Interactional Linguistics and Conversation Analysis consider the notion of units for the study of language and interaction. Amongst the issues being explored are the role and relevance of traditionally accepted linguistic units for the analysis of naturally occurring talk, and the identification of new units of conduct in interaction. While some chapters make suggestions on how existing linguistic units can be adapted to suit the study of conversation, others present radically new perspectives on how language in interaction should be described, conceptualised and researched. The chapters present empirical investigations into different languages (Danish, English, Japanese, Mandarin, Swedish) in a variety of settings (private and institutional), considering both linguistic and embodied resources for talk. In addressing the fundamental question of units, the volume pushes at the boundaries of current debates and contributes original new insight into the nature of language in interaction.




The Extent of the Literal


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The Extent of the Literal develops a strikingly new approach to metaphor and polysemy in their relation to the conceptual structure. In a straightforward narrative style, the author argues for a reconsideration of standard assumptions concerning the notion of literal meaning and its relation to conceptual structure. She draws on neurophysiological and psychological experimental data in support of a view in which polysemy belongs to the level of words but not to the level of concepts, and thus challenges some seminal work on metaphor and polysemy within cognitive linguistics, lexical semantics and analytical philosophy.




Every Man's Bible NLT, Large Print


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Now available in an easy-to-read Large Print edition, the popular NLT Every Man's Bible is designed to help every man develop a fuller, richer relationship with Jesus as he understands what the Scriptures have to say about the challenges he faces. The Every Man's Bible has thousands of notes on topics just for men--work, sex, competition, integrity, and more. This Bible also includes trusted advice from the pros: Stephen Arterburn, Tony Evans, David Jeremiah, Tony Dungy, Chuck Smith, Jr., Dallas Willard, Michael Youssef, Gordon MacDonald, Bill McCartney, J. I. Packer, Joe Stowell, Chuck Swindoll, Henry Blackaby, Stuart Briscoe, Stephen Broyles, Don Everts, John Fischer, Leighton Ford, Ken Gire, Greg Laurie, Josh McDowell, James Robison, and Gary Rosberg. All of the features and notes were written specifically for men. The New Living Translation is an authoritative Bible translation rendered faithfully into today's English from the ancient texts by 90 leading Bible scholars. The NLT's scholarship and clarity breathe life into even the most difficult-to-understand Bible passages--but even more powerful are stories of how people's lives are changing as the words speak directly to their hearts.




Every Man’s Bible NLT, Large Print, Deluxe Explorer Edition


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Now available in an easy-to-read Large Print edition, the popular NLT Every Man's Bible is designed to help every man develop a fuller, richer relationship with Jesus as he understands what the Scriptures have to say about the challenges he faces. The Every Man's Bible has thousands of notes on topics just for men--work, sex, competition, integrity, and more. This Bible also includes trusted advice from the pros: Stephen Arterburn, Tony Evans, David Jeremiah, Tony Dungy, Chuck Smith, Jr., Dallas Willard, Michael Youssef, Gordon MacDonald, Bill McCartney, J. I. Packer, Joe Stowell, Chuck Swindoll, Henry Blackaby, Stuart Briscoe, Stephen Broyles, Don Everts, John Fischer, Leighton Ford, Ken Gire, Greg Laurie, Josh McDowell, James Robison, and Gary Rosberg. All of the features and notes were written specifically for men. The New Living Translation is an authoritative Bible translation rendered faithfully into today's English from the ancient texts by 90 leading Bible scholars. The NLT's scholarship and clarity breathe life into even the most difficult-to-understand Bible passages--but even more powerful are stories of how people's lives are changing as the words speak directly to their hearts.




The Linguistics of Temperature


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The volume is the first comprehensive typological study of the conceptualisation of temperature in languages as reflected in their systems of central temperature terms (hot, cold, to freeze, etc.). The key issues addressed here include questions such as how languages categorize the temperature domain and what other uses the temperature expressions may have, e.g., when metaphorically referring to emotions (‘warm words’). The volume contains studies of more than 50 genetically, areally and typologically diverse languages and is unique in considering cross-linguistic patterns defined both by lexical and grammatical information. The detailed descriptions of the linguistic and extra-linguistic facts will serve as an important step in teasing apart the role of the different factors in how we speak about temperature – neurophysiology, cognition, environment, social-cultural practices, genetic relations among languages, and linguistic contact. The book is a significant contribution to semantic typology, and will be of interest for linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and philosophers.




Awakening the Power Within


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Awakening the Power Within: Unleash Your True Potential and Transform Your Life I have previously written about the importance of inner strength in our lives. When I started writing this book a year ago, my intention was to share exactly that – finding strength within oneself, especially in difficult moments, is crucial. When a person discovers it and becomes aware of it, it greatly helps them. Equally important is to show others that it is possible, using one's own example of going through various challenges and life truths to expand one's strength. This means that others can improve their lives, ease situations, etc., using certain methods. A year later, when it was completed, it helped me a lot in dealing with much more serious life obstacles. It is written from personal experience as a way of struggle, reflection, life experience, and collaboration with different mentors from various areas of life. The book consists of three sections. The first identifies obstacles to our personal development, the second deals with overcoming them, and the third is the place where we want to be, for the well-being of ourselves and those around us. The journal complements the book, providing practical examples, self-reflection, introspection, and space for you to answer what concerns you. The text in the book not only provides solutions but also the mindset of overcoming challenges, self-improvement, thinking, working on oneself, seeing things from different perspectives. It gives guidelines on what to work on, overcome, where to focus and work, what to pay attention to, and the possibility of finding that strength. The sources from which you find them are within you, and it all comes down to merging within you. By awakening strength within oneself, each of us connects with our source, whether it's God, the Universe, divine force, energy, nature, or oneself... Ebook is now only available online. The printed version may come later.




The Best American Short Plays 2012-2013


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(Applause Books). For over 70 years, The Best American Short Plays has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and more. In this volume, the plays capture the struggle between "hot tempers and cold decrees." Humans love to think of themselves as rational beings well in control of their lives and surroundings from sunup to sundown, sundown to sunrise. We learn to follow rules of proper behavior and more than happily issue out advice to our friends who just can't get a handle on themselves. Restraint and order, after all, are the cornerstones of human society and civilization. The problem is that human nature bucks and bridles at every attempt to socialize and civilize. Shakespeare got it right when he penned the observation, "The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree." In those few words he has managed to capture precisely why it is so difficult to be human; if it were okay simply to let our hot tempers prevail, life would be so much easier. But cold decrees are what prevent us from self-destruction, and so we endure the struggle.