Book Description
Presents the complete texts of key historic documents with commentary on events surrounding their creation and an overview of United States constitutional law.
Author : Stephen F. Rohde
Publisher : Webster's New World
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : History
ISBN :
Presents the complete texts of key historic documents with commentary on events surrounding their creation and an overview of United States constitutional law.
Author : Tracy Nelson Maurer
Publisher : Millbrook Press ™
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1512438693
Noah Webster, famous for writing the first dictionary of the English language as spoken in the United States, was known in his day for his bold ideas and strong opinions about, well, everything. Spelling, politics, laws, you name it—he had something to say about it. He even commented on his own opinions! With a red pencil in hand, Noah often marked up work that he had already published. So who edited this book? It certainly looks like the ghost of the great American author and patriot picked up a pencil once again to comment on his own biography!
Author : Peter Martin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0691210179
Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.
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Publisher : Webster's New World
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 MB
Release : 1998-08-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780028623818
In the United States, 20 percent of the adult population is marginally literate. Of these roughly 30 million people, approximately 1.8 million are enrolled in basic skills literacy programs. Webster's New World has created a dictionary that is uniquely designed to help these beginning readers. Webster's New World Basic Dictionary of American English defines 49,000 of the most commonly used words in the American English lexicon. These are the words adult readers are most likely to encounter in newspapers and magazines, on job applications and product instructions, on advertising billboards and their children's school progress reports. The dictionary defines these words in clear, easy-to-understand language, using only words that are themselves defined in the dictionary, but never condescending to the adult reader. Definitions are liberally supplemented with example phrases and sentences that put words in context and help new readers understand meaning and usage. Special notes on synonyms help new readers differentiate between words with similar meanings. And selected illustrations help readers identify and remember words. This quality paperback book is designed for ease of reading and use, as well as for durability. Primarily created for native English speakers, it is also a valuable reference for more advanced readers of English as a second language. From the editors of the prestigious Webster's New World College Dictionary, the Basic Dictionary of American English brings the full scholarship behind that work to this important new offering in the field of literacy.
Author : Noah Webster
Publisher :
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 1841
Category : English language
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Author : Barbara Etzel
Publisher : Webster's New World
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Americans have never been hungrier for information about the economy and the world of high finance.
Author : Colm Toibin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439149852
From one of contemporary literature’s bestselling, critically acclaimed, and beloved authors: a “luminous” novel (Jennifer Egan, The New York Times Book Review) about a fiercely compelling young widow navigating grief, fear, and longing, and finding her own voice—“heartrendingly transcendant” (The New York Times, Janet Maslin). Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm Tóibín’s magnificent seventh novel introduces the formidable, memorable, and deeply moving Nora Webster. Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be sucked back into it. Wounded, selfish, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments of stunning insight and empathy, and when she begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace, engagement, a haven—herself. Nora Webster “may actually be a perfect work of fiction” (Los Angeles Times), by a “beautiful and daring” writer (The New York Times Book Review) at the zenith of his career, able to “sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations” (USA TODAY). “Miraculous...Tóibín portrays Nora with tremendous sympathy and understanding” (Ron Charles, The Washington Post).
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Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Philip Babcock Gove
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 35,5 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Dictionaries, Polyglot
ISBN : 0877792011
An English language dictionary containing over 470,000 entries.
Author : William Morris
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,32 MB
Release : 1957
Category : English language
ISBN :