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The Path to Your Career Purpose - Find and Live the Life of Fulfilling Work You Were Meant to Do (Hardcover): Ashley S Freeman The Path to Your Career Purpose - Find and Live the Life of Fulfilling Work You Were Meant to Do (Hardcover)
Ashley S Freeman
R734 R615 Discovery Miles 6 150 Save R119 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Memoirs of the Celebrated Dwarf Joseph Boruwlaski, a Polish Gentleman (Hardcover): Józef 1739-1837 Borusawski, S. Freeman The Memoirs of the Celebrated Dwarf Joseph Boruwlaski, a Polish Gentleman (Hardcover)
Józef 1739-1837 Borusawski, S. Freeman
R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Rethinking the Romantic Era - Androgynous Subjectivity and the Recreative in the Writings of Mary Robinson, Samuel Taylor... Rethinking the Romantic Era - Androgynous Subjectivity and the Recreative in the Writings of Mary Robinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mary Shelley (Hardcover)
Kathryn S. Freeman
R3,135 Discovery Miles 31 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Focusing on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Robinson and Mary Shelley, this book uses key concepts of androgyny, subjectivity and the re-creative as a productive framework to trace the fascinating textual interactions and dialogues among these authors. It crosses the boundary between male and female writers of the Romantic period by linking representations of gender with late Enlightenment upheavals regarding creativity and subjectivity, demonstrating how these interrelated concerns dismantle traditional binaries separating the canonical and the noncanonical; male and female; poetry and prose; good and evil; subject and object. Through the convergences among the writings of Coleridge, Mary Robinson, and Mary Shelley, the book argues that each dismantles and reconfigures subjectivity as androgynous and amoral, subverting the centrality of the male gaze associated with canonical Romanticism. In doing so, it examines key works from each author's oeuvre, from Coleridge's "canonical" poems such as Rime of the Ancient Mariner, through Robinson's lyrical poetry and novels such as Walsingham, to Mary Shelley's fiction, including Frankenstein, Mathilda, and The Last Man.

Mary Tudor - Old and New Perspectives (Hardcover): Susan Doran, Thomas S. Freeman Mary Tudor - Old and New Perspectives (Hardcover)
Susan Doran, Thomas S. Freeman
R3,945 Discovery Miles 39 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

According to both popular myth and traditional histories, Mary Tudor was a failure. Known primarily as Bloody Mary, she has usually been contrasted unfavorably with her younger sibling and heir, Elizabeth I. This negative view of Mary has most recently been perpetuated in David Starkey's TV documentaries and biography of the young Elizabeth, which present the new queen as deliberately forging a path that was quite different from that of her half-sister. The time has come for a rethink. Susan Doran and Tom Freeman have gathered an outstanding team of international historians to look at the traditional presentation of Mary and her reign, and why we should question this view. This incisive collection will appeal to students, scholars and general readers.Features: * Challenges the accepted view of Mary as a tyrant, presenting a more balanced and nuanced portrait * Based on the latest cutting-edge and controversial thinking in Early Modern history
* Traces the growth and development of the myth of 'Bloody Mary' This text will be essential reading for graduate courses on Tudor history.

Multigenerational Family Therapy (Paperback): David S. Freeman Multigenerational Family Therapy (Paperback)
David S. Freeman
R1,436 Discovery Miles 14 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Multigenerational Family Therapy is a book about honoring and helping families. Rich with personal reflections and anecdotes from the author's many years as a family therapist, this volume's major strength lies in its precise definition of the process and content of the therapy itself. As the family is the major resource system available to an individual, this important book provides therapists with the keys for helping family members help each other and provides a framework for understanding how the family, as a multigenerational system, moves through various stages of the therapeutic process. By emphasizing the importance of family members utilizing the past as a positive force for change and featuring complete transcripts of family therapy sessions, this sensitive book clearly illustrates how therapists can use the positive forces of family for dealing with today's uncertainties and dilemmas. The step-by-step approach details how family therapists can work with families in a positive, healing manner. Several chapters illustrate the transition from the beginning to middle phases of family therapy to the terminating phase and provide a framework for how therapy evolves over time. Other chapters discuss the special skills required to work with various family constellations, such as couples, parents with children, siblings, adult children with aged parents, and individuals as well as extended family members. Helpful advice on how to deal with special issues and dilemmas of family therapy such as secret-keeping, affairs, co-therapy, crises and emergencies is also included in this comprehensive book. Beginning and advanced family therapy practitioners, students of family theory and therapy, faculty of social work practice, clinical psychology, nursing, family life education, and counseling psychology will find many positive ideas for working with families in this detailed book.

Packard Motor Car Company (Hardcover): Evan P Ide, Forword Joseph S Freeman Packard Motor Car Company (Hardcover)
Evan P Ide, Forword Joseph S Freeman; Foreword by Joseph S Freeman
R781 R653 Discovery Miles 6 530 Save R128 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Research on Preparing Inservice Teachers to Work Effectively with Emergent Bilinguals (Hardcover): Yvonne S. Freeman, David E.... Research on Preparing Inservice Teachers to Work Effectively with Emergent Bilinguals (Hardcover)
Yvonne S. Freeman, David E. Freeman
R3,542 Discovery Miles 35 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Between 1990 and 2010, the English language learner (ELL) population in U.S. schools grew by 80 percent. While the highest concentration of English language learners, now more commonly referred to as emergent bilinguals (EBLs) remains in the traditional immigrant destination states of California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, and New Jersey, in all 50 states there are growing numbers of emergent bilinguals. Interest in these learners has encouraged research and publications, but most of this research has centered on the students themselves and the politics surrounding their education. Publications featuring the research of teacher educators preparing teachers to work with EBLs in schools are much needed. Teacher educators must know how to help inservice teachers provide effective instruction to the increasing number of linguistically diverse students in the schools.

Research on Preparing Preservice Teachers to Work Effectively with Emergent Bilinguals (Hardcover): Yvonne S. Freeman, David E.... Research on Preparing Preservice Teachers to Work Effectively with Emergent Bilinguals (Hardcover)
Yvonne S. Freeman, David E. Freeman
R4,224 Discovery Miles 42 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Teacher educators need to be able to not only teach preservice teachers how to teach language arts, math, social studies, or science, but also to teach the language their students need to talk, read, and write about these subjects. Despite this need, there is a lack of research on how best to prepare preservice teachers to teach emergent bilinguals. In this book, teacher educators from institutions across the U.S. report their research with preservice teachers in large cities, suburban communities, and rural border areas. In each chapter, the authors explain what they have learned as they have conducted research on education for preservice teachers who will teach emergent bilinguals in mainstream, bilingual, and ESL.

The Guru Leader Within - Ancient Wisdom to Transform Modern Leaders (Paperback): Susan S. Freeman The Guru Leader Within - Ancient Wisdom to Transform Modern Leaders (Paperback)
Susan S. Freeman
R453 Discovery Miles 4 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Henry VIII and History (Paperback): Thomas S. Freeman Henry VIII and History (Paperback)
Thomas S. Freeman; Edited by Thomas Betteridge
R1,335 Discovery Miles 13 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Henry VIII remains the most iconic and controversial of all English Kings. For over four-hundred years he has been lauded, reviled and mocked, but rarely ignored. In his many guises - model Renaissance prince, Defender of the Faith, rapacious plunderer of the Church, obese Bluebeard-- he has featured in numerous works of fact and faction, in books, magazines, paintings, theatre, film and television. Yet despite this perennial fascination with Henry the man and monarch, there has been little comprehensive exploration of his historiographic legacy. Therefore scholars will welcome this collection, which provides a systematic survey of Henry's reputation from his own age through to the present. Divided into three sections, the volume begins with an examination of Henry's reputation in the period between his death and the outbreak of the English Civil War, a time that was to create many of the tropes that would dominate his historical legacy. The second section deals with the further evolution of his reputation, from the Restoration to Edwardian era, a time when Catholic commentators and women writers began moving into the mainstream of English print culture. The final section covers the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, which witnessed an explosion of representations of Henry, both in print and on screen. Taken together these studies, by a distinguished group of international scholars, offer a lively and engaging overview of how Henry's reputation has been used, abused and manipulated in both academia and popular culture since the sixteenth century. They provide intriguing insights into how he has been reinvented at different times to reflect the cultural, political and religious demands of the moment; sometimes as hero, sometimes as villain, but always as an unmistakable and iconic figure in the historical landscape.

Martyrs and Martyrdom in England, c.1400-1700 (Hardcover, New): Thomas S. Freeman, Thomas Mayer Martyrs and Martyrdom in England, c.1400-1700 (Hardcover, New)
Thomas S. Freeman, Thomas Mayer; Contributions by Alec Ryrie, Andrew Lacey, Brad Gregory, …
R2,984 Discovery Miles 29 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Concepts of Christian martyrdom changed greatly in England from the late middle ages through the early modern era. The variety of paradigms of Christian martyrdom (with, for example, virginity or asceticism perceived as alternate forms of martyrdom) that existed in the late medieval period, came to be replaced during the English Reformation with a single dominant idea of martyrdom: that of violent death endured for orthodox religion. Yet during the seventeenth century another transformation in conceptions of martyrdom took place, as those who died on behalf of overtly political causes came to be regarded as martyrs, indistinguishable from those who died for Christ. The articles in this book explore these seminal changes across the period from 1400-1700, analyzing the political, social and religious backgrounds to these developments. While much that has been written on martyrs, martyrdom and martyrologies has tended to focus on those who died for a particular confession or cause, this book shows how the concepts of martyrdom were shaped, altered and re-shaped through the interactions between these groups. THOMAS S. FREEMAN is Research Officer at the British Academy John Foxe Project, which is affiliated with the University of Sheffield. THOMAS F. MAYER is Professor of History at Augustana College. Contributors: JOHN COFFEY, BRAD S. GREGORY, VICTOR HOULISTON, ANDREW LACEY, DANNA PIROYANSKY, RICHARD REX, ALEC RYRIE, WILLIAM WIZEMAN

Religion and the Book in Early Modern England - The Making of John Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' (Hardcover, New):... Religion and the Book in Early Modern England - The Making of John Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' (Hardcover, New)
Elizabeth Evenden, Thomas S. Freeman
R2,264 Discovery Miles 22 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

John Foxe's Acts and Monuments - popularly known as the 'Book of Martyrs' - is a milestone in the history of the English book. An essential history of the English Reformation and a seminal product of it, no English printed book before it had been as long or as lavishly illustrated. Examining the research behind the work and also its financing, printing and dissemination, Elizabeth Evenden and Thomas S. Freeman argue that, apart from Foxe's zeal and industry, the book was only made possible by extensive cooperation between its printer, John Day, and the Elizabethan government. Government patronage, rather than market forces, lay behind the book's success and ensured the triumph of a Protestant interpretation of the Reformation for centuries to come. Based on little-used manuscript sources, this book offers a unique insight not only into the 'Book of Martyrs' and the history of the English book, but into English history itself.

Henry VIII and History (Hardcover, New Ed): Thomas S. Freeman Henry VIII and History (Hardcover, New Ed)
Thomas S. Freeman; Edited by Thomas Betteridge
R3,896 Discovery Miles 38 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Henry VIII remains the most iconic and controversial of all English Kings. For over four-hundred years he has been lauded, reviled and mocked, but rarely ignored. In his many guises - model Renaissance prince, Defender of the Faith, rapacious plunderer of the Church, obese Bluebeard-- he has featured in numerous works of fact and faction, in books, magazines, paintings, theatre, film and television. Yet despite this perennial fascination with Henry the man and monarch, there has been little comprehensive exploration of his historiographic legacy. Therefore scholars will welcome this collection, which provides a systematic survey of Henry's reputation from his own age through to the present. Divided into three sections, the volume begins with an examination of Henry's reputation in the period between his death and the outbreak of the English Civil War, a time that was to create many of the tropes that would dominate his historical legacy. The second section deals with the further evolution of his reputation, from the Restoration to Edwardian era, a time when Catholic commentators and women writers began moving into the mainstream of English print culture. The final section covers the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, which witnessed an explosion of representations of Henry, both in print and on screen. Taken together these studies, by a distinguished group of international scholars, offer a lively and engaging overview of how Henry's reputation has been used, abused and manipulated in both academia and popular culture since the sixteenth century. They provide intriguing insights into how he has been reinvented at different times to reflect the cultural, political and religious demands of the moment; sometimes as hero, sometimes as villain, but always as an unmistakable and iconic figure in the historical landscape.

Emerging Topics on Father Attachment - Considerations in Theory, Context and Development (Paperback): Lisa A. Newland, Harry S.... Emerging Topics on Father Attachment - Considerations in Theory, Context and Development (Paperback)
Lisa A. Newland, Harry S. Freeman, Diana D. Coyl
R1,333 Discovery Miles 13 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is the first of its kind to focus specifically on children's attachment to fathers, and explores the connections among fathering, family dynamics, and attachment relationships. It includes theoretical, methodological and research reports written by an interdisciplinary group of researchers from around the globe. The purpose of this book is to familiarize the reader with the conceptualization, measurement and provisions of the attachment bond between children and their fathers, from infancy through young adulthood and across diverse individual, family, community, and cultural systems. Recent empirical findings suggest that new methods of measuring child-father attachment are warranted, and that attachment to fathers may be unique from, but complementary to attachment to mothers. These findings also suggest that attachment to fathers uniquely predicts children's healthy developmental outcomes, and these findings are robust across various contexts, but these predictive relationships are best understood within context. This book provides a summary of current scholarly knowledge of fathering and attachment, and describes future directions to be explored by professionals, policy makers and practitioners within family services, education, and social work settings. It is also of interest to the general public. This book was published as a special issue of Early Child Development and Care.

Emerging Topics on Father Attachment - Considerations in Theory, Context and Development (Hardcover): Lisa A. Newland, Harry S.... Emerging Topics on Father Attachment - Considerations in Theory, Context and Development (Hardcover)
Lisa A. Newland, Harry S. Freeman, Diana D. Coyl
R3,894 Discovery Miles 38 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is the first of its kind to focus specifically on children's attachment to fathers, and explores the connections among fathering, family dynamics, and attachment relationships. It includes theoretical, methodological and research reports written by an interdisciplinary group of researchers from around the globe. The purpose of this book is to familiarize the reader with the conceptualization, measurement and provisions of the attachment bond between children and their fathers, from infancy through young adulthood and across diverse individual, family, community, and cultural systems. Recent empirical findings suggest that new methods of measuring child-father attachment are warranted, and that attachment to fathers may be unique from, but complementary to attachment to mothers. These findings also suggest that attachment to fathers uniquely predicts children's healthy developmental outcomes, and these findings are robust across various contexts, but these predictive relationships are best understood within context. This book provides a summary of current scholarly knowledge of fathering and attachment, and describes future directions to be explored by professionals, policy makers and practitioners within family services, education, and social work settings. It is also of interest to the general public. This book was published as a special issue of Early Child Development and Care.

Biography and History in Film (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Thomas S. Freeman, David L. Smith Biography and History in Film (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Thomas S. Freeman, David L. Smith
R3,560 Discovery Miles 35 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The essays in this volume seek to analyze biographical films as representations of historical individuals and the times in which they lived. To do this, contributors examine the context in which certain biographical films were made, including the state of knowledge about their subjects at that moment, and what these films reveal about the values and purposes of those who created them. This is an original approach to biographical (as opposed to historical) films and one that has so far played little part in the growing literature on historical films. The films discussed here date from the 1920s to the 2010s, and deal with males and females in periods ranging from the Middle Ages to the end of the twentieth century. In the process, the book discusses how biographical films reflect changing attitudes towards issues such as race, gender and sexuality, and examines the influence of these films on popular perceptions of the past. The introduction analyses the nature of biographical films as a genre: it compares and contrasts the nature of biography on film with written biographies, and considers their relationship with the discipline of history. As the first collection of essays on this popular but understudied genre, this book will be of interest to historians as well as those in film and cultural studies.

Multigenerational Family Therapy (Hardcover): David S. Freeman Multigenerational Family Therapy (Hardcover)
David S. Freeman
R3,062 Discovery Miles 30 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Multigenerational Family Therapy is a book about honoring and helping families. Rich with personal reflections and anecdotes from the author's many years as a family therapist, this volume's major strength lies in its precise definition of the process and content of the therapy itself. As the family is the major resource system available to an individual, this important book provides therapists with the keys for helping family members help each other and provides a framework for understanding how the family, as a multigenerational system, moves through various stages of the therapeutic process. By emphasizing the importance of family members utilizing the past as a positive force for change and featuring complete transcripts of family therapy sessions, this sensitive book clearly illustrates how therapists can use the positive forces of family for dealing with today's uncertainties and dilemmas. The step-by-step approach details how family therapists can work with families in a positive, healing manner. Several chapters illustrate the transition from the beginning to middle phases of family therapy to the terminating phase and provide a framework for how therapy evolves over time. Other chapters discuss the special skills required to work with various family constellations, such as couples, parents with children, siblings, adult children with aged parents, and individuals as well as extended family members. Helpful advice on how to deal with special issues and dilemmas of family therapy such as secret-keeping, affairs, co-therapy, crises and emergencies is also included in this comprehensive book. Beginning and advanced family therapy practitioners, students of family theory and therapy, faculty of social work practice, clinical psychology, nursing, family life education, and counseling psychology will find many positive ideas for working with families in this detailed book.

The Fifteenth Century V - `Of Mice and Men': Image, Belief and Regulation in Late Medieval England (Hardcover): Linda Clark The Fifteenth Century V - `Of Mice and Men': Image, Belief and Regulation in Late Medieval England (Hardcover)
Linda Clark; Contributions by Alasdair Hawkyard, Anne F Sutton, Colin Richmond, Jennifer Nuttall, …
R1,880 Discovery Miles 18 800 Out of stock

New contributions to the most important critical debates of the period. The themes of 'image' and 'representation' play a major part in the essays collected in this volume; subjects explored include the religious sympathies of townsfolk and gentry and their physical manifestations, the cultural setting for the activities of leading families of the period and the interaction of Crown and community of the realm. As the fruit of original archival research on the later Middle Ages, overall the contributions offer the most up-to-date scholarship on the period, and a snapshot of the most crucial issues in current research. Contributors: CLIVE BURGESS, PAUL CAVILL, JON DENTON, THOMAS S. FREEMAN, ALASDAIR HAWKYARD, STEPHEN MILESON, JENNI NUTTALL, COLIN RICHMOND, ANNE F. SUTTON

Religion and the Book in Early Modern England - The Making of John Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' (Paperback):... Religion and the Book in Early Modern England - The Making of John Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' (Paperback)
Elizabeth Evenden, Thomas S. Freeman
R1,093 Discovery Miles 10 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

John Foxe's Acts and Monuments - popularly known as the 'Book of Martyrs' - is a milestone in the history of the English book. An essential history of the English Reformation and a seminal product of it, no English printed book before it had been as long or as lavishly illustrated. Examining the research behind the work and also its financing, printing and dissemination, Elizabeth Evenden and Thomas S. Freeman argue that, apart from Foxe's zeal and industry, the book was only made possible by extensive cooperation between its printer, John Day, and the Elizabethan government. Government patronage, rather than market forces, lay behind the book's success and ensured the triumph of a Protestant interpretation of the Reformation for centuries to come. Based on little-used manuscript sources, this book offers a unique insight not only into the 'Book of Martyrs' and the history of the English book, but into English history itself.

British Women Writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785-1835 - Re-Orienting Anglo-India (Hardcover, New Ed): Kathryn S.... British Women Writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785-1835 - Re-Orienting Anglo-India (Hardcover, New Ed)
Kathryn S. Freeman
R2,531 Discovery Miles 25 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In her study of newly recovered works by British women, Kathryn Freeman traces the literary relationship between women writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, otherwise known as the Orientalists. Distinct from their male counterparts of the Romantic period, who tended to mirror the Orientalist distortions of India, women writers like Phebe Gibbes, Elizabeth Hamilton, Sydney Owenson, Mariana Starke, Eliza Fay, Anna Jones, and Maria Jane Jewsbury interrogated these distortions from the foundation of gender. Freeman takes a three-pronged approach, arguing first that in spite of their marked differences, female authors shared a common resistance to the Orientalists' intellectual genealogy that allowed them to represent Vedic non-dualism as an alternative subjectivity to the masculine model of European materialist philosophy. She also examines the relationship between gender and epistemology, showing that women's texts not only shift authority to a feminized subjectivity, but also challenge the recurring Orientalist denigration of Hindu masculinity as effeminate. Finally, Freeman contrasts the shared concern about miscegenation between Orientalists and women writers, contending that the first group betrays anxiety about intermarriage between East Indian Company men and indigenous women while the varying portrayals of intermarriage by women show them poised to dissolve the racial and social boundaries. Her study invites us to rethink the Romantic paradigm of canonical writers as replicators of Orientalists' cultural imperialism in favor of a more complicated stance that accommodates the differences between male and female authors with respect to India.

A History Of Montezuma County, Colorado - Land Of Promise And Fulfillment (Paperback): Ira S. Freeman A History Of Montezuma County, Colorado - Land Of Promise And Fulfillment (Paperback)
Ira S. Freeman
R988 Discovery Miles 9 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Being A Review Of Prehistoric Races And An Account Of The Earliest Settlement By The White Man And Subsequent Events And Development To The Present Day.

The Memoirs of the Celebrated Dwarf Joseph Boruwlaski, a Polish Gentleman (Paperback): Józef 1739-1837 Borusawski, S. Freeman The Memoirs of the Celebrated Dwarf Joseph Boruwlaski, a Polish Gentleman (Paperback)
Józef 1739-1837 Borusawski, S. Freeman
R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rethinking the Romantic Era - Androgynous Subjectivity and the Recreative in the Writings of Mary Robinson, Samuel Taylor... Rethinking the Romantic Era - Androgynous Subjectivity and the Recreative in the Writings of Mary Robinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mary Shelley (Paperback)
Kathryn S. Freeman
R1,213 Discovery Miles 12 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Focusing on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Robinson and Mary Shelley, this book uses key concepts of androgyny, subjectivity and the re-creative as a productive framework to trace the fascinating textual interactions and dialogues among these authors. It crosses the boundary between male and female writers of the Romantic period by linking representations of gender with late Enlightenment upheavals regarding creativity and subjectivity, demonstrating how these interrelated concerns dismantle traditional binaries separating the canonical and the noncanonical; male and female; poetry and prose; good and evil; subject and object. Through the convergences among the writings of Coleridge, Mary Robinson, and Mary Shelley, the book argues that each dismantles and reconfigures subjectivity as androgynous and amoral, subverting the centrality of the male gaze associated with canonical Romanticism. In doing so, it examines key works from each author's oeuvre, from Coleridge's "canonical" poems such as Rime of the Ancient Mariner, through Robinson's lyrical poetry and novels such as Walsingham, to Mary Shelley's fiction, including Frankenstein, Mathilda, and The Last Man.

A New Dictionary of Eponyms (Hardcover, New): Morton S. Freeman A New Dictionary of Eponyms (Hardcover, New)
Morton S. Freeman
R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Do you approve of censoring the works of great writers? Some might contend that to bowdlerize a great writer's work would be to diminish its overall quality. Others, like Thomas Bowdler, whose eraser danced over every Shakespeare play, would argue that all modest people should be able to read a great work without blushing. For attacking the classics, Mr. Bowdler has been immortalized as the world's best-known, self-appointed literary censor. And because of his efforts the term bowdlerize has become eponymous with his name. Alternatively, the word bikini--defined as a two- piece bathing suit for women--has been a linguistic mystery since 1947 when these suits were first seen on the beaches of the French Riviera, a year after the United States began testing atom bombs on the Bikini atoll of the Marshall Islands. Some shocked people said that the impact of the scanty swimsuit on male beach loungers was like the devastating effect of the atomic bomb. Whoosh! A simpler and more credible notion is that the daring swimsuits resembled the attire worn by women on the Bikini atoll.

Created about a century ago, the term eponym is itself a coinage from two Greek words, epi, "on" or "upon," and onama, "a name." But its broadened meaning, as dictionaries set it out, refers to a word derived from a proper name. For instance, Salisbury steak--a popular diner menu item created from common hamburger and dressed up with brown gravy to make it more appealing--is named for James H. Salisbury, an English physician who promoted a diet of ground beef.

A Dictionary of Eponyms explores the origins of hundreds of these everyday words from Argyle socks to zeppelins. Written in an entertaining and anecdotal style, and with a foreword by Edwin Newman, the book includes a brief biography of the individual whose name became associated with an item or concept as well as information on how and when the name entered the language.

If you've ever wondered just where terms like cardigan sweater, pamphlet, and robot come from, Morton Freeman does more than simply define them--he brings them to life.

The Path to Your Career Purpose - Find and Live the Life of Fulfilling Work You Were Meant to Do (Paperback): Ashley S Freeman The Path to Your Career Purpose - Find and Live the Life of Fulfilling Work You Were Meant to Do (Paperback)
Ashley S Freeman
R582 Discovery Miles 5 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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