The Catcher in the Rye: CliffsNotes

The Catcher in the Rye: CliffsNotes
by Stanley P. Baldwin (Author), Nick Podehl (Narrator)
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Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary (Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries)

Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary (Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries)
Alison Findlay (Author)

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This is a comprehensive reference guide examining the language employed by Shakespeare to represent women in the full range of his poetry and plays. Including over 350 entries, Alison Findlay shows the role of women within Shakespearean drama, their representations on the Shakespearean stage, and their place in Shakespeare’s personal and professional lives.

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• Published on: 2014-04-24
• Original language: English
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• 568 pages

Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity

Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity
Angelo Di Berardino (Editor), Thomas C. Oden (Consultant Editor), Joel C. Elowsky (Consultant Editor), James Hoover (Consultant Editor)

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This 3-volume encyclopedia, produced by the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, comprises 3,220 entries by a team of 266 scholars from 26 countries, covering 8 centuries of the Christian church and addressing such topics as archaeology, art and architecture, biography, culture, doctrine, ecclesiology, geography, history, philosophy, and theology. The Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity includes:

• Unparalleled, comprehensive coverage of persons, places and ideas from ancient Christianity, including:
• cultural currents
• events and movements
• philosophy
• iconography and architecture
• archaeology
• texts and translations
• theological terms
• doctrines
• liturgy
• spirituality
• monasticism
• Christian sects
• heresies
• controversies
• councils
• A-Z coverage from "Aaron (iconography)" to "Zosimus, pope"
• 3,220 articles by 266 contributors from 26 countries (and representing a variety of Christian traditions
• Chronological coverage extending from Christian origins to Bede (d. 735) in the West and John of Damascus (d. ca. 749) in the Greek East
• Detailed emphasis on the first 4 centuries of Christian history
• Geographical coverage including
• North Africa
• Mauretania
• Numidia
• Africa Proconsularis Byzacena
• Libya
• Egypt
• Nubia
• Ethiopia
• Asia
• Adiabene
• Armenia
• Bithynia & Pontus
• Georgia
• Cappadocia
• Lycia and Pamphylia
• Phrygia
• Syria
• Mesopotamia
• Arabia
• Palestine
• Persia
• China
• Europe
• Gaul
• Spain & Portugal
• Italy
• Germany
• Britain and Ireland
• Scotland
• Pannonia
• Dalmatia
• Macedonia
• Moesia
• Thrace
• Cyprus
• Crete
• Updates and expands on previous Italian and English-language editions with the addition of more than 500 articles, including the following 30 articles exclusive to this new English-language edition:
• apostolic see
• Capua
• Carmen de synodo Ticinensi
• China
• cosmopolitanism
• death
• diakonia/diaconate
• Dialogi de sancta Trinitate IV-V
• doorkeeper (porter)
• dynamis/energeia
• eternity
• forgiveness
• freedom/free will
• good
• Hierotheus
• incubatio
• infinity/infinitude
• libelli miraculorum
• love
• Mara bar Serapion (letter of)
• oikeiosis
• old age
• presanctified
• Serapeion (Serapeum)
• subdeacon
• Theosebia
• Triumphus Christi heroicus
• Tychon
• unity
• Virgo Parens
• Extensive cross-referencing for ease in exploring related articles
• Helpful bibliographies, including primary sources (texts, critical editions, translations) and key secondary sources (books and journal articles)
• Translated from Nuovo dizionario patristico e di antichita  cristiane (2006-us.html08), produced by the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, the world's foremost center for partristic studies, under the direction of Professor Angelo Di Berardino
• Updates and expands on Oxford/James Clarke Encyclopedia of the Early Church
(1992)

The Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity is packaged and sold primarily as a three-volume set. For exceptions, please telephone or email to InterVarsity Press.

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• Published on: 2014-03-28
• Original language: English
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• 3057 pages

The Elements of Style, Annotated and Updated for Present-Day Use

The Elements of Style, Annotated and Updated for Present-Day Use
William Strunk Jr. (Author), Stanford Pritchard (Author)
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ABOUT THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE:
UPDATED FOR PRESENT-DAY USE

“The ancients wrote at a time when the great art of writing badly had not yet been invented. In those days to write at all meant to write well.” – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.

I was originally born in Ohio....

Well, that's interesting, I thought, as I absentmindedly listened to the sports announcer on the radio.

Wait! STOP! "I was ORIGINALLY BORN IN OHIO..."?

Well, gosh. Where were you born after THAT?

Then there are the baseball commentators who routinely say things like: "If he makes that play, the run may not have scored."

Well, again, wait just a minute. "If he MAKES that play...." But the play is already over. Why is the sentence in the present tense? "...The run may not have scored." But it DID score, so in this case, the proper word is "might," "MIGHT not have scored." A baseball announcer with any feeling for elementary good grammar would have said: "If he had made that play, the run might not have scored."

Oh, and then there are little niceties like this: "If I'm the Dallas Cowboys, I gotta believe...." But you AREN'T the Dallas Cowboys, and besides, how could one person be an entire football organization?

Okay, okay, sports broadcasters are easy to pick on (though one wonders why sports announcers, who are paid to speak, can't speak clearly, grammatically, and well).

The problem is -- and it's the problem squarely confronted in this book -- that such loose, breezy, and ungrammatical language is epidemic in print, too. Newspapers and magazines are full of clichés and buzzwords, and there's not one writer in ten who understands that difference between "lay" and "lie." If you have a friend who goes duck hunting, and s/he gives you a bunch of down, you might want to LAY the down on your mattress. Similarly, you LAY turf in the yard, or LAY bricks in the patio. But when you take to your bed for a nap, you LIE down. (The issue is clarified in this book.)
Language, whether spoken or written, is like a game, and like all games, it has rules. Now, "rules" does not have to be a scary word, and we all know that in language, the rules are constantly changing. "Ain't" was once a fairly common, and unremarkable, word, but nowadays, the President cannot use "ain't" in a State of the Union address; that's just the way the game is currently played. Furthermore, we judge language, whether spoken or written, by how well it accomplishes its ends within the agreed-upon rules. (On the subject of games without rules, Robert Frost said, apropos free verse: "I would as soon play tennis with the net down.")

There are many rules, formal and informal, and many little distinctions, to be learned, in language, and the author considers it fun, rather than a chore, to learn them. What is the difference between "loath" and "loathe"? When do we use "who," and when do we use "whom"? What is a gerund, what is apposition?

These, and many other niceties of language, are investigated and explained in this updating of William Strunk, Jr.'s classic work. The book is based on Strunk's original text of 1918, which he wrote for the use of his students at Cornell University; it proved to be a landmark. The book was revised and expanded by E.B. White, of New Yorker fame, in 1959, but it has had no significant update since 1979. And since that time, many little affronts (for some of us, insults) to the eye and ear have gotten into the language.

So here is a new edition of Strunk's classic work, with many of his rules and pronouncements expanded and explained; with new sections on proper usage and correct spelling; and even a "Rogue's Gallery" comprised of samples of egregious writing culled from current newspapers and magazines.

For anyone who will reflect on it, language is an ongoing, fascinating adventure. The author intends this book to make that adventure more rewarding, and more enjoyable.

Oh. The difference between "dryer" and "drier"? That, like so mu

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Zum Gluck. Die schonsten Zitate und Weisheiten zum Thema Gluck (German Edition)

Zum Gluck. Die schonsten Zitate und Weisheiten zum Thema Gluck (German Edition)
Laura Huber (Author)

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Das vorliegende Büchlein enthält – kurz und knackig – die schönsten Zitate, Aussprüche, Aphorismen und Weisheiten zum Thema Glück.
Zu Wort kommen bekannte Dichter und Denker, Schriftsteller und Philosophen.

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• Published on: 2014-02-01
• Released on: 2014-02-01
• Format: Kindle eBook

The Norton Introduction to Literature (Portable Tenth Edition)

The Norton Introduction to Literature (Portable Tenth Edition)
Alison Booth (Editor), Kelly J. Mays (Editor)
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Norton quality in a compact format and at a low price.

The Norton Introduction to Literature, Portable Tenth Edition, includes a diverse selection of literature that fits any course, balancing exciting contemporary pieces with perennially popular classics. The Portable Tenth Edition is more flexible, helpful, and innovative than ever, with new features that hone students’ reading, analytical, and writing skills.

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• Published on: 2010-09-28
• Format: Print
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 1375 pages

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Macbeth: Oxford School Shakespeare

Macbeth: Oxford School Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (Author), Roma Gill (Author)
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This edition of Macbeth is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes, allowing students to master Shakespeare's work.

About the Series:
Newly redesigned and easier to read, each play in the Oxford School Shakespeare series includes the complete and unabridged text, detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters. Also included is a wide range of questions and activities for work in class, together with the historical background to Shakespeare's England, a brief biography of Shakespeare, and a complete list of his plays.

• Rank: #8591 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.74" h x 6.50" w x .39" l, .55 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages