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World English English is spoken by more than a billion people worldwide. And from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Portsmouth, England, to Papua New Guinea, wherever it is spoken, the English language is enriched by its diverse speakers. The first A-to-Z reference to English diction in all its flavors, hues, tones, and timbres, World English is your best hedge against this increasingly common cause of vocabulary-induced bumfuzzlement. World English contains almost 3,000 carefully selected words and phrases culled from fifty regional variations on the English-language theme. Each entry includes a concise definition and the term's region of origin, and many offer an example sentence showing how the word is used.
Remembering Randall When Randall Jarrell died in 1965, he left a critically acclaimed body of poetry, fiction, and criticism that has earned him a permanent place in the pantheon of American letters. A Library of Congress Poet Laureate and National Book Award winner, he had a formidable intellect and wit that endeared him to, or infuriated, the finest minds of his day. Now, in the nine essays collected in Remembering Randall, his widow, Mary von Schrader Jarrell, offers a distinctive portrait of the esteemed poet-critic as only she could have known him.
Editors on Editing Since 1962 Editors on Editing has been an indispensable guide for editors, would-be editors, and especially writers who want to understand the publishing process. In this completely revised edition, thirty-nine of America's most distinguished editors write with insight and candor about both the practical and the theoretical aspects of publishing. Editors on Editing includes essays on the ethical and moral dimensions of editing; how books are chosen; what an editor looks for in a query letter, proposal, and manuscript; line editing, copy editing, and free-lance editing; making the most of writers' conferences; and the question of "political correctness."
The Faber Book of Utopias Every age has its utopias, form Plato's Republic to contemporary sci-fi visions. These imaginary societies give an alternative map of human history, as they respond, often in bizarre ways, to the real. The sixteenth-century voyages of discovery, the explosion of radical thinking in the English Civil War, the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the birth of Socialism, the dawn of experimental science: each thought movement produced its predictions - gloomy, giddy or repressive - of possible states and other worlds. The Faber Book of Utopias encompasses some noble and selfless schemes, lofty in their estimate of human potential. But the history of utopias is also spine-chilling in the trail of folly and tyranny it uncovers.
The Russians The Russians, still one of the most numerous and powerful peoples on earth, have undergone an historical development whose direction and destiny continue to fascinate after more than 1100 years. This book represents an exploration of the ancient roots and subsequent transformations of their cultural history. The Russians provides a wide-ranging and original exploration of the Russian cultural experience and contributes to our understanding of controversial matters of ethnicity and historical identity with its underlying theme of the meaning of 'Russianness' at both a collective and a personal level.
Spanish Lessons: Beginning a New Life in Spain In Spanish Lessons, Journalist Derek Lambert recounts his first year in Spain with affection for the country and its people, an unerring eye for the distinctive traits of Spanish village life, and a wry, self-deprecating wit that lends his story frequent hilarity. After a too friendly realtor books him into a "hotel" that turns out to be a brothel, Lambert and his wife are shown a moldering white casita in a citrus grove that wins their hearts. Taking charge of the restoration of their new home, Lambert hires a roofer with a fear of heights, a plumber who is confounded by a blocked pipe, and a plasterer who can't work without a blaring boom box. Unpredictable, filled with humorous incidents, and animated by memorable characters, Spanish Lessons presents a delightful portrait of off-the-tourist-track Spain. |
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The Origins of Empire The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. Volume I of the series explores the origins of empire. Leading historians show how and why England, and later Britain, became involved with transoceanic navigation, trade, and settlement during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Origins of Empire illustrates the interconnections between developments in Europe and overseas, the ethical issues raised by encounters with peoples previously unknown to Europeans, and the ways in which colonist struggled to justify their conduct and activities.
The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams A searing book as powerful as the life experience that inspired it, the Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams transports readers to the majestic landscapes and hard Native American lives of the desert Southwest. Born to a storytelling Neative mother and a roughneck, song-singing father, Nasdijj has always lived at the jagged-edged margins of society, yet hardship and isolation have only brought him greater clarity; a gift for language and a voice of searching honesty. In a prose style that could almost be chanted, Nasdijj writes of his adopted son, Tommy Nothing Fancy, and of his own chaotic childhood; of his struggles between two cultures and his pursuit of the writing life, as a lifeline.
Signposts in a Strange Land At his death in 1990, Walker Percy left a considerable legacy of uncollected nonfiction. Assembled in Signposts in a Strange Land, these essays on language, literature, philosophy, religion, psychiatry, morality, and life and letters in the South display the imaginative versatility of a brilliant, unique, searching American writer. Walker Percy is the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction. He was awarded numerous prizes during his lifetime, including the National Book Award, and is recognized as one of the greatest American writers of our time.
Yonnondio: From the Thirties Yonnondio tells the story of the Holbrook family as they migrate from coal-mining town to farm to industrial city, struggling for a more tolerable existence. Their lives, made unforgettably real, reveal both the maiming power of circumstance and the sources of human endurance and hope. Anna Holbrook, the mother of the family, emerges as one of the most believable and enduring women in American literature. Although set in the Depression era of the thirties, this is a book both timeless and hauntingly timely.
Three Women Suzanne Blume has known success and disappointment in equal measure. A respected lawyer who survived tow marriages and put two children through college, she now faces the disquieting prospect of her wayward older daughter moving back home. But more troubling still is the news that her mother, a woman of legendary independence who has never truly accepted her daughter nor approved of her choices, has been felled by age and illness. And, for the first time in her life, she needs Suzanne's help. Intertwining the lives of three generations of contemporary women, master storyteller Marge Piercy plunges into the deepest, most elemental basics of life, love, aging, illness, and death; and emerges with a brave, compassionate exploration of the volatile ground between mothers and daughters.
Too Far Afield Two old men roam through Berlin observing life after the fall of the Wall in 1989. Theo Wuttke, a former East German functionary, and Ludwig Hoftaller, a mid-level spy of uncertain loyalties, see what the future is bringing as they try to save what they can from the past and understand the meaning of being German. Their relationship underscores this complex exploration of what Germany's reunification and emergence as a potent economic force will mean, for Germans, for Europe, and for the world. A masterwork from one of Europe's greatest writers, and laced with pain and humor in equal measure, Too Far Afield is written with all the wit, fantasy, erudition, and political acerbity for which Grass is justly celebrated. |
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