Product Description: There is a constant popular fascination with names--what they mean, when they originated, where they come from. This edition of the classic work by Reaney and Wilson will be the primary resource for anyone who is interested in the etymology of names. It gives the meanings of over 16,000 English surnames and their variants, together with early forms and their sources and dates.
This is a book about (among other things) information and entropy, cybernetics and thermodynamics, mailing lists and talk shows, the electronic Ummah and chaos theory, web rings and web logs, mobile robots, cellular automata and the New Economy, open-source programming and reality TV, masses and multitudes, communication management and information warfare, networked political movements, open architecture, image flows and the interplay of affects and meanings in the constitution of the common.
It is a book, that is, about a cultural formation, a network culture, that seems to be characterized by an unprecedented abundance of informational output and by an acceleration of informational dynamics.
Цель пособия - помочь изучающим английский язык в правильном употреблении слов со схожими значениями. Множество упражнений развивает навыки использования синонимов в том или ином контексте.
Уровень - advanced.
Authoritative and probably the most popular Arabic-English dictionary. An indispensable tool for students, researchers and translators. Contains more than 100,000 Arabic words and their English meanings.
"Origins: An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English" by Eric Partridge
A "must have" book.
If you love the English language and are truly very curious about the meanings of its words as reflected in the evolution of its origins and meanings, this is a "must have" book. I have used the 1966 issue of it for years now, and rate it more useful, although a companion book, to the seminal work of Walter Skeat. No library can realistically be said to be complete,nor can any lover of the English language, without both of these works.
