Because youngsters delight in reading about characters with the same first names as their own, this guide is a great way to motivate them to read! It helps users locate books by character names. The approximately 2,000 entries have publication information, type of book (fiction, picture book, biography), number of pages, and a brief annotation. The books listed are found in most children's library collections, and many are award winners (e.g., Boston Globe-Horn Book, Jane Addams, Coretta Scott King, Caldecott, Newbery, state readers' choices) or are listed in Children's Catalog or Elementary School Library Collection.
Language in Theory is a comprehensive introduction to the conceptual frameworks which underpin the study of language. It approaches theories of language through themes such as gender, race, creativity and cognition, allowing students to investigate language theory in practice, and provides classic readings by key names including Cixous, Derrida, Foucault and Lakoff.
Dominic O'Brien won the title of World Memory Champion two years in a row, and also holds two Guinness records for memory. How does he do it? In this book, Dominic reveals his system and explains how it can help readers to remember names, faces, telephone numbers, learn languages and pass exams.
The dictionary provides explanations of the meaning and origins of generic and specific names of grasses, one of the largest and economically most important plant families. There are about 12,500 entries, which far exceed in number those of any other dictionary in print. Most of the names published during the past 250 years are included.
Throughout the family, the gross morphologies of plants conform to a relatively fixed pattern, thereby restricting the number of descriptive terms available from which to form generic or specific names. Accordingly, many taxa and especially species have names based on usage, locality or collector.
Because it is usually easier to remember a technical name once its meaning is known, this work should be of value to a wide audience, including ecologists, agronomists, and anthropologists. Others interested in the history of taxonomy, but not necessarily that of grasses, will find the dictionary a useful resource.
