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Author: William J. Dominik Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers ISBN: 0865164851 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 314
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Unlike most etymology textbooks, this one presents the words studied in the context of the ideas in which the words functioned. Instead of studying endless lists of word roots, suffixes, and prefixes in isolation, the words are enlivened by their social, literary, and cultural media. Features: Chapters on Mythology, Medicine, Politics and Law, Commerce and Economics, Philosophy and Psychology, History Introduction to word building Exercises throughout Illustrations of ancient artifacts Clever cartoons on word origins Glossary of English words and phrases.
Author: William J. Dominik Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers ISBN: 0865164851 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 314
Book Description
Unlike most etymology textbooks, this one presents the words studied in the context of the ideas in which the words functioned. Instead of studying endless lists of word roots, suffixes, and prefixes in isolation, the words are enlivened by their social, literary, and cultural media. Features: Chapters on Mythology, Medicine, Politics and Law, Commerce and Economics, Philosophy and Psychology, History Introduction to word building Exercises throughout Illustrations of ancient artifacts Clever cartoons on word origins Glossary of English words and phrases.
Author: Elise Hancock Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 0801881323 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 186
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"I am so proud to be Elise's student. Read this book and I suspect you will be too."—from the foreword by Robert Kanigel, author of The Man Who Knew Infinity From the latest breakthroughs in medical research and information technologies to new discoveries about the diversity of life on earth, science is becoming both more specialized and more relevant. Consequently, the need for writers who can clarify these breakthroughs and discoveries for the general public has become acute. In Ideas into Words, Elise Hancock, a professional writer and editor with thirty years of experience, provides both novice and seasoned science writers with the practical advice and canny insights they need to take their craft to the next level. Rich with real-life examples and anecdotes, this book covers the essentials of science writing: finding story ideas, learning the science, opening and shaping a piece, polishing drafts, overcoming blocks, and conducting interviews with scientists and other experts who may not be accustomed to making their ideas understandable to lay readers. Hancock's wisdom will prove useful to anyone pursuing nonfiction writing as a career. She devotes an entire chapter to habits and attitudes that writers should cultivate, another to structure, and a third to the art of revision. Some of her advice is surprising (she cautions against slavish use of transitions, for example); all of it is hard-earned, astute, and wittily conveyed. This concise guide is essential reading for every writer attempting to explain the world of science to the rest of us.
Author: Christopher Gauker Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199599467 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 315
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For centuries philosophers have attempted to derive concepts from perceptual representations but have failed to explain how the mind generates the building blocks of thought. Gauker addresses this problem in a new account of imagistic cognition. He shows that much of cognition occurs by means of mental imagery, without the help of concepts.
Author: Rix Quinn Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing ISBN: 9781602648739 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 114
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"Words That Stick" is a book for students and professionals who hate to write. It divides writing into four problem areas: the heading or title; the first sentence; transitional sentences and paragraphs; and the conclusion. Then, it shows you how to overcome each problem.In this short, entertaining book you'll find: 51 ways to create a title or heading; 11 ways to write better (almost) instantly; the secret of transitional paragraphs; and 30 ways to conclude your story.
Author: Tasha Tropp Laman Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books ISBN: 9780325043609 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 0
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A comprehensive guide to working with any English language learner (ELL) student writer. Provides insight and practical tips for getting ELL students writing, even if they are at the very beginning stages of English language acquisition. Each chapter is stocked with specific tools and strategies that help make writing instruction meet the needs of multilingual writers; illustrated classroom vignettes and samples of children's writing; and student observations and planning notes based on the information in that chapter. Includes advice on creating a classroom environment that supports ELL writers, building a community that promotes risk taking and values different experiences, creating whole group minilessons that meet the needs of emerging and fluent ELLs, scaffolding independent practice for a wide variety of ELLs, scaffolding writing conferences with tools based on ELL students' writing and language needs, facilitating and encouraging students to share and reflect.
Author: Fritz-Gregor Herrmann Publisher: Classical Press of Wales ISBN: 1910589446 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 368
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Plato did not create his philosophy ex nihilo, but rather drew on four centuries of literary production in epic and lyric poetry, on ethnography and historiography, tragedy and comedy, medical and mathematical research, oratory and rhetorical theory, as well as on Presocratic philosophy. Words & Ideas offers a study of Plato's philosophical language against this cultural background, retracing to their origins the history and development of the key terms of the Theory of Forms as presented in the Phaedo. 'Form' or 'idea', 'ousia' or 'being', 'participation', 'presence' and 'community' are among the concepts investigated. The aim is to determine both the connotations of Plato's philosophical terms and the precise historical and philosophical contexts on which Plato drew in the formulation of his thoughts. In tracing the roots of Plato's philosophy, Words & Ideas demarcates afresh Plato's position regarding the protagonists of pre-Socratic philosophy: Parmenides and the Eleatics, Anaxagoras and Diogenes of Apollonia, Leucippus and Democritus, Philolaus and the Pythagoreans. This identifcation of his sources allows us, in many cases for the first time, to judge what in the arguments of the dialogues is Plato's own contribution and what is there only as part of a philosophical or pre-philosophical inheritance.
Author: Lotfi A. Zadeh Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3642274730 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 142
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In essence, Computing with Words (CWW) is a system of computation in which the objects of computation are predominantly words, phrases and propositions drawn from a natural language. CWW is based on fuzzy logic. In science there is a deep-seated tradition of according much more respect to numbers than to words. In a fundamental way, CWW is a challenge to this tradition. What is not widely recognized is that, today, words are used in place of numbers in a wide variety of applications ranging from digital cameras and household appliances to fraud detection systems, biomedical instrumentation and subway trains. CWW offers a unique capability—the capability to precisiate natural language. Unprecisiated (raw) natural language cannot be computed with. A key concept which underlies precisiation of meaning is that of the meaning postulate: A proposition, p, is a restriction on the values which a variable, X—a variable which is implicit in p—is allowed to take. CWW has an important ramification for mathematics. Addition of the formalism of CWW to mathematics empowers mathematics to construct mathematical solutions of computational problems which are stated in a natural language. Traditional mathematics does not have this capability.
Author: Publisher: Silver Dolphin Books ISBN: 9781684120239 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Introduce your little ones to animals with this early learning book! Bright pictures and labels encourage children to look, point, and learn as they are introduced to 100 animal words! With adorable illustrations by Dawn Machell and a padded cover format, 100 Animal Words is the perfect book for little learners.
Author: William J. Dominik
Author: William J. Dominik
Author: Elise Hancock
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Author: Christopher Gauker
Author: Rix Quinn
Author: Tasha Tropp Laman
Author: Fritz-Gregor Herrmann
Author: Lotfi A. Zadeh
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