• Anglický jazyk

A Reader's Companion

Autor: John L. Bowman

This book was written to help avid readers expand their vocabularies with commonly encountered literary, Latin, historic and philosophic words and phrases. It includes:

· Words such as sciolist, millenarianism, hermeneutics,... Viac o knihe

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O knihe

This book was written to help avid readers expand their vocabularies with commonly encountered literary, Latin, historic and philosophic words and phrases. It includes:

· Words such as sciolist, millenarianism, hermeneutics, apodictic, parturient, antistasis, latitudinarian, charybdis, pantagruelian, doxa, anoesis, zugzwang, morosoph, phenomenology, quondam, eldritch and stochastic.
· Latin phrases like vae victis, margaritas ante porcos, and memento mori.
· Root words including ruth (for ruthless).
· Enlightening word comparisons like putative, purported and ostensible.
· Proper words such as Muses, who they were and what each represents.
· Historic phrases like "crossing the Rubicon" and to "go to Canossa".

  • Vydavateľstvo: iUniverse
  • Rok vydania: 2007
  • Formát: Paperback
  • Rozmer: 229 x 152 mm
  • Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
  • ISBN: 9780595452668

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