Household Words

Author : Joan Silber
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393328236
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Household Words: A Novel written by Joan Silber and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The year is 1940, and Rhoda Taber is pregnant with her first child. The daughter of immigrants, she is well satisfied with the comforts of the suburbs and her reliable husband - but an untimely death, an unexpected illness, and bitter discord at home unravel her expectations. What begins as a cozy family novel becomes an unsettling chronicle, shattering and majestic in its effects, without ever losing its wry touches of humor."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Stephanie Ann Smith
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816645534
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Household Words written by Stephanie Ann Smith and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking in detail at words that “treat people as things, and things as people, and do so at that strange space where joking, ridiculing, demeaning, oppressing, resisting, and regretting converge,” Household Words is a study of how certain words act as indices of political and social change, perpetuating anxieties and prejudices even as those ways of thinking have been seemingly resolved or overcome by history. Specifically, Stephanie A. Smith examines six words—bloomer, sucker, bombshell, scab, nigger, and cyber—and explores how these words with their contemporary “universal” meaning appeal to a dangerous idea about what it means to be human, an idea that denies our history of conflict. She traces “bombshell” from Marilyn Monroe through women’s liberation and the sexual revolution to Monica Lewinsky, “scab” from blemish to strikebreaker, “sucker” from lollipop to the routinely cheated. Exposing the ambiguities in each of the words, Smith reveals that our language is communal and cutting, democratic and discriminatory, social and psychological. Stephanie A. Smith is associate professor of English at the University of Florida and the author of Conceived by Liberty: Maternal Figures and Nineteenth-Century American Literature as well as three novels.

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Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9781452167039
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House: First Words Board Books written by and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the ideal kind of kid-design, smartly conceived to appeal to and engage little readers, and requiring no explanation or instructions. —The New York Times With five books to read and enjoy, House is an interactive read-aloud box set that allows for imaginative play. Little readers will have fun as they identify objects inside a house then play with and arrange the books and box like a puzzle. This set of five board books encourages reading and promotes early learning, while helping babies and toddlers develop vocabulary, fine motor skills and pattern recognition. From award-winning artist, illustrator, and character designer Michael Slack • Five books in one boxed set • Fun book and playset for babies and toddlers; allows for open-ended play • Designed to promote early learning, pattern recognition, language acquisition, and fine-motor skills Fans of First Words (Bright Baby), Tabbed Board Books: My First Words: Let's Get Talking! (My First Tabbed Board Book), and First 100 Words will love this book. • Makes a great baby shower gift • Artists, designers, architects, and collectors will love the visually distinctive packaging, modern aesthetic and artistic style • Ideal first words board book for babies

Author : Paul Dickson
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 048683722X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words from the White House written by Paul Dickson and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertaining, eminently readable volume compiles words and phrases coined or popularized by American presidents. Alphabetical listings feature a definition and (usually) a brief discussion that places them in historical context.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Household Words written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Household Words written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Household Words written by Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. Gurney Benham
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3846047627
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Book of Quotations written by W. Gurney Benham and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1914.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selections from Household Words; a Weekly Journal written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Household Words written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains volumes 18 and 19 of Household words. An article titled "Sarawak" is included on pages 130-136 of volume 18. The article is a brief biography of Sir James Brooke and how he became the Rajah of Sarawa, Borneo.