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Who's Who in Classical Mythology
With more than 1,200 entries, this dictionary-style guide is the most comprehensive source available for everything you'd like to know about the giants--and lesser-known characters --of classical Greek and Roman mythology. Seven appendixes, a complete bibliography, and detailed black-and-white reproductions of related scenes taken from painted ceramics of the period complement this concise, readable reference to the heroic undertakings, noble and moving loving stories, and poignant tales of the ancient world.
Place-Name Changes, 1900-1991
New in paperback! Contains over 4,500 name changes worldwide, ranging from small villages to entire countries. Reference libraries will find this a most useful acquisition as it will serve as an authoritatively written gazetteer. --LIBRARY ASSOCIATION RECORD Paperback edition available August 2002.
A Dictionary of Music Titles
The title of a great musical composition is not always a clear or simple matter. An allusive title, particularly in a foreign language, or a title that does not seem related to the work, can confuse even the most devoted music lover. Here are histories of the creation of 3,500 titles for symphonies, operas, oratorios, ballets, orchestral works, choral works, chamber music, keyboard compositions, and songs, ranging from the popular to the obscure. Each entry (arranged by English, French, German, Italian or Spanish title) includes alternate titles where appropriate, the composer's name, date of composition and first performance, opus number where appropriate, a description of the work, and the origin of the title or any story behind it. A bibliography and an index conclude the work.
Dictionary of Sports and Games Terminology
The specialized jargon of some sports can be quite esoteric. Non-Americans, for example, are likely puzzled by baseball terms such as bunt, cut-off man, and safety squeeze, while the non-British may pause over cricket's Chinaman, doosra, golden duck, off-break, popping crease, and yorker. This new dictionary gives the definitions of more than 8,000 terms used in sports and games from around the world, including mainstream sports like basketball and billiards alongside the more obscure netball and snooker. Entries cover sports equipment, strategies, venues, qualifying categories, awards, and administrative bodies, while a comprehensive system of cross-references offers assistance and clarification when needed. An appendix lists standard abbreviations of sports ruling bodies and administrative organizations.
The Penguin Dictionary of British Place Names
A comprehensive A-Z guide to the meaning and history of 6000 place name from England, Scotland and Wales. Unlocking the meaning of a place namecan provide fasinating insights into the history and development of a community. A place name can tell us when a town was founded, who founded it what the surrounding countryside was like and even which animals lived there. This dictionary provides the key. Covering names of countries, regions, cities, towns, suburbs, villages and rivers. In each case it explains precisely the place names means, what language it is derived from (for example, Anglo-Saxon, Celtic) and when it was first recorded and provides a host of background details. The dictionary also explains the meaning and significance of comman elements in place names (for example, ham) and includes a number of maps.
Dictionary of Confusable Words
This book is directed at the Norm Crosby and Professor Irwin Corey in everyone. While the first confusing pair this reviewer looked up, inquire/Enquirer, was not to be found, and while most of the entries seem unconfusing to this rather-educated mind, perhaps this book will be of use to newer speakers of English and to those whose activities include little reading and writing. And, on the opposite side, the book might be consulted by the lexically meticulous, those worrying, for example, about using summary and synopsis as synonyms. A couple items of interest are paean/paeon, the first, a song of praise, the second a metrical unit of four syllables, and that furious foursome, perceptive/percipient/perspicacious/perspicuous which this reviewer leaves to the perspective to dessicate. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Waking Up To You
What if your mortal enemy, the biggest and meanest bully in school, became your stepbrother and ended up falling for you? Could you ever forgive him? Lili Lang's lie-low high school life was about to change forever when she became the target of the scariest bully group. Due to a twist of fate, the leader, Adrian Han, became her stepbrother. Things got more interesting when the most popular boy, who transferred from London, turned out to be her childhood friend. Caught between the two alpha males and the girls who are jealous of her, will Lili survive her senior year?
To Be Loved
Even in early adolescence, Jordan Rivers knew he was different. When he meets Jericho Diggs in Jr. High, their friendship appears normal but is laced with feelings neither can yet fully understand. When JerichoÍs father, a well-known pastor in Vicksburg, Mississippi, discovers the many letters the boys have sent to each other, he mercilessly beats Jericho with an extension cord and leaves the room without a word. This episode begins a pattern of secrets, shame, and violence that nearly rips JerichoÍs family apart and ultimately sends Jericho and Jordan down two very different paths. Jordan finds himself at Jackson State University searching for a love like the one he was never able to have with Jericho, and Jericho finds himself in Atlanta, Georgia, in pursuit of picket-fenced dreams, with a wife, child and a few men on the side. Years pass. Things change. Fate, it seems, crosses their paths a second time. The question is, ñwill they let love walk away twice?î
Room's Dictionary of Confusibles
A new-style dictionary that sorts out those annoying words, alike in sound and related in meaning, that so frequently get misused and confused. Covering a wide range of words, this dictionary lists approximately 800 pairs or larger groups of confusibles, also giving examples of their correct, and sometimes incorrect, usage and, in many cases, an explanation of their origin. An introduction explains how a confusible arises, and an Appendix lists many of the prefixes and suffixes that, in more than a few words, serve only to compound the confusion. In short, this dictionary seeks to define, distinguish and differentiate. It is felt, too, that it will distract, divert and even delight.
The Ballad Untold
Handsome Rob Baron had a keen eye for business, yet maintained a conservative approach to life. His wife, Julia, with her fiery red hair and emerald green eyes possessed a marketing mind and a writer's sense of creativity, which caused her to view life from a different perspective. They pooled their resources and entered a new chapter of their lives as owners of The Madera Market. The pair soon discovered that their dream of business ownership had turned into a nightmare so powerful it kept drawing Julia deeper and deeper towards its vortex, one horrific dream sequence at a time. There were singular events in Julia Baron's life that seemed innocuous, leaving little cause for her personal con...
