Member: mayreh
CollectionsYour library (1,426), Missing Book (1), Motion Picture Studio History (12), Military Atlases (1), Literary Criticism, Analysis, (14), Chemistry (9), Piano Music -Playable (56), Remembering Pamela (16), Military art and science - History (16), All collections (1,426)
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TagsWW II (166), Aeronautics (135), History (112), Fiction (77), Aircraft Markings (69), Reference (69), Art and Architecture (67), W and W (63), Ships (60), MUSIC (56) — see all tags
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About meJazz lover, ditto history and historiography. I also love (but bemoan the decay of) the
English written and spoken word. Items relevant to that concern I tag TEL for The English Language.
GroupsAerial Warfare, Art Books, Los Angeles Loves Librarything, Second World War History, The Great Gatsby
Favorite authorsWoody Allen, Maggie Balistreri, John Batchelor, Samuel Beckett, Jeremy Black, Marc Bloch, Jane Bowles, Albert Camus, Millicent Dillon, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rene J. Francillon, Bernard Harper Friedman, Ira Gitler, Mark C. Gridley, Alistair Horne, James Joyce, Malcolm V. Lowe, Wallace T. MacCaffrey, André Malraux, Leonard Maltin, David Mamet, Thomas Mann, Richard Mueller, Friedrich Nietzsche, Robert O. Paxton, Gordon W. Prange, Richard Rhodes, J. M. Roberts, Thucydides, Barbara W. Tuchman, Guy Wint, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)
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Favorite bookstoresAutobooks Aerobooks, Books on the Boulevard, Dragon Books, Last Grenadier, Portrait of a Bookstore
LocationLos Angeles
Account typepublic, lifetime
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http://www.librarything.com/profile/mayreh (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/mayreh (library)
Member sinceApr 3, 2008
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This is about the 'Series' identifications for the Essential Identification Guides (for Aircraft, Car, Submarine, Tank and Vehicle), by Amber Books. I am new to the 'Series' concept. I don't want to adversely affect anyone else. I have made some changes to the 'Series', under 'Common Knowledge' for some of my books. I may have affected your data. The series is 'Amber Books - Essential Identification Guides'. I have place the type (aircraft, vehicle, etc.) in the sequence area.
Please let me know your thoughts. I am very willing to make any changes needed.
This is being sent to members 'mayreh' and 'surly',
Terry
posted by TChesney at 3:36 pm (EST) on Aug 13, 2009
I got "The Evasion English Dictionary" for a class I was taking as an undergraduate. It was a course on linguistics, and the professor recommended that we read this book. After reading it, I found it just mind blowing! I never thought about the significance of all the meanings that a single expression may have. To be honest, before I read this little book, I didn't even consider the many facets of words like "like"! The book does show how the English language is evolving. People may not use the same words to express themselves as they did even a few decades back, but one can still see new modes of expression (ones that often rely on intonation and circumstance, it appears).
I thought it to be a very clever book. :)
posted by Aleksandra at 4:46 pm (EST) on May 13, 2008
posted by sorchah at 9:42 pm (EST) on May 6, 2008