PDF Books World offers free eBooks on fiction, non-fiction, academic, textbooks and children's categories for download online in high quality PDF format.
Summary Book Review Defining Noah Webster by K. Alan Snyder:
Download or read book Defining Noah Webster written by K. Alan Snyder and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Summary Book Review Noah Webster and the American Dictionary by David Micklethwait:
Download or read book Noah Webster and the American Dictionary written by David Micklethwait and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-01-21 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Noah Webster was described by the publisher of a competing dictionary as "a vain ... plodding Yankee, who aspired to be a second Johnson"--a criticism that rings mostly true. He was certainly vain and, born in Connecticut, undeniably a Yankee. Moreover, though he referred to Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language as a "barren desart of philology," the American lexicographer relied heavily on the book during the creation of his own American Dictionary, going so far as to filch whole sections. And few would seem more "plodding" than Webster, who was positively obsessed with collecting and preserving bits of information. He kept records of the weather, carefully logged the number of houses in every new town he passed through, filed away every scrap of his writing and everything written about him, and filled the margins of his books with references, dates and corrections. The proud Yankee's sensibilities, however, also made him a fine lexicographer. Generally credited with distinguishing American spelling and usage from British, Webster shunned prescriptive mores and was doggedly loyal to his own language habits, as well as to those of the average American speaker. The book covers Webster's major publications and the influences and methods that shaped them; recounts his life as schoolteacher, copyright law champion, and itinerant lecturer; and examines the Webster legacy. An appendix containing title page reproductions from Webster's books, as well as some from his predecessors and competitors, is also included.
Summary Book Review Noah Webster's Reading Handbook by Darrel Trulson:
Download or read book Noah Webster's Reading Handbook written by Darrel Trulson and published by Christian Liberty Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: This historic text has been updated. The blends and words in this reader are arranged to correlate with the sequence in which the special phonics sounds are taught. This reader is an invaluable teaching tool for children who need extra practice in the application of phonics rules.
Summary Book Review Noah Webster's American Spelling Book by Noah Webster:
Download or read book Noah Webster's American Spelling Book written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Summary Book Review Noah Webster by Catherine Reef:
Download or read book Noah Webster written by Catherine Reef and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: An upper-middle-grade biography on Noah Webster, a controversial political activist, the primary shaper of the American language, and author of the famous dictionary that bears his name. Illustrated with archival images.
Summary Book Review Noah Webster by Pegi Deitz Shea:
Download or read book Noah Webster written by Pegi Deitz Shea and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: This picture book celebrates one of the most important patriots in post-Revolutionary times -- Noah Webster. Most readers know Noah Webster for his dictionary masterpieces and his promotion of a living "American Language" that embraces words and idioms from all its immigrant peoples. But he was also the driving force behind universal education for all citizens, including slaves, females, and adult learners. Speaker of twenty languages, he developed the new country's curriculum, writing and publishing American literature, American history, and American geography. He published New York City's first daily newspaper. As editor, Webster conducted a study and linked disease with poor sanitation. He created the country's first insurance company, established America's first copyright law, and became America's first best-selling author. NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book
Summary Book Review Noah Webster's Fighting Words by Tracy Nelson Maurer:
Download or read book Noah Webster's Fighting Words written by Tracy Nelson Maurer and published by Millbrook Press ™. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Noah Webster, famous for writing the first dictionary of the English language as spoken in the United States, was known in his day for his bold ideas and strong opinions about, well, everything. Spelling, politics, laws, you name it—he had something to say about it. He even commented on his own opinions! With a red pencil in hand, Noah often marked up work that he had already published. So who edited this book? It certainly looks like the ghost of the great American author and patriot picked up a pencil once again to comment on his own biography!
Summary Book Review Noah Webster and His Words by Jeri Ferris:
Download or read book Noah Webster and His Words written by Jeri Ferris and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: A portrait of the man who wrote the first U.S. dictionary traces his youth as a bookish Connecticut farm boy and his 20-year effort to write the 2,000-page, all-American dictionary that was published in 1828 when he was 70 years old, in an account complemented by an illustrated chronology. 15,000 first printing.
Summary Book Review Noah Webster's Early American History by Www Jacobabbott Com:
Download or read book Noah Webster's Early American History written by Www Jacobabbott Com and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Summary Book Review The Long Journey of Noah Webster by Richard M. Rollins:
Download or read book The Long Journey of Noah Webster written by Richard M. Rollins and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Summary Book Review Noah Webster's First Edition of An American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster:
Download or read book Noah Webster's First Edition of An American Dictionary of the English Language written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Summary Book Review W Is For Webster by Tracey Fern:
Download or read book W Is For Webster written by Tracey Fern and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: From an early age, Noah Webster was an odd fellow who liked to talk big and loved learning. He thought America needed its own national language and knew he was just the man to create it. He started with a speller, including everyday words like "scab," "grub," and "mop," and moved on to create a small dictionary. He rode around on a horse, selling his books by hand. Then Noah decided to compile a complete and comprehensive dictionary of American English. He thought the book would take him five years to finish. It took twenty, but his dictionary today is the second-most printed book in the English language.
Summary Book Review The Learning of Liberty by Lorraine Smith Pangle:
Download or read book The Learning of Liberty written by Lorraine Smith Pangle and published by Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1993 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: "This very important book is original, sweeping, and wise about the relation between education and liberal democracy in the United States. The Pangles reconsider superior ideas from the founding period in a way that illuminates any serious thinking on American education, whether policy-oriented or historical". -- American Political Science Review. "An important and thoughtful book, stimulating for citizens as well as scholars". -- Journal of American History.
Summary Book Review Noah Webster by Richard J. Moss:
Download or read book Noah Webster written by Richard J. Moss and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Summary Book Review Noah Webster by John Smith Morgan:
Download or read book Noah Webster written by John Smith Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: The author brings together the voices of citizens and workers and the power dynamics of civic leaders including James J. Hill and Archbishop John Ireland.
Summary Book Review Dictionary of Early American Philosophers by John R. Shook:
Download or read book Dictionary of Early American Philosophers written by John R. Shook and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, which contains over 400 entries by nearly 300 authors, provides an account of philosophical thought in the United States and Canada between 1600 and 1860. The label of "philosopher" has been broadly applied in this Dictionary to intellectuals who have made philosophical contributions regardless of academic career or professional title. Most figures were not academic philosophers, as few such positions existed then, but they did work on philosophical issues and explored philosophical questions involved in such fields as pedagogy, rhetoric, the arts, history, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, medicine, anthropology, religion, metaphysics, and the natural sciences. Each entry begins with biographical and career information, and continues with a discussion of the subject's writings, teaching, and thought. A cross-referencing system refers the reader to other entries. The concluding bibliography lists significant publications by the subject, posthumous editions and collected works, and further reading about the subject.
Summary Book Review The Dictionary Wars by Peter Martin:
Download or read book The Dictionary Wars written by Peter Martin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: In The Dictionary Wars, Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language. The overwhelming questions in the dictionary wars involved which and whose English was truly American and whether a dictionary of English should attempt to be American at all, independent from Britain. Martin tells the human story of the intense rivalry between America's first lexicographers, Noah Webster and Joseph Emerson Worcester, who fought over who could best represent the soul and identity of American culture. Webster believed an American dictionary, like the American language, ought to be informed by the nation's republican principles, but Worcester thought that such language reforms were reckless and went too far. Their conflict continued beyond Webster's death, when the ambitious Merriam brothers acquired publishing rights to Webster's American Dictionary and launched their own language wars. From the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the Civil War, the dictionary wars also engaged America's colleges, libraries, newspapers, religious groups, and state legislatures at a pivotal historical moment that coincided with rising literacy and the print revolution.