The Story of English in One Hundred Words

The Story of English in One Hundred Words-P2P
English | EPUB+PDF | 320 pages | 4.3 MB

The world’s foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages.This is no doubt the best word book to come down the pike in many a moon.Enjoy!!!

Description:
In The Story of English in 100 Words, an entertaining history of the world’s most ubiquitous language, David Crystal draws on one hundred words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word—‘roe’—was written down on the femur of a roe deer in the fifth century. Featuring ancient words (‘loaf’), cutting edge terms that relfect our world (‘twittersphere’), indispensible words that shape our tongue (‘and’, ‘what’), fanciful words (‘fopdoodle’) and even obscene expressions (the “c word”…), David Crystal takes readers on a tour of the winding byways of our language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprising.

 Download Link

The History Of Russia By Charles E. Ziegler

Title: The History Of Russia By Charles

Description:
1 Russia and Its People 1
2 Kievan Russia and the Mongol Experience 9
3 Muscovite Russia, 1240–1613 21
4 Russia under the Romanovs: Empire and Expansion, 1613–1855 33
5 Reform, Reaction, and Revolution, 1855–1921 51
6 Building Communism, 1921–1953 71
7 De-Stalinization and Developed Socialism, 1953–1985 95
8 Gorbachev, Perestroika, and the Collapse of Communism 123
9 Russia’s Search for Democracy: The Yeltsin Era 149
10 Return to Authoritarianism: Putin and Beyond 181

Size: 1.14MB

No. of Pages: 289

Type: Text Oriented

Download Link

The Discovery of India, Centenary edition

Jawaharlal Nehru, quot;The Discovery of India, Centenary editionquot;
Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0195623592 | January 1, 1994 | 584 pages | File type: PDF | 5.3 mb

In conjunction with the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund in New Delhi, Oxford proudly announces the reissue of Glimpses of World History and The Discovery of India, two famous works by Jawaharlal Nehru. One of modern day's most articulate statesmen, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a on a wide variety of subjects. Describing himself as quot;a dabbler in many things,quot; he committed his life not only to politics but also to nature and wild life, drama, poetry, history, and science, as well as many other fields. These two volumes help to illuminate the depth of his interests and knowledge and the skill and elegance with which he treated the written word.

Download Link