Richard A. Spears: American Slang Dictionary, Fourth Edition

American Slang Dictionary, Fourth Edition


Description

For the 411 on American slang, this guidebook is the top banana From "head trip" to "foot in mouth," American Slang Dictionary gives you the complete definitions of thousands of uniquely American words and phrases, ranging from golden oldies such as "catch some rays" and "take the fifth" to more up-to-the-minute coinages like Wall Street's "jonx," the Internet's "ping," and the gangsta's favorite, "shizzle." Inside you'll find more than 12,000 words and expressions from a wide variety of sources, including gangsta rap, the blogosphere, and the U.S. prison system. In a New York minute, you'll be down with the colloquialisms, vulgarities, and substandard English that make everyday interactions in contemporary American life so colorful. BSOD or blue screen of death the blue computer screen that appears after a programming or operational error crunk wild; crazy; out of control kvetch to complain left-handed monkey wrench a nonexistent tool word of mouse a message spread by e-mail

Stretching from the distant past into the remote future, from primordial Earth to the stars, "Evolution" is a soaring symphony of American Slang Dictionary, Fourth Edition download epub struggle, extinction, and survival; a dazzling epic that combines a dozen scientific disciplines and a cast of unforgettable characters to convey the grand drama of evolution in all its awesome majesty and rigorous beauty. Sixty-five million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, there lived a small mammal, a proto-primate of the species "Purgatorius." From this humble beginning, Baxter traces the human lineage forward through time. The adventure that unfolds is a gripping odyssey governed by chance and competition, a perilous journey to an uncertain destination along a route beset by sudden and catastrophic upheavals. It is a route that ends, for most species, in stagnation or extinction. Why should humanity escape this fate?


____________________________
Author: Richard A. Spears
Number of Pages: 576 pages
Published Date: 07 Jul 2006
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Publication Country: New York, NY, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780071461085
Download Link: Click Here
____________________________

Tags:

iPad, book review, mobi, facebook, paperback,download torrent American Slang Dictionary, Fourth Edition by Richard A. Spears rar,for mac, pocket, Richard A. Spears epub download,rarfree ebook, zip, Read online, iOS,download epub, fb2, iPad, download pdf, epub download, ebook pdf, download ebook, download book, iPhone, free pdf, kindle, ebook, download torrent,American Slang Dictionary, Fourth Edition pocket,for PC,

The Object-Z Specification Language
Research Methods in Information