Author: Craig Conley
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: dictionary, words, letter, one
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-11-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0060798734
ISBN-13: 9780060798734

Merriam-Webster, move over! Until now, no English dictionary ever found the fun or the fascination in revealing the meanings of letters. One-Letter Words, a Dictionary illuminates the more than 1,000 surprising definitions associated with each letter in the English alphabet. For instance, Conley uncovers seventy-six distinct uses of the letter X, the most versatile, most printed letter in the English language. Using facts, figures, quotations, and etymologies, the author provides a complete and enjoyable understanding of the one-letter word. Conley teaches us that each letter’s many

Author: Craig Conley
Publisher: Weiser Books
Keywords: dictionary, words, magic
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1578634342
ISBN-13: 9781578634347

Author: Craig Conley
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: words, vowel, consonant, improbable, dictionary, wye
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-01-18
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1441455272
ISBN-13: 9781441455277

Wye’s Dictionary of Improbable Words brings together nearly 4,000 unusual and fascinating words that defy convention, offering a vast sampling of our living language at play. As our standard dictionaries scramble to catalog and thereby legitimize our growing vocabulary, Wye’s Dictionary offers the casual word gamer and language lover a cutting edge collection of new words. Examples of usage abound-as old as the Bible and as current as blog postings-grounding extraordinary terms in ordinary contexts. Myriad genres are represented, from literary classics to dramatic plays to whimsica

Authors:Stuart Schwartz, Craig Conley,
Publisher: Capstone Press
Keywords: looking, work, stuart, schwartz, resume, writing
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1999-04
List price: $22.60
ISBN-10: 0736801812
ISBN-13: 9780736801812

Author: Tom Conley
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: hieroglyphs, film
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2006-12-27
List price: $24.50
ISBN-10: 0816649707
ISBN-13: 9780816649709

At a time when traditional film theory privileged the purely visual, Film Hieroglyphs introduced a new way of watching film—examining the ways in which writing bears on cinema. Author Tom Conley gives special consideration to the points (ruptures) at which story, image, and writing appear to be at odds with one another. Conley hypothesizes that major directors—Renoir, Lang, Walsh, Rossellini—tend unconsciously to meld history and ideology. Graphic elements are seen as simultaneously foreign and integral to the field of the image. From these contradictions hieroglyphs emerge that mark

Author: Tom Conley
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: cinema, cartographic
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-01-12
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 0816643571
ISBN-13: 9780816643578

Cartography and cinema are what might be called locational machinery. Maps and movies tell their viewers where they are situated, what they are doing, and, to a strong degree, who they are. In this groundbreaking work, eminent scholar Tom Conley establishes the ideological power of maps in classic, contemporary, and avant-garde cinema to shape the imaginary and mediated relations we hold with the world. Cartographic Cinema examines the affinities of maps and movies through comparative theory and close analysis of films from the silent era to the French New Wave to Hollywood blockbusters. I

Author: R. F. Conley
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Keywords: formulating, slurries, understanding, guide, dispersion, practical
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1996-05-17
List price: $295.00
ISBN-10: 0471186406
ISBN-13: 9780471186403

Practical Dispersion A Guide to Understanding and Formulating Slurries Robert F. Conley This book is a practical guide to producing slurries more efficiently, intelligently, and economically. It provides hands-on knowledge of sufficient technical depth to allow those personnel involved in on-going dispersion practices to feel more proficient in making system modifications, as well as to meet the specific mechanical, chemical, environmental, and other requirements of their customers. To this end, a broad description of dispersants, their functions, and field applications has been provided. Disp