Authors:Stefano Schiaffino, Terence Partridge,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: muscle, research, advances, repair, skeletal, regeneration
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2008-03-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1402067674
ISBN-13: 9781402067679

Skeletal muscle is the most abundant tissue of our body. Apart from its essential role in locomotion, it is also the body’s main store of carbohydrate and protein as well as being one of the principal generators of heat. Its proper maintenance and function are, therefore, essential. A severe acute loss of muscle function is potentially lethal and the debilitating effects of chronic decline in mobility are commonplace experience, so repair and maintenance of the tissue must by both rapid and effective. Since the middle of the last century we have progressively built up a comprehensive descrip

Authors:Terence Hawkes (Series Ed), Terence Hawke,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: accents, new, semiotics, structuralism
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1977-09-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415025257
ISBN-13: 9780415025256

`A compact volume that performs marvels in the difficult art of summarizing (without betrayal) the complex theories that for the past 75 years have been labelled `structuralist’.’- Choice

Author: G. E . Partridge
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: education, philosophy, genetic
Number of Pages: 422
Published: 2009-07-10
List price: $33.75
ISBN-10: 111073087X
ISBN-13: 9781110730872

Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: phrases, catch, dictionary
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1986-12-04
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 041505916X
ISBN-13: 9780415059169

A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has caught on’ or become popular over a long period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers together over 7,000 such phrases. Some reviews of this classic edition: This delightful book will tell you the history of such phrases as "back to square one", "as the actress said to the bishop", "the bee’s knees", "bright-eyed and bushy-tailed", and thousands of other catchphrases, British and American, from the sixteenth century to the present day.’ - Richard Boston, The Guardi

Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: William Pre
Keywords: yesterday, day, slang
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1406770248
ISBN-13: 9781406770247

SLANG TODAY AND YESTERDAY SLANG TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY WITH A SHORT HISTORICAL SKETCH AND VOCABULARIES OF ENGLISH, AMERICAN, AND AUSTRALIAN SLANG. BY ERIC PARTRIDGE LONDON ROUTLEDGE KEGAN PAUL LTD BROADWAY HOUSE 68-74 CARTER LANE, E. C-4 For my old and loyal friend ALAN STEELE CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE PREFACE ....... ix PART I GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS I. SLANG DEFINITION, ETYMOLOGY, SYNONYMS, RANGE i II. ORIGIN, USES, REASONS FOR . jJggj ATTITUDES TOWARDS SLANG 4 III. ARA nnS IN-RELATION TO LANGUAGE IN GENERAL 10 IV. THE ESSENCE OF SLANG 33 PART II A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH SLANG I. INTRODUCTO

Author: Christopher Partridge
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: religions, ufo
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-09-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0415263239
ISBN-13: 9780415263238

The spectre of the UFO, as popularized by shows such as The X-Files, has brought an astonishing slant to the face of modern religious practice. But what motivates the fantastical and sometimes sinister beliefs of UFO worshippers? UFO Religions critically examines some of the fascinating issues surrounding UFO worship - abduction narratives, UFO-based interpretations of other religions, the growth of pseudo-sciences purporting to explain UFOs, and the responses of the core scientific community to such claims. Focusing on contemporary global UFO groups including the Raelian Movement, Heaven̵

Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Keywords: solecisms, catachresis, nicknames, vulgarisms, phrases, catch, slang, unconventional, english, colloquialisms, dictionary
Number of Pages: 1440
Published: 1985-03-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0025949802
ISBN-13: 9780025949805

Wordslinger Eric Partridge intended his dictionary to be a "humble companion" to the Oxford English Dictionary--a ribald companion is more like it! In Partridge’s domain, a gentleman’s pleasure-garden has little to do with the horticultural, referring as it does to the genitalia muliebria. On the other hand, play pussy is a Royal Air Force term meaning "to take advantage of cloud cover," and since the 1970s British forces have called intelligence operatives secret squirrels. And so it goes. There is enough slang, cant ("i.e., language of the underworld"), and expletives here for a