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First published in 1933, this book explores both contemporary and historical slang, focusing on the characteristics and quirks of the English and American languages. As well as looking at commonly used slang, there are sections that give the reader insight into more unusual areas such as Cockney slang, slang in journalism and slang in commerce, as well as slang used by sailors, the law and the church. The book will be of interest to scholars and the general readers who take an interest in language.

First published in 1940, this book was designed by Eric Partridge to equip students, studying for final exams at school, with the tools they needed to become successful precis-ers. The selection of literary pieces is more diverse than other preicis books of the time and Partridge s background as a schoolmaster, a lecturer and a publisher sets him up well to teach the subject.

The current focus on the theme of authorship in Medieval and Early Modern studies reopens questions of poetic agency and intent. Bringing into conversation several kinds of scholarship on medieval authorship, the essays in Author, Reader, Book examine interrelated questions raised by the relationship between an author and a reader, the relationships between authors and their antecedents, and the ways in which authorship interacts with the physical presentation of texts in books.

The broad chronological range within this volume reveals the persistence of literary...

First published in 1940, this book was designed by Eric Partridge to equip students, studying for final exams at school, with the tools they needed to become successful precis-ers. The selection of literary pieces is more diverse than other preicis books of the time and Partridge s background as a schoolmaster, a lecturer and a publisher sets him up well to teach the subject."

Or ski-jumping--headlong soaring,
ski-tips piercing clouds,
crystal revelations astonishing my goggles?

. . . . Skittery flicker of a glare-weary lizard
startled into the sheltering wings of a leaf,

rusting freighter with a brimming hold
shimmering onto a crimson edge. . . .

Sad rower pushed from shore,
I'll disappear like circles summoned
by an oar's dip.

However I burn through to the next...

Becoming a professional consultant allows you to leverage your expertise, be your own boss, and make a great income. But you need to know what to do and how to do it if you want to be successful from day one.

Adrian Partridge walks you through how to pursue a career as a consultant, sharing the secrets hes learned since venturing out on his own more than twenty-five years ago. Learn how to:

• set up a consulting business;

• get the projects you want at the rates you deserve;...