Dictionaries & Thesauruses
epub |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:Gifis, Steven H.;

M MACHINATION that which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot. MACRS see depreciation [MODIFIED ACCELERATED COST RECOVERY SYSTEM]. MAFIA see organized crime. ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses September 10,2020 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-09-21 | Author:Vyvyan Evans [Evans, Vyvyan]

Alas, poor Darwin The modular view of mind has a long history, arising from a materialist tradition in which mental functions are localised in specific regions of the brain. In ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses September 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-14 | Author:Jonathan Deutsch

While the sandwich itself stays largely the same with minor variations, the title switches from region to region. The name “submarine” supposedly originated with an Italian immigrant named Dominic Conti, ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses August 25,2020 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-09-04 | Author:Michael Allaby [Allaby, Michael]

L Labiatae See Lamiaceae. Laboulbeniomycetes A group of ascomycete fungi all of which are obligate parasites of insects (Insecta) and other arthropods (Arthropoda) and live on the outside of their ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses August 17,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-24 | Author:Richard Hosking [Hosking, Richard]

sansai 山菜 mountain vegetable. There used to be a clear distinction between sansai and yasai (cultivated vegetables) but nowadays this is not so clear, since some sansai, such as warabi, ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses August 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dilip Hiro [Hiro, Dilip]

The method of being killed in “God’s way” has varied. During the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988) [q.v.], Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini [q.v.] ruled that any Iranian who died in the ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides August 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries

noun Plural: i·ro·nies 1a. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning. b. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides August 15,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Martin Gardner

[1] Typewriter Codes An ordinary typewriter can furnish the basis for many simple substitution ciphers, For instance, instead of hitting the proper key for each letter, hit the key immediately ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses August 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:Publishers Editorial Staff

265 M machination A crafty scheme contrived for the accomplishment of an evil purpose. magistrate A public officer with specific, delegated executive or judicial powers; usually a local judicial officer ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses August 10,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Ed Sikov [Sikov, Ed]

SEGMENTATION: FORM In film studies, a formal analysis of a film’s story and plot is called a SEGMENTATION. Segmentation provides a way to see and understand narrative patterns without being ...
( Category: Direction & Production August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-22 | Author:Goodword

41. REVELATIONS WELL EXPOUNDED (FUSSILAT) In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful 1 Ha Mim 2 A revelation from [God], the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful—3 ...
( Category: Hadith August 6,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-25 | Author:Owen Davies [Davies, Owen]

Chapter 4 Writing magic The power of the word is one of the contested boundaries between magic and religion. Most of the world’s sacred religious texts mention magic. The Koran ...
( Category: Wicca August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-20 | Author:Phil Bennett [Bennett, Phil]

CHAPTER 11 Scarlet Fever My father was a steel man. Others worked in the tin-plate industry and some down the mines. There were teachers, preachers, farmers and a few first-timers ...
( Category: Rugby August 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-02 | Author:Unknown

CHAPTER 6 PATHS BEYOND TRACING OUT: THE HERMENEUTICS OF METAPHOR AND THEOLOGICAL METHOD ERIN M. HEIM INTRODUCTION As a biblical scholar writing for an audience of theologians, I am keenly ...
( Category: Bibles August 5,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Homer & Fagles

BOOK THIRTEEN: Battling for the Ships But once Zeus had driven Hector and Hector's Trojans hard against the ships, he left both armies there, milling among the hulls to bear ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical August 5,2020 )