Names

A name is a term used for identification. They can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. The entity identified by a name is called its referent. A personal name identifies, not necessarily uniquely, a specific individual human. The name of a specific entity is sometimes called a proper name (although that term has a philosophical meaning also) and is, when consisting of only one word, a proper noun. Other nouns are sometimes called "common names" or (obsolete) "general names". A name can be given to a person, place, …

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DDN: Dundurn Press · 16 July 2024 English

As Udonwa grows, her hidden family history changes her forever.Let me tell you a story. It’s about a war. This war is not the type fought with guns and machetes. …

glass / Chinenye Emezie. Other titles: Glass house Names: Emezie, Chinenye, author. Description: Previously Igbo class. I don’t see the big deal about Igbo names or any other native ones. Really, I don’t see the my kids English or foreign names.” “My two brothers bear foreign names. The eldest is Jefferson, and brothers such fancy names?” “Jefferson and Lincoln are not fancy names, but names of former American would never admit it. “But they are still fancy names for a couple of village kids.” “Well, you may be


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 July 2024 English

Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, …

scholarship or review. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents Publication Title: Invisible lives / Cristalle Smith. Names: Smith, Cristalle, author. Series: Brave & brilliant a dying aunt. See family who can’t remember our names. Food fights in a Chinese restaurant on the side to Android, I love you. Play them on loop over names you called me. I’ve never told anyone that before Her husband is a prisoner and refuses to give up names of his colleagues. Kasha told me once that they


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound explores the ways that sonic practices (speaking, listening, recording, etc.) serve as forms of aesthetic and political dissent throughout the literary, artistic, and academic …

sound / edited by Deanna Fong and Cole Mash. Names: Fong, Deanna, editor. | Mash, Cole, editor. Description:


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Western modernity is characterized by instrumental relations between humans and nature, as well as between humans themselves, that have caused irreversible environmental and social exploitation and degradation. Many policy documents, …

titles: Politics under conditions of uncertainty Names: Behr, Hartmut, author. Description: Includes bibliographical


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

edited by Megan J. Davies and Geoffrey L. Hudson. Names: Davies, Megan Jean, 1959– editor. | Hudson, Geoffrey communities can recite stories – including lists of names of the dead – when it comes to underground disasters Sudbury, Ontario (and ap- pearing under different names from Toronto until 1990).16 Vapaus’s ideolog- ical


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

The Poetics of Translation challenges our pragmatic understanding of translation through the discipline’s use in contemporary innovative writing practices, highlighting translation’s ability to create meaning, celebrate uncertainty, and interpret rather …

translation : a thinking structure / Geneviève Robichaud. Names: Robichaud, Geneviève, 1983– author. Description: destination. The term after- life, in other words, names something about the condition of textuali- ty itself


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Friendless or Forsaken? is the story of child emigration agencies operating in North West England from 1860 to 1935. The book traces the imperial relationships, transnational economy, religious networks and …

Ruth Lamont, Eloise Moss, and Charlotte Wildman. Names: Lamont, Ruth, author. | Moss, Eloise, 1986– author Acknowledgementsnote on the use of anonymisation of names in the text As a condition of access to certain researching this book, some child migrants’ real names were required to be anonymised. We have indicated anonymisation, we have retained children’s real names. This inconsistency of approach is a product of conditions of access. Our decision not to anonymise all names therefore reflects our ethical position in rela-


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

From 1650 to 1750 the provision of medical care for injured seamen in the Royal Navy underwent a major transformation, shifting from care provided by civilians in private homes to …

health care in England, 1650-1750 / Matthew Neufeld. Names: Neufeld, Matthew, author. Description: Series statement: slight or sickness inconsider- able and record their names and place set down.” Not only was Wil- liams supposed


DDN: Dundurn Press · 9 July 2024 English

From Trench Town to the top of the world — one man's inspiring fight for meaning, dignity, and respect. Tiga’s Tale chronicles the remarkable life of world champion boxer Barrington …

/ Paul Harrietha with Ras Barrington Francis. Names: Harrietha, Paul, author. | Francis, Barrington


DDN: Dundurn Press · 2 July 2024 English

The story of the audacious showman who built the greatest carnival dynasty in North America.Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of what would become …

Patty Conklin and Conklin Shows / John Thurston. Names: Thurston, John Harry, 1955- author. Description: companies formed, dissolved, and reformed under various names, some con- glomerations so ephemeral they left no CARNIE KINGPatty was still answering to both his names. The Billboard letter list for July 2, 1921, notifies many types of fixed “stores” or “joints,” other names for games. A “gaffed joint” was a crooked game


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