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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Interview With Lara Heimert 20160731

Transformation of dictionaries or the complete transformation of lexicography in the english language. Anyone whos read the professor in the mad men, you can remember the descriptions of what it was like to assemble a dictionary in the mid 19th century. There were read arers all over readers all over the world who would submit little files, and eventually those usages, wherever the dictionary was revised which was about every 80 years, would make it into the next round. So it took an incredibly long time to update new meanings of worse. Of course, now its of words. Of course, now its online, and now you have crowd sourcing and people reporting tweets or web sites x its led to this kind of massive democratization of language in this really interesting way. Its also led the oed to have to go back and relearn whole words that, you know, with all of the newspapers online now you can discover usages that no one had ever possibly heard of the last time the dictionary was revised. So it reall ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20130818

He only had that realization 20 years earlier it would have reshaped what became a nuclear arms locally. At the time i think he was just really unaware of the potentiality of Atomic Energy and dismissed it and kept saying im very happy with explosives we are to have. Lara heimert a lot of the conversation here at Bookexpo America this year is about ebooks still. Does basic have been approached to ebooks . Have they been helpful to your business . We love ebooks. We love it when people have more ways to read books and what we find is a lot of people toggle between the two. They dont become exclusive Ebook Readers and dont assert their bookshelves. I use my ereader when im traveling and its a wonderful technology. I think because we are exclusively nonfiction publisher we dont see the percentages of ebooks that you see at ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20130817

Now on booktv Lawrence Samuel exam the past, current, and future state of the american middle class. The author reports that a strong middle class emerged following world war ii in the 1950s. And began to eroded in the succeeding decades. This is a little over an hour. Host im going jump in. I took a chronological approach to the story. As youll see. I went decade by decade. I picked up the story right after world war ii. I feel like thats when the middle class, as we know it, rose in numbers and power. Then go through the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and up to today and wrap up. Thats basically the approach i took to the book just track with the book. Basically, why i wrote the book theres a lot of chatter these days about the middle class not surprising. Someone talking about the middle class a lot, of course, is president obama like most bases. Politicians. I counted twentd times he mentioned the middle class in his speech a couple of y ....

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