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Mehta's multivolume autobiography, titled Continents of Exile , has loss as its overarching theme: loss of sight, of childhood, of home and country, and now--with this volume--loss of Mr. Shawn's New Yorker . The memoir takes us from the time the author was hired as a staff writer in the early '60s up to 1994, when he was "terminated" by the loathed Tina Brown in her vandalization of his cherished magazine.
The Encyclopedia is a multivolume instruction manual containing lessons on weapons handling, tactics, covert operations, bomb making, and other topics.
If you are a student of linguistics (in any sense of the term), you might find it convenient to have this book to save your running to the multivolume encyclopedia or the original text (if you have it) in order to see what B. F. Skinner and Noam Chomsky were on about.
Consider that the OED , which makes no pretensions at being exhaustive or complete, occupies some twenty quarto volumes in its description of the lexicon alone; consider that a descriptive bibliography of the huge number of lexicographical works on the myriad aspects of English alone would occupy several similar volumes; consider the multivolume works on English grammar--by Curme, Poutsma, Jespersen, et al.; consider the immense corpus of English literature and of the writings about it; and then consider all the material ancillary to the foregoing: the teaching of English not only to foreign learners but to native speakers as well, the conventions of writing, punctuation, usage, and pronunciation, the multifarious influences of English and on English around the world, the study of style and of literary devices, etymology, etc.
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