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Big Blue Books are a series of small staple-bound books published from 1925 to 1950 by the Haldeman-Julius Publishing Company of Girard, Kansas (1919–1978), larger than the Little Blue Books. The series included both reprints and first publications, the latter including An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish by Bertrand Russell .
James Madison (1751–1836) was a Founding Father of the United States and its fourth president, serving from March 4, 1809, to March 4, 1817.Dubbed the "Father of the Constitution" for his role in creating the U.S. Constitution, he had been dissatisfied with the weak government under the Articles of Confederation, and helped organize the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
A description, study, or analysis of such rules may also be known as a grammar, or as a grammar book. A reference work describing the grammar of a language is called a reference grammar or simply a grammar. A fully revealed grammar, which describes the grammatical constructions of a particular speech type in great detail is called descriptive ...
The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...
Cover of McGuffey's First Reader. The Eclectic Readers (commonly, but informally known as the McGuffey Readers) were a series of graded primers for grade levels 1–6. They were widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, and are still used today in some private schools and homeschooling.
Book cover of the second edition. The first edition of the book was released in 1985. [1] This release contained 378 pages and had an ISBN of 9780521287234. Since then, the book has gone through a number of reprints. In 2019, the 5th version of the book has been released. [2]
Donatus' Ars Minor was the first printed book by Johannes Gutenberg. [4] 1471 Ancient Greek: Manuel Chrysoloras: Chrysoloras' Erotemata was the first printed book in greek language. [5] 1489 Hebrew: Moses Kimhi [6] 1492 Spanish: Antonio de Nebrija: Nebrija's Gramática de la lengua castellana is the first printed grammar of a vernacular ...
Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States, a Revolutionary War drill manual colloquially referred to as the "Blue Book" Blue Book, American name for a World War II Japanese naval code; The Blue Book of Denver society, originally by Louise Sneed Hill; The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, a transcript of the ...