Dictionary of confusable words
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Dictionary of confusable words
Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Adjacent or adjoining? Abuse or misuse? Consist, comprise, constitute, or compose? Guarantee or warranty? Pose, propose, or propound? Stationery or stationary? The Dictionary of Confusable Words aims to clear up the confusion in such cases. In more than 1,100 entries, the meaning of 3,000 individual words are given,the difference between them is explained, and an illustrative example showing the correct usage is provided.
The book also includes specific examples to show past and present usage of words, and words occuring as the second or subsequent in a group are cross-referenced to ther head word in the appropriate alphabetical place. Editor Adrian Room has also included some familiar proper names that are sometimes confused, such as Liberia and Libya (countries), Monterey and Monterrey (towns), and Lloyds and Lloyd's (financial institutions).
Classic or classical? Discreet or discrete? Continual or Continuous? Principle or Principal? Confused? Be confused no longer, with this handy book as your user-friendly guide.
Table of Contents
- Part I Economic-Based Reparations: History and Future: Chapter 1
- International Legal Responsibility & Reparations for Transatlantic Slavery, Nora Wittmann
- Chapter 2: The trade in enslaved Africans and slavery after 1807, Marika Sherwood
- Chapter 3: Learning lessons from history? The International Legal Framework for Combating Modern Slavery, Steve Peers
- Chapter 4: Reparations: The Universal Periodic Review and the Right to Development, Rohan Kariyawasam
- Part II Reparations as a Legal Strategy
- Chapter 5: Formulating the Case for Reparations, Lord Anthony Gifford
- Chapter 6: Litigation And Political Action To Address Historic Injustices In The United States: Problems And Prospects, Dinah Shelton
- Chapter 7: Two Hundred Years After The Abolition Of The Transatlantic Slave Trade, Could There Be A Juridical Basis For The Call For Reparations, Kwesi Quartey
- Chapter 8: Restitution After Slavery, Kate Bracegirdle
- Chapter 9: Judge, Jurisprudence and Slavery in England 1729-1807, Sheila Dziobon
- Part III Pluralism: Strategies for Reparations
- Chapter 10: Slave Trade Reparations, Institutional Racism and the Law, Fernne Brennan, Chapter 11: The Value of Experience: What Post World War 2 Settlements Teach us About Reparations, Clemens Nathan
- Chapter 12: An Interview with Clemens Nathan, Chris Burnett
- Chapter 13: Reparations For Slavery And The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: The Case For Special Measures
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