An etymology of more than one thousand nouns arranged chronologically and by subject

Product Description: Did you ever wish your initials spelled something? (Or didn?t?) Do you know if you have a Googlegänger? Can your name influence the kind of person you are? or what you do? When it comes to names, everyone has an opinion, and award-winning nonfiction author Donna Jackson explores the fascinating?and inspiring?subject with her familiar, straightforward reporting style...read more

Product Description: This is a book about the concept of a physical thing and about how the names of things relate to the things they name. It questions the prevalent view that names 'refer to' or 'denote' the things they name. Instead it presents a new theory of proper names, according to which names express certain special properties that the things they name exhibit...read more

Product Description: D’abord, les noms ont été réservés à l’appellation des personnes, les mots à celle des choses.Surtout, deux théories ont été écartées : celle qui voit dans le mot le reflet de la chose (l’onomatopée) – une reprise du cratylisme – et celle qui tient le mot pour né dans l’arbitraire (le n’importe comment, à la suite d’une convention)...read more

Product Description: How names were acquired, and how they have changed, is a subject of perennial fascination. They are part of our personal histories, defining who we are and where we live. Names are everywhere, identifying people, places, animals, ships, materials, plants, public houses and fields...read more

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These essays tell the story of geographic, literary, personal and various other types of names. Information on names is offered chronologically from 1391 when the Vivaldi brothers navigated south of Gibralta (never to return) and ushered in the age of Portuguese discovery and the assignment of names to the West African coast, up to the present time and the "hip-lit" names used in Bret Easton Ellis's "Less Than Zero". There are also technical studies, such as the names of drugs in the world of street-Spanish, and the sound patterns of proper names in the English language. In addition to papers from the last seven of the Names Institute's 25 years, this volume includes new and unpublished material. Volume 1, "Pubs, Place-Names and Patronymics" is forthcoming from Mellen. (view table of contents)

Product Description: What's in a name? This ingenious new reference gathers thousands upon thousands of names for all manner of objects, creatures, places, people, sports, cars, brands, and much, much more. THE NAME BOOK is the ultimate reference. It tells you what something is called or helps you think of what to call it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A reference to the origins and definitions of the nomenclature of people, world, places, and things indigenous to the British culture

Product Description: What names are the most popular? The most passe? In what American city can you really find an Easy Street? Where can you find Sailbad the Sinner? Where do names come from, what do they mean, and how do they evolve? And come to think of it, what's in a name anyway? These are just a few of the many questions this amusing, and informative volume answers...read more

Product Description: "The name: What does one call thus? What does one understand under the name of name? And what occurs when one gies a name? What does one give then? One does not offer a thing, one delivers nothing, and still something comes to be, which comes down to giving that which one does not have, as Plotinus said of the Good...read more

Product Description: Some philosophers we read to discover the nature of the universe. Others we read to discover the nature of ourselves. In the second group, Soren Kierkegaard stands alone as a towering figure, a man who revolutionized our concept of the human condition...read more

Product Description: An introduction and research guide to onomastics the study of names, this book covers the major areas of name study in individual chapters on personal names (anthroponyms), place names (toponyms), acronyms, brand names and trade names...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A reference work for the correct spelling of over 15,000 proper nouns or names.

Product Description: This book provides an introduction to modern work in the field of analytic philosophy, a field primarily concerned with the investigation of language and the analysis of mind. Using the example of the proper name, McCulloch gives a clear explanation of the seminal logical theories of Gottlob Frege, and explains the application of these ideas to ordinary language, including such topics as Russell on definite descriptions and Kripke on names...read more

Explains the background of nicknames for wars, ships, planes, battles, constellations, cities, states, regions, countries

An etymology of more than one thousand nouns arranged chronologically and by subject

Discusses the impact of a name on a person's life and explains how to assess people's personalities by examining their names

Suggests hundreds of names for cats based on color, physical characteristics, or related to literature, mythology, geography, weather, cartoons, and ethnic groups

Offers the little-known stories behind individuals--eponyms--whose names have enriched the language with such words as ritzy, Frisbee, Shrapnel, boycott, dunce, and silhouette