A Reader's Companion

About the Book

This book was written to help avid readers expand their vocabularies with commonly encountered literary, Latin, historic and philosophic words and phrases. It includes: · Words such as sciolist, millenarianism, hermeneutics, apodictic, parturient, antistasis, latitudinarian, charybdis, pantagruelian, doxa, anoesis, zugzwang, morosoph, phenomenology, quondam, eldritch and stochastic. · Latin phrases like vae victis, margaritas ante porcos, and memento mori. · Root words including ruth (for ruthless). · Enlightening word comparisons like putative, purported and ostensible. · Proper words such as Muses, who they were and what each represents. · Historic phrases like "crossing the Rubicon" and to "go to Canossa".

About the Author

John L. Bowman received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973 from Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, and a degree in philosophy in 1993 from Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. His books include Reflections on Man and the Human Condition, Selected Topics in Philosophy, Nobody?s Perfect, How to Succeed in Commercial Real Estate, Socialism in America, and God?s Lecture: on the way things are and how man screwed it up.