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Ann E. Weiss (1943–)

Author of God and Government: The Separation of Church and State

Ann E. Weiss is Anne Weiss (2). For other authors named Anne Weiss, see the disambiguation page.

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Works by Ann E. Weiss

God and Government: The Separation of Church and State (1982) 15 copies

Who's to Know?: Information, the Media, and Public Awareness (1990) 8 copies

Lies, deception, and truth (1988) 6 copies

Bioethics: Dilemmas in Modern Medicine (1985) 5 copies

Money Games: The Business of Sports (1993) 5 copies

The Nuclear Arms Race-Can We Survive It (1983) 5 copies

What's That You Said?: How Words Change (Let Me Read Book) (1980) 5 copies

Save the Mustangs! How a Federal Law Is Passed, (1974) 5 copies

The Nuclear Question (1981) 4 copies

Good Neighbors?: The United States and Latin America (1985) 4 copies

The Supreme Court (Government Books) (1987) 4 copies

Lotteries: Who Wins, Who Loses? (Issues in Focus) (1991) 3 copies

Easy Credit (2000) 3 copies

Tune In, Tune Out: Broadcasting Regulation in the United States (1981) 2 copies

The American Congress (1977) 2 copies

News or not? : Facts and feelings in the news media (1977) 2 copies

Polls and Surveys: A Look at Public Opinion Research (An Impact Book) (1979) 2 copies

Prisons: A System in Trouble (Issues in Focus) (1988) 2 copies

Party politics, party problems (1980) 2 copies

Welfare: Helping Hand or Trap? (Issues in Focus) (1990) 1 copy

Adoptions today : questions and controversies (2001) 1 copy

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Birthdate: 1943
Gender: female

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What's That You Said?: How Words Change (Let Me Read… by Ann E. Weiss

Origins of many words in quite interesting, but I wasn't as thrilled with the structure as I was supposed to be: A quoted sentence includes a word that would have been used a long time ago, followed by some equivalent of "What's that you said?" followed by what we say nowadays. All that is on the left side of each two-page spread. The right side explains how the word evolved into the way we use it now.

For example: "Open your beech trees to page twenty-one" becomes "Open your books to page twenty-one." Then an explanation about bark being used for books, . . . .… (more)

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Works: 21
Members: 86
Popularity: #213,013
Rating: 3.0

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 55
Languages: 6

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