Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary
April 1988. Hardcover. More
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh & Twelfth Editions
Encyclopoedia Britannica Company, 1910- 1922. Hardcover. Gilt-titled maroon cloth. Minimal shelf wear. Complete 32-volume set includes volumes 1-29 (the 11th Edition, from 1910-11), plus volumes 30-32 (the 12th Edition, from 1922). More
Dictionary of Indian Biography
Swan Sonnenschein & Co. / Gale Research Company, 1968. Reprint. Cloth. Dust stained chartreuse cloth covered boards with gold lettering in olive green rectangular title plate on spine. Dustjacket is missing. Bright, clean, olive green end pages. Mildly darkened top textblock edge. Small fingernail shaped dust stain textblock bottom edge..... More
Writing and Revising
Bedford/St. Martin's, January 2007. Trade Paperback. More
The Academic Writer: A Brief Guide
Bedford/St. Martin's, December 2007. Trade Paperback. Much has changed since the first edition of Lisa Ede's "Work in Progress"; students need more rigorous help working with sources, creating effective arguments, and addressing the greater demands of academic writing in a digital age. Refocused on the kinds of academic writing students..... More
Dictionary of Americanisms
Crescent, February 1990. Cloth. Light shelf wear on the jacket. The edges of the print block are yellowed. More
Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang : A-G
Random House Inc, May 1994. First Edition. Oversized Hardcover. The "only" historical dictionary of slang -- spanning three hundred years of slang use in America. Light shelf wear and a one inch closed tear on the jacket. Very lightly bumped corners on the boards. Edges of the print block lightly..... More
Composing Knowledge: Readings for College Writers
Bedford/St. Martin's, December 2006. Trade Paperback. Higher education has its own rules -- rules about who is heard, what counts as knowledge, what works as persuasion. They are conventions that must be learned -- and taught. So it is no wonder that for new students, college can be a confusing..... More
Superior Person's Complete Book of Words
David R. Godine, Publisher, October 2016. Paper Back. What Bowler manages to do in this omnium gatherum of over 1,000 words that all of us have (very) occasionally heard but have no idea how to use, compiled from the three separate editions previously published by Godine, is not only to..... More
Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket (Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture)
Brill, July 2012. Hardcover. Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket lays bare crucial roles played by community and resistance in the refashioning of heritage languages. Robin Sabino draws on her community relationships, her fieldwork with a last speaker, and research from a range of disciplines..... More
Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meaning
Random House Reference Publishing, April 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. A fun, new approach to examining etymology Many common English words started out with an entirely different meaning than the one we know today. For example: The word adamant came into English around 855 B.C. as a synonym for 'diamond, '..... More
Book of the Bizarre: Freaky Facts and Strange Stories
Weiser Books, October 2008. Trade Paperback. Did you know duck dander is hallucinogenic? Or that Katherine Hepburn had a phobia of dirty hair? Have you ever wondered about the Magickal Skull of Doom or contemplated the mysterious Transylvanian Tablets? The Book of the Bizarre is a veritable treasure trove of..... More
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