Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary
April 1988. Hardcover. More
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Writing and Revising
Bedford/St. Martin's, January 2007. Trade Paperback. More
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
Random House Trade Paperbacks, August 2020. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A sharp, funny grammar guide they'll actually want to read, from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading language gurus NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: The Oprah Magazine..... More
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
Random House Trade Paperbacks, August 2020. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A sharp, funny grammar guide they'll actually want to read, from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading language gurus NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: The Oprah Magazine..... 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
Metaphors Be with You
Harper Paperbacks, December 2017. Paper Back. Respected quotation anthologist and author of Oxymoronica and Viva la Repartee Dr. Mardy Grothe is at his best in Metaphors Be with You, an A to Z dictionary of 2,750 of history's greatest metaphorical quotations, meticulously curated for writers, readers, and quotation lovers everywhere..... 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
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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