Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary
April 1988. Hardcover. More
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The Devil's Dictionary (The 100 greatest masterpieces of American literature)
Franklin Library, January 1980. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon page marker. More
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
Random House, January 2019. Hardcover. 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 - Paste -..... More
The Death of Psychiatry
Penguin Books, May 1975. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Black's Law Dictionary
West Group Publishing, June 2000. Paper Back. Provides definitions of basic legal terms and phrases used in various branches of law throughout English and American history. Front and back covers are creased. A few pages wavy/damp stained. More
Make Noise: A Creator's Guide to Podcasting and Great Audio Storytelling
Workman Publishing Company, December 2019. Paper Back. "An interestingly idiosyncratic and personal vision of how to make podcasts."--Ira Glass Veteran podcast creator and strategist Eric Nuzum distills a career's worth of wisdom, advice, practical information, and big-picture thinking to help podcasters "make noise"--to stand out in this fastest of fastest-growing..... More
Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World
The Experiment, November 2019. Hardcover. A singular atlas of 100 infographic maps from thought-provoking to flat-out fun Publisher's note: Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds was published in the UK under the title Brilliant Maps. Which countries don't have rivers? Which ones have North Korean embassies? Who drives on the "wrong"..... More
Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing About Grief and Loss
St. Martin's Griffin, December 2013. Trade Paperback. Braving the Fire is the first book to provide a road map for the journey of writing honestly about grief and loss. Created specifically by and for the writer who has experienced illness, loss, or the death of a loved one, Braving the..... More
Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting
Ten Speed Press, September 2019. Hardcover. The founder of History Hustle presents a handy guide for expressing yourself with history's best words. This collection features scores of unique words from history that deal with surprisingly modern issues like sleeping in and procrastination--proving that some things never change! The Little Book..... More
The Last Unknowns
William Morrow Paperbacks, June 2019. Paper Back. Discover the universe's last unknowns--here are the unanswered questions that obsess "the world's finest minds" (The Guardian) Featuring a foreword by DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow This is a little book of profound questions (only questions!)--unknowns that address..... 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, Vol. 2: H-O
Random House Reference, September 1997. First Edition. Oversized Hardcover. The "only" historical dictionary of slang -- spanning three hundred years of slang use in America. Light shelf wear and edge wear on the jacket. light foxing on the edges of the print block. lightly bumped corners on the boards... 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
The Book of the Year 2019
Hutchinson, November 2019. Hardcover. The Book of the Year is back, with yet another pro-rogues gallery of the most amazing, audacious and absolutely absurd news of 2019. Once again the fact-finding foursome behind the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish have been newspaper-trawling and website-crawling to create your ultimate..... 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
101 Things I Learned® in Law School
Three Rivers Press, August 2019. Hardcover. A provocative, accessible, and cleverly illustrated guide to legal principles and practice, by a law instructor and internationally experienced attorney This might be the most useful book law students ever read. Not because it contains the details of case law, but because it teaches..... More
The Elements of Style (with Index)
Idg Books, January 1979. Mass Market PaperBack. More
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