The Night Before Essay Planner: A workbook to plan, research and write your essay by Bronwyn Hall
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The Night Before Essay Planner is not a book you need to read from cover to cover before you start writing your essay. It is your essay. You can plan, research and write your next paper in the planner! It’s that simple! Do you start your essays four weeks or four hours before they’re due? This bestselli ...Show more
You Say Potato: The Story of English Accents by Ben Crystal
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Some people say scohn, while others say schown. He says bath, while she says bahth. You say potayto. I say potahto And- -wait a second, no one says potahto. No one's ever said potahto. Have they? From reconstructing Shakespeare's accent to the rise and fall of Received Pronunciation, actor Ben Crystal a ...Show more
English is Not Easy - A Guide to the Language by Luci Gutierrez
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This book includes a quirkily illustrated, brilliantly risque, but thoroughly practical, guide to the peculiarities of one of the trickiest languages on earth, for (strictly adult) students of English as a foreign language and native speakers alike. Do you know when to use whether opposed to if? For exa ...Show more
Word Play: A Cornucopia of Puns, Anagrams and Other Contortions and Curiosities of the English Language by Gyles Brandreth
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The aim of the book is entertainment - and surprise - but there will be a fair bit of erudition and incidental education along the way. (Why is it a troop of baboons, but a shrewdness of apes?). We discover the oldest words, the newest, the longest, the shortest, the most frequently used, the costliest ...Show more
As Easy as Pi : Stuff About Numbers That isn't (Just) Maths by Jamie Buchan
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In this day and age it's hard to imagine a world without numbers. Our lives are centred around commerce and money, and it is the only language that's the same the world over. However, did you know that for a long period of time people could not get their heads around the idea of zero, a figure represent ...Show more
Beyond the First Draft: The Art of Fiction by John Casey
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National Book Award winner John Casey is a masterful novelist who is also an inspiring and beloved teacher. In Beyond the First Draft he offers essential and original insights into the art of writing-and rewriting-fiction. Through anecdotes about other writers' methods and habits (as well as his own) a ...Show more
Accidence Will Happen The Non-Pedantic Guide to English Usage by Oliver Kamm
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Are standards of English alright - or should that be all right? To knowingly split an infinitive or not to? And what about ending a sentence with preposition, or for that matter beginning one with 'and'? We learn language by instinct, but good English, the pedants tell us, requires rules. Yet, as Oliver ...Show more
Gift of the Gob : Morsels of English Language History by Kate Burridge
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Why can we fall in love but not in hate? What do codswallop and poppycock share? Why not one house and two hice? How come we scream blue murder, sing the blues and turn the air blue? In Gift of the Gob Kate Burridge explores our language and the everlasting tug-of-love that exists between 'proper' Engli ...Show more
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had by Susan Wise Bauer
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Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven't because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise. Newly expanded and updated ...Show more
The Thinker's Thesaurus: Sophisticated Alternatives to Common Words by Peter E. Meltzer
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This entertaining and informative reference features sophisticated and surprising alternatives to common words together with no-fail guides to usage. Avoiding traditional thesauruses' mundane synonym choices, Peter E. Meltzer puts each word-whether it's protrepic, apostrophize, iracund, or emulous-in co ...Show more
The Greeks Had a Word for it: Words You Never Knew You Can't Do Without by Andrew Taylor
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Do you ever search in vain for exactly the right word? Perhaps you want to articulate the vague desire to be far away. Or you can't quite convey that odd urge to go outside and check to see if anyone is coming. Maybe you're struggling to express there being just the right amount of something - not too m ...Show more
The Times Reference Atlas of the World by Times Atlases
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A new edition of this popular atlas from the prestigious and authoritative Times Atlas range. This seventh edition contains the latest satellite images and fascinating historical images, and contains the breadth, scale and detail to make it an ideal reference resource for school, home and business. The ...Show more