Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story by Michael Rosen
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards or Viking runes, textspeak or zip codes, this book will change the way you think about letters for ever. How on Earth ...Show more
TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris Anderson
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In the New York Times-bestselling Ted Talks Chris Anderson, head of TED, reveals the inside secrets of how to give a first-class presentation. Where books like Talk Like TED and TED Talks Storytelling whetted the appetite, here is the official TED guide to public speaking from the man who put TED talks ...Show more
On Kate Jennings : Writers on Writers by Erik Jensen
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Award-winning writer Erik Jensen plunges the reader into the world of acclaimed novelist, poet and pioneering feminist Kate Jennings. Weaving in his interviews with Jennings in New York, he shows how poetry, politics and family were transmuted into her first novel, Snake- a work of art that depicts rura ...Show more
Super Fiendish Su Doku Book 4: 200 of the Most Treacherous Sudoku Puzzles from The Times by The Times Mind Games
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Series: The\Times Super Fiendish Ser.
These are previously unpublished quality Su Doku grids from the puzzle providers to The Times, and help to develop you to take on Extreme Su Doku. The 200 puzzles in this collection of treacherously difficult puzzles will stretch even the most advanced Su Doku enthusiast. You will need to use all of you ...Show more
1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless by John Lloyd; James Harkin; John Mitchinson
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
The QI team have blown your socks off, made your jaw drop and knocked you sideways. Now they return with 1,234 brand-new mind-blowing facts that will leave you speechless. - Flowers get suntans.- Denmark imports prisoners.- Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest.- The Republic of Ireland first got post ...Show more
What to Read and Why by Francine Prose
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In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic, and essayist celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers she admires above all others, from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to ...Show more
IPad for Seniors for Dummies by Dwight Spivey
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Get caught up with the latest iPad featuresAn iPad can be so many things: an entertainment hub, a way to stay in touch with the world, a productivity tool, and many other things. iPad For Seniors For Dummies focuses on helping iPad users who are experienced in life--but not in technology. In this friend ...Show more
The Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover Intriguing Boundaries, Territories and Geographical Curiosities by Zoran Nikolic
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Reading Level: near fine
The world is not always what we think it is. This book presents unusual borders, enclaves and exclaves, divided or non-existent cities and islands. Numerous conflicts have left countries divided and often shattered. Remnants of countries can by design or accident be left behind as a legal anomaly in thi ...Show more
What's it Like to be Chased by a Cassowary? Fascinating answers to perplexing questions: The most informative and entertaining explainers from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald by Felicity Lewis (ed.)
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Ever wondered what happens to us as we die? Or how the Esky became an Aussie cultural icon? Or why we have leap years? Then look no further - and even if you haven't wondered, you'll want to find out. This anthology is a diverse collection of explainers by some of the finest writers from The Age and The ...Show more
Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Reading Level: near fine
Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by the award-winning writer and literary translator Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as ...Show more
Street Magic: Street Tricks, Sleight of Hand and Illusions by Paul Zenon
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Series: Y Ser.
This handy book explains and shows clearly how to perform 100 close-up magic tricks and illusions. Paul Zenon, David Blaine, Dynamo and a host of other great magicians have made fooling people cool again. Paul Zenon gives you advice on how to best perform tricks, when and how to use them for the greates ...Show more
Shakespeare's the Merchant of Venice Connell Guide by Michael Neill
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Series: The\Connell Guide To ... Ser.
The Merchant of Venice is now the most contentious of Shakespeare's plays. Its only rival in this respect is Othello, and this is because both plays deal with dangerous issues of race. In Othello Iago uses the protagonist's colour both to goad his victim's jealousy and to excite the animosity of Venetia ...Show more