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Every Dog Has its Day: A Thousand Things you Didn't Know About Man's Best Friend by Max Cryer
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Category: Science & Natural History
Why has Fido become a generic term for all dogs? Why did hundreds of people collect dog faeces - and sell it? Dogs never eat other dogs, so why is it a dog-eat-dog world? Did any dogs survive the 'Titanic'? What is a Yorkipoo? Do mad dogs really go out in the midday sun? 'Every Dog Has Its Day' pays hom ...Show more
Is It True? The facts behind the things we have been told by Max Cryer
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
In this revealing book, Max Cryer explores the truth or otherwise of facts and beliefs we may have always been told are true, but which on closer examination may not be. In a wide-ranging book encompassing social history, language, music, politics, food, sport, the natural world and much more, we disco ...Show more
Preposterous Proverbs: Why Fine Words Butter No Parsnips by Max Cryer
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Reading Level: very good
From our earliest years we have heard proverbs, and many of them are repeated without much thought. Yes, 'birds of a feather flock together' and 'absence makes the heart grow fonder', but these sayings are so familiar that we are scarcely aware they are proverbs. It has been so for thousands of years, i ...Show more
Superstitions & Why we Have Them by Max Cryer
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Category: Mind Body Spirit | Reading Level: very good
Some people casually say 'touch wood' when they speak of something they hope will happen. Others won't allow peacock feathers into the house. And almost anyone who finds a four-leafed clover will treasure it and keep it. Why? Some superstitions are so ancient and have been practised for so long that the ...Show more
Who Said That First? The Curious Origins of Common Words and Phrases by Max Cryer
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Reading Level: very good
Many bright minds have come up with expressions we now take for granted as part of the English language, and which we use freely in vernacular speech. But the originators of many of our most useful second-hand remarks go uncredited. The Bible and Shakespeare are rich sources of many common phrases, but ...Show more
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