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Author: William Morris Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 006015862X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 516
Book Description
The Morrises, well-known lexicographers, published a dictionary of the same title in 1977, a revision of a three-volume work published between 1962 and 1971. This new revision, which provides histories of interesting words and phrases in the English language, is similar in concept to several books by John Ciardi. Like Ciardi's works, the etymologies and phrase origins are presented in a readable style, making them a joy to browse.
Author: Elizabeth Webber Publisher: Merriam-Webster ISBN: 9780877796282 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 614
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A guide to references commonly used in speech and writing. Explains more than 900 allusions. Entries include examples from todays leading media. A must for serious readers, language lovers, and ESL students.
Author: Jostein Gaarder Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 1466804270 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 599
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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Author: James Wynbrandt Publisher: Infobase Publishing ISBN: 1438120958 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 705
Book Description
Presents information on congenital birth defects, giving the name, known or suspect cause and brief description as well as available treatments where applicable.
Author: Robert Hendrickson Publisher: Facts on File ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 968
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"The most comprehensive single-volume reference of its kind, The Facts On File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, Fourth Edition has been completely updated and expanded and now contains definitions and origins of more than 15,000 words and expressions. This encyclopedia features anecdotes and information on the development of a wide range of words, including slang, proverbs, animal and plant names, place names, nicknames, historical expressions, foreign language expressions, and phrases from literature. The emphasis throughout is on words and expressions whose origins are not adequately explained, or not addressed at all, in standard dictionaries. Approximately 2,500 new entries have been added to this edition, ranging from Aardsma to zounds."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: John C. Tibbetts Publisher: ISBN: 9780816054497 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 586
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Alphabetically arranged entries for film adaptations provide the date of release, the production company, and the director and screenwriter, and discusses the plot of each film.
Author: Robert Hendrickson
Author: Robert Hendrickson
Author: Robert Hendrickson
Author: William Morris
Author: Elizabeth Webber
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Author: Jostein Gaarder
Author: James Wynbrandt
Author: Robert Hendrickson
Author: John C. Tibbetts
Author: Robert S. Ellwood