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Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It
JAMES GEARY · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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"A witty book about wit that steers an elegant path between waggishness and wisdom." -- Stephen FryMuch more than a knack for snappy comebacks, wit is the quick, instinctive intelligence that allows us to think, say, or do the right thing at the right time in the right place.... |
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Cite Right, Third Edition: A Quick Guide to Citation Styles--MLA, APA, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More
Charles Lipson · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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Cite Right is the perfect guide for anyone who needs to learn a new citation style or who needs an easy reference to Chicago, MLA, APA, AMA, and other styles. Each chapter serves as a quick guide that introduces the basics of a style, explains who might use it, and then presents an abundance... |
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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
GASTON DORREN · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it -- only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets... |
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The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide, Revised
Tom Rosenbauer · Lyons Press
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback
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The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide is the best-selling book for fly anglers! Whether you're a soon-to-be fly fisher looking for the right book to get you started or you're reasonably proficient at the sport and need a refresher course on tying knots for saltwater or the latest info on how to care... |
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Foundational Texts of Mormonism
Mark Ashurst-McGee · Oxford University Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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Joseph Smith, founding prophet and martyr of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, personally wrote, dictated, or commissioned thousands of documents. Among these are several highly significant sources that scholars have used over and over again in their attempts to reconstruct... |
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Climbing: From First-Timer to Gym Climber
Nate Fitch · Falcon Guides
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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The first in a progression series aimed at beginner climbers, Climbing: From First-Timer to Gym Climber walks you through your first time trying to rock climb and offers basic instruction on the fundamental skills needed to get off the ground and onto the wall. |
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World War I: The Definitive Visual History
RG Grant · DK
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover
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Discover the misery of life in the trenches -- and how the Great War devastated Europe. Here is an original and exciting guide to the grim challenge of life or death on the Western Front. Devastating first-hand reports and contemporary photographs of the battles that slaughtered millions,... |
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World Book Encyclopedia 2018, 22 Volume Set
World Book · World Book, Inc.
Pages: 14000
Format: Hardcover
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The World Book Encyclopedia, 2018, is a general A-Z look-up source in 22 hard-cover volumes full of accurate and trustworthy facts. Whether you are proving a point during a dinner-table discussion or checking a fact for a homework assignment, answers are here! Tens of thousands of index... |
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