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Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies
DIANA SENECHAL · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pages: 192 Format: Hardcover
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Too often our use of language has become lazy, frivolous, and even counterproductive. We rely on clichés and bromides to communicate in such a way that our intentions are lost or misinterpreted. In a culture of "takeaways" and buzzwords, it requires study and cunning to keep... |
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1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List
JAMES MUSTICH · Workman Publishing Company Pages: 960 Format: Hardcover
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The ultimate book for book lovers: the 1,000 must-read books across genres and eras, each accompanied by a thought-provoking short essay on why the book is so essential. |
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How to Stay Alive: The Ultimate Survival Guide for Any Situation
Bear Grylls · William Morrow Paperbacks Pages: 448 Format: Paperback
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In the spirit of the multi-million copy bestselling SAS Survival Handbook comes the ultimate survival guide for the 21st century, from world-famous adventurer and former SAS soldier Bear Grylls.For more than a decade, Bear Grylls has introduced TV viewers to the most dramatic wilderness... |
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How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
RYAN NORTH · Riverhead Books Pages: 464 Format: Hardcover
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Get ready to make history. . . better.What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past . . . and then broke? How would you survive? Could you improve on humanity's original timeline? And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat?Don't worry:... |
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The Ultimate Film Fanatic's Trivia Challenge
Stacia Tolman · Sellers Publishing Inc Pages: 224 Format: Paperback
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From Jaws to La La Land, there is little doubt we have a love affair with cinema. Do you think you know everything there is to know about movies, top-notch television series, and actors? If so, Sellers Publishing has the trivia book to entertain you. Whatever you are passionate about vintage... |
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The Classical Music Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff · DK Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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This original, graphic-led book explores and explains the key ideas underpinning the world's greatest classical compositions and musical traditions, defines their importance to the musical canon, and places them into their wider social, cultural, and historical context.The nineteenth... |
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The Stories of Slang: Language at its most human
Jonathon Green · Robinson Pages: 320 Format: Paperback
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'Few lexicographers are lucky enough to have both endlessly pleasurable work and the talent to write amusingly about [slang]. Jonathon Green is one . . . Lovers of language should be grateful to those who create slang, and to those few like Mr Green who make it their work to open this... |
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1,000 Words to Sign
GEOFFREY S POOR · Collins & Brown Pages: 256 Format: Paperback
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Learn American Sign Language, from basic letters to simple phrases, with this invaluable photographic guide! American Sign Language (ASL) has been widely adopted by the deaf, and 1,000 Words to Sign is a practical, authoritative, and effective learning aid to this beautiful and creative... |
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester · Oxford University Press Pages: 298 Format: Paperback
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"The greatest enterprise of its kind in history," was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490 pages and nearly two million quotations, it was indeed a monumental achievement, gleaned... |
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