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  • Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction

    The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction

    de Jeff Prucher ...
    The first historical dictionary devoted to science fiction, Brave New Words:The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction shows exactly how science-fictional words and their associated concepts have developed over time, with full citations and bibliographic information. It's a window on a whole genre of literature through the words invented and passed along by the genre's most talented writers. In ... Leer más

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  • The Science of Why

    Answers to Questions About the World Around Us

    de Jay Ingram ...
    Series series The Science of Why series
    Ever wonder why onions make you cry? Or why lizards do pushups? Or why leaves change color in the fall?Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Acclaimed science writer and broadcaster Jay Ingram wonders the same things. After a long career of asking important questions (Does time speed up as we age? How much Neanderthal is in me? Why do some animals throw their feces?), he’s here to put our scientific ... Leer más

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  • Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words

    A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right

    de Bill Bryson ...
    One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free grammar.As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’ can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • The Writer's Lexicon: Descriptions, Overused Words, and Taboos

    The Writer's Lexicon, #1

    de Kathy Steinemann ...
    Series Libro 1 - The Writer's Lexicon
    You just read your manuscript and discovered that your characters nod like marionettes in every chapter. When they're not nodding, they roll their eyes.Time to slash the Pinocchio strings and turn them into real people. Award-winning author Kathy Steinemann provides the tools. She cuts through the so-called rules and offers simple solutions.Too many repetitions of "little"? There's a cure for that ... Leer más

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  • This Will Kill You

    A Guide to the Ways in Which We Go

    de HP Newquist, Rich Maloof ...
    Have you been attacked by a great white shark? Gone over Niagara Falls in a barrel? Been exposed to anthrax? No, you haven't, or you'd be dead. This Will Kill You reveals the intriguing facts behind the many ways humans bite the dust in encounters with deadly bugs, hungry predators, natural disasters, and freak occurrences. Thoroughly researched and illustrated, not to mention thoroughly ... Leer más

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  • Semantic Antics

    How and Why Words Change Meaning

    de Sol Steinmetz ...
    "My favorite popular word book of the year"-William Safire, NY Times 6/22/2008A fun, new approach to examining etymology!Many common English words started out with an entirely different meaning than the one we know today. For example:The word adamant came into English around 855 C.E. as a synonym for 'diamond,'very different from today's meaning of the word: "utterly unyielding in attitude o... ... Leer más

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  • It's a Wonderful Word

    de Albert Jack ...
    Did you know that an assassin is a hashish-eater and a yokel a country woodpecker? That Dr Mesmer mesmerized patients back to health or that Samuel Pepys enjoyed a good game of handicap? While we're at it, what have spondulics to do with spines or lawyers with avocados?Here Albert Jack collects more than 500 of the strangest, funniest-sounding, and most delightful words in the English language, ... Leer más

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  • What's in a Word?

    Fascinating Stories of More Than 350 Everyday Words and Phrases

    de Webb Garrison ...
    A compendium containing the origins and history of some of the most common words and phrases in the English language.Once upon a time . . .Tying the knot actually involved tying a knot—not saying vows. Meanwhile, a thinking cap wasn't just a cute idea for schoolchildren, but an actual hat worn by scholars in the Middle Ages. Oh, and when you make no bones about something, you should consider ... Leer más

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  • Trying Leviathan

    The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature

    de D. Graham Burnett ...
    In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides in one of the great controversies of the early nineteenth century--one that ultimately had to be resolved in ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Big Bang Problems

    How, When, and Where the Universe Began

    de Bobby McGehee ...
    Cosmology: Scientific Study of the Universe For thousands of years, humankind has gazed up into the heavens at the beautiful Milky Way galaxy and pondered From where did it come? Over the years, as more knowledge was acquired, our views of the universe have changed. Our thinking has evolved from a belief that the Earth was flat, and then it was thought the Earth was the center of the universe. ... Leer más

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  • The Chicktionary

    From A-line to Z-snap, the words every woman should know

    de Anna Lefler ...
    You're all over the definitions of "low lights," "ruching," and a "tankini." But can you spot a "Mrs. Potato Head" when you see one?That's where The Chicktionary comes in. With the help of Anna Lefler and her collection of 450+ must-know words and phrases, you'll be in the know when faced with terms like Aberzombie, Bandeau, George Glass, and Puma.So whether you are dealing with a ... ... Leer más

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  • Word for Word

    Transform Your Vocabulary from Pedestrian to Precocious* in an Instant (*or fromSophisticated to Straightforward)

    de James E. Snyder Jr. ...
    An ingeniously handy guide to help you transform chew into masticate, rainy into pluvian?or antediluvian into plain old old.Attorney James Snyder didn?t set out to write a book about words. But one day he looked up the word animadversion. The definition said it means the same thing as aspersion. He wasn?t quite sure what that meant, so he looked it up. It meant the same thing as slander. At last ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD