Category: Reference

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Universe : March 2006

Seller ID: 21656

ISBN-13: 9780789313706

For discerning bibliophiles and readers who enjoy unforgettable classic literature, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a trove of reviews covering a century of memorable writing. Each work of literature featured here is a seminal work key to understanding and appreciating the written word.The featured works have been handpicked by a team of international critics and literary luminaries, including Derek Attridge (world expert on James Joyce), Cedric Watts (renowned authority on Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene), Laura Marcus (noted Virginia Woolf expert), and David Mariott (poet and expe...
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Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Millennium Edition

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Orion Pub Co : September 1999

Seller ID: 61078

ISBN-13: 9780304350964

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests, 7th Edition (Genreflecting Advisory Series)

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited : April 2013

Seller ID: 9282

ISBN-13: 9781598848403

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

For readers' advisory librarians with patrons looking for their next great read, professors teaching readers' advisory service, or even enthusiastic readers who prefer to help themselves, Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests serves all of their needs. A new introductory section covering the role of readers' advisory service in the library and the basics of readers' advisory service is followed by chapters that list best-known titles organized by subgenres, identifying popular genres, describing their characteristics, and explaining their appeal. This seventh edition expands on t...
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Oxford Pocket Dictionary and Thesaurus

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : August 1999

Seller ID: 60726

ISBN-13: 9780195130973

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A unique new reference that combined the best features of both dictionary and thesaurus, The Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus was the first American reference work to offer integrated dictionary and thesaurus entries. Now this revolutionary volume is available in a convenient paperback format that is perfect for the casual user.Rather than forcing readers to flip between the thesaurus for synonyms and the dictionary for definitions, The Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus provides a thoroughly integrated blend of entries from the dictionary and the thesaurus. This unified approach treats mea...
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Pocket World in Figures 2010: The Economist

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Profile Books

Seller ID: 92270

ISBN-13: 9781846681363

Binding: Thin and/or Small

Condition: Used - Good

Contains rankings on more than 200 topics in subject areas that range from business and the economy to the environment, society, culture and crime, plus data on over 180 countries and profiles of more than 65 of the world's major economies, together with special profiles on the Euro area and the World.
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Social Security Handbook 2020: Overview of Social Security Programs

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Bernan Press : April 2020

Seller ID: 74499

ISBN-13: 9781641434003

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Social Security Handbook: Overview of Social Security Programs, 2020 provides information about Social Security programs and services, and identifies rights and obligations under the Social Security laws. The completely updated Handbook, organized by section number, is a readable, easy-to-understand reference for comprehending complex Social Security programs and services and contains information on several topics relevant to Social Security policies: -How Social Security programs are administered -Who is and isn't covered under retirement, survivors, disability, and hospital insurance pro...
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The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd Edition

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Clarendon Press : October 1970

Seller ID: 94873

ISBN-13: 9780198691174

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2017

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Publisher: World Almanac : December 2016

Seller ID: 93017

ISBN-13: 9781600572050

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Get thousands of facts at your fingertips with this essential resource. The World Almanac(R) and Book of Facts is America's top-selling reference book of all time, with more than 82 million copies sold. Since 1868, this compendium of information has been the authoritative source for all your entertainment, reference, and learning needs. The 2017 edition of The World Almanac(R) reviews the events of 2016 and will be your go-to source for questions on any topic in the upcoming year. Praised as a treasure trove of political, economic, scientific and educational statistics and information by The W...
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The World's Great Speeches: Fourth Enlarged (1999) Edition

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Dover Publications : September 1999

Seller ID: 90214

ISBN-13: 9780486409030

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This outstanding compendium of 292 great speeches contains addresses from nearly every historical era and nation, from the formal orations of ancient Greece and the speeches of Julius Caesar, to modern-day addresses by Nelson Mandela, Ronald Regan and V clav Havel.Among the memorable speeches included here are Pericles' funeral oration, St. Bernard's advocacy of the Second Crusade, William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold speech, Winston Churchill's Blood, Sweat and Tears address, Richard Nixon's speech to the astronauts on the moon, Malcolm X's address on the Black Revolution, and many more. Re...
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The Yale Book of Quotations

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Yale University Press : October 2006

Seller ID: 90174

ISBN-13: 9780300107982

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Named the #2 reference book that is essential for a home library by Donald Altschiller, Wall Street Journal Named a Best Book of 2006 by Amazon "Shapiro does original research, earning his 1,067-page volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's."--William Safire, New York Times Magazine "More comprehensive than any other quotation-reference work."--Katie Hafner, BookForum "Meticulously researched. . . . a quotations book with footnotes that are as fascinating to read as the quotes themselves."--Arthur Spiegelman, Washington Post Book World This reader-friendly volume ...
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Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication

By: Akmajian, Adrian,Demers, Richard A.,Farmer, Ann K.,Harnish, Robert M.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: The MIT Press : September 2001

Seller ID: 94291

ISBN-13: 9780262511230

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This popular introductory linguistics text is unique in the way various themes are integrated throughout the book. One primary theme is the question, How is a speaker's communicative intent recognized? Rather than treat phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics as completely separate fields, the text shows how they interact in principled ways. Similarly, language variation and acquisition are informed by results in these fields. The text provides a sound introduction to linguistic methodology while also revealing why people are intrinsically interested in language -- ...
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The Devil's Dictionary

By: Ambrose Bierce

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 79835

ISBN: 281DES1003949

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Genetic Genealogy: The Basics and Beyond

By: Aulicino, Emily D.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: AuthorHouse : December 2013

Seller ID: 67281

ISBN-13: 9781491840900

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Finally, in the rapidly evolving field of genetic genealogy an up-to-date resource is here A Genetic Genealogy Handbook: The Basics and Beyond provides genealogists with the knowledge and confidence to use DNA testing for family research. The book guides genealogists in understanding various tests and determining what DNA segments came from which ancestor. The book explains how DNA testing helps when written records stop and discusses how testing proves or disprove oral family history. Learn which tests help adoptees; understand why you resemble your relatives and how testing can connect you ...
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Understanding and Using English Grammar (Third Edition) (Full Student Edition without Answer Key)

By: Azar, Betty Schrampfer

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Pearson College Div : July 1998

Seller ID: 94288

ISBN-13: 9780139586613

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A classic developmental skills text for intermediate to advanced students of English, Understanding and Using English Grammar is a comprehensive reference grammar as well as a stimulating and teachable classroom text. While keeping the same basic approach and material as in earlier editions, the Third Edition more fully develops communicative and interactive language-learning activities. Some of the new features are: * Numerous real communication opportunities * More options for interactive work in pairs and groups * Additional open-ended communicative tasks for both speaking and writing * Exp...
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The Craft of Research, Third Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

By: Booth, Wayne C.,Colomb, Gregory G.,Williams, Joseph M.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press : April 2008

Seller ID: 35383

ISBN-13: 9780226065663

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

With more than 400,000 copies now in print, The Craft of Research is the unrivaled resource for researchers at every level, from first-year undergraduates to research reporters at corporations and government offices. Seasoned researchers and educators Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams present an updated third edition of their classic handbook, whose first and second editions were written in collaboration with the late Wayne C. Booth. The Craft of Research explains how to build an argument that motivates readers to accept a claim; how to anticipate the reservations of readers and to resp...
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12 Books That Changed the World

By: Bragg, Melvyn

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton : January 2006

Seller ID: 86013

ISBN-13: 9780340839805

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Speaker's and toastmaster's handbook of anecdotes by and about famous personalities

By: Braude, Jacob Morton

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Prentice-Hall : January 1971

Seller ID: 48739

ISBN-13: 9780138241513

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Immortal Last Words: History's Most Memorable Dying Remarks, Deathbed Statements and Final Farewells

By: Breverton, Terry

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Arcturus : July 2010

Seller ID: 71626

ISBN-13: 9781848660854

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"Immortal Last Words" is a fascinating, diverse collection of history's most uplifting, entertaining and thought-provoking dying remarks and final farewells. The 370 entries in this book have been drawn from some of history's greatest statesmen, poets, scientists, novelists and warriors - the eminent men and women who have shaped events over the last four and a half millennia and whose final recorded words have often inspired great deeds or shed light on the nature of the human condition. There are also entries from less well- known individuals who did not make such an impact on history but wh...
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How to Be a Gentleman: A Timely Guide to Timeless Manners

By: Bridges, John

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Rutledge Hill Pr : April 2008

Seller ID: 72572

ISBN-13: 9781401603359

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

How to Be a Gentleman: A Timely Guide to Timeless Manners is the revised and updated edition of the smash-hit How to Be a Gentleman and offers practical advice on being a gentleman in the twenty-first century. Should you take your BlackBerry on vacation? What is the best way to accept a compliment? Is an e-mail an acceptable means of writing a Thank-You note? While the tenets of gracious behavior never change, the situations a gentleman faces do and have changed significantly in the last ten years. In this revised, updated, and expanded version of the bestselling How to Be a Gentleman, Bridges...
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The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All TimeOUT OF PRINT

By: Burt, Daniel S.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Checkmark Books : December 2000

Seller ID: 28889

ISBN-13: 9780816043835

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Compiled through consultation with literary scholars, provides a survey of writers who have had a profound impact on literature and the world, examining each writer's life, career, and lasting legacy.
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The Language of Jokes: Analyzing Verbal Play (Interface)

By: Chiaro, Delia

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Routledge : May 1992

Seller ID: 96617

ISBN-13: 9780415030908

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this highly readable and thought-provoking book, Delia Chiaro explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally adopted in descriptive linguistics. Using examples from personally recorded conversations, she examines the structure of jokes, quips, riddles and asides. Chiaro explores degrees of conformity to and deviation from established conventions; the tellability' of jokes, and the interpretative role of the listener; the creative use of puns, word play and discourse. The emphasis in her analysis is on sociocultural contexts for the production and reception of jokes, and sh...
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Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing, Fifth Edition

By: Colombo, Gary,Cullen, Robert,Lisle, Bonnie

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's : February 2001

Seller ID: 48497

ISBN-13: 9780312249175

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In its fifth edition, this best-selling thematic reader continues to challenge students to think and write critically about contemporary American culture.
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The Morrow Book of Quotations in American History

By: Conlin, Joseph R.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: William Morrow & Co : August 1984

Seller ID: 73832

ISBN-13: 9780688020682

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

By: Deutscher, Guy

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Metropolitan Books : August 2010

Seller ID: 94290

ISBN-13: 9780805081954

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how--and whether--culture shapes language and language, cultureLinguistics has long shied away from claiming any link between a language and the culture of its speakers: too much simplistic (even bigoted) chatter about the romance of Italian and the goose-stepping orderliness of German has made serious thinkers wary of the entire subject. But now, acclaimed linguist Guy Deutscher has dared to reopen the issue. Can culture influence language--and vice versa? Can different languages lead ...
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The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate

By: Ehrlich, Eugene

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Collins Reference : May 1997

Seller ID: 95212

ISBN-13: 9780062701909

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Wordsmith and bestselling author Eugene Ehrlich, in his companion volume to the Highly Selective Thesaurus, addresses the words most corrupted through the media, by greedy lexicographers, and in common speech today. Between TV talk shows, Radio call-in shows, e-mail and the Internet, spontaneous-talk media has taken off in the '90s. People are interacting more frequently and more fervently than ever before, and turning the English language into mush. Eugene Ehrlich's been listening, and now he speaks.aWilliam Safire says his work is -daringly prescriptive, ' and William F. Buckley calls his be...
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The Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily Literate (Highly Selective Reference)

By: Ehrlich, Eugene

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Collins Reference : April 1994

Seller ID: 82089

ISBN-13: 9780062700162

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A abacus "n." soroban abandoned "adj." cade, derelict, profligate abate "v." mitigate, palliate, quash abdicate "v." abjure, abnegate, demit abject "adj." craven, fawning, ignominious able "adj." habile abnormal "adj." heteroclite, preternatural abnormality "n." deuteropathy abolish "v." disestablish, extirpate abominable "adj." flagitious, odious Abominable Snowman yeti aborigine "n." autochthon, indigenous inhabitant abound "v." exuberate abridge "v." attenuate, epitomize abscond "v." decamp absent-minded "adj." distrait, distraite absinth "n." wormwood absolute "adj." 1. ...
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Isaac Asimov's Best of Super Quiz

By: Fisher, Ken

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Random House Value Publishing : March 1985

Seller ID: 92686

ISBN-13: 9780517467947

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Garner's Quotations: A Modern Miscellany

By: Garner, Dwight

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : November 2020

Seller ID: 84816

ISBN-13: 9780374279196

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A selection of favorite quotes that the celebrated literary critic has collected over the decades.

From Dwight Garner, the New York Times book critic, comes a rollicking, irreverent, scabrous, amazingly alive selection of unforgettable moments from forty years of wide and deep reading. Garner's Quotations is like no commonplace book you'll ever read. If you've ever wondered what's really going on in the world of letters today, this book will make you sit up and take notice. Unputdownable

National Geographic Almanac 2019: Hot New Science - Incredible Photographs - Maps, Facts, Infographics & More

By: Geographic, National

Price: $5.00

Publisher: National Geographic : October 2018

Seller ID: 72225

ISBN-13: 9781426219818

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A one-of-a-kind annual featuring surprising facts, stunning color photos, arresting infographics, and illuminating maps that present the world in a whole new way. An almanac like you've never seen before, this arresting volume features key information on science, nature, history, and geography, spiked with cutting-edge ideas and spectacular visuals. Discover features that only National Geographic can deliver, including exquisite photography, explanatory infographics, illustrated timelines, and maps created by expert cartographers. Chapters include Exploration & Adventure, This Planet & Beyond,...
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The Least You Should Know About English: Writing Skills, Form C

By: Glazier, Teresa Ferster,Wilson, Paige

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Cengage Learning : May 2001

Seller ID: 72330

ISBN-13: 9780155069862

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

For over twenty years, the simple, friendly approach of The Least You Should Know About English has helped students with their spelling, punctuation, and sentence and paragraph structure.
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Category: Reference