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Word Books and Dictionaries
Word Books and Dictionaries
Suduko, puzzle books, crosswords and crossword solvers, puns and pithy quotations, wordplay and all things semantic. A verbophiles delight for all wordsmiths and scribblers.
| EDIT. BY CONNIE ROBERTSON Book Number: 23928 |
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The aim of this marvellous new edition is to provide the reader with, firstly, the means of finding a half-remembered phrase or reference. Secondly, examples of what has been said by the famous, th...
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| HENRY YULE Book Number: 60724 |
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Hobson-Jobson is short-hand for the assimilation of foreign words to the sound pattern of the adopting language. Bungalow, pyjamas, verandah, curry, chintz, gingham, mango, junk and catamaran are a...
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| MATT POTTER Book Number: 82205 |
Published price: £9.99
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Goodbyes are always hard, but this collection of resignation letters is a witty and at times dangerously analytical example of goodbyes that are seemingly easy to make. Potter categorises such resi...
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| STEVEN HELLER & LOUISE FILI Book Number: 85402 |
Published price: £22.50
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Heavyweight Thames & Hudson publication made up entirely of advertising material produced on glossy paper and dripping with colour. Every single page has a typeface and a design from decorative po...
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| HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS Book Number: 85471 |
Published price: £5.99
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Nice handy sized small paperback bilingual dictionary from Europe's leading dictionary publisher. This portable reference contains all the words you need for daily use in today's Spanish and Engli...
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| G. BORROW Book Number: 72233 |
Published price: £7.99
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Gypsy language is a medley of various Eastern and Western languages - some Arabic, many Persian, some Sclavo-Wallachian, others genuine Sclavomian, modern Greek, Hungarian, English, but only one Fr...
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| SUN TZU Book Number: 85981 |
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Exquisitely produced, this A5 softback lined notebook has folded endpapers and a red elastic fastener, and each page is decorated with Chinese calligraphy on borders or corners and on every alterna...
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| Unknown Book Number: 86002 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £3.25
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The work of Sigmund Freud marked the beginning of modern psychiatry, and all newer forms of psychotherapy have either developed out of psychoanalysis or in critical opposition to it. In addition t...
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| EVE CHIPPING Book Number: 86006 |
Published price: £3.99
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From the quirky expressions that hold clues to the county's rich past, to the glossary packed with words which bring the local language to life, explore the fascinating county of Gloucestershire. ...
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| GEORG CAPELLANUS Book Number: 86124 |
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Who says Latin is a dead language? Learn to speak it like a native with this up-to-date conversational guide containing hundreds of useful phrases from breakfast to dinner and work days to holiday...
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| ARCTURUS PUBLISHING Book Number: 86128 |
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A beautiful blue eyed tabby kitten in a colour photograph graces the front cover of this super new paperback, packed with 130 word search puzzles - meow! Find 18 words on themes like dances, occup...
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| NATALIDITA NINGTHOUKHONGJAM Book Number: 86310 |
Published price: £10.99
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An exquisitely decorated 124 page lined notebook with excerpts, brief précis and illustrations from favourite characters from English literature for children over the years including Aladdin, Olive...
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| ANDREW PETTEGREE Book Number: 86141 |
Published price: £24.99
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Sub-titled 'How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into A Center Of Publishing, Made Himself The Most Famous Man In Europe - And Started The Protestant Reformation'. Martin Luther's life as ...
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| JOSEPHINE HART Book Number: 86348 |
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Set your hearts on fire with some of the most extraordinary poetry literature has known. From Lord Byron, Christina Rossetti and Percy Bysshe Shelley, to John Milton, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bis...
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| GABRIELLE LLORET LINARES Book Number: 86411 |
Published price: $9.99
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Whether for use in business, finance, law, religion, on holiday or at school, Spanish verbs are notoriously tricky with their subjunctives, futures and conditionals, the use of ser and estar plus a...
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| DAVID MARSH Book Number: 86443 |
Published price: £12.99
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The mysteries of English grammar have been the lifelong mission of David Marsh who wishes to create order out of chaos. For four decades he has worked for newspapers from The Sun to The Independen...
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| OFFSHOOT Book Number: 86739 |
Published price: £9.99
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Match the quotes with their modern translation, Sudoku, how will Iago find Desdemona's handkerchief in the maze? Which ones die a tragic death? Answer: Romeo, Macbeth, Brutus, Othello, Hamlet, An...
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| PAUL SHAW Book Number: 86593 |
Published price: $40
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The simplest and purest kind of type revival is a facsimile which aims to reproduce as exactly as possible the appearance of a typeface or set of letters from a past contemporary technological form...
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| LAUREN COLLINS Book Number: 86600 |
Published price: £8.99
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When Lauren Collins met a Frenchman at a party one night in London, she had no idea that she would wake up to find herself married to him, living in Geneva. When the newly married couple relocates...
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| TOM WOLFE Book Number: 86485 |
Published price: $26
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"Language in all its forms advanced man far beyond the boundaries of natural selection, allowing him to think abstractly and plan ahead; measure things and record measurements for later; comprehend...
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| MARTIN PUCHNER Book Number: 86501 |
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"A story of letters and paper and rocket ships, of ruthless conquerors and elegant court ladies and middle-class entrepreneurs, of the will to power and the dream of freedom." - Stephen Greenblatt....
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| BRYAN KOZLOWSKI Book Number: 86852 |
Published price: £9.99
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Forget your fanteegs and roam at a foot-pace through the twisty alleyways of Victorian London using distinctly Dickensian words. It is a super literary romp through Charles Dickens's finest quips,...
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| EDITED BY MICHAEL LEVENTHAL Book Number: 86877 |
Published price: £13.99
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George Orwell said "History is written by the winners." Henry Kissinger "As a professor, I tended to think of history as run by impersonal forces. But when you see it in practice, you see the diff...
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| RACHEL BEST & J-C VAN WAES Book Number: 87104 |
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Fluent Français without the faux pas! The French (the frogs) and the English (les rosbifs) have been frenemies for centuries. Packed with quizzes, glossaries and interesting details on how phrase...
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| CAROLINE TAGGART Book Number: 87127 |
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The famous verbophile has written many book on words over the years and had plenty of opportunity to consider and pontificate on the issues of language, the 'rights' and the 'wrongs', and to form o...
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| DANIEL TAMMET Book Number: 86895 |
Published price: $27
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Amy Tan said of this, "Tammet gives insight ranging from cultural perception and social dominance to the features of Esperanto as a universal language. Most fascinating is Tammet's own astonishing ...
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| MAX DÉCHARNÉ Book Number: 87203 |
Published price: £21.99
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"Everything's FUBAR in Skunk Hollow", as a beleaguered American serviceman might remark, perhaps comforting himself with "germolene fritters" (deep-fried spam in a bread roll) or a vindaloo "colon ...
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| LAURA LEE Book Number: 87324 |
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A one-of-a-kind collection of catchy expressions which have spread like wildfire. There are approximately 7,000 living languages in the world today, and some expressions spread into English and Es...
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| SUSIE DENT Book Number: 87331 |
Published price: £14.99
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Famous from Channel Four TV's Countdown and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Susie Dent is the resident word expert in Dictionary Corner. She casts her perceptive eye at all the tribes around us, ...
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| IAIN HOLLINGSHEAD Book Number: 87348 |
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SIR - Among the many e-mails sent to me about the GDPR, one of the most confusing is from an IT company which advises me: "If in doubt contact us immodestly." - Philip Wright, London SW11. It stil...
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