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100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Knowby AhdISBN 0618374124 (0-618-37412-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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1984by George Orwell, Mike DeanISBN 0582777313 (0-582-77731-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:Orwell's classic novel tells the story of a world where thoughts and actions are controlled by the all-seeing Big Brother. When Winston Smith rebels and searches for the truth he learns a painful lesson about his world and the people in it. Also a powerful film directed by Michael Radford. [via]
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Rootsby Calvert WatkinsISBN 0618082506 (0-618-08250-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots'Book summary:Fully revised and updated, THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF INDO-EUROPEAN ROOTS remains an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the history of English and its place in the Indo-European language family. More than 13,000 words are traced to their origins in Proto-Indo-European, the prehistoric ancestor of English that was spoken before the advent of writing. In Calvert Watkinss skilled hands, Proto-Indo-European language and society are rendered as alive and compelling as they must have been six thousand years ago. His introductory essay shows how words in an unrecorded ancient language can be reconstructed and offers a wealth of fascinating information about Proto-Indo-European culture. The dictionary that follows contains nearly 1,350 reconstructed roots, plus two dozen new Language and Culture notes that explore interesting sidelights to the etymologies presented in many entries.[via]More editions of The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots:
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Languageby The American Heritage DictionariesISBN 0618077065 (0-618-07706-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Arabic Grammarby G. WickensISBN 0521293014 (0-521-29301-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Bantam New College Latin and English Dictionaryby John C. TraupmanISBN 055327581X (0-553-27581-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002by Dave Eggers, Michael CartISBN 0618246932 (0-618-24693-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002by Michael Cart, Dave EggersISBN 0618246940 (0-618-24694-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002'Book summary:Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.[via]
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 is a selection for young people of the best literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals: from the New Yorker, Jane, Rolling Stone, Zyzzyva, Vibe, The Onion, Spin, Epoch, Time, Little Engines, Modern Humorist, Esquire, and more. Dave Eggers has chosen the highlights of 2001 for this genre-busting collection that includes new fiction, essays, satire, journalism -- and much more. From Eric Schlosser on french fries to Elizabeth McKenzie on awful family to Seaton Smith on how to "jive" with your teen, The Best American Nonrequried Reading 2002 is the first and the best.More editions of The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002:
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003by Dave Eggers, Zadie SmithISBN 0618246967 (0-618-24696-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003'Book summary:This is the second year weve put this book together, and were beginning to have some idea of what were doing. But do we know exactly what this book is? We do not. The original purpose of the collection was to introduce younger readers--high school and college-age people, more or less--to good writing from contemporary writers. But then the book came out and we discovered that the readership was not what wed expected. Sure, there were some high school and college readers, but there were also older readers, and younger readers, and readers from every walk of lifepolice officers, firefighters, animal control experts, air-conditioning repair technicians, and prisoners. It runs the gamut.[via]
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What is the purpose of this book? Dominique, Santa Monica, CA Thank you for your question, Dominique. (Such a lovely name!) The purpose of this book is to collect good work of any kindfiction, humor, essays, comics, journalismin one place, for the English-reading consumer. The other books in the Best American series are limited by their categories, most particularly the popular but constraining Best American Catholic Badger Mystery Writing. This collection is not so limited, which is why, we think, it dominates all similar collections, making them whimper and cower in a way that is shameful.
Why aren't there more pieces about badgers? Reginald, Myrtle Beach, SC We had plans to include at least seven pieces about badgerstheir manufacture, appearance, and carebut were prevented from doing so by Zadie Smith. This was a condition of her inclusion in this volume.
In addition to the pieces included in the collection, and Ms. Smiths introductionor whatever it iswill there be a piece by the editor about a young man with a crush on a sixty-five-year-old woman whose lawn he cuts? Peter and Nam Mee, Washington, DC We might have such a piece. It might be immediately following this sentence.
(From the Foreword by Dave Eggers)
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, the very best pieces are selected by an editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field, making the Best American series the most respected--and most popular--of its kind.
Dave Eggers, who will be editing The Best American Nonrequired Reading annually, has once again chosen the best and least-expected fiction, nonfiction, satire, investigative reporting, alternative comics, and more from publications large, small, and on-line--The Onion, The New Yorker, Shout, Time, Zoetrope, Tin House, Nerve.com,and McSweeney's, to name just a few. Read on for "Some of the best literature you haven't been reading . . . And it's fantastic. All of it." (St. Petersburg Times).
Lynda Barry Jonathan Safran Foer Lisa Gabriele Andrea Lee J. T. Leroy Nasdijj ZZ Packer David SedarisMore editions of The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003:
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004by Dave Eggers, Viggo MortensenISBN 0618341234 (0-618-34123-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005by Dave EggersISBN 0618570470 (0-618-57047-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Boys and Girls Book about Divorceby Richard A. GardnerISBN 0553276190 (0-553-27619-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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If your parents fuss at you does it mean they don't love you? How can you tell if your father loves you, if he lives in another city? Are you "bad" when you get angry with your mother or father? Why is it a mistake to talk to one parent about another? Do you blame yourself for your parents' divorce?
This warm and honest book provides reassuring answers to these and many more crucial questions children ask about divorce. [via]More editions of The Boys and Girls Book about Divorce:
The Cambridge Encyclopediaby David CrystalISBN 052143176X (0-521-43176-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cambridge Encyclopedia'Book summary:Remarkably, the fourth edition of The Cambridge Encyclopedia manages to improve on its impressive predecessors. This is no small feat when you take a look at some of the reviews previous editions have garnered: The Daily Telegraph declared that "the essential facts are instantly available ... better written, more concise and intelligent"; the Independent on Sunday felt that it is "as comprehensive as a single-volume encyclopedia can hope to be"; Time Magazine wrote of "Thousands of enlightenments"; and the Mail on Sunday purred about "a superbly organised reference book."
The editorial content is clear and wastes no words. It manages to be accessible without over-simplifying, to a remarkable degree. Take the entry on Aesop as an example. After a pronunciation guide, we read:
"(?6th-c BC) Legendary Greek fabulist. He is supposed to have been a native of Phrygia and a slave who, after being set free, travelled to Greece. The fables attributed to him are anecdotes which use animals to make a moral point and are, in all probability, a compilation of tales from many sources. The stories were popularised by the Roman poet Phaedrus in the 1st-c AD, and rewritten in sophisticated verse by La Fontaine in 1668." There are cross-references to "fable; Greek Literature; La Fontaine; Phaedrus."
The same clarity and economy are maintained consistently throughout the whole vast tome. And it is massive: there are about 40,000 "separately identified people, places and topics" with thousands of those useful cross-references to link entries together, a 24-page colour atlas section, and 800 black and white illustrations to back up the text. The book really does succeed in its aim of being a standard reference for "home, school, library or office," useful for both adults and teenage students. --David Pickering [via]More editions of The Cambridge Encyclopedia:
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Languageby David CrystalISBN 0521559677 (0-521-55967-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Cambridge Latin Course: Unit II North Americaby Ed PhinneyISBN 052134381X (0-521-34381-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cambridge Latin Course: Unit II North America'Book summary:The Cambridge Latin Course is a well-established introductory program in four Units, originally developed by the Cambridge School Classics Project. Under the sponsorship of the North American Cambridge Classics Project, Unit 2 now has been fully revised and adapted for use in the United States and Canada. This proven approach includes a stimulating, continuous storylin, grammatical development and cultural information carefully woven throughout the text, a complete Language Information section--now bound into the students' volume--and, for the first time, color photographs that illustrate the Roman world. also available are a thorough Teacher's Manual, a workbook, and cassette tapes. The Third Edition is wholly compatible with the existing Second Edition. [via]
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Ceremonyby Leslie Marmon SilkoISBN 0613032977 (0-613-03297-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ceremony'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A Navajo family on a New Mexico reservation struggles to survive in a world no longer theirs in the years just before and after World War II. [via]
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Chambers Dictionary of Etymologyby Robert K. Barnhart, Sol SteinmetzISBN 0550142304 (0-550-14230-4)
Hardcover, Chambers Harrap Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chambers Dictionary of Etymology'Book summary:How are the words 'door' German 'Tzr' and Sanskrit 'dvar' related? When did the word Blarney first appear in print? What's the linguistic history of the word 'history'? The Chambers Etymological Dictionary holds all the answers for any person curious about the origins of the words they use, and how these words have changed over time. This fascinating dictionary explores the development of meaning, spelling, and pronunciation of over 25,000 English words. Over 30,000 detailed entries trace words back to their Proto-Germanic or Indo-European roots, and include words borrowed from other languages, as well as the sources and dates of their first recorded use. For many years academics, wordsmiths, crossword lovers, and language enthusiasts of all stripes have turned to this celebrated volume as their reference of choice in lexical matters. First published as the Barnhart Etymological Dictionary, the Chambers Dictionary of Etymology offers a unique combination of approachability and authoritativeness in an accessible single-volume format, making it an essential etymological resource for the expert, and a fascinating reference for the general reader. Sample entry from the Chambers Etymological Dictionary: blarney n. flattering, coaxing talk. 1766, Lady Blarny (for Blarney), a smooth-talking flatterer in Goldsmith's the Vicar of Wakefield, her name being a literary contrivance in allusion to Blarney Stone, a stone in a castle near Cork, Ireland. Anyone kissing the stone is supposed to become skillful in flattering and coaxing. The word is used in its general sense in a letter of Sir Walter Scott (1796).[via]More editions of Chambers Dictionary of Etymology:
Charlie Parker Played Be Bopby Chris RaschkaISBN 0531070956 (0-531-07095-6)
Softcover, Orchard Books
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Christian Wordsby Nigel TurnerISBN 0567085643 (0-567-08564-3)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Deciphering the Indus Scriptby Asko ParpolaISBN 0521430798 (0-521-43079-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Dinosaur Roar!by Paul Stickland, Henrietta SticklandISBN 0525452761 (0-525-45276-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dinosaur Roar!'Book summary:Dinosaurs are the gimmick here, not really the subject. The subjects are, first, antonyms--such as above/below and weak/strong--and then lunch. The paired dinosaurs, in a goofy array of pastels, are almost all smiling, even when the rhyme insists they're "grumpy"--so when they settle down to a lunch with (and not of) each other, the end is satisfying. The pictures and swingy short verses will make this a good group read-aloud, even for the very young.[via]
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The Dravidian Languagesby Bhadriraju KrishnamurtiISBN 0521771110 (0-521-77111-0)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Everything Is Illuminatedby Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0618173870 (0-618-17387-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everything Is Illuminated'Book summary:The simplest thing would be to describe Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer's accomplished debut, as a novel about the Holocaust. It is, but that really fails to do justice to the sheer ambition of this book. The main story is a grimly familiar one. A young Jewish American--who just happens to be called Jonathan Safran Foer--travels to the Ukraine in the hope of finding the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is aided in his search by Alex Perchov, a naïve Ukrainian translator, Alex's grandfather (also called Alex), and a flatulent mongrel dog named Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. On their journey through Eastern Europe's obliterated landscape they unearth facts about the Nazi atrocities and the extent of Ukrainian complicity that have implications for Perchov as well as Safran Foer. This narrative is not, however, recounted from (the character) Jonathan Safran Foer's perspective. It is relayed through a series of letters that Alex sends to Foer. These are written in the kind of broken Russo-English normally reserved for Bond villains or Latka from Taxi. Interspersed between these letters are fragments of a novel by Safran Foer--a wonderfully imagined, almost magical realist, account of life in the shtetl before the Nazis destroyed it. These are in turn commented on by Alex, creating an additional metafictional angle to the tale.
If all this sounds a little daunting, don't be put off; Safran Foer is an extremely funny as well as intelligent writer who combines some of the best Jewish folk yarns since Isaac Bashevis Singer with a quite heartbreaking meditation on love, friendship, and loss. --Travis Elborough, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Faber Dictionary of Euphemismsby R. W. HolderISBN 0571151256 (0-571-15125-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Fire and Iceby Dana StabenowISBN 0525944389 (0-525-94438-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Future Shockby Alvin TofflerISBN 0553277375 (0-553-27737-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Garden of Eloquence: A Rhetorical Bestiaryby Willard R. EspyISBN 0525481966 (0-525-48196-6)
Softcover, E P Dutton
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Guinea Pigs Far and Nearby Kate DukeISBN 0525441123 (0-525-44112-3)
Hardcover, Dutton
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The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Ageby Sven BirkertsISBN 057119849X (0-571-19849-X)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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A History of the Hebrew Languageby Angel Saenz-BadillosISBN 0521556341 (0-521-55634-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the Hebrew Language'Book summary:A History of the Hebrew Language is a comprehensive description of Hebrew from its Semitic origins and the earliest settlement of the Israelite tribes in Canaan to the present day. Professor Sáenz-Badillos sets Hebrew in the context of the Northwest Semitic languages and examines the origins of Hebrew and its earliest manifestations in ancient Biblical poetry, inscriptions, and prose written before the Babylonian exile. He looks at the different medieval traditions of pointing classical Biblical Hebrew texts and the characteristic features of the post-exilic language, including the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He gives particular attention to Rabbinic and medieval Hebrew, especially as evidenced in writings from Spain. His survey concludes with the revival of the language in this century in the form of Israeli Hebrew. [via]
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Singsby Maya AngelouISBN 0553279378 (0-553-27937-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'Book summary:In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant." [via]
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I Love Youby Remy CharlipISBN 0590023152 (0-590-02315-2)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Information Anxiety: What to Do When Information Doesn't Tell You What You Need to Knowby Richard Saul WurmanISBN 0553348566 (0-553-34856-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Je Ne Sais What?: A Guide to De Rigueur Frenglish for Readers, Writers, and Speakersby Jon Winokur, William BramhallISBN 052593703X (0-525-93703-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Languages of Native North Americaby Marianne MithunISBN 052129875X (0-521-29875-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Languages of Native North America'Book summary:This book is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the native North American languages. These several hundred languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. The book includes an overview of their special characteristics, descriptions of special styles, a catalog of the languages that details their locations, genetic affiliations, number of speakers, and major structural features, and lists published material on them. [via]
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Longman Pronunciation Dictionaryby John WellsISBN 0582364671 (0-582-36467-1)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Meow Ruffby Joyce Sidman, Michelle BergISBN 0618448942 (0-618-44894-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papersby Joseph GibaldiISBN 0613684532 (0-613-68453-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Mrs Dallowayby Virginia WoolfISBN 0613706226 (0-613-70622-6)
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My First Book of Wordsby Lana ShiffmanISBN 0590451421 (0-590-45142-1)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacyby Joseph F. Kett, E.D. Hirsch, James S. TrefilISBN 0618226478 (0-618-22647-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy'Book summary:In this fast-paced information age, how can Americans know what's really important and what's just a passing fashion? Now more than ever, we need a source that concisely sums up the knowledge that matters to Americans -- the people, places, ideas, and events that shape our cultural conversation. With more than six thousand entries,The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy is that invaluable source.[via]
Wireless technology. Gene therapy. NAFTA. In addition to the thousands of terms described in the original Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, here are more than five hundred new entries to bring Americans' bank of essential knowledge up to date. The original entries have been fully revised to reflect recent changes in world history and politics, American literature, and, especially, science and technology. Cultural icons that have stood the test of time (Odysseus, Leaves of Grass, Cleopatra, the Taj Mahal, D-Day) appear alongside entries on such varied concerns as cryptography, the digital divide, the European Union, Kwanzaa, pheromones, SPAM, Type A and Type B personalities, Web browsers, and much, much more.
As our world becomes more global and interconnected, it grows smaller through the terms and touchstones that unite us. As E. D. Hirsch writes in the preface, "Community is built up of shared knowledge and values -- the same shared knowledge that is taken for granted when we read a book or newspaper, and that is also taken for granted as part of the fabric that connects us to one another." A delicious concoction of information for anyone who wants to be in the know, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy brilliantly confirms once again that it is "an excellent piece of work . . . stimulating and enlightening" (New York Times) -- the most definitive and comprehensive family sourcebook of its kind.More editions of The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy:
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The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomedby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0618382011 (0-618-38201-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed'Book summary:At long last, The New Well-Tempered Sentence rescues punctuation from the perils of boredom, with wholly original explanations of the rules of punctuation, whimsical graphics, and utterly unforgettable characters (yes, characters in a grammar book). Gordon teaches you clearly and simply where to place a comma and how to use an apostrophe. Gradually, as you master the elusive slashes, dots, and dashes that give expression to our most perplexing thoughts, you will find yourself in the grip of a bizarre and bemusing comedy of manners. Witty, saucy, and utterly unforgettable, The New Well-Tempered Sentence is a must-have for anyone who has ever despaired of opening a punctuation handbook but whose sentences despair without one.[via]More editions of The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed:
Our Greek and Latin Rootsby James Morwood, Mark WarmanISBN 0521378419 (0-521-37841-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Painted Wordby Tom WolfeISBN 0553380656 (0-553-38065-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Painted Word'Book summary:In 1975, after having put radical chic and '60s counterculture to the satirical torch, Tom Wolfe turned his attention to the contemporary art world. The patron saint (and resident imp) of New Journalism couldn't have asked for a better subject. Here was a hotbed of pretension, nitwit theorizing, social climbing, and money, money, money--all Wolfe had to do was sharpen his tools and get to work. He did! Much of The Painted Word is a superb burlesque on that modern mating ritual whereby artists get to despise their middle-class audience and accommodate it at the same time. The painter, Wolfe writes, "had to dedicate himself to the quirky god Avant-Garde. He had to keep one devout eye peeled for the new edge on the blade of the wedge of the head on the latest pick thrust of the newest exploratory probe of this fall's avant-garde Breakthrough of the Century.... At the same time he had to keep his other eye cocked to see if anyone in le monde was watching."
The other bone Wolfe has to pick is with the proliferation of art theory, particularly the sort purveyed by postwar colossi like Harold Rosenberg, Clement Greenberg, and Leo Steinberg. Decades after the heyday of abstract expressionism, these guys make pretty easy targets. What could be more absurd, after all, than endless Jesuitical disputes about the flatness of the picture plane? So most of them get a highly comical spanking from the author. It's worth pointing out, of course, that Wolfe paints with a broad (as it were) brush. If he's skewering the entire army of artistic pretenders in a single go, there's no room to admit that Jasper Johns or Willem DeKooning might actually have some talent. But as he would no doubt admit, The Painted Word isn't about the history of art. It's about the history of taste and middlebrow acquisition--and nobody has chronicled these two topics as hilariously or accurately as Tom Wolfe. --James Marcus [via]
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Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life With Wordsby Susan WooldridgeISBN 0609800981 (0-609-80098-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life With Words'Book summary:Poemcrazy is the poetic analog to Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird or Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones, two classic works on how to forget that you "can't write" and just start the pen moving. Susan Wooldridge is a swimming instructor in the wide ocean of language, encouraging us to move ever farther from the shore, dive deep, and dance on the waves. [via]
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Roget's II the New ThesaurusISBN 0618254145 (0-618-25414-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
Find This BookBook summary:Lists main entry words alphabetically as in a dictionary for quick lookup. Each entry is divided into senses with brief definitions and a full list of synonyms for each sense. Special usages such as slang terms are labeled and grouped together at the end of each synonym list. Following each list is a cross-reference to a related entry in the thesaurus's unique Category Index. This index leads the reader from the starting word to dozens of others that have related or opposite meanings. 260 000 words. Thumb-indexed. 2.61 lb weight. Reference Book Type: Thesaurus; Subjects: N/A; Age Recommendation: N/A; Language(s): English. [via]
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Roget's II: The New Thesaurusby The American Heritage DictionariesISBN 0618257519 (0-618-25751-9)
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Roget's Pocket ThesaurusISBN 0618378073 (0-618-37807-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
Find This BookBook summary:Roget's Pocket Thesaurus is a handy guide to key English synonyms. Main entries contain full paragraphs detailing nuances of meaning and usage among related synonyms, often including example sentences or phrases. Other entries provide a core meaning and a selected list of the most important synonyms. A convenient appendix groups related nouns, adjectives, prefixes, and suffixes a browser's delight.[via]More editions of Roget's Pocket Thesaurus:
Scholastic Rhyming Dictionaryby Sue YoungISBN 0590494600 (0-590-49460-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
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Simplified Swahiliby Peter WilsonISBN 0582623588 (0-582-62358-8)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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Slang and Its Analogues: Past and Present/7 Volumes Bound in 3 Booksby John S. FarmerISBN 0527283002 (0-527-28300-2)
Hardcover, Periodicals Service Co
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The Sounds of Language: An Introduction to Phoneticsby Henry RogersISBN 0582381827 (0-582-38182-7)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Spoken Here: Travels among Threatened Languagesby Mark AbleyISBN 0618565833 (0-618-56583-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages'Book summary:In Spoken Here, Mark Abley journeys around the world seeking out languages in peril -- Manx, Mohawk, Boro, Yiddish, and many more. Along the way he reveals delicious linguistic oddities and shows us what is lost when one of the world's six thousand tongues dies -- an irreplaceable worldview and a wealth of practical knowledge. He also examines the forces, from pop culture to creoles to global politics, that threaten to wipe out 90 percent of languages by this century's end.[via]
Abley encounters one of the last two speakers of an Australian language, whose tribal taboos forbid them to talk to each other. He spotlights those who believe that violence is the only way to save their tongue. He meets a Yiddish novelist who writes for an audience she knows doesn't exist. He pays tribute to such strange tongues as the Amazonian language last spoken by a parrot, the Caucasian language with no vowels, and the South Asian language whose innumerable verbs include gobray (to fall in a well unknowingly) and onsra (to love for the last time).
Each of the languages Abley spotlights, from the familiar to the foreign, exemplifies the various threats that endanger languages worldwide. But many also prove their resilience, thanks to the efforts of their determined speakers and such unlikely tools as soap operas and pop music. Abley meets the crusaders as well as the uncaring, all of whom offer surprising insight into this centuries-old debate. Spoken Here is a singular travelogue, a compelling case for linguistic diversity, and a treasure trove for anyone who loves any language.More editions of Spoken Here: Travels among Threatened Languages:
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The Study of Languageby George YuleISBN 0521543207 (0-521-54320-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Study of Language'Book summary:This revised and updated edition incorporates many changes that reflect developments in language study over the past decade, including a new chapter on pragmatics, and an expansion of the chapter on semantics. There are additional sections on speech recognition systems, sign languages, women's and men's language, input in language learning, and several other topics. The Study Questions and Discussion Topics following each chapter have also been thoroughly revised, with the addition of more than 30 new tasks for students; and the Further Reading sections have been revised, updated and expanded. The new edition also has many more illustrations, examples, and quotes from a wide range of commentators, from Groucho Marx to Gary Larson. The presentation retains the clear and lively style which made the first edition a hugely popular introduction to the study of language. [via]
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Teach Us Amelia Bedeliaby Peggy ParishISBN 0590433458 (0-590-43345-8)
Softcover, Scholastic
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This Place in the Snowby Rebecca BondISBN 0525473084 (0-525-47308-4)
Hardcover, Dutton Childrens Books
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Tomfoolery, Trickery and Foolery With Wordsby Alvin SchwartzISBN 0553150014 (0-553-15001-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Artby Scott McCloudISBN 0613027825 (0-613-02782-5)
Hardcover, Micro Data Base Systems, Incorporated (m d b s)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art'Book summary:As all good card-carrying comic-book fans know, their sheer passion will never overcome narrow-minded critics and their baying cries of derision. There is far more to this perpetually underrated medium than a mix of art and prose. With this indispensable, spellbinding tome, writer/artist Scott McCloud rises to the challenge of dissecting what remains the most enigmatic of art forms. After all, says McCloud, "No other art form gives so much to its audience while asking so much from them as well". Over the course of 215 impeccably formed pages, McCloud joyously exposes and deconstructs a hidden world of icons in a most literate and valid manner. His charming guidance finds a place where Time and Space is effortlessly malleable and the reader is both a willing accomplice and necessary vessel for comics' singular magic. Cunningly presented in comic form, McCloud (or his comic equivalent) conducts a journey that spans thousands of years, taking in art from Prehistoric Man to the Egyptians to Van Gogh to Jack Kirby. Never has psychological and cultural analysis been so understandably clear, beautifully aided by clever visuals and his truly infectious love for the medium. By the end of this funny, charming, rare and exciting book, you'll not doubt the notion that a comic book "...is a vacuum into which our identity and awareness are pulled ... an empty shell that we inhabit which enables us to travel to another realm". A fine exchange for a little faith and a world of imagination. --Danny Graydon [via]
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Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old & New Testament Wordsby W. E. Vine, Frederick Fyvie BruceISBN 0529063743 (0-529-06374-3)
Hardcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from Npr's Fresh Airby Geoffrey NunbergISBN 0618116036 (0-618-11603-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Well-Crafted Argument: A Guide and Readerby Fred D. White, Simone J. BillingsISBN 061804549X (0-618-04549-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Wind In The Doorby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 061372383X (0-613-72383-X)
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Word Traps: A Dictionary of the 5,000 Most Confusing Sound-Alike and Look-Alike WordsISBN 059500279X (0-595-00279-X)
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Word Upby Rob KyffISBN 059512478X (0-595-12478-X)
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Word Watcher's Handbook: A Deletionary of the Most Abused and Misused Wordsby Phyllis Rodgers MartinISBN 0595150691 (0-595-15069-1)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Valuesby Robert M. PirsigISBN 0553277472 (0-553-27747-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values'Book summary:In his now classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig brings us a literary chautauqua, a novel that is meant to both entertain and edify. It scores high on both counts.
Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how we can unify the cold, rational realm of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. As in Zen, the trick is to become one with the activity, to engage in it fully, to see and appreciate all details--be it hiking in the woods, penning an essay, or tightening the chain on a motorcycle.
In his autobiographical first novel, Pirsig wrestles both with the ghost of his past and with the most important philosophical questions of the 20th century--why has technology alienated us from our world? what are the limits of rational analysis? if we can't define the good, how can we live it? Unfortunately, while exploring the defects of our philosophical heritage from Socrates and the Sophists to Hume and Kant, Pirsig inexplicably stops at the middle of the 19th century. With the exception of Poincaré, he ignores the more recent philosophers who have tackled his most urgent questions, thinkers such as Peirce, Nietzsche (to whom Phaedrus bears a passing resemblance), Heidegger, Whitehead, Dewey, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Kuhn. In the end, the narrator's claims to originality turn out to be overstated, his reasoning questionable, and his understanding of the history of Western thought sketchy. His solution to a synthesis of the rational and creative by elevating Quality to a metaphysical level simply repeats the mistakes of the premodern philosophers. But in contrast to most other philosophers, Pirsig writes a compelling story. And he is a true innovator in his attempt to popularize a reconciliation of Eastern mindfulness and nonrationalism with Western subject/object dualism. The magic of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance turns out to lie not in the answers it gives, but in the questions it raises and the way it raises them. Like a cross between The Razor's Edge and Sophie's World, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance takes us into "the high country of the mind" and opens our eyes to vistas of possibility. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Zen Art of Motorcycleby Robert PirsigISBN 055325748X (0-553-25748-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how we can unify the cold, rational realm of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. As in Zen, the trick is to become one with the activity, to engage in it fully, to see and appreciate all details--be it hiking in the woods, penning an essay, or tightening the chain on a motorcycle.
In his autobiographical first novel, Pirsig wrestles both with the ghost of his past and with the most important philosophical questions of the 20th century--why has technology alienated us from our world? what are the limits of rational analysis? if we can't define the good, how can we live it? Unfortunately, while exploring the defects of our philosophical heritage from Socrates and the Sophists to Hume and Kant, Pirsig inexplicably stops at the middle of the 19th century. With the exception of Poincaré, he ignores the more recent philosophers who have tackled his most urgent questions, thinkers such as Peirce, Nietzsche (to whom Phaedrus bears a passing resemblance), Heidegger, Whitehead, Dewey, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Kuhn. In the end, the narrator's claims to originality turn out to be overstated, his reasoning questionable, and his understanding of the history of Western thought sketchy. His solution to a synthesis of the rational and creative by elevating Quality to a metaphysical level simply repeats the mistakes of the premodern philosophers. But in contrast to most other philosophers, Pirsig writes a compelling story. And he is a true innovator in his attempt to popularize a reconciliation of Eastern mindfulness and nonrationalism with Western subject/object dualism. The magic of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance turns out to lie not in the answers it gives, but in the questions it raises and the way it raises them. Like a cross between The Razor's Edge and Sophie's World, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance takes us into "the high country of the mind" and opens our eyes to vistas of possibility. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Mi Primer Libro De Palabrasby Mil Palabras, Que Se Debe, Saber Cada Nino, Lena ShiffmanISBN 0590460285 (0-590-46028-5)
Softcover, Scholastic
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