Words From the Heart - An Emotional Dictionary by Susie Dent
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Category: Reference
Whether it's the distress of a bad haircut (AGE-OTORI) or longing for the food someone else is eating (GROAKING), the pleasure found in other people's happiness (CONFELICITY) or the shock of jumping into icy water (CURGLAFF), there are real words to pinpoint exactly how you feel and Susie Dent, Queen of ...Show more
The Grammar Daily: 365 Quick Tips for Successful Writing from Grammar Girl by Mignon Fogarty
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Category: Reference | Series: Quick and Dirty Tips Ser.
One hundred million podcast downloads say it all: Mignon Fogarty's kicky, practical, and easy-to-remember advice about style and usage has won her fans across the globe. Her first book, <i>Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing</i>, hit the <i>New York Times</i> b ...Show more
Dictionary of Gestures: Expressive Comportments and Movements in Use around the World by Francois Caradec
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Category: Reference
An illustrated guide to more than 850 gestures and their meanings around the world, from a nod of the head to a click of the heels. Gestures convey meaning with a flourish. A vigorous nod of the head, a bold jut of the chin, an enthusiastic thumbs-up- all speak louder than words. Yet the same gesture ma ...Show more
Wild Things: How We Learn To Read and What Can Happen If We Don't by Sally Rippin
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Category: Reference
We love wayward children in literature. Not so much in life. When Sally Rippin discovered her child was struggling to read, the best-selling children’s author assumed it would sort itself out over time. She couldn’t have been more wrong. Her son’s dyslexia and ADHD went undiagnosed for years, leaving ...Show more
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo
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Category: Reference
'I cannot say enough about How to Read Now... Check it out' Roxane Gay'A red-hot grenade... One of my favourite books of the year' Jia Tolentino'Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny' Andrew Sean Greer'I gasped, shouted, and holler-laughed . . . Phenomenal' R.O. Kwon'A wake-up call. A ...Show more
A Little History of Literature by John Sutherland
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Category: Reference | Series: Little Histories Ser.
This 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task. He has researched, taught, and written on virtually every area of literature, and his infecti ...Show more
The Little Green Grammar Book (PB) by Mark Tredinnick
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Category: Reference
What really goes on inside a sentence? What is your subject, where is your verb, what is its tense, where is your modifier, and why does it matter? Where do you need a comma, and where do you not? Why are dashes and semicolons so misunderstood? When is it which and when is it that? In The Little Green G ...Show more
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature by Daniel Hahn
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Category: Reference
The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of young adult and crossover fiction, and books that tackle extraordinarily difficult subjects. The Oxford ...Show more
Oxford A-Z of Spelling by Catherine Soanes
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Category: Reference
Offers advice on how to use apostrophes and hyphens, and the differences between British and American spelling. This book mainly consists of a list of over 2000 words. Based on evidence of misspelling gathered from real situations, this guide provides help with spellings.
The Truck Book: The Definitive Visual History by DK
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Category: Reference
Keep on trucking with this definitive visual history of lorries, trucks, vans, and everything in between A lavishly illustrated celebration of trucks and trucking, from the first motorized wagons to the advent of driverless freight vehicles. Charting decade after decade of innovation and change, The Tru ...Show more
Oxford English Mini Dictionary (8th Edition) by Oxford Dictionary
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Category: Reference | Series: UK Bestselling Dictionaries Ser.
This small dictionary offers the most accurate and up-to-date coverage of essential, everyday vocabulary with over 90,000 words, phrases, and definitions based on evidence from the Oxford English Corpus, a unique databank comprising hundreds of millions of words of English. Definitions are easy to under ...Show more
Africa: The Definitive Visual History of a Continent by John Reader
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Category: Reference
A comprehensive and richly visual guide to more than 200,000 years of African history and cultures Immerse yourself in the intricate story of Africa and discover Africa's true place in world history. Spanning more than 200,000 years, from the emergence of the first humans to the rise of megacities, Afri ...Show more