Lynne Truss

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

South Dakota

The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door

An upbeat evaluation of the way discourteous behavior has become commonplace and even applauded in today's society is a humorous call to arms that challenges ill manners and the practices that support them. By the author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. 500,000 first printing.

Talk to the Hand

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Peter M. Chapman

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Minnesota

Based on: Thesaurus of English words and phrases / by Peter Mark Roget. Includes index.

Roget's International Thesaurus

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dictionary of quotations

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

The Little Book of Essential Knowledge

Refresh your memory, make new discoveries, and quiz yourself on facts you once learned and may have long forgotten?just pick up this handy reference to have all the answers at your fingertips.

Wish you were that person who could answer any question? Can?t find just the right thing to say to start a conversation at a cocktail party? This book offers hours of fact-finding pleasure with a huge collection of intriguing and useful facts, plus quizzes to improve your knowledge. You can gain valuable information about a myriad of subjects?with just a page or two devoted to each topic?presented in clear, easy-to-understand language. And, best of all, you will be on your way to becoming a Know It All!

There are 10 sections?Understanding the Universe, The Story of the Earth, The Story of Life, Exploring the World, Invention and Discovery, Conflicts of the Modern Age, Structure of Society, Religion and Philosophy, Artistic Endeavors, and Quizzes. Sidebars such as ?Conversation Starters,? ?In the Know,? and ?In Fact? provide at-a-glance tidbits of information. At the end of each chapter are ?Test Yourself? quizzes that can be taken at any time to give your brain a workout and prove how much you?ve learned. Each quiz has ?Research Notes? sidebars that point you to the pages in the book that discuss the subjects covered in the quiz.

All of the content has been thoroughly researched and written by a team of experts to convey the basic elements of knowledge across a variety of topics and areas of interest. Know It All provides the essential knowledge for every subject and then some.



Know It All

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New Jersey

An A to Zed Guide to Distinctively British Words

From "chips" and "crumbs" to "spending a penny," The Queen's English is your indispensable guide to surviving and thriving in the tricky byways of the English language, which has shown many a poor soul the way out for little more than twanging a vowel, splitting an infinitive or, crime of all crimes, saying dinner instead of tea. With The Queen's English there's no need to become "flummoxed" ever again. This must-have A to Z guide uncovers the quintessential meanings behind more than 100 familiar words and phrases of the distinctively British lexicon, including:

 * By hook or by crook (adv. phrase): It is good to find a phrase in common use that goes back as far as this one, and which appears (though not entirely proven) to link back to England's feudal past. In medieval times when the peasantry were not allowed to cut down trees, they were permitted nonetheless to gather firewood from loose or dead branches which could be obtained using "hook" (bill hook, a traditional cutting tool) or "crook," a staff with a curved end. No doubt the desperate peasant often exceeded the strict use of these tools, and so the sense is to achieve something by whatever means possible. The first recorded use of the phrase is from the fourteenth century.
 * Gazump (vt.): Usually so proud of their reputation for playing fair, the English have a curious blind spot when it comes to buying and selling houses. To "gazump" is to raise the price of a piece of real estate after the sale has been agreed but before the contract is signed, usually on the pretext that the owner has received a higher offer elsewhere. The original buyer is then forced to raise their offer or the property goes to the higher bidder. This unethical but not illegal practice appeared first with the spelling "gazoomph" and was derived from an older and more general term "gazumph" (or gezumph) for the various kinds of swindling that go on at dishonest auctions.
 * In a nutshell (adv. phrase): "Oh God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a King of infinite space..." cries Hamlet in Shakespeare's tragic play. But the meaning of the expression, namely, to put much into a small space, goes way back to classical times, to Pliny's Natural History where he writes: "Cicero records that a parchment copy of Homer's poem The Iliad was enclosed in a nutshell (in nuce)." In Shakespeare's own time, a Bible is said to have been produced that could fit into a nutshell, and that curiosity may have come to the playwright's notice.
 * People like us (np.): Often abbreviated to PLU, this phrase is used by those of a certain social class to approve of others as acceptable by birth and station, and originates in the 1940s milieu typified by the artistic, wayward, and eccentric Mitford sisters, daughters of the second Baron Redesdale. We get a flavor of the attitude where Nancy Mitford, in a letter to her sister Jessica (August 28, 1957), declared that "People Like Us are never killed in earthquakes ...." Nancy refined the art of social class distinctions in her book Noblesse Oblige with a list of subtle differences in vocabulary first defined as U (upper class) and non-U (aspriring middle class) by the sociolinguist Alan Ross in 1954.

So if you ever wanted to know what it means to be a "meat-and-potatoes man," a "lame duck," or to be in a "pretty pickle," stop "umming and erring" and read this fascinating collection "straightaway."

The Queen's English

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California

Our County’s Presidents 

Oregon

My Fun With Words: Volume 2

Collectors’ Guidebook to Coins 

Stuff Every Man Should Know

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Pennsylvania

The New Webster’s Thesaurus

Tom Cutler

Foxing to rear side of both front and back boards

Featuring various subjects not taught at school or Scouts, this is a life-skills handbook for bright boys of every age. It contains tutorials on: Weird Science and Sideshow Physics - spoon-bending, teach yourself mindreading; Bracing Outdoor Activities - cowboy ropecraft, how to punt without looking a fool; and more.

211 Things a Bright Boy Can Do

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Zena Sutherland

Mary H. Arbuthnot

Dianne L. Monson

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Uitvoerig gedocumenteerd handboek over de Angelsaksische jeugdliteratuur. Na inleidende hoofdstukken worden genres kinderboeken behandeld en tevens het werken met kinderen en boeken.

Children and Books

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Kentucky

Using over 2200 full-colour illustrations to enhance the description of a variety of medical terms, this edition has 40,000 entries across all health care specialties with comprehensive appendices and a colour atlas of human anatomy.

Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary

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Tennessee

Provides answers to such questions as "Was there ever a real Aunt Jemima?" "What is the difference between bourbon and Scotch?" "Why do trains have a caboose?" and "Why do we give names to hurricanes?"

The Book of Totally Useless Information

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Presents facts about amusement parks, animals, computers, music, sports, and other topics.

The Kids' World Almanac of Records and Facts

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Introduces what the Bible has to say about God, living a Christian life, and subjects from angels and anger to work and worship.

The Children's Encyclopedia of Bible Beliefs

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Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

Illinois

The New Britannia-Webster Dictionary and Reference Guide

Louisiana

1984 thumb tab edition

Websters II New Riverside University Dictionary

Don Voorhees

The MacMillan Visual Desk Reference

Thomas S. Buechner

A Sixty-Year Retrospective

Norman Rockwell

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"What was so important about the Dred Scott decision? Why aren't all Shakespearean comedies necessarily thigh-slappers? What happened inside Plato's cave? What's the difference between a fade-out and a dissolve? Fission and fusion? Shi'ites and Sunnis? The apostles and the disciples? Is postmodernism dead or just having a bad hair day? And for extra credit, how do you tell deduction from induction?" "An Incomplete Education answers these and thousands of other questions with incomparable wit, style, clarity and brevity. American Studies, Art History, Economics, Film, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Science, and World History: Here's the bottom line on each of these major disciplines, distilled to its essence and served up with consummate flair." "In this new edition you'll find up-to-the-minute analyses of the geopolitical situation in Eastern Europe, Indochina, and the Horn of Africa; the latest breakthroughs in cloning and gene splicing; brand-new takes on the economy, from disinflation to global competition; a look at the recent upheavals surrounding abortion rights, free speech, and the death penalty; and much, much more."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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