Collins English Thesaurus Essential: All the Words You Need, Every Day [Eighth Edition] by Collins Dictionaries
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Category: Reference | Series: Collins Essential Ser.
The perfect word reference for daily use. With practical usage notes, and a fantastic supplement, this is the ideal thesaurus to take your language use and knowledge further. 300,000 synonyms and antonyms. Specially tailored to meet the needs of the user at home, school, or in the office, with all the w ...Show more
The Ripples Before the New Wave : Drama at the University of Sydney 1957-63 by DALTON ROBYN
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Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Virginia Woolf
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FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster ...Show more
Voices of History: Speeches That Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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VOICES OF HISTORY celebrates the great speeches of world history and cultural life. In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some speeches are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious; some a ...Show more
James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia by Simon Barnard
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Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in ...Show more
Lonely Planet Kids Atlas of Monsters and Ghosts by Lonely Planet Kids, Federica Magrin
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Category: Reference | Series: Lonely Planet Kids
If you believe that all you need to fight an evil bloodthirsty fiend is garlic or holy water, think again. What you need is to keep a cool head and reach for your copy of Atlas of Monsters and Ghosts! Have you heard of the headless man roaming Edinburgh Castle? Or the mysterious girl who asks for a rid ...Show more
Explorers: Amazing Tales of the World's Greatest Adventurers (HB) by Nellie Huang
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Meet famous explorers and adventurers in this exciting non-fiction storybook for children. Venture into steaming jungles in search of lost temples, fight off frostbite in the Arctic, and blast off into space!Great explorers have one thing in common - a desire to leap into the unknown, no matter how dang ...Show more
Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus Boxed Set: All the Words You Need, Every Day [Third Edition] by Collins Dictionaries
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Category: Reference | Series: Collins English Dictionaries Ser.
Specially tailored to meet the needs of the user at home, school, or in the office, the Paperback Thesaurus and the Paperback Dictionary are the perfect reference books for everyday use. Both books come packaged in a flexible boxed set, the ideal gift set to take your language use and knowledge further. ...Show more
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Peter Boxall (General Editor)
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Delve into the pages of this sumptuously illustrated book and take a tour of the greatest novels that the world has to offer. Fully updated for 2018.
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson
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Category: Reference | Series: Princeton Legacy Library
The insights presented in the volume are many and wide-ranging, recognizably in tune with the subtlest modern discussions of desire (such as triangulation. or loving what others love), yet offering new solutions to old problems, like the proper interpretation of Plato's Phaedrus. On the frequently discu ...Show more
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris
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Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
Ray: "Readers of “Between you and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen,” will be enchanted by this sequel of sorts. And if you haven’t read "Comma Queen,” you will after finishing “Greek to Me,” and learning how Greek helped Norris, an international literary treasure, come to know the derivation of many Eng ...Show more