What on Earth Are You Wearing: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fashion

What on Earth Are You Wearing?: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fashion
Chloe Quigley (Author), Daniel Pollock (Author), Kat Macleod (Illustrator)
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Every fashionista worth her Louboutins cares as much about a book's outfit as she does about its content. This pursesized encyclopedia dons a cloth cover stamped with shimmering silver foil and a satin-ribbon page marker. Alongside vibrant illustrations, a team of fashion forecasters defines more than 285 terms from acid wash to zebra ("fatigues are really just exhausted clothes") and answers sartorial quandaries ("What do I do when I've bought a genuine 'Channel' handbag in Hong Kong?"). Equally snarky and stylish, this insider's guide is sure to be on all of this season's best-dressed lists.

• Rank: #58235 in Books
• Published on: 2012-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .78" h x 5.82" w x 8.15" l, .79 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

The Science Of Discworld

The Science Of Discworld
Ian Stewart (Author)
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The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition

The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition
Emily Dickinson (Author), R. W. Franklin (Editor)
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Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a drawer, revealed her true self. She did not live in time but in universals--an acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world. Dickinson died without fame; only a few poems were published in her lifetime. Her legacy was later rescued from her desk--an astonishing body of work, much of which has since appeared in piecemeal editions, sometimes with words altered by editors or publishers according to the fashion of the day.

Now Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems by Emily Dickinson--1,789 poems in all, the largest number ever assembled. This reading edition derives from his three-volume work, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (1998), which contains approximately 2,500 sources for the poems. In this one-volume edition, Franklin offers a single reading of each poem--usually the latest version of the entire poem--rendered with Dickinson's spelling, punctuation, and capitalization intact. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition is a milestone in American literary scholarship and an indispensable addition to the personal library of poetry lovers everywhere.

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• Published on: 2005-10-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.74" h x 1.10" w x 5.63" l, 1.66 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 696 pages

The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published

The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published
David Skinner (Author)
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“It takes true brilliance to lift the arid tellings of lexicographic fussing into the readable realm of the thriller and the bodice-ripper….David Skinner has done precisely this, taking a fine story and honing it to popular perfection.”
—Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman

The Story of Ain’t by David Skinner is the captivating true chronicle of the creation of Merriam Webster’s Third New International Dictionary in 1961, the most controversial dictionary ever published. Skinner’s surprising and engaging, erudite and witty account will enthrall fans of Winchester’s The Professor and the Madman and The Meaning of Everything, and The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs, as it explores a culture in transition and the brilliant, colorful individuals behind it. The Story of Ain’t is a smart, often outrageous, and altogether remarkable tale of how egos, infighting, and controversy shaped one of America’s most authoritative language texts, sparking a furious language debate that the late, great author David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest) once called “the Fort Sumter of the Usage Wars.” 

• Rank: #269879 in Books
• Published on: 2012-10-09
• Released on: 2012-10-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x 1.38" w x 5.98" l, 1.15 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

The Bedford Anthology of World Literature Book 6: The Twentieth Century, 1900-The Present

The Bedford Anthology of World Literature Book 6: The Twentieth Century, 1900-The Present
Davd MJohnson (Author)
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The Bedford Anthology of World Literature doesn’t just surround an unsurpassed collection of western and world literature with generous literary, historical, and cultural contexts — it also gives students the help they need to explore an entire world of literature.

• Rank: #112759 in Books
• Published on: 2003-02-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.60" h x 7.00" w x 9.30" l, 3.05 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 1448 pages

The Encyclopedia of The Fire Series

The Encyclopedia of The Fire Series
Patrick Henry (a pseudonym) (Author)

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This encyclopedia chronicles the known world of Montana and other parts of the Great North.

As every child learns when he first learns to speak, high technology as our ancestors knew it ceased to exist over a thousand years ago when a cataclysmic event known as “The Fire” unleashed itself upon all of our lands. Our ancient ancestors’ greatest fears came true. They paid the ultimate price for their collective sins. The world they knew died in a global war that witnessed their seas boil, their skies darken and their entire land burn. One need only look upon the jewel belt to know the truth of what I write.

Our new, healed, but still scarred Montana exists in an age of great barbarity and savagery, but also incredible magic. Isolated pockets of enormous knowledge and historical record survive. Tragically, most common people remain ignorant of the past ages and the nations that once existed.

Gods, dragons and wizards inhabit our land. Some are great and worshiped. Others are more solitary and unknown. A few terrible beings are even feared and despised.

Use this encyclopedia as a guide as you journey into the Protectorate and the Empire of Kane. But be warned! This tome is not complete and much is unknown about the lands outside the Protectorate’s boundaries and there is great danger everywhere for even the trained adventurer.

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• Published on: 2013-02-15
• Released on: 2013-02-15
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester (Author)
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From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary.

Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language--"so vast, so sprawling, so wonderfully unwieldy"--and pays homage to the great dictionary makers, from "the irredeemably famous" Samuel Johnson to the "short, pale, smug and boastful" schoolmaster from New Hartford, Noah Webster. He then turns his unmatched talent for story-telling to the making of this most venerable of dictionaries. In this fast-paced narrative, the reader will discover lively portraits of such key figures as the brilliant but tubercular first editor Herbert Coleridge (grandson of the poet), the colorful, boisterous Frederick Furnivall (who left the project in a shambles), and James Augustus Henry Murray, who spent a half-century bringing the project to fruition. Winchester lovingly describes the nuts-and-bolts of dictionary making--how unexpectedly tricky the dictionary entry for marzipan was, or how fraternity turned out so much longer and monkey so much more ancient than anticipated--and how bondmaid was left out completely, its slips found lurking under a pile of books long after the B-volume had gone to press. We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium--the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it--and meet some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to W. C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and ultimate redemption.
The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project--a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the world's unrivalled uber-dictionary.

• Rank: #82714 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .72" h x 4.94" w x 8.01" l, .71 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Show Me Dinosaurs: My First Picture Encyclopedia (My First Picture Encyclopedias)

Show Me Dinosaurs: My First Picture Encyclopedia (My First Picture Encyclopedias)
Janet Riehecky (Author)

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Seeing is learning with My First Picture Encyclopedias. In Show Me Dinosaurs, kids get a just-right reference book about all of their favorite dinosaurs from Triceratops to Tyrannosaurus rex. Tons of facts and photos teach kids about plant-munching beasts, meat-eating hunters, and how dinosaurs lived and died on ancient Earth.

• Rank: #2551454 in Books
• Published on: 2013-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 32 pages

J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment

J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment
Michael D.C. Drout (Editor)
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A detailed work of reference and scholarship, this one volume Encyclopedia includes discussions of all the fundamental issues in Tolkien scholarship written by the leading scholars in the field.

Coverage not only presents the most recent scholarship on J.R.R. Tolkien, but also introduces and explores the author and scholar's life and work within their historical and cultural contexts. Tolkien's fiction and his sources of influence are examined along with his artistic and academic achievements – including his translations of medieval texts – teaching posts, linguistic works, and the languages he created. The 550 alphabetically arranged entries fall within the following categories of topics:

• adaptations
• art and illustrations
• characters in Tolkien's work
• critical history and scholarship
• influence of Tolkien
• languages
• biography
• literary sources
• literature
• creatures and peoples of Middle-earth
• objects in Tolkien's work
• places in Tolkien's work
• reception of Tolkien
• medieval scholars
• scholarship by Tolkien
• medieval literature
• stylistic elements
• themes in Tolkien's works
• theological/ philosophical concepts and philosophers
• Tolkien's contemporary history and culture
• works of literature

• Rank: #816743 in Books
• Published on: 2013-04-12
• Binding: Paperback
• 808 pages

Dictionary of Symbolism: Cultural Icons and the Meanings Behind Them

Dictionary of Symbolism: Cultural Icons and the Meanings Behind Them
Hans Biedermann (Author), James Hulbert (Author)
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Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India

Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India
Henry Yule (Author), A. C. Burnell (Author), Kate Teltscher (Author)

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Hobson-Jobson is a unique work of maverick scholarship. Compiled in 1886 by two India enthusiasts, it documents the words and phrases that entered English from Arabic, Persian, Indian, and Chinese sources - and vice versa. Described by Salman Rushdie as 'the legendary dictionary of British India' it shows how words of Indian origin were absorbed into the English language and records not only the vocabulary but the culture of the Raj. It encompasses aspects of the history, trade, peoples, and geography of Asia in entries that are at once authoritative and playful. Like the Oxford English Dictionary, Hobson-Jobson included illustrative quotations that were drawn from a wide range of travel texts, histories, memoirs, and novels, creating a canon of English writing about India. The definitions frequently slip into anecdote, reminiscence, and digression, and they offer intriguing insights into Victorian attitudes to India and its people and customs.

With its delight in language, etymology, and puns, Hobson-Jobson has fascinated generations of writers from Rudyard Kipling to Tom Stoppard and Amitav Ghosh. This selected edition retains the range and idiosyncrasy of the original, and Kate Teltscher's introduction and notes provide fascinating information on the glossary's creation, and its significance for the English language.

• Rank: #1180562 in Books
• Published on: 2013-08-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 624 pages

Edgar Cayce Encyclopedia of Healing

Edgar Cayce Encyclopedia of Healing
Reba Ann Karp (Author)
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Edgar Cayce used his psychic trances to diagnose and treat illnesses from arthritis to epilepsy. This guide provides an easily accessible reference to 9000 of his readings, covering nearly 200 ailments and their treatments.

• Rank: #19216 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 6.77" h x 1.10" w x 4.17" l, .67 pounds
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 656 pages

Walking with Dinosaurs Encyclopedia

Walking with Dinosaurs Encyclopedia
Steve Brusatte (Author)

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Walking with Dinosaurs Encyclopedia by Steve Brusatte has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

• Rank: #405344 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-11-05
• Released on: 2013-11-05
• Number of items: 1

The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students

The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students
Heather Sellers (Author)
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The Encyclopedia of Writing and Illustrating Children's Books: From creating characters to developing stories, a step-by-step guide to making magical picture books

The Encyclopedia of Writing and Illustrating Children's Books: From creating characters to developing stories, a step-by-step guide to making magical picture books
Desdemona McCannon (Author), Sue Thornton (Author), Yadzia Williams (Author)
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In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction

In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction
Lee Gutkind (Author), Annie Dillard (Author)
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Twenty-five arresting selections from the groundbreaking journal that defined a genre.

Creative nonfiction, also known as narrative nonfiction, liberated journalism by inviting writers to dramatize, interpret, speculate, and even re-create their subjects. Lee Gutkind collects twenty-five essays that flourished on this new ground, all originally published in the journal he founded, Creative Nonfiction, now celebrating its tenth anniversary. Lauren Slater is a therapist in the institution where she was once a patient. John Edgar Wideman reacts passionately to the unjust murder of Emmett Till. Charles Simic tells of wild nights with Uncle Boris. John McPhee creates a rare, personal, album quilt. Terry Tempest Williams speaks on the decline of the prairie dog. Madison Smartt Bell invades Haiti. Many of the writers are crossing genres—from poetry and fiction to nonfiction—symbolic of Creative Nonfiction's scope and popularity. A cross section of the famous and those bound to become so, this collection is a riveting experience highlighting the expanding importance of this dramatic and exciting new genre.

• Rank: #18692 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.31" h x 1.18" w x 5.63" l, .85 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
Stephen J. Sansweet (Author), Pablo Hidalgo (Author), Bob Vitas (Author), Daniel Wallace (Author)
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THE DEFINITIVE REFERENCE GUIDE TO A SPACE FANTASY PHENOMENON


The Star Wars universe, much like our own, is constantly expanding. In the ten years since the publication of the Star Wars Encyclopedia, a lot has happened in that galaxy far, far away: four new feature films, a host of official original novels, comics, video games, and more. Now, thirty years of information on all things Star Wars–ranging from science and technology to history and geography, culture and biography to ecology and cosmology–has been supplemented with an entire decade’s worth of all-new material. Abundantly illustrated with full-color artwork and photos, and now in a new three-volume edition to accommodate its wealth of detailed entries, the Star Wars Encyclopedia encompasses the full measure of George Lucas’s creation.

Here’s just a sampling of what’s inside:
• character portraits of both the renowned (Luke Skywalker, Queen Amidala, Darth Vader) and the obscure (Tnun Bdu, Tycho Celchu, Bib Fortuna)
• the natives and customs of planets as diverse as Tatooine and Hoth, Dagobah and Kashyyyk
• the rituals, secrets, and traditions of Jedi Knights and Sith Lords
• a timeline of major events in Star Wars history, from the Clone Wars and the inception of the Empire to the rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker and the invasion of the monstrous Yuuzhan Vong

Scrupulously researched and written by leading authorities Stephen J. Sansweet, Pablo Hidalgo, Bob Vitas, and Daniel Wallace, this landmark work is the must-have centerpiece of every Star Wars library.

• Rank: #71760 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-09
• Released on: 2008-12-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 3.38" h x 8.92" w x 11.54" l, 10.75 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1224 pages

The Norton Introduction to Literature (Portable Tenth Edition)

The Norton Introduction to Literature (Portable Tenth Edition)
Alison Booth (Editor), Kelly J. Mays (Editor)
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Norton quality in a compact format and at a low price.

The Norton Introduction to Literature, Portable Tenth Edition, includes a diverse selection of literature that fits any course, balancing exciting contemporary pieces with perennially popular classics. The Portable Tenth Edition is more flexible, helpful, and innovative than ever, with new features that hone students’ reading, analytical, and writing skills.

• Rank: #6676 in Books
• Published on: 2010-09-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.70" h x 5.50" w x 8.40" l, 2.65 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 1349 pages