Category: Reference

A Dictionary of American Proverbs

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : December 1991

Seller ID: 51636

ISBN-13: 9780195053999

A Dictionary of American Proverbs is a treasury of more than 15,000 sayings, adages, and maxims commonly used in popular speech in the United States and Canada. As the first major collection of proverbs in the English language based on oral sources rather than written sources, it includes thousands of uniquely American proverbs that have never before been recorded as well as many thousands of traditional sayings that have found their way into American speech from classical, biblical, British, continental European, and American literature.This unparalleled collection will delight the general re...
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Compact Oxford English Dictionary + Oxford Compact Thesaurus + New Fowler's Modern English Usage + Oxford Dictionary of Thematic Quotations

Price: $160.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Seller ID: 45809

ISBN: B000KYQVU4

Binding: Novelty

Condition: Used - Like New

Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Price: $5.00

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press : September 1989

Seller ID: 60259

ISBN-13: 9780807818237

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The American South is a geographical entity, a historical fact, a place in the imagination, and the homeland of an array of Americans who consider themselves southerners. The region is often shrouded in romance and myth, but its realities are as intriguing, as intricate, as its legends.The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture is the first attempt ever notes U.S. News & World Report, to describe every aspect of a region's life and thought, the impact of its history and policies, its music and literature, its manners and myths, even the iced tea that washes down its catfish and cornbread.There are m...
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Houghton Mifflin Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd Edition, Hardcover, 1216 pages (0618254145)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin : January 2009

Seller ID: 76903

ISBN-13: 9780618254149

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Provides precise definitions of each synonym, complete synonym groups at every entry, a category ind
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Language Is a Place of Struggle: Great Quotes by People of Color

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Beacon Press : December 2008

Seller ID: 72504

ISBN-13: 9780807048009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Language Is a Place of Struggle is the first truly multiracial and polycultural quote book, collecting quotations from both historical and contemporary novelists and poets, activists and political leaders, and artists and musicians. Within these pages, readers will find wisdom, wit, and inspiration from Asian Americans, African Americans, Latinos, Arab Americans, American Indians, recent immigrants to the United States, and many others. With nearly fifteen hundred quotations, this exceptional book covers a broad spectrum: from insights on spirituality to words inciting social change and justic...
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New Dictionary of American Slang

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harpercollins : October 1986

Seller ID: 51640

ISBN-13: 9780061811579

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Like everything else in the modern world, slang changes rapidly. This Third Edition, the first revision since 1986, reflects the many changes in the vernacular the last decade has wrought, particularly those relevant to the advances in computer usage and consumer technology. As in previous editions, pronunciations, examples of usage, and explanations of origin are provided. The Dictionary of American Slang also identifies which words should be used with caution and never in polite company.Whether surfing the 'net or browsing the Web, writing e-mail or snail-mail, here is what's up on what's hi...
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The Illustrated Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books : January 2001

Seller ID: 51634

ISBN-13: 9780760717257

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The New Quotable Woman: The Definitve Tresury of Notable Words by Women from Eve to the Present

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Plume : September 1993

Seller ID: 45758

ISBN-13: 9780452010994

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : October 1992

Seller ID: 45760

ISBN-13: 9780198661856

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

As Emerson once said, "By necessity, by proclivity--and by delight, we all quote." We quote from the Bible and from Shakespeare, from Churchill and Will Rogers, we quote to amuse our friends, to spice our conversation or our writing, to lend authority to what we say. We even quote without knowing whom we quote, saying "love conquers all" (Virgil, The Aeneid) or "damn with faint praise" (Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot). In the Fourth Edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, you can find (and verify) classic quotes and little-known gems--the words of the famous and the notorious, the witt...
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Steel Construction Manual, 13th Edition (Book)

By: AISC,

Price: $50.00

Publisher: American Institute of Steel Construction : February 2006

Seller ID: 78308

ISBN-13: 9781564240552

Binding: Novelty

Condition: Used - Very Good

small stuck piece of plastic on front cover; othewise pristine.
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations : A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

By: Bartlett, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Little, Brown : November 1992

Seller ID: 51631

ISBN-13: 9780316082778

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

This 16th edition of the book, first published in 1855, has been expanded to include more than 20,000 quotations and more than 340 new authors both historical and contemporary - from Russell Baker, The Doors, Elvis, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Hawking, Primo Levi, Norman Mailer, Salman Rushdie, the Talmud, Alice Walker and Elie Wiesel. This edition has been revised and edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan.
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The Cigar Companion: The Connoisseur's Guide

By: Bati, Anwer

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Running Press : July 1997

Seller ID: 72513

ISBN-13: 9780762401420

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The top-selling cigar reference has been newly revised to include updated entries for all 70 cigars listed, with an additional 20 brand profiles. Cigar fanciers will find a more extensive list of retailers, plus, an added feature in this edition, a list of premier cigar clubs and bars. Elegantly produced and copiously illustrated with full-color photographs, this is the one guide no true connoisseur should be without.
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Literary Terms: A Dictionary

By: Beckson, Karl

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : January 1975

Seller ID: 72514

ISBN-13: 9780374512255

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Reverse Dictionary

By: Bernstein, Theodore M.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Times Books : January 1975

Seller ID: 51641

ISBN: B000HVTA94

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Illustrated Book of Signs and Symbols

By: Bruce-Mitford, Miranda

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books : January 2004

Seller ID: 72510

ISBN-13: 9780760762325

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The 2548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (Proprietary Edition)

By: Byrne, Robert

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Fireside : January 2006

Seller ID: 76900

ISBN-13: 9781416540359

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Roget's International Thesaurus (Harper Colophon Books)

By: chapman, robert

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Crowell : January 1977

Seller ID: 51629

ISBN-13: 9780690000108

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

A Second Browser's Dictionary

By: Ciardi, John

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Akadine Pr : February 2001

Seller ID: 60272

ISBN-13: 9781888173345

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

A Third Browser's Dictionary

By: Ciardi, John

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Akadine Pr : February 2001

Seller ID: 60273

ISBN-13: 9781888173437

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things

By: Clark, Josh,Bryant, Chuck

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Flatiron Books : November 2020

Seller ID: 72509

ISBN-13: 9781250268501

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

From the duo behind the massively successful and award-winning podcast Stuff You Should Know comes an unexpected look at things you thought you knew. Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious--curious about the world around them, curious about what they might have missed in their formal educations, and curious to dig deeper on stuff they thought they understood. As it turns out, they aren't the only curious ones. They've since amassed a rabid fan base, making Stuff You Should Know one of the most popular podcasts in the world...
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