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The Bantam New College French & English Dictionary/Dictionnaire Anglais Et Francais
by Bantam Books
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With more than 85,000 entries--no other portable French and English paperback dictionary offers you so much at so reasonable a price. Newly revised and expanded, The Bantam New College French & English Dictionary is the finest low-priced dictionary you... ( read more)
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William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White
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Elements of Style
by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White
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You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. The revisions to the new edition are purposely kept minimal in order to... ( read more)
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The Golden Section: Nature's Greatest Secret (Wooden Books)
by Scott Olson
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A concise and useful handbook on the Golden Section also known as the Golden Ratio and Golden Mean. The Golden Section is a line segment divided into two parts, such that the ratio of the short portion to the longer portion is equal to the ratio of the... ( read more)
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I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms from Around the World
by Jag Bhalla
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I'm not hanging noodles from your ear. In Moscow, this curious, engagingly colorful assertion is common parlance, but unless you're Russian your reaction is probably Say what? The same idea in English is equally odd: I'm not pulling your leg. Both mean... ( read more)
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UnSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation
by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson
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Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading as facts. The news media–once the vaunted watchdogs of our republic–are often too timid or distracted to identify... ( read more)
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
by Thomas C. Foster
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What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface — a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or... ( read more)
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GRE: Practicing to Take the General Test, 10th Edition
by Educational Testing Services
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The Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test consists of verbal, quantitative, and analytical writing sections. This book is the only test prep guide that contains questions and topics from actual tests administered worldwide. It contains verbal... ( read more)
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The Mother Tongue
by Bill Bryson
From Powells.com
"Everything, it seems, is interesting to Bill Bryson. The marvel is that he can make it all interesting to us....Bryson's book, Mother Tongue...is the one that convinced me he could probably write informatively and with humor about anything. I mean, who... ( read more)
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Oxford American Minidictionary
by Oxford
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This revised edition of the best-selling Oxford English Minidictionary offers authoritative and up-to-date coverage of today's English, with over 40,000 entries and 50,000 definitions. There are hundreds of in-text notes to help with spelling, grammar... ( read more)
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A Short Guide to Writing about Art (Short Guide)
by Sylvan Barnet
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Key Benefit: A Short Guide to Writing About Art, Eighth Edition, the best-selling book of its kind, equips students to analyze pictures (drawings, paintings, photographs), sculptures and architecture, and prepares them with the tools they need to... ( read more)
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By Richard Sandomir
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