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Neologisms: New Words Since 1960
From a go-go to zonked, this is an A to Z of the words which have entered the English language since 1960. With over 2000 entries and 4000 definitions, this...
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition
'What grammarians say should be has perhaps less influence on what shall be than even the more modest of them realize ...' No book had more influence on twentieth-century attitudes...
Artspoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1848-1944
This successor to the phenomenally popular Artspeak: A Guide To Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords chronicles international art from realism through surrealism. An invaluable guide through the intricacies of the...
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...