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| 100 Words to Make You Sound Great
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The Editors of American Heritage.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780618883103. Daedalus Item Code: 31518 |
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| From "adamant" (in a speech by Barack Obama) to "yammer" (in Glenn Stout's introduction to Best American Sports Writing 2004), this collection of 100 words and quotations has been assembled by ... (Read More)
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| Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin
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Nicholas Ostler.
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| Publisher: Walker & Company. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780802716798. Daedalus Item Code: 29725 |
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| The Latin language has been the one constant in the cultural history of the West over two millennia—the foundation of our education, the terminology of science and law, and until recent decades, the ... (Read More)
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| The Art of the Epigraph: How Great Books Begin
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Rosemary Ahern.
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| Publisher: Atria. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781451693249. Daedalus Item Code: 29408 |
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| For a bibliophile, there are few things more telling about the book at hand than an epigraph. Those intriguing quotations, sayings, snippets of songs, or poems that appear just before Chapter One do ... (Read More)
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| Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: Eighteenth Edition
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John Bartlett. Geoffrey O'Brien, ed.
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| Publisher: Little, Brown. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780316017596. Daedalus Item Code: 29457 |
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| For more than 150 years, people have turned to Bartlett's when they want to know exactly what someone said. Completely revised and updated for its 18th edition, and piloted by the Library of ... (Read More)
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| The Butler's Guide to Running the Home and Other Graces
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Stanley Ager & Fiona St. Aubyn. Alastair Bruce, foreword.
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| Publisher: Potter. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9780385344708. Daedalus Item Code: 29772 |
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| "Punctuality, organization, cleanliness. If you master these," assures Stanley Ager, former butler to the third Lord St. Levan, "everything else should fall into place." The Butler's Guide was ... (Read More)
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| The Dangerous Book for Men: How to Triumph Over Perils and Pitfalls
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Rod Green. Andrew Pinder, illus.
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| Publisher: Michael O'Mara. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781843173977. Daedalus Item Code: 30699 |
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| Finally, a book that teaches a man how to be a man. This dangerous book harkens back to a less sheltered and pampered age when, without the aid of digital devices, men relied on military training and ... (Read More)
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| The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: Newly Updated and Expanded
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Alberto Manguel & Gianni Guadalupi.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781435125384. Daedalus Item Code: 30887 |
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| From Atlantis to Xanadu and beyond, this Baedeker of make-believe takes readers on a tour of more than 1200 realms invented by storytellers from Homer's day to our own. Here you will find Shangri-La ... (Read More)
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| Dictionary of Modern Strategy and Tactics
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Michael Keane.
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| Publisher: Naval Institute. Format: no jacket.
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| ISBN: 9781591144298. Daedalus Item Code: 23694 |
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| Defining such terms as "axis of evil," "CNN effect," and "military operations other than war," this book offers a profile on modern military strategy and tactics through concise yet thorough ... (Read More)
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| Dictionary of Naval Terms
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Deborah W. Cutler & Thomas J. Cutler.
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| Publisher: Naval Institute. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781591141501. Daedalus Item Code: 23695 |
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| Some of the terms in the U.S. Navy argot are unique to the profession, like forecastle and scuttlebutt, though others may be more common words and phrases that have alternate meanings to sailors, ... (Read More)
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| Greed: A Dictionary for the Selfish
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Editors of Adams Media.
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| Publisher: Adams Media. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781440528019. Daedalus Item Code: 30232 |
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| "Greed (greed), noun: Excessive desire, especially for wealth or possessions." The seductive lure of avarice, the most rapacious of sins, has left a bitter taste on many a tongue, but this dictionary ... (Read More)
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| A Hausa-English Dictionary
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Paul Newman.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9780300122466. Daedalus Item Code: 12768 |
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| This up-to-date volume, the first Hausa-English dictionary published in a quarter of a century, is written with language learners and practical users in mind. With over 10,000 entries, it primarily ... (Read More)
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| Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
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Simon Garfield.
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| Publisher: Gotham Books. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781592407460. Daedalus Item Code: 29694 |
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| In this surprisingly entertaining trek through the type case, the author of Mauve, The Error World, and the Somerset Maugham Prize winner The End of Innocence notes that ... (Read More)
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