The Story of Be - A Verb's-Eye View of the English Lang...
Its the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: ...
Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivatio...
Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivations an...
The Etymologicon - A Circular Stroll through the Hidden...
What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntl...
Quid Pro Quo - What the Romans Really Gave the English ...
In this original and highly accessible book, Peter Jones tak...
The Horologicon - A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words ...
The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extrao...
Quid Pro Quo - What the Romans Really Gave the English ...
In this original and highly accessible book, Peter Jones tak...
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language - Univers...
The English Language: A Linguistic History
The English Language: A Linguistic History - University text...
Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, A New Ed...
Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, A New Edition...
The Tyrannicide Brief - The Story of the Man who sent C...
Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen t...
The Story Of The Orchestra - Listen While You Learn Abo...
Eye-catching illustrations, an engaging text and delightful ...
The Story Of Be - A Verb's-Eye View Of The English Language
The Story Of The Orchestra - Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Mus...
Eye-catching illustrations, an engaging text and delightful musical selections on an accompanying 70-minute CD lead children aged 8 to 12 (and parents too!) on an exciting and educational listen-while-you-learn tour through the instruments and music of the orchestra. The Composers, name by name Baroque Classical Romantic Modern - The Orchestra, instrument by instrument String ...
The Story of Be - A Verb's-Eye View of the English Language
Its the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: to be. Yet it is jam-packed with more different meanings, forms, and uses than any other English word. As he reveals bes multiple incarnations, David Crystal takes us to the heart of our flexible and changing language. He tells the intriguing story in 26 chapters, each linked to a particular usage. We meet circumstantial be (how are...
The Story of The Streets
WINNER OF THE NME BEST BOOK AWARD i> i>This book is going to try and get as close as possible to the full story of what informed the noise of The Streets. Obviously thats something I should be fairly well-qualified to know about, and Im going to be as honest as the publishers lawyers will allow. i> With the 2001 release of The Streets debut single Has It Come To This? the landscape...
Sell with a Story - How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale
Stories sell. Great SALES STORIES sell even more. Sell With a Story is a rich compilation of story techniques that can improve any persuasion process. -Forbes.com If youre serious about increasing your effectiveness as a communicator and looking to transform your sales results, Sell with a Story is for you. This book empowered and energized me, and I know it will do the same for you. ...
India Hicks: A Slice of England - The Story of Four Houses
A follow-up to India Hickss New York Times bestselling book, India Hicks: Island Style, India Hicks: A Slice of England is the designers exploration of her British heritage and how she has expressed it in her newly finished English country house in Oxfordshire. The book is divided into two parts. Part one, Legacy, is the story of her familys homes, including the renowned Broadlands estate, a...
The Story Cure - An A-Z of Books to Keep Kids Happy, Healthy and Wise
From tantrums to tummy aches to teenage mood swings, there are times when a book is the best medicine of all. The Story Cure is a manual for grown-ups who believe that the stories which shape childrens lives should not be left to chance. In these pages bibliotherapists Ella and Susan recommend the perfect childrens book from picture books to YA novels via the golden world of chapter books ...
Anne Frank Remembered - The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here is Miep Giess own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives every day to bring food, news, and emotional support to its victims. From her remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the...
Breaking the Chains of Gravity - The Story of Spaceflight before NASA
NASAs history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But Americas space agency and in particular its Apollo lunar-landing program wasnt created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. In the 1930s, rockets were all the rage in ...
Politics and the English Language
Politics and the English Language is widely considered Orwells most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth.All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.Lang...
A History of the English-speaking Peoples
An authoritative survey of the history of English-speaking peoples throughout the world combines intriguing, closely observed biographical profilesof Alfred the Great, Victoria, Joan of Arc, Lincoln, and other notableswith an account of the key events and issues of the era. The narrative commences fifty-five years before the birth of Christ, when Julius Caesar famously turned his gaze upon B...
TOTAL CHAOS - The Story of the Stooges
TOTAL CHAOS is the first book telling Iggy Pops story of The Stooges from his own words. Grammy winning editor and avid music historian Jeff Gold spent two days at the rock legends home sharing pictures and memorabilia from his collection. Featuring a trove of unseen photos, TOTAL CHAOS shows and tells, with the help of best-selling author Jon Savage, the story of the Stooges from those tell-a...
Culture is Everything - The story and system of a start-up that became Australia's Best Place To Work
The Story And System Of A Start-Up That Became Australias Best Place To Work Tristan Whites story started like many others. He had a dream to work in a job that inspired him. He didnt find that job, so he created it. In 2004, The Physio Co (TPC) was born with one team member: Tristan White. In the thirteen years since, TPC has become a remarkable healthcare success story based upon fast grow...
Mother Tongue - The Story of the English Language
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to
Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongrel origins to its status as the worlds most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its decepti...
Beth - The Story of a Child Convict
Beth is a child convict, caught stealing on the streets of London and sent to Australia on the First Fleet. Through Beths story, we discover the unbearable hardships those first convicts suffered, not only on the long journey to Sydney Cove but also in the two years of near-famine following their arrival. The story also explores the new arrivals relationship with the Indigenous population, and...
The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi - Laughter, Madness and the Story of Britain's Greatest Comedian
The son of a deranged Italian immigrant, Joseph Grimaldi (1778 1837) was the most celebrated of English clowns. The first to use white-face make-up and wear outrageous coloured clothes, he transformed the role of the Clown in the pantomime with a look as iconic as Chaplins tramp or Tommy Coopers magician. One of the first celebrity comedians, his friends included Lord Byron and the actor Ed...
Culture Is Everything - The Story And System Of A Start-Up That Became Australia's Best Place To Work
Tristan Whites story started like many others. He had a dream to work in a job that inspired him. He didnt find that job, so he created it. In 2004, The Physio Co (TPC) was born with one team member: Tristan White. In the 13 years since, TPC has become a remarkable healthcare success story based upon fast growth and a thriving, systemised company culture. Tristans obsession with creating an...
Monster - The GONE series may be over, but it's not the end of the story
The GONE series may be over, but its not the end of the story . . . MICHAEL GRANTS ACTION-PACKED AND MUCH ANTICIPATED NEW BOOK, SET IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE BESTSELLING GONE SERIES. When the dome came down, they thought it was the end of the troubles. Truth is, it was just the beginning. Shade Darby witnessed events that day, with devastating consequences, and vowed never to feel that power...
London: The Cookbook - The Story of London's world-beating food scene, with 50 recipes from restaurants, artisan produce...
From haute cuisine to traditional greasy spoons, London: The Cookbook tells the story of this vibrant city through the food most beloved by its inhabitants. Londons top chefs offer up recipes for signature dishes alongside traditional fare from local favourites. Part recipe collection and part travel guide, the book takes a tour of Londons foodie hotspots,from Borough Market to Brixton, classi...
The World Champion That Never Was - The Story of Lucas Browne
In early 2016, in Grozny, in the Russian state of Chechnya, there was a world title fight. This is the story of that fight told from inside the team of Lucas Big Daddy Browne. The World Champion That Never Was takes the reader to Grozny, one of the worlds most dangerous places, for the clash between the vastly experienced, intimidating champion, Ruslan Chagaev, and the underdog, Lucas Brown...
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitmentsto writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husbandcreating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage.This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage takes us into the very real world of Ann Patchetts life. Stretching from her childhood to th...
Madame de Villeneuve's the Story of the Beauty and the Beast - The Original Classic French Fairytale
Think you know the story of Beauty and the Beast? Think again! This book contains the original tale by Madame de Villeneuve, first published in 1740, and although the classic elements of Beauty giving up her freedom to live with the Beast, during which time she begins to see beyond his grotesque appearance, are present, there is a wealth of rich back story to how the Prince became cursed and r...