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| Author | : Jack Lynch |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 319 |
| Release | : 2016-02-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0802777945 |
"Knowledge is of two kinds," said Samuel Johnson in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge--reference works that have shaped the way we've seen the world for centuries. You Could Look It Up chronicles the captivating stories behind these great works and their contents, and the way they have influenced each other. From The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest known compendium of laws in ancient Babylon almost two millennia before Christ to Pliny's Natural History; from the 11th-century Domesday Book recording land holdings in England to Abraham Ortelius's first atlas of the world; from Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language to The Whole Earth Catalog to Google, Jack Lynch illuminates the human stories and accomplishment behind each, as well as its enduring impact on civilization. In the process, he offers new insight into the value of knowledge.
| Author | : Egon Weck |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 4 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Drugs |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : James Thurber |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 1942 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780156623445 |
A book of humor and satire covers topics from baseball to Macbeth.
| Author | : George Plimpton |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 508 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : American literature |
| ISBN | : 9780393030402 |
A collection of short stories and other writings centering around sports for each season.
| Author | : Simon Winchester |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780192805768 |
"We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium -- the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it -- and meet some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to W.C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and ultimate redemption. The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project -- a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the world's unrivaled uber-dictionary. Book jacket."--Jacket.
| Author | : Ralph Keyes |
| Publisher | : St. Martin's Griffin |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2007-04-01 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 1429906170 |
Our language is full of hundreds of quotations that are often cited but seldom confirmed. Ralph Keyes's The Quote Verifier considers not only classic misquotes such as "Nice guys finish last," and "Play it again, Sam," but more surprising ones such as "Ain't I a woman?" and "Golf is a good walk spoiled," as well as the origins of popular sayings such as "The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings," "No one washes a rented car," and "Make my day." Keyes's in-depth research routinely confounds widespread assumptions about who said what, where, and when. Organized in easy-to-access dictionary form, The Quote Verifier also contains special sections highlighting commonly misquoted people and genres, such as Yogi Berra and Oscar Wilde, famous last words, and misremembered movie lines. An invaluable resource for not just those with a professional need to quote accurately, but anyone at all who is interested in the roots of words and phrases, The Quote Verifier is not only a fascinating piece of literary sleuthing, but also a great read.
| Author | : Denis Boyles |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 466 |
| Release | : 2017-09-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0307389782 |
Everything Explained That Is Explainable is the audacious, utterly improbable story of the publication of the Eleventh Edition of the legendary Encyclopædia Britannica. It is the tale of a young American entrepreneur who rescued a dying publication with the help of a floundering newspaper, and in so doing produced a series of books that forever changed the face of publishing. Thanks to the efforts of 1,500 contributors, among them a young staff of university graduates as well as some of the most distinguished names of the day, the Eleventh Edition combined scholarship and readability in a way no previous encyclopedia had (or ever has again). Denis Boyles’s work of cultural history pulls back the curtain on the 44-million-word testament to the age of reason that has profoundly shaped the way we see the world.
| Author | : William Safire |
| Publisher | : Owl Books |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : English language |
| ISBN | : |
William Safire is the world's most widely read writer on the English language, and this collection of pieces drawn from his "On Language" column for The New York Times is Safirerawings.
| Author | : James Thurber |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 14 |
| Release | : 2014-01-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1443435619 |
Walter Mitty, a mild-mannered forty-year-old man, drives into Connecticut with his wife for their weekly shopping trip. Tired of his drab, schedule-driven life, Walter escapes into five elaborate daydreams, and finally becomes the hero he always hoped to be. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” was originally published in a 1939 issue of The New Yorker. It is considered to be an American classic, and author James Thurber’s masterpiece. It has been adapted for film, first in 1947, and most recently for the 2013 feature film starring Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short stories collection to build your digital library.
| Author | : Jack Lynch |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2017-06-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780802777935 |
