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A Short History of Drunkenness by Mark Forsyth
Category: Food & Wine
From the internationally bestselling author of The Etymologicon, a lively and fascinating exploration of how, throughout history, each civilization has found a way to celebrate, or to control, the eternal human drive to get sloshed Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there ...Show more
Collins English Dictionary by Collins UK Staff; Mark Forsyth (Introduction by)
Category: Dictionaries
The largest single-volume dictionary in print celebrates the extraordinary breadth and changing nature of world English, with more than 100,000 entries and definitions added, and a total of 722,000 words, meanings, and phrases The dictionary is drawn from the Collins Corpus, the largest word-gathering d ...Show more
Heinkel He 177 Units of World War 2 by Robert Forsyth; Jim Laurier (Illustrator); Mark Postlethwaite (Cover Design by)
Category: Military | Series: Combat Aircraft Ser.
In many ways, the Heinkel He 177 'Greif' (Griffon) was Nazi Germany's 'lost' strategic bomber. With some fundamental creases ironed out, and built in large numbers, the He 177 would have offered the Luftwaffe the means with which to carry out long-range, mass bombing attacks against targets of a strateg ...Show more
Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language by Mark Forsyth
Category: Non-Fiction
The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to the hour of the day when you really need them. Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you're philogrobolized. Pretending to work? That's fudgelling, which may lead to rizzling if you fee ...Show more
Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language by Mark Forsyth
Category: Reference
The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to the hour of the day when you really need them. Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you're philogrobolized. Pretending to work? That's fudgelling, which may lead to rizzling if you feel ...Show more
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase by Mark Forsyth
Category: Non-Fiction
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMESNUMBER ONE BESTSELLERTHE ETYMOLOGICON Mark Forsyth presents the secret of writing unforgettable phrases, uncovering the techniques that have made immortal such lines as 'To be or not to be' and 'Bond. James Bond.' In his inimitably entertaining and witty style, h ...Show more
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase by Mark Forsyth
Category: Non-Fiction
In an age unhealthily obsessed with substance, this is a book on the importance of pure style, from the bestselling author of The Etymologicon and The Horologicon. From classic poetry to pop lyrics and from the King James Bible to advertising slogans, Mark Forsyth explains the secrets that make a phrase ...Show more
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language by Mark Forsyth
Category: Non-Fiction
THE SUNDAY TIMESNUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Witty and erudite ... stuffed with the kind of arcane information that nobody strictly needs to know, but which is a pleasure to learn nonetheless.' Nick Duerden, Independent 'Particularly good ... Forsyth takes words and draws us into their, and our, murky ...Show more
The Etymologicon : A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language by Mark Forsyth
Category: Non-Fiction
The Etymologicon springs from Mark Forsyth's Inky Fool blog on the strange connections between words. It's an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language, taking in monks and monkeys, film buffs and buffaloes, a ...Show more
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language by Mark Forsyth
Category: Non-Fiction
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE ETYMOLOGICON Mark Forsyth presents a delightfully eccentric day in the life of unusual, beautiful and forgotten English words. From uhtcearein the hours before dawn through to dream drumblesat bedtime, The Horologicongives you the ex ...Show more
The Illustrated Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language by Mark Forsyth
Category: Non-Fiction
A new, beautifully illustrated hardback edition of the bestselling Etymologicon, published on its tenth anniversary. 'Witty and erudite ... stuffed with the kind of arcane information that nobody strictly needs to know, but which is a pleasure to learn nonetheless.' - Independent.The Etymologicon is an ...Show more
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