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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition

By: N/A

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin: August 1992

Seller ID: 350921

ISBN: 0395448956

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The third edition of this dictionary reflects changes in the language in the last ten years with an A-Z section of more than sixteen thousand new words.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica

By: N/A

Price: $395.00

Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica (UK) Ltd: December 1996

Seller ID: 299857

ISBN: 0852296339

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2005 Edition

By: N/A

Price: $595.00

Publisher: Encyclopedia Britannica, Incorporated: March 2005

Seller ID: 299859

ISBN: 1593392362

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Captures the staggering breadth and depth of human knowledge with unsurpassed accuracy and accessibility. It has been revised and and updated since the 2003 edition, and it contains more than 23,000 fascinating biographies, and more than 15,000 geography articles. Special price $1895 valid until 25/3/05.
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The Random House College Dictionary and the Random House Thesaurus

By: N/A

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Random House Inc: April 1985

Seller ID: 370914

ISBN: 039454210X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Anatomica: The Complete Home Medical Reference

By: N/A

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Book Sales: February 2000

Seller ID: 371294

ISBN: 1740480309

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A complete and colorfully illustrated encyclopedic guide to the human body's cells, systems, and functions. A to Z entries picture and discuss diseases and treatments in easily accessible, non-professional language. Contains a CD Rom for ease of reference with many special features.
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You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths

By: N/A

Price: $9.95

Publisher: The Disinformation Company: April 2001

Seller ID: 360606

ISBN: 0966410076

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"You Are Being Lied To" is a massive collection of articles that ruthlessly destroy the distortions, myths, and outright lies that are fed to us by the government, the media, corporations, history books, organized religion, science and medicine, and society in general. No one is spared, and all sacred cows are candidates for the grinder.

Do you believe any of the following?
Alcoholics Anonymous is effective.Hackers pose a grave threat to the nation.There's a hidden code in the Bible.The Big Bang is an airtight fact.Thousands of species have gone extinct because of deforestation. Lickin...
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Easy Guide to Grammar: Clear, Easy-to-Understand Language Includes Grammar Basics, Definitions, and Exercises

By: Abrams, Liesa

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Fall River Press: January 2014

Seller ID: 295800

ISBN: 1435154282

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Straight Dope: A Compendium of Human Knowledge

By: Adams, Cecil,Zotti, Ed

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Chicago Review Pr: November 1984

Seller ID: 299827

ISBN: 0914091549

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Answers to often silly questions on topics ranging from sex to toasters.
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The Anatomy Student's Self-Test Coloring Book

By: Albertine, Dr. Kurt

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Barron's Educational Series: October 2007

Seller ID: 319196

ISBN: 0764137778

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Learning and naming the many parts and systems of the human body can be a daunting task for student nurses, as well as for other students preparing for careers in the various scientific and medical professions. This highly original book helps make learning a great deal easier. Hundreds of anatomically accurate line illustrations show human body parts and readers are encouraged to shade them in with colored pencils. It's a simple physical task intended to imprint on students' memories the shape and location of each body part, making later visualization and memory retention much easier. The book...
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Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That? A Modern Guide to Manners

By: Alford, Henry

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Twelve: January 2012

Seller ID: 361924

ISBN: 0446557668

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"We all know bad manners when we see them," NPR and Vanity Fair contributor Henry Alford observes at the beginning of his new book. But what, he asks, do good manners look like in our day and age? When someone answers their cell phone in the middle of dining with you, or runs you off the sidewalk with their doublewide stroller, or you enter a post-apocalyptic public restroom, the long-revered wisdom of Emily Post can seem downright prehistoric.

Troubled by the absence of good manners in his day-to-day life-by the people who clip their toenails on the subway or give three-let...
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How to Be a Genius: Brain Training for the Idle Minded

By: Allen, Robert

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Collins & Brown: November 2011

Seller ID: 379820

ISBN: 1843406381

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Are we stuck with the IQ we're born with? Not at all Mental exercises build smarter brains just as physical exercise builds stronger muscles--and this is the definitive guide to becoming more of a genius. These 101 workouts will help you improve your memory, sharpen your reasoning skills, win at strategic games like chess and bridge, and make better moves in every area of life. Introductions to powerful mind-training tools, including mnemonics, self-hypnosis, neurolinguistic programming, and Mind Mapping, round out this mind-enhancing workout."
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The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage And Style

By: American Heritage

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: September 2005

Seller ID: 301456

ISBN: 0618604995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

This authoritative survey of English usage, grammar, and style offers guidance on almost any writing problem imaginable. Arranged in a single, easy-to-use A-Z list, the guide's 1,500 entries include examples and quotations that show not only correct and incorrect usage but also the relative effectiveness of different expressions in context.
The guide also presents the opinions of the American Heritage(R) Usage Panel--a group of two hundred prominent writers, scholars, and scientists--who are polled on traditional and emerging usage problems. The panel makes clear when attitudes about a wor...
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The American Heritage College Thesaurus, First Edition

By: American Heritage

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: June 2004

Seller ID: 349310

ISBN: 0618402195

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

An all-new thesaurus offers tangible evidence of the flexibility and dynamism of the English language, presenting thousands of slang and regional words along with the more stable lexicon of English words, all in an accessible A-to-Z format.
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The Associated Press Stylebook 2009 (Associated Press Stylebook & Briefing on Media Law)

By: Associated Press

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Basic Books: June 2009

Seller ID: 340402

ISBN: 0465012620

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The style of the Associated Press is the gold standard of news writing. With The AP Stylebook in hand, you can learn to write with the clarity and professionalism for which the Associated Press is famous. Fully revised and updated, this new edition contains more than 3,000 A to Z entries--including more than 200 new ones--detailing the AP's rules on grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviation and word and numeral usage. New entries include anti-spyware, high-definition, iPhone, outsourcing, podcast, text messaging, social networking, snail mail, WMD and Wikipedia. View More...

Anatomica: The Complete Home Medical Reference

By: Barnes & Noble Books

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books: January 2005

Seller ID: 343671

ISBN: 0760728429

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Bartlett's Familiar Quotes

By: Bartlett, John

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company: June 1989

Seller ID: 266242

ISBN: 0316082759

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

This 15th edition of the book, first published in 1855, has been expanded to include more than 22,500 quotations and more than 400 new authors both historical and contemporary - from Susan B. Anthony and Muhammad Ali to Mozart and Mick Jagger.
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotes

By: Bartlett, John

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company: June 1989

Seller ID: 268462

ISBN: 0316082759

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations : A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

By: Bartlett, John

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Little, Brown: November 1992

Seller ID: 275095

ISBN: 0316082775

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This 16th edition of the book, first published in 1855, has been expanded to include more than 20,000 quotations and more than 340 new authors both historical and contemporary - from Russell Baker, The Doors, Elvis, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Hawking, Primo Levi, Norman Mailer, Salman Rushdie, the Talmud, Alice Walker and Elie Wiesel. This edition has been revised and edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan.
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Dictionary of Symbolism: Cultural Icons and the Meanings Behind Them

By: Biedermann, Hans

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Plume: January 1994

Seller ID: 351380

ISBN: 0452011183

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

This encyclopedic guide explores the rich and varied meanings of more than 2,000 symbols--from amethyst to Zodiac.
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The Craft of Research, Third Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

By: Booth, Wayne C., G., Gregory Colomb, M., Joseph Williams

Price: $7.95

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press: April 2008

Seller ID: 259239

ISBN: 0226065669

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

With more than 400,000 copies now in print, The Craft of Research is the unrivaled resource for researchers at every level, from first-year undergraduates to research reporters at corporations and government offices. Seasoned researchers and educators Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams present an updated third edition of their classic handbook, whose first and second editions were written in collaboration with the late Wayne C. Booth. The Craft of Research explains how to build an argument that motivates readers to accept a claim; how to anticipate the reservations of reade...
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Category: Reference