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It's Not Rocket Science and Other Irritating Modern Cliches
Price: $29.95 Author: Whichelow & Murray

This dictionary of contemporary cliches will either add to your intense irritation at the inanity of sayings or give you pause to consider the relevance and appropriateness of some. Everything is included: 'chill out', 'whatís not to like?', 'give it up

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Other People's Thoughts
Price: $19.95 Author: Simon Leys

This is a slim but utterly enjoyable volume of quotations. Samuel Johnson is quoted as saying 'a man ought to read just as the inclination leads him...' Leys has taken this to heart, arranging this collection for the amusement of idle readers.

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Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World
Price: $295.00 Author: -

This is the definitive atlas and, since its first publication in 1967, has sold well over a million copies. Rigorously updated by over fifty cartographers, this atlas is invaluable and stands as the most prestigious and reliable atlas available.

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Shorter Oxford English Dictionary 6th Edition
Price: $299.00 Author: -

This new edition has 2,500 new words and more than 1,000 additional illustrative quotations. It remains the definitive dictionary for many people.

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How Not To Say What You Mean: A Dictionary of Euphemisms
Price: $32.95 Author: R W Holder

A celebratory edition for its twentieth year in publication, this now includes such gems as 'restructuring' alongside the classic 'pushing up the daisies'. We really do use our language to make life (and death) more palatable.

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Who Owns the World
Price: $79.95 Author: Kevin Cahill

The first ever compilation of landowners and landownership structures in every single one of the world's 191 states and 41 territories. The book is divided into two parts: the first covers the history of landownership as far as written history will allow,

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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Price: $39.99 Author: Nicholas Ostler

Ostler's ambitious and accessible book is not a technical linguistic study (ie, it's not concerned with language structure) but with the growth, development and collapse of language communities and their cultures. He traces the fortunes of Sumerian, Akkad

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As They Say in Zanzibar
Price: $32.99 Author: David Crystal

Proverbs are fascinating in what they tell us about a culture's view of everyday life: whether it be the importance of animals or the significance of the weather, proverbial wisdom is a key factor in understanding different peoples and cultures. Here Crys

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