The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bryson Bill

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Really short history of words
ISBN: 024166621X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241666210
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: The brand-new children's book from Bill Bryson - all about the amazing English language.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Down Under
ISBN: 1784161837 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161835
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Описание: It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life - a large portion of it quite deadly.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Short History of Nearly Everything
ISBN: 0552151742 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552151740
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can`t contain his curiosity about the world around him. It`s not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: One Summer
ISBN: 0552772569 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552772563
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Описание: In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous man on earth.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
ISBN: 1784161810 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161811
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Bill Bryson`s first travel book opened with the immortal line, `I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.` In this deeply funny and personal memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious world of 1950s Middle America.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Made In America (R/I)
ISBN: 1784161861 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161866
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Tells the story of how American arose out of the English language, and along the way, de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn`t won, why Americans say `lootenant` and `Toosday`, and more.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: A Short History Of Nearly Everything (R/I)
ISBN: 1784161853 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161859
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Описание: The author describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can`t contain his curiosity about the world around him. This title is about his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Bryson`s Dictionary of Troublesome Words
ISBN: 0767910435 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767910439
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1471.00 р.
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Описание: One of the English language's most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage.

As usual Bill Bryson says it best: "English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where 'cleave' can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word 'set' has 126 different meanings as a verb, 58 as a noun, and 10 as a participial adjective; where if you can run fast you are moving swiftly, but if you are stuck fast you are not moving at all; and] where 'colonel, ' 'freight, ' 'once, ' and 'ache' are strikingly at odds with their spellings." As a copy editor for the London Times in the early 1980s, Bill Bryson felt keenly the lack of an easy-to-consult, authoritative guide to avoiding the traps and snares in English, and so he brashly suggested to a publisher that he should write one. Surprisingly, the proposition was accepted, and for "a sum of money carefully gauged not to cause embarrassment or feelings of overworth," he proceeded to write that book-his first, inaugurating his stellar career.

Now, a decade and a half later, revised, updated, and thoroughly (but not overly) Americanized, it has become Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words, more than ever an essential guide to the wonderfully disordered thing that is the English language. With some one thousand entries, from "a, an" to "zoom," that feature real-world examples of questionable usage from an international array of publications, and with a helpful glossary and guide to pronunciation, this precise, prescriptive, and-because it is written by Bill Bryson-often witty book belongs on the desk of every person who cares enough about the language not to maul or misuse or distort it.

From the Hardcover edition.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
ISBN: 0375434305 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375434303
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Neither Here Nor There
ISBN: 055352576X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553525762
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 2386.00 р.
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Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: The Body - Illustrated
ISBN: 085752769X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857527691
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Join the authors of this book in starting a movement of hope and possibility for an antiracist child care and early childhood education system. This volume disrupts mental models regarding where the work of early care and education began and how the stigma of that beginning relegates present-day child care workers to a low-status field of practice.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: At home
ISBN: 1489377107 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781489377104
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: This accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the sounds of Spanish, designed specifically for English-speaking students of the language. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, it explains from scratch the fundamentals of phonetics and phonology, and describes in detail the phonetic and phonological characteristics of Spanish as it is spoken in both Spain and Latin America.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: A Walk in the Woods
ISBN: 0553525069 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553525069
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 2386.00 р.
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