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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
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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
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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
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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: Bill Bryson`s African Diary
ISBN: 0767915062 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767915069
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Here is a man who suffers so his readers can laugh. "Daily Telegraph"
Bill Bryson travels to Kenya in support of CARE International. All royalties and profits go to CARE International.
Bryson visits Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to eradicating poverty. Kenya is a land of contrasts, with famous game reserves and a vibrant culture. It also provides plenty to worry a traveller like Bill Bryson, fixated as he is on the dangers posed by snakes, insects and large predators. It is also a country with many serious problems: refugees, AIDS, drought, and grinding poverty. The resultant diary, though short in length, contains the trademark Bryson stamp of wry observation and curious insight."

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Notes from a small island
ISBN: 1839042206 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781839042201
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Описание: A stage adaptation of Bill Bryson`s smash-hit memoir, one of the nation`s most beloved books, and a brilliant dissection of the enduring quirks of our small island.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Bryson`s Dictionary of Troublesome Words
ISBN: 0767910435 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767910439
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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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: Walk In The Woods, A
ISBN: 0767902521 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767902526
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Описание: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The classic chronicle of a "terribly misguided and terribly funny" (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body

"The best way of escaping into nature."--The New York Times

Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings.

For a start there's the gloriously out-of-shape Stephen Katz, a buddy from Iowa along for the walk. But A Walk in the Woods is more than just a laugh-out-loud hike. Bryson's acute eye is a wise witness to this beautiful but fragile trail, and as he tells its fascinating history, he makes a moving plea for the conservation of America's last great wilderness. An adventure, a comedy, and a celebration, A Walk in the Woods is a modern classic of travel literature.

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