Times Universal Atlas of the World Edition 1 by Anon
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Category: REM Reference
This is a new title in the authoritative and prestigous Times world atlas range. The stunning reference atlas provides the accuracy of a Times Atlas at an affordable price. A completely new edition of a world atlas in the most prestigious atlas range in the world. 170 pages of mapping provide an amazing ...Show more
Living with a Dead Language by Ann Patty
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Category: REM Reference
After 35 years as a book editor in New York City, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored, aimless and lost in the woods, she hoped to challenge her restless, word-loving brain by beginning a serious study of Latin at local colleges. As she begins to make sense of Latin grammar and syn ...Show more
The Jane Austen Writers' Club: Inspiration and Advice from the World's Best Novelist by Rebecca Smith
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Category: REM Reference | Reading Level: very good
A delightful and informative guide to writing like Jane Austen, written by the five-times-great niece of Austen herself Jane Austen is one of the most beloved writers in the English literary canon. Her novels changed the landscape of fiction forever, and her writing remains as fresh, entertaining and wi ...Show more
Can You Solve My Problems?: A Casebook of Ingenious, Perplexing and Totally Satisfying Puzzles by Alex Bellos
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Category: REM Reference
Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old? Can you beat Sherlock Holmes? If you think the answer is yes - I challenge you to solve my problems. Here is the story of the puzzle, one of mankind's oldest and greatest forms of entertainment and enlightenment, told through 125 of the world's best brain ...Show more
Writers - Their Lives and Works by James Naughtie (Foreword by); DK
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Category: REM Reference
Explore the fascinating lives and loves of the greatest novelists, poets, and playwrights. From William Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel Garc a M rquez and Toni Morrison, Writers explores more than 100 biographies of the world's greatest writers. Each featured novelist, playwright, or poet is intr ...Show more
Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds As They Were and As They Are Today by Travis Elborough
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Category: REM Reference | Series: Unexpected Atlases Ser.
Maps offer us a chance to see not just how our world looks today, but how it once looked. But what about the places that are no longer mapped?Cities forgotten under the dust of newly settled land? Rivers and seas whose changing shape has shifted the landscape around them? Or, even, places that have seem ...Show more
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die - A Life-Changing List by James Mustich
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Category: REM Reference
"The ultimate literary bucket list." --THE WASHINGTON POST Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that's as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the 1,000-plus titles it recommends.Covering fiction, poetr ...Show more
The Books that Changed My Life by Bethanne (editor) Patrick
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"One hundred of today's most prominent literary and cultural icons talk about the books that hold a special place in their hearts-that made them who they are today. Leading authors, politicians, CEOs, actors, and other notables share the books that changed their life, why they love them, and their passi ...Show more
You Say Potato: A Book About Accents by Ben Crystal
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Category: REM Reference
Some people say scohn, while others say schown. He says bath, while she says bahth. You say potayto. I say potahto And- -wait a second, no one says potahto. No one's ever said potahto. Have they? From reconstructing Shakespeare's accent to the rise and fall of Received Pronunciation, actor Ben Crys ...Show more
How Smart are You? Test Your IQ by Thomas J. Craughwell
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Test Your IQ: Are you a logical thinker? A numerical whiz? Spatially inclined? Prove it and have fun at the same time when you take these brain-stumping IQ quizzes. Each quiz can be taken in just a few minutes and is easily scored. Entertaining and enlightening, these quiz books are useful to have on-ha ...Show more
Lists of Note by Shaun Usher
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Category: REM Reference
Humans have been making lists for even longer than they've been writing letters. They are the shorthand for what really matters to us: our hopes and aspirations; likes and dislikes; rules for living and loving; records of our memories and reminders of the things we want to do before we die. Just as he d ...Show more
Atlas of the Unexpected - Haphazard Discoveries, Chance Places and Unimaginable Destinations by Travis Elborough
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Category: REM Reference
In 45 beautiful, unique maps and with evocative photography, Atlas of the Unexpected is a journey to far-off lands, obscure discoveries and unimaginable locations. From the fortuitous discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls by a stray goat, to the wonderfully bizarre beginnings that led to the aptly named Jus ...Show more