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The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time: Wit and Wisdom from the Popular "On Language" Column in The New York Times eBooks & eLearning

Posted by First1 at July 2, 2017

For the past twenty-five years Americans have relied on Pulitzer Prize-winning wordsmith William Safire for their weekly dose of linguistic illumination in The New York Times Magazine's column "On Language" – one of the most popular features of the magazine and a Sunday-morning staple for innumerable fans. He is the most widely read writer on the English language today.

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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary eBooks & eLearning

Posted by First1 at Aug. 19, 2018

Simon Winchester’s classic about the making of the Oxford English Dictionary—soon to be a major motion picture starring Sean Penn and Mel Gibson.

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The Yale Book of Quotations eBooks & eLearning

Posted by arundhati at July 3, 2020

Fred R. Shapiro, "The Yale Book of Quotations"
English | ISBN: 0300107986 | 2006 | 1104 pages | PDF | 7 MB

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Coming to Terms eBooks & eLearning

Posted by step778 at April 13, 2024

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The Professor and the Madman eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Tamaar at Sept. 27, 2018

The Professor and the Madman
by Simon Winchester
English | EPUB | 8.3 MB

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War Slang eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Tamaar at July 2, 2018

War Slang
by Paul Dickson
English | EPUB | 16.5 MB

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Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and Washington Handshakes: Decoding the Jargon, Slang, and Bluster of American Political Speech eBooks & eLearning

Posted by DZ123 at Nov. 14, 2022

Chuck McCutcheon, David Mark, Jeff Greenfield, "Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and Washington Handshakes: Decoding the Jargon, Slang, and Bluster of American Political Speech"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1611686032 | PDF | pages: 270 | 1.4 mb

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