A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition, Bryson Bill
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: Bill Bryson`s African Diary ISBN: 0767915062 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767915069 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 7970.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. 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: Bryson`s Dictionary of Troublesome Words ISBN: 0767910435 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767910439 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 9810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. 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: Notes from a small island ISBN: 1839042206 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781839042201 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. 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: Really short history of words ISBN: 024166621X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241666210 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 14400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть 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 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 10710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть 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: The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid ISBN: 1784161810 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161811 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 10650.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть 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: One Summer ISBN: 0552772569 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552772563 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 10270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть 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 Body ISBN: 0857522418 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857522412 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 13190.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Popular Science
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: At home ISBN: 1489377107 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781489377104 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 13720.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. 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: At Home ISBN: 1846572312 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846572319 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 15830.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everything one of the most lauded books of the last decade, and delivers one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about the history of the way we live.
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: Bill Bryson Collector`s Edition: Notes from a Small Island, Neither Here Nor There, and I`m a Stranger Here Myself ISBN: 0739342622 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739342626 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 30650.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Notes from a Small Island After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to move his wife and kids back to his homeland of the United States. But not before taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. The result is a hilarious social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain. Neither Here nor There Thirty years after backpacking across Europe, Bill Bryson decides to retrace the journey he undertook in the halcyon days of his youth-carrying with him a bag of maps, old clothes...and a stinging wit honed to razor sharpness by two decades of adult experience. I'm a Stranger Here Myself Bill Bryson read "somewhere" that nearly three million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens-clearly the Americans needed Bill back. So after years raising his family in Britain with his English wife, the brood moves to the United States, and leaves Bill to chronicle the quirkiest aspects of life in America as he reveals his own rules for life.
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: Neither Here Nor There ISBN: 055352576X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553525762 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 15910.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: A Walk in the Woods ISBN: 0553525069 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553525069 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 15910.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid ISBN: 0375434305 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375434303 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 17130.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: The Body ISBN: 0552779903 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552779906 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 9670.00 T Наличие на складе: Заказано в издательстве. Описание:
