The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bryson Bill
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: Mother Tongue, The ISBN: 0380715430 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780380715435 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 11150 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
"Vastly informative and vastly entertaining...A scholarly and fascinating book." --Los Angeles Times
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language.
From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries.
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: Bryson`s Dictionary of Troublesome Words ISBN: 0767910435 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767910439 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 10510 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: 1784161195 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161194 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 8930 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home.
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid ISBN: 1784161810 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161811 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 8410 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: The Body ISBN: 0552779911 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552779913 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 7300 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание:
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER _______
'A directory of wonders.' - The Guardian 'Jaw-dropping.' - The Times 'Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson...an entertaining and absolutely fact-rammed book.' - The Sunday Times
'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts into an entertaining and nutritious book.'- The Daily Telegraph _______ 'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it.The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.'
Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up.
A wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, this new book is an instant classic.
It will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again.
'What I learned is that we are infinitely more complex and wondrous, and often more mysterious, than I had ever suspected. There really is no story more amazing than the story of us.' Bill Bryson
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: Shakespeare ISBN: 000719790X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007197903 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 7430 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: From bestselling author Bill Bryson comes this compelling short biography of William Shakespeare, our greatest dramatist and poet.
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: One Summer ISBN: 0552772569 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552772563 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 8110 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 Road to Little Dribbling ISBN: 0552779849 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552779845 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 6670 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. This book an insight into all that is best and worst about Britain.
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: Bryson`s Dictionary ISBN: 0385610440 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385610445 Издательство: Transworld Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 11280 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: A selection of spellings and usages, covering capitalization, plurals, abbreviations and foreign names and phrases. This book also helps the readers with the difference between British and American usages, and includes information such as the names of all the Oxford colleges, or the new name for the Department of Trade and Industry.
Автор: Bryson Bill Название: Bill Bryson`s African Diary ISBN: 0767915062 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767915069 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 8540 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. 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: The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid ISBN: 0375434305 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375434303 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 18350 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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: 32830 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: Short History of Nearly Everything ISBN: 0552151742 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552151740 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 8110 T Наличие на складе: Есть 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: A Short History Of Nearly Everything (R/I) ISBN: 1784161853 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161859 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 9780 T Наличие на складе: Есть 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: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain ISBN: 0804172714 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804172714 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 11160 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: A loving and hilarious if occasionally spiky valentine to Bill Bryson s adopted country, Great Britain. Prepare for total joy and multiple episodesof unseemly laughter.
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was "Notes from a Small Island, " a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed and what hasn t. Following (but not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis in the south to Cape Wrath in the north, by way of places few travelers ever get to at all, Bryson rediscovers the wondrously beautiful, magnificently eccentric, endearingly singular country that he both celebrates and, when called for, twits. With his matchless instinct for the funniest and quirkiest and his unerring eye for the idiotic, the bewildering, the appealing, and the ridiculous, he offers acute and perceptive insights into all that is best and worst about Britain today. Nothing is more entertaining than Bill Bryson on the road and on a tear. "The Road to Little Dribbling" reaffirms his stature as a master of the travel narrative and a really, "really "funny guy.
"From the Hardcover edition.""
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