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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: 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: Troublesome Words
ISBN: 0141040394 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141040394
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Описание: A guide to the problems of English usage and spelling. It lets you discover whether you should care about split infinitives, or were wondering if that newsreader was right to say `an historic day`.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Bryson`s Dictionary of Troublesome Words
ISBN: 0767910435 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767910439
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 7740 T
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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: Bryson`s Dictionary: for Writers and Editors
ISBN: 0552773530 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552773539
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Описание: Originally published as The Penguin Dictionary for Writers and Editors, Bryson`s Dictionary for Writers and Editors has now been completely revised and updated for the twenty-first century by Bill Bryson himself.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: At Home
ISBN: 0552777358 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552777353
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Описание: What does history really consists of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business. And where did all these normal activities take place? At home. Taking a journey around the rooms of his own house, an 1851 Norfolk rectory, the author discovered surprising connections in relation to the history of the way we live.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Bryson`s Dictionary
ISBN: 0385610440 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385610445
Издательство: Transworld Publishers
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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: One Summer
ISBN: 0552779407 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552779401
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Описание: In the summer of 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: Mother Tongue, The
ISBN: 0380715430 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780380715435
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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"Vastly informative and vastly entertaining...A scholarly and fascinating book." --Los Angeles Times

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Made in America
ISBN: 0380713810 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780380713813
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Bill Bryson, bestselling author of The Mother Tongue, now celebrates its magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood . . . and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle called his befeathered cap "Macaroni."

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: A Walk in the Woods
ISBN: 0307279464 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307279460
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte.

The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America-majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you're going to take a hike, it's probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you'll find. He introduces us to the history and ecology of the trail and to some of the other hardy (or just foolhardy) folks he meets along the way-and a couple of bears. Already a classic, A Walk in the Woods will make you long for the great outdoors (or at least a comfortable chair to sit and read in).

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Lost continent
ISBN: 0552998087 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552998086
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Описание: Provides a coherent, comprehensive introduction to urban geography. From a global perspective, the authors examine urban trends and their outcomes in both the developed and the less developed countries in order to understand, analyze, and interpret the landscapes, economies, and communities of towns and cities around the world. An account of one man`s rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town. Instead he finds a continent that is doubly lost: lost to itself because it is blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; and lost to him because he has become a foreigner in his own country.